After a long period of devastation, Alamanda, the golden ruined capital, has lost its former glory. Although the ruins are still brilliant, the entire city is full of ruins. There are few intact buildings in the city, and only the most important and exceptionally strong things remain.
The key facility known as the Tower of Ascension is one of them.
This is a tall pentagonal tower with a base of 100 meters and a huge scale. Except for the gate at the bottom, there are no doors or windows to be seen on the entire minaret, and only some unexplained protrusions and antenna-like metal brackets can be seen on the smooth pale golden outer wall. Relying on the chaotic memories in her mind, Anna led the crowd to find the gate to enter the tower. The gate was broken, and the entire gate was torn apart in a radial pattern. Huge hole.
Hao Ren took the lead and walked in front, and was surprised to find that the inside of this doorless and windowless building was very bright: there were many beams of light from unknown sources shooting down directly from above, illuminating the hall on the first floor of the tower as bright as day. Those beams of light are surrounded by thin clouds of dust, giving people an inexplicable ethereal feeling: it is not difficult to imagine what kind of sacred place this place was back then.
The first floor of the tower does not have a very complicated structure, it is just a grand hall, and the most incredible thing is that there is no pillar support here. Reminiscent of the height of the entire tower of hundreds of meters, this unsupported grassroots hall makes people I have to marvel at the advanced construction technology and material science of the Tana people in the past. A circle of golden devices can be seen around the hall. These devices are about one meter long columns with a sloping upper surface, which seems to be some kind of operating table. Lily went over and patted the pillar curiously, but found no reaction at all.
"Don't think about it, even if these things are not broken, this place will not be able to activate them." Hao Ren crossed his arms and looked around in the hall, and suddenly saw exquisite patterns painted on the walls of some places, "Hey, come here. Look at this. It looks like a mural left by the Tana people."
Everyone was immediately attracted, and Hao Ren found the starting point of those murals. He looked at the things recorded on it in amazement: they were not earth-shattering scenes, without heroes and mythological images, nor were they exquisite and flashy decorative paintings, they depicted very simple everyday things.
They describe the entire civilization of the Tana people.
In the first mural, the Tana people live in coastal tidal flat areas. They are a kind of amphibian creatures, and they gradually move closer to pure land life due to certain changes in the marine environment. They wear primitive aquatic plants and animal skin costumes to build houses on the coastline. Adapt to drought, hunt land animals, and light civilization's first bonfires.
In the second mural, the Tana people have shed their scales and evolved the structure of their fingers. Their living environment has obviously shifted from tidal flats and swamps to drier plains. They build villages on the grasslands, raise animals in captivity, and plant and harvest.
They built cities. Developing metal tools, learning how to smelt and make alloys, they learned the power of "electricity" from natural phenomena. Then he quickly fused this power with a certain spiritual ability inherent in his own race. In the later murals, the Tana people can be seen performing ceremonies around a kind of tall metal pillar, and lightning strikes the pillar. Another kind of wonderful energy resonated with Tana's body.
They live, learn, and refine their spiritual power, and their innate ability to evolve rapidly allows them to more easily obtain power from nature. They explored their entire planet and built great information networks and global energy broadcasting systems. They even developed aerospace technology and some kind of space technology—however, their most powerful is still a wonderful skill called "soul ability", which is the result of their continuous evolution of their spiritual talents. This wonderful skill is also the only hope for the Tana people to save themselves when the catastrophe strikes.
Yes, cataclysm, everything changed in the later period of the fresco. Some kind of unspeakable catastrophe broke out on the planet. The strength of the Tana was nothing in the face of this catastrophe, and their great cities of metal were uprooted. Their weapons of war are useless against the enemy. The murals showed the tragedy of the Tana people being slaughtered one-sidedly, and the flames of war burned all over the planet, but the face of the enemy was always a mass of frantic lines. The person who left these murals seems to have difficulty describing what his enemy is in a logical way. He can only use one group after another of shadows and curves to express some kind of disaster, and the hundreds of millions of Tana Man is on the verge of extinction under the shadow of those frantic lines.
In the end, the only survivors all retreated to the three cities on the planet. The murals used exaggerated pictures to express the conditions of these three cities: they were casted from metal, covered with layers of protective walls and energy shields. Under the shield, outside the city is boundless chaos and death. The survivors lingered in the city wall for several years, but the city wall continued to weaken under the erosion of the disaster force, and its demise was inevitable.
Anna stroked the lines on those murals: "This is the 'natural disaster of origin', and the power of mortals cannot resist it. Finally, the Tana people finally realized a certain law of this disaster, and they decided to obtain it by changing their life forms. Survive-"
Anna said, pointing to the last mural.
The lines on the murals return to simplicity, and the magnificent and complex material world is hidden. A Tana man is suspended in the air, and half of his body has turned into a misty phantom, which indicates the transformation of life forms. At the bottom of the screen is a mess of lines, which represent disaster. This mural seems to depict the Tana people finally escaped from the catastrophe after changing their life forms.
Anna sighed, and pieced together the last fragments of memory in her mind: "They left these murals to record the history of their own civilization, because the Tana people were not sure what would happen after they transformed into spirit creatures, in order to deal with the worst They left such simple and straightforward records in many buildings to ensure that other intelligent creatures who visit this planet one day in the future can know what kind of race lived here."
"So the Tana people turned into angry spirits just like that," Vivian frowned and shook her head, "but the angry spirits they turned into didn't show the slightest bit of logic, let alone advanced intelligence, they even resembled Natural phenomena are just as irrational."
Nangong Sanba scratched his hair: "Then what exactly is the disaster mentioned above?"
Hao Ren took a breath, and a vague guess gradually formed in his mind. He glanced at the scene depicted on the last few murals, and suddenly ran towards the exit of the hall: "Follow me!"
Everyone followed without knowing why, and Hao Ren led them to a high platform that they had passed before. Anna was unable to climb such a steep building, so Lily carried her on her shoulders. A group of people climbed up to the high platform and came to a position where they could overlook the high wall of the city, so the scene outside the thick protective wall of Alamanda was clear at a glance.
Outside the city is a piece of primitive and barren land, and it presents an extremely terrifying scene: the ground is covered with huge ravines and huge pits, like a giant face full of potholes, and on the side of the city is an unprecedented super giant The crater, the scale of the crater almost makes people suspect that it has penetrated the core of the planet below it. And among the countless ravines and potholes, the most shocking thing is those tentacles that make the scalp tingle.
eldest son.
"I knew..." Hao Ren swallowed, "The same thing happened in Holletta."
Nangong Wuyue shook her body, covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice: "Oh my God..."
"The situation on this planet is even worse than Holleta's. The eldest son has obviously cleaned up the second son." Vivienne frowned, looking back at Alamanda, where only the ruins remained, "The tower The Na people are extinct."
It was the first time for Anna and Nangong Sanba to see this terrifying thing. The latter was somewhat better off as a witcher, but the former swayed twice and almost fainted from fright: she suffered There are double fears, one comes from her human instinct, and the other comes from the remnant memory of the angry spirit in her mind. She was almost half Tana now, and she nearly fainted at the sight of the tentacles that had destroyed an entire civilization.
This is the catastrophe faced by the Tana people, which is why they have to give up their bodies and change their life forms. (to be continued~^~)