Chapter 202: Mayan Caves
After going around outside a few times and not finding it again, Leon and the three came to the entrance at the top of the temple, in fact, if he could, Leon wanted to dismantle the Mayan temple and bring it back, so that he could study it slowly, huh? It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with it, but no one cares about it right now.
Li Ang resisted this tempting idea, explored it first, and then said that it would be seen when the time came to see if it was dismantled or not.
At the top of the Mayan temple there is a stone doorway, and inside is a stone staircase that slopes downward, not very spacious, and can be walked side by side.
The stone walls on both sides are carved with very rich frescoes, recording a variety of scenes, including scenes of ancient Mayan sacrifices, as well as their research on mathematics, astronomy, calendars, etc.
There are still a lot of Mayan characters in the frescoes, but the mural slabs in some places are missing, and the slate I got before I came here is probably from here.
Leon and Athena were alone while carefully watching the Mayan writings, constantly memorizing all the runes, and figuring out the meaning of the words according to the content of the murals.
"There seems to be some difference between these Mayan characters and runes," Athena thought thoughtfully, frowning.
Before, there was only a stone tablet and not many documents, and not much could be seen, but now after comparing a large number of Mayan characters, Leon also found that the Mayan script is very similar to the style of runes, but there are indeed differences, or not every Mayan script is a rune, but there are also words that are indeed runes.
"Brother Li Ang, how long do we have to walk, this staircase is so long." Shirley was a little excited at first, but slowly felt a little bored.
Shirley's casual words attracted Li Ang's attention, yes, they seem to have been walking for a long time, the Mayan temple itself is less than thirty meters high, they are afraid that they have walked hundreds of meters, looking up, the entrance has become a small opening.
"This Mayan temple really has something inside!" Leon sighed, looking forward to more for this expedition.
No matter how long the stone staircase is, there is always an end, and after another half an hour, I finally came to the end of the stone staircase, which was supposed to be a stone wall, but now it was broken, revealing a dark hole, just enough for a man to bow his head and bend over.
"Someone has been here." Athena glanced at the broken hole and came to her conclusion: "And the man may still be there." ”
Needless to say, Leon could also see that the hole that had been broken was obviously blown open with explosives, and there was still residual warmth to the touch, and there was a smell of sulfur around it.
"It's getting interesting, go down and have a look." Without hesitation, Leon drilled through the cracked hole.
Behind the broken stone wall is a huge underground cavern, and the surrounding walls are also carved with a large number of Mayan-style murals and texts.
Along the way, all the Mayan characters, Li Ang relied on his super memory to forcibly memorize them in his mind, the Mayan civilization is a highly developed civilization, and the writing system is very sound, but in fact, the number of characters they use is not much, just like there are more than 90,000 Chinese characters in total, and the actual commonly used Chinese characters are only about 3,000.
The Mayan civilization is estimated to be similar, and they use fewer commonly used words, Leon roughly counted, there are only about a thousand words without repetition, of which there are only about two hundred runes, although the runes are very similar to ordinary Mayan characters, but the runes contain special powers, and they are easy to identify.
The underground cave is very large, there is an underground river flowing in the middle, there are a large number of Mayan murals on the stone wall on this side of the river, and there is nothing on the other side of the river, a primitive appearance.
After a distance of almost 100 meters along the underground river, the murals gradually became scarce, and finally there were no murals at all.
"The Mayan civilization doesn't look special, and judging from their recorded history, it is no different from ordinary agricultural civilization." At first, Leon concentrated on the study of Mayan scripts, but when he found that they were basically repetitive, he began to look at the murals that recorded history.
"It's really abnormal, they should have mastered the power of runes, but I can't see any records of their rune applications." Athena was also a little puzzled, the power of runes could completely change the direction of civilization, but it was not reflected in the murals of the Mayan civilization.
"The Mayan civilization is most praised for their research on the astronomical calendar, the modern astronomical observation year is 365.2422 days, and the Maya have measured a year is 365.2420 days, which is only 0.0002 days, about 18 seconds.
Such an achievement does have to be sighed, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with runes, right? Leon flicked off what he knew about the Mayan civilization: "Go ahead and take a look." ”
Leon and Athena didn't look like they were exploring at all, but instead walked forward like an outing, and ten kilometers in front of them, a group of people were walking cautiously forward.
"Brother Garcia, what exactly are we looking for?" A man with a bright silver armor all over his body asked, wearing a fully covered helmet on his head, and he couldn't see it at all, but he didn't seem to be very old, but the armor that was supposed to be gorgeous was now full of potholes.
There was also a silver-armored warrior like him, and four warriors in bronze armor, each of whom had varying degrees of damage on their armor, but the so-called Garcia who was questioned was wearing a golden armor, which looked very luxurious, without the slightest trace of battle, and even had a delicate hollow pattern decoration, which seemed to have more decorative significance than practical significance.
"I don't know, the Great Sage only said that it was a very important thing, and he said that I would know it when I saw it." Garcia was very easy-going.
"I didn't expect there to be such a cave under the Mayan Temple, if it weren't for Big Brother Garcia, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to get here." A girl's voice came from another piece of silver armor.
"Be careful, there may be danger." Garcia instructed and led the way.
The scene of the cookie-cutter underground cave suddenly changed, and a glimmer of light appeared in the originally dark environment, and in front of it was a cave mouth full of white light, and after stepping through the hole, a huge curved dome appeared in front of Garcia and the others.
"That's?!"
Not only Rodney, but also the six people who accompanied him, even Garcia, were extremely surprised, only to see that there was a golden altar under the curved dome in front of them, which was almost exactly the same as the Mayan temple, and there was no difference in size or sight.
"Is that gold? So much gold, how much is it worth! The girl Blanche couldn't help but take off her helmet, and a pair of beautiful eyes with blue eyes opened wide.
"It turns out that the Great Sage asked us to dig for gold." Rodney suddenly realized.
"Dig up your big-headed ghost's gold, how could the great sage take a fancy to these things." Blanche smacked Rodney mercilessly.