Chapter 239 The dusty soil

Finally arrived?

I didn't even bother to dress properly and rushed out of the cabin barefoot.

The building boat was still moving slowly, and it was still surrounded by the endless sea of ​​mercury. When the light of the flashlight shone, there was a bright silver in front of it.

Brother Yaozi stood on the bow of the boat, holding the guardrail with one hand and looking around with the telescope we used to observe the terrain in the other. When he saw me arriving, he handed the telescope to me: "Look, we should be at the right place."

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I took the telescope and looked forward. There was still darkness in front of me, but if I looked carefully, I could still see the misty poisonous gas and the chaotic distance. There was a faint black shadow looming, as if on the boundless sea, far away.

It's like looking at the coastline.

Moreover, I noticed that the mercury sea in front seemed to begin to shrink...

Although this place is vast, it was built underground after all. The direction of the underground space determines the shape of the mercury sea. It is far from the real sea, but there is still evidence to follow.

It seems that we are really about to get there.

My whole body felt so relaxed in an instant. This vast mercury sea was completely unheard of. It was a miracle and beyond my understanding. In the legend of Qiementougou, the boundless sea of ​​suffering has always been

The most important thing is that I have to admit that this place gave me too much mental pressure. I am more grateful to be able to reach the shore safely.

"Get ready, you can get off the boat."

I immediately returned to the cabin. The heavy boots on the ship were too heavy. They were already a burden to me. My soul was injured. Although the wounds on my chest scratched by the strong man had been treated, they were still faint.

There is a tendency to become inflamed, and both my body and my soul have reached the limit, but thinking about being one step closer to saving my master, my whole body becomes excited again.

In fact, I know very well that now I am overdrafting my life every moment, and even in this state, I am already in an extremely dangerous situation, but I have no choice but to go on.

Nearly an hour later, the boat finally docked.

The mercury sea has been infinitely narrowed here, almost becoming a river, and the surrounding space has suddenly become "narrow". At least compared with the vast mercury sea before, this place is really much smaller.

Look at the underground ruins.

This is a narrow space about two to three hundred meters in length and about eight or nine meters in height. It is completely hollowed out underground and supported by huge stones. It seems to have no craftsmanship at all, but in fact it is very sophisticated.

Contains many cognitions in the field of architecture.

Across this empty shoal, there is a huge cave ahead.

There is no doubt that the most important thing is behind the cave. What we are looking for is most likely behind.

Of course, the legendary fairy must also be there.

For safety reasons, all of us put on gas masks, jumped off the boat, and headed straight to the cave.

On one side of the cave, a huge stone tablet was erected, about one foot high and one and a half meters wide. It was engraved with a series of strange patterns, which were said to be words but not words, and said to be pictures but not pictures.

"Is this a sacrificial ritual?"

Brother Yaozi asked in a low voice: "Or is it the kind of bronze inscriptions at the entrance to the tomb?"

"None of that."

I shook my head and said softly: "This is not even written. It should be very, very early, similar to rock paintings, but it cannot be completely said to be rock paintings. It should be something that is evolving from rock paintings to writing, similar to cuneiform writing.

And... it can be regarded as the earliest and earliest cuneiform writing, it just has an outline of the writing!"

Lao Bai walked around the stone tablet, even putting on his gloves and gently rubbing it for a moment. Then, he muttered to himself: "Strange..."

Zhang Xinya had sharp ears and heard what he said, and immediately asked what was strange.

Lao Bai said: "This...isn't right!"

That’s right, it just doesn’t add up!!

I was the only one who understood what Lao Bai meant, and immediately said: "It's because the era doesn't match up, right?!"

Lao Bai nodded and rubbed the stone tablet: "The material of this stone tablet is nothing special. It is just an ordinary stone. But it seems that the stone tablet used to be square. Look, it is exposed to wind and rain. Now

It’s all become an oval, it’s been quite a while!”

I sighed: "It's a bit wrong. I don't understand this place even more now."

Lao Bai is very good at identifying the dates of some treasures. Of course, this stone is not a treasure, but he still guessed the age when this stone monument was erected here based on his own experience through wear marks and so on!

And I rely on these words.

When did cuneiform writing appear?

