Chapter 1499 On the Verge of the Source

Heading north, the weather gets colder.

The howling cold wind carried fine dust and rolled across the plain, blowing the light and unknown downy plants everywhere on the ground. A desolate atmosphere enveloped the entire plain, and the cold wind seemed to be speaking silently. What a barbaric stage the world is in. It is rare to see tall vegetation in the endless wasteland. Due to the cold climate zone here, and also due to the low temperature environment that is currently all over the world and has not completely faded away, only listless low shrubs and low shrubs can be seen in the wasteland. There are clusters of nameless weeds here and there. This is really not a place suitable for life.

And certainly not suitable for hunting.

Of course there are still hunting grounds and plants, but they are dozens of kilometers away from this wasteland. There is a relatively lush coniferous forest. There are medium-sized pastures around the coniferous forest, and some of them form colonies. Herbivores and a few predators roamed that place, and they supported two small primitive tribes - and vice versa, of course, as the primitive tribes also supported the carnivorous beasts of the forest.

This is an era when humans and beasts are in the same class and prey on each other.

Hao Ren wore a frayed leather robe and climbed onto a rock protruding from the ground. His attire looked weathered, but for the aborigines here and now, this attire was still a magical thing that was difficult to understand. He set up a pergola and looked far into the distance, looking deeper into the wasteland: This place full of gravel and tundra plants looks the same everywhere, but after walking here, you don't have to worry about getting lost, because there is a very eye-catching " "Landmark" stands in the distance. It is a white pointed cone that reflects the sun. It looks like a white tower from a distance. In fact, it is a huge ice block. It is called "Tatumnu" by the locals in awe. ——This awkward word translates to "grave made of ice", and the meaning of the word is quite majestic.

Hao Ren looked back. Two thin men wrapped in animal skins immediately looked like they were shrinking in his eyes. Their skin was light brown, their faces were smeared with paint made from grass juice and animal blood, and they held sticks and spears with stone tips in their hands. They were warriors in the tribe, but when they faced off against Hao Ren, It was very simple: the power beyond comprehension caused great fear to these two tribes who only had primitive religious concepts. Hao Ren had previously hunted mammoths single-handedly with a luminous spear. The horrific scene still lingers in the minds of these two tribal warriors.

This is a temporary guide - in this city that lacks all landmarks, cannot find any historical records, and even the topography is inconsistent with later generations, it is a painful thing to be without a guide. Looking back at a certain time At that time, Hao Ren had been trekking alone in the Gobi Desert for nearly a month, so as long as he had the conditions, he would definitely try his best to trick one or two local guides into coming here.

Fortunately, as we get closer and closer to ancient times, it becomes easier and easier to trick and abduct guides - often all they need to do is show a power beyond their understanding. These primitive people are full of awe of nature and mysterious power. People will offer their loyalty respectfully.

Of course, there is a bad side - communicating with primitive people is always a bit troublesome. Although the translation plug-in can solve the language problem, the difference in worldview cannot be ignored. Many times, Hao Ren has to choose from a lot of specious and crude ideas. Use the vocabulary to guess whether what they said means what you think.

At this time, he couldn't help but miss his friends who had left the team - such as Lily, Hessiana, Hasselblad and Hesperius. Although the two of them usually were either cold to each other or said nasty things to each other, in the end At least the three views are on an approximate horizontal line.

But they have all left. Hesperus left the queue in 4705 BC, and Hasselblad stayed with Hao Ren until 6012 BC. After that, Hao Ren continued to travel alone. In this history Go upstream in the long river and explore the increasingly wild ancient earth.

"That's where the great god sleeps?"

Hao Ren shook his head, pushed aside all irrelevant things, raised his hand and pointed at the huge iceberg in the distance and asked.

The two tribal warriors waved their arms downward once - which in their habits means affirmation. Then the taller one said: "Yes, that's right. The surrounding ice will melt, but that piece of ice It never melts, this used to be our hunting ground, but now no one dares to come.”

Hao Ren nodded. He already knew something about this. He had found out clearly when he was in the primitive tribe: this plain was not as barren as it is now a long time ago. Although the low temperature environment during the retreat of the glaciation made the vegetation appear sparse, At least there are still some wild animals on the plains. Even if there are not many, they can still support a few small tribes during the difficult times at the end of the Ice Age. But then a "great god" passed by the plains. She was angry because someone had hunted her prey, so she froze the entire plains with large ice blocks. This caused several tribes on the plains to have to move to areas where predators were active. In the wild forest, to this day, there are only two tribes that migrated there.

The Great God lives on the plain, and the tribes living nearby firmly believe this: Although the big ice block that originally covered the entire land has melted, an iceberg-like serac remains in the middle of the plain. Even if this huge piece of ice is It will not shrink in any way even under direct sunlight or being burned by fire. Around the ice, it becomes extremely difficult for plants to grow, and wild animals are afraid to approach in fear. These are all proofs that the great god lives here.

