Chapter 110: The Forbidden Gate 4 (I)
βHATοΌοΌ New Civilization?! Are you talking about Grimm's fairy tales?! Chen Badai exclaimed exaggeratedly.
"Here is a record of a war that the Garings conquered with a terrible weapon...... Belch...... This can't be translated...... The earth cracked, a huge fireball rose from the sky, and a huge mushroom rose from the ground and rushed into space......" Kerry translated the unintelligible words with some difficulty.
Chen Badai looked at the mural next to him, although the time was mottled for a long time, but the part could still be seen, at least the thing that looked like a mushroom was about to rush to the top of the cave, and some of the things depicted on the top of the cave should be stars, but they were completely different from the constellations he was familiar with.
"Hey,, do you see something?" Chen Badai saw that Wang Xingguo was also looking up at the "star" on the top of the cave, poked him and asked.
"No...... These constellations are so strange...... "Wang Xingguo can tell that the stars are not drawn haphazardly, but he doesn't know any of these constellations."
"It's a civilization that's so old that the constellations of that time are completely different from those of now......" Kerry said.
"Well, in another 100,000 years, the current North Star will disappear and be replaced by another one." Chen felt that it was time for him to show his knowledge.
"That's probably what it means, so it's entirely possible that we don't know these signs." Kerry said, approaching the murals, looking at them for a while, and touching them with his hand, "Well, these murals are being maintained, and the colors are freshly smeared." Kerry said, looking at the paint on his fingers.
"No wonder, I'm still wondering, civilizations with different constellations are at least hundreds of thousands of years old, how can they still be preserved so well......" Chen Badai pouted, this is not a work of ancient times, but a creation of this week......
"No, then you're wrong, geological change...... Well, according to my research, this place was a dry paradise a long time ago......" Kerry said with a smile, and people like Chen Badai are uneducated in the academic world, but there is a bit of smugness and complacency...... Scumbag ......
"Okay, so how old is that?" Chen Badai felt that he was a little embarrassed, and he had to quickly regain some face.
"Then I don't know, it could be 100,000 years, it could be a million years......" Kerry laughed.
"Cut, it's the same as not saying it." Chen Badai pouted.
As long as you pay a little attention to this kind of legend, Chen Badai feels that you can take out a dozen, such as the world flood in the Bible, and China's Dayu to control the water, well, if necessary, Chen Badai can also tell him about Kuafu's chasing the sun and Nuwa's creation of man, which are all stories of ancient times - just stories.
Kerry felt that there was no need to debate with a scumbag like Chen Badai, and he saw Xia Ruobing looking at the murals and words a little blankly, and hurriedly walked to her to explain to her intimately.
"Lu Wen?! How did it end up here? Xia Ruobing looked at the distorted font in the corner of the mural in a daze.
After hearing this, Mr. Min immediately lifted his spirits and asked anxiously, "What is written?" β
"It's not interesting, it's only half ......" Xia Ruobing turned his head to find other Lu Wen, and found some fragmentary strokes in some other places, but they couldn't spell out the words, not even a single word.
Lulu is a vocabulary composed of letters, similar to Latin, but its most important feature is that it is written from right to left, and it has been theorized that Loulan was influenced by Eastern culture, because it was written from right to left in the East at that time. Xia Ruobing watched as those familiar letters were distorted and painted on the walls, how could they appear on this isolated island?
"The people of Loulan have been here?" Mr. Min made his own guess.
"No...... This is not written by the Loulan people, and the direction is wrong...... This is written from left to right. Xia Ruobing took a closer look at the direction of the paint, and was a little disappointed.
"My dear...... There are also some here, as if this is the word 'Loulan'. Kerry found some more in one corner, which was relatively complete.
"Hmph, the male dog who begs for joy, hey, Mr. Xia, you don't care, your sister is going to be soaked by the ghost." Chen Badai muttered.
Sherpa was a little speechless, everyone saw this Kerry's courtesy to Xia Ruobing, but what can be done? He can only hope that the event is completed and he will return to China as soon as possible, these foreigners, when they see a beautiful woman, they want to kiss Fang Ze, but as soon as they leave, he promises to find a new goal.
"What did you just say? Dogs for pleasure? Kerry heard Chen Badai's words and was a little annoyed.
"Uh...... Dogs, dogs...... Hehe...... "Chen Badai didn't expect Kerry's ears to be so sharp, and he was a little embarrassed now.
"What does that mean?" Kerry asked relentlessly.
"Uh...... It means omniscient, omnipotent, which is our slang. Chen Badai was in a hurry.
Although Kerry knows a lot of Chinese, he does not have much research on slang and new vocabulary, and he is also a little puzzled when he sees Chen Badai's serious appearance.
