Chapter 15: The Beginning of the Festival

The process lasted more than ten minutes, and when the last Atlantean walked out of the gate and walked around the fresco to find his place, Dart's drumming stopped. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the drumming stopped, the scene fell silent. Today, the entire hall is silent, and pins can be heard. Under the bright light of the hall, Zhou Xin saw that all the Atlanteans were staring at the upper end of the totem pole, as if waiting for something.

This silent scene lasted for a few minutes, and suddenly, all the lights in the hall went out, and the entire hall fell into darkness, even the place where Zhou Xin and the others were standing, and everyone fell into a situation where they couldn't see their fingers at once.

Just when all the lights were just extinguished, Zhou Xin was still a little nervous, he thought that there was a problem with the energy system on the Voyager, but he didn't hear the riot of the Atlanteans in front of him, so he realized that this should be one of the steps of the Great Festival. There was a slight commotion from the Thunder Star behind him, but in a short period of time, the commotion subsided, and it seemed that they understood what was going on in a short period of time.

The darkness did not last long, less than three minutes, a faint light came from the top of the hall, although this light was not strong, but it was very conspicuous in the dark hall, and everyone's eyes, including Zhou Xin, were attracted by that light. At the same time, the familiar knocking sound from earlier rang out again.

Squinting his eyes, Zhou Xin looked at the light carefully, and he found that at the place where the light was emitted, Dart was standing on the platform half the height of the totem pole he had seen before, holding a blazing torch alof, and the light was coming from the torch in Dart's hand.

Through the faint light of the fire, Zhou Xin saw that Dart was now holding a torch high in his left hand, and his right hand was rhythmically tapping on the "stump" on his waist, but this time the percussion did not last long, in just one minute, the sound stopped, but Dart, who stopped tapping, did not stop the movement in his hand. He took the torch in his hand with both hands, and after holding the torch in his hand, he held the torch high and waved it from side to side at a rhythmic frequency, and as he waved, his mouth began to make a majestic shout.

With his first shout, all the Atlanteans in the hall shouted at the same time, this kind of cry was not a casual shout, but with a little regularity, and even the shouts of people standing in different places were not the same, in this kind of shouting one after another, Zhou Xin even heard a trace of rough beauty. After listening to it for a while, Zhou Xin seemed to see that the rhythm of the cry seemed to follow the rhythm of Dart's waving torches on the stage. Within a few minutes, the glow of the torch in Dart's hand began to wane, but the cry of the Atlanteans did not decrease, but grew even greater. At last, the torches in Dart's hands were completely extinguished, and at the same time, their cries reached their climax, and the voices they had heard before were completely united, and they came from the hall like a stormy wave. The voice was so loud that Zhou Xin subconsciously covered his ears.

However, this huge cry did not last long, and after reaching the climax, the tidal wave began to weaken, and this was like a signal, and in just a few seconds, the huge shouting stopped abruptly, and the scene fell silent again.

This time, the silence lasted for a long time, a full five or six minutes, before Dart's voice came out of the hall again.

In the darkness, Dart shouted a word, after which all the Atlanteans began to shout the word continuously, and unlike before, this time their cries did not have any rhythm, just the same word over and over again. This time, the translator, who had not made a sound before, finally responded, but it only popped out a word before it fell silent again.

"Light." That's the word that pops out of the translator.

"Light?" Zhou Xin repeated in a questioning tone, and while he was still thinking about what they meant by shouting this word, a new situation began to appear.

Through the crowd, Zhou Xin saw that there seemed to be a faint light coming from the farthest end of the hall, and just as this light appeared, the shouts of the Atlanteans suddenly changed, they no longer shouted the word, but instead there was a series of cheers, and with their cheers, the light became brighter and brighter. After a while, Zhou Xin saw a bright light begin to appear above the Atlantean head, and as time passed, the bright light moved upwards little by little. After a while, Zhou Xin finally saw the full picture of the object that emitted such a light, it was an item that was not commonly used on the ship—a sun lamp. After thinking about it, Zhou Xin understood, due to the limited conditions, they now use the sun lamp to represent the rising of the sun, and the "light" they called for just now is also calling for the rising of the sun. Moreover, they had actually been preparing for the Great Festival before, and it wasn't until this moment that the Great Festival of the Atlanteans really began.

When the sun lamp rose to the highest point, the lights in the hall came back on, Zhou Xin squinted his eyes and reused to the sudden light, he saw that all the previous Atlanteans were standing in place, only Dart stood alone on the platform, and after the lights in the hall were turned on again, the cheers of the Atlanteans continued for a while and then stopped. Then all eyes were on Dart.

Dart didn't speak, but beckoned to the bottom of the stage, and after a while, Retina and Christie, dressed in full costume, slowly walked up to the stage, and then stood behind Dart. Dart turned to the two of them and said a few words, and then Retina stepped forward to Dart's side, and she spoke. Looking down at the Atlanteans below, Retina began to say a few words in a long rhythm. Zhou Xin wanted to know what she was talking about, but the translator didn't do its job properly, this time Zhou Xin finally picked up the translator and looked at the translator's screen, which said "...... sampling", it seemed that what Retina was speaking now was not Atlantea.

