Chapter 2 The Golden Headdress
Li Jie suppressed the doubts and surprise in his heart, and had no interest in the exquisite artifacts with thousands of years of history of the two river basins displayed in the museum, so he walked intently to the display case with ornaments.
By this time, he could already be sure that the soul fluctuation that belonged to the immortal rank came from the ancient ornament made of gold and gems in front of him, to be precise, it should be a "V" shaped gem on the top of the ornament.
It is a crown of golden flowers, gold leaves and small gold rings, and is dotted with countless small gemstones, even after thousands of years of vicissitudes, it still reveals an incomparable brilliance, and the most striking of them is the strangely shaped, deep blue pure and immaculate gem at the top of the crown, which is as enchanting as the deep sea, and is perfectly embedded in front of the crown.
On the label of the display case, a clear description of the origin of this ancient artifact is clearly recorded:
"Excavated in the plains of Mesopotamia, the Sumerian tomb of your, according to analysis, belongs to the gold headdress of Queen Puabi."
In the next few days, Li Jie has consulted almost all the relevant materials and written records that he can collect, and has also gained an in-depth understanding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections.
So much so that as soon as the storm of the superpower's destruction of the collection subsided and the museum reopened to the public, he appeared here for the first time.
You can't blame Li Jie for making a fuss, a stone tablet of ancient human civilization that appeared on the earth thousands of years ago and was inscribed with demonic inscriptions? What could be more bizarre and unimaginable?
It is also because of the preparation that has been made so thoroughly. So the relevant information naturally popped into his head.
Sumer is the name of an ancient region. It was roughly located in the lower reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in present-day southeastern Iraq. As the creators of the early culture of the Two Rivers Valley, the Sumerians were the first to create cuneiform writing. Around 2500 B.C., your was the most powerful city-state on the plains of Mesopotamia, and in the Christian Bible, it is called "the city of your." The ruins of the imperial tombs of this powerful city-state are located in the south of present-day Baghdad.
However, even though Li Jie can be regarded as having a very good understanding of this ancient civilization, it is still difficult to imagine why a headdress of an ancient human civilization more than 4,500 years ago is in it. It actually contained a soul fluctuation that belonged to the immortal rank.
When the Legendary Life Soul Formation is completed, the next step is to step into the critical stage of immortality, the most important and most difficult to achieve in this stage is to promote the soul origin to gradually grow into an independent small world in the continuous strengthening, as long as this soul world is formed, it will contain endless power.
Unless it is destroyed by unimaginably powerful energy, the soul origin world can last for thousands of years, and in a sense, it can be regarded as immortal.
The formation of the soul origin world is the origin of the word "immortal".
As an being who has once stepped into this rank. Of course, Li Jie had already deeply understood what was hidden in the dark blue gem in front of him, it was a scattered soul origin fragment that could not be maintained after being defeated!
The world of the soul origin of the kings can be immortal. But after being defeated, the fragments that have lost the constraints of the original consciousness will eventually collapse in a long time, but the process is also much longer. At the same time, only the soul origin that dominates the king's rank can form scattered soul fragments, and the legendary life of a slightly lower rank, if the soul origin cannot be maintained and collapsed, it will often only be directly destroyed.
And the soul fragment in front of him, after the collapse, because he lost the restraint of the origin consciousness, it is no wonder that he seems to have no spirituality in his perception, but the fragment that should have collapsed in the long river of time, for some reason, was included in this dark blue gem with a history of more than 4,500 years, so it was preserved for a longer time.
The origin of the gems and soul fragments is mysterious, but what really frightens Li Jie is the meaning behind this soul fragment - 4500 years or even more ago, there was once a dominant king on Earth who was seriously injured by a powerful force, and it is even likely to fall completely, and only then will the soul fragments that escaped out of control appear.
The incomparably astonishing fact makes the connection between the human world in which Li Jie lives and the demons invisibly closer, which makes people wonder all kinds of things.