This is a great invention of the ancient Sumerians. It appeared more than 3,000 years ago, about 6,000 years ago. It is considered the earliest writing in ancient times, and the writing on this stone tablet is older than cuneiform writing.

It must be ancient, it was used six thousand years ago!

What does this mean?

This is not a monument set by my ancestors or Shi Kuang at all.

These texts are three to four thousand years earlier than the time when Shi Kuang lived!!

This is what Lao Bai means when he says they don’t match up, the era doesn’t match up!!!

In our guess, this place should have been built by our ancestors, Shi Kuang, and the Shanshan people. Looking at it now, this guess is obviously wrong, at least inaccurate. Only a small part of this place belongs to them.

The handwriting, but not all of it, involves a civilization six or seven thousand years ago!!

"It looks like a tomb, and it also looks like a relic left by the destruction of an ancient civilization. It's hard to explain what kind of place this is."

I thought about it, described this place like this, and said, "Perhaps, the strong men and countless resentful ghosts we saw on the Mercury Sea may have something to do with this ancient civilization."

The writing on the stone tablet is hard to read, but easy to read!

Cuneiform itself is a text that evolved from pictures. This type of writing is earlier than cuneiform, so it has more elements of pictures.

Therefore, reading this kind of text is like looking at a painting.

There's only one trick - you guess, you guess. If you guess wrong, you point the finger. If you guess right, that's your strength.

It's like a naughty child casually drew a circle on the ground and asked you what it was. You said it was a circle and he despised you for being blind. You said it was an apple and he laughed at your lack of imagination. It wasn't until the end that you ran out of tricks and he was serious.

Let me tell you - he painted the whole world...

In short, imagination and luck are both indispensable!!

Unfortunately, the world is too difficult. As a result, I am young and immature. I don’t have enough imagination. I couldn’t guess what it meant after reading it for a long time. But my intuition told me that the words on the stone tablet must be very important, so I invited Zhang Xinya and the others to tell them one by one.

Go into battle and guess.

Soon, Zhang Xinya and Brother Yaozi were defeated.

Zhang Xinya directly gave a negative review, saying that the carving of the stone tablet was absolutely handicapped and the painting was not like feathers!

On the contrary, Lao Bai stood in front of the stone tablet and looked at it with great interest. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking like a master.

Among us, he is the oldest and the most greedy. In Zhang Xinya’s words, time has blinded his eyes, making him indulge in worldly things and become a lost lamb. Without an innocent heart, it is simply impossible.

I couldn't understand this kind of writing, so I thought he was pretending, so I gave him a hard tug and told him to go away and stop fooling others.

Unexpectedly, Lao Bai suddenly said: "We stand on the shoulders of the sages and look at the future, and we can see eternal life through the experience of countless people."

The three of us were stunned instantly!!

"God……"

Zhang Xinya looked at Lao Bai as if he had seen a ghost, and exclaimed: "How on earth did you find such a complicated meaning from such a bunch of ghost symbols?"

Lao Bai frowned and said: "This is very clear and easy to understand..."

At first I suspected that Lao Bai was lying to us, but there was no way. This grandson had too much dark history. But after I carefully read this sentence, I found that it had a profound meaning. Coupled with Lao Bai's solemn appearance, I no longer doubted him.

I started to doubt my life.

Zhang Xinya still felt unbelievable and couldn't help but said: "Can you tell me what exactly you went through?"

"I am returning to my original nature."

Lao Bai squinted: "Who is like you, with a dirty heart and greed? Humans are such dirty creatures..."

I didn't want to talk to him anymore, savored these words for a moment, and said: "According to what you said, the so-called wisdom of the sages... is hidden in the cave. I'm afraid this place really has nothing to do with the official of ceremony and Shi Kuang.

The wisdom and experience of the sages obviously belong to this unknown ancient civilization, and 80% of it records their history!!"

After that, I brushed Lao Bai away and walked into the cave first.

All kinds of clues and intuition tell me that many of the doubts that have been troubling us are hidden in this cave, and the reason why this place is so complicated is also inside. Even our ultimate goal - the unknown thing that can save my master.

The clues are most likely also in this cave!!!
Chapter completed!