Jane doesn't like light sources. In order to facilitate communication between us, I didn't use a flashlight all the way. Anyway, with Jane, who can see at night, leading the way, I didn't need to think about these things. Now that I heard that we had arrived, I was curious about what their tribe looked like, so I used a flashlight.
As a result, it didn't matter when I saw it. My heart tightened at that time.
I saw that 20 or 30 meters ahead of us, it was obviously a settlement with people and life. All the buildings were modified on the basis of the original Atlantis ruins. After several repairs, a tribe was finally formed.
However, this tribe is now a bit bleak. At the entrance, a large number of corpses were placed in a row, just like dried fish in coastal areas. They were densely packed. When the flashlight was shone over, it was dark and the scene was shocking.
"This is..."
My eyelids twitched violently, and I turned my head to look at Jane, only to find that her face was full of sadness, and she even turned her face away gently, as if she didn't want to see this scene.
"Let's go, let's go into the tribe!"
Jane sighed softly, and said as she walked forward: "This is the good thing done by the demons who entered here recently. They slaughtered more than 3,800 of my tribesmen here. The bodies have been unable to be dealt with for a long time. There is no choice but to leave them here and deal with them slowly."
Why not burn them?
I almost said this when I opened my mouth, but when it came to my lips, I realized that it was particularly stupid, so I swallowed it back.
Jane and the others are afraid of fire and light! !
Let's not talk about this one, just talk about the environment here. This is underground, and the ventilation is not good. Once a fire is set, the smoke will billow. How long will it take to dissipate? I'm afraid that it won't dissipate, and they will all be suffocated to death in the end!
Jane seemed to have guessed what I was thinking. She turned her head and looked at me and said, "Our people will drag the bodies into the sea and sacrifice them to the sea god. We survive by hunting animals in the sea all our lives. When we die, we should give our bodies to nature and return them to the ocean."
I nodded, indicating that I understood. This should be a kind of worship and awe of the living environment, or gratitude. Compared with this, humans are inferior.
Walking all the way to the village, Jane seemed to open up and told me a lot.
For example, the characteristics of their tribe.
In the long years, they have been evolving in a way that fits the environment in order to survive. In order to fight the giant beasts in the sea, their strength is far superior to that of humans, especially their arm strength. At the same time, their lifespan is as long as more than 300 years. All of this is conducive to their survival in the dangerous environment of the seabed, but...nature is fair!
They have gained so many benefits, and the price they paid is also very obvious. This price is their fertility!
Their fertility is extremely poor!
They have to be at least over a hundred years old to reach true sexual maturity, and then female mermaids need to be pregnant for three years before they can give birth to an offspring. Moreover, because the underwater environment has changed their bodies, each female mermaid can only secrete a few eggs in her lifetime, that is, she can only give birth a few times at most. In addition, there is no medical care, food shortages and other reasons, the mortality rate of mermaids is very high. In a word, they are still at the level of slash-and-burn civilization. Because of the harsh environment and their own fertility defects, their population grows very slowly. From the fall of Atlantis civilization to the present, nine thousand years have passed, and their race has always maintained between 7,000 and 8,000!
This time, Duolun and the K Party entered the seabed and attacked them one after another, causing half of their tribe to be reduced, and 80% of them were males. Males are the foundation of their survival and the strongest fighting force for hunting those powerful marine creatures.
Jane's tribe has actually reached a precarious point now and can no longer withstand any tossing! Perhaps she realized this, so she gave up the siege on us and chose the most aggrieved way to resolve the conflict!
I felt a little sympathetic after hearing this, and by then I had basically entered the tribe.
Because there were so many corpses, there was a bloody smell here, and the air was very bad. As soon as I walked in, I frowned and thought to myself that it was fortunate that it was on the seabed. If it was on the coast, these corpses would probably rot in a short time, and then there would definitely be a plague!
I hope Jane can get rid of these corpses as soon as possible!
At this time, Qingyi and the others had basically let down their guard and began to move towards Jian. Under Jian's leadership, we passed through the tribe and headed straight for the ancestral land she mentioned. Wherever we passed, the mermaids in the tribe looked at us with unfriendly eyes. If it weren't for Jian's company, I think these mermaids would have rushed up and torn us to pieces. I guess these mermaids were also miserable because of Duolun and the others. They were very angry about creatures of our size. We were very nervous all the way, but fortunately there was no danger!
This settlement is not big, and it only takes about seven or eight miles to cross it. We didn't stay here for long. After leaving this settlement, we walked for nearly 20 to 30 minutes, and finally reached the end of this underground world. The space excavated here is very narrow. In the end, there is only a corridor three or four meters wide and more than one meter high. We walked along the corridor for less than 100 meters. At this time, Jian finally stopped, and fell to the ground with her upper body, worshiping the front.
"There are really murals on both sides!"
The fat man opened the flashlight and shone it forward. In front of us, there was a very long corridor that basically could not be seen at a glance. At least, the light from the strong flashlight in our hands could not reach the end. The earth walls on both sides of the corridor were all densely carved, and it was obvious that they were murals recording the history of Atlantis.
Although it has been nine thousand years, this mural is very well preserved. The beginning of this mural is not far from us, and then it spreads all the way to the depths of the corridor!
As for the beginning of this mural, it is just a sentence, a text!
This is the only text description in the mural that I can see now. It is engraved on the earth wall in ancient Greek, and the engraving is very deep. Obviously, when the craftsmen engraved these words, they were very excited and exerted great strength!
Qingyi and the others also noticed the only string of words in the murals and came up to me. Fatty even asked me directly: "Hey, Xiaotian, what does this sentence mean?"
In fact, I didn't quite understand this sentence, because it used the two abandoned roots in ancient Greek in many places. I could only guess the basic meaning. After hesitating for a while, I said: "The end of civilization is destruction and death."
"Unlucky!"
The fat man curled his lips at the time and said disdainfully: "Humans create civilization to live better, how can it be destruction and death?"
I smiled bitterly. I don't know the final experience of the Atlanteans. I'm afraid I will never understand their state of mind when they wrote this sentence?
"I think you should stop paying attention to the history of Atlantis!"
At this time, Rosa suddenly sighed softly beside her, squatted down and stared at the corner of the earth wall opposite us, and said in a deep voice: "That sentence appears again!"
Rosa's tone was very solemn, and our attention was attracted at that time, so I stopped looking at the mural and simply moved closer to Rosa. With the light of the flashlight in their hands, I could vaguely see that there was a string of beautiful Chinese characters in the small corner that Rosa was staring at - I know you will come, leave here quickly, it will soon become hell, it will be too late if you don't leave, this is the last chance, it's still time to turn around now, remember! Remember!
This font is familiar, exactly the same as what we saw before entering this underground world, obviously from the same person's handwriting!
Who left this word? Who is he reminding? What does he know?
After meeting Jane, I have confirmed that in the past 9,000 years since Atlantis fell silent, only two groups of people came here before us. One group was Duolun and the Undying Corpse, and the other group was the K-Party members!
The one who left this message must be one of these two groups!!
Who is it?
I was full of questions.