Chapter 14: The Festival Begins
Seeing that there was still some time before the start of the festival, the bored Zhou Xin looked curiously at the murals around the walls. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Glancing at the pictures on the wall a little, Zhou Xin was attracted by one of the pictures. It seemed to be a picture of a rocket taking off, similar to the picture of the earthlings that Zhou Xin saw in the historical materials using rockets to go to space at the beginning, and under the rockets that took off there were also five Atlanteans who pressed their right hands to their chests and looked straight ahead with a serious face. In the other painting to the right, the landing gear in the background of the rocket disappears, and the tail of the rocket erupts with fierce flames, making it appear to be flying at high speed. Zhou Xin continued to look to the right, and to his surprise, on the third painting, the rocket disappeared, leaving only an exploding fire in the original position of the rocket.
After reading these three paintings, Zhou Xin immediately understood the meaning expressed in the pictures, but he didn't say anything, but continued to look along the wall.
To the right of the explosion, what appears to be a space station with several Atlanteans busy at work and everything seems to be normal. Zhou Xin looked to the right of this painting, and there was a hole in the originally normal space station, although the hole was not big, it was still fatal for the space station, and all the Atlanteans in this picture had disappeared. Seeing this picture, Zhou Xin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he continued to look to the right, and sure enough, the next picture was a ceremony similar to a funeral, a group of Atlanteans stood in front of several mounds with a sad expression, the number of mounds was the same as the number of Atlanteans in the space station in front, and it seemed that all the Atlanteans in the space station were not spared.
Sighing, Zhou Xin continued to look to the right, and then he saw a series of events depicted on the mural. Some of these events are good, such as the scene where the Atlanteans successfully landed on the moon, and the scene where a robot stood next to a person, and even Zhou Xin saw the scene where the hyperspace door opened; There are also tragic scenes, such as the explosion of a spaceship, the scene of an unknown accident, and the scene of what appears to be a violent explosion of a star. After continuing to look at a few murals, Zhou Xin finally understood, the murals should describe major events in the history of the Atlanteans, at the end of the picture, Zhou Xin even saw a very familiar scene, a team of Atlanteans were lining up on the spaceship, and the image of Chang'e next to it and the big cabinet indicated that this picture was the picture of the Atlanteans evacuating the frozen planet not long ago.
Zhou Xin was surprised that this picture could also be recorded on the mural, but since there was not a single Atlantean around him, he could not find anyone to explain why the painting appeared here. So Zhou Xin had no choice but to keep this question for the first time and ask Dart about it later.
After looking at one end of the mural, Zhou Xin looked towards the other end of the mural, and after finding the painting of the previous rocket launch, Zhou Xin continued to look to the left, and the mural on the left side of the rocket accident depicted a violent explosion, which can be seen from the picture, this explosion is much more violent than all the explosion scenes that Zhou Xin saw on the mural before, and on the left side of the big explosion scene is a building complex, and the tall hemispherical building in the middle of the building complex looks very obvious, and it seems that the explosion occurred is this building complex. Further to the left, there are no buildings or objects on the screen, except a group of Atlanteans standing in a few rows, all with happy smiles on their faces. Zhou Xin didn't understand the meaning of the painting, but since the painting can be placed here, it means that the painting must represent a historical event that can affect the development of Atlantis.
Zhou Xin now had no way to delve into the meaning of the painting, so he had to continue to look to the left. In the following frescoes, he saw a series of wars in Atlantis, and there was not much difference between the methods used by Atlantis and earthlings in the way wars were depicted, except for the brutal war images, which were the tragic experiences of civilians in the war, and these tragic encounters depicted the stories behind the war. The images of the war occupy a long part of the mural, and Zhou Xin watched it for more than five minutes to read a series of stories, which proves that the Atlantean civilization also experienced a long period of war in the process of development.
Until he saw the first picture of the war, Zhou Xin didn't know how the war happened. Without dwelling on this question, he continued to trace the history told by the mural. The style of the mural further from the war picture to the left has obviously changed, and the original realistic picture has begun to become unreal, the most obvious is that the appearance of the Atlanteans on the picture is not very clear, and it is no longer possible to distinguish the difference between people by relying on the picture, only the description of the event is still very clear. The first non-realistic mural Zhou Xin saw depicted an Atlantean leaving a magnificent building, and everyone else on the mural cheered except for the Atlantean, as if in celebration of something.
Let's omit the specifics of the mural, as Zhou Xin's gaze continues to move to the left, the picture depicted in the wall mural becomes more and more rudimentary, and in the mural of the magnificent building, Zhou Xin can clearly identify the characteristics of the Atlanteans on the picture. Later, Zhou Xin could only see that it was a person in the picture, and if it weren't for the previous picture, Zhou Xin would not have recognized it as an Atlantean at all.
Continuing to go back, Zhou Xin saw the scene of the Atlantean people farming, and then there was the scene of hunting and smelting, and continuing to the left, the mural finally ended in the picture of a man drilling wood to make fire, so far, the picture has become extremely simple, there are only a few lines on the wall representing people and events, if it were not for Zhou Xin who had seen the murals with similar patterns left by ancient humans before, he would not have recognized the meaning of the murals.
