Chapter 1564: The Reason for the Collapse of Ancient Civilization?

Although I was extremely curious about the history of this planet, the physical and mental exhaustion caused by the previous war quickly made Sandora and I fall asleep (in fact, I still can’t figure out how Sandora fell asleep after being transformed into a planet). , It was really a good night's dream. It wasn't until about three o'clock in the morning the next morning that I was woken up by the sound of the little girl Ellu's snoring.

"Mr. Scholar! Mr. Scholar! Come down for breakfast! Mom's baked pancakes and light vegetable soup!"

Ellu's voice came from downstairs, and the entire second floor could hear it clearly, followed immediately by the sound of Celine teaching her daughter. I rolled over and found that the sky was already bright outside the window, and the sound of people and horses neighing was coming from the direction of the street not far away: it was a good weather, and it seemed that the adventurers in the town were about to set off.

I looked around, but I always felt that something was missing. Then I suddenly felt something soft and warm moving under the quilt. I quickly opened the quilt and saw a rare scene: Sandora's ball was already there. The whole thing lay down like a tortilla...

By the way, the spiritual spark is obviously just a ball of light. Why does it have such rich shape changes? Damn it!

"Sandora, Sandora! Wake up! Your whole body is melting!" I quickly stepped forward to pick up the soft ball of Sandora, watching the latter slowly wake up and Returning to the normal sphere, I didn't know how many grass-mud horses were rolling past like a military parade. After a long while, Sandora finally came to her senses. She landed lightly on my shoulder, her tone still a little confused: "Ah ha, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, this is just a spiritual spark, it will deform on its own if you don't control it carefully. , normal situation. Speaking of which, when I was dreaming yesterday, my dream almost leaked out. Fortunately, it was controlled this time and it only affected a range of two or three light years..."

I fell down in a line of cold sweat. But Shandora herself definitely didn’t realize how strange her current behavior was, so I could only sigh, and then came downstairs to eat with a ball of light on my shoulders.

Celine has already put the food on the table, and the little girl Ellu is running around to help open the doors and windows for ventilation. This is the daily scene of this mother and daughter: Celine no longer shows the same feeling as last night. She looks like a female Space Marine warrior.

But I still remember the scene of her deftly checking the particle rifle. The quaint feudal-era building in front of me and the peaceful democratic woman, the room of advanced equipment upstairs and the future female warrior last night. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, who could have seen this with my own eyes? How many things are connected together?

I shook my head and pushed the memory aside for the time being. Since Celine didn't take the initiative to reveal anything, it's hard to say whether her behavior of hiding a lot of ancient weapons at home is in line with the rules of this world. Therefore, as a newcomer, it's better not to ask about this matter rashly. . After all, she is a clergyman, and the church happens to have the right to access "forbidden knowledge." We are just not sure whether a clergyman of Celine's level is "crossing the line" by collecting such a roomful of things. In case this is normal for others, The fuss he made seemed rather baffling.

"Ha, Mr. Scholar is awake!" Elu heard the movement from the stairs and immediately ran over happily. "Mr. Scholar, come and have dinner quickly! Breakfast costs twenty coppers... Wow! Mr. Scholar has something strange on his shoulder!"

Ellu's exclamation almost resounded throughout the whole house. Celine, who was setting up chairs, was alerted and ran over quickly. I suddenly looked over my shoulder with a strange expression on my face, and then found...a golden ball of light innocently standing there. Jumping around there.

"Sandora...Sandora..." I whispered and poked the Sandora ball. "You seem to be exposed - not invisible!"

"Ah, I forgot," Shandora stopped jumping around immediately, but whispered in a rather embarrassed voice. "It seems that my mental state was too bad. I was a little confused after waking up and didn't pay attention...Why didn't Ajun remind me?"

I was immediately speechless: "How could I find out if you didn't even notice it? In my eyes, whether you are invisible or not is the same. I'm not used to living with a bunch of status bars open in my field of vision at any time."

At this time, Ellu and Celine were still looking at this side with their mouths open. The "Mr. Scholar" in their field of vision was whispering to a strange-looking golden ball of light. The chatting scene was like two ordinary people chatting about ordinary things. Like people, I knew the situation couldn't go on like this based on the way Ellu stared, so I quickly raised my shoulders and discussed with Sandora in the mental connection: "How about you brainwash them both?"

"Psychic sparks can't do such delicate things. They are pure weapons. They are specially made to kill people. Even the smallest effort is probably enough to turn people into fools - and then these two girls will have no choice but to be thrown into the empire by us. The Victim Care Center of the Admiral is here." Sandra shook her head, "Of course it's okay if you want me to silence you."

As soon as I heard this, I broke out in a cold sweat, but at the same time, some contents of the three books I read last night came to my mind. I immediately had an idea, so I raised my shoulders and looked at the game as usual. Lin smiled: "Do you know magic?"

"Magic?" Celine frowned and looked over thoughtfully, "I know that is a more popular thing in the north. There are also people who study magic in the south, but magic is not very popular here in the Principality of Aiwen. Oh, Are you doing magic? Scholar or magician?"

