Just as Katreina had said, the ocean was vast, and it could swallow everything.
Seventy percent of the planet was ruled by the ocean. The sirens were the most low-key, friendly, and aloof race on the planet, but they were also the rulers of the planet's largest country. They had lived in the deep sea for ten thousand years. The world on land had changed, and countless dynasties — including the dynasties of the "gods" — had risen and fallen in these ten thousand years. Once glorious civilizations and creations were lost, and countless things fell into the deep sea by chance, and eventually became the sirens' collection.
These low-key but curious sirens were the planet's most indisputable collectors. They would collect almost any sunken object found in the sea as a treasure. This probably had something to do with their ancestry. As early as the chaotic age of Io, the sirens of the deep sea gradually learned about the "world above" by picking up objects that fell from the upper layers of the sea. Hence, the sirens had always been interested in the strange objects that fell into the sea from above. Even Lily was amazed by their ability to collect. The husky maiden usually liked to bring all kinds of stones home … uh, to collect them home, but the collection of the sirens of Nasaton was much more valuable than Lily's pile of stones!
The collection was arranged in chronological order, and the further one went, the more modern it was. Hao Ren slowly walked along this "frozen timeline", almost as if he was reading the planet's history.
On the most recent shelves, the most common objects were artifacts made by human beings. The newest was a small ring. It came from a nameless, lovelorn girl on the West Coast of the United States. The owner of the ring had sadly thrown it into the water. A siren, who happened to be swimming below, happily picked it up. After playing with it for a few days, it was sent to the collection. Walking a little further, one could see a metal plate with beautiful cursive letters written on it. It was a relic of a sunken ship. Further ahead, Hao Ren saw torpedoes and artillery shells, as well as parts of a submarine's periscope, and a broken metal plate. These things were from World War II.
He even saw fragments of the Bismarck's boiler — Katreina had personally recovered such a collection. When the Bismarck sank, the Queen of the Sirens had watched the fireworks from the deep waters. Finally, she cut a piece of steel from the Bismarck's boiler as a souvenir of her observation of the humans.
Further ahead, the collection became even more ancient, and some interesting and peculiar items began to appear. The captain's log of an old Spanish merchant ship was placed together with the pirate's cutlass, mixed with the fragments of fishing gear that were swept into the sea by the tsunami, as well as a strange-looking telescope and strange things that did not seem to work at all and looked like magic tools. Hao Ren's attention was drawn to a cylinder made of platinum. The cylinder was engraved with intricate carvings of a nine-headed monster, waves, and a six-pointed star. Katreina introduced the object in front of him like a tour guide. "This is the great pirate Borseba's' gold-seeker '. He was the last pirate captain who knew black magic. With this special telescope, he could see any ship carrying gold from tens of thousands of miles away. He was extremely wealthy because of this. But in the end, the pirate captain died of a chicken bone stuck in his captain's cabin. His pirate ship was swallowed by a storm not long after."
"That era was shrouded in mystery and darkness." Vivian placed a small gold-adorned dagger back on the shelf. "Sailors were the most susceptible to black magic. Because they were far from land, they were also far from the influence of the church and the demon hunters. Those superstitious and bold 'sea people' were always happy to discuss stories of magic and curses. So after the end of the mythological era on land, the influence of 'magic' on the sea lasted for a long time. "
Hao Ren nodded thoughtfully and continued walking along the axis of time. He noticed that the items on the shelves on both sides had gradually changed from extravagant to crude. He had just passed through the glorious era of human civilization and was now approaching the more primitive and ignorant Middle Ages. Tattered fishing nets and old sword fragments were the main exhibits on the shelves. Mixed in were more and more crude items related to magic, as well as some more astonishing historical relics. An ugly round stone and a pile of messy wood fragments were placed on a separate shelf. A sign next to it read: Human King Richard, Attacking Cyprus with a catapult.
"Do you know how much these things are worth?" Hao Ren could not help but remember Katreina saying that the collection was "not very important". His eyes widened, and he began to question the values of the sirens. At first, when he saw a few soldiers around the entrance of the collection, he thought that the place was heavily guarded. But now, he felt that the place was wide open. The sirens had only sent four sentries here, and only an antique iron door guarded the treasury!
"Is it important?" Katreina did not seem to feel anything. "It's all things that the people on the surface threw away anyway …"
"I think at least half of them were not thrown away by the people on the surface …" Lily stuck out her tongue. "Shipwrecks and shipwrecks are accidents, okay?"
Katreina swayed her tail lightly, looking confused. "Probably … something like that."
Hao Ren felt that he could not communicate with the siren queen in terms of values. He pursed his lips and continued to swim forward. After passing through the crude and crude relics from the Middle Ages, he found that the items on the shelves were once again exquisite.
There were fewer and fewer crude human creations. A fisherman's harpoon was the last human symbol in front of him. Of course, according to the timeline, this harpoon should have been the first human object collected by the sirens. Further ahead, there were things that could not have been made by human society back then.
There were intricate machines made of metal, strange devices made of crystal, colorful crystal crowns, intricate walking sticks that shone with light, and all sorts of other strange, obviously uncharacteristic of human civilization. Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had arrived at the Age of Mythology.
He looked back, and found that he had only moved less than one-fifth of the distance between the long display shelves. In this ten thousand years of history, it was almost a fragment.
"Humans have only ruled this planet for so long." Vivian quietly looked at the crude human relics and the beautiful otherworldling "artifacts". There was only a shelf between the two objects, and the contrast was striking. "This is amazing. Go back five hundred years, and humans still had to pray every night that the demons would not take away their children. Go back a thousand or five hundred years, and humans still feared that the werewolves or the Blood Clan would suddenly invade their towns. Go back two thousand and five hundred years, and humans still worshipped the cruel otherworldling gods. But now, they are the only rulers of this planet. Their creations only take up one-fifth of the space here, but they have already conquered the entire planet."
"Those who do not strive will eventually be eliminated." Hao Ren shook his head.
"This bow belongs to Artemis!" Vivian suddenly found something she recognized. It was a shining silver longbow. "… This bow was lost after Mount Olympus fell into the dimensional storm. I didn't expect it to fall into the sea."
Lily found a heavy trident made of black iron on a shelf not far away. Its tip glowed with a faint blue light. She exclaimed in surprise, "Katreina! Isn't the trident the sirens' equipment? Why is it here? "
"That's not the model used by the sirens. That's Poseidon's. He once tried to break into Nasaton, but was trapped at the bottom of the sea by the distorted force field around the starship. Later, he used his trident as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the sirens, and we let him go. "Katreina shook her head as she spoke." We are kind to others, but that doesn't mean anyone can come and disturb us. "
Vivian was a little surprised. "You have Poseidon's trident? How come I didn't know he lost his weapon? During the apocalypse of Olympus, Poseidon used his trident to fight the demon hunters. "
"I don't know about that. Maybe he had a lot of tridents. After all, it's embarrassing. He wouldn't go around telling everyone that he lost his weapon." Katreina shrugged. "The world on land is too chaotic. We don't know much about it. We didn't even know there was a 'god' in the sea before that bearded man who called himself the God of the Sea came to cause trouble. The sirens don't care about these messy things. "
After a while, Lily exclaimed again, "Hey, why is there a shoe sole here?"
"That's Zeus's slipper."
Lily was speechless.
The relics of the Olympian gods piqued everyone's interest. These ancient artifacts still had some power left in them, and they could vaguely see the power of the Zeus family in the past. Hao Ren walked around the antiques curiously. Suddenly, his eyes were drawn to a grayish-white object that looked like a pedestal.
"Hmm? This thing … Why does it look so familiar? "
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