Euphrates?

A historic river in the Middle East, originating in the mountains of Anatolia, flowing through Syria and Iraq, and finally merging with the Tigris River to form the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

The specific location of this river is in Central Asia, Iraq, Turkey and other places in the Central Asian region!

In this comparison, it seems that the geographical span is a little larger, after all, we are talking about the Alps, which spans two continents.

Then the interesting question arises.

Is the snow devil in Suzaku's mouth a single individual, similar to the god of the four elephants, an irreproducible individual? Or is it a race?

If it is an ethnic group, then it is distributed all over the world, and it is not difficult to explain that it has appeared in many places.

If it's an irreproducible entity, then doesn't that mean it...... Has this snow devil ever appeared all over the world?

I rubbed the black clay tablet in my hand and fell into silence for a long time, and after three or four minutes I asked Hathaway, "Has this tablet been deciphered?" ”

"I can only decipher a small part."

Hathaway shook her head: "Due to the urgency of time, I didn't have time to ask some experts who focus on cuneiform research to decipher this clay tablet, so I could only study it through what I knew. ”

As she spoke, Hathaway stretched out her finger and pointed to a word on the tablet in my hand, and whispered to me, "Can I decipher this word?" The devil in the snow, or the shadow like snow, can be interpreted as a snow devil if you are careful to abbreviate it? ”

I looked fixedly at the two words that Hathaway pointed out, and when I looked, don't say it, it's true!

I also have some understanding of cuneiform, but it is more difficult to decipher, but the two symbols that make up the word Hathaway pointed out, I have seen in a cuneiform analysis at home before, one of the characters represents the meaning of snow, and the other character means the devil.

Putting these two characters together, isn't it possible to piece together the two meanings that Hathaway said?

I couldn't help but let out a long breath, gritted my teeth, or decided to decipher this clay tablet first and then enter the abandoned pit, Suzaku frequently mentions this snow devil, it is estimated that it is very important, and I don't know anything about this snow devil, so I think this snow devil should be a key in this matter, if I don't know more information, I really can't go to drill that pit recklessly!

Sharpen the knife and don't mistake the woodcutter!

At that moment, I relied on my half-baked cuneiform skills, and discussed this clay tablet with Hathaway in the car, and then simply called Cao Yuan in, Cao Yuan was also a professor of history in the former capital? And she is still studying the history of the 36 countries of the Western Regions, isn't it a place that leads directly to Central Asia? Anyway, in the current Central Asian region, I found a lot of things and legacies about the Thirty-six Kingdoms, and I think Cao Yuan may also have some knowledge of cuneiform, so I pulled her on.

Not to mention, the truth of the three stinkers on Zhuge Liang is really good for us here, the three of us studied for a long time, and finally deciphered part of the text on the clay tablet, anyway, I know the general content recorded on this clay tablet.

The battle between gods and ghosts.

That's the title of the text on this tablet.

In fact, in the end, the text on this clay tablet is telling a story, a folklore story, and the person who left this clay tablet may have been similar to a bard in the first place.

The ancient Euphrates, the brilliant Mesopotamian civilization, the brilliant Sumerians......

At that time, their civilization was actually very bright, as early as 5,000 years ago, there were a large number of written works, "Hammurabi's Code" is one of the representative works, at that time their folk did have such a part of the people who mastered the text, the identity is similar to the bard, that is, everywhere with words to record what they saw and heard the kind of people, the existing tens of thousands of clay tablets, many are left by this part of the people.

The clay tablet we currently have in our hands was left by one such person!

It is supposed to be a legend passed down by folklore at that time, and the specific location of this legend should be the confluence of the Euphrates River, which is near the present-day Elazer in Turkey. As we all know, there are two tributaries in the upper reaches of the Euphrates, namely the Karasu River in the north and the Murat River in the east, which flow out of the Armenian plain and finally converge near Elazig.

In other words, the story recorded on the clay tablet should be before the formation of Mesopotamian civilization, when the Sumerians first appeared, and the specific time should be around 4000 BC, that is, about 6000 years ago.

In the words of this clay tablet, it is - a thousand years ago.

Isn't it back to 4000 B.C.?

The beginning of the story begins with the drying up of the Euphrates.

That year, there was a great drought in the Armenian plain, the upper reaches of the Euphrates River were cut off, and the entire Euphrates riverbed dried up, and then a few Sumerians went to dig the riverbed to see if they could dig out a little moist soil, or water or something, but it didn't matter if this digging didn't matter, the riverbed began to collapse one after another, and then a huge underground palace was revealed underneath, and the underground palace was already destroyed, and it was lying inside...... It's a giant dragon!

The dragon was shining brightly, and it looked even more beautiful than the most beautiful jewels in the world......

The Sumerians were stunned, and then went to greet their friends, preparing to carry the dragon back, but in this time, a great change had taken place there, and a large number of monsters had appeared in the dungeon.

There are strange birds soaring in the sky.

And humanoid monsters with fangs in their mouths.

And, the devil in the snow.

There are also a lot of behemoths.

A big battle broke out between those monsters at the gate of the dungeon......

As a result of the war, many Sumerians died, but in the war of gods and demons, the ground was broken down, and a large amount of groundwater poured into the dry course of the Euphrates, giving hope to the creatures living around the Euphrates.

In short, the legendary Sumerians loved and hated that war!

That's probably part of the story.

What caught my attention the most was at the end of the clay tablet, where the bard who recorded it all went out to tell you the source of some of the monsters.

Like the fanged humanoid monster, he said it was a vampire!

As for the strange bird soaring in the sky, it was the ptarmigan.

As for the demons in the snow.

The Sumerian didn't elaborate on what it was called, but he described in detail what the demon in the snow looked like.

This so-called demon in the snow, five meters tall, walks upright, covered with silver-white long hair, looks particularly hideous, it has very sharp claws, and also looks like a wolf, but it walks upright, every full moon night will go crazy in the moonlight, crazy to slaughter, they crave blood, is the most ferocious kind of monster. In the mud tablet, this kind of snow demon was rampant everywhere in the primeval period, but by the time of the Sumerians, it was basically extinct, and they were the most vicious monsters in the legend.

This is probably all the content on the slate, and after I read it, the whole person was already confused.

According to the description and description on this clay tablet, isn't the snow devil the leader of the werewolves? Anyway, in terms of appearance, it's almost exactly the same as Jack's description!

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