The seven clay tablets excavated from the burrow describe in detail the dialogue between the god named "Sin" and the local people, as well as the form and power of the god in the eyes of the local aborigines.
Of course, there did appear in human history a god named "Sin". This god came from the Semitic moon god, and he was also related to the Sumerian god Nanna—but it was obviously not a clay tablet The one mentioned above. As for whether the "Sin" mentioned in the seven-page clay tablet influenced the other gods of the Semites and Sumerians in the following hundreds of years, we still don't know, but based on the information at hand, the clay tablets The god described in the book is more like a high-tech alien—
It is recorded on the clay tablet that the mighty god "Sin" first appeared in front of the people on earth riding a luminous and fire-breathing celestial chariot. The flames on the celestial chariot are different from the flames in the mortal world. color, and it is stationary—from this we judge that the so-called "flame" should be the blue light emitted by the psionic engine. A misty and solidified light effect is produced, which should be the "stationary flame" mentioned on the clay tablet. According to the clay tablets, a prestigious person who was recognized as a wise man received the messenger from heaven, and their conversation had several witnesses. These people and the "wise man" relayed the warnings they heard from the gods to The scribe left these seven "pages". "Sin" claims to be in a wandering state, he is a god who is constantly traveling. He told the local people a lot of incomprehensible knowledge, such as the shape of the earth and the end of the sky, but the local people could not fully understand these, "Xin" tried to mobilize the local aborigines to build some large buildings, and let them follow some astrological laws to line up these buildings. According to the words on the clay tablets, those who participated in this "listening training" finally understood the teachings of "Xin" as the secret of God. They could not connect it with the land they lived in, and did not know how to verify it. Choose to record these contents directly on the "book" as fairy tales. "Xin" stayed on the earth for more than ten days to complete some kind of "investigation" and "teaching". In the event of a lightning strike in the city, igniting a wooden house or something), Sin's last miracle was to summon out of thin air the crane he came in, fly into the sky in full view, and lift off about After dozens of meters, it disappeared instantly.
The clay tablets describe the weapons used by "Sin" as follows: One of them looks like a long staff, with a metallic luster, a shiny surface, and a straight thunderbolt emitted from the front end. This weapon wiped out a group of huge bison that invaded the city. After being hit by the thunder, the bison instantly burned into ashes, and half of the bison that was not hit by the front was also burned off, and the remaining half of the body showed a jewel-like appearance. Here is a detail: a group of local greedy people saw the "jewel-like" crystals produced on the bison burned by the fire of the gods, and they had evil thoughts, so they secretly took a few crystals from the bison's corpse, but this The behavior was immediately discovered by the gods, and the gods ordered those greedy people to throw away the gems immediately, and to wash their bodies, and throw away the clothes that had been used to wrap and hide the gems immediately. Most of those greedy people repented immediately and did so, so they saved their lives after a slight fever, but one person was extremely disobedient, he couldn't help but secretly picked up the gem after throwing it away, and hid it from the gods. Three days later, the man who hid the gem died of severe pain all over his body. His death was horrible, his hands were festered, his skin was split one by one, and the edges of the wound were like those bison burned to death by the fire of the gods: crystallized. These characteristics are described by the locals in a deified tone, which may be inexplicable to outsiders, but we are simply too familiar:
This is a symptom of psionic radiation, a crystallization syndrome produced by unsafe psionic crystals. "Sin" ordered those who stole the crystal to take a shower and throw away their clothes, just to keep them away from the fallout.
The weapon used by "Xin" is also suspended in the air, and can also release some kind of object that can release the fire of the gods. The recorder of the clay tablets recorded this in a tone of awe and fear: they are as big as a cow, their surface is bumpy, and blue fire flows on their surface like flowing water. These flying ghosts are guards captured by the gods from hell, and they are docile. They followed behind the gods, and when the beasts in the forest ran out, the gods didn't even move a finger, and those flying ghosts automatically released thunder to destroy the enemies. Flying like a painting dipped in blood.
I am also familiar with this thing, Pandora has thousands of them, and she specially chose the smaller ones to put in the house, and she has to hug them every day when she sleeps—this kind of stuff that Pandora regards as pets and pillows has a scientific name , called floating cannon.
In fact, based on these descriptions, we can also confirm the identity of "Xin": he is an imperial soldier.
"Currently, there are only three waves of Xiling apostles who have arrived on Earth." After Ji Xingshan finished translating, Sandora pondered, "A stray soldier in my revenge army came to Earth for scientific research. The Imperial Scientific Expedition Team, and Viska's Legion of Destruction."
I nodded: "According to the age, the scientific expedition team and the Legion of Destruction are both hundreds of thousands of years ago, so the god named 'Sin' mentioned on the clay tablet should be your soldier Sandora. "
Qianqian rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then suddenly came over happily: "Oh—Ah Jun, I have a problem..."
