"Old Man Lin knows what very important things he said!" It was a thought that crossed our minds at the same time.

According to his tone, the team must have found more secrets about the black crystal, or at least, they have found clues about the origin of the black crystal - otherwise the old man would not have asked us if we had found a stable source of this black crystal, and the fact that he could ask so at least proved that he had doubts that this crystal was only found in some ancient ruins.

After a short heart-to-heart exchange, Sandora and I came to a consensus and decided to test how much Old Man Lin knew about the Tao.

"Actually," I said, with a thoughtful look, "we do have some information about this crystal, but—can you tell me what is the value of this crystal that makes you so painstakingly searching?" Because according to our analysis, this crystal has no effect at all except for its amazing hardness and obvious traces of artificial processing. ”

"It seems that I need to confess a little more," Lin Yangtian obviously expected that we would not hand over the information we had so easily, so he nodded and said, "This crystal really has no effect, if we talk about the items excavated from the ancient ruins with far beyond the level of human craftsmanship at that time, in fact, we still have a lot to discover, but only this crystal, and there are some things related to it, are of extraordinary significance!" ”

"You think it's funny to calculate my grandfather like this?"

Just as we were listening intently to Old Man Lin's explanation, Lin Xue's voice suddenly came from the spiritual connection.

“…… Is there a way for you to get Old Man Lin to tell things honestly without revealing the existence of the empire? ”

“…… When I didn't say ......"

Lin Xue also knew that this matter was related to the Xiling ruins that frequently appeared on the earth, and this was a very important event for us, so she had no choice but to stay quietly with Ding Ling and watch us intrigue with our own old man.

"First of all, this relates to the original purpose of our ability group......"

"The purpose of the Anomalous Formation?" Lin Xue said loudly, "Isn't it to solve those mysterious events in the world that can't be solved by conventional means?" ”

"That's just the day-to-day actions of the ability group...... In fact, our intervention in various mysterious events in the world, the exploration of ancient ruins, and even the collection of historical legends are all for one goal: to find the truth about the appearance of the supernatural! ”

We looked at each other, including Lin Xue, although Lin Xue is the senior leader of the ability group, but it is obvious that she is not qualified to touch these plans that can be called the top secret of the ability group, I really didn't expect that the original purpose of the establishment of the ability group back then was just to find the origin of the ability - although the appearance of human abilities is indeed a very curious thing, even Bubbles can't analyze the reason for human abilities, but an organization that has always appeared as a hero who saves humanity from dangerIt is indeed surprising that its real purpose is like this.

"You should all know about the legends of the ancient flood era, right?" As he spoke, Lin Yangtian suddenly changed his words and brought the topic to the legend of the flood wilderness.

I felt my brain creak for a long time before I finally successfully caught up with Mr. Lin's jumping topic.

"It was an ancient era that only existed in legends, where mythical beasts were rampant on the earth, all kinds of strange people and strange people emerged in an endless stream, and even legendary gods and immortals frequently appeared in the field of vision of mortals," Lin Yangtian said, as if he had been immersed in the chaotic world of the flood era, "However, after a historical fault, all the records of the legends of the flood wilderness have been interrupted, and all that remains is the unfounded folklore and anecdotes, those divine beasts, immortals, and sorcerers have all disappeared ......"

"Not only in our land of China, but also in the legends of all parts of the world, such a situation has appeared, the gods of Olympus, the system of the gods of the underworld and the sun god of Egypt, and many more legends about the heroes of the ancient demigods, those incomparably powerful gods and heroes seem to have disappeared overnight, how is it not strange?"

"This ...... It should be the progress of human civilization that led to the decline of the Age of Mythology, right? I said in a tone of uncertainty, but doubts arose in my mind: after so much experience, I can no longer dismiss all the legends of human history as superstition.

"Obviously, you don't really believe in those just legends," Lin Yangtian naturally saw my hesitation, "Although you claim to be a club of supernatural people who don't care about the world, at least you usually study some of these things, right?" ”

…… Don't let your old man hang people's appetites, can you continue to say no?

Fortunately, the old man quickly continued: "We have been studying the myths and legends that have been almost buried in history, and we have found a very incredible common denominator: almost all mythological systems mention crystals, or things that can be associated with crystals!" ”

"The fairy stone spirit jade mentioned in the Chinese Xiuzhen system, the golden crystal scepter of Zeus in Olympus mythology, and the crystal ball that often appears in Western mythology, there are also many worships on the magical power of crystals in Egyptian beliefs, and the discovery of more mysterious crystal skulls, it seems that all the gods of ancient times rely on a crystal or ore to enhance the strength, which makes us have to doubt - the gods of ancient legends, Could it be that ordinary mortals relied on a high-energy ore that existed in large quantities on the earth at that time to obtain a superhuman power, and the later decline of the gods was also due to the depletion of these ores......

