Chapter 919: Inherited Civilizations
"Is this the Brangu Tree?" Sylvia looked up at the huge plant in front of her and quickly recognized it as an ancient tree that had become extinct in Vilon.
"Look over there. Leo's gaze only glanced over the ancient trees, and then landed on the ruined building next to it, which was covered in a large number of vines and moss.
It is clear that these dilapidated structures were built by humans in terms of shape and size.
Although it was surprising to see human buildings here, the two of them did not have any doubts because in a certain way, the people of the Vilun Continent could be said to come from the primitive tribes living in the Black Forest, and it was not surprising to find human buildings here.
"Biroque period architecture. After Leo cleared a few vines to reveal the main body of the buildings, Sylvia immediately recognized the origin of the buildings from the characteristic reliefs on the buildings.
The Birok period was the middle and early civilization of the Black Forest tribal civilization, and it was also a civilization that transitioned from matrilineal clan tribes to patrilineal clan tribes, and a large number of totems and symbols representing patriarchal characteristics have appeared in the architecture of this period, and the tribes of this period also began to use these symbols to record various legends of the tribal ancestors.
Although the civilization process of the Vilon-world is only a short period of time, less than 50 years before and after, and it has not left too many civilizational achievements to boast of, the symbolic record method created by itself is one of the main components of the world's writing in the Viron.
Leo simply searched in these dilapidated buildings, and soon found that there were some patterns carved on a broken wall, and secondly, it was not difficult to see from the patterns that these seemed to be related to the cosmic civilization, because he saw a spaceship with obvious characteristics and some aliens that looked like monsters, and several of them were easy to guess their origin because of their obvious physical characteristics.
"Are these clans?" Sylvia naturally noticed the patterns, but she thought of the aliens as clansmen.
"It's not. Leo shook his head, then pointed to the sky, without further explanation.
When Sylvia saw it, she immediately understood what Leo wanted to express, and then looked at the relief again with curiosity, and said, "Do they also have anything to do with the visitors from the depths of the starry sky?"
"Perhaps!" Leo replied vaguely.
Leo didn't know how to explain Sylvia to the alien races of these cosmic civilizations, because if he wanted to explain it thoroughly until Sylvia understood, then he might need to explain for several months before Sylvia could completely understand the origin of some concepts such as the universe and alien races.
In this ruin, the two of them did not find anything useful except for the mural, so they had no intention of staying any longer, but continued to punctuate the next location.
On the way to the road sign in the back, I don't know if it was because of the effect of the contract ring, or because of other reasons, although Leo and Sylvia both sensed some mysterious creatures hiding in the surrounding woods, many of them with obvious hostility, but none of them rushed out to attack them.
When they spent nearly six hours and walked through five location landmarks, they finally came to the periphery of the territory controlled by the mysterious ancient being, perhaps because of the deterrent effect of the mysterious ancient being, all the black forest creatures who were secretly watching them were not following, and the number of black forest creatures around them was also rapidly decreasing, and it felt as if this place had entered the forbidden area.
"Look!" Sylvia suddenly pointed to a shadow in the gap between the trees in front of her.
Leo was also a little surprised when he saw what the shadow was, and this surprise was not the same as the tribal building of the Biroke period, but the surprise full of doubts, because the building he saw turned out to be a hunter's hut.
The two walked over, and after seeing the appearance of the hunter's hut clearly, they couldn't help but glance at each other and exchange opinions with each other.
It can be seen that the shape of this hut is a typical triangular house building of the Second Dynasty period, which was particularly popular in the farmstead during the Second Dynasty period, because it is easy to build, the internal space is abundant, and the construction materials are everywhere, so this kind of building can be said to be the only house building for all the people on the bottom at that time.
However, with the fall of the Second Dynasty and the beginning of the Third Dynasty, the brick and stone castle architecture became the mainstream, and the early farmers lived in the castle, farming outside during the day, and returning to the castle at night, so this kind of triangular house architecture also disappeared.
Now that they see the triangular house, the first thing that comes to Leo and Sylvia's mind is that it was built by people who had been displaced to the Black Forest during the Second Dynasty.
Because the Black Forest was already a forbidden area of life during the Second Dynasty, anyone who broke in never went out again, but because of the system of the Second Dynasty, a large number of low-level peasants and slaves would live a life that was worse than death, and they would eventually choose to flee into the Black Forest to escape the exploitation and enslavement of the nobles of the Second Dynasty.
Therefore, during the Second Dynasty, there were a lot of people who fled into the Black Forest, according to the statistics of later scholars, at least more than one million, and this is only the statistics that can be checked, if you count the number of people who have no data to check, this number is not a problem to increase by four or five times.
But after taking a closer look at this triangular house, they felt that something was wrong, because although this house was old, it was built in a year or two at most, and it was definitely not as long as the Second Dynasty.
"Could it be that those who fled to the Black Forest adapted to it and are living to this day? Leo suddenly had a guess at this time, and said in a deep voice.
Sylvia was stunned when she heard this, thought about it carefully, and nodded, it seemed to her that Leo's guess was the only answer.
The two of them walked outside the hut, unlatched the wooden door from the hut door, and walked inside.
The interior of the hut was a little dim, because it had been uninhabited for a long time, it had been covered with a layer of dust, and in the cracks of the house, some vines had squeezed in and grown.
The two of them glanced around the room and found many things that were common to hunters' huts, such as knives dipped in oil drums, bows that had been lightly processed, and some dry food that had been completely sealed.
