Chapter Seventy-Two: The Sphinx
When he thought of dinosaurs, Dongfang Chen's heart was excited!
It's been almost half an hour since I came here, and I haven't found a single animal, not even a single insect, and the whole oasis doesn't make any animal sounds except for the sound of rushing water. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Oasis of death?
Is this where the name comes from?
Thinking about it like this, Dongfang Chen's goosebumps rose on his body, and he didn't say anything, he looked more carefully, but he still didn't find any traces of animals.
This is absolutely not normal!
Dongfang Chen looked at the watch again, Puka didn't react, let alone the color change, and even the tentacles didn't stretch out.
After such a long time, Tianshu also reacted, and wondered: "This oasis is so humid and stuffy, with lush vegetation, why don't you even have a single insect or bird?"
Dongfang Chen said: "I have already discovered this, everyone be careful, let's go inside a little more." ”
Prosius said to himself in his heart: "Hehe, it seems that I have to meet in advance." Let's see if a few of them can hold on, and it's best not to let my old man make a move. ”
Everyone looked at the direction and began to make their way to the center of the oasis with difficulty. As he walked, he made a discovery, first he shook the light and kicked out a pile of human remains, and then Dongfang Chen found half a human dry bone on the tree, only the lower body, and the upper body was missing, but the fracture was very neat.
This made the God Butcher suddenly nervous and vigilant, and began to search more carefully and carefully, as a result, more and more human dry bones and remains were found, judging from the belongings, there were characters from all eras.
From skeletal to bronze, from cutlass and arrows to smoothbore guns, from crudely polished gemstones to fine gold ornaments, from scattered bones to a few bodies dressed in the lavish military uniforms of the Napoleonic era. It's just that the clothes of all the bones have rotted into a mass of black flocculents, and the metal utensils are also rotten to the point where they don't look good, but Dongfang Chen used to study this, so at a glance, many rotten objects were restored to history, and they couldn't explain in detail to everyone.
After the history lecture was finished, Dongfang Chen suddenly realized that something was wrong, so he wondered: "This is not right, why are there only human remains? Why haven't the remains of other animals been found even a scum?"
Tianshu said tentatively: "Could it be that it is too humid and stuffy here for beasts, insects and birds to settle?"
Dongfang Chen smiled: "Brother Tianshu, you underestimate the adaptability of creatures too much. At present, the creatures found on the earth are found on the snowy plateau, under the deep cave trench, and in the hot spring desert. If it weren't for the fact that our human ancestors had the wisdom to make and use tools in time, I am afraid that human beings are the most delicate species on the earth, and they will be on the verge of extinction after a few rounds of ice age, and even if they can survive, they will have to stay honestly where the monkeys and orangutans can survive!"
Moncano smiled: "Therefore, the key to the evolution of the living species is the evolution of the soul mind, no matter how good the external evolution is, it is useless, the natural drastic changes of heaven and earth, a catastrophe that destroys the world can turn all efforts into dust."
Dinosaurs are the best example of this?"
Dongfang Chen smiled and said: "It seems that the civilized people from the aliens are different, and their horizons are much broader than ours!"
It's just a little puzzled, even if this place is called an oasis of death, why are there only human remains, and why are there no traces of other animals?
It seems that to find this answer, we have to go deeper into this oasis of death!"
With the mentality of playing and hunting, everyone continued to march towards the oasis center.
This strange and dense rainforest of plants, although the area is not large, but there is no road at all, everywhere vines are tangled, branches and trees are overgrown, and waterholes and streams are dense, so that everyone can walk quite hard this way.
Although the surrounding area is lush and green, except for the sound of water flowing far and near, there is no other sound, which makes people feel depressed and bored for no reason.
At this moment, Shaoguang, who was walking in the front to open the way, shouted: "Look, everyone, what's in front of you?"
The crowd followed the voice, and all they saw was a tall black-green object, covered with various plant vines.
When everyone got closer and looked at it, they found that it was a small and small regular geometric object, covered by a large number of vines and branches, and the scale was only the size of an ordinary two-story house.
