The clay tablet with a weak psionic reaction was placed on the coffee table in the center of the living room, and half of the family gathered around it, looking at this ugly thing curiously, and the fox who brought the clay tablet back But as if it had nothing to do with her, she flicked her tail not far away: She was ordered to take a bath just now, and the fluff on her tail was too much to dry easily, and now she is like a drowned rat.
"It is confirmed that it is a psionic reaction, and an extremely small amount of psionic crystal debris was found in the clay plate material."
Sandora used her fingernails to scrape a little bit of debris off the clay tablet. There was a golden light in her eyes, and she had entered the high-speed analysis mode. This ancient artifact that had been buried for thousands of years was scanned by Sandora. He was stripped of his cocoon, revealing a little secret, "I guess there should be more psionic energy remaining at the excavation site. The mixed crystal debris may not have been added consciously by the ancients. The phantom crystal is extremely strong, and it is impossible for primitive humans to master it." The method of grinding the crystal: and grinding the phantom crystal itself is an act of death."
To be honest, if it was a few years ago, the appearance of such a clay tablet might have caused our family to act for a while, but now, the scale of the empire has expanded, and the things we have to pay attention to every day are becoming more and more complicated, like the ruins of the empire appearing on the earth Or things like where the aborigines in the universe hit their brains again, it’s no longer enough to be an “event”. Usually we send a few agents or an action team out to get the job done, and there’s no need for such trivial things. A group of Xiling leaders dispatched. But this time, we all gathered around such a dark lump of mud for only one reason:
Xiaoxue jumped nearly two meters high when she saw the clay tablet, and then she said that this thing will reveal a big secret...
I think the brat is overreacting, but her work ethic as a seer is fine, and the tablet must not be as simple as it looks - but what the hell is written on it
Although Sandora is knowledgeable and has learned about the history of people on Earth out of curiosity, she has not really studied this aspect carefully. The cuneiform characters that look like tadpoles in front of us are like heavenly scriptures to us .
"Do you know Qianqian?" I poked Qianqian's arm, thinking that she was also an archaeologist after all. Uncle Xu studied the ancestral tombs of all human beings all day long, and claimed to be proficient in ten ancient scripts that have disappeared from the earth. Not necessarily superficial...
"Is it possible?" She glanced at me shallowly, "Do you think cuneiform is the Xinhua dictionary? There are not many people in the world who know this thing. My dad said he knew ten kinds of ancient characters, so he was bragging to you..."
Me: "...then let's find an expert who understands cuneiform characters, and let the love know no bounds..."
"What are you looking at here?! Tell me to go in and have a look!" Just as I was thinking about where to get a paleographer to translate this clay tablet, a girl's voice with a rising pitch suddenly came from the circle of people. The news came in from the outside, I was taken aback for a moment, and then I saw a blond head struggling to squeeze through the gap between Qianqian and her sister and appeared in front of me, it was that idiot, stinky fart, poor breasts and pretentious... Niang winky. Oh yes, I'm used to calling her nanny now.
The moment I saw this flat-chested dwarf, I was a little dazed, not because of anything else, but because this guy has been invisible at home for a long time. Ever since she became Little Bubble's nanny, Niang Shining found that she could not resist fate, so she decided to reduce her sense of existence infinitely to show that she was not defeated by fate but was too lazy to toss with fate. All her daily activities were to run around with Little Bubble Xipao provides toys at any time, and does not interfere with anything else at home. You know, we are a noisy family, and the most indispensable thing in the whole big house is the guy jumping up and down. In such a big environment, if you move a little less, you will have no sense of existence, not to mention the girl who is shining and iron I want to make myself a transparent person (the main purpose is that I can't afford to lose this person?), if she doesn't come out today, maybe I really completely forget that there is such a troublesome girl at home...
After sighing a little about the existence of this airport, I suddenly remembered one thing: cuneiform writing, Sumerian culture, Mesopotamia, coolies who didn’t pay…
"Jill, do you know these characters?" I waved at my mother, called her to my face, and pointed to the cuneiform characters on the clay board that looked like dried tadpoles.
If I remember correctly, Jill’s real body is the king of the city-state of Uruk in another world, and the city-state of Uruk was an important part of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization in the Mesopotamia—well, I know At that time we went to a strange world, that world has a strange history, and Jill sister is also a strange ancient heroic spirit, but generally speaking, the surface world of that world is 100% different from the earth here. Ninety places are similar, the two can be regarded as high imitation parallel universes, I now desperately hope that the era that Jill lived in also used the same cuneiform script as the Sumerians on our side, so that we don’t have to tie archaeologists...
"Is there anything you want from me?" Sister Jill's eyes lit up immediately, and she keenly noticed that it might be time for her to rebel against fate, "Then respectfully let me..."
