Chapter 496 This Is the Reason
After a long period of ravages, the golden ruined city of Allamanda has lost its former glory. Although the ruins are still splendid, the whole city is piled with ruins. There are few buildings in the city that are still intact, and only those most important and extraordinarily strong things have been preserved.
The key facility known as the Tower of Ascension is one of them.
This is a pentagonal tower with a base of 100 meters in diameter and a very large scale. Except for the gate at the bottom, there are no doors or windows in the entire minaret. Only some unidentified protrusions and metal brackets like antennas can be seen on the smooth pale golden exterior wall. Anna relied on the chaotic memories in her mind to lead everyone to the door into the tower. The door was broken, and the whole door was torn apart in a radial pattern. It seemed that something had forced its way out from inside, leaving behind this Huge holes.
Hao Ren took the lead and was surprised to find that the inside of this doorless and windowless building was very bright: there were many light beams of unknown origin shining directly from above, illuminating the hall on the first floor of the tower as bright as day. Those light pillars are surrounded by thin dust mist, giving people an inexplicable ethereal feeling: it is not difficult to imagine what kind of sacred place this place was back then.
The first floor of the tower does not have a very complicated structure, it is just a magnificent hall, and the most incredible thing is that there are no pillars to support it. Thinking of the height of the entire tower of hundreds of meters, this unsupported base hall makes people feel One has to marvel at the advanced construction technology and material science of the Tana people in the past. A circle of golden devices can be seen around the hall. These devices are columns of about one meter with an inclined upper surface, which seems to be some kind of operating surface. Lily went over and patted the pillar curiously, but found no reaction at all.
"Don't think about it. Even if these things don't damage this place, there is no energy to start them." Hao Ren crossed his arms and looked around the hall. Suddenly he saw exquisite patterns painted on the walls in some places, "Hey, come on Look at this, it looks like a mural left by the Tana people.”
Everyone was immediately attracted, and Hao Ren found the starting point of those murals. He looked at what was recorded on them in surprise: they were not earth-shattering scenes, there were no heroes and mythological images, nor were they exquisite and flashy decorative paintings. They depicted are very simple everyday things.
They depict the entire civilization of the Tana people.
In the first mural, the Tana people live in the coastal beach area. They are an amphibian creature that has gradually moved closer to a pure land life due to certain changes in the marine environment. Wearing primitive aquatic plants and animal skin clothing, they built houses on the coastline, adapted to drought, hunted land animals, and lit the first bonfires of civilization.
In the second mural, the Tana people have shed their scales and evolved the structure of their fingers. Their living environment has obviously shifted from tidal flats and swamps to drier plains. They build villages on the grasslands, raise animals in captivity, and plant crops. and harvest.
They built cities, developed metal tools, and learned how to smelt and make alloys. They understood the power of "electricity" from natural phenomena, and then quickly integrated this power with some of the innate spiritual abilities of their race. together. In later murals, it can be seen that the Tana people held ceremonies around a tall metal pillar. Lightning struck the pillars, and another wonderful energy burst out in the Tana people's bodies to resonate with it.
They live, learn, and temper their spiritual power. Their innate ability to evolve rapidly allows them to more easily obtain power from nature. They explored their entire planet and built great information networks and global energy broadcast systems. They have even developed aerospace technology and some kind of space technology - but their most powerful thing is still a wonderful skill called "soul power", which is the result of their continuous evolution of their own spiritual talents. This wonderful skill is also the only hope for the Tana people to save themselves when a disaster strikes.
Yes, the Catastrophe, everything changes in the later stages of the mural, and some unspeakable disaster breaks out on the planet. The Tana's might was outshone by this catastrophe, their magnificent metal cities uprooted and their weapons of war useless against their enemies. The mural shows the tragic scene of the Tana people being slaughtered one-sidedly. The flames of war are raging across the entire planet, but the enemy's face is always a mass of crazy lines. The person who left these murals seemed to have difficulty describing what his enemy was in a logical way. He could only use mass after mass of shadows and curves to represent some kind of disaster, and billions of tanas People are on the verge of extinction under the cover of those crazy lines.
In the end, the only survivors all retreated into three cities on the planet. The murals used exaggerated pictures to express the situation of these three cities: they were cast from metal and shrouded in layers of protective walls and energy shields. Under the shield, outside the city is boundless chaos and death. The survivors survived for several years in the city's protective walls, but the city's protective walls continued to weaken under the erosion of the power of the disaster, and their demise became inevitable.
Anna stroked the lines on the murals: "This is the 'Original Natural Disaster', and mortal power cannot resist it. In the end, the Tana people finally realized a certain pattern of this disaster, and they decided to seek it by changing their life forms. Survive--"
Anna said, raising her hand and pointing to the last mural.
The lines on the mural have returned to simplicity, and the majestic and complex material world has been hidden. A Tana man is suspended in the air, and half of his body has turned into a mist-like phantom. This represents the transformation of life forms, and in At the bottom of the picture, there are messy lines, which represent disaster. This mural seems to depict the Tana people finally getting rid of the disaster after changing their life forms.
Anna sighed, piecing together the last fragments of memory in her mind: "They left these murals to record the course of their civilization, because the Tana people were not sure what would happen after they transformed into spiritual creatures. In order to cope with the worst, They left such simple and straightforward records in many buildings to ensure that other intelligent creatures that visit this planet one day can know what kind of race once lived here."
"So the Tana people turned into angry spirits," Vivian frowned and shook her head, "But the angry spirits they turned into didn't show any logic at all. Not to mention advanced intelligence, they even looked like Natural phenomena are equally irrational.”
Nangong Sanba scratched his hair: "Then what exactly is the disaster mentioned here?"
Hao Ren took a breath, and a vague guess gradually took shape in his mind. He glanced at the scenes depicted on the last few murals, and suddenly ran quickly to the exit of the hall: "Follow me!"
Everyone followed them without knowing why. Hao Ren led them to a high platform they passed before. Anna couldn't climb such a steep building, so Lily easily carried her on her shoulders. The group of people climbed up to the high platform and came to a position where they could overlook the city's high walls, so the scene outside Allamanda's thick protective wall was clear at a glance.
Outside the city is a primitive and desolate land, and it presents an extremely horrifying sight: the ground is covered with huge ravines and huge pits, like a giant face full of pits, and there is a super giant of unprecedented scale on one side of the city. The scale of the crater makes one almost suspect that the core of the planet has penetrated beneath it. Among the countless ravines and potholes, the most shocking thing are those scalp-numbing tentacles.
eldest son.
"I knew..." Hao Ren swallowed, "The same thing as Horleta happened here."
Nangong Wuyue swayed, covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice: "Oh my god..."
"The situation on this planet is worse than that of Horleta. The eldest son has obviously completed the purge of the second son." Vivian frowned and looked back at Allamanda, who had only ruins left. "The tower The Na people became extinct.”
It was the first time for both Anna and Nangong Sanba to see this terrifying thing. The latter was more or less in a better situation as a demon hunter, but the former swayed twice and almost fainted from fright: she suffered She has a double fear, one coming from her human instinct, and the other coming from the remaining memories of angry spirits in her mind. She was now almost half-Tana, and she almost fainted when she saw the tentacles that destroyed an entire civilization.
This is the disaster faced by the Tana people and the reason why they have to give up their bodies and change their life forms.