Chapter 1302 There Is Something in the Stone

The clay tablet with a weak psionic response was placed on the coffee table in the center of the living room. Half of the family gathered around it, curiously looking at this unattractive thing, and the fox himself who brought the clay tablet back But as if it had nothing to do with her, she was swishing her tail not far away: she had just been ordered to take a bath, and the down on her tail was too thick to dry easily, and now she looked like a drowned rat.

"It was confirmed to be a psionic reaction, and an extremely small amount of psionic crystal debris was found in the clay tablet material."

Shandora used her nails to scrape off a few scraps from the clay tablet. Golden light swam in her eyes, and she had entered the high-speed analysis mode. This ancient artifact that had been buried for thousands of years was scanned by Shandora. The cocoon was peeled off, revealing a little secret, "I estimate that there should be more psionic energy left at the excavation site. The crystal fragments mixed here may not have been added consciously by the ancients. The psionic energy crystal is extremely strong, and it is impossible for primitive humans to master it. How to grind crystals: And grinding psionic crystals is an act of seeking death."

To be honest, if it was a few years ago, the appearance of such a clay tablet might have made our family act for a while, but now, as the empire expands, the things we have to pay attention to every day become more and more complicated, such as the appearance of imperial ruins on the earth. Or something like the aboriginals from somewhere in the universe having their brains ripped out again, is no longer an "incident". Usually we can get it done by sending a few agents or an action team out, and there is no need for such trivial things. A group of Xiling leaders were dispatched. But this time, we all gathered around such a dark patch of mud for only one reason:

Xiaoxue jumped nearly two meters when she saw the clay tablet, and then she said that this thing would reveal a huge secret...

I think that naughty kid's reaction was a bit overreacted, but her work ethic as a prophet is still pretty good. The tablet must not be as simple as it looks - but what does it actually say?

Although Shandora is knowledgeable and has learned about the history of the people on Earth out of curiosity, she has not really studied this aspect carefully. The cuneiform characters in front of us that look like tadpoles look like heavenly books to us. .

"Do you know Qianqian?" I poked Qianqian's arm, wondering why she was also an archaeologist. Uncle Xu studies the ancestral graves of all mankind all day long. He claims to be proficient in ten ancient writings that have become extinct on the earth. Maybe he is just a little bit...

"Is it possible?" He gave me a brief glance, "Do you think cuneiform is the Xinhua Dictionary? Not many people in the world know this thing. My dad said that he knows ten ancient scripts, but he is just bragging to you..."

Me: "...Then let's find an expert who knows cuneiform and let love know no bounds..."

"What are you looking at here?! Let me go in and have a look!" I was thinking about where to get a paleographer to translate this clay tablet. A girl's voice with a rising pitch suddenly came from outside the circle of people. I was stunned for a moment, and then I saw a blond head trying to squeeze through the gap between Qian Qian and her sister and appeared in front of me. It was that person. Idiot, bratty, short-breasted, and arrogant...Mother Shining. Oh, by the way, I am now used to calling her nanny.

The moment I saw this flat-chested dwarf, I was a little stunned, and it wasn't for anything else. It's because this guy has been invisible at home for a long time. Since becoming Little Bubble's nanny, Niang Shining found that she could not resist fate, so she decided to infinitely reduce her sense of existence to show that she was not defeated by fate but was too lazy to toss with fate. All her daily activities were to follow Little Bubble. Xipao provides toys at all times, but otherwise does not interfere with anything at home. As you know, we are a noisy family, and the most indispensable thing in the whole big house is guys jumping up and down. In such a large environment, if you make a little noise, you will have no sense of presence. What's more, Niang Xingxian is determined to make herself a transparent person (the main purpose is to lose this person?), if she doesn't When it comes out, maybe I have completely forgotten that there is such a troublesome girl at home...

After sighing for a moment about the existence of this airport, I suddenly remembered one thing: cuneiform writing, Sumerian culture, Mesopotamia, free coolies...

"Jill, do you know these words?" I waved to my mother. He called her forward and pointed to the cuneiform characters on the clay tablets that looked like dried tadpoles.

If I remember correctly, Gilmei’s true identity is the king of the city-state of Uruk in another world, and the city-state of Uruk is an important part of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization in the Mesopotamia - okay, I I knew that at that time we went to a strange world with a strange history. And Gilmei is also a strange ancient heroic spirit, but generally speaking, the surface world of that world is 90% similar to the earth here. The two are considered high imitation parallel universes. I am eager to hope now. The era when Gilmei lived also used the same cuneiform script as the Sumerians here, so we don’t have to tie up archaeologists...

"What do you want from me?" Gilmei's eyes suddenly lit up. She keenly noticed that the moment for her to resist her fate may have come. "Then I will respectfully ask this king..."