The superstitious tribesmen believe that this is the punishment of the great god that has not yet ended. She wants the expelled tribes to use their bravery to prove who is qualified to return to their homeland. Therefore, the two tribes in the distant forest have been arguing continuously over the years.

Hao Ren didn't care about the blind and ignorant myths of primitive people. He could only be sure of one thing: the "great god" who could freeze the entire plain with big ice blocks as mentioned by the nearby tribesmen should be Vivian.

"I want to go there." Hao Ren said casually.

The two tribal warriors who came as guides were startled, and then showed great panic at the same time. They were trembling all over and backed away: "No, no, no, no one can get close to the place where the great god is, we will be frozen." It turns into ice cubes and then melts when the sun rises the next day..."

Hao Ren looked at the frightened expressions of these two primitive people. He could imagine what a terrifying legend Vivian's sleeping place held in the minds of these ignorant ancient humans - if they were forced to follow him to dig up Vivian. The two primitive men wearing animal skins would probably be frightened to death.

So he shook his head: "You go back, I will go alone."

Then he took out two alloy daggers from his pocket and handed them to the two temporary guides: "As promised before, this is a reward for you."

The two tribal warriors carefully took over these two weapons that had never appeared in their world view. They quickly confirmed its sharpness and sturdiness, and both of them looked surprised.

Ignoring the thoughts of the two primitive men, Hao Ren stepped off the ledge and walked towards the Ice Crown Tower in the distance.

The cold north wind blew again.

As he walked, he couldn't help but feel a sense of emptiness and loneliness. Looking at this uninhabited frozen Gobi, he even felt like he was the only one left in the whole world. How long has this historical journey been going on? He couldn't even calculate clearly, and he continuously traveled through the twisted and messy time and space. The time confusion also led to sensory confusion. He entered from the advanced city of human civilization into the dark and barbaric Middle Ages, and then from the backward Middle Ages. The glorious age of myth, and then from the age of myth to the barbaric ancient times, advanced and backward, civilized and barbaric, human beings and aliens each built two completely different landscapes in different historical periods, and all kinds of contradictory contradictions Things were spirally distributed on this historical track, so much so that as a passer-by, Hao Ren was not even sure whether he was moving along a continuous timeline.

The further into ancient times, the more obvious this feeling becomes.

Sometimes his last stop was an ignorant and primitive natural tribe, and his next step was to enter a steel city transformed from a stranded starship. After leaving the steel city, he plunged into a certain theocratic country. The next stop might be filled with magic and steam...

The aliens did not immediately build a great empire in the mythical age after arriving on Earth. They also went through the early pioneering stage. The initial alien stronghold might just be a broken city wreckage or a crumbling alien space fragment, and then they It took hundreds or even thousands of years to figure out how to use these things from the home world, and only then did he start to turn his attention to the original intelligent inhabitants of this planet, that is, the people on earth.

At this moment, Hao Ren was at the point where the aliens had just landed on the earth and were still trapped in their respective traps.

The huge ice block was already very close. From this distance, Hao Ren noticed that it was really huge. The height of the cone-shaped ice structure may be more than 100 meters. The cold breath spread outward from the giant ice. A semi-permanent frozen area was formed in a nearby area of ​​several hundred meters, and traces of strange blood-red colors were irregularly distributed in this white frozen area, like capillaries under the skin.

Hao Ren's gaze crossed the ice tower and landed on a mountain peak in the distance. He could see a pillar of light rising from the mountain peak and slowly sweeping across half of the sky.

That is the observation tower built by Odin and his tribe. The Nordic gods, who have just recovered from the alien syndrome, are about to begin observing this mysterious and strange planet. They have hundreds of sick and weak tribesmen who need food and The nourishment of medicine; in the southern part of the plain, a tribe of rune dwarves is carving words on the bodies of young tribesmen and celebrating the coming out of the first furnace of steel; in the more distant mountains, Zeus has just set foot on the earth of this planet, Looking for rocks that can be used as building materials in the mountains to repair the houses on Mount Olympus that collapsed due to space shock; in the ancient Nile River Basin, half of Ra's sun boat plunged into the jungle, and Osiris and Isis looked at the damaged propulsion engine and were helpless, and prepared to formulate a thousand-year spacecraft repair plan...

As for humans, humans have not yet recovered from the coldness of the Ice Age, and their tribes are not ready for the Age of Gods, but the Age of Mythology has arrived with a bang.

Hao Ren came to the foot of the Ice Tower. Through the thick ice, he seemed to be able to see the "princess" sleeping in the ice.

He put his hand on the ice and sighed softly: "Vivian, I found you again."

It is now 7715 BC, the glacier has receded, and everything is resurrected.