Others couldn't see it after looking at it for a long time, but Dongfang Chen's best thing was this, and he could see at a glance that the black and slimy thing should be an ancient Egyptian temple, specially used to worship the gods in ancient Egyptian mythology. I just don't know which god is enshrined in this temple in front of me?
Thinking that this temple might be the only clue to this strange oasis, Dongfang Chen said to Tianshu: "This is an ancient Egyptian temple, please ask Brother Tianshu to clean up the plants on it, be careful not to damage the temple." ”
Without saying a word, several small white swords flew out of his body, flying around the temple and circling rapidly, and the rest of the people helped to clean up the fallen vine branches. In a short time, a ruined ancient Egyptian temple was unusually corroded and ruined.
It is said to be a temple, but in fact, it is a large stone house built by four huge stone pillars sitting at four corners, with a flat boulder as the top, a wall built of stone blocks, open on three sides, and dozens of huge ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are vaguely engraved on the stone wall. On the ground in the middle of the temple, there is a pile of scattered stones, which are relatively well preserved.
It took Dongfang Chen a long time to finally understand that the broken stone on the ground should be a statue of something that shattered and collapsed. So he immediately took out his unique skills and began to carefully observe the pile of rubble from all angles.
After a full five minutes, Dongfang Chen let out an exclamation: "Sphinx!"
Dongfang Chen used his rich archaeological knowledge and experience to finally discover that if the rubble on the ground is restored, it is a miniature version of the sphinx next to the pyramid of Khufu.
Dongfang Chen was overjoyed by this discovery, and he immediately rushed forward, took out his private collection of archaeological tools from his backpack, and carefully cleaned up the heavy moss and debris on the stone wall engraved with hieroglyphs.
The "New Edition of the Funeral Sutra" that Professor Mu gave to Dongfang Chen finally came in handy, it recorded all the deciphered annotations of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and even many undeciphered texts, which Professor Mu also deciphered.
Nearly half an hour later, the hieroglyphs were presented in their entirety. Dongfang Chen instantly used his memory, which is comparable to computer memory, to translate the approximate meaning of the words on the stone wall:
Great Sun God, are you angry? So you have sent the Sphinx to rain down your punishment and revelation.
Your humble servants will do everything in their power to appease your anger!
Dongfang Chen told everyone about his discovery, and everyone was amazed.
Dongfang Chen said: "Academics believe that the Sphinx is a self-statue of Pharaoh Khufu, and the version of the statue is based on the monster Sphinx from ancient Egypt and ancient Greek mythology.
The Sphinx likes to give people riddles, ask them all kinds of difficult questions, and eat them if they can't answer them, of course, these are all myths and legends.
But what we find today can at least be deduced that the Sphinx is not groundless. First of all, the anger of the sun god mentioned in this passage should be the scene of a meteorite hitting the desert a long time ago, and the people at that time did not understand it, and they were afraid to take it as the sun god's anger. As for the Sun God sending the Sphinx, this is up for debate.
But since it is said that the wrath of the sun god is the meteorite hitting the ground, and it is understood in context, then the Sphinx should also be true, what is going on?"
"The reason is simple, because I'm the Sphinx!"
A woman's voice rang out from all directions.
Taken aback, the rest of the Divine Butcher were taken aback, quickly withdrew from the temple to prepare for battle, and began to look around to search, but found nothing.
But everyone soon noticed that there was an abnormal black object on the stone slab on the top of the temple slowly wriggling, like a shadow, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and finally gradually turned into a monster with a stunning girl's face, but under the head there was a body similar to a lion cheetah, looking down at everyone with its head lowered and smiling.
See this mythical and fabled sight:
Prosius smiled knowingly.
Moncano clenched his fists, his eyes glowing with cruel bloodlust.
Tianshu and Shake Light stared blankly at the real version of the Sphinx, not knowing what was going on in their minds.
Dongfang Chen was like being hit by a thunderbolt above his head, and all the fog surrounding the Oasis of Death was split in an instant, and he stammered: "Ai, Ai, Elus Finser!"