A relic!
Hao Ren was shocked when he heard the news. He was no less surprised than when he first learned that the planet had two layers of crust, and the outer crust was actually the petrified canopy of a group of giant trees. He immediately zoomed in on the images to confirm the authenticity and size of the relic. Then he asked the MDT to teleport everyone there: the relic was quite far away, almost on the other side of the planet, and it would be too time-consuming to drive there.
The MDT emitted a blue halo, and everyone disappeared in the teleportation light. The next moment, they had arrived at the location of the long-distance probe.
This place was also a vast grassland.
Hao Ren reached out and caught the probe flying toward him. He kept the little one in his Dimensional Pocket, and then climbed to a high ground and looked at the large buildings not far away. The vast and magnificent scenery here was breathtaking.
Endless green grass spread on the ground as far as the eye could see, and the vast prairie undulated like soft waves. The magnificent scenery was like an oil painting. And on this prairie, an ancient city built of boulders stood majestically. The city had an Aztec-style architectural style. Although most of the walls had collapsed, the scale of the city could still be seen. In the center of the city and on the side of the high ground, there were several flat-topped pyramids of various sizes, and between these pyramids were wide roads paved with boulders. These roads divided the city into several orderly square areas, and each area had rows of stone houses. Except for the pyramids, most of the buildings in the city were no more than three stories high, which made the pyramids even more spectacular.
"Incredible …" Hao Ren murmured to himself. "There are such relics here … I thought when the First Born created those Heaven's Pillars, there would be an earth-shattering earthquake, and everything on the second layer of the crust should have been destroyed."
As he said, he looked up into the distance. About a dozen kilometers away from the city, there was a spectacular black pillar connecting the sky and the earth, and on the other side of the horizon, there was also a similar 'pillar'. In fact, in this underground world with excellent air quality, you could see at least two Heaven's Pillars supporting the sky at any time even if you were not standing on a high place. Those magnificent pillars were so huge that they extended all the way to the rock dome, and they could be seen from any angle.
The city was only a dozen kilometers away from the Heaven's Pillars, but it was safe and sound. Hao Ren thought it was an incredible miracle. He had seen the scale of the giant trees, whose aerial roots were thousands of meters high. Considering that these giant trees were evolved from the tentacles of the First Born, the movement when they drilled out of the ground should be earth-shattering. Even if the First Born deliberately carried out everything, it was impossible for it to tear a ten-kilometer-wide fissure in the ground without harming the nearby city, because it was an inevitable physical process. So there was only one conclusion …
This city was built after the vault of heaven closed.
But according to the judgment of the crazy "Third Sons" on the surface crust, this planet should have experienced a complete ecosystem reset. Then, who built this city on the original crust after the sky closed? A mortal? Did they escape the eldest son's purge? Or … the purge did not happen at all?
A lot of questions were entangled in Hao Ren's brain, and the answers seemed to be in the city.
They came to the ruins of the city. As they got closer, the simple and solemn stone city exuded a desolate and solemn atmosphere. If Heaven's Pillars and the canopy dome were the 'power of nature' created by the First Born, then the ruins of the city were the 'human miracles' built by mortals. Even though the scale was worlds apart, it still had a shocking side. Even Lily could not help but become serious. She did not even pay attention to the pebbles that could be seen everywhere (these would usually be kept in her treasure). Instead, she stroked a square pillar that passed by and said, "It looks handmade, and there are traces of hatchet marks on the edge. It takes a lot of manpower to build a city with such a huge amount of stones. "
Stone buildings that had been dormant for thousands of years stood silently on both sides of the road. Moss and vines had eroded the cracks of these buildings, leaving mottled green marks in the stone cracks. Many buildings showed signs of cracking, and many houses had even completely collapsed into rubble. In the collapsed stones, there were still tenacious grass and green vines growing out of the cracks, fluttering in the wind.
Some colors could still be seen on some of the old stone walls. It was the paintings and writings of ancient times. The ancients who left this ruin obviously had a special technique. After so many years of weathering and erosion, some of the pigments they made still remained. This caught Hao Ren's attention.
He bent down in front of a broken slate, which should have been inlaid on a high platform in front of him. The high platform looked like a ceremonial place, with special rules and a solemn atmosphere. On the slate, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some vaguely recognizable reliefs.
The reliefs should be depicting some kind of natural phenomenon. Hao Ren saw a glowing ball at the top of the picture, and below the picture were undulating waves. He did not know whether it represented the sea or the grassland. There was no large-scale ocean in this' underground 'world, only a large number of lakes and rivers, so he was not sure if the ancients who left these reliefs had the concept of' ocean '.
Hao Ren found something at the bottom of the slate, so he reached out to clean the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols that looked like words, which looked a bit like cuneiform.
"MDT, translate."
The MDT came over and scanned it before floating to the side. "Wait a minute, I need more characters to form a sample library. There should be other characters nearby."
Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet and shouted, "There's one here! There are a lot of characters here! "
The MDT flew around to collect the text and linked the character sample library with the reliefs. Then it returned to the slate and said, "It says: Praise the sun, which once brought light and heat to the earth. We believe that it is still burning in the sky of our hometown, and its light shines in our spirit."
Then it found another slate next to it. This slate depicted a large number of plants and animals, as well as curved symbols floating among them. There were also words under the slate: "Praise all beings, the outstanding creation of the goddess. The soul flows among all beings. The dead are not dead, and the living are also in death. We are with all the living and the dead."
"These are religious tablets." Hao Ren stood up and came to the stone tablet that Lily found. "What's on it?"
"Incantations, a lot of prayers, no clear meaning." The MDT's light moved up the stone tablet. "Calling the power of the wind, the power of the clouds, the power of the earth, the water, the plants, and the stones. There are also a lot of words praising a certain natural phenomenon. It looks like something used in a magic ceremony. Based on the style of the prayers, it's a bit like a druid or some kind of natural totem belief. "
Hao Ren nodded. He knew little about magic, let alone something as unpopular as totem belief. But at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to find something. He took out a small bottle from his pocket and said, "Wait a minute, let me try."
As he spoke, he poured some greyish-white translucent viscous oil from the bottle and smeared it on the surface of the stone tablet. After that, he pressed his hand on the spot where the oil was smeared and injected magic into it. With a slight buzzing sound, layers of pale green shimmer appeared on the stone tablet. This light resonated with the surrounding stone platform and slate. After Nangong Sanba removed his hand, the light continued until the magic oil suddenly burned into ashes.
Lily did not understand. "What is this?"
"Detecting if there is any magic residue." Nangong Sanba wiped his hands. "Items that once carried magic will more or less leave traces. After being stimulated by the Nightingale potion, there will be changes. These slate and stone tablets are not just ceremonial items, they really participated in the magic reaction. "
"In other words, the builder of this city was a magic civilization," Hao Ren said. "No wonder they could build such a magnificent thing. It must have been assisted by magic."
At this time, a subtle aura of an outsider suddenly appeared not far away. Everyone felt it almost at the same time and looked up. The next second, there was a sharp sound of something flying toward them. Lily immediately reached out and grabbed it. She held an arrow with a green arrowhead in her hand.
Hao Ren looked in the direction of the aura in shock. He saw a tall and strong humanoid creature flashing over the top of a collapsed stone wall!
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