"Actually, this is a very complicated story." When I heard that Celine seemed to have an "unclear" feeling about magic, I knew that the Lost God Cult also had only a little knowledge of these ancient knowledge, and they were the kind of people who "know something but don't know it." "What else?" So I made up my mind and simply made the lie bigger. It would be better if it was too big to be falsified. "This is my lover, named Sandora. Because of some special The reason why she became like this...well, the special reason is that she accidentally had an accident while exploring an ancient magic ruins, and she was turned into an egg by some ancient magic!"

Before I could even finish my words, I felt a solid hit on the back of my head. Then the sandora ball circled around my head and started to teach me a lesson: "Arjun, can't you speak properly? What does it mean to become a person?" Damn it! You can say that my soul is completely destroyed!"

"Anyway, this is the situation," I explained with a wry smile to the dumbfounded Celine mother and daughter while ducking left and right. "When exploring ancient ruins, accidents are inevitable. Now I have been searching all over the world to find Sandora. As for the method of recovery, I also heard that a new ruins have been opened this time, and I want to see if there is anything here that can help her recover."

I even admire myself for telling such a big lie. I said in my heart that thanks to my usual free time, I read novels, watch movies and watch TV series on the Internet, and study the pile of spiritual food collected by Pao Pao, I have accumulated a lot of stories without knowing it. This means that life is not stressful, if there is pressure. Maybe if you throw me out and write novels, you can support your family. This story is vague in all aspects, but it is theoretically difficult to falsify, especially since I attributed most of the things to ancient ruins - even the experts who visually inspected the Lost God Religion couldn't figure out how those old antiques came to be. The thing is, no matter how confused Celine is, she can only stare at the ancients!

Based on my experience traveling in various worlds over the years, telling such a lie in a world with an era of civilization will hardly be questioned. This is the most likely situation for an era of civilization: people are shocked by the superb technology of ancient civilizations. Unable to understand much of ancient civilization. But they are willing to believe in the omnipotence of ancient civilizations through imagination. In short, no matter what bizarre things they encounter, as long as they are related to "ancient technology", it will make sense.

Sure enough, the confusion on Celine's face gradually disappeared, but she still murmured a few words: "Ancient magic still has this kind of effect? ​​Why didn't I hear about it when I was studying in the church... Is it a new lost technology that has appeared in these years?"

"Well, it must be a lost ancient technology," Sandora finally decided to help. She swung in the air angrily, "The evil egg-forming spell!" Then she hit me hard on the head again, and the mental connection His tone was even more indignant: "And Arjun is such an evil talker!"

Celine finally believed this unfalsifiable statement. I also breathed a sigh of relief. I originally thought that if the other party really wanted to get to the bottom of it, I would just leave the place and walk away. But now it seems I don’t have to go to such trouble. At the same time, I was finally certain of one thing: even the clergy of the Lost Religion had a very one-sided understanding of ancient technology, and they must have lost a lot of things in so many years of inheritance. Or maybe Celine is on the fringes of the church and doesn’t know much about it. Anyway, Celine doesn’t understand magic, but she can accept bizarre stories about magic with a high level of tolerance. This can explain a lot about the current situation of the Lost Religion.

I walked to the dinner table holding Sandora Ball. At this time, Ellu asked curiously: "Mr. Scholar has been with Sandora Egg...sister? Why didn't you see it yesterday?"

Sandora disappeared and reappeared several times in an instant, and explained to Ellu with great courage: "Because your sister Dan can become invisible!"

Little girl Ellu's eyes suddenly widened in shock. Then he came up and jumped up and down trying to pull off the Sandora ball - I saw Sandora getting very angry, so I quickly pulled the little girl aside, hugging the Sandora ball and heheed to Celine without any embarrassment. Smirking: "Haha... My girlfriend's current state often arouses suspicion, so she usually stays invisible... Well, this invisibility ability was also obtained after being transformed into this weird form."

Because I am not sure whether the natives of this planet have mastered the invisibility technology, I simply blame Sandora's invisibility on the ancient civilization to save the nonsense. It is said that ancient civilizations are really useful shields. If there is anything that cannot be explained, just point it at them. Their status is roughly equal to that of time and the world. It is all their fault anyway.

Celine understood immediately, nodded and smiled without any doubt: "I understand this kind of thing, so let's eat first."

This time the Sandora ball appeared on the dinner table openly, and rolled around all the food equally openly. Celine looked at this magical ball of light and finally showed a thoughtful look: "In this way... … I felt the table was shaking yesterday. Is this the reason?”

I cut the scones with a little embarrassment, and took out my own dry food to share with Celine and her daughter like yesterday (after all, it’s not good to eat for free at other people’s houses). At the same time, I silently looked at Sandora: "Be good. , don’t bother, you have no mouth now.”

Sandora's whole ball jumped immediately: "I know you still mentioned it! Why don't you not mention it!"

