A ruin!
After hearing this news, Hao Ren was shocked, no less surprised than when he just learned that there are two layers of crust on this planet, and the surface crust is actually the petrified crown of a group of giant trees. He immediately zoomed in on the pictures to confirm the authenticity and approximate size of the ruins, and then let the data terminal send everyone there immediately: the ruins are quite far away, almost on the other side of the planet, and it would take too much time to drive there.
The data terminal emitted a blue halo, and everyone's figures disappeared in the transmission light curtain in an instant. The next moment, they had arrived at the location of the remote probe.
Here is also a magnificent prairie.
Hao Ren reached out to catch the probe that was flying towards him, and put this little guy who made a contribution into his portable space. Then he climbed up to a high ground and looked at the large buildings not far away. The vast and magnificent scenery here makes people unable to resist Take a breath.
The boundless green grass spreads on the land to the end of the line of sight, the vast prairie undulates slightly like gentle waves, the magnificent scenery is like an oil painting, and on this prairie, an ancient city built with huge stones is towering stand upright. The city has an architectural form that resembles the Aztec style. Although most of the walls have collapsed, the scale of the past can still be seen. Several large and small flat-topped pyramids can be seen in the center of the city and on the side of the high ground, and between these pyramids are wide avenues paved with huge stones. These roads divide the city into several well-ordered square areas. Each area has stone houses lined up in rows. Except for those pyramids in the city, the height of most buildings does not exceed three floors, which makes those pyramids even more spectacular.
"It's unbelievable..." Hao Ren muttered to himself, "There are such relics here... I thought that when the eldest son made those Tianzhu giant trees, there would be earth-shaking vibrations, and everything on the second layer of the earth's crust should be destroyed. right."
As he spoke, he raised his head and looked into the distance. Only a dozen kilometers away from the city, he could see a majestic black pillar connecting the sky and the earth, and he could also see such a pillar in the other direction of the horizon. "Pillar". In fact, in this "underground world" with excellent air quality, even if you don't stand on a high place, you can always see at least two giant trees supporting the sky and the earth: those magnificent pillars are really too big, and they extend all the time to the Dome of the Rock. They can be seen from any angle.
The distance between the city and the giant tree of Tianzhu is only a dozen kilometers, but it is safe and sound. Hao Ren thought this was an incredible miracle: he witnessed the scale of those giant trees with his own eyes. The aerial roots exposed on the surface of the latter were mountains as high as a thousand meters. The movement when it came out of the surface was devastating. Even if the eldest son did everything carefully, it would not be able to tear the earth open a gap more than ten kilometers wide without harming the city that is close at hand. , because it is an inevitable physical process. So there is only one conclusion...
the city. It was built after the sky closed.
But judging by those crazy "third sons" on the surface crust, this planet should have suffered a complete reset of the ecological circle, so who built this city on the original crust after the sky closed? Is it mortal? They escaped the purge of the firstborn? Or... the purge didn't happen at all
A lot of questions entangled Hao Ren's brain, and the answers to the questions seemed to be in that city.
A group of people came to the ruins of the city. After getting closer, this simple and solemn stone city permeated a more desolate and heavy atmosphere: if the giant tree of Tianzhu and the canopy dome are the "power of nature" made by the eldest son, then this The ruins of this city are "human miracles" built by mortals with human power. Even though the scale is vastly different, they still have a shocking side. Even Lily couldn't help getting serious. She didn't even pay attention to the small stones that can be seen everywhere (usually these are to be collected in her Wang Zhibao), but rubbed her hands on a square pillar passing by: "It looks like it was handmade , You can still see the traces of chiseling on the edge. Such a huge amount of stones needs to be piled up to form a city. It requires a high labor cost.”
Stone buildings that have been sleeping for thousands of years stand silently on both sides of the road, and moss and vines have eroded the gaps in these buildings. Mottled green traces were left in the crevices of the stones. Many buildings showed signs of cracking. Many houses had even completely collapsed into rubble on the ground. In the collapsed stone piles, there were still tenacious grasses and green vines growing from the gaps. Grow out and blow in the wind.
