This place … was huge.
Lin's spy was now in this huge building built by the Skeletal Dragons. It was filled with all kinds of passages and rooms. It felt like even if she walked around for a few days, she would not be able to finish walking around.
Of course, Lin could also release more eyes to observe, but that would be less interesting. It was more interesting to walk around on her own.
This building … Lin had a suitable word for it in her mind … It was a 'castle'.
This term seemed to usually refer to a very large building, just like this one. However, it was really strange to see such a huge building with a pool at the top. It felt almost like a mountain. Although it wasn't very tall, it was quite spacious.
Inside the castle, there were walkways and rooms everywhere. Usually, there was a room every few meters. Inside the castle, there was a continuous burning pot that was hung on the wall for illumination. There was also a large amount of white sand on the ground as decoration of the walkways.
It seemed like the sand was taken from the beach? There were all kinds of things hanging on the walls. Some were lithographs, some were statues, and so on.
Many of the creatures Lin met liked to make statues, but these Skeletal Dragon statues were not very creative. So far, all Lin saw in the castle were statues of guards.
There were often many guards walking around here. She did not know why they made statues of guards.
As for those rooms, Skeletal Dragons usually lived there. They were probably 'nobles'. They were very similar to the Emerald Dragons. They liked to hang all kinds of decorations on their bodies. Their rooms were the same. Their tone was also different from the usual guards. They also liked to compare themselves with each other.
Moreover. It seemed that different Skeletal Dragons of different status had different rooms of different sizes.
Because of the return of the Jing Kuang, it seemed that many Skeletal Dragons had gathered at the top. This made the place feel more empty. Lin pushed open the door to a room.
Skeletal Dragons liked to put things like 'doors' at the entrance of their rooms. They were usually made of stone. It felt very troublesome, but it could prevent thieves. The Emerald Dragons should learn from this.
However. Would there be thieves in this castle? There should be. Lin felt that such selfish creatures would not only have nobles. They would definitely have 'subordinates' like the Emerald Dragons. It was just like how there would not only be carnivorous creatures in the jungle …
These creatures were the same as the Emerald Dragons. They were of the same race, but the relationship between their groups was as harsh as the competition between different species in the jungle.
In this room, there was a bed covered with golden leaves. Next to it was a stone 'cabinet' with many decorations placed inside.
There didn't seem to be anything interesting, but there was a pool here.
Lin found that most of the rooms of the Skeleton Dragons had ponds that were at least two meters long and one meter deep. They were filled with fresh water, but she had no idea what they were used for. Is it for them to drink? Some of them even had fish and trilobites. It was Lin's first time seeing a freshwater trilobite …
In this way, Lin opened the doors of the rooms one by one. Most of the rooms were more or less the same. In this castle, it was unlikely that they would encounter residents from the 'ordinary floor' or the 'lower floor'. Perhaps they would only see them after they left the castle.
However, this castle alone would take a long time to investigate.
While Lin was investigating, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people, Jing Kuang walked into the largest building at the top of the castle with the huge crystal.
The building was surrounded by guards in shining armor. It was obvious that this was an important building.
The Skeleton Dragons should also have a 'king'.
However, Jing Kuang did not meet anyone special after entering the building. Instead, he went to a room in the building and stayed there. It seemed to be where he lived.
From this, it could be seen that Jing Kuang was a Skeleton Dragon with a very high status. The Skeleton Dragons that helped him move the crystal were indeed slaves. They left after placing the crystal in the room, as if they lived somewhere else.
As for the Skeleton Dragon King, Lin had yet to see him. According to Jing Kuang and the others, the Skeleton Dragon King was not here and would only return after some time.
'Whatever, I'll just continue investigating.' With this in mind, Lin went to the next room.
This room … seemed to be very special. Most of the Skeletal Dragons, including the guards, had gone to the top floor, but there were still a few guards standing guard here. However, these guards seemed to be absent-minded. Every Skeletal Dragon here wanted to see what the large crystal that Jing Kuang had brought looked like. This was called curiosity. Creatures grew because of curiosity, and also died because of curiosity.
Would they grow? Or would they die because they left their post? It shouldn't be possible for either side.
