Chapter 800 Stone City

A ruin!

Hao Ren was shocked after hearing the news. He was as surprised as when he first learned that the planet had two layers of crust, and that the surface crust was actually the petrified crowns of a group of giant trees. He immediately enlarged the images, confirmed the authenticity and approximate scale of the ruins, and then asked the data terminal to transmit everyone there immediately: the ruins are quite far away from here, almost on the other side of the planet, and it would be too time-consuming to drive there.

The data terminal emitted a blue halo, and everyone's figures disappeared in the transmitted light curtain in an instant. The next moment, they had arrived at the location of the long-distance probe.

Here is also a magnificent prairie.

Hao Ren stretched out his hand to catch the probe that was flying towards him, put this little guy who had made great contributions into his pocket, and then climbed up to a high ground and looked at the large buildings not far away. The vast and magnificent scenery here was irresistible. Breath hitched.

Boundless green grass spreads on the land to the end of the field of vision. The vast prairie undulates slightly like gentle waves. The magnificent scenery is like an oil painting. On this prairie, an ancient city built with huge rocks towers. Stand upright. The city has an architectural form that resembles the Aztec style. Although most of the walls have collapsed, the scale of the city can still be seen. Several large and small flat-topped pyramids can be seen in the center of the city and on the side of the highlands. Between these pyramids are wide avenues paved with boulders. These roads divide the city into several orderly square areas. There are stone houses lined up in each area. Except for the pyramids, most of the buildings in the city are no more than three stories high, which makes those pyramids even more spectacular.

"It's unbelievable..." Hao Ren murmured to himself, "There are such ruins here... I thought that when the eldest son created those giant trees, there would be earth-shaking vibrations, and everything on the second layer of the earth's crust would be destroyed. That’s right.”

As he spoke, he looked up into the distance. About a dozen kilometers away from the city, you could see a spectacular black giant pillar connecting the sky and the earth. You could also see a similar pillar in the other direction on the horizon. "Pillar". In fact, in this "underground world" with excellent air quality, even if you are not standing at a high place, you can always see at least two giant trees supporting the sky and the earth: those magnificent pillars are really too big, and they stretch all the way. to rock domes, they can be seen from every angle.

The distance between the city and the giant Tianzhu trees is only a dozen kilometers, but they are safe and sound. Hao Ren thinks this is an incredible miracle: he has witnessed the scale of those giant trees with his own eyes, and the aerial roots exposed on the surface of the latter are thousands of meters high. Mountains, and considering that these giant trees evolved from the tentacles of the eldest son, their movements when they emerged from the surface should be devastating. Even if the eldest son did everything carefully, it would not be able to tear the earth apart. Although the crack is more than ten kilometers wide, it does not harm the nearby city at all, because this is an inevitable physical process. So there is only one conclusion...

This city was built after the sky closed.

But according to the judgment of those crazy "Third Sons" on the surface crust, this planet should have experienced a complete ecological reset. So who built this city on the original crust after the sky closed? A mortal? Did they escape the eldest son's purge? Or... the Great Purge didn't happen at all?

A lot of questions were tangled up in Hao Ren's brain, and the answer seemed to be in that city.

The group came to the ruins of the city. After getting closer, this simple and solemn stone city exuded a desolate and heavy atmosphere: If the giant tree and the canopy dome are the "power of nature" created by the eldest son, then this The ruins of this city are "human miracles" built by mortals with human power. Even if the scale is vastly different, it still has a shocking aspect. Even Lily couldn't help but become serious. She didn't even pay attention to the small stones that could be seen everywhere (normally, these would be collected into her dog's treasure). Instead, she rubbed a stone passing by with her hand. Square pillar: "It looks like it was made by hand, and ax chisel marks can be seen on the edges. To pile up such a huge amount of stones to build a city requires a high labor cost."