"Pickles and pancakes for two weeks, or you can have the same amount of pocket money as Little Paopao from now on. It's your choice." I looked at the nanny with a straight face expressionlessly. She was already well pampered at home, even though she occasionally She was bullied for a while, but in the empire, the status of "Princess's Best Friend" is already half of the royal family, but her bad temper has not been satisfied at all: You can't spoil her at this time.

Jill was stunned for a while, then she obediently held up the clay tablet with her flat mouth, but soon her dissatisfaction was attracted by the thing in front of her that made her full of nostalgia. She sighed softly: "Hometown, and... The memories of this king’s lifetime…this is really distressing.”

I was silent for a moment, then stepped forward and patted her hair. Although I would occasionally bully this unlucky nanny, she was now a member of the family. When I heard her lamenting about her hometown and the things that happened during her lifetime, I felt Still a bit...

"Looking at this thing reminds me of the days when I was reading and literacy," Jill cried bitterly, "You don't know how troublesome it is to write this thing. If possible, I really don't want to see this thing again..."

Me: "..." All the feelings I had just now were in vain, right?

"How is it?" Qian Qian jumped forward impatiently, "What's written on it?"

"Wait a minute, I haven't smoothed it out yet," Niang Xingxuan waved her hand impatiently, "This is not the same as the hometown characters in my impression. It seems that the grammar is a bit deformed, and many characters... seem to be older Style. But don’t worry, as long as you have time, you can always translate it slowly. Now I can understand the first sentence. It is saying that this clay tablet records a story from afar. And it seems to be related to mythology. In addition, here - —”

As Ji Shanshan spoke, she pointed to a few symbols in the corners of the clay tablets. The places were damaged and some words might be missing, but she still saw something: "The clay tablets can only hold a limited amount of text. So there are many long ones. Books are composed of many clay tablets. At the end of each 'page', this will be used to mark its 'page number' and how many tablets there should be in the entire set of clay tablets. But there is something missing here. I can only tell that the whole set of clay tablets should be composed of seven parts, but I can’t tell which part this one is.”

It seems that asking Ji Shanshan to help translate this thing is indeed the right choice. In our eyes, these muddy lumps really look like heavenly scriptures. Ji Shanshan can actually read the page number!

But now I'm a little worried about one thing: the entire set of clay tablets consists of seven "pages", and God knows if the remaining six clay tablets are still there. This thing looks brittle than Lilina's lower limit, and it has been buried underground for thousands of years. It is a miracle that a piece of it can be preserved intact. Nowadays, most of the clay tablets unearthed by archaeologists around the world are incomplete, because if they are not careful, they will be ruined.

The most terrible thing is the water seeping underground... According to the fox's description, she dug this thing from a stone cave, and she didn't see other clay tablets nearby at that time, so could the other parts have been destroyed?

"I don't know what's going on," Ji Shanshan frowned and studied the writing on the clay tablet while responding to my concerns without raising his head. "Books are precious - in my time, even clay tablets like this were listed as palace treasures for safekeeping, because only a few nobles and scribes knew these words, and they had to write a Writing a 'book' is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, each such clay tablet book will be kept in a ceramic box that is moisture-proof and very strong. Like this... fox, please confirm..."

As soon as Ji Shanshan started speaking, she was rudely interrupted by the fox girl: "I'm not a fox, I'm the fox fairy!"

Me: "..." In fact, when other people in the family call this nine-tailed girl a fox, the latter has given up on refuting it. Only Ji Shanshan will be pushed back on the spot when she calls it like this. Sure enough, this second-rate fox can only be in the house now. Are you left destitute in front of an unlucky nanny?

However, Ji Shanshan is not a good-tempered guy. She just tolerates being bullied by others. How can she survive if she is bullied by a nine-tailed husky? So she turned a blind eye to the stern voice of the demon fox girl: "Fox, are you sure this clay tablet has been scattered?"

"Of course," the fox's ears twitched, feeling a little depressed that he couldn't even calm down a nanny, "I have a super memory, and I still remember the situation in the cave. This lump of mud. It was laid flat on the ground. There was nothing around it, and there was no ceramic book box like you mentioned. Moreover, the cave looked very small, and it didn't look like it could hide anything..."

"It shouldn't be," Ji Shanshan raised his head and said decisively, "This clay tablet records a story about a god. It also records the names of priests and elders, and has symbols of stars and rivers: these contents are in That era had extremely serious meanings. The person responsible for recording them should be someone from the royal family or a priest. Moreover, this clay tablet should be properly preserved in a gorgeous place and would never be scattered around randomly. The kind of cave that I mentioned. And there is another thing that I am very concerned about: I don’t know the god recorded on it. When I was alive, I traveled to many places, the whole world... Well, I mean the entire two countries. There is no god named 'Xin' in the river basin. The alternation of gods in that era was of great significance. Although I have no good opinion of gods, I must know these things. According to the customs and customs shown on this clay tablet, it The writing time is not much different from the time period in my memory. Where did this god named 'Xin' come from?"