"Salted vegetables and flatbreads for two weeks, or you will have the same pocket money as Little Bubbles in the future, choose by yourself." I looked at this nanny with a poker face expressionlessly, she was pampered enough at home, although occasionally Being bullied for a while, but in the empire, the status of "princess best friend" seems to be half of the royal relatives, but her bad temper has not been satisfied at all: you can't be spoiled at this time.
Jill was stunned for a while, and obediently picked up the clay tablet with her mouth flattened, but soon her dissatisfaction was attracted by the nostalgic thing in front of her, and she sighed softly: "Hometown, and Memories of this king's life... this is really distressing."
I was silent for a while, and went up to pat her hair. Although I usually bully this unlucky nanny occasionally, she is now a member of the family. Hearing her lament about her hometown and what happened before her death, I think still a bit...
"Looking at this thing reminds me of the days when I was able to read and write." Jill touched her bitter tears. "You don't know how troublesome it is to write. If you can, you really don't want to see this thing again..."
Me: "..." Dare to feel that my feelings just now are all in vain, right
"How is it?" Qianqian jumped forward impatiently, "What's written on it?"
"Wait a minute, I haven't smoothed it out yet," Niang waved her hand impatiently, "This is not the same as the hometown characters in my impression, it seems that the grammar is a bit deformed, and many characters... seem to be an older style. But don't worry, as long as you have time, you can always translate it slowly. Now that you understand the first sentence, it is saying that this clay tablet records a story from afar, and it seems to be related to mythology. In addition, here—"
As Ji Shanshan said, she pointed to a few symbols in the corner of the clay tablet. The place had been damaged, and some words might be missing, but she could still see something: "The clay tablet can hold limited words, so many long Books are made up of many clay tablets. At the end of each 'page', this will be used to mark its 'page number' and how many tablets there should be in the whole set of clay tablets. But there is something missing here I can only tell that the whole set of clay tablets should consist of seven parts, but I can’t tell which part the one at hand is.”
It seems that it is indeed the right choice to ask Ji Xingxian to help translate this thing. These mud bumps look like heavenly books in our eyes, and Ji Xingshan can still read the page numbers!
But now I am a little worried about one thing: the whole set of clay tablets consists of seven "pages", and God knows whether the remaining six clay tablets are still there. This thing looks more brittle than Lilina's lower limit, and it has been buried underground for thousands of years. It is a miracle that a piece can be preserved intact. Most of the clay tablets unearthed by archaeologists around the world are incomplete, because these things will be ruined if they are not careful.
The most terrible thing is the underground water seepage... According to the description of the fox, she dug this thing from a stone cave, and she didn't see other clay tablets nearby at that time, so could the other parts have been finished
"My lord doesn't know what's going on," Ji Shanshan frowned while studying the words on the clay tablet, and responded to my concerns without raising her head. "Books are precious—in my lord's time, don't It seems that this kind of clay tablet book must be listed as a treasure of the court for safekeeping, because only a few nobles and scribes understand these characters, and it is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive to write a 'book', so each such Clay books are kept in pottery bookcases, which are moisture-proof and strong. Like this... Fox, are you sure..."
As soon as Ji Shanshan's words started, she was rudely interrupted by the demon fox girl: "I'm not a fox, I'm a fox fairy!"
Me: "..." In fact, when other people in the family call this nine-tailed girl a fox, the latter has given up refuting. Is the unlucky nanny poor
But Ji Shanshan is not a good-tempered guy, she is fine if she is bullied by others, but what if she is bullied by a husky with nine tails? So she turned a blind eye to the stern voice of the demon fox girl: "Fox, are you sure this clay tablet was scattered?"
"Of course," the fox's ears trembled, feeling a little depressed that he couldn't even hold a babysitter, "My memory is super strong, and I still remember what happened in that cave. This lump of mud It was laid flat on the ground, with nothing around it, not the kind of pottery bookcase you mentioned. Moreover, the stone cave looks very small, and it doesn’t look like it can hide things... "
"No," Ji Shanshan raised her head and said firmly, "This clay tablet records a story of a god, and it also records the names of priests and elders, and there are symbols of stars and rivers: these contents are in the At that time, there was an extremely serious meaning, and the person responsible for describing them should be a person such as the royal family or a priest, and this clay tablet should be properly preserved in a gorgeous place, and it is absolutely impossible for it to be randomly scattered around you. The kind of cave I mentioned. And there is another thing that I am very concerned about: I don’t know the gods recorded on it. When I was alive, I traveled to many places, the whole world... Uh, I mean the entire Lianghe There is no god named 'Xin' in the basin. The alternation of gods in that era was of great significance. Although the king has no good impression of gods, he must know these things. According to the customs and customs shown on this clay tablet, its The writing time is also not much different from the time period in my memory, where did this god named 'Xin' come from?"
"You forgot one thing," I reminded Ji Shanshan, "you are from another world... Although there is also a city-state of Uruk over there, there may be differences between the two worlds, maybe the Mesopotamia on this earth Has there ever been a god named 'Sin'?"
