The two corpses …
They were more like the sleepers who had just fallen asleep yesterday than the deceased who had been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years.
They were both around twenty meters tall. Even though they were sitting cross-legged, they still looked like two magnificent Buddhas and were fifty percent larger than their compatriots of the same species.
The giant in the northwest corner was gray and white, but his skin was not as densely wrinkled. Instead, it was as clear as jade, except that it was full of complicated, geometric stripes.
Li Yao now knew that many Pangu people had such stripes on their skin. They were essentially natural built-in antennas that could help them amplify their brainwaves and spiritual energy and achieve the effect similar to 'telepathy'.
The denser the stripes and the more complicated the geometric patterns were, the more advanced the 'built-in antennas' were, and the higher the range and intensity of the telepathy could be triggered.
For the regular Pangu people outside, the wrinkles on their skin were only the crudest 'built-in antennas'. The range of remote sensing was very limited.
The 'built-in antennas' of this Pangu person were so delicate that they covered every corner of his body, including his fingertips and the back of his ears. It was obvious that he was a 'commander' among the Pangu people because he could trigger telepathy that covered the entire laboratory.
The giant in the southeast corner had a serpentine lower body that was as thick as a bucket, but it was covered with fine scales. After hundreds of thousands of years of erosion and oxidation, these scales still bloomed red, orange, red, green, blue, blue, and purple. All kinds of dazzling colors, as if the rainbow had condensed into a part of its body.
His — her — upper body was similar to that of a human being. It was not as uneven as the natural stripes of the Pangu people. Instead, it was full of glamorous stripes and patterns, as if ten thousand colors were crashing into each other and creating a mysterious, mysterious ocean of information.
Also, according to the detection angles of the crystal cameras, the stripes were vaguely flowing like tides, as if she would wake up at any moment.
She was a standard member of the Nuwa Clan.
Relying on a special organ to vibrate the air and make "sounds" to transmit information was a rather inefficient method, even for carbon-based life forms.
Even among human beings, high-level cultivators such as Li Yao had mastered the method of direct communication with telepathic thoughts. The amount of information transmitted per second could be hundreds of times greater than that of 'speaking'.
In the beginning, the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan also used vocal organs to communicate. However, as their civilization grew, they gradually developed higher-level communication organs.
In the Pangu people, it was the uneven, lumpy folds on the skin.
In the Nuwa Clan, they had colorful patterns on their bodies.
The Pangu people had an additional organ in their brains that was similar to a "telepathic receiver". It could help them sense each other's brainwaves through the "built-in antennas" in their bodies.
The visual organs of the Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, had significantly evolved, allowing them to 'see' the 'information waves' that were released from each other's bodies.
It was the reason why the Nuwa Clan, which had been developed from amphibious carbon-based creatures at the beginning, still kept their thick tails even when they were able to travel freely in the universe.
In the heyday of the Nuwa Clan's civilization, the thick, long tails of the lower half of their bodies were not entirely used for walking and swimming. They were more of a communication organ of paramount importance.
Their every scale could unleash light waves of different wavelengths at will, which seemed to contain a lot of radiation that human beings did not understand.
Each scale released different light waves according to different frequencies and wavelengths, and could already transmit a large amount of information.
And if all the scales were added together to form a complete "dot matrix", the amount of information transmitted would be astronomical.
As long as the members of the Nuwa Clan saw the colorful tails of other people through their 'eyes', they would be able to sense the information that was flooding out like a flood.
When two human beings met and said 'good morning' to each other by vibrating the air through their vocal cords, two members of the Nuwa Clan would be able to finish the discussion of a complicated technique or a mathematical problem in the blink of an eye as long as they shook their tails.
If such a method of communication was still too slow, the two members of the Nuwa Clan could even entangle their tails and communicate a hundred times faster through the friction of the tens of thousands of scales and the refraction, reflection, and diffraction of the light waves.
Even the magical equipment, crystal processors, and warships of the Nuwa Clan were mostly controlled through their tails.
Li Yao had seen deep holes next to a lot of crystal processors on the Nuwa warship. Before, he did not know what the holes were for, but after the studies of the specialists of the primeval civilizations in the Federation, he learned that the Nuwa Clan did not use primitive methods such as typing rune keyboards with their hands or controlling the crystal processors remotely with brainwaves. Instead, they simply stabbed their tails into the holes and adjusted the different radiations of the thousands of scales to control the crystal processors.
In the space age, information was the most precious resource. The speed of information transmission and communication directly determined the advancement of a civilization.
It was exactly because of the powerful information transmission and communication abilities of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan that the 'Pangu civilization' stood at the peak of the universe and became the leader of all the carbon-based civilizations in the known universe of mankind!
