Chapter 32 (I) Gaia, the Goddess of the Earth
"Isn't this already hatched? Why would it be like this? Tang Shuxing squatted down and looked at the little sea monster that had turned into powder, and asked the monster in puzzlement.
The monster shook its head, its head pressed against Tang Shuxing's face, looking very sad.
Tang Shuxing tentatively touched the monster's head with his hand, and the monster appeared very docile and made a low "squeak" sound.
"Understand, understand, understand." Tang Shuxing touched the monster's head and said, "I used to have a cat, very white and big, with a long tail like yours, and then I was in prison, and no one took care of it, when I was out of prison, I went to look for it, and found that it was still alive, and one was waiting for me in the place where I used to live, but it was seriously ill, and it didn't die until I went back, it was a female cat, and she gave birth to a litter of kittens, but they all got sick and died, so she was also very sad, and she screamed every day." ”
The monster completely understood Tang Shuxing's words this time, and his whole head was squeezed into Tang Shuxing's arms, because the head was too big, and directly pushed Tang Shuxing back, all the way to the darkness where it was hiding before.
When Tang Shuxing was pushed in, he also touched the monster's head and let it lightly, who knew that after the road was arched in, when he turned around, he saw that there was a small hole inside, and the entrance of the cave could only be used by one person to crawl into, and the hole was scattered around the hexagonal green stones, as if it rolled out of the small hole.
"Stop, stop!" Tang Shuxing patted the monster's head and pointed to the small hole, "What's inside?" ”
The monster lowered its head, glanced at it, and arched Tang Shuxing forward with its head.
Tang Shuxing pointed to the entrance of the cave and asked, "Are you letting me in?" ”
The monster nodded.
Tang Shuxing originally wanted to go in, but he got up again and asked, "There are no other monsters in there, right?" ”
The monster shakes its head. Then he pondered for a moment, then nodded vigorously.
Tang Shuxing was stunned and asked, "Is there or not?" ”
The monster began to nod, Tang Shu was stupid, thinking to himself what kind of monster is in this? But it's already here, if you don't go in to see what clues you might miss, I thought for a while, grabbed the dragon blade and checked the combat suit and pistol ammunition, let the monster approach me outside, and then crawled along the hole to the inside.
After Tang Shuxing's whole body drilled in. Only then did I realize that the cave was very long. Anyway, after I got in, I couldn't get my head on when I turned on the headlamp, and when I was thinking about whether I wanted to go in, I felt a gust of wind blowing inside. The wind was very cool. It doesn't have the fishy smell of the sea. Feeling refreshed, I decided to climb in to see what was going on.
I crawled down the cave, and after a long climb, I finally got in. After entering, I found that it was a cave about the size of the place where the monster had stayed before, but the difference was that this cave was once inhabited, and in addition to daily necessities, there were many things that seemed to be mechanical.
"This should be left by someone from the Xuanwu Kingdom, right?" Tang Shuxing walked to a table hewn out of a whole stone, picked up a cup on it, the cup seemed to be made of crystal, but the texture was not as hard as crystal, on the contrary, it felt a little soft, and there were a lot of green hexagonal stones on the table, and there were tools such as files next to it, as if someone was using some kind of stone to chisel out a model of basalt one by one.
The cave was surrounded by unknown machinery and parts, as well as a lot of rudimentary tools of life, and the two things didn't seem to match, as if a primitive man had inadvertently broken into the future and brought back a lot of things he was curious about.
Tang Shuxing couldn't understand the combination of technology and alien arts of ancient humans, and it should be said that most people in this world today don't have such wisdom, because the mechanical structure is completely different from what he usually sees, and some things seem to have no power to operate.
Tang Shuxing looked up at the top of the cave, there was a huge propeller, like a fan, but there were six fan blades, and there was also a deep pool at the bottom, the size of the deep pool was about the same as the fan above, but the water surface was very clear, much clearer than the cave where the monsters stayed outside, standing on the edge, you could see some aquatic plants at the lowest end, and there seemed to be something below, like a gate.
Tang Shuxing walked around the cave again, and found no clear clues to prove who the people living here were, but found a lot of things like mathematical formulas and charms on the cave wall next to them, and the two were written up and down, it should be someone trying to combine formulas with charms, and there are also graphics carved with sharp weapons next to the formula. Many of the things in the graphics are exactly the same as the machines that are housed in this cave.
"I don't understand!" Tang Shuxing shook his head and said, but at this time he heard the scream of the monster on the other side of the cave, and he immediately returned to the cave that he climbed in, "I'll go over later!" You wait! But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard the monster cry loudly again, and the cry became farther and farther away, but he could still hear it clearly.
