Chapter 804 Elder
Vivian's appearance caused a sensation in this peaceful settlement.
Geisel held up the holy blade and spread the news throughout the tribe. Seven warriors dressed similarly to him gathered from all over the settlement. These warriors were both male and female. What they had in common were the strange patterns on their faces and the special short swords worn on their waists. . They gathered around Vivian and Hesiana. When the dagger sensed the magic resonance and glowed red, these warriors, regarded as "sacred carriers", loudly announced the fact that the goddess appeared.
After the whole settlement woke up from the huge shock, they started a grand celebration. Men, women, old and children brought out drinks that could only be enjoyed during the festival from their yurts. The strong men, led by some old men, went to slaughter the livestock and prepare An all-night feast began, and some women with strange headdresses took out pottery jars with ancient patterns from a special yurt. They distributed the spices stored in the jars evenly to everyone in the settlement, letting them Spices were sprinkled on the meat at the beginning of the dinner - this spice was already a luxury only enjoyed at religious events. Cheerful and loud singing and slightly noisy but invigorating music sounded from every corner of the settlement. Being among them, even if you don't understand the customs of these indigenous peoples, you can feel the joy that pervades everyone's heart. . Lily looked at this exotic celebration scene in the open space by the river, and couldn't help but poke Vivian's arm: "Bat, is this all to welcome you?"
Vivian was not as nervous as everyone thought. She was just a little uncomfortable with the looks of awe and admiration thrown at her from time to time. But other than that, she still maintained an indifferent attitude and whispered to Lily in a low voice: "Speaking of which I really didn’t expect them to make such a big fuss.”
After seeing Vivian's reaction, Hao Ren was a little curious: "Are you quite calm?"
"It's not like I've never been enshrined like this before," Vivian looked a little helpless and a little self-deprecating, "Didn't I tell you that in ancient times I was occasionally mistaken for a god, and I even had the experience of being enshrined in a temple. Yes."
Lily was very curious about Vivian's experience: "Is it so awesome? It must be pretty cool, right?"
"Don't make trouble, I'm bored," Vivian sighed. "It's almost impossible to communicate with them. They can sum up a quotation for you just by sneezing. If I hadn't been really hungry and couldn't do anything, I would have If I didn't go to the temple, I would just sit there like a fool for several years."
Hao Ren didn't say anything. He just listened quietly to Vivian and Lily chatting about old things that had been enshrined in the temple until his group was led by Geisel and several great warriors. In front of a yurt that looks a little special.
This yurt is not much more gorgeous than other houses. Apart from being larger in size, it looks no different from ordinary residential houses. Standing in front of the yurt was an old man with dark skin and a full face. He seemed to have been waiting for a long time. After seeing Vivian, he immediately bowed to the ground and bowed. Hao Ren couldn't stop him.
"This is the elder, the wise Gotalug," Geisel introduced the old man respectfully, "He is the leader of the West Wind Tribe."
Hao Ren stepped forward to help the old man up, and half forcefully stopped the other party from following the red tape: "Okay, okay, your goddess knows how pious you are, but she just wants to be quiet for a while now - let's go in Is the house okay? I have a lot of questions to ask."
Old Man Gotalug looked at Hao Ren in shock, as if he didn't understand what relationship this man had with the goddess. Vivian nodded upon seeing this: "What he said is equivalent to what I said."
She was used to asking Hao Ren to negotiate when something happened, and the latter was somewhat more professional.
The interior of the yurt was large enough to accommodate everyone, but the warriors who were traveling with Geisel still respectfully stayed at the door to stand guard. Only Geisel, as the first warrior to meet the goddess, got the chance to talk to the elders. The opportunity to talk to the goddess together - although no one asked them to do this at all, both the warriors and the tribal elders had their own strict system, and Hao Ren and the others were not allowed to interfere.
