Chapter 135: The Ancient Covenant

What did you say? ”

"Old Atlantis." Ayana repeated, "It's a language that we used in Atlantis before, it's very old, and even within our merfolk clan, not many people can understand it. ”

"So complicated?"

"It's not complicated, it's not universal. This ancient Atlantic language was the language we used when the merfolk were just starting out, and we were still very weak at that time. Later, with the continuous growth of our mermaid race, some of the races that we conquered or took the initiative to defect brought some new phrases and words, and we later established an alliance with the black octopus and the turtle tribe, and the language between the three major races influenced and interfered with each other to produce the new Atlantis language we use now, which can basically be regarded as the undersea lingua franca, at least more than eighty percent of the undersea races use our Atlantisian language, Ancient Atlantis, on the other hand, is an ancient language of the merfolk people, so the people who can speak it are limited to a small number of historians or large families of the merfolk tribe, and the average merfolk have directly learned the new Atlantis, while the mother tongue is gradually forgotten. ”

"I turned to look at Ayana." What is he saying? ”

"He said I was from the merfolk, but strangely enough, they were using honorifics."

"Honorifics?"

"The parliamentary system that we merfolk are using now only appeared after the integration of multiple races, and we originally implemented a monarchical dictatorship there, and at that time, the underground and other races had to use honorifics when they saw the merfolk land."

"So they're an inferior race?"

"Even now, I don't dare to talk nonsense! have been scattered for so many years. The ghost also knows if they still admit that they are an inferior race. ”

I nodded and said to Ayana, "We'll talk about that later." You explain to them that the hole wasn't made on purpose. And ask me what the thing we killed just now has to do with them. ”

Ayana listened to my command and explained to the thing. After a long time, he turned to me and said, "They attacked us because they thought we were attacking them on purpose. But now they say they can forgive us for our actions. The big squid we killed just now was a monster that invaded their place. Originally, this was also their city. Then that thing somehow ran in. They were then forced to evacuate to the city on the other side of the quarantine gate. This place is sealed off by them. They were happy to hear that we had killed this thing. Wanted to thank us. ”

I nodded. It seems that this is still a relatively easy race to get along with. "Did you ask them why they spoke Old Atlantis?"

After exchanging a few words, Ayana said to me, "He said that they had always spoken this language. But he also said that their elders might know. He said he wanted us to meet with their elders. Their elders here had said before that they were looking for merfolk. So ......"

"I understand. This race was supposed to be a vassal or companion race of your merfolk in the past. It's good to see you. ”

"Understood."

With Ayana and the bio-land translator in place, we exchanged information as we made our way to their city, but most of the time we were answering their questions. This race seems to have been closed all this time, and they are almost ignorant of the outside world, so they don't know a lot of common sense stuff at all, but I also found a problem in the conversation, and that is that it seems to be an auxiliary race. The so-called auxiliary race is the kind of race that lacks the ability to survive and needs to depend on a race with strong combat power to survive. Of course, the auxiliary race is not a completely useless race, otherwise the strong battle race would not have raised a parasite-like race for nothing, right?

Before we knew it, we were in the center of the city, where there was a huge square, and in the center of the square was a huge loaf-shaped building. But what surprised us the most was not the loaf-shaped building, but the creatures near it. I thought these metal octopuses were the essence of this race, but I realized that I was completely wrong. These metal octopuses are something similar to a combat weapon at all, and it is actually a semi-mechanized kind of combat weapon, and the body of this race is much smaller than this thing.

The metal octopus that showed us the way opened a hole from below after reaching the entrance to the bread building, and the creatures inside came out and led us to a group of native creatures at the entrance of the building. The creature that showed us the way was hilarious. First of all, this guy is only about half a meter tall in total, and half of that height is taken up by the head that takes up more than half of his weight. Underneath the head, which is larger than a basketball, is a cylindrical body less than five centimeters long that can be pinched with one hand. In the lower part of this body is also connected

The wrists and feet of human fingers are as thick as those of octopuses and squid, and the tips of these wrists and feet are actually three-petaled, almost like small claws. In fact, this kind of figure alone is not very funny, the key is the eyes of these guys. These little blue-skinned creatures all have big green eyes the size of apples, and they have only a few small holes in their noses and ears, and they have only a small slit in their mouths. How strange would it be to imagine such a big, bald head with such big eyes?

The little ones obviously didn't pay much attention to my scrutinizing gaze, as they were busy looking at Ayana. After repeatedly confirming Ayanna's race, the local races standing at the gate led us inside the building, but the way we entered was rather depressing. Although the gate of this building is already very large for this race, it is larger than a dog hole for us, but fortunately, the inside of the building seems to be a gymnasium-like place, except for a ring of stands on the outside, the middle is basically empty.

After standing in the center of the square, most of the little things retreated, leaving only a few who looked like they were older. When the young creatures had withdrawn, an old creature began to talk to Ayanna, during which Ayana pointed at me as if she was talking about me, and then the creatures began to discuss, and after a while they seemed to discuss what had happened. One of the creatures quickly left the place, and after a while he ran back again, followed by a bunch of his kind, and they brought back a large machine, but I couldn't figure out what it was for.

The creature swam up to me and pointed at the machine and said something, but I didn't understand it at all, and Ayana quickly explained, "He wants you to go left to that thing." ”

"Sit on? How to sit? ”

Ayana asked the old guy again for a while before she said to me, "It's that platform, you don't have to sit, you can stand on it, just stand on it, it's okay." ”

"Oh." I turned to look at the thing, then spread my wings and swam up to it, retracting my wings and standing firmly above the instrument, waiting for their next move.

"How? Can you understand us now? "To my surprise, I understood what the creature meant when it spoke again in front of me.

I quickly nodded my head to show that I understood. "This thing is a translator?"

"No, not a translator, but a consciousness connector, we're actually communicating directly with the will, and you can find that I can even transmit images directly to you. What do you think? See the image I'm transmitting? ”

I nodded again. "How did you get this thing?"

"We made it ourselves."

"Huh?" This answer really surprised me. "You made it yourself?"

"Yes. What we Sigma do best is to study the mysteries of nature.

This thing seems very simple, but in fact, it is just a combination of the various laws that exist in nature according to our hopes to produce a miraculous effect. ”

Ayana also proved beside her: "I heard the elders of our clan say that our mermaid clan did have a very powerful vassal race before. Most of Atlantis' technology came from their research, but we were separated from them due to the attack of the Great Jaws, and after that, Atlantis's technological progress almost came to a standstill. Being able to ensure that the technology does not regress is already the best we can do. ”

"I see!" Speaking of Atlantis, things do have a bit of a technological disconnection, many of their things are obviously very technological, but their R&D capabilities are very weak, and it feels like it's not their own technology. The merfolk engineers of Atlantis are really just engineers, they just understand the existing technology, they can build, and even make certain modifications, but they can't innovate.

"Master." Ayana suddenly said, "Just now the elder said that if we want to return to Atlantis, should we consider merging the two races as much as possible?" The resources have been exhausted due to the long lockdown, and they have been rationing food since last month, and if we find them later, they will starve to death here! ”

"It's definitely okay to migrate." How could I give up a race with such strong R&D capabilities? "But I have a better one." Seeing that they all looked at me, I said, "Your conditions here are very good, as long as you build a large teleportation channel and carry out some transformation, I think it is completely possible to relocate all the technical departments on the Atlantis side." Anyway, all you lack is all kinds of supplies, it's so hidden here, and the safety is absolutely guaranteed, as long as the material passage is established, isn't it much better than outside? ”