Chapter 1,307 A Confusing Mess

The seven clay tablets excavated from the cave describe in detail the dialogue between the god named "Xin" and the locals, as well as the form and power of this god in the eyes of the local indigenous people.

Of course, there has indeed been a god named "Xin" in human history. This god comes from the Semitic moon god, and he also has an inheritance relationship with the Sumerian god Nanna - but it is obviously not a mud god. The one mentioned on the page. As for whether the "Xin" mentioned in the seven-page clay tablets influenced other Semitic and Sumerian pantheons in the following hundreds of years, we still don't know, but based on the information at hand, the clay tablets The god described in the book is more like an alien with high technology——

The clay tablet records this: The powerful god "Xin" first appeared in front of people on earth riding a sky car that could shine and spit fire. The flames on the sky car were different from the flames in the mortal world. It had the sky. color, and it is still - from this we judge that this so-called "flame" should be the blue light emitted by the nether energy engine. The nether energy engine is not driven by the reaction force generated by the jet working fluid. It will Producing a foggy and solidified light effect, this should be the "still flame" mentioned on the clay tablets. The clay tablets record that a man of authority and recognition as a wise man received this messenger from heaven, and their conversation had several witnesses. These people and the "wise man" relayed to him the warnings they heard from the gods. The scribe left behind these seven "pages." "Xin" claims to be in a wandering state. He is a god who is constantly traveling. He told the locals a lot of incomprehensible knowledge, such as the shape of the earth and the end of the sky, but the locals could not fully understand these. "Xin" also tried to mobilize the local indigenous people to build some large buildings and let them follow certain astrological laws. to arrange these buildings. According to the writing on the clay tablet. The people who participated in this "listening" finally understood "Xin"'s teachings as the secrets of God. They could not connect them with the earth where they lived, and they did not know how to verify them, so they chose to directly regard these contents as myths. The story is recorded in the "book". "Xin" stayed on the earth for more than ten days to complete some kind of "inspection" and "teaching". During this period, he performed miracles several times, helping the locals drive away huge beasts and extinguish the sky fire (we speculate that it may be a lightning strike in the city that ignited wooden houses or something else). The last one of "Xin" The miracle was to summon out of thin air the sky carriage he came on, and it flew into the sky in full view of everyone. And disappeared instantly after taking off about tens of meters.

The weapons used by "Xin" are described in the clay tablets: One of them looked like a long staff, with a metallic sheen, a shiny surface, and a straight bolt of thunder emitted from the front end. This weapon destroyed a group of huge bison that were infesting the city. . The bison burned into ashes instantly after being hit by the thunder. The bison that was not directly hit also had half of its body burned off, and the remaining half of its body took on a gem-like appearance. Here is a detail: A group of local greedy people saw "gem-like" crystals produced on the bison after being burned by the fire of God. They had evil thoughts, so they secretly took away a few crystals from the bison carcass, but this The move was immediately discovered by the gods, who ordered those greedy people to throw away the gems immediately. And wash yourself all over, and throw away immediately the clothes you used to wrap and hide the gems. Most of those greedy people immediately repented and complied, so they saved their lives after suffering a slight fever, but one person was extremely rebellious. After throwing away the gem, he couldn't help but pick it up secretly, and hid it from the gods. Three days later, the man who hid the gem died of severe pain all over his body. His death was horrific, his hands were ulcerated, and his skin was split one by one. The edges of the wound were like those of the bison burned to death by God's heavenly fire: crystallized. These characteristics are described by locals in a mythical tone, which may be baffling to outsiders, but we are simply too familiar with it:

This is a symptom of psionic radiation, a crystallization syndrome caused by psionic crystals that have not been safely handled. "Xin" ordered those who stole the crystal to take a shower and throw away their clothes, just to keep them away from the radioactive dust.

The weapons used by "Xin" are still suspended in the air. Something that can also release God's heavenly fire. The recorder of the clay tablet recorded this in a tone of awe and fear: They are as big as cattle, with concave and convex surfaces, and blue fire flows on their surfaces like water. These flying ghosts are guards captured by the gods from hell. They are docile. The ground followed the gods. When the beasts in the forest ran out, the gods did not even move a finger. Those flying ghosts automatically released thunder to destroy the enemies. They were agile and could shoot down the evil eagles in the sky. Flying like a painting dipped in blood.

I'm quite familiar with this thing. Pandora has thousands of them. She even specially selected a smaller one to put in her house, and she hugs it every day when she sleeps. There is one thing that Pandora treats as a pet and a pillow. The scientific name is floating cannon.

In fact, based on these descriptions, we can also confirm the identity of "Xin": he is an imperial soldier.