In Li Jie's memory, there is only the long time when he was in the abyss, and then he was reincarnated after appearing in the human world, and he didn't know anything about the reason for his appearance here.
The feeling of missing a paragraph in this memory is very uncomfortable, like the original whole has been forcibly erased, but even after many attempts, it is still helpless and difficult to recall. It's just that after re-entering the legend, I can occasionally think of a strange light from the depths of my consciousness, but it is too vague to figure it out.
"Are you alright, sir?"
Seeing Li Jie standing in front of the display case for a long time, a museum security guard came over and asked with some confusion, when staring at Li Jie nervously, the security guard's right hand was firmly pressed on his waist, and there was a black pistol hanging there, and the gun bag was unfastened, and it could be pulled out as quickly as possible. Apparently due to the recent looting of the superpowers, the museum has significantly strengthened its security and made the staff more vigilant.
"I'm fine."
However, the vigilant security guard didn't have a chance to show his skills, and Li Jie glanced at the gold headdress in the cabinet again, and quietly turned and walked away.
Of course, he didn't leave here, other things could be put aside for now, but a soul fragment without the constraints of the origin consciousness? Li Jie knows what it means to his current self, as long as he incorporates the soul origin of his body, it is a tonic that strengthens his soul.
The soul fragment containing the origin consciousness will spontaneously counterattack the external force, and I am afraid that before the origin consciousness can be expelled, the soul fragment will collapse first, and it is impossible to absorb nature.
But like the ownerless shard inside the deep sapphire in front of you. It's an unguarded treasure. It's a rare opportunity. Of course, Li Jie was unceremoniously wanted to take it into his arms.
But he didn't want to show too many traces, so he still put it away first, anyway, he didn't have the legendary-level perception that had entered the shaping stage, and he couldn't detect this strange existence at all.
And now, Li Jie has to turn his attention to the main person who attracted him.
The harvest of this trip was indeed a bit unexpected, and due to the existence of the soul origin fragment, Li Jie was already able to accept the appearance of demon texts in ancient human civilization. After all, the facts are in front of us, I don't know how many years ago. It is already certain that there have been higher life forms in this world.
The stone tablet, inscribed with the Strange Script, lay quietly behind the display case where Queen Puabi's gold headdress was kept, about twenty centimeters high and thirty centimeters long, with some mutilated edges, but the whole was roughly well preserved and rectangular. The unremarkable surface is grayish-brown and mottled due to age.
In the center of the stone slab, there is a complex and fine line engraved, which is the devil's sentence that Li Jie saw earlier:
"Twinkling stars fall from the sky."
But that's not all there is to the slate, around this line of demonic text. It depicts a rough pattern, with a shapeless chaotic ellipse at the top. Below, there are several humanoid cases with limbs. Probably due to the methods of the time and the erosion over the years, this pattern is not only unusually simple, but also very vague.
This time, however, the markings under the display case made Li Jie even more disappointed.
Originally, in the entire ancient Near Eastern art museum, each artwork or antiquity has a relatively clear and detailed description, and some even have a title and excavation time and place, so that visitors can better understand the background or origin of the collection. Only the slate in front of me, the standard description is so simple that it is a little pitiful:
"About 6,200 years ago Sumerian slate, Sumerian writing has not yet formed a relatively system, and the ancient people carved rough graphics."
In the early investigation, Li Jie also learned some information about the Sumerian civilization. Although it is generally accepted that the Sumerians had created a systematic wedge-shaped script, it was a long process, and it was by no means achieved overnight, during which it took nearly a thousand years to evolve from the expression of a certain idea with the help of graphics to the emergence of a systematic script.
In other words, the Sumerian script was largely stagnant for a thousand years of use, constrained by the corresponding adhesive language.
The meaning of this note in front of me is so clear that even scholars and experts in museums who specialize in Sumerian civilization have not been able to determine what exactly is painted on it, and they do not even think that it is a meaningful text, but because the age cannot be falsified, and the source is probably the same as that of other antiquities of the same period, it was put into the exhibition hall of Mesopotamian antiquities.
