The low, frantic chanting sound faintly echoed in this underground tunnel.

But the variegated cat, Yu Chi, Kezia-Mason and Gu Jun have been walking for half an hour, there is no end, they turned a few corners, there is no human figure, the electric lights on the wall are exactly the same, the vibration is still continuing, and this sound has always been at this distance, as if there has been no change.

Once here, there is another crossing, connecting eight directions, and there is also an iron staircase leading down from above.

However, this should not be the place where they first came, and the iron staircase is not the same as the old and new.

It is also because of this that the variegated cat, that is, Wu Shiyu, has to admit a fact, well, lost.

"Meow." She spread her paws and fell down in the middle of the aisle, as a sign of the fact that she couldn't lead the way, and that she needed to take a break.

"Don't you feel anything?" Gu Jun asked, he didn't have it himself, and his perception here was very confusing.

Wu Shiyu shook her head, she thought she had it, but like a carrot hanging in front of the horse, one more step, a little farther. The best thing she thought would be to make the horse's mouth longer, or have a long tongue like an anteater, so that she could eat it.

Gu Jun looked around, and there was a panic in his heart just now, what was going on......

There is less than an hour and a half left.

Kezia-Mason also seemed to have no idea, she was interested in the electric light on the wall, which was a novelty for her.

"Captain Gu, I have some ideas." At this time, Yu Chi walked to the wall, "You take a look at the carvings on these walls, I have been paying attention to them for a long time, from the entrance of the stairs to the bottom of here, all the way here, the walls are full of carvings." ”

"Hmm." Gu Jun naturally also noticed that in fact, he had talked to Yu Chi before, thinking that it was part of the ceremony or the decoration of the altar building.

But now Yu Chi has some new ideas, his face is flushed, his beard is clutched, and he has a lot to say, but it is difficult to organize his language because of the abnormal PTSD.

"These are petroglyphs, they are symbols, they are words...... How to say, how to say, rock is a visual medium! Therefore, all these images carved on stones and mountain walls in ancient times, whether they are figurative images or geometric symbols, can be regarded as marks and symbols. ”

Gu Jun nodded, "Understood." ”

"Meow." Wu Shiyu over there is also listening, this is very understandable, men and women are all human beings.

"Symbols are words......," Yu Chi scratched his head, "It should be said that there are three kinds of the oldest written languages of human civilization, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform, and Chinese characters - that is, oracle bone scripts. These are all pictographs that have been developed in the past. ”

Through the hazy light, Gu Jun looked at the fine symbols on the wall, "Team Yu, do you want to say that these symbols on the wall actually have words?" ”

"Yes, I want to say this, these minutes may be a whole mantra, or a sacrificial text, or some history."

Yu Chi said, his eyes were a little fanatical, if he could expand all these symbols, how many things should be able to be studied.

But Yu Chi didn't just want to say this, "I know some linguistics, and the more I look at this wall, the more I find some ancient hieroglyphs. You see, that's the word 'worm' in the oracle bone inscription. Hieroglyphs are descriptive images of objects, concepts, and behaviors, that is, like a bug. ”

Gu Jun could indeed see traces from it, like a worm, a snake, or an iron hook that only existed in later generations.

Thinking about this matter carefully, there is an inexplicable surge in my heart.

The script they use now is an evolutionary script, but it was used when their ancestors may have lived a life of drinking blood.

Of the three oldest hieroglyphs, the only one is still in human use.

What does it mean that they are on the wall here?

"From the entrance of the iron ladder to below here, I find that oracle bone inscriptions appear less and less, Sumerian cuneiform script more and more, and then Egyptian hieroglyphs are the most numerous, and oracle bone inscriptions are barely visible. I guess it's temporary, and the further you go inside, the earlier the text symbols on the wall are born. ”

"Captain Gu, everything will return to the beginning of human civilization, and those of us who are at the end of civilization will go back and begin to connect with the end."

"Writing is one of the beginnings of civilization, and it can be regarded as an important information technology."

Yu Chi said confusedly, but he also expressed his meaning: "The belief of these locust god believers is not so simple, it may not just be a matter of a bunch of insects, but it is related to the power of time and space, the power of civilization development, and only in this way will their altar need to be built like this." I think we're already in the altar. ”

Technology? This word made Gu Jun's brows furrow a little uncomfortably.

Technology is the means by which both humans and the Isis rely on to fight against the forces of darkness......

"Meow?" Wu Shiyu asked, So, what should we do to reach our destination?

Or is it already there, and now it's time to pound and smash and bite and gnaw on the wall, so that the altar is destroyed?

"She's asking what to do." Gu Jun could only hear this meaning.

"Let's follow the timeline and go back!" Yu Chi said as he reached out and touched the symbols on the concrete wall, "These symbols have their birth order, human beings have existed before the emergence of civilization, primitive man, ape...... You see, there's almost no hieroglyphs here, but there are a lot of Stone Age symbols, these are proto-cow rock carvings, these are feathered shapes - each with three or four forks on it, all Mesolithic petroglyphs......"

These archaeological knowledge, only Yu Chi himself understands.

So Gu Jun couldn't give any advice, and Kezia-Mason stood aside and didn't understand, and Wu Shiyu followed suit.

"Team Yu, you lead the way." Gu Jun said, "Maybe that's why you're here...... We all have our own reasons. ”

"Okay, I'll try, this is the Mesolithic ......" Yu Chi walked a short distance to the other seven intersections, groped for the symbols on the wall, and judged the time points represented by each direction, some intersections are leading to the Neolithic Age, and that is the future for the Mesolithic Age.

And if they want to go back in time, back to the beginning, they need to take the road to the Paleolithic Age.

However, there are three passages, all of which have a clear and comparable number of Paleolithic symbols.

But among them, there is only one passage with the oracle bone inscription of the word "worm", the only oracle bone inscription.

"This word has always appeared, and it has never disappeared." Yu Chi scratched his head and said, "It shouldn't have appeared, it shouldn't have appeared a long time ago, there is not even Egyptian hieroglyphs, how could there be oracle bone inscriptions in the Paleolithic Age?" Unless...... It transcends time. ”

Gu Jun looked at the insect word, like a snake hook.

Beyond time, are the locust god believers? Or are they interlopers?

There was only an hour and ten minutes left, and now that the passage had been chosen, the three of them and the cat stepped out again and walked towards the depths of the passage.

I just don't know if they will be fish that have eaten insect bait and taken the bait.

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