"Currently, it is well-documented that there are only three waves of Xiling apostles who have arrived on Earth." After Ji Shanshan finished translating, Sandora mused, "A Trekking soldier in my Revenge Army came to Earth for scientific research. The Imperial Scientific Expedition, and Viska’s Legion of Destruction.”

I nodded: "According to the chronology, the scientific expedition team and the Legion of Destruction were hundreds of thousands of years ago, so the god named 'Xin' mentioned on the clay tablet should be your soldier Sandora. "

Qianqian rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then suddenly came over happily: "Oh - Ah Jun, there is something wrong with me..."

"Bear it!" I shivered back reflexively, but in an instant I saw Qianqian looking like she was about to cry, so I quickly patted her face, "Um, tell me first and see if I can listen. Got it..."

Qian Qian took a second to forget about the grievances she just felt, and said excitedly: "Is the sound of 'Xin' the same as Xiling?"

There is always only one step between genius and that. Qianqian is usually unreliable, out of touch, and often confused, but her ideas can always make people see the light in key places. I instantly understood I think what she said makes so much sense - if it was really Sandora's soldier who wandered to the earth, what would he say when he introduced himself to the local indigenous people?

"He must have said that he is a 'Xiling Apostle'," Qianqian said while picking at the edge of the clay tablet, "but none of the locals recognize these four words. A Xiling Apostle can use a translator and a thought synchronization device to communicate with aliens. Racial exchanges, but there are some things that cannot be explained clearly. The Sumerians at that time may have thought that "Xiling Apostle" was a name, but they did not have words corresponding to the pronunciation or phrases that could be used for free translation to record the name, so They chose a word they could spell 'Xin' instead."

"That's true," Ji Shanshan confirmed Qian Qian's immature guess. "The vocabulary of cuneiform is not that large. Cuneiform is suitable for expressing meaning through phrases, but it is not suitable for phonetic notation. It can mean rain by spelling the words '天' and '水', but 'Xiling Apostle' The word "Xiling" has a sound but no meaning. There is no way to spell it this way. According to the habits of my time. In this case, I chose a word with a similar pronunciation to express it. "Xin" The translation was made by me based on the transliteration of the clay tablet book. Its pronunciation thousands of years ago was like this: *&&...%, um, do you understand?"

Our whole family looked at Ji Shanshan with blank expressions, and finally my sister said: "Uh, haha. The pronunciation of the word 'Xiling' is indeed quite similar..."

"I didn't expect that after such a long time, the news of the soldier was found in another place," Sandora suddenly sighed in a low voice, "I remember that we first found the remains of the tomb in the Taklimakan Desert. I didn't expect that he had Have you traveled around the entire earth?”

According to the records on the clay tablets, this is indeed the case: the Trek soldier did not stay in one place after arriving on Earth, he was traveling around the world. And do the same thing everywhere. According to the clay tablet book, "Xin" himself mentioned that he was traveling around the world, looking for all the mortal settlements. He added knowledge beyond the local aboriginal's knowledge into the cultural system of the local aborigines, and guided the local aborigines to build some useless but capable Large structures with mysterious meanings, or simply leaving written records like clay tablets. However, due to the passage of time, most of the traces he left have been eliminated. Now, the only things that can be examined are the tombs covered by the yellow sand of Taklimakan and the clay tablets left in the Mesopotamian plain. The latter is even more valuable than the original tomb: because this is the first detailed record of the soldier's words and deeds. Through the records on the clay tablets, we can know what exactly the soldier did on earth. Thus trying to speculate on his actions before death.

The powerful Imperial warrior died thousands of years ago, on a primitive planet, in a place where nothing could threaten him. He died so inexplicably. This has always been the case. Sandora's heart disease. Because Shandora cares about her soldiers, it has always been my worry, because I have obsessive-compulsive disorder...

"From these clay tablets, it can only be determined that the soldier had contact with the Sumerians and tried to improve the cognitive level of the local indigenous people. He may have tried to leave more records of his activities in this way," my sister read. He didn’t understand the words on the clay tablet, but he still turned over the ancient things with great interest, and whispered, “However, the human beings thousands of years ago were not suitable for this in terms of cognitive level and worldview shaping, so he finally Not much was left, just these written records, which were buried for thousands of years.”

Even so, I think that soldier might have managed to leave a lot of records. Throughout human history, inexplicable astrological knowledge and astronomical observation records often appeared in ancient civilizations. The Mayans even calculated the trajectories of many planets in the solar system during their ignorance. This knowledge beyond the cognition of ancient humans has always been a mystery: Say no. One or two of them must be the traces left by the soldier: as if he was trying to impress upon the Sumerians the thickness of the atmosphere and the thickness of the earth's crust.

But as time goes by, even if he successfully left any information, those traces have now become one of the myths of the people on earth, and we have no way of distinguishing them.

"Yes, this is a problem," Sandora suddenly thought thoughtfully. "According to the records on the clay tