A group of people explored this ancient city that had been deserted for an unknown number of years, frequently marveling at the magnificent buildings they saw.
Those majestic spiers and high walls all have a light golden luster, and the streets present a continuous and smooth appearance like integral casting. Although there are many signs of collapse and cracking in the city's buildings, it is still not difficult to imagine How glorious it was here in good times.
It was like one of those mythical cities of ancient heroes, forged by the gods and cast in brass and gold, where a glorious civilization once lived, but now it was dead, and all that remained was these abandoned wrecks.
Everyone found a large collapsed building, which seemed to be a public place for gatherings, surrounded by roads extending in all directions and a huge square. The building itself was almost split in two under the action of some natural disaster suspected of being an earthquake. Half of its walls collapsed, revealing the vast interior space and delicate volley corridor structure. Lily jumped up and down amidst the ruined walls and collected some golden broken stones: "Look, Landlord, Landlord! What a rock! What a rock!"
"How long has this place been abandoned..." Hao Ren looked at the large ruins around him. These building materials are obviously different from those on the earth. They have almost no signs of weathering. Except for being broken by external forces, every piece is as clean as new." Wrath made this place?"
Anna was carefully protected by everyone in the middle of the team. She was the only one who could reveal the secret here, and she knew this very well, so she kept frowning and tried to search for those distorted and chaotic memories from her mind, watching The dilapidated city in front of her eyes, the phantoms drawn by Fuling in her brain gradually became clear and overlapped with it: "Alamanda, the name of this city is Alamanda, and it is one of the last three cities."
"What do you remember?" Hao Ren looked at Anna expectantly. He knew that the girl's memory had become the key to exploring this lost world.
"Alamanda is one of the last refuges of Tanagus. It is cast from metal, and the whole city is shrouded in a magnificent shield," Anna tapped on her temple. "I can only roughly judge that we are in the city center based on the surrounding scene - the picture imprinted in my mind by the evil spirit is not exactly the same as here, and the Alamanda in my 'memory' is a complete city. The sky is shrouded Lilac stuff, every building is glowing, and the streets are full of...people.”
"Obviously that was the scene before the city was abandoned," Vivian touched her chin, "Raging spirits... a group of spirit creatures would not build such a city, these buildings are obviously prepared for physical creatures, look at those steps and handrails. Their users should be closer to humans."
"Besides, there are these two keys. Nuling obviously has no fingers, so they can't be used here..." Hao Ren grumbled and took out the two keys from his pocket, only to be surprised to find that these two small devices were gradually changing. The color changed, from gray-black to light-gold like the surrounding building wreckage, "Um... what's going on?"
Betsy suddenly remembered the black stone pillars she saw on the dark snowy field before—billboards, bus stop signs, message boards—the color of those stone pillars obviously didn’t match the city, but now watching the two keys turn golden She finally understood what was going on: "This should be their original appearance. On the earth, it may be oxidized."
Lily glanced at Becky: "Don't use these terms casually if you don't understand them. Is this how oxidation and reduction are used?"
Becky put her hands on her hips: "It's not easy for me, a foreigner, to learn how to swear on the Internet within two months after arriving on Earth. Can you forget about my modern chemistry knowledge!"
Anna and Nangong Sanba were stunned for a moment. They didn't know what Betsy meant by the outsider. However, Hao Ren didn't give them a chance to ask questions, because he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something buried under the collapsed rubble in front of him: "There's a statue over there!"
Lily was overjoyed when she saw another chance to dig a hole. She jumped up and ran over, and when Hao Ren and the others followed, the girl had already dug up the layer of debris with hands and feet, and there was a golden statue buried underneath. Lily stretched out her hand to pull the statue out, and exclaimed by the way: "Wow! This thing is so heavy!"
Hao Ren stared in amazement at the one-man-tall sculpture, which presented the image of a humanoid creature: the humanoid creature had a slender figure, but a flat and broad face, with deep-set eye sockets and a straight nose , with long arms. Wearing an ornate and intricate garment. The statue's arms are folded on its stomach, which is an elegant and graceful standing posture. It was placed here perhaps for decoration.
This is without a doubt the image of the natives of this lost world.
And there is no doubt that he looks different from Nu Ling... Well, it is completely different, does Nu Ling have a look
"This is the Tana people," Anna stroked the face of the statue, a burst of nostalgia welled up in her heart, but she knew that this nostalgia was not her own, but a feeling tampered by the evil spirit in her memory, maybe it was The evil spirit was remembering the form he once had, "The residents of Tanagus used to look like, but now this race is extinct."
"Tanagus," Nangong Wuyue blinked, "you mentioned this name again, is it the planet under our feet?"
"Well," Anna nodded, "but I still can't remember more things clearly, maybe I can remember after seeing more ruins."
Hao Ren waved his hand: "Okay, then let's go deeper... What are you doing, Betsy?"
Hao Ren turned his head and saw Becky standing beside the sculpture without moving. He couldn't help asking curiously. Let out a strange cry: "Hey, gold!! Gold!!"
Hao Ren was so frightened by Becky's voice that he was sweating all over, and jumped up after realizing it: "What did you say?!"
"This... this is gold!" Becky twisted her thigh hard, and then jumped onto the statue and started pulling and pulling, trying to drag it away with all her strength, "gold , gold, gold ah ah!"
Lily bluffed when she saw this situation: "The landlord, the landlord, she is sick again!"
Hao Ren rushed to the statue in twos and twos, patted the statue and then Becky who was having a convulsion: "Are you sure?"
"I've been wrong all my life even if I look in the mirror and recognize gold!" Becky pulled the leg of the statue away, her face flushed, "Gold gives me strength... Damn mental strength can't match the laws of physics, this thing is so good How did you drag out the ton-weight Lily!"
Lily stepped forward and carried the sculpture on her shoulders: "Because it's not too heavy."
Becky was still hugging the sculpture, and looked from a distance as if she had been picked up by Lily: "Let's get this thing back! I don't have to worry about it for the rest of my life! Landlord, you can still buy the whole street! "
To be honest, Hao Ren and the people around him were a little confused at this time, and Vivian, the unlucky guy who had been poor all his life, felt like he was going away. Nangong Sanba pinched his thigh: "What kind of local tyrants lived in this place back then..."
"Surprised?" The beating voice from the data terminal suddenly interrupted everyone's excitement, "Look around you."
Hao Ren looked around, and what he saw were the pale golden building wreckage.
"Everything here contains a certain amount of gold, except that the outer walls of buildings contain less gold, which is used for coloring, and this sculpture is pure gold. Gold is not a wealth on this planet. Symbol—it’s just a common material, and because it’s so dense, it’s usually mixed with things like cement and light metal, like sand.”
Everyone: "..."
"If the conditions are right, you can even find diamond planets and gold planets in the universe. Of course, the probability of this is very low: the proportion of gold released after a supernova explosion in all matter is still very small, but Again, as long as there are enough coincidences and suitable conditions..." the data terminal flew around the crowd while talking, "it will be like this... gold everywhere."
At this moment, Hao Ren suddenly recovered from the state of shock. He squeezed his arm, then turned to look at Becky: "You can cut a small piece and take it away as a souvenir, and then we will continue to work."
Betsy was stunned: "Huh?"
The data terminal touched the back of Hao Ren's head in satisfaction: "Very good." (To be continued~^~)