Chapter Twenty-Eight: Conversation
Wang Hao, Jessica, and Lily followed the staff into the museum to find Director Leitt.
"Are we going down?" Wang Hao asked.
"That's right, the curator is waiting for you at the bottom. ”
"Oh, that's quite strange, shouldn't Curator Leitt, as the head of the first museum, be at the top to guide the whole situation? I thought that Curator Leitt's office should be above the canopy. ”
"Do you know what is the most important thing for a small sapling to grow into a towering tree?"
"Sunlight, water, or luck can't just be cut down and made into wood. ”
These are also very important, but Director Leiter said that the most important thing is the roots, the roots are solid, the roots are deep, even if the trunk on the ground has died, but as long as the roots are still absorbing nutrients, one day the dead wood will be in the spring, and the wind will grow into a towering tree, on the contrary, even if it is now a big tree in the sky, but the roots of the ground have rotted, although it still looks majestic, but as long as the slightest wind and grass shakes the tree, it will fall down, just as the empire in history always begins to collapse from the inside. ”
"Well, that's right. Lily nodded very approvingly, "If the root is bad, the fruit will not be delicious, and the bitter one has no juice, and the bite will still stain the teeth, so the root must not be bad." Lily interprets the impact of roots from her own unique perspective.
"That's why Curator Leiter has set up his office at the bottom, and some special things can't see the sun and are stored in the underground warehouse, and Curator Leitt is more convenient to manage, oops, I'm sorry, I originally came to take you to find Curator Leitt, and I didn't pay attention to saying so much. ”
"It's okay, after listening to it, I have a lot of feelings, and I want to meet this curator more and more. ”
"Okay, it's here, you guys go all the way to the innermost is Director Reiter's office, I still have something to do, so I'll go first. ”
"Excuse me. Wang Hao waved his hand and thanked him.
"This is what I have to do, and I hope you have a nice chat with Curator Leitt. ”
"Let's go. After saying goodbye, Wang Hao took Jessica and Lily and continued to walk forward.
"This is it. Wang Hao pointed to the door of the director's office with the door number written on it.
"That's what he said, knock on the door. ”
"Hmm. Wang Hao raised his hand and knocked on the door, "Bang bang." ”
"The door is not locked, please come in. An old voice came from within. Night Night Chinese
Wang Hao pushed open the door and walked into the room with Jessica and Lily, although the room was very large, the furnishings were very simple, just a table, a chair, a set of sofas and a few columns of bookshelves, but the decoration on the wall attracted Wang Hao's attention, and on the wall were quite exotic pictures and some incomprehensible symbols.
In the innermost part of the room sat an old man with gray hair, but he looked very good, and his face was ruddy, especially the eyes hidden under the glasses, which seemed to contain infinite wisdom.
"Hello, I'm Wang Hao, and this is Jessica. ”
"Hello, I'm Christit Jessica, and it's an honor to meet you. "Jessica is very ladylike and behaves like a Western aristocracy.
"This is Hao Lili. ”
"If only you could call me Lily, I'm glad to see you as a wise old man. Lily was still grinning.
"We have come here for some things I would like to ask you about........ Wang Hao carefully explained the purpose of their trip to Director Leitt, and pleaded for his help.
After listening to this, Director Lei Te thought for a few minutes, then raised his head and looked at Wang Hao and the others.
"I understand the purpose of your visit, and although I would love to be able to help you, I don't know much about it, so I can only tell you what I know in the hope that it will help. ”
"If you can tell us what you know, we can't feel it. ”
"About 20 years ago, when I was here to investigate the ruins of the Mayan civilization and decipher the Mayan civilization, I received a professor from the United States, I initially thought he was here to investigate the Mayan ruins, because he had already come once, although it was not my reception, but I had an impression, and just as I was about to take him to a newly discovered site, he told me that he had found a kind of undiscovered civilization in the rainforest, and hoped that I could help him, I thought he was joking that maybe it was another Mayan ruin, and he told me that he saw a tower that reached up into the sky, and all kinds of incredible things, I also think he is too tired, after all, it is very physically demanding to investigate in the primeval rainforest, maybe he is too tired to have a fantasy, I persuaded him to go back to rest, he is paranoid that what he has discovered is a new civilization, and I still insist that it is either a fantasy or a newly discovered Mayan civilization, we quarreled, and finally he threw me a notebook, and left, and we really broke up when we met for the first time. ”
"What about later?" Wang Hao asked.
"Later I heard that he went to other people for help, but in the end it was all in vain, because he only said that he had discovered a new civilization, where were the ruins of the civilization, where did they come from? What form of society might have arisen? Was there nature worship? Did they believe in gods, was it polytheistic or monotheistic, what did they think of the land that existed under their feet? What might be the reason for their disappearance? Is it possible that there are descendants of them among modern people? He couldn't say anything, although we were very interested in the emergence of a new civilization, but we still had to rely on the actual words, and then there was a person who was moved by him to go with him in search of the new civilization he said, but it took three years to travel through most of the rainforest and found nothing, and those few also left him, as long as he still did not give up. ”
"It's so pathetic. Lily said on the side.
"It's normal, either to be considered crazy, or to become the one who changed the world, but it's a pity that he didn't become the one who changed the world until he died, so that the civilization in his mouth came to life. ”
"Listen to you, you now believe that civilization exists. ”
"Hmm. Curator Reiter nodded, "The long search for ruins in the rainforest has dragged down his body, he came to see me before he left here, we talked a lot, he said that he would return to China for treatment first, and then come back when he was cured, although I still didn't believe in the existence of the civilization he was looking for, but his spirit moved me, and I also told him to wait for him to come back and invite him to drink, but he never came back, the next year I went to the United States to participate in activities and heard that he was seriously ill soon after returning home, and finally passed away. ”