The style of this temple is very different, not used for the exquisite and elegant architectural layout of ancient China, the temple does not have any walls, doors and windows, completely open, only thousands of thick columns, supporting the flat roof of the temple, it looks magnificent.

Only the intricate patterns on the pillars and the flying fish on the eaves of the corners of the hall bring a bit of unique style charm in China.

In particular, the two shark statues with rough style and sharp lines stand alone in the temple, majestic and majestic, making people unconsciously look up and feel a little inferior.

It's just a pity that the western half of the temple has collapsed extensively, the roof of the temple has fallen apart, and the broken pillars are lying scattered on the ground, as if they have suffered some kind of disaster.

Another thing is that it feels very weird.

The vast temple, including the waters that surround it, showed no signs of life. There was a dead silence everywhere, including seashells, conchs, and clams, all of which were empty shells.

This made Lu Zheng feel a little bad, the merman was the backbone of the rise of the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea. In case they really wipe out the entire clan, it will be the biggest blow to Lu Zheng.

This is not to say that the hope of rebuilding the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea is dashed. It's just that if you want to truly regain the glory, you need to pay hundreds of times and thousands of times more effort, and spend thousands or even tens of thousands of years of energy to complete.

Lu Zheng and Tang Scarlet Carp re-transformed into human form, strolling through the temple, and if they looked up, they could see that the eastern half of the temple was also covered with thousands of large and small cracks.

All this confirmed Lu Zheng's opinion.

There must have been some kind of great catastrophe here.

"Lu Zheng, look. Tang Scarlet Carp's footsteps paused, and his eyes fell on a conch carved in relief on the pillar. This conch is not the kind of conch that is commonly found on the beach, but more like a giant nautilus from ancient times.

Roughly measured with my fingers, the diameter of this nautilus is fifty or sixty miles, and its size far exceeds that of existing nautilus species.

"One, two, three...... Six. The slender fingers groped for the lines on the snail shell, and Tang Scarlet Carp silently counted it in his mouth, increasing the number. Her expression grew more and more shocked.

"Six! six spirals. ”

"What's wrong?"

Tang Scarlet Carp shook his head slowly, and said incredulously: "The age of this nautilus shocks me, you see, this is the spiral." Pointing to the uneven corrugated lines on the shell, she explained: "This kind of large gully is called a septum. And the small lines that form the septum are called growth lines, which also represent its age. Six of them, oh my God!"

"Six, that doesn't sound like a lot......" Lu Zheng was also shocked, thirty-two centuries, that is more than three thousand two hundred years......

And most importantly, this corrugated pattern is only one of dozens of threads.

"It's not that simple. Tang Scarlet gave him a disgusted look. Patiently explain. It turns out that the number of growth lines of this nautilus does not represent its age, but represents the era of its existence. This growth line grows one every day, one every month, and twelve is one month. Look at this nautilus is about thirty-four years old, and the age is about thirty or forty years.

However, the number of each upper growth line coincides with the number of days of a synodic day. The so-called synodic day refers to the waxing and waning cycle of the moon, and the first day of the new month is the new day. Fifteen is the day of hope.

The modern synodic cycle is one month, or thirty days. There are 26 nautilus fossils in the Cenozoic Era, indicating that the moon has a waxing and waning cycle of 26 days. It was 22 days in the Cretaceous and 9 days in the earlier Ordovician.

This nautilus has six growth lines. It shows that the age of its survival, the moon has a waxing and waning cycle, only six days! The age is even further than the Ordovician......

According to modern science, the Ordovician period began 480 million years ago......

Push back back. This temple is depicted with a nautilus with six growth lines, which means that the age of the construction of this temple is likely to be the age of the six-line nautilus.

A temple from hundreds of millions of years ago!

The conclusion reached made Lu Zheng feel extremely shocked. The merman unexpectedly, unexpectedly, horribly has existed for hundreds of millions of years.

There is no need to suspect that the mermaids carved the growth line in order to save trouble when building the temple, because this is almost impossible for a race that is good at craftsmanship and excellence.

Sure enough, after looking at the dozens of columns, the nautilus that appeared on them were all six growth lines, and even the distance between the growth lines was exactly the same.

