Chapter 135 Ancient Covenant

"What did you say?"

"Old Atlantis." Grandna repeated: "It is a language that we in Atlantis used to use. It is very ancient. Even within our mermaid tribe, few people can hear it. understood."

"So complicated?"

"It's not that it's complicated, but it's not universal anymore. This ancient Atlantis language was the language used when our mermaid tribe just started. At that time, our mermaid tribe was still very weak. Later, as our mermaid tribe continued to grow, Some races that were conquered by us or voluntarily defected to us brought some new phrases and words. In addition, we later established an alliance with the Black Octopus and the Turtle Tribe. The languages ​​of the three major tribes influenced each other and interfered with each other, which gave rise to what we are today. The New Atlantis language we use can basically be regarded as the lingua franca of the sea. At least 80% of the underwater races use our Atlantis language, and Ancient Atlantis is a mermaid. The people who can speak the ancient language of the tribe are limited to a small number of historians or large families of the mermaid tribe. Most mermaids have directly learned the New Atlantis language, and the mother tongue has been gradually forgotten.”

"№◎§※&..." The metal octopus in front of us suddenly made a series of strange sounds again.

I turned to look at Aina. "What is he saying?"

"He said that I am indeed from the mermaid tribe, but the strange thing is that they just used honorifics."

"Honorifics?"

"The parliamentary system that our mermaid tribe uses now only emerged after the fusion of multiple races. Initially, we implemented a monarchical dictatorship system. At that time, the lower races had to use honorifics when meeting the mermaid tribe."

"Does that mean they are a lower race?"

"Even now I don't dare to talk nonsense! They have been scattered for so many years, and you still don't know if they still admit that they are a lower race."

I nodded and said to Aina: "We will discuss the specific matters later. You first explain to them that the hole was not made intentionally by us, and ask what the relationship between the thing we just killed and them is. "

After listening to my order, Ah Di Na started explaining to the thing in a jittery voice. After a long time, she turned to me and said, "They attacked us before because they thought we were attacking them on purpose, but now they We can forgive our behavior. The big squid we just killed was a monster that invaded their city. This was originally their city, but then that thing got in somehow, and they were forced to evacuate to the isolation gate. The city was sealed off by them. They were very happy to hear that we killed this thing and wanted to thank us."

I nodded, it seemed that this was a relatively easy race to get along with. "Did you ask them why they spoke Ancient Atlantis?"

After communicating for a while, A Di Na said to me: "He said that they have always used this language. But he also said that their elders might know. He said that he wanted us to meet their elders. Their elders here have said it before We are looking for the mermaid tribe, so..."

"I understand. This race should have been a vassal or companion race of your mermaid race. It would be nice to meet them."

"clear."

Under the translation of Aina and the creature, we exchanged some relevant information while heading towards their city, but most of the time we were answering their questions. This race seems to have been in a closed state during this period. They know almost nothing about the outside world, so they don't understand many common sense things at all. However, I also discovered a problem during the conversation, that is This seems to be an auxiliary race. The so-called auxiliary race is a race that lacks the ability to survive independently and needs to rely on a race with strong combat effectiveness to exist. Of course, the auxiliary race is not a completely useless race. Otherwise, the strong combat race would not be raising a parasite-like race in vain, right?

During the conversation, we unknowingly arrived at the central area of ​​the city. There is a huge square here, and in the center of the square is a huge bread-shaped building. But what surprised us most was not the bread-shaped building, but the creatures near the building. I originally thought that these metal octopuses were the true form of this race, but it turned out that I was completely mistaken. These metal octopuses are basically something similar to combat weapons, and they are actually semi-mechanized combat weapons, but the body of this race is much smaller than this thing.