It can only be said that the museum is quite realistic, I don't know it, at least I maintain a relatively rigorous attitude, and there is no nonsense.
Probably only a demon like Li Jie can recognize the pure demon text. This is also the reason why those experts who have spent decades studying the civilizations of the two river basins are still unable to determine the content of this ancient stone tablet, because it is necessary to use that text to roughly guess that the pattern depicted on the stone tablet should be the twinkling stars in the sky by some humanoid creatures, or the light that approximates the light of stars.
The blame can only be blamed on the craftsmanship of the Sumerians 6,000 years ago or even more who are too lame, the abstract to the point of almost ugly graphics, based on the subjective imagination of eyewitnesses alone, it is possible to say that anything is possible, and if you add some far-fetched speculation, it is not impossible to be 108,000 miles away from the real facts.
But Li Jie, who guessed the content of the slate record, did not solve his doubts. A short sentence, a crude pattern, to be honest, such a fragmented and sketchy piece of information is really not very useful.
Maybe those ancient Sumerians or their ancestors saw a meteor? Meteorite? There are countless possibilities.
After repeated careful observation, Li Jie still did not form a definite concept in his heart, so he had to give up speculation for the time being, and the whole thing was still in a vague state.
The only thing he can affirm is that during the Sumerian civilization, there were ancient humans who were exposed to the demon script, whether they understood it or not.
After carefully visiting the collection of the entire Museum of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Li Jie finally reluctantly came to the conclusion that only these two collections of the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art are worth paying attention to, and as for the gains, it seems that there is another one that is more significant.
So Li Jie began to walk slowly outside, like other ordinary tourists.
When he walked to a corner, the moment when the monitoring could not capture his blind spot for the time being, invisible electromagnetic fluctuations escaped from his body, and the surrounding space seemed to be stirred by a strange force, flickering slightly for a moment.
However, Li Jie's footsteps did not stop, but when he reappeared at the other end of the front, his figure had completely disappeared from the picture taken by the surveillance camera.
Whether it's a human eye or an electronic video camera, the principle of obtaining an image is similar. That is, in the presence of light, the electromagnetic wave formed by the refraction of the light on the surface of the object is received, and then the electronic signal is formed through its own complex processing, which is converted into the brain or camera, which is the process of imaging.
What Li Jie has just done is to interfere with the refraction of light through the subtle control of electromagnetic waves, and destroy the electromagnetic wave reception of human eyes or surveillance cameras.
In a blunt phrase, he is invisible.
Not only that, but the body odor, breath and even sound emitted by the entire body were all completely restrained by him, the pores were tightly closed, the magnetic field was blocked, whether it was the oncoming security guard or the tourists passing by, they were completely unaware that there was an invisible life within their reach.
If it weren't for Li Jie's deliberate circumvention, I'm afraid they would encounter a strange scene that crashed into the air, and rumors of the Met's haunting would have spread immediately.
Fortunately, of course, Li Jie would not have such mischievous thoughts, so in other people's sight, hearing, and even smell, Li Jie completely disappeared.
In such a wonderful state, he quietly returned to the display case where the gold tiara of Empress Puabi was kept.
A top-notch venue like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where you don't know how many treasures, art, and antiquities it contains, are all well secured, unless it's like the previous Birham? Like Carter and others, it is almost impossible to attack and violently destroy and rob, otherwise they want to complete the theft quietly, or in full view of everyone in broad daylight.
While in Los Angeles, Lee Kit was also a party of justice, or at least the appearance of justice, helping the military prevent a violent destruction of antiquities, and now just a few days later, he himself is back in the same place with the idea of the same antiquities.
This has to make people sigh, things in the world, because of the ingenuity of fate, is really a bit magical.
(PS: It's been a miserable subscription for the past two days...... Is it because of the bonus? (To be continued......)