At this time, Leo saw a wrapped book on the head of the bed at the other end of the room, so he walked over, picked it up, opened it and looked through it.
This book is not an important book, just a book, and the text used to write this book is Old Franic, but in terms of grammar, diction, etc., this Old French language seems to have undergone some improvements.
Since the discovery of the voyage, the connection between countries has also become closer, the phenomenon of the integration of various Chinese languages has become increasingly prominent, almost all the languages of the country have the habit of making words and sentences in other four or five countries, such as the current French language is a new language formed after integrating a large number of Sigma, English and Mares, although the grammatical level is still the same set of ancient French, but the specific vocabulary and sentence structure are completely different from ancient French.
And now Leo sees that the Old French language used in this book does not show any signs of integrating into other languages in the outside world, but more like some changes in the use of Old French over the years, so that Leo, who knows Old Franic, will not have any obstacles when he reads this book.
"Look at the book. Leo flipped through the book for a moment, then handed it to Sylvia, who walked over to the oil drum with the weapon in it, and pulled it out of it.
The liquid in this bucket is not so much oil as the sap of a tree, somewhat similar to the oil that the Earth Federation would say, but also different. Just like oil, this sap can also lubricate, can help steel resist oxidation, and is used in all steam machinery, but this oil cannot burn, and because it can cover the flame and extinguish it, it is often used as a weapon to extinguish fires.
In contrast to steam machinery, which only appeared for a few hundred years, this kind of tree sap extracted by special methods appeared a long time ago, and there is no consensus on the exact time, but it is certain that it was during the period of the Black Forest tribes.
Although the juice was developed during the Black Forest tribal period, it has undergone many improvements over the millennia, the most recent of which was after the advent of steam machinery.
At that time, steam machine builders needed a juice with fewer impurities and more lubrication, so they developed a filtration and purification device that allowed the juice to be further purified and eventually turned into the transparent mechanical oil that is now used in the outside world.
But now the oil in the oil barrel in front of Leo is still quite clear, and there are not many impurities, but the color is reddish-brown, which is the lubricant that was used before the latest refining method appeared, and this reddish-brown lube was used by the knightly squires of the Second Dynasty to maintain the armor of their masters.
After the establishment of the Third Dynasty, the Knight King discovered that this armor oil would easily become dusty when applied too much, resulting in a stickiness that would interfere with the movement of the armor wearer, so he asked his scholars to improve the oil and purify it a little.
Therefore, from all indications, the habits, objects, and language of the people who built this hunter's hut were all inherited from the Second Dynasty, and if there was a settlement built by humans here, it was probably related to the poor people of the Second Dynasty who fled to the Black Forest.
Leo tells Sylvia about his findings, asking for her opinion.
After hearing this, Sylvia closed the book in her hand, thought for a moment, and said, "Do you know the book Doris Wonderland Roaming?"
When Leo heard this, he thought for a moment and said, "The fairy tale book?"
"Yes, it's the fairy tale book. Sylvia nodded and said, "Don't you think what the book says is similar to what we found?"
Doris Wonderland Roaming is a fairy tale that has been circulating in the French Empire for many years, and the author of this book is still unknown, the only thing that is certain is that this author is a woman.
The content of this book is very simple, that is, a Farman named Doris accidentally broke into the Black Forest, and then was chased by the monsters in the Black Forest, escaped to a fairyland-like world, and lived in that world for a while, and then because of a play, accidentally fell into a tree hole, and returned to the French Empire.
The story of this book is not very exciting, what is wonderful is the author's various descriptions of the fairyland world, which makes people seem to see a living Français Second Dynasty, so many people who study the history of Francois will use this fairy tale book as a reference book for the study of the Francose Second Dynasty, and for this reason, many people think that the person who wrote this book is a scholar who is proficient in the folklore history of the Second Dynasty.
Leo himself was not interested in fairy tale books, but when he read the books of the Second Dynasty from Rembrandt, Rembrandt introduced him to the book Doris in Wonderland, and he only read it once, included it in his own database and put it aside.
Now after Sylvia's reminder, Leo remembers the book, remembers the contents of the book, which, as Sylvia said, is indeed very similar to what they see now.
For example, the reason why the girl named Doris got lost was because she passed through a large tree hole in a huge tree, and when she was chased by the monsters of the Black Forest, she ran away in a panic, and finally she escaped to a forest, and the monsters that were chasing her suddenly retreated inexplicably, and then she walked through the forest and saw a fairyland world.
The reason why it is said to be a fairyland is because she saw that the castle of the fairy world was shrouded in light, dispelling the darkness of the Black Forest, and the people living in the castle of that fairy world were not only humans, but also many magical intelligent creatures, such as wings, the upper body of a human and the lower half of the body of a bird, such as the stone people who could curl up and turn into a stone ball, and so on.
After going through it in his head, Leo said to Sylvia, "It seems that there is a civilization that follows the Second Dynasty here, and the author of Doris Wonderland has also been here. ”
Sylvia smiled, "I'm somewhat interested in this civilization. ”
Leo thought for a moment and said, "Since we have come to the Black Forest, there is no need to be in such a hurry, we can see what the civilization of the Second Dynasty is like in the Black Forest, and then move on." ”
Sylvia knew that Leo was accommodating herself, and a smile appeared on her face.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the house, and Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, and walked out of the hunter's hut, looking at the bushes where the footsteps came from.