The furnishings inside the yurt are very simple, and are mostly surrounded by wooden or rattan furniture and utensils. Some of them can be seen for their functions, while others can only be roughly judged to be containers or the like. There is a thick patterned blanket spread on the ground in the middle of the yurt. There is a relatively finely crafted wooden table on the blanket. This is the most exquisite furniture in the room. There is also an object made of metal that looks like a mini obelisk on the ground next to the blanket. This object is carved with some rough patterns, and a layer of orange light emanates from its surface, with a soft Temperature, obviously a heating device.
Magic powered heating equipment.
Hao Ren and the others sat on the floor like Gotalug. In fact, Gotalug and Geisel didn't dare to sit down so carelessly in front of the goddess at first. It was Vivian who made them look angry. They had to act as usual before they dared to sit down. Lily's attention was quickly attracted by the metal instrument that emitted light and heat. She curiously poked the shell of the thing with her paws: "What is this?"
Gotalug did not expect that the other party would ask these "common sense" questions, but he still replied respectfully: "This is a phlogiston lamp, a precious knowledge passed down from ancient times."
"Ancient times..." Hao Ren nodded slightly, "How much do you still remember about the inheritance from ancient times?"
He began to ask the old man questions about the calendar, legends, beliefs, and customs. These various questions came to his mind on the road. Since he had many experiences communicating with alien civilizations, Hao Ren knew what he should ask, so he quickly had a rough grasp of the current situation of the survivors living in the "underground world".
Their historical period has only two stages, namely the Sun Dynasty in ancient times and the Emerald Chronicle that continues to this day. The Sun Dynasty is considered to be an era when ancient civilization was extremely prosperous and the goddess was with everyone, while the Emerald Chronicle is when mortals return from advanced civilization to primitive civilization. The megalithic city "Dorasil" located on the prairie is the symbol of the Sun Dynasty. Its remaining technological traces are enough to make people imagine how brilliant the magic skills of humans in that era were - but now, this world ’s technology has degraded to the point where it can only produce gadgets like phlogiston lamps.
Hao Ren first carefully inquired about the other party's chronological method, converted the calendars of this world and the earth, and found that a "year" in this underground world is about two years and a few days on the earth, and then asked about the specifics of the Sun Dynasty. the end of the year.
Gotalug took out a set of carefully protected leather scrolls from an old rattan box. This scroll may have been hand-copied and passed down to this day by countless generations. It is quite thick and has a strong smell of spices. : People in this world believe that various spices have different sacred effects. Just like the spices that Geisel lit in the stone ruins can talk to the ancestors, the spices sprinkled in the books can also comfort and protect knowledge.
Gotalug carefully found records about the Sun Dynasty in the scroll. He pointed to the hieroglyphs and said: "The last ray of sunlight fell on the earth five thousand six hundred years ago. Because the age of the sun ended, the goddess closed up." The sky commands the giants underground to stretch their hands to the sky, and the giants’ arms become pillars of eternity, supporting the sky and the earth in the next era.”
Hao Ren then asked: "What about the stone city? Was Dorasil built before the sky closed?"
He did not believe that an artificial stone city could withstand the vibrations caused by the growth of the Firstborn's tentacles: especially those tentacles that were creating a new layer of earth's crust. This vibration was definitely enough to destroy any trace of humanity.
Sure enough, Gotalug shook his head: "The Sun Dynasty was the end of the old world. When the sky closed, everything in the old dynasty was swallowed up by the earth. God guided the chosen remnants to the highlands and waited for the world to be reshaped. , this process lasted for a hundred years. Then the world stabilized, and the remnants of the Sun Dynasty built the last city on the earth, which was the royal city of Dorasil. This city was not used, it only served as the Sun Dynasty The evidence of its former existence was left on the earth. People built it and abandoned it at the command of the goddess. This is how the old era ended and we welcomed the Emerald Anniversary in the fertile land."
"That is to say, the Sun Dynasty officially ended more than a hundred years after the sky closed, and that city became the only remaining urban ruins on the surface, and it was still a ruin that had never been used," Hao Ren frowned, " You built it just to abandon it, and something of such a large scale is just a souvenir... What’s the point of this?”
Gotalug put his hand on his chest: "The goddess asked us to do this, this is the meaning."