Chapter 497 All Living Things

This primitive style totem looks a bit like a mermaid. But it is not the mermaid that Ingres had seen in the Twilight Photography, who was a human with a fish body and used her singing voice and beauty to seduce ships to sink.

Instead, it is a mermaid with strange fins all over her body, a weird appearance, and the part of her body that has turned into a fish is not limited to the lower body.

Some are half-body fish, some are left-side fish, and some are full-body fish but retain their limbs. Ingres does not know whether there is such a race as mermaids, but they look human and fish-like. Before knowing their real name, Ingres tentatively believes that they may be a subspecies of mermaids.

Behind this row of mermaid totems of various colors are murals carved one after another.

The main characters in the picture have changed from mermaids to frog-skinned monsters. The frog-skinned monsters are doing strange things, some are kneeling, some are carrying loads, and some are holding harpoons. It seems to describe the daily life of frog-skinned monsters...but the last few paintings are a bit weird.

The mermaids of the previous totem appeared again, riding on the clouds and mist, leading the frog monsters to a place full of sunshine.

The frog monsters formed a circle and danced to celebrate, and then the mermaids disappeared.

This series of murals seemed to be related to the frog monsters' belief in gods. The mermaids were beliefs, totems, and gods; and the frog monsters were the tribes that worshipped the totems.

The content of the pictures covered a lot of things, from ordinary daily life, to going out hunting, to Ming Qi Chuang, and the worship of gods.

Under each picture, there were a lot of words recorded.

This is a kind of word composed of dots, lines and patterns, like a stickman doing various actions. Ingres didn't understand the meaning of the word, and could only speculate that it might be a kind of ideographic word, telling the story in the picture.

Ingres studied it for a long time, but he didn't have any concept, and finally he could only shake his head and give up interpreting the words.

Even if his intuition told him that these words and pictures were very important, he had to give up without a way to interpret them. If he knew the Level 2 trick "Word Mastery", then it would be easy to interpret this basic ideographic word.

But he didn't know "Word Mastery", so even if he learned it now, it would not be completed overnight. Tricks like "Word Mastery" and "Language Analysis" require a lot of knowledge accumulation and sedimentation, and they also need to be proficient in various ideographic, phonetic, and divine logic. They need daily accumulation and sedimentation to slowly take shape.

Speaking of which, this is also the disadvantage of Angell, a quick-learning wizard apprentice who has insufficient knowledge accumulation. If it were someone else who had practiced to the level 2 peak apprentice step by step, this "Word Mastery" would be a necessary foundation, because such tricks are needed in survival in the wild, secret adventures, plane conquest, etc.

Angell couldn't interpret it, so he could only force himself to remember it. If he could meet other apprentices, maybe they could exchange information.

After looking at this room, Angell continued to turn around and didn't find any hidden rooms. The entire fortress has only two rooms, and the things are very simple. He didn't even find food supplies here.

Could it be that this place is just a concept similar to the "Forest Ranger's Cabin"?

In the absence of gain, Angel could only leave temporarily. However, he had a vague idea in his heart that perhaps the mystery of the Purified Sea this time should have an answer as long as the gathering place of these frog-skinned monsters is found.

But where is the gathering place of frog-skinned monsters? This is also a question.

Unable to decipher the words, but based on the murals, Angel guessed that the final promised land might be the place full of sunshine where the mermaid led the frog-skinned monsters in the picture.

But speaking of sunshine, Angel doubted whether he had guessed wrong. Could it be that the place they were going to arrive in the end was not at the bottom of the sea, but on the surface of the sea?

But if it was on the surface of the sea, why would this frog-skinned monster live on the bottom of the sea?

After leaving the circular fortress, Angel still planned to continue exploring deeper. Although he guessed that it might be on the surface of the sea, he still felt something was wrong.

He still remembered the poor apprentice of the mechanical city who was kidnapped by Frode and others. He once said: "Fight for a way out in the most dangerous place."

If this sentence is the "pass key" to purify the garden this time, the sea is so calm, there should be no danger, right? Unless all the frog-skinned monsters gather on the sea surface, according to their strength that is even greater than that of the flying fish before, they can indeed pose a threat to others.

But now the location of the frog-skinned monster cannot be confirmed, and Angel found the frog-skinned monster on the seabed, so he decided to continue searching on the seabed.

If he really can't find it, then it's another story.

Thinking of this, Angel went down the slope and continued to walk towards a deeper, darker and colder place.

……

When Angel walked into the dark deep sea with endless loneliness. The flying fish world that was about to be destroyed was another scene.

Nausicaa was injured, and the injury was very serious. She collapsed under a tree and sighed for a long time.

The breeze brushed across her face, bringing up her beautiful hair.

