After a long period of devastation, Alamanda, the abandoned golden capital, was no longer as glorious as it used to be. Although the ruins were still glorious, the entire city was filled with ruins. There were very few buildings in the city that were still intact. Only the most important and especially sturdy things were preserved.
The key facility called the Tower of Advancement was one of them.
It was a pentagonal tower with a base of 100 meters. It was huge. Except for the gate at the bottom, there were no doors or windows on the entire tower. There were only some unknown protrusions and metal brackets that looked like antennas on the smooth, pale golden outer wall. Anna relied on the muddled memories in her mind to lead the group to the gate to enter the tower. The gate was already broken, and the whole thing was torn outwards in a radial shape. It seemed that something had once forced its way out from the inside and left behind this huge hole.
Hao Ren took the lead and then was surprised to find that the inside of the building with no doors and windows was very bright: there were many beams of light from unknown sources coming straight down from above, and the hall on the first floor of the tower was as bright as day. Those beams of light were surrounded by a thin dust mist, giving people an inexplicable sense of emptiness: it was not difficult to imagine what kind of sacred place this was in the past.
The first floor of the tower did not have a very complex structure, it was just a magnificent hall, and the most incredible thing was that there were no pillars supporting it. Thinking of the height of the entire tower, this unsupported hall made people marvel at the advanced construction technology and material science of the Tannaeans in the past. There was a circle of golden devices around the hall. These devices were cylinders about one meter long, and the upper surface was slanted. It seemed to be some kind of operating table. Lily curiously went over and patted the column, but found that there was no response.
"Don't think about it. Even if these things are not broken, there is no energy to start them in this place." Hao Ren looked around the hall with his arms crossed. Suddenly, he saw some exquisite patterns painted on the wall in some places. "Hey, look at this. It looks like a mural left by the Tannaeans."
Everyone was immediately attracted. Hao Ren found the starting point of the mural. He looked at what was recorded on it in amazement: it was not an earth-shattering scene, there were no heroes or mythological images, and it was not exquisite and flashy decorative paintings. It depicted very simple everyday things.
They depict the entire civilization of the tannaeans.
In the first mural, the Tannaeans lived in the coastal mudflat area. They were amphibious creatures, and due to certain changes in the marine environment, they gradually moved closer to a purely terrestrial life. They wore primitive clothing of aquatic plants and animal skins, built houses on the coastline, adapted to the drought, hunted land animals, and lit the first bonfires of civilization.
In the second mural, the Tannaeans had shed their scales and evolved the structure of their fingers. Their living environment had obviously shifted from tidal flats and swamps to drier plains. They built villages on the grassland, raised animals in captivity, and planted and harvested.
They built cities, developed metal tools, learned how to smelt and create alloys, and understood the power of 'electricity' from natural phenomena. Soon, they fused this power with a certain spiritual ability that their race was born with. In the later murals, it could be seen that the Tannaeans were performing a ritual around a towering metal pillar. Lightning struck the pillar, and another wonderful energy burst out of the Tannaeans and resonated with it.
They lived, learned, and tempered their spiritual power. Their innate ability to evolve quickly made it easier for them to obtain power from nature. They explored their entire planet, built a great information network and a global energy broadcasting system. They even developed aerospace technology and some kind of space technology. However, their most powerful skill was still a wonderful skill called 'soul power', which was the result of their continuous evolution of their own spiritual talent. This wonderful skill was also the only hope for the Tannaeans to save themselves when the catastrophe came.
Yes, the catastrophe. In the later mural, everything changed, and some kind of unspeakable disaster broke out on the planet. The power of the Tannaeans was not worth mentioning in the face of this disaster. Their magnificent cities made of metal were uprooted, and their weapons of war were useless against the enemy. The murals showed the tragic scene of the Tannaeans being slaughtered. The flames of war burned the entire planet, but the face of the enemy was always a mass of crazy lines. The person who left these murals seemed to have a hard time describing what his enemy was in a logical way. He could only use shadows and curves to show some kind of disaster, and hundreds of millions of Tannaeans were on the verge of extinction under those crazy lines.
In the end, the only survivors all retreated to the three cities on the planet. The murals used exaggerated pictures to describe the situation of the three cities: they were made of metal, shrouded in layers of protective walls and energy shields, but outside the cities was endless chaos and death. The survivors lingered in the city walls for several years, but the city walls continued to weaken under the erosion of the power of the disaster, and destruction was inevitable.
Anna stroked the lines on the murals. "This is the 'origin of the disaster', and the power of mortals can't fight it. Finally, the Tannaeans finally realized some kind of law of the disaster, and they decided to survive by changing their life form — "
As Anna said, she raised her finger to the last mural.
The lines on the mural became simple again, and the magnificent and complex material world was hidden. A Tannaean was suspended in the air, and half of his body had turned into a misty phantom, which represented the change of life form. At the bottom of the picture, there were messy lines, which represented the disaster. The mural seemed to depict the scene of the Tannaeans finally getting rid of the disaster after changing their life form.
Anna sighed, and the last piece of memory in her mind was pieced together. "They left these murals to record the course of their civilization, because the Tannaeans were not sure what would happen after they were transformed into spiritual creatures. In order to deal with the worst case, they left such simple and straightforward records in many buildings to ensure that other intelligent creatures who visited this planet one day would know what kind of race once lived here."
"So the Tannaeans became vengeful spirits," Vivian frowned and shook her head. "But the vengeful spirits they became did not show the slightest bit of logic. Not to mention higher intelligence, they were even as irrational as natural phenomena."
Nangong Sanba scratched his head and asked, "So what is the disaster that is mentioned here?"
Hao Ren took a breath, and a vague speculation gradually formed in his mind. He glanced at the scenes depicted on the last few murals, and suddenly ran to the exit of the hall. "Follow me!"
Everyone followed him, confused. Hao Ren led them to a high platform that they had passed before. Anna could not climb such a steep building, so Lily carried her on her shoulder. They climbed the high platform and came to a position where they could overlook the city outside the high walls, so the scene outside the thick protective wall of Alamanda could be seen at a glance.
Outside the city was a primitive and barren land, and there was an unusually terrifying scene: the ground was covered with huge gullies and pits, like the face of a giant covered with pits. On one side of the city, there was an unprecedentedly large crater. The scale of the crater almost made people suspect that it had penetrated the planet's core. Amidst the countless ravines and potholes, the most shocking thing was the scalp-numbing tentacles.
The First Born.
"I knew it …" Hao Ren gulped. "The same thing happened here as Holletta."
Nangong Wuyue's body swayed, and she covered her mouth and whispered, "Oh my God …"
"The situation on this planet is worse than that on Holletta. The First Born has obviously completed the great purge of the Second Born," Vivian frowned and looked back at Alamanda, which had only ruins left. "The Tannaeans are extinct."
It was the first time for both Anna and Nangong Sanba to see this horrible thing. Nangong Sanba was more or less a demon hunter, but Anna's body swayed twice and almost fainted. She was suffering from double fear, one from her human instincts, and the other from the remnant memory of the vengeful spirit in her mind. She was now almost half a Tannaean, and when she saw the tentacles that destroyed the entire civilization, she almost fainted.
This was the disaster faced by the Tannaeans, and the reason why they had to give up their bodies and change their life form.
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