The stripes on the body of the member of the Nuwa Clan and the brilliance of his tail were also something that Li Yao had never seen before. He must be an expert among experts. Chances were that he was the captain of the Nuwa warship up above.
Seeing the two vivid giants, Li Yao's heart was immediately palpitating. "Be careful!"
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when colorful smoke spread out of the two giants' bodies, perhaps because of the scanning mystic rays shot out of the crystal cameras, and their bodies withered at a visible speed.
It was a very common phenomenon of oxidation and corrosion when the ancient corpses that had been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years were exposed to fresh air or external waves.
It seemed that they were indeed as dead as they could be hundreds of thousands of years ago. However, they still had some unfulfilled wishes, and they had preserved their physical bodies for hundreds of thousands of years through mysterious techniques.
At this moment, the control center that had been sealed for ten thousand years was opened again. Their physical bodies could not bear it anymore and walked toward obliteration uncontrollably.
Li Yao was very anxious, but there was nothing he could do. The phenomenon of instantaneous oxidation and corrosion was not something that could be stopped by human beings, and it was impossible for them to leave the control center alone. He could only try his best to scan the two ancient corpses from inside to outside before they perished, hoping that he could reconstruct their form in the virtual world.
"Huh?"
Right then, an abrupt change took place!
The two ancient corpses quickly withered. The colorful patterns and complicated patterns on their bodies all turned into wisps of green smoke and flew into the air. However, they didn't disperse for a long time. Instead, they formed two groups of glittering talisman arrays.
Every rune array was made of thousands of translucent runes. All the runes were still changing their strokes and the order of their arrangement. They looked like two clouds of information that were surging nonstop. Humming noises were echoing from the clouds, which were truly overlapping with each other like hasty and fast thunders!
The anomaly lasted about ten seconds. After the two translucent and glamorous clouds of information perished, the two corpses withered into two enormous skeletons, too. The skeletons could not bear their own weight and fell to the ground in cracking noises.
Li Yao, Meng Chixin, Wu Suiyun, Yan Liren, and the other Yuanying experts looked at each other in bewilderment. None of them understood what the anomaly meant.
Thankfully, they had the support of an entire team of specialists. Many of the specialists had devoted their entire life to the Kunlun relics. Their understanding of the primeval civilizations was much deeper than that of Li Yao, who had been asleep for a hundred years.
"These are their last words!"
Connecting to the channel of specialists, Li Yao heard a specialist of 'primeval linguistics' from the Sky Fantasia Academy saying excitedly, "These are the last words that two members of the primeval civilizations tried to leave when they knew that they were going to die!
"Also, they are not the last words that they left for their companions but for the latecomers who will come a long, long time later, because the ever-changing, spluttering cloud of information contains a lot of ways to decipher the primeval languages!"
Although the language of human beings was of the same origin as that of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan, the civilizations of those primeval species had reached a level that was much more advanced than that of modern people after all. Many of their vocabulary and language logic were difficult for human beings to understand.
It was like even a three-year-old child in modern society knew the meaning of 'network', but even the learned scholars in the age of ancient Cultivators might not have been able to see through the meaning of the word and the power it entailed.
Therefore, even though the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan did not intentionally set up a password for their language, it was still rather difficult for human beings to decipher it. In many cases, they had to rely on their own imagination and deduction to understand the language.
To this day, a lot of secrets in the Kunlun relics remained unsolved. The key was the language and the decipherment.
However, according to the specialist of 'primeval linguistics', the cloud of information that flashed for ten seconds just now contained something similar to a 'dictionary'. It seemed that the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan had done that on purpose, fearing that the latecomers would not be able to understand the information that they left.
"Our analysis of the primeval language has already reached a critical level in the first place. All the problems have been stuck in one section, and we haven't made much progress for decades."
The specialist of primeval linguistics was almost dancing in joy. "The two 'dictionaries' are so enlightening. One talk from you is better than ten years of reading books. Our studies on the primeval languages have been improved to a whole new level!"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and immediately realized what was going on.
Judging from the brutality of the fierce battle, the two commanders of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan must have fought to the last moment and were caught in desperation.
In order to prevent their opponents from escaping, the commander of the Nuwa Clan found a way to blow up half of the command center and bury everybody inside.
And they knew that the troops outside were also fighting to the last man. Both sides had lost their last drop of blood, but they were still evenly matched, and the situation was in a state of exhaustion.
Further away, the entire planet of the Ancient Sages Sector was surrounded by the dark nebula. If they were unlucky, reinforcements might not arrive even after thousands of years.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