"Hey, where have you been?" Tang Shuxing was worried that the monster realized what danger there was and left first, but after thinking about it, could there be anything more dangerous in this cave? So he just waited there, and after waiting for a long time, he heard the sound of something colliding, and he searched for the sound, and finally realized that the sound came from the bottom of the pool.
Tang Shuxing squatted on the edge of the waterhole, looked at the ripples on the surface of the waterhole, and then looked at the gate below, and suddenly understood - this place may be a monster that can enter and exit, and there is a gate below that plays this role, but the owner here or after leaving one day, he never came back, so the monster was sealed outside.
Tang Shuxing immediately went into the water, drilled to the bottom of the pool, and forcefully rotated the lock of the gate, and after opening the gate, he saw a sea monster floating in the water outside.
Seeing that the gate opened, the sea monster immediately swam in, and Tang Shuxing was also about to swim upward, but the monster stopped, pushed the gate back with his head, and motioned for Tang Shuxing to help lock the gate again, and at the same time pointed his tail to the outside of the gate, constantly shaking, as if to show that the accident was not safe.
"Not safe? With you, there shouldn't be anything unsafe, right? After Tang Shuxing climbed up the waterhole, the monster also climbed up the waterhole, but half of his body still fell into the water, just looked at the fan with his head high, stretched out his head again, and touched a few things that looked like joysticks next to him with his tongue, signaling Tang Shuxing to pull those things down.
Tang Shuxing stepped forward, pointed to the first joystick and asked, "This?" ”
The monster tongue pointed at the second, then at the third, and then at the first.
Tang Shuxing suddenly understood the order that the monster was referring to, and then pulled down the joysticks one by one according to the order it was referring to, and after pulling it down, he saw that most of the machinery in the room began to run on their own without power, and the frequency of the start of operation was not uniform, and after a few minutes, after the frequency of operation was unified, it began to make a loud roar, and then the roar decreased, and the huge fan on it began to rotate slowly.
As the fan turned, the monster also looked very excited, and kept looking up at the electric fan that was spinning faster and faster, and finally produced a strange wind sound.
The fan turned faster and faster, the wind became louder and louder, and many of the surrounding machinery began to spark, and at this moment, Tang Shuxing clearly heard a female voice say, "Xie Lu, thank you." ”
Tang Shuxing was startled and looked around, but he didn't see anyone, and then he heard the voice say, "It's me." ”
Tang Shushu looked at the monster this time and found that the monster's nostrils were shrinking, and there was still a "squeak" sound when carefully sounded, but the sound became a human language in the wind sound generated by the electric fan, and it was still standard Chinese.
"You can talk?" Tang Shuxing was stunned, looking at the monster and the fan above his head, he felt that this thing was simply amazing, it turned out that everything in this room was prepared so that the monster could speak.
"Yes, I can, but you don't understand my language, and only in this place can I translate my words into your language." "My father has been gone for a long, long time, I can't remember how long it has been, for a long time, I have lived alone outside, by preying on large fish in the sea, you have my father's smell on you, and that appearance is very similar, so, I think, you must have something to do with my father." ”
I see. Tang Shuxing thought to himself: The so-called father of this monster is also his creator, and he is also a corpse, maybe it is someone from the Xuanwu Kingdom, or a more important person, as he speculated, he left one day and never came back, maybe he suffered an accident and died outside.
"It's so good that you can talk." Tang Shuxing was still surprised, "I don't know what Lu Dao you are, and I don't know what Lu Dao's name is, can you introduce yourself?" ”
When the monster heard this, he burst out laughing, and then said, "My father was inspired by the goddess of the earth in human Greek mythology, and named me Gaia, what I am, I don't know what I am, my father called me an intelligent creature of the Archean Universe. ”
Tang Shuxing knows Gaia in Greek mythology, but he only accidentally saw Gaia as Zeus's grandmother when he read a book before, and he didn't know anything else, let alone what the ancient intelligent creatures of the Archean meant.
"The Archean is a new human being, and some of my human knowledge was learned by devouring the corpses of humans who fell into the sea, thus combining everything his father taught, but gradually getting used to something different from ours about humans." Gaia explained, "The Archean is a period of time that was set by geological time, preceded by the Plutozoic, followed by the Archean, followed by the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic. During the Plutozoic period, the earth did not have an atmosphere and therefore lacked the necessary conditions for the emergence of life......"
Gaia then explained that with the geothermal activity during the formation of the earth, the temperature was higher than in the later history of the earth, and through a series of changes it formed rain, which gave rise to rivers, lakes, and so on, and then in the Archean period, that is, 3.6 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, archaea and primitive organisms were born.
"I don't understand what you're saying, although I have the same appearance as your father, I'm actually a human being." Tang Shuxing said that he had the courage to lift the corpse state...... (To be continued......)