Chapter 353: What the hell, a poem?
Gawain, who was in Cecil's domain, didn't know what the My little pony had done since she left, and all his attention was now on the eternal tablet in front of him—or some ancient information storage medium.
Amber stared at the metal plate in Gawain's hand with wide eyes and muttered, "It's really different from the shape last time!" ”
Then she muttered something else, "But then again, you traded that piece of metal scrap for someone else for an eternal stone slab...... Is this appropriate? ”
"Value depends on human needs, and for us it's scrap metal, because we have a lot of the same things in our hands, and we even have samples of the gods in our hands, but for those outside of us - it's a transcendent creation equivalent to an eternal tablet." Gao Wenmian said without changing his face.
Amber pouted, "You're even better at casual nonsense than Pitman." ”
Gawain just smiled and didn't speak, but he felt that what he said was not right at all—the flesh and blood of the gods were not precious? I'm afraid that a small piece of that thing can be thrown at the major churches can make all the sects beat their brains, but Tyr doesn't think so, those deep sea gods can gnaw dozens of tons of god corpses in a party......
He waved his hand and instructed Amber to watch, "I'm going to try to communicate with this Eternal Slab, and you're guarding by the side." ”
"Hey, okay—by the way, I found out that I'm going to be guarding you every once in a while," Amber agreed, and then BB up, "I feel like I'm on the guard every time I think you're crawling out of the grave......"
There's never less crap for this thing to work every time.
Gawain ignored Amber's thoughts, now he had begun to release his spiritual powers, and the eternal stone tablet in his hand had a familiar resonance in the next moment.
With the illusion of the slate heating slightly, Gawain felt that his spirit had once again been stripped of his body, and a super-experiential perception had descended on him, and in that fluttering and indescribable state, he suddenly felt some brief information in his mind......
He listened attentively to the message, but when it came out, he was stunned:
“…… Don't revel in this illusory night of tranquility...... The night will eventually be broken......
“…… Do not indulge in your warm cradle...... The cradle will one day overturn......
“…… Do not sleep in the sanctuary of the mind...... Sooner or later, the shelter of the soul will become a shackle that cannot be broken......
"Departure, before the stars twinkle, departure, before the end of the long night......
"If you don't set off sooner, the day will come......"
After the end of this little poem-like message, there is a long period of background noise and an unbearable sense of spiritual emptiness.
In this state of spiritual detachment without any sense of supreme or subordinate, Gawain's mind was still running, and he felt a moment of astonishment: This is the end?
In the second eternal tablet, only one poem is recorded?
What does this poem mean? Who left it? Those Zenith fleets that overthrew the gods back then? What did they mean by leaving this poem?
Could it be that this also reflects the artistic talent of ultra-high-tech aliens by the way......
Gawain's thoughts diverged endlessly, but he quickly retracted halfway through the divergence, and he knew that the truth must not be so simple - the eternal stone tablets are not ordinary storage media, they also carry the secrets of the gods, extraordinary powers, god-killing war reports, and a whole lot of things that are enough to change the course of mankind, and in the midst of so many incredible information, a small poem suddenly appeared...... This can never be a coincidence.
The poem should have a special meaning, and perhaps it is suggesting something.
Gawain carefully recalled what he had "heard" and "seen", and from that poem, he could vaguely associate something. Is this poem telling people not to indulge in some transient but tranquil illusion? And it hints between the lines that something will break this temporary tranquility, that the cradle will overturn, that the night will break...... If you think of it in the real world, does this mean cyclicality...... Magic Tide?
So a brief moment of tranquility is a break between the tides? What about the cradle? Is it referring to the planet on which humanity is currently located?
The author of the poem also mentions shackles and spiritual shelter...... What does this mean? Soul Shelter...... Sleeping in the Psychic Shelter, does it have anything to do with the Eternal Sleeper?
But the person who left this poem should not know the Eternal Sleeper, because the birth of the Eternal Slate is even older than the history of mankind......
And the poem also mentions "day", what does daytime mean? Is it another artistic way of saying the magic tide? So why is it called daylight?
Gawain's mind raced through this state of mental detachment, and as questions turned into conjectures, he found that he still showed no signs of detaching himself from this state of detachment—wasn't the information recorded in the second Eternal Stone tablet finished?
As soon as such an idea came to him, he suddenly felt that something else appeared in his mind, and the boundless background noise disappeared at once, and in the endless darkness, a light gradually emerged.