"Hold it!" I shuddered back reflexively, but in an instant I saw Qianqian was about to cry, so I quickly patted her face, "Eh, tell me first, in case I can listen Understood..."
It took Qianqian a second to forget the grievance just now, and said excitedly: "The sound of 'Xin' is Xiling, isn't it?"
Besides, there is often only one step between genius and that. Qianqian is usually unreliable, jumpy, and often confused, but her ideas can always make people see the truth in key places. I think what she said is too reasonable-if it is really Sandora, the soldier who strayed to the earth back then, what would he say when he introduced himself to the local aborigines
"He must have said that he is an 'Apostle of Xiling'," Qianqian said, scratching at the edge of the mud tablet, "but none of the locals know these four words. Race communication, but there are some things that cannot be explained clearly. The Sumerians at that time may have thought that "Apostle of Xiling" was a name, but they did not have the corresponding pronunciation or phrases that could be used for free translation to record the name, so They chose a sound 'Sin' that they could spell themselves instead."
"Indeed," Ji Shanshan affirmed Qianqian's immature guess, "The vocabulary of cuneiform is not so large. Cuneiform is suitable for expressing meaning through phrases, but not suitable for phonetic notation. It can use 'sky' and 'water' The two words spelled together mean rain, but the word "Xiling" in "Apostle of Xiling" belongs to "with sound but no meaning", so there is no way to spell it this way. According to the habits of this king's time, when encountering In this case, choose a word with a similar pronunciation to express it. The translation of 'Xin' is translated by the king based on the transliteration of clay tablets. Its pronunciation thousands of years ago is like this: *※※..., um, Do you understand?"
Our whole family looked at Ji Shanshan with a blank expression, and finally my sister said: "Uh, hehe, the pronunciation of the word 'Xi Ling' is indeed quite similar..."
"I didn't expect to find news about that soldier in another place after such a long time," Sandora suddenly sighed in a low voice, "I remember that we first found the remains of the tomb in the Taklamakan Desert. Have you traveled the entire globe?"
According to the records in the clay tablets, it is true: the trek soldier did not stay in one place after arriving on the earth, he was traveling around the world, and doing the same thing everywhere. According to the clay tablets, "Xin" personally mentioned that he was traveling around the world, looking for all mortal settlements. He added knowledge beyond the latter's cognition to the cultural system of the local aborigines, and guided the local aborigines to establish some useless but capable Large buildings with mysterious meanings, or simply leave written records like clay tablets. However, due to the passage of time, most of the traces left by him have disappeared, and now there are only the tombs covered by the yellow sand of Taklamakan and these clay tablets left in the Mesopotamian Plain. The latter is even more valuable than the original tomb: because this is the first thing that records the words and deeds of the soldier in detail. Through the records on the clay tablets, we can know what the soldier did on Earth. So try to deduce his actions before death.
The mighty warrior of the Empire had died, thousands of years ago, on a primitive planet, in a place where there was nothing to threaten him, and it had always been Shannon. Dora's heart disease, because Sandora cares about her soldiers, has always been my heart disease, because I have obsessive-compulsive disorder...
"From these clay tablets, we can only confirm that the soldier had contact with the Sumerians and tried to improve the awareness of the local indigenous people. He may have tried to leave more records of his activities in this way," the sister said. I don't understand the words on the clay tablet, but I still flipped through those ancient things with great interest, and said in a low voice, "However, human beings thousands of years ago were not suitable for these in terms of cognitive level and world view shaping, so he finally Not much was left behind, the only thing left was these written records, which have been buried for thousands of years."
Even so, I think that soldier may have managed to leave a lot of records. Throughout human history, inexplicable astrological knowledge and astronomical observation records often appeared in ancient civilizations. The Mayans even calculated the trajectories of many planets in the solar system in the ignorant period. These knowledges beyond the knowledge of ancient humans have always been a mystery: say no Surely one or two of them are traces left by the soldier: as if he was trying to make the Sumerians remember the thickness of the atmosphere and the thickness of the earth's crust.
It’s just that as time goes by, even if he successfully left some information back then, those traces have become one of the myths of the earth people, and we have no way of distinguishing them.
"Yes, this is a problem," Sandora suddenly thought, "According to the records on the clay tablets, his purpose at that time seemed to be to leave traces of his own activities. He tried to teach the locals a kind of 'God' writing." , If you guessed right, it refers to Xilingwen. He also tried to let the local people understand astronomy and geology. These are probably to prepare for the construction of astronomical knowledge in the local culture. If there is a 'cultural mark' that can be spread on this planet for a long time, then there is only one reason... "
Bingtis was the first to think of the conclusion: "He knew at that time that he was bound to die, and this was preparation for death!"