After Retina finished speaking, Zhou Xin seemed to see the Atlanteans standing near the totem pole making a move, but because there were many people standing between him and the totem pole, Zhou Xin didn't know what was going on. A moment after Retina's voice stopped, the people near the totem pole seemed to have completed their move, and at the same time, Retina stepped back behind Dart. Without warning, just as Retina was standing still, Dart on the platform knelt down suddenly, and after seeing Dart's movements, all the Atlanteans also knelt down, even Retina and Christy behind him, after they knelt down, Zhou Xin saw what the person in the middle had just done, and the small pillar that was originally empty next to the totem pole at the beginning was now placed with all kinds of things, In addition to the food that the dozen or so Atlanteans were holding at the beginning, there were also various daily necessities placed on the other pillars, and Zhou Xin even saw a communicator on one of the pillars.

Before he had time to finish looking at what was on the pillar, Dart, who was kneeling on the platform, had a new action. He turned around, then shouted something out of his mouth, and bowed down in the direction of the sunlamp. Hearing Dart's shout, all the Atlanteans present also bowed down in the direction of the sun lamp.

Looking at the actions of the Atlanteans, Zhou Xin said to himself: "Do the Atlanteans believe in the sun? It's a primitive worship. ”

Before Zhou Xin's words fell, Dart, who was kneeling towards the sun, turned around again, and then bowed down to the totem pole, and everyone followed Dart to the totem pole.

Next week, the letter was a little surprised, "Isn't it just sun worship?" Totem poles? This should represent the ancestors. ”

After the worship, Dart stood up, and so did the Atlanteans present. After standing still, Dart glanced at the crowd and began to speak. Dart spoke slowly, giving the impression of being eloquent, and spoke with an accent similar to that of Retina before. As when Retina spoke, the translator struck again, and they didn't understand what he was saying at all, but the other Atlanteans below seemed to understand what Dart was saying, and everyone stared at Dart on the stage, listening attentively.

This eloquent way of speaking lasted for nearly twenty minutes, and then, after twenty minutes of continuous speech, Dart took a short break and then changed his accent and continued. Zhou Xin could clearly hear Dart changing his language, but it was not the language of the Atlanteans now, as the translator still did not respond to what he was saying. And, unlike the previous ones, this time Dart's tone of speech became noticeably faster, like a machine gun, and syllables after syllables popped out of Dart's mouth in succession. And Dart's expression became very rich, and he looked very excited. However, although Dart's expression was very excited, the Atlanteans below looked relatively flat, and even, Zhou Xin felt a kind of sadness from their faces? The mood didn't last long, though, as Dart continued, the sadness slowly began to grow angry, and after a while, their anger began to subside, except for Dart's excited voice echoing through the hall.

This time Dart's speech lasted longer, and after half an hour, his voice stopped again, and after so much so that Dart felt a little tired, he didn't rest for long, and he spoke again.

This time he was in the language of the Atlanteans, so the translator finally began to do its job, translating what Dart had to say.

"Since the end of the war, we have finally ushered in a time of real peace, and those who are responsible for the war have been duly punished. In the end, there was no winner in this war, and after the baptism of brutal war, our society was in tatters, the people were struggling to make a living, some people could not even meet the demand for one meal a day, and the rest of the people were not much better. In view of this, the nations created in the aftermath of the war decided to unite and unite as a group to help the Atlanteans through this tragic period. ”

Speaking of this, Dart's voice became sad, "In the end, after everyone's efforts, it took them a hundred years to finally restore the whole society to its pre-war level. However, after this battle, we lost more than ninety percent of the population, and the entire Atlantean nation fell into its lowest point in history, so our ancestors were forced to gather everyone and move to a continent, and changed the name of this continent to the name of our nation, the continent of Atlantis. ”

At this time, Dart's tone changed, "However, after this battle, our ancestors have also become more united, and from now on, except for some small-scale local disputes, large-scale wars have completely disappeared on the continent of Atlantis, and even small-scale disputes will be settled within a few days." In this environment, we have finally ushered in a period of rapid development. Although it is said that the people's living standards have just reached the level of food and clothing, an endless stream of inventions has begun to spring up like mushrooms after a rain. ”

"After another hundred years, we finally succeeded in entering the industrial age, although our industrial level at this time was still very rudimentary, but it has become a ray of light in the darkness, and since then, the development of the Atlanteans has begun to be on the right track after the war."

"Although we still have gone through many twists and turns since then, these difficulties have been overcome by the collective efforts of our ancestors." Dart continued, "Eventually, we emerged from war and other difficulties, and developed a brilliant civilization, the civilization of Atlantis. ”

Listening to Dart's account of the history of the Atlanteans, Zhou Xin and the others seemed to have followed them through that difficult era, sad for the difficulties they encountered, and happy that they had solved them.

After another ten minutes or so, Dart finally talked about the construction of the Great West Continent and the subsequent emergence of artificial intelligence......