Lu Zheng shook his head and sighed: "It's incredible." Compared with the history of the shark people, the origin of human beings, even if the origin of monkeys is added, is not even a fraction of the shark people. ”

Tang Scarlet Carp smiled and said: "We don't have to be presumptuous, our Chinese myths and legends are prone to hundreds of millions of catastrophes, that is, more than 10 billion years." It's only a few hundred million years, and it's not a big deal. It's just that it's much farther away than you and me. ”

"That's right. Lu Zheng nodded, mythology is actually the same as the history of the earth, for the current human beings, it is only in a state of speculation and inference, and it is really difficult to say how true it is.

The eastern temple was very empty except for the two statues. The material of the statue is the same as that of the temple as a whole, and there seems to be nothing special about it.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

Then, the eyes of both of them fell on the collapsed Western Temple. The damage was so severe that not even a single intact stone slab could be found. Moreover, the whole situation is subsidence, and the further you go to the center, the more low-lying it becomes, and the damage becomes more and more serious.

"Look, there's a trap there. ”

As far as the eye can see, it is the center of the Western Temple. No stone has been found here for a long time, and fine sand and gravel have been deposited at the bottom of the water column. As Lu Zheng and Tang Scarlet Carp swam, the sand and gravel fluttered with the water, like a curtain.

The gravel pit is about 100 meters in circumference, very flat and empty. It must be very incongruous with the collapsed and crumbling temples around it.

Something must have happened here, and it was the source of the temple's collapse.

Just looking at it, there's nothing strange about it.

Turning around and looking at the flying sand and gravel in the sky, Lu Zheng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and with a slight wave of his hand, a strong stream of water swept the sand and gravel. The gravel was more than two meters thick, and it rose to the sky, as if it had set off a sandstorm, tumbling and throwing into the distance.

Then, Lu Zheng and Tang Scarlet's eyes were stunned.

In the washed pit, blue lines were revealed, spreading outward like ripples caused by stones thrown into the water. And at the center of the ripples, stands a blue crystal statue.

The statue is also a merman, appearing to be a woman, about the height of a human, and her whole body is made of blue crystals, which is crystal clear.

She is said to be female because she wears a wide robe, and the body of the fish is half-covered, only the tail of the fish is exposed. The robe is decorated with various crystal ornaments in the shape of fish, shrimp, shellfish and conch, which are beautifully carved and lifelike. The neck of the robe is split in a V-shape, half-revealing with the choppy bulge on the chest. She also wore a nine-tiered pearl bead curtain around her neck, all as large as a dragon's eye, with a huge fusiform sapphire at the end. Around the waist hangs a dozen strings of pearl chains, draped with several braided tassels.

Her posture was somewhat odd, her arms stretched out to the right and left, looking up at the sky. The strangest thing is that the expression on her face is unusually hideous, and the boss with angry eyes and open mouth seems to be shouting angrily.

In her right hand, she also holds an ornate scepter, the handle of the staff is a fishtail, the body of the staff is finely scaled, and the head of the staff is a man and a woman, two mermaids, the lower body is entangled, and the four hands hold a nine-story spire. The eaves of the minaret are hung with strings of tassel pendants.

The most amazing thing is that the tower window is transparent, and you can also see dense miniature sharks inside, with different postures and demeanors, eyebrows and facial features, and delicate appearances.

At the top of the minaret, a giant dragon scurls alongside a dragon with its claws clinging to the eaves and roaring to the sky.

When the boom sounded.

Lu Zheng, who was looking at the statue intently, suddenly touched something under his feet. Looking down, at his feet, there was a magnificent crown, nine mermaids bowed forward, eighteen arms interlocked, and the stars held up like the moon......

Hey?

Wrong!

The tray made of the merman's palms was empty, and there was clearly an octagonal groove left, apparently missing something.

And the merman will never make such a low-level mistake!

Looking around at the collapsed temple and looking at the pit where the sand and gravel were piled up, Lu Zheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration, understood all this, and blurted out: "This is not a statue! This is the empress of the merman!" (To be continued.) )