"You forgot one thing," I reminded Ji Shanshan, "you are from another world... Although there is also a city-state of Uruk over there, there may be differences between the two worlds. Maybe the two rivers on this earth Was there a god named 'Xin' who once appeared in the basin?"

Ji Shanshan said oh. It seems that she also thinks this is possible, and then she points to the clay tablet: "Anyway, the things on this are not complete, so I can only translate it slowly first. It would be better if you find a way to find other clay tablets. Contact us Context, I will soon know the origin of the god it refers to."

I patted the head of the fox girl next to me who was playing with her tail. "Fox, can you still find that place?"

"Yes!" the fox said confidently, while continuing to shake his wet tail, making water everywhere in the living room: long-haired guys are in trouble after taking a bath. Looking at the water stains on the ground, the sister finally couldn't help it anymore. She took out nine hair dryers from her pocket and gave them to the fox. The latter suddenly realized. A tail rolled up a hair dryer and started drying itself there like a jet fighter...

"Tomorrow you take a few imperial agents and go to that place again," I said casually. "And don't shake the water in the living room after taking a shower. Remember to use a hair dryer..."

The fox nodded in the hot whirlwind she created, not knowing what she heard...

Had breakfast the next day. The fox led a dozen imperial agents and set off. Those agents were all active on the earth back then. They had excavated all the Xiling relics found on the earth, so they were rich in experience. I estimate that the excavation team would be able to send new news no later than that afternoon. Ji Shanshan continued to delve into the black mud lump. I don’t know if the psionic crystal dust mixed in the clay tablet played a role. In fact, 80 to 90% of the text on the clay tablet that seems to be easily weathered and not well preserved is still legible. , it seems that it has not been corroded by thousands of years of underground moist environment at all. However, Ji Shanshan's translation work seems to be a bit difficult: the clay tablets are indeed the cuneiform script used by the Sumerian civilization, but the two worlds are two worlds after all, even if the information disturbance makes the two worlds in a certain period There is almost complete overlap in history, but there are also many deviations from this overlap. It turned out that the cuneiform characters were different from the characters in Gilmei's memory. There were errors in grammar and individual characters. She needed to reorganize and guess for a long time before she could smooth out what was said in one sentence.

I guess her reading of those clay tablet books is similar to how I used to read physics books: she basically knows every word. But I just don’t know what you are talking about...

And while I was waiting for the reply from the fox, an emergency call came from Shadow City.

The information came from Sivis, who found "something jaw-dropping" in the pile of broken stones among the Fialli people.

At that moment, I immediately took Sandora and Xiaoxue and rushed to the headquarters. The reason why I brought Xiaoxue with me is because I think this girl's prediction ability may be useful - Miss Lin will be at home with her parents these two days. By the way, I want to explain why she asks for leave from home every now and then and tells her to go to the Antarctic Circle to catch penguins. (It was just such a messy excuse anyway), so he could only run around with Xiaoxue, an unreliable daughter. According to experience, whenever we find something that no one knows what it is used for, bringing a prophet to the scene can always help.

The strange large rocks unloaded from the Fiyali merchant ship were piled in a small garna behind the headquarters. It seems a little strange to build a warehouse next to the headquarters, but there is a reason for this: for a long time, we have always picked up some strange things when we go out. Sometimes they are research samples, sometimes they are unknown substances, and some It was time to capture the fallen apostle's armaments. As time went by, Tavel and Sivis simply built a lot of temporary warehouses like this inside and outside the Shadow Fortress to pile up junk - well, pile up treasures. The warehouse behind the headquarters was used as a temporary workstation. The stones unloaded from the Fialli merchant ship were sorted and scanned on site. Sivis personally watched the work here.

When we arrived, Sivis and a group of assistant technicians and Tavel's God-knows-what-quality projection had been waiting for a long time. The inner space of Gnaku has been expanded to an extremely huge extent, with various ore samples suspended on countless anti-gravity platforms. Sivis and her assistants are pointing at the largest piece among them, each A scanning device was placed in a circle around the stone.

"Is this what it is?"

I looked at the huge meteorite sample in front of me, and I couldn't see anything special about it. It is an inconspicuous iron-grey color, with a rough surface and pits. The overall shape is irregular and fusiform, and the overall height is about five or six meters: it looks like the size of a small house.

I have seen too many of these stones. They are the most indispensable in the asteroid belt. They are generally rich in iron and other rich minerals in the universe. There may be ice crystals or heavy metals inside. The "core". Judging from its appearance alone, I don't see anything about it that would make someone as calm as Sivis "flabbergasted."

"Inside the meteorite." Tavel's mass projection pointed at the fixed data terminal about half a person's height next to it. On the projection displayed in front of the terminal, I saw that there seemed to be a dense core inside the meteorite: this core is different from the surrounding rocks. The color, luster and texture of the substance are completely different. It seems to be a piece of foreign matter wrapped in it.

"What is this?" I raised my eyebrows curiously.

Tavel and Sivis said in unison: "Things from... my hometown!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone Users please go and read.)