Stone buildings that have been dormant for thousands of years stand silently on both sides of the road. Moss and vines have eroded the gaps in these buildings, leaving mottled green traces in the stone gaps. Many buildings show signs of cracking, and many houses It has even completely collapsed into rubble. In the collapsed stone pile, there are still tenacious green grass and green vines growing out of the gaps and fluttering in the wind.

Some colors can still be seen on some ancient stone walls, which are paintings and writings from ancient times: the ancients who left this ruins obviously had special skills, and the pigments they made are still beautiful after so many years of weathering and erosion. Some of them survived, which caught Hao Ren's attention.

He bent down in front of a fallen and broken stone slab. This stone slab should have been inlaid on a high platform in front of him. The high platform seemed to be a ceremonial place, with special regulations and a solemn atmosphere. On the stone slab, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some faintly discernible relief images.

The relief should be depicting some kind of natural phenomenon. Hao Ren saw a radiating ball at the top of the picture, and undulating wavy lines at the bottom of the picture. It was unclear whether it represented sea water or grassland: this "underground" world has no There are only a large number of lakes and rivers in the large-scale ocean, so I am not sure whether the ancients who left these reliefs had the concept of "ocean".

Hao Ren discovered that there was something at the bottom of the stone slab, so he stretched out his hand to clean away the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols that looked like writing, which looked a bit like cuneiform writing.

"Terminal, translator."

The data terminal came over, scanned it, and drifted to the side: "Wait a minute, this machine needs more characters to form a sample library. There should be other characters nearby."

Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet and shouted: "There is it over here! There are many words over here!"

The data terminal flew around to collect text, and connected the character sample library with the relief images, and then returned to the stone slab: "What is written here is: Praise the sun, which once brought light and heat to the earth. We firmly believe It still burns in the skies of its homeland, and its light shines in our spirits.”

Then it found another stone slab next to it. This stone slab depicts a large number of plants and animals, as well as curved symbols floating among the animals and plants. There is also text under this stone slab: "Praise to all living things, the outstanding creation of the goddess, the soul." Moving among living beings, the dead are not dead, the living are also in death, we are with all the living and the dead.”

"These are religious stone tablets," Hao Ren stood up and came to the stone tablet Lily found, "What's on this?"

"Spells, a lot of prayers, no clear meaning," the light of the data terminal wandered on the stone tablet, "calling on the power of the wind, calling on the power of clouds, calling on the power of the earth, water, plants and stones, and there are also large paragraphs A long piece of text that praises a certain natural phenomenon. It looks like something that would be used in a magical ceremony. Based on the style of the prayer, it's a bit like a druid or some kind of natural totem belief."

Hao Ren snorted. He knew little about magic itself, and he was even less familiar with such unpopular things as totem belief. But at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to suddenly discover something. He took out a small bottle from his arms: "Wait a minute, I'll try it."

As he spoke, he poured out some grey-white translucent viscous grease from the bottle, smeared the grease on the surface of the stone monument and then pressed his hand on the area where the grease was applied to infuse it with magic power. With a slight buzzing sound, layers of light green light appeared on the stone tablet. This light resonated with the surrounding stone platforms and stone slabs. It continued after Nangong Sanba took his hand away, until those The magic oil suddenly burned to ashes before stopping.

Lily didn't understand: "What is this?"

"Check whether there is any residual magic power," Nangong Sanba wiped his hands, "Items that once carried magic power will leave more or less traces, and will change after being stimulated by the Night Owl potion. These stone slabs and stone tablets are not only They were ritual objects and they were really involved in magical reactions.”

"In other words, the builder of this city is a magic civilization," Hao Ren understood. "No wonder they can build such a magnificent thing. It must be with the help of magic."

At this time, a subtle outsider's breath suddenly appeared not far away. Everyone felt it almost at the same time and raised their heads in unison. And the next second, a sharp "swish" sound flew towards everyone. Lily immediately stretched out her hand to grab it, and there was an arrow quenched with green light in her hand.

Hao Ren looked in the direction of the breath in shock. He saw a tall and strong humanoid creature flashing away from the top of a collapsed stone wall!

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