Ji Shanshan let out a oh, it seems that she also thought it was possible, then she pointed to the clay tablet: "Anyway, there are not all the things on it, I can only translate slowly first, if you find a way to find all the other clay tablets Even better, with the context in mind, this king will soon know the origin of the god it is talking about."
I patted the head of the fox girl beside me who was playing with her tail, "Fox, can you still find that place?"
"Yes!" the fox said confidently, while continuing to flick his wet tail, making water everywhere in the living room: the long-haired guy is troublesome after taking a bath. Looking at the water stains on the ground, my sister finally couldn't help it anymore. She took out nine hair dryers from the portable space and stuffed them to the fox. The fox suddenly realized that, curled up a hair dryer with one tail, and started to dry himself there like a jet fighter. Dry…
"Tomorrow you take a few imperial agents and go to that place again," I said casually, "Also, don't shake the water in the living room after taking a shower, remember to use a hair dryer..."
The fox nodded in the hot whirlwind she created, and she didn't know what she heard...
After breakfast the next day, the fox led a dozen imperial agents and set off. Those agents were all active on the earth that year. They have excavated all the remains of Xiling found on the earth, so they have rich experience. I estimate that the excavation team will be able to send new news that afternoon at the latest. Ji Xingshan continued to dig into the dark lump of mud. I don't know if the psionic crystal dust mixed in the clay tablet played a role. The clay tablet looks easy to weather and the preservation environment is not very good. In fact, 80 to 90% of the characters are still legible. , it seems that it has not been eroded by the underground humid environment for thousands of years. However, Ji Shanshan's translation work seems to be a bit difficult: the clay tablets are indeed the cuneiform characters used by the Sumerian civilization, but the two worlds are two worlds after all, even if the information disturbance makes the two worlds in a certain period It is almost completely coincident in history, and there are also many deviations in this coincidence point. It shows that those cuneiform characters are not the same as the characters in Jill's memory, and there are errors in grammar and individual characters. She needs to reorganize and guess for a long time before she can say a sentence. What to smooth out.
I guess her reading of those clay tablets is the same as my reading of physics books back then: she basically knows the characters, but she just doesn’t know what she’s talking about...
But while I was waiting for the fox to send a reply, an emergency call came from Shadow City.
The information came from Sivis, who found "something to be jaw-dropping" in the pile of broken stones of the Fiari.
At that moment, I immediately took Sandora and Xiaoxue to the headquarters. The reason why I brought Xiaoxue is because I think this girl's prophecy ability may be useful—Miss Lin will be at home with her parents these two days, and by the way, I will explain why she asks her family to go to the Antarctic Circle to catch penguins every now and then. (Anyway, it's just such a messy excuse), so I can only run around with Xiaoxue, an unreliable girl. As a rule of thumb, whenever we find something that no one knows what it's for, it's always helpful to bring an oracle into play.
The strange big rocks unloaded from the Fiali merchant ship were piled up in a small hangar behind the headquarters. It is said that building a warehouse next to the headquarters seems a bit strange, but there is a reason: for a long time, we always pick up some strange things after going out, sometimes they are research samples, sometimes they are unknown substances, some It's time to capture the Fallen Apostle's armament. After a long time, Tavel and Sivis simply built a lot of such temporary warehouses inside and outside the Shadow Fortress to store junk—well, to store treasures. And the warehouse behind the headquarters was used as a temporary workstation, where the stones unloaded from the Fiali merchant ship were sorted and scanned on the spot, and Sivis personally watched the work here.
When we arrived, Sivis, a group of assistant technicians and Tavel's God knows what quality projection had been waiting for a long time. The inner space of the Gnaku has been expanded to an incomparably huge size, and various ore samples are suspended on countless anti-gravity platforms, while Sivis and her assistants are pointing at the largest one, each A scanning device was placed in a circle around the stone.
"That's it?"
I looked at the huge meteorite sample in front of me, and I couldn't see anything special about it. It is inconspicuous iron-gray, with a rough surface and pits, and its overall shape is irregular. The overall height is about five or six meters: it looks like a small house.
I have seen too many of this kind of stones. The most indispensable thing in the asteroid belt is this thing. They are generally rich in iron and other cosmic rich minerals. There may be ice crystals inside them, and there may also be heavy metals formed. The "core". Just looking at it from the outside, I can't see anything worthy of being "stunned" by someone as calm as Sivis.
"Inside the meteorite." Tavel's mass projection pointed at the fixed data terminal that was more than half a person's height next to him. On the projection displayed in front of the terminal, I saw that there seemed to be a dense core inside the meteorite: this core is in harmony with the surrounding rocks The color and texture of the material are completely different, it seems to be a piece of foreign material that has been wrapped in it.
"What is this?" I raised my eyebrows curiously.
Tavel and Sivis said in unison: "Something from... my hometown!" RS