Chapter 730: The Relics of a Once-Glorious Civilization!

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Unfortunately, perhaps because it is too old, or because the natives who inhabit it have not encountered an enemy for hundreds of years, this magnificent wall has long been covered with all kinds of vines, and it looks very desolate, but the structure of the entire wall has not been damaged!

"It seems that some amazing underground ruins have been discovered this time!"

Looking at the huge city in front of him, Liu Dong's heart was already trembling with excitement.

For anyone who loves to collect, this relic of civilization is the best treasure.

At that moment, Liu Dong didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly chased after the back of the Indian natives in front of him.

Between the entrance of the cave where Liu Dong appeared and the gate of the ancient city is a bluestone road about 2,000 meters long and about 10 meters wide! On both sides of the bluestone road, there are many stone statues of sword warriors with powerful images and a height of about 3 meters!

Probably because they have been stored for too long, these stone statues of samurai with swords and bluestone roads have been eroded by the surrounding plants.

But what made Liu Dong feel strange was that he didn't meet a guard along the way?

But think about it, there will be no enemies for hundreds of years, and even the most vigilant people will relax.

But what made Liu Dong strange was that when he was close to the city, corn stalks were found around, and it should have just been cut down, and it was obvious that there was still a very primitive agricultural deposit here!

"The people who were able to build such a magnificent ancient city must have a splendid civilization!" looked at the six human-faced tiger statues on both sides of the city gate, more than five meters high, and gilded throughout. Liu Dong said secretly in his heart.

"It's just such a glorious civilization. Now I haven't become a primitive!"

After shaking his head. His eyes noticed the two huge stone tablets erected on both sides of the city gate, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not understand the meaning of the strange words on the stone tablets.

"But this should be a hieroglyph that originated from the Mayan civilization in the Americas!" this is Liu Dong's only judgment.

For the problems he can't figure out, Liu Dong will never be obsessed with this and waste time.

So he quickly followed the primitives into the city.

After entering the city, ordinary stone buildings began to appear on both sides of the bluestone avenue, and these buildings were painted with many abstract decorations. But among them, Liu Dong discovered a very well-known god in the American Indian civilization - Quetzalcoatl!

Quetzalcoatl is a deity commonly worshipped in Mesoamerican civilizations and is generally depicted in the image of a feathered serpent. It was first seen in the Olmec civilization, and was later called Quezelquato by the Aztecs and Kukulcan by the Mayans.

Legend has it that Quetzalcoatl ruled over the Morning Star, invented books, legislated, and brought corn to humans.

Quetzalcoatl also represents death and rebirth, and is the protector of the priests.

Quetzalcoatl's place in Mayan culture can be observed in many ways. In the classical period, the scepter held by the Mayan "real person" was a delicate and small shape at one end, with one leg of the villain in the middle turning into a snake body, and the other end being a snake head. By the post-classical period, there were multiple deformations. However, the basic form has completely changed, and it has become the image of Quetzalcoatl with a fan on the upper part and a snake body in the middle and a snake head on the lower part.

"Could it be that this is a city built by the ancient Mayans?" Liu Dong couldn't help but speculate secretly.

But after thinking about it. He quickly overturned his conclusion, because the Mayan civilization appeared in Central America, and this is the American state of Arizona, although it is very close to Central America, but no trace of the Mayan civilization has ever been found.

Shaking his head, after temporarily letting go of these puzzles, Liu Dong chose to continue to walk inside, believing that he could find the answer he wanted in the center of the city.

The further you go in, the number of primitive people in the surrounding area also increases, but most of them are elderly and children, and there are almost no adults!

But in a civilization, adults are the main body, so this discovery makes Liu Dong feel very strange.

Unable to find an answer for the time being, Liu Dong's attention was more focused on the surrounding buildings.

As the city center got closer to the city, the form of the buildings also changed significantly, with double-storey stone buildings and even three-storey stone buildings appearing in height, and these higher-rise buildings often had exquisite reliefs, and Liu Dong also found their different functions from these buildings.

It is certain that there should be taverns, shops, brothels, public baths and other places among them, of course, these are all guessed by Liu Dong from the reliefs and some hieroglyphs, and it is not known whether it is Liu Dong or not.

"However, looking at the size of this city, it is enough to accommodate 200,000 people, but how is it that there are only these people, and almost most of the buildings are abandoned? Is it the result of the degradation of civilization?"

In the absence of a better explanation, this is the closest conclusion to reality.