Some colors can still be seen on some ancient stone walls, which are paintings and characters from ancient times: the ancients who left this ruins obviously had special skills, and the pigments they made still survived so many years of weathering Some remained, which caught Hao Ren's attention.
He bent over a broken slab of stone. This stone slab should have been inlaid on a high platform in front of it, and that high platform seemed to be a ritual place. It has a special regulation and solemn atmosphere. On the slate, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some vaguely discernible relief images.
The relief sculpture should be depicting some kind of natural phenomenon. Hao Ren saw a radiant sphere above the screen, while the bottom of the screen is an undulating wavy line. I don't know whether it represents sea water or grassland: this "underground" world has no Large-scale oceans, only a large number of lakes and rivers, so it is not sure whether the ancients who left these reliefs had the concept of "ocean".
Hao Ren found something on the bottom of the stone slab, so he reached out to clean up the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols that looked like characters, which looked a bit like cuneiform.
"Terminal, translate."
The data terminal came over and scanned, then floated to the side: "Wait a minute, this machine needs more characters to form a sample library, there should be other characters nearby."
Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet and yelled: "There are! There are many words here!"
The data terminal flew back and forth to collect the text, and connected the character sample library with those relief images, and then returned to the stone tablet: "This is written: Praise the sun, which once brought light and heat to the earth, we firmly believe that It still burns in the skies of its homeland, and its light shines in our spirits."
Then it found another slate next to it. This slab depicts a large number of plants and animals, as well as curved symbols floating among the animals and plants. Under this slab, there is also a text: "Praise be to all beings, the outstanding creation of the goddess, the soul Circulating among all beings, the dead never die, the living die, and we are with all living and dead."
"These are religious stone tablets." Hao Ren stood up and went to the stone tablet that Lily found. "What's on it?"
"Spells, a lot of prayers, no clear meaning," the light of the data terminal moved over the stone tablet, "calling the power of the wind, calling the power of the cloud, calling the power of the earth, water, plants and stones, and a large paragraph A large section of text praising a certain natural phenomenon. This is something that would be used in a magical ceremony, and according to the style of the prayer, it is a bit like a druid or some kind of natural totem belief."
Hao Ren snorted. He knew little about magic itself, and he was even less good at such unpopular things as totem belief. But at this time Nangong Sanba seemed to have discovered something suddenly, he took out a small bottle from his arms: "Wait a minute, I'll try it."
As he spoke, he poured some off-white translucent viscous oil from the bottle, spread the oil on the surface of the stone tablet, and then pressed his hands on the place where the oil was applied to inject magic power into it. With a slight buzzing sound, layers of pale green shimmer appeared on the stone tablet. This light resonated with the surrounding stone platforms and slabs, and continued after Nangong Sanba took his hand away, until those The magic oil suddenly burned into ashes before it stopped.
Lily didn't understand: "What is this?"
"Check whether there is any magic power left," Nangong Sanba wiped his hands, "The items that once carried magic power will leave traces more or less, and will change after being stimulated by Ye Xiao's potion. These stone slabs and steles are not only Ritual objects, they actually participated in the magical reaction."
"In other words, the builder of this city is a magical civilization," Hao Ren understood, "It's no wonder that such a magnificent thing can be built, it should be assisted by magic."
At this time, a slight outsider's breath suddenly appeared not far away, and everyone felt it almost at the same time, and raised their heads in unison, and the next second, a sharp "swoosh" flew towards everyone. Lily immediately stretched out her hand to grab it, and there was an arrow with a green light quenched in her hand.
Hao Ren looked in the direction of the breath in astonishment. He saw a tall and strong humanoid creature flashing away from the top of a collapsed stone wall!
(Double monthly pass! Double monthly pass!) (to be continued~^~)