With that in mind, Lin had the spy release a scent. It was an 'information gas' that Lin had recently created. Although it was odorless, it could affect the thoughts of the two skeletal dragons. This would make them even more curious, and at the same time, dispel the thought that they should not have left their post. She only needed to affect the secretions in their brains to achieve this effect …
Under Lin's influence, the Skeleton Dragons became more and more uneasy. They kept looking left and right. In the end, they could not hold back their curiosity. They left the things they were guarding and ran to the passage leading to the top of the castle.
This gas was really interesting. Looking at them, Lin felt that she needed to use more of it in the future.
Boom … The spy was now trying to push the stone door. The door seemed to be very heavy. As it was pushed, it kept making heavy noises. Lin thought that there might be something different here …
It was indeed different!
The moment Lin pushed open the door, a wonderful scene appeared in Lin's vision.
Lin's spy was standing on a high wall. There were many doors around the wall, as if they could lead to this room from all directions. The room was about 30 meters tall. In the room, there were many large stone pillars. The doors on the surrounding walls were connected to these pillars by stone bridges. This allowed the spy to walk directly.
These White Skeleton Dragons had really created something quite amazing …
However, the key was on the stone pillars. These pillars were as tall as the room, and they were covered with small square and round holes. A large number of items were placed in the holes.
When the spy approached, Lin found that these 'items' were all records of leather or stone slabs.
Every piece of leather or stone slab had a lot of words written on it. Some even had drawings. This … seemed to be the room that the Skeleton Dragons used to store these things. It felt like the underground caverns that the Emerald Dragons used to record all kinds of creatures. However, this place was much larger than the Emerald Dragons'. Perhaps Lin could discover the history of the Skeleton Dragons here.
And each stone pillar was surrounded by a spiral stone bridge, which allowed the Skeletal Dragons to go up and down easily and read anything here.
However, before that, Lin had to learn their language completely. At the same time, she had to figure out which word represented which sound. It seemed very troublesome, but it was not difficult for Lin.
Lin first observed the size of the room. The entire room seemed to be about 200 meters long. She wondered how many things were recorded here.
Moreover, Lin found that most of the records were made of stone slabs. Lin thought that they would use leather to record, but it was true that stone slabs would be better.
Next, it was time to learn …
Lin did not know how long this phase would take. In short, she kept observing the Skeleton Dragons. Most of the Skeleton Dragons had the habit of recording their daily lives. This seemed to be called a 'diary.' This made it easier for Lin to learn their language and find out which word corresponded to which sound.
The language of the White Skeleton Dragons was very interesting. It was not as complicated as the language of the Emerald Dragons, but they had figured out a way to convert it into symbols, or words. However, it might not have been their own idea, but something … something even more powerful had taught them to do so.
While Lin was learning their language, Jing Kuang had been staying in his own house. Every day and night, a large number of Skeleton Dragons would come over to see his crystal, but they were all rejected by him.
The Jing Kuang seemed to be waiting for its king to return. It was very anxious, but there was nothing it could do about it.
As Lin learned more, she found out from their conversations that the king seemed to have run outside the castle. There was indeed a city similar to the one in the Emerald Dragons outside the castle.
However, Lin did not go there yet. It was more interesting to study the things here …
The language of the Skeleton Dragons was mainly a combination of several sounds to form a word. A single sound could often mean something. Just as Lin thought, the Skeleton Dragons' words were indeed transformed from pictures.
In this' Between the Stone Pillars', Lin found some special 'ancient' records. It explained the changes in the Skeleton Dragons' words. At first, they drew a picture that was almost the same as an ordinary object, but later, they slowly changed into the shape of the words.
But what was the reason for the change? Why did they change the pictures into such symbols? And how did they match the words with the sounds?
There seemed to be a very complicated reason, but that was not the focus of Lin's research. She mainly wanted to find out where they came from … This might have something to do with the Atte population or some other species. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the other Skeleton Dragons to be in a 'primitive' state while they developed.
As Lin searched for a lot of information, she found some records about 'years'. Strangely, the Skeleton Dragons also had a 'year' method of recording, and it was the same as the brain worms' year, which was 1060 days and nights.
This could not be a coincidence. Floating astronomy.
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