"Right? My dear? Kerry turned his head and asked Xia Ruobing, where he trusted this "dear" the most.
Dog is not a positive word in China most of the time, but in some places, the affection for dogs is no worse than that of Westerners, such as some ethnic groups, using dogs as a metaphor for loyalty and tenacity...... But how can this be explained to Kerry? had to perfunctory: "Mmmmmm......mm Yes......"
"Great, then my Chinese name will be Qiuhuan Dog." Kerry screamed merrily.
Kerry swooped to Xia Ruobing's side again: "Angela, my name is Qiuhuangou, it's a pleasure to meet you...... There's something you're interested in over there, I promise you'll absolutely like it......" Xia Ruobing turned her face to the side a little embarrassed, and she could only cope with it.
"Is this all right?" Chen Badai was dumbfounded, turned his head to look at the Sherpa and the Sherpa couldn't close his jaw.
But Kerry was right, Xia Ruobing's face changed when he saw Lu Wen who was blocked by vines. Mr. Min saw that Xia Ruobing's face was wrong, and stepped forward and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" What is written? β
"Loulan Crown." Xia Ruobing said in a low voice. She looked at Sharjah Jean and Crussell not far away: "The Loulan crown is really here." β
"What?!" Mr. Min was stunned, but then his eyes widened with excitement, "Really? β
"This passage is written in Luwen is the words of the Loulan crown." Xia Ruobing looked at the Lu Wen, this is the only line of Lu Wen here that can form a vocabulary, judging from the direction of the paint application, it is still from left to right, which makes Xia Ruobing very puzzled.
This is certainly not a coincidence, this phrase adds up to a dozen letters, and the chance of a coincidence that every letter is exactly the same is almost non-existent in this world.
"Look again, there may be more text." Xia Ruobing said.
Crussell didn't want to obey a woman's command, and Sharjah didn't want to be a coolie, so the rest of the people had to look around, but more than half an hour passed, and no new Luwen was found, but something else caught Kerry's attention, and he almost put his eyes on the wall.
Sharjah Jean looked at his watch, and as time passed, he raised his left hand and shook it in front of Crossell's eyes as a way to express his displeasure - we have wasted enough time here!
"Alright, action, action, action! Don't waste time here. Crussell urged impatiently. For academics, Crusell has a sense of boredom from the bottom of his heart, they never know where their goal is, and once they have something that attracts them, they immediately look like flies staring at dog shit and can't move their steps!
"Wait...... It is written...... Not...... Missing in the middle...... Roughly means: crossing the taboo...... of people...... There will be ...... Punish? Not...... What punishment? Kerry's eyes still couldn't take his eyes off, and he felt that these ancient words would bring him unexpected achievements.
Sharjah, who has always maintained his image, is indeed quite physically demanding in carrying such a heavy machine gun, and seeing that they have not yet taken their eyes off the stone wall, they have to put the 20-pound machine gun on a stone, so that they can sit down and rest for a while.
"What kind of punishment ......" Kerry still didn't understand, after all, the age is indeed a little too old, although someone "maintains", but it is still inevitable that a lot of information is missing, he used the camera to carefully shoot every inch of the mural and text, for fear of missing something.
"Eight pieces? Ling Chi was executed? What else? Chen Badai felt that there was no punishment more terrifying than dying in pain.
"No, no, no...... Definitely not that...... That should be a ...... Well, a deeper ...... ...... from the heart of fear Punish...... But where is it recorded? Kerry was a little anxious, looking at the passage over and over again, trying to find some clues.
"We don't have time, we're going to get to Argo before dark......" Sharjah finally spoke impatiently, his roar echoing through the cave.
Argo was the first point to be marked, but only Sharjah knew where it was, and he was reluctant to share his map, which he had bought at great expense from the descendants of the American explorer, and was the most accurate map of the place to date, showing exactly the route of the expedition's treasure hunt, but the transcript was vague, and it was said that it was lost when it was chased by the cannibals, and only a very small part of it was kept.
But academics are sometimes very indifferent to the concept of time, although Sharjah, who has always spoken little, has spoken, but Kerry still did not move, and nagged: "There must be...... There must be a record...... Where is it? "The nose is almost on the mural, looking at it inch by inch...... Maybe it's called smelling the mural.
For the aesthetics of modern people, these murals are indeed not exquisite, and the images are also distorted, Chen Badai admires Kerry's ability to decipher so much information from such distorted figures, lines, and symbols that can barely be called words, but in Chen Badai's opinion, he is purely talking nonsense - no one here can understand it anyway, what he says is what he says.