Nausicaa snorted and looked up at the golden countdown in the sky. Her eyes were filled with obvious unwillingness. It was the last hour, but she still hadn't found the so-called Purified Sea.

Even if she guessed that the sky might be the exit, she didn't know how to fly. At most, she could stay in the air for a while with the help of wind spirals. How difficult would it be to leave?

Not to mention, she was seriously injured now.

When the magic source was exhausted, she forced the hurricane spiral cannon to drive away the people. But she also had a slight backlash of magic power. Even if the backlash was not serious this time, she could recover most of her injuries with potions, but at least she had no mobility in the short term.

In this case, even if the Purification Sea was not empty, she had no ability to find it again.

Moreover, she might become a burden to the team.

Nausicaa smiled bitterly. She had heard heavy footsteps not far away. It seemed that Shan was commanding Gan Ke to find them.

Sure enough, not long after, a shadow blocked her sight.

"Nausicaa, what's wrong with you?" Shan jumped down from Gan Ke's shoulder anxiously. Nausicaa said that she would explore the way to the front and climb the mountain to see if there was a sea. As a result, she didn't come back for more than half an hour, so she rushed over urgently. As a result, she saw Nausicaa covered in blood and dying.

Nausicaa smiled bitterly and said, "I was attacked by someone."

"Who?" Shan Fu immediately got angry and shouted, "Where is he?"

"I have chased him away." Nausicaa shook her head: "Do you remember that before I entered the Purification Garden, I said someone was looking at me with hostile eyes?"

"Is that the person who attacked you?"

Nausicaa nodded, the tall and graceful woman with a veil. She still didn't know who the other party was, where she offended her, and even chased her to the Purification Garden.

"Damn it, describe what she looks like, if I meet her, I will kill her immediately." As he said, Shan wanted to help Nausicaa to Gan Ke's shoulder.

Nausicaa shook off her hand: "Don't worry about me, take Xiliu away, I guess I can't continue..."

Before Nausicaa finished speaking, Xiliu, who was slumped on Gan Ke's shoulder, suddenly stretched: "Ha-yawn-"

Nausicaa and Shan looked over, Xiliu seemed a little shy, lowering his head: "Uh, good morning?"

...

The dawn came, and the edge of the sky appeared fish belly white. The dawn of a new day came as promised.

The morning light is beautiful, but it may be the last dawn in this world.

The countdown in the sky has half an hour left, and the number is still shrinking. It is like the sword of Damocles, hanging over everyone's head, reminding everyone that death is coming.

Seeing that time is getting less and less, all those who have not found the exit are interpreting the myriad phenomena of all living beings.

Persistent people are still looking for direction, but if their heads are not bright and they can't see the fog clearly, they will eventually be punished by hanging swords.

People who see the situation clearly are looking for ways to ascend to heaven. But sometimes the method is in front of us, but no one dares to try it.

More people choose madness. Before dying, they raged wildly, as if they wanted to vent their inner panic in this way.

At some point, the earth began to tremble. From time to time, you can see the cracks in the ground, gushing out hot magma, burning this world that is about to be broken and sacrificed.

Lava, hurricanes, rainstorms, and possessed people and crazy flying fish are playing the last symphony before the end of the world.

A huge blue whale floated in the air, and a man with fish scales on his forehead stood on the whale's head, looking at this absurd picture of the end of the world with interest.

The man looked at it for a long time and looked very attentively.

"Jiebo, aren't you leaving yet?" The woman covered in a blue cloak suddenly walked to the side of the man and whispered softly.

Jie Bo smiled faintly: "What a rare scene, it's a pity to miss this time." The cloaked woman walked to the head of the blue whale and took a red conch from the sharp corner: "The sound of the red conch has been recorded. If you want to watch it in the future, you can watch it anytime." Jie Bo raised his eyebrows: "I prefer to be there in person. The suffering of the world is my favorite scene." "However, such a scene is still too small." Jie Bo turned around, "Let's go, it's almost time. Such a scene may appear in the entire South Region soon." The cloaked woman frowned: "South Region? What do you mean?" "You haven't forgotten the advent of the demon god ten thousand years ago?" Jie Bo left this sentence, smiled softly, and let the blue whale fly to the sky. At the boundary membrane, in addition to the wizard apprentices who entered the Purified Sea from time to time, there were also flying fish rushing into it. When Jie Bo came to the boundary membrane, he saw a huge ray flying into the boundary membrane. Because of the hugeness and strength of the blue whale, no other flying fish dared to approach. But the ray seemed to ignore this rule, passing through the side of the blue whale and entering the boundary membrane.

"What are you looking at?"

"A strange person, without hands or feet, actually rode that ray into the Purified Sea. Interesting."