After a long period of devastation, the ruined golden city of Alamanda has lost its former glory, and although the ruins are still glorious, the ruins are piled up all over the city. There are few buildings in the city that are still intact, and only the most important and exceptionally strong things have been preserved.

One of the key facilities known as the Tower of Promotion is one of them.

It is a pentagonal tower with a base of 100 meters in circumference and a huge scale. Except for the gate at the bottom, there are no doors or windows in the entire minaret, and only a few bulges of unknown function and metal brackets that look like antennas can be seen on the smooth pale gold façade. With the confusion of memories in her mind, Anna led the group to the gate to the tower, which had been shattered and torn open in a radial shape, as if something had forced its way out of it and left the huge hole.

Hao Ren took the lead and was surprised to find that the inside of the doorless and windowless building was very bright: many pillars of light of unknown origin came down from above, illuminating the hall on the first floor of the tower as bright as day. The thin dust mist that lingered around those pillars of light gave people an inexplicable sense of etherealism: it was not difficult to imagine what a sacred place it was back then.

The first floor of the tower is not a very complicated structure, it is a grand hall, and the most incredible thing is that there is no pillar support here, reminiscent of the height of the entire tower hundreds of meters, this unsupported grassroots hall makes people have to marvel at the advanced construction technology and material science of the Tana people in the past. Around the hall can be seen a circle of golden installations, which are columns of about one meter with a sloping upper surface. Seems to be some kind of worktop. Curious, Lily patted the pillar and found no response.

"Don't think about it. Even if these things don't break this place, there is no energy to activate them," Hao Ren crossed his arms and looked around the hall. Suddenly, I saw delicate patterns depicting the walls in some places, "Hey, come and see this, it looks like a mural left by the Tana people." ”

The crowd was immediately drawn to the frescoes, and Hao Ren found the starting point of the murals, and he looked at them with amazement: they were not earth-shattering scenes, there were no heroes and mythological figures, nor were they elaborate and flashy decorative paintings, they depicted very simple everyday things.

They depict the entire civilization of the Tana people.

On the first mural. The Tana people, who live along the coastal flats, are amphibians who are gradually moving closer to a purely terrestrial life due to a certain change in the marine environment. They built houses along the coastline dressed in primitive aquatic plants and animal skins, adapted to droughts, hunted land animals, and lit the first bonfires of civilization.

In the second fresco, the Tana have shed their scales and evolved the structure of their fingers, and their living environment has clearly shifted from tidal flats and marshes to drier plains. They built villages on the steppe, kept animals in captivity, planted and harvested.

They built cities and developed metal tools. Learning how to smelt and make alloys, they learned the power of "electricity" from natural phenomena, and soon fused this power with a certain mental ability innate to their own race. Later frescoes can be seen with Tana people performing rituals around a kind of metal pillar that stands tall. Lightning struck the pillar, and another wonderful energy erupted from the Tana people's body to resonate with it.

They live. Learn and temper your spiritual strength. Their innate ability to evolve quickly makes it easier for them to draw power from nature. They explored their entire planet, built great information networks and global energy broadcasting systems. They have even developed space technology and some kind of space technology - but their greatest strength is still a wonderful skill called "soul ability", which is the result of the continuous evolution of their mental talents, and this wonderful skill is the only hope for the Tana to save themselves when the cataclysm comes.

Yes, the cataclysm, in the later stages of the mural all changed, and some kind of unspeakable catastrophe erupted on the planet. The power of the Tana was nothing to mention in the face of this catastrophe, their magnificent cities made of metal were uprooted, and their weapons of war were useless against the enemy. The mural depicts the Tana being slaughtered by one side, and the flames of war are burning across the planet, but the face of the enemy is always a chaotic line. The man who left behind these frescoes seems to have difficulty depicting his enemies in a logical way, and he can only use clouds and curves to represent some kind of catastrophe, while hundreds of millions of Tana people are endangered by those frantic lines.

The last survivors retreated to the planet's three cities, which are portrayed in exaggerated frescoes: cast from metal and shrouded in layers of protective walls and energy shields, but outside the city is boundless chaos and death. The survivors survived for several years, but the city wall was weakened by the forces of the disaster, and its demise was inevitable.

Anna stroked the lines on the murals: "This is the 'Origin Scourge', and mortal forces cannot fight against it. Eventually, the Tana people realized a certain pattern of this catastrophe, and they decided to change their life form by guò in order to survive—"

Anna said, gesturing to the last mural.

The lines on the mural return to simplicity, the grand and complex material world is hidden, a Tana man suspended in the air, half of his body has been reduced to a misty phantom, which indicates the transformation of life forms, and below the painting, there are messy lines, which represent disaster. The mural appears to depict the Tana people finally escaping the catastrophe after their life change.

Anna sighed, piecing together the last bits of memory in her mind: "They left these murals to record the progress of their civilization, because the Tana people are not sure what will happen after they transform into spirit creatures, and in order to prepare for the worst, they have left this simple and straightforward record in many buildings, so that other intelligent beings who will visit this planet one day will know what kind of race once lived here." ”

"So the Tana people became angry spirits," Vivien frowned and shook her head, "but the angry spirits they became didn't show the slightest logic, let alone higher intelligence, they were even as irrational as natural phenomena. ”

Nangong Sanba scratched his hair: "Then what is the disaster mentioned above?" ”

Hao Ren took a breath, a vague guess gradually formed in his mind, he glanced at the scene depicted on the last few murals, and suddenly ran quickly to the exit of the hall: "Follow me!" ”

The crowd followed for some unknown reason, and Hao Ren led them to a high platform they had passed before, and Anna could not climb such a steep building, so Lily carried her on her shoulder. The group climbed up to a high platform and came to a position where they could look down on the city's high walls, so that the scene outside the heavy protective walls of Allamanda was clear.

Outside the city was a pristine and barren land, and it presented an unusually terrifying sight: the ground was covered with huge ravines and craters, like a giant face full of potholes, and on one side of the city was a huge crater of unprecedented scale, the scale of which almost made it seem that the core of the planet had penetrated beneath it. And in these countless ravines and potholes, the most shocking thing is those tentacles that make the scalp tingle.

Eldest son.

"I knew ......," Hao Ren swallowed, "the same thing happened in this place like Holletta." ”

Nangong May's body shook, covered her mouth and whispered: "Oh my God......"

"This planet is worse than Holletta's, and the eldest son has apparently completed the purge of the second son," Vivien frowned, looking back at Allamanda who was already in ruins, "The Tana are extinct. ”

Anna and Nangong Sanba were both seeing this terrifying thing for the first time, the latter was more or less a witcher and was in better condition, but the former shook his body twice, and almost fainted directly: she was in double fear, one from her human instincts, and the other from the remnants of the angry memories in her mind. She was almost half Tana now, and she almost fainted at the sight of the tentacles that had ruined the entire civilization.

This is the catastrophe that the Tana people faced, and it was the reason why they had to give up their bodies and transform their life forms. (To be continued......)