Chapter 239 Dust-covered Land

Finally arrived?

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

The ship was still moving slowly, and there was still an endless sea of ​​mercury around. When the flashlight shone, there was a bright silver in front.

Brother Yaozi stood at the bow, holding the guardrail with one hand and looking around with the telescope we used to observe the terrain with the other hand. When he saw me arrive, he handed me the telescope in his hand: "Look, we should be there."

I took the telescope and looked forward. It was still dark in front of me, but if I looked carefully, I could still see that there was a faint black shadow in the distance where the poisonous gas was misty and chaotic, just like looking at the coastline from afar on the endless sea.

Moreover, I noticed that the mercury sea in front seemed to be shrinking...

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 away from the real sea, but there is still evidence to follow.

It seems that we are really going to reach the destination.

I felt so relieved in an instant. This vast sea of ​​mercury is a completely unheard-of method. It can be called a miracle and beyond my understanding. In the legend of Qiementougou, the boundless sea of ​​suffering has always been the top priority. I have to admit that this place has given me too much mental pressure. I am more grateful to be able to land safely.

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

I immediately returned to the cabin. The heavy boots on the boat were too heavy. Now it is a burden for me. My soul is injured. Although the wound on my chest scratched by the strong man has been treated, it still has a tendency to inflame. Both my body and soul have reached their limits, but thinking about being one step closer to saving my master, I became excited again.

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

After nearly an hour, the building ship finally docked.

The Mercury Sea has shrunk infinitely here, almost becoming a river, and the space around it has suddenly become "narrow". At least compared with the vast Mercury Sea before, this place is really much smaller, and looks a bit like an underground ruin.

This is a narrow space with a length of about 200 to 300 meters and a height of about 8 to 9 meters. It is completely built by hollowing out the underground. The surroundings are supported by piled boulders. It seems to have no craftsmanship at all, but it is actually very sophisticated and contains many cognitions in the field of architecture.

Across this empty shallow beach, there is a huge cave in front.

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

Of course, the legendary fairy must be there.

For safety reasons, we all put on gas masks, then jumped off the boat and headed straight for the cave.

On one side of the cave, a huge stone tablet stood here, about ten feet high and one and a half meters wide, with a series of strange patterns engraved on it, which could be said to be words but not words, and pictures but not pictures.

"Is this a sacrificial text?"

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

"Neither."

I shook my head and whispered: "This is not even a text. 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 text, similar to cuneiform, and... it can be regarded as the earliest and earliest cuneiform, with only an outline of the text!"

Lao Bai turned around the stone tablet, even wearing gloves and gently rubbing it for a while, and then he muttered to himself: "Strange..."

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

Lao Bai said: "This... doesn't match!"

That's right, it doesn't match! !

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

Lao Bai nodded and stroked the stone tablet: "The material of this stone tablet is nothing special, it's just ordinary stone, but it looks like this stone tablet used to be square, you see, it's been exposed to wind and rain, and now it's become oval, it's been a while!"

I sighed, "It's a bit inconsistent, and I don't understand this place anymore."

Lao Bai is very good at dating and identifying some treasures. Of course, this stone is not a treasure, but he still guessed the age of this stone tablet through the traces of wear and tear and so on, relying on his own experience!

And I rely on these words.

When did cuneiform appear?

This is a great invention of the ancient Sumerians. It appeared more than 3,000 years ago BC, about 6,000 years ago. It is considered the earliest ancient writing. The words on this stone tablet are even older than cuneiform and were used 6,000 years ago! !

What does this show?

This is not a stele erected by my ancestor or Shi Kuang.

These words are three or four thousand years earlier than the time when Shi Kuang lived! !

This is what Lao Bai meant by the mismatch, the time period is mismatched! ! !

In our guess, this should be built by my ancestor, Shi Kuang, and the Hanshan people. Now, this guess is obviously wrong, at least inaccurate. Only a small part of this is their work, but not all, involving a civilization six or seven thousand years ago! !

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

I thought about it, and described this place in this way, saying: "Perhaps, the strong man we saw on the Mercury Sea, and the countless resentful ghosts, may have something to do with this ancient civilization."

To say that the words on the stele are difficult to recognize, it's also easy to recognize!

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

So, when you look at this kind of writing, just treat it as looking at a painting.

There is only one trick - guess, guess, if you guess wrong, it's your bad luck, if you guess right, it's your strength.

It's like a naughty kid casually draws a circle on the ground and asks you what it is. If you say it's a circle, he despises you for being blind. If you say it's an apple, he laughs at you for having no imagination. Until you run out of tricks, he tells you seriously - he drew the whole world...

In short, imagination and luck are indispensable! !

Unfortunately, the world is too difficult, so I am too mature at a young age and lack imagination. I can't guess what it means after looking at it for a long time, but my intuition tells me that the words on the stone tablet must be very important, so I pulled Zhang Xinya and others to guess one by one.

Soon, Zhang Xinya and Brother Yaozi were defeated.

Zhang Xinya gave a negative review, saying that he was a clumsy hand at carving the stone tablet, and the painting was nothing!

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

He was the oldest and greediest among us. In Zhang Xinya's words, the years had blinded his eyes, making him indulge in vulgar things and become a lost lamb. Without an innocent heart, it would be impossible to understand this kind of text. So I thought he was pretending, so I pushed him hard and told him to get out of the way and stop fooling people.

Who knew that Lao Bai suddenly said: "We stand on the shoulders of the sages and look forward to the future. Through the experience of countless people, we can see eternal life."

The three of us were stunned instantly! !

"Oh my god..."

Zhang Xinya looked at Lao Bai as if she had seen a ghost, and exclaimed: "How on earth can you see such a complicated meaning from such a bunch of ghostly drawings?"

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

Originally I suspected that Lao Bai was lying to us, there was nothing I could do, this grandson had too many dark histories, but after carefully tasting this sentence, I found that it was very meaningful, plus Lao Bai's swearing look, so I stopped doubting him and began to doubt life.

Zhang Xinya still couldn't believe it, and couldn't help asking, "Can you tell me what you've been through?"

"I'm returning to my roots."

Lao Bai squinted, "Who is like you? You have a dirty heart and are greedy. People are such dirty creatures..."

I didn't want to pay attention to him. I savored his words for a moment and said, "According to what you said, the cave... should contain the so-called wisdom of the sages. This place is probably really nothing to do with Li Guan and Shi Kuang. The wisdom and experience of the sages are obviously from this unknown ancient civilization. It probably records their history!!"

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

All kinds of clues and intuition told me that many of the doubts that have been bothering us are hidden in this cave, and the reasons why this place is so complicated are also in it. Even our ultimate goal - the clue to the unknown thing that can save my master, is very likely in this cave! ! !