Chapter 415 Era
As the pace continued to deepen, the stone steps gradually slowed down, and finally transitioned directly to flat ground.
Li Qian and the others approached slowly and soon discovered that there were also guards from the Investigation Bureau here.
However, it was obvious that they should have received Teacher Liang's order and did not stop the three of them.
Li Qian and the others stepped closer and slowly approached the cordon. Seeing this, several guards from the Investigation Bureau made way for them to enter.
Bai Bingbing pointed to a bronze door at the end of her sight and explained the situation, "According to Teacher Liang's judgment, this underground palace, including the entire Luoying City, should be relics of the Fourth Age."
"Fourth Era?" Li Qian heard this and chewed on the words. He subconsciously looked at Bai Bingbing, his face full of confusion.
This was the first time he had heard of this word, so he immediately put on an attitude of listening, waiting for Bai Bingbing to continue to answer questions.
"This is how archaeologists divide extraordinary civilizations in dimensional planes. There are five eras in total. The era we are in now is the fifth era." Bai Bingbing said in a serious tone: "The old calendar, the new calendar, which is the federal calendar, All known history of our time is divided into this era.”
"Before our era, there was the Fourth Era." Bai Bingbing led Li Qian and Irina forward, "Before, in the temples outside, you should have seen those human statues with one horn."
Li Qian nodded after hearing this.
He did see statues of human beings born with one horn.
Bai Bingbing kept talking and continued: "The images of those sculptures are humans from the Fourth Era. After deciphering some of the data left over from this era, we learned their identities - Rong people."
"The Rong people were the masters of the last era, and they also followed the route of the beast-controlling civilization. In fact, within the entire dimensional plane, according to the records that have been deciphered so far, no matter which era, the beast-controlling civilization should be followed ”
After thinking about it, she added, "Of course, this is not 100% absolute, but this is the current archaeological situation. It is unknown whether there will be new discoveries in the future."
Hearing this, Li Qian roughly understood something. He spoke and asked confirmingly: "In other words, we have only unearthed four epochs so far?"
"It can be roughly said that!" Bai Bingbing nodded, "Currently, relatively complete archaeological operations have only unearthed four relatively complete eras, namely the first, second, third, and fourth eras."
"The extraordinary civilization in the dimensional plane, even if our era is included, is it only five eras?" Li Qian continued to ask, and he heard a lot of uncertainty in Bai Bingbing's words.
"More than that!" Bai Bingbing said two words without hesitation, "It must be more than that. In fact, archaeologists have discovered relics from before the First Era."
"However, that period seems to have been given a collective name. I don't know what it is specifically called." Bai Bingbing said with a bitter smile: "According to Teacher Liang, that period is a bit far away for me now. It's hard to understand it." No sense."
"Civilization before the First Era..." Li Qian couldn't help but muttered to himself after hearing this.
"Yes, it is very difficult to archaeologically study that period. According to the information occasionally revealed by Teacher Liang, so far we have only discovered a scaled claw from that period."
Bai Bingbing continued without reservation: "There are two main reasons why it is difficult to do archeology. One is that after too long, most of the relics have disappeared in the torrent of history. Even if there are some remnants, they are dilapidated. It’s unbearable; the second thing is the location. The older the ruins are, the deeper the dimensional plane they are buried in.”
"As far as I know, the current exploration limit of our human beast masters is probably the sixth-level dimensional plane. The deeper dimensional planes are too dangerous, and we humans are not sure about entering them."
"I see..." Li Qian nodded slightly after hearing Bai Bingbing's explanation. This knowledge also added a lot to his knowledge.
During the conversation, the three of them had arrived at the bronze gate, and Li Qian looked up.
This bronze door is not very high, only about twenty meters, but it exudes the atmosphere of vicissitudes and timelessness.
The bronze door was ajar, with a crack open enough to allow two or three people to enter and exit.
Obviously, the archaeological team had been exploring it for some time.
Bai Bingbing pointed to the bronze door and explained, "The internal structure of this bronze door has been damaged to a certain extent. It can only be opened to this extent. If it continues to be pushed, the entire door may collapse."
"Yeah!" Li Qian nodded.
He had to admire that these archaeologists were indeed very careful in their observations.
The three of them didn't waste any more time and stepped forward to enter the bronze door... But at this moment, four figures walked out of the bronze door and just passed by them.
"Hello, Teacher Huang!" Bai Bingbing saw the four people walking out of the bronze door and immediately said hello.
"Hello, Teacher Huang!" Li Qian followed suit and said hello.
Irina nodded and said nothing more.
A polite-looking boy with glasses in the oncoming team of four saw Bai Bingbing and immediately came over enthusiastically, "Bingbing, why did you come in alone? Where is Teacher Liang?"
"My teacher is up there." Bai Bingbing pointed to the ground above her head and responded casually.
The boy with glasses saw that Bai Bingbing was just perfunctory and had no intention of paying attention to him, so he turned his eyes to Li Qian and Irina, "Who are they?"
"My friend, with the permission of Teacher Liang, came down to see it." Bai Bingbing continued to perfunctory, and then prepared to step into the bronze door.
The boy with glasses fell at the end of the four-person team. He frowned and reminded in a kind way: "Bingbing, this is an important archaeological site. Outsiders are not allowed to come in casually."
"You should tell my teacher about this." Bai Bingbing walked in without looking back.
She left a sentence that made the boy with glasses quite embarrassed.
Go ask Teacher Liang, what a joke, Teacher Liang is the captain of this joint archaeological team, let alone two people, even if it's eight or ten, no one will say anything if she wants to bring them in.
"Classmate, who are you?" Seeing that Bai Bingbing had already stepped into the bronze door, the boy with glasses moved sideways and blocked the way of Li Qian and Irina who were one step behind.
"Bingbing's friend." Li Qian said lightly, and then followed him in.
Irina smiled and introduced herself, "Irina, the deputy garrison commander of Feihe City, classmate, do you have any advice?"
Although she is not the deputy garrison commander of Feihe City now, the application has been submitted, and it is only a matter of time before it is passed.
The boy with glasses was stunned when he heard the words. He never thought that this heroic Gaochang girl was actually a deputy garrison commander.
He didn't have the courage to find the deputy garrison commander to complain, and of course he didn't have the ability to do so.
So he had to walk away in disgrace.
"Liu Qingyuan, what are you doing?" Just as the three of them stepped into the bronze door, the majestic voice of Teacher Huang came from behind.
"Teacher, I'll be right over!" Liu Qingyuan, the boy with glasses, trotted over immediately.
Li Qian scratched his head, feeling a little puzzled.
He asked, "Bai Bingbing, this Liu Qingyuan doesn't seem to be very friendly to me?"
Next to him, Irina directly told the truth, "I guess she sees you as a competitor."
"What competitor?" Li Qian was a little confused and asked subconsciously.
"Hey!" Irina curled her lips and pointed at Bai Bingbing who was walking in front.
"Uh..." Li Qian suddenly realized it, and then fell into silence.
What's going on!
Bai Bingbing's face was a little ugly, and she said lightly, "You are a boring person, don't worry about it."
After that, she focused her eyes on the interior of the palace.