After looking at all the murals, Zhou Xin turned his head to look at the others around him, and he found that the others were still looking at the murals carefully. Since they were not earthlings, it was a little difficult to understand what was being expressed in the mural, so Zhou Xin didn't bother Sprede and them, but reviewed what he had seen on the wall before. He found that the historical development of the Atlanteans was actually similar to that of humans, and they also had to fight against the natural environment in ancient times, and after defeating nature, war ensued, and it took a long time for Atlantis to usher in real peace. The only difference is that the period of rapid technological development of the Atlanteans was not in the war, but in the peace period after the war, their technology developed at a high speed, and many of the high-tech representatives on the murals were invented in a short period of time after the war.
While Zhou Xin was reviewing the history of the Atlanteans, and Spred and the others were still looking at the murals, a percussion sound similar to the sound of drums came from the hall. At first, the frequency of this percussion sound is very slow, only once every two seconds, and as time goes on, the percussion sound becomes more and more rapid, and at the end, the percussion sound reaches the level of four or five times a second. After reaching this speed, Zhou Xin heard a loud shout from the other end of the hall, but because of the distance, he didn't hear what was being shouted. With this shout, Zhou Xin and they saw that the door at the front end of the mural opened, and after a while, Dart walked out of the gate, with a cylindrical stump tied to his waist, and Dart tapped the stump around his waist with both hands with a serious expression, the stump seemed to be hollow, and Dart's hands knocked on it to make a sound similar to drumming, and the sound of percussion at the beginning seemed to come from this. To Zhou Xin's surprise, the stump was made of unknown materials, and although it didn't look very large, it could make Dart's knock sound resound throughout the hall.
Before they had time to delve into the question, Zhou Xin and the others saw that behind Dart, Redina and Christy walked out side by side. Now the two of them were dressed in costumes, singing unknown songs, and they were dressed in sumptuous costumes, which were supposed to be the traditional costumes of the Atlanteans. Their singing voices are not loud, but they are very penetrating, and Zhou Xin can hear their singing voices from such a distance, this song is melodious and tactful, making Zhou Xin and them sound very comfortable.
At this time, a phalanx of Atlanteans appeared behind Christy, and the number of people in this phalanx was not very large, only about a few dozen people. They walked out of the gate in groups of two, carrying some irregularly shaped columnar objects, shouting slogans as they went. It seemed that the pillars were not light, and those who carried them all looked a little struggling.
Behind this phalanx is another Atlantean phalanx, there are even fewer people in this phalanx, only a dozen people, they are different from the people in the previous phalanx, each of them is holding a plate in their hands, the plate seems to be food, Zhou Xin saw a few fruits and other things provided on the Voyager inside, in addition to these fruits, some other food on the plate Zhou Xin is unrecognizable, it seems to be the unique food made by the Atlanteans themselves.
Behind this phalanx appeared dozens of children who were very young even among the Atlanteans placed on the ship, they were dressed in the traditional Atlantean costumes like Christy, and a few of them were very young and even had to hold the hands of their brothers and sisters next to them, but fortunately, the whole team was not moving fast, and these children could follow the team closely.
There was no special team behind the children, and all the Atlanteans began to follow the children and stream out of the gate. They were not dressed in special costumes or holding anything in their hands, but all of them were so heavy on face that they did not say a word, and even the youngest children did not dare to play casually.
Led by Dart, the whole team marched along the mural on the wall, and at the end of the mural, Dart paused slightly, then wrote a few words on the back of the last painting, and then walked towards the totem pole in the middle.
Reaching the bottom of the totem pole, Dart stopped his steps, but his hands were still tapping, and Retina and Christy who were following him also stopped, and their singing also stopped, while the phalanx behind them did not stop, and the whole team separated from the middle, bypassing Dart and the three of them, and continued to move towards the left and right of the totem. In a certain order, those people enclosed the columnar object under the totem pole. The men with the food stopped after Dart, and now they were standing in a row behind Dart's three of them. The children who followed them followed the bearers of the pillars, and for every time those who carried the pillars lowered, one child stood in front of them. Zhou Xin and the others saw that after the last pillar was lowered, the last Atlantean child happened to be standing in front of it, and it seemed that the two were equal in number. The men carrying the pillars lowered them and walked up behind the men with the food and stood in line. The rest of the Atlanteans, after walking around the mural, walked behind the previous ones, not in any fixed formation, but standing around the totem pole.
Like the men before them, all the Atlanteans kept their faces solemn and silent throughout the process, just silently moving forward, and after standing up, they simply raised their heads and stared at the top of the totem pole.
Dart's tapping continued, but it was clearly not as hurried as before, and the Atlanteans continued to emerge from the previous gate, each following the mural, walking around the walls of the hall for close circles before making their way to a place next to the totem pole. Gradually, the number of people in the hall began to increase, and as the number of people increased, Dart and several of them standing in the middle of the hall were already surrounded by a flow of people. And the height of the Atlanteans is generally a head taller than that of the earthlings, so now, the position where Zhou Xin is standing can no longer see Dart at all, and only the Atlanteans are densely backed.
This process lasted more than ten minutes, and when the last Atlantean walked out of the gate and walked around the mural to find his place, Dart's drumming just stopped......