I looked at Bingtis and then at Sandora, and spent half a minute trying to figure out how they came to this series of conclusions, and then realized afterwards: "Oh... Then we have to revise our initial guess. "
"Well," Sandora nodded ponderingly, "At first we thought that some kind of external force on the earth killed the soldier. Although it was impossible, it was the only guess at one time. Now it seems that the soldier After coming to the earth, he began to prepare for his own death. In other words, what killed him was not something on the earth, but some internal force that he knew and could not resist. Could it be that... he was traveling Suffered a fatal injury in the world? A fatal injury that cannot be repaired at all?"
This is also a possibility, but soon, the thoughtful elder sister realized that there was a doubt here: "No, there seems to be a problem with the timing... When is the date of this clay tablet?"
"According to the sacrificial activities and customs mentioned on the other clay tablets, it was probably hundreds of years before this king came to power," Ji Xingshan sat in the middle of a pile of mud bumps, like a learned old scholar, "It has been more than five thousand years ago."
"Due to the asynchrony of the time axis, the soldier's voyage was more than 1,200 years ago to me," Sandora simply converted, "And according to the information just now, the time when he arrived on Earth The time is the ancient times at least five thousand years ago."
If there is no advanced civilization to "debug", the time axis between the two native worlds will be misaligned. This phenomenon is already familiar to me. In the world where Sandora was trapped, her soldier disappeared more than 1,200 years ago (for Sandora), but that soldier left traces in the ancient Uruk civilization era on Earth , indicating that the time when he arrived on the earth was more than five thousand years ago (for the time axis of the New Empire), this is the so-called time axis dislocation phenomenon.
But these two points in time are actually not important, what is important is another point in time—
"The remains of the tomb we found in the Taklamakan Desert were built more than a thousand years ago." Sandora recalled what happened back then, and she found the biggest problem, "The soldier arrived five thousand years ago The earth died after more than three thousand years: he definitely did not die from exhaustion! After more than three thousand and five hundred years, he had enough time to repair himself, even repair his transmission device, and return to me."
That's right, the biggest doubt was finally exposed: the lost soldier had been active for more than 3,500 years since he arrived on the earth. He had such a long time to repair himself, or send a distress signal to his chief, or even just It is also possible to leave some larger ruins, but in the end he did almost nothing in the past three thousand years. After leaving behind a bunch of half-understood legends and a group of confused primitive people, he died in obscurity: even Even the graves were buried under the yellow sand.
"How far can an elite imperial soldier with a high degree of self-awareness transform a primitive planet in three thousand years without being able to contact the parent planet?" I looked at Sandora, she must understand what I mean .
"Even the most basic Xiling soldier has sufficient thinking ability and planning ability," Sandora said slowly, "according to the level of the earth's indigenous civilization at that time, if you guide the whole process carefully, 3,500 years is enough for the most The clumsy soldiers expanded a group of the most stupid natives to the orbit of Neptune. He only needs to use his absolute authority to rule mankind with god-like power, and then let mankind quickly enter the industrial age. You know, forcibly catalyzing the alien race In terms of technology trees, the Xiling Empire has a long history, and it is not difficult to bring a primitive civilization into the space age within thousands of years. Primitives are not much different from modern humans in terms of intelligence. It has basically matured since the torches were lit, and for thousands of years after that, the earth people just tinkered between a few blocks of their own brains."
In other words, if the imperial soldier who strayed to the earth at that time had no problem with his mind, and he really wanted to leave traces of his activities in human civilization, then the people on earth have at least built colonies to the edge of the solar system and started Research deep space navigation technology. But just like what I said just now, for more than three thousand years, that soldier has done almost nothing.
"Something is seriously restricting his actions. It's not the damage to the body or the hidden wounds left by crossing the world, but something deeper, something that can suppress the core abilities of the Xiling Apostle," Sandora said a little anxiously He tapped the table lightly, "I know the apostles of Xiling, and I know my soldiers better. From the signs recorded on the clay tablets, that soldier did try to leave a cultural heritage about himself among the indigenous people of this world, 9% The tenth possibility is to prove that he has been to this world. This is like a road sign or a lighthouse, which he prepared for himself after his death—maybe he hopes that one day his army will pass by this world, so that he can see the mark he left Now that he has this clear goal, he should adopt a series of effective means... I think, his super-space support ability must be locked, and some of his logical thinking ability, cross-world communication The ability is also locked, he did not use a powerful weapon to create a 'notch' such as a giant rift on the earth, which means that even the weapons in his own portable space are locked... What is it that can make a hope The Spirit Apostle is completely suppressed to this extent?"
I don't know anything that can suppress a Xiling apostle to the point where he can't move at all and can only be a super thug like this, but I suddenly remembered another thing related to "suppression", so I looked at Shan Dora: "Sandora, do you remember when we first met, you and your army were trapped on a planet polluted by the abyss..." RS