The metal octopus that led us opened a hole from below after arriving at the entrance of the bakery building, and then the creatures inside came out and brought us to a group of local creatures at the door of the building. The shape of the creature that leads us is hilarious. First of all, this guy is only about half a meter tall, and half of that height is taken up by his head, which accounts for more than half of his weight. Under the head, which is larger than a basketball, is a cylindrical body less than five centimeters long that can be pinched with one hand. Sixteen arms as thick as human fingers are connected to the lower part of the body, but compared with octopus and squid, their arms are much shorter, and the tips of these arms actually have three branches, which is almost like a Like little claws. In fact, this figure alone is not very funny, the key is the eyes of these guys. These blue-skinned little guys all have big green eyes as big as apples, and there are only a few small holes in their noses and ears, and there is only a small slit in their mouths. Imagine how strange it would be to imagine such a big bald man with such big eyes?

The little ones obviously didn't pay much attention to my scrutinizing gaze, because they were busy looking at Aina. After repeatedly confirming Aina's race, the local races standing at the gate took us inside the building, but the way in was rather depressing. Although the gate of this building can be considered very big compared to this race, for us, it is a little bigger than a dog cave. Fortunately, the inside of the building seems to be a gym-like place, except for a circle of stands around the outside. The outside and middle are basically empty.

After standing in the center of the square, most of the little guys retreated, leaving only a few guys who looked older. After all the young creatures exited, an older creature began to communicate with Aina. During this period, Aina pointed at me and seemed to be talking about me, and then the creatures started discussing. After a while they seemed to come up with something. One of the creatures quickly left here, and after a while he ran back, followed by a group of his kind, and they also brought back a very large machine, but I couldn't figure out what this was for.

The creature swam up to me and pointed at the machine and said something, but I couldn't understand it at all. A Di Na quickly explained: "He wants you to go to that thing."

"Sit on? How to sit?"

A Di Na asked the old guy for a while and then said to me: "It's that platform. You don't have to sit on it. You can stand on it, as long as it's above the instrument."

"Oh." I turned around and looked at the thing, then spread my wings and flapped slightly before swimming to the top of the thing. I retracted my wings and stood firmly on top of the instrument, waiting for their next move.

"How is it? Can you understand what we are saying now?" Unexpectedly, when the creature made a sound again in front of me, I actually understood what he meant.

I nodded quickly to show that I understood. "This thing is a translator?"

"No, it's not a translator, but a consciousness connector. We are actually communicating directly using our will now. You can find that I can even directly transmit images to you. How about it? Have you seen the images I transmitted? "

I nodded again. "How did you get this?"

"We made it ourselves."

"Huh?" This answer really surprised me. "Did you make it yourself?"

"Yes. What our Sigma Sea tribe is best at is studying the mysteries of nature. This thing seems very simple, but in fact it is just combining the various laws that already exist in nature according to our wishes to make them produce magical effects. "

Ariana also testified beside her: "I heard the elders of our tribe say that our mermaid tribe did have a very powerful vassal race in the past. Most of Atlantis' technology came from their research, but Later, we were separated from them due to the attack of the Great White Sharks, and the technological progress of Atlantis almost came to a standstill. The best we can do is to ensure that the technology does not deteriorate."

"So that's it!" Speaking of which, Atlantis's stuff does feel like it's technologically disconnected. Many of their stuff are obviously very technologically advanced, but their R&D capabilities are very weak. It feels like it's not their own technology. . The mermaid engineers in Atlantis are really just engineers. They only have a thorough understanding of the existing technology. They can repair and build and even modify to a certain extent but cannot innovate.

"Master." Ariana suddenly said: "Just now the elder said that he wanted to return to Atlantis. Should we consider merging the two races as soon as possible? The resources here have been almost exhausted due to the long-term isolation. , they have started rationing food since last month, if we find them later, they will starve to death here!"

"Migration is definitely no problem." How could I give up on a race with such strong R&D capabilities? "But I have a better suggestion." I saw them all looking over and said, "The conditions here are very good. As long as you build a large teleportation channel and make some modifications, I think you can completely transform Asia." All the technical departments from Terendis have been moved here. Anyway, what you lack is just various supplies. This place is so hidden, and safety is absolutely guaranteed. As long as the supply channels are established, wouldn't it be much better than outside?"