Quite a mysterious conjecture, this is almost the most unimaginable situation, but I know that if it weren't for finding a lot of tangible evidence, Lin Yangtian would not have made such a conjecture, that is, they have at least found evidence that can prove that there were many strong people in ancient times who relied on some kind of "ore" to obtain superhuman power!

But what does all this have to do with the Adept?

"Because there are very few supernatural beings in the world world now, it is very likely that they are the descendants of the 'gods' of the ancient era!"

We immediately set our horrified eyes on Lin Xue and Ding Ling, who were at a loss.

Although the "gods" in the mouth of Old Man Lin and the true gods like Ding Dong are not the same meaning at all, it is really a rather terrifying thing to hear that Lin Xue is actually involved with the descendants of the gods.

"We studied a lot of genetic data of all the people we could collect, sorted out the commonalities from them, and then compared them with myths and legends, and finally made this bold conjecture, and there is already evidence that the genetic mutations of the people with abilities were indeed the genetic result of the mutation of their ancestors a long time ago."

"Therefore, we suspect that the so-called myth of the flood is actually the story of a group of super superpowers who obtained abilities due to some kind of high-energy ore in ancient times, of course, due to the strength of the power, maybe they can no longer be called superpowers, but should really be called gods."

Old Man Lin stopped his narration and let us sort out our own thoughts, and then we began to quickly share our respective thought processes through spiritual connection, and finally came to the most likely inference.

In ancient times, human beings were still in the initial stage of civilization evolution, at that time there were no so-called gods, there were only human instinctive worship and crude belief in nature, but I don't know when, a large number of "crystals" suddenly appeared on the earth, or other forms of high-energy ores, the radiation of these ores made a part of humans and animals mutated, they became more powerful than their peers, of course, there may also be a change in appearance, the existence of this part of the mutation was still ignorant of human beings at that time, And became a mythical beast, gods, some of which were more unlucky or not very good by nature, became the image of the original demon and evil god, these strong men who were revered as gods by primitive people may not be as powerful as the legend, but at that time, under the influence of the great fear of the power of nature and the extreme worship of the gods, the legend was exaggerated.

An ordinary person who has mastered the powerful power of electricity is likely to be described by later legends as Zeus with infinite power of lightning in his hand.

Thus, the age of mythology began.

We don't know how long the gods were active, it may depend on the distribution and reserves of "crystal mines" on the earth at that time, but if they are not replenished, these crystals will one day be exhausted, and when all the crystals that exist on the earth are consumed, the gods have finally come to an end.

Adepts are not immortal, even the first generation of supernatural beings known as the gods of the desolation, they may be able to live longer than ordinary people due to mutation, but they will still die, when all the high-energy ores are exhausted, and the powerful first-generation supernatural are all dead, the age of mythology is over.

But it didn't end there.

Long-term exposure to high-energy ores with radiation has changed the genes of those powerful mutated creatures, which may be hereditary, so after the disappearance of the powerful gods in the flood era, there was a short period of folk mythology, and the small folk gods appeared in this period, they were obviously much weaker than the "source gods" of the flood era, this is because their abilities only come from the genetics of their parents rather than the radiation of high-energy ores, but due to the instability of radiation mutation, This genetic phenomenon was quickly adjusted by nature, and with the progress of human science and civilization, the age of God finally came to an end.

The rest are extremely rare modern aliens born due to the accidental appearance of recessive genes, and their abilities are far from being comparable to those of the mutants of the flood era.

This is the most likely inference that a few of us have come to after thinking together and sharing all the information with the other Apostles of Hilling, which is basically sixty percent true.

I know where the focus of the research of the Epistle Group is, the diamond-shaped black crystal, the spectral cores that have been depleted of energy - it is obvious that they have gone into the misunderstanding that those spectral cores are the high-energy ores that mutated humanity in ancient times and eventually led to the emergence of modern supernatural beings, and if their research continues in this direction, I am afraid they will eventually find nothing.

However, while the Spectral Crystal can't awaken humans, I know that there is one crystal that can be used - the Brood Crystal.

The abilities of the shallow and others were obtained in the brood, and due to the powerful radiation of the brood crystal, the abilities they obtained were many times stronger than the current ones! When it comes to the gods of the Flood Desolation, I'm afraid that only those who have been radiated by the brood crystal like them are qualified, right?

In other words, if Old Man Lin's information is not wrong, and our conjecture is correct, the beginning of the myth of the human desolation is actually related to the Xiling Empire!!