The light formed a picture, and he saw a blue and medium-turquoise planet floating quietly in the starry sky, and at the edge of the picture, an arc of atmospheric storm that made people feel infinitely threatening.
After a few seconds of sluggishness, Gawain realized that what he was seeing was the planet beneath his feet, and the arc-shaped atmospheric storm at the edge of the picture...... It's the "sun" around the planet, it's the gas giant!
After realizing this, his first thought was to see what was on the surface of the vibrant blue-green planet - how many continents it had, how big the ocean was, where was the Loren continent, Ansu, Typhon, where was the Kraken possibly located......
However, he soon realized that he could not control the perspective in front of him, and he was vaguely aware that what he was seeing was not a real, real-time image of the planet, and the information that came out of his mind told him that it was just a simulated picture, and the picture showed what the planet used to look like thousands or even millions of years ago......
Then he saw the perspective move uncontrollably, and the blue-green planet in the picture gradually zoomed in, and around the planet, shining points of light and matching text symbols suddenly appeared.
It was a word that was different from any other lingua franca in the world at the moment, but their meaning flowed into Gawain's mind as soon as the words appeared, and he saw that the points of light floating around the planet had their names:
Glow No. 1 Station, Glow No. 2 Station...... Zenith Satellite Group ...... Sky Station...... Flyover Base Station ...... Giant Planet Monitoring Station, First Starbridge, Second Starbridge......
One by one, these things appeared, but then one by one, they were dyed red that could indicate a glitch or an offline state.
The red color was initially a handful, but it quickly enlarged throughout the field of view, and by the end, almost all of the space stations had gone down or offline, with only the last few bright spots still glittering lonely in space.
At this point, the information stored in the Eternal Stone Tablet was truly over, and after a familiar whirlwind of heaven and earth struck, Gawain's spirit quickly got out of that state of "detachment", and when the scene in front of him returned to stability, he saw Amber's big face plate......
In fact, every time this half-elf came out like this, Gawain had long since gone from habit to numbness, and now he could completely ignore it, he just waved his hand and pulled the amber to the side, and then he began to frown and ponder it alone.
He saw a lot of things and thought of a lot of things from the last picture that appeared, and these things that he saw and thought of made him feel difficult to calm down for a long time—
There are indeed things in space, and there are tons of things!
The super civilization that left this world many years ago and sailed to a distant place with no whereabouts, they left a system of monitoring stations and management facilities over this planet, but with the passage of time, these monitoring stations and management facilities have broken down one by one and lost contact, and he crossed the monitoring satellite attached to it for the first time...... It should be one of the last remaining units still in operation!
Are these devices still in the sky? Gawain thinks nine times out of ten, it's still there.
They may just be down the communication system, but there is a high probability that the orbital control system can last longer than the communication system, maybe some space facilities have indeed crashed on the earth in the past long years, but there must be something left - after all, the ordinary satellite he attached to still survives, and there is no reason for the larger, longer-lasting space facilities to crash instead.
But none of those things seem to be observable...... Whether it's magic like Eagle Eye or a telescope that's purely optical, you can't see anything man-made in space...... Maybe the stealth systems of those space facilities are even more advanced than the orbital control system?
Gawain frowned and thought about it, and only exhaled after finding that he had no clue, he looked up and saw Amber still standing next to him, and was slightly stunned: "Hey, are you still here?" ”
"Of course I'm here!" Amber pinched her waist, "You just pulled me away and you turned your face and forgot about it?" ”
"Ah...... I didn't pay attention just now," Gawain tapped his eyebrows, shaking out the last remaining bit of dizziness from his mind, then stood up and moved his arms, "How long have I been 'asleep'?" ”
"Half an hour, but look like you haven't slept in three days," Amber pouted, "what do you see—I know that you can sense a lot of strange things from some strange places......
"What do you mean," Gawain glanced at the half-elf, "put this Eternal Stone Tablet away and put it with the first one." As for what I see...... I explained it to you, but you didn't understand it. ”
"Hey, stingy," Amber muttered, and then muttered as she put away the Eternal Slate, "Speaking of which, you really don't have to worry about letting me pack up such a precious thing—aren't you afraid I'll take it and sell it secretly?" ”
Gawain was happy when he heard this: "Okay, if you have the ability, you can find someone who dares to buy it and sell it - I guarantee that if you expose this thing on your front feet, twenty Church Knights will cut you down on your back feet, and I won't protect you at that time." ”
Amber immediately shrunk her neck, as if the twenty Church Knights had already come to the door: "W-you guy is terrible to talk to! ”