Chapter 447: Root Decipherment (2 Changes) (Text)
"How do I feel that if this is a high-tech but extremely feudal country, there must be a strict rule about these buildings. Even if they can build taller buildings, civilians can't. Just like our ancient ladder of power, only those who are high-rise are qualified to live in such a house. ”
Xiao Lou guessed that they had already discussed this issue before.
"It's possible, too."
The fat man nodded.
There was a faintly visible road on the ground, which was paved with some dilapidated stone waste, Zhang Meng and the others walked down this road, and explored several houses along the way, but they found that in the dilapidated residence, there seemed to be only one building shell, and all the things in it did not know whether it was dried or because of other problems, they didn't even find a little else.
Coming out of a small house again, the fat man said strangely:
"Do you think there will be a sudden catastrophe here, and everyone will die, so that it will become what it is now? Otherwise, there are so many households, why do you have to leave a few pieces of bones, why is there nothing left, wouldn't someone be the first to get there and touch everything? ”
"This site is hidden under the old forest, how can anyone find it."
Xiao Lou said angrily.
"It's hard to say, have you noticed that this ancient forest has a function, that is, their roots entangle all this soil, and then this soil covers it to hide this castle, as long as someone opens a hole, they can also come in......"
The fat man shook his head and said.
Zhang Meng nodded, it is also possible for the fat man to say this, but the probability is really a bit small, who would have thought that there was an ancient city under an ancient forest?
Then they came to the end of a road, and in front of them was a square building, which was somewhat different from the other curved buildings, and looked a little solemn.
"Let's go inside."
Zhang Meng hesitated, this building is a bit peculiar, maybe there will be some other discoveries.
"Could it be that this is an empty city, built to see it? Otherwise, why don't you have anything? ”
After walking in, all they found was the yellow sand all they found and the empty scene, and the fat man couldn't help but scold.
Zhang Meng was also a little depressed, this is already how many places they have been looking for, and these places are all empty, and there is no useful information to find them, let alone find the tomb that Ye Jiu said.
Zhang Meng looked around unwillingly, and suddenly, he heard a crisp sound of stone slab tapping.
Zhang Meng was stunned, he hurriedly looked left and right, but saw that the fat man was also looking around and stepping on the ground.
"Here!"
He and the fat man pointed to a place at the same time.
Zhang Meng carefully squatted down, and together with the fat man Xiaolou, he cleaned up the dust on it, where it was a stone slab. The length and width of the stone slab were almost a little more than a meter, and Zhang Meng touched the ash on it, and there were actually some mysterious fonts on the stone slab that they had seen before.
Zhang Meng's heart trembled suddenly, this is likely to be a place similar to a school.
He stared at the fonts carefully, only to see that they were much simpler than the ones he had seen before, with some graphics in the back.
"Can you kid see it? This thing has a purpose. ”
The fat man was deflated all of a sudden, he thought he had found the entrance to the dungeon.
"You know a bird, this thing is the simplest character of this kind of text, and there is a graphic pairing, if we can guess some of it, we won't be blind when we encounter this kind of text again......"
Zhang Meng said excitedly that the biggest headache in this kind of place is not knowing words.
Otherwise, even if they found all the information about this ancient city, they couldn't read it at all, just like they had encountered before.
Xiao Lou looked at those words and couldn't wait, she had done a lot of work to decipher the text at the Xi'an Research Institute, and she was also a little itchy at this time.
"Xiaolou take the handle, let's warp this slate!"
Zhang Meng pushed the tip of the Luoyang shovel into the gap, and then pried up the stone slab.
Xiaolou and the fat man hurriedly moved it out, although the slate was only one square meter large, but the weight was not light, and the fat man held back his face a little green before he drummed up that thing.
"Huh? And also. ”
Zhang Meng glanced at the ground, and there was an identical board there.
Zhang Meng and the others repeated the old trick and moved the slate up again.
……
There were a total of four stone slabs, and when Zhang Meng and the others moved out a few stone slabs, they were already tired and had no temper at all.
The fat man gasped, his stomach rose and fell, and he said intermittently:
"I said Zhang Quede, if you don't fucking research an egg to come out, damn it, the fat man won't kill you!"
The light in the room was very dim, Zhang Meng really had no choice but to light a fire on the spot, and then he and Xiaolou studied the words on the stone slab respectively.
It is absolutely impossible to decipher a written language without a long period of research.
But now they have obtained the most basic root meaning, so Zhang Meng will have the idea.
At least after understanding the pictures represented by so many words, if they came across some of these words later, they would not be headless flies scurrying around like before.
Although with the help of these stone slabs, these fonts are indeed very complicated, and even Zhang Meng remembers a little difficult.
In the end, he could only further sift through and only memorize some words with the meaning of a single word, and eliminate all those complex words, otherwise with his current decipherment speed, he might not be able to read these slate tablets for more than ten days.
Xiaolou also used the same method, while the fat man was picking his nose in all kinds of boredom on the side.
After Zhang Meng casually ate a little compressed biscuit, he continued to devote himself to studying the meaning of these words.
It was getting dark, and a cold breath blew in from the ventilated area, slowly lowering the temperature of the room they were in.
Even if there was a fire roasting around him, Zhang Meng was still shivering with cold, and he hurriedly put on the rest of the clothes, which felt better.
Zhang Meng's mind was all on the stone slab, and he didn't know how long it took, when he felt that his head was tired and almost fainted, so he quickly closed his eyes and let himself rest. After four or five hours of intense reading, he had memorized almost two simple words on a stone tablet.