"Husband, what's in this palace?"

Li Jiani smiled and said, "Tell me quickly, let me be mentally prepared!" ”

"I don't know, but the inscription on the stele below adds a mythological tinge. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Lotus casually pushed open the door of the temple, "Is it still... Belch. ”

Li Jiani's eyes widened instantly, and she stretched out her hand and pointed to the things in the hall and said in surprise: "This... What's this? ”

In the pavilion, seven clay tablets are erected in a circle in the corner. The clay tablets are about one meter and two meters high, square in shape, and densely engraved with words on them.

In the middle of the seven clay tablets, a huge skeleton more than twenty meters long floated shallowly on the surface of the water.

It's a complete creature skeleton!

The limbs are a little stubby compared to the huge body, and the huge claws have terrifying claws on top of them.

A nearly five-meter-long coccyx with a spike at the end of the tail and barbs at the end of the spine.

The outer protrusion is a long snout skull, the huge mouthparts are about one meter seven long, and the upper and lower jaws are covered with terrifying sharp teeth.

The tip of the skull is connected to two monstrous horn bones.

In addition, the thoracic vertebrae are flanked by perfectly shaped wing bones.

"This... This.." Li Jiani swallowed her saliva and hesitated: "Isn't this the monitor lizard we caught?" ”

"yes." The lotus flower's gaze did not linger too much on the bones, he couldn't wait to come to the clay tablet and take a closer look, then clapped his hands fiercely, and said in surprise: "This is a good thing!" ”

"Good stuff? What's good? What's written on it? Li Jiani, who was still fiddling with her bones, hurriedly ran over when she heard this. She patted her forehead in annoyance as she stared at the ghost-like text, thinking that she should read more books too! I'm about to become illiterate!

"It's been a few years!" Lotus showed a rare look of joy, and he slowly rubbed the clay tablet and said, "This is the Babylonian creation epic, Enuma Eilish. ”

"Enuma Eilish is an important document written by Akkadian that describes the creation of the gods of that era, as well as mythological stories."

"The tablets inscribed with this epic were unearthed between 1848 and 1876 in Mosul, Iraq, which was the center of the Assyrian dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, but some of the tablets are incomplete." Lotus quickly swept over all the clay tablets excitedly, and said, "However, it seems that those clay tablets are definitely Assyrian replicas now." ”

"The known epics are about one thousand and eighty lines, each of which is inscribed with between 125 and 165 lines. But there are 1,363 slate slabs here! ”

"Ahh Li Jiani scratched her face and asked confusedly, "That.. Kindness.. So why is it here? ”

"Absu." The lotus head pointed to the skeleton behind him without looking back, "According to Enuma Eilish, Absu is a dragon." The turquoise dragon... Dragon..."

"Huh? Husband? What's wrong? Li Jiani anxiously shook the man who was staring at the clay tablet in a daze, and said hurriedly: "What did you find?" What is said above! ”

"According to the Sumerian lunar calendar, in 3175 B.C.E., Absu and Tiamat led the gods to Elidu." Lotus's voice was full of doubts, "Tiamat is the embodiment of the sea that created the gods with Absu, and it is also in the image of a dragon in the record. ”

"Elidu is the oldest Sumerian city-state, founded around 5,000 BC."

"And then?" Li Jiani asked softly with bated breath.

"And then—" Lotus looked at her anxiously, "and I don't recognize it!" The latter paragraph is the oldest Sumerian hieroglyphs. I don't know. ”

"Huh?" Li Jiani pulled her hair vigorously and wailed, "Then what's the matter now? It's so uncomfortable! ”

The lotus also pulled his hair, and he was also uncomfortable. But it's the oldest Sumerian language!

What were the Sumerians who existed? They were the pre-Babylonian civilization of the Two Rivers Valley. And according to the excavations, the Sumerians opened schools thousands of years BC...

The Sumerians invented a hieroglyphic script, which later developed into cuneiform.

Nearly 100,000 Sumerian texts have been excavated, most of them inscribed on clay tablets.

These include personal and business letters, money transfers, recipes, and encyclopedic lists.

Laws, hymns, prayers, magic spells,

Even scientific articles with mathematical, astronomy, and medical content...

But no one has been able to decipher the details in full, and the earlier the text, the more difficult it is.

"Don't worry, hurry, let's go up and have a look." Lotus picked up Li Jiani, who had a sad face, and ran, "The third layer is Tiamat's Buried Bone Palace, let's take a look first." ”

The third floor is also a layer of shallow water, but the ground is painted with a layer of bright red dye, as if flowing with blood.

How could the lotus flower have the heart to study this kind of landscape, so she hugged her and went straight to the palace.

Inside the temple, the same huge skeleton floats on the water, and there is no clay tablet document. But...

"Let's go, go to the fourth floor." Lotus reached out and threw a sword with a pale golden glow stuck in the skull to Li Jiani, who was screaming, and ran away without saying a word.

"Wow!!" Li Jiani held the weapon and shouted happily: "Dragon Slaying Sword!" Ha ha! Husband, what's going on? Whose is this? ”

"Marduk's." Lotus didn't even have the heart to study this material, he just wanted to figure out what was going on now. "Marduk is the patron saint of the city of Babylon, and it was Marduk's father who killed Absu. It was Marduk who killed Tiamat. He was worshipped by Babylon as the head of the gods. ”

"According to Enuma Eilish, the world and humanity were created by Marduk from the corpse of Tiamat."

"The fourth floor..."The lotus walked a little slowly, slowly stepped on the four-story ground paved with marble, and said in a deep voice: "This place is called the Temple of Victory." ”

"Temple of Victory?" Li Jiani hugged the sword tightly and blinked, and said strangely: "Is it because you defeated Tiamat?" ”

"Nope." Lotus walked slowly to the particularly exquisite hall and gently pushed open the door, "Have you forgotten why we came here?" ”

"That's right! Gold about... Wow!! Li Jiani screamed in surprise, and Le Taotao writhed in his arms, "Mine! It's all mine! ”

Lotus slowly lowered her, squinting at the altar in the center of the temple and falling into deep thought.

In the dazzling hall, a four-meter-tall golden statue rests on top of a cabinet that is also golden.

The golden statue is majestic and noble, wearing a crown and a long beard.

It was naked, with its head tilted slightly, and its gaze seemed to pierce the sky.

On the two sides of the right foot on the box, a pair of golden statues of cherubs looked indifferent. (To be continued.) )