At this time, following these people, Liu Dong came to a square, the square is the size of a football field and a half, and there is a place in the center of the square that is surrounded by stone steps, which should belong to the fountain-like place, but now although there is still water in it, it has long stopped spraying!

Around this pool, there are many round carved stone statues about two meters high, most of the stone statues have thick eyebrows and big eyes, wide faces, with obvious Indian characteristics, but there are some differences in subtleties, and the movements are also different.

However, after passing through this exquisite square, there is another city wall of about 1200 meters, 6 meters high and 5 meters wide, there are many gorgeous reliefs on the city wall, most of which are Indian images wearing feathers, but some belong to human nature, and some have the characteristics of various beasts, but no matter what kind of reliefs are lifelike, from which you can see the extraordinary features of this civilization.

After crossing the walls, you should enter the inner city of the city.

The buildings in the inner city have noticeably become a little more ornate, and basically none of the houses are less than two storeys.

It can be seen that the part outside the city wall should belong to the civilian residential area, and what Liu Dong sees now should belong to the residential area of the nobles and the royal family.

Moreover, in this part of the aristocratic residential area, the house is no longer a single building, but is divided into a complex of residences with different functions such as living, hospitality, and sightseeing, just like the courtyard houses in ancient China, but the structure and architectural form are different!

In addition, Liu Dong also found that here, there are obviously more entertainment venues than outside, and there are many buildings similar to parks and squares, of course, because it has become a mess after a long time of no one to take care of it.

"This is a tribe that has lost its civilization in the long river of history!" Liu Dong came to his own conclusions along the way.

Most of the city, which shows the highly developed civilization of its owner, has been deserted, and only a small part is still inhabited, but it is like primitive people suddenly living in modern villas, the houses are good, but the inside is really a mess.

To let them live here is a waste of this glorious civilization!

"It's so magnificent, it's hard to imagine which nation in North America can build such a great miracle!" When Liu Dong came to the city center, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Compared to the exquisite buildings he had just walked over and saw, the buildings in the center of the city in front of him were the essence of it, and without these, the entire city would have lost at least seventy percent of its beauty!

The reason why I say this is because this scene in front of me is so magnificent!

I saw that in a long river about 15 meters wide, like a moat, a huge stone platform with a length of 800 meters, a width of 500 meters, and a height of about 30 meters, the whole body is obsidian structure, rising from the ground, towering like a cloud!

Even Liu Dong found that the stone platform was not made of obsidian, but a raw stone platform that was polished out of life. And before this obsidian platform, this should be a low mountain full of obsidian!

It was only later that the civilization that built the city was processed into the current huge rectangular stone platform at an unimaginable cost.

And on this huge stone platform, a splendid building was built that shocked the world.

Looking up at this massive obsidian platform and the exquisite and majestic architecture on it, Liu Dong is like seeing the legendary Heavenly Palace in China.

In terms of exquisite Cheng dù alone, perhaps only the Forbidden City, where ancient Chinese emperors lived, could be as long as it was.

After sighing for a long time, Liu Dong remembered that he was going up.

Soon, Liu Dong crossed the moat on a 30-meter-wide straight obsidian bridge with intricately carved stone carvings on the railings on both sides, and then ascended an equally 30-meter-wide, 120-story obsidian staircase to the top of the platform.

At the corner of the riverside and the obsidian steps at the top of the platform stand two huge tiger-shaped beasts that are 6 meters high and 12 meters long, because they have two more legs than ordinary tigers, and two long teeth like saber-toothed tigers stick out of the corners of their mouths!

And these two tiger-shaped beasts guarded the upward passage like a door god, one left and one right, and their huge eyes seemed to be watching every worshipper who walked on the stone platform, extremely powerful, giving people unimaginable pressure, and even unconsciously wanting to surrender!

However, although Liu Dong admired the exquisiteness of these two tiger-shaped beasts, he did not have the slightest other affection.

And on the edge of the stone platform along the river on both sides of these two tiger-shaped beasts, there is a round carving head of a strange beast with a wide mouth every 10 meters, and the image of the strange beast is similar to one of the nine sons of the dragon in Chinese mythology, but the eyes of these strange beasts are much larger than those of the dragon!

Judging from the shape of these strange beasts, as well as the wide opening of their mouths, this should be a kind of water outlet, and it is conceivable that when the city was first built, the water conservancy facilities built to lift the water in the distant river to the high platform, and then divert out to pass through hundreds of foreign beast outlets, and fall thirty meters into the moat.

It's a pity that after a long period of erosion, these stone outlets are still there, but the design of the water is rotten......!