"Actually, when I was studying in the church, I also heard about some adventurers who were 'cursed' because they accidentally touched ancient equipment. Most of them were very troublesome and made the parties involved miserable," Celine looked at Shan curiously. Dora's ball was spinning around the food on the table. Not only did he completely believe what I said, but he also took the initiative to discuss this issue, "Your situation is relatively rare. I have seen more serious cases than yours. But I have never seen it." So... strange. Most of the curses brought out from ancient ruins are diseases or inexplicable infected wounds that cannot be healed. It is rare that such a situation changes a person's life form. This may be the ancient people Transformation magic used to create special warriors? You should ask the clergy of the archdiocese for help. It is very difficult to lift the curse on your own."

When I heard this, I had an unexpected discovery: It turns out that the story I made up at random is not a special case. It has really happened on this planet? And Celine has heard of similar ones!

Just think about it, in a place where civilization has been eradicated, a group of primitive people carrying shovels and going shirtless to dig high-tech ancestral graves would be ridiculous if they didn't encounter point radiation virus infection. Think about it, if the earth's technology is eradicated, a group of What is the result of the apes digging up the waste pool of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant...

"Is there a high probability of the curse of ancient ruins happening? You see, I'm just a scholar. I'm not an adventurer who specializes in studying ruins, so I haven't really been exposed to this industry before." I asked with a normal expression, "It just so happens that the clergy They are very proficient in this area, can you tell me about the ruins?"

"The story of the ruins, you can find endless legends if you search for it, but most of them are actually made up by free adventurers when they are bored," Celine said in her usual gentle and elegant tone, with the temperament of a clergyman. Revealed. "Scholars like you probably don't understand. In fact, exploring ruins is... a very easy thing to make a big mistake. Therefore, every time the ruins are opened, the highest diocese needs to make a careful decision, and the adventurers must be accompanied by a certain number of clergy. Guidance. Otherwise, you are not allowed to start privately - oh, I guess you still know these common sense things."

What else can I say? I could only try my best to nod and pretend that I was familiar with the market. At this time, I really wanted to post a help post on the empire's main website: I had just arrived in a strange world with no civilization, how could I pretend to be here often? It's quite urgent to wait online - I seem to see posts like this often on the Imperial General Website, and they are basically posted by hard-working censors. Many times, I feel the same pain as theirs.

Celine cut a scone for Ellu. Then he turned his head and continued: "You will soon be heading to the ruins with other adventurers? So you will probably see many priests of the religion, but generally those who leave the diocese and go with the adventurers are trainee priests, with knowledge and Their abilities are very limited, but you can still ask them for help. No matter where they are, clergy are willing to help people who are troubled by ancient facilities. Oh, you mean me? I am indeed a clergy, and an official priest... But you I also know that I have been away from the core of religion for many years, and after marrying an adventurer, I will lose the 'religious authority', which means that I only retain the name of a priest and some rights to know ancient knowledge, which cannot be invoked. There are no resources from the diocese, so I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do about the problems your lover encounters.”

Celine no longer doubts Sandora's problem with the ball, but takes the initiative to rely on the explanation I gave her for everything. This is the benefit of closed knowledge and unequal information: she can only try her best to learn from the things she knows. Seek explanations, and never take the initiative to think of such mysterious things as aliens. If you see a handsome Greek guy on earth wearing golden armor and posing on the side of the road, your first reaction will definitely be that he is a cosplayer or performance artist. I don’t believe that normal people on earth can really think that he is a real god.

"There is always a solution to Sandora's problems. Just talk about the ruins."

I saw that the other party's enthusiasm had gone astray, so I quickly brought the topic back to the ruins.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I tend to get off topic," Celine smiled apologetically, "Speaking of ruins, we all know that they are taboo things left by ancient civilizations. Ancient civilizations are extremely powerful and can explore the mysteries between the stars. The moment they delved into the origin of matter, they learned knowledge, analyzed the world, and once reached the realm of God. God was tolerant, so he did not prohibit people from delving into this knowledge at the beginning. However, the ancient people's wanton use of this knowledge eventually led to Disasters. Classicalists say that disasters are sent by gods to punish arrogant mortals, while neocanonicists believe that disasters come from unspeakable disasters hidden deep in the world. These disasters led to the first great destruction... Anyway, no matter Why, the ancient civilization became extinct, leaving only ruins all over the world, and the Lost God Cult is the first generation of 'penitents' who accepted the teachings of the God of Technology and the God of Magic. As you can see, we treat it with caution Relics around the world, and guide and cultivate professions such as adventurers. Although many adventurers move freely, they are still managed by sects, so that we can ensure that forbidden knowledge will not be rashly reopened... Oh, these are all The content in the sermon book is an occupational disease, and I can’t help but speak in such a preachy tone when it comes to religious matters. Please don’t mind, you should be familiar with these.”

"Um, it's okay, it sounds interesting." I looked back on the religious story Celine told me with an interested expression. "So, even within the sect, we are not sure what caused the extinction of the ancient civilization. ?”

Celine's expression was very serious: "In the age of gods, mortals cannot fathom it." (To be continued...)