Chapter 495: Understanding
Bran recovered well under the careful care of Luo Qingyan and Lu Mingxuan, and was already able to get out of bed and move. His house is in a very good location and the sun is perfectly in. This house, which has been inhabited by successive Atlantic kings, is the best in the entire country and certainly in the best location.
Bran began to learn Chinese language with Luo Qingyan during his cultivation, and he wanted to be able to communicate with others as soon as possible, instead of bothering Luo Qingyan every time. Bran was very smart, and although he wasn't sure how old he was, he knew he wasn't that old. Not to mention the fact that his mental age is younger due to the long slumber.
Bran relied on Luo Qingyan very much, and he didn't give much to Lu Mingxuan. The mature and steady Lu Mingxuan gave Bran a great sense of security, and he invisibly regarded Lu Mingxuan as his elder and relied on him very much.
Lu Mingxuan really likes this young man who is still a child at a mental age. Bran was very humble and polite, and the dependence on him that was revealed from time to time also made Lu Mingxuan quickly accept Bran.
Under the guidance of Bran, Lu Mingxuan and Luo Qingyan visited the country of Atlanta. Atlanta was originally a large country, but after the cataclysm, the population was drastically reduced, most of the country was sunk into the sea, and many of the former cities were destroyed. Many of the city buildings that remain today were built later, even the house where Bran lived was built later.
Almost the entire city is built underground and semi-underground on the mountain, and even then it is much higher than the sea level, so you don't have to worry about being submerged by the sea. Above the city was a huge crack, through which sunlight shone in to keep the small city from being left in the dark.
According to Bran, the people of his country used to grow some food and raise some livestock, but then there were fewer and fewer people, and these slowly declined, and when the last few people were left, there was no one to care about these anymore. There are many animals on the island, and they will not starve to death.
Bran was the last child to be born, and Bran's parents were very old when they gave birth to Bran. When Bran was ten years old, Bran's parents died one after another, and the few remaining people also died as Bran grew up, and in the end Bran was left alone, which shows how sad and desperate Bran was at that time.
After Bran lived alone for a while, he had no motivation to live, so he simply lay down in the coffin he had prepared for himself in advance. During the day, he will come out to do activities, and at night he will lie down in the coffin and sleep. If it weren't for the company of the big python and Xiao Jin, Bran might have committed suicide with depression a long time ago.
Lu Mingxuan and Luo Qingyan listened to Bran talk about his own growth process, and felt even more sorry for this child who came out of despair. I also decided to help Bran start a new life.
Bran followed Luo Qingyan and Lu Mingxuan to learn the language very quickly, because he urgently needed to talk, he wanted to talk to Luo Qingyan, and he also wanted to talk to Lu Mingxuan, he hadn't spoken to anyone else for a long time, he had been living in a person's world before, there was no object to communicate with, loneliness and loneliness almost swallowed him, and now there was finally someone who could communicate with him, he almost didn't want to stop, people were much more lively and cheerful, and there was a tendency to develop in the direction of chatterbox.
Luo Qingyan asked Bran about the altar-like building that she and Lu Mingxuan had passed by. Sure enough, as Luo Qingyan expected, it was indeed an altar, and the sacrifices were all animals hunted a long time ago. It was the altar that was erected after the Great Tribulation, and the skeletons of the same animals that had been sacrificed in the past were placed directly on it. As for the skeleton on the top layer, it was discovered by the people of their country during an excavation. It was thought to be the largest of the skeletons, the most remarkable of animals, and wings, so it was placed on top of the sacrificial objects.
As for the seed-like thing in the stone cabinet at the top of the altar, after Bran's introduction, Luo Qingyan and Lu Mingxuan finally understood that it was indeed a seed. It is a miraculous plant called "Shengyuan", and its fruit has magical powers, and the taste is said to be sweet and delicious. It's just that Bran didn't eat it, because after the cataclysm the plant could never be grown again. No matter how many seeds were planted, none of them germinated, and in the end, only a little seed from the stone cabinet was preserved. It is said that since people did not have the fruit of this plant for food, people slowly began to lose their fertility until Atlanta gradually declined to the point of eventual extinction.
The people of Atlanta believed that "livelihood" was an indispensable food for their survival, but they could no longer grow this food, which meant that God would destroy Atlanta. The people enshrined the last remaining "born" seed on the altar, hoping that it would grow in the future and that the people of their country would continue to do so. However, the wish is good, but the reality is that Atlanta can only go to ruin in the end. There were no wars and no plagues, but because it became extremely difficult for people to have children, the population became smaller and smaller, until in the end Bran was left alone.
Luo Qingyan asked what Bran meant, Bran didn't want outsiders to destroy everything here, so Luo Qingyan and Lu Mingxuan respected Bran's wishes and decided not to reveal the existence of this disappeared country to outsiders, so let this place become a pure land in Bran's heart.
It is indeed unrealistic for Bran to announce the existence of his country to the outside world, because he is the only one left in this country, and he will not be able to stop the destruction of some human beings with ulterior motives in the outside world at that time. At that time, it will no longer be able to maintain the current tranquility here, and it will attract countless greedy humans to come here to hunt for treasures and dig.
Bran also decided to dedicate all of his country's treasures to Luo Qingyan as a reward for saving his life. It is useless for him to keep these things for himself, because he does not value these things, what he needs most is his family, friends who help him. He already regarded Luo Qingyan and Lu Mingxuan as his family, so of course his things had to be given to them.
Luo Qingyan was not polite, and put away all the things that Bran wanted to give her. Luo Qingyan didn't want to keep all these things for herself, she would return these things to Bran in the future, and now she was only temporarily collecting them for Bran.
Luo Qingyan also put the skeleton of the dinosaur into the space, and those precious ivory were no exception.
Luo Qingyan has told Bran about the preciousness of the dinosaur fossil, and with Bran's consent, he will contribute it to the country for research.
Luo Qingyan has put a lot of things worth collecting into the space, and maybe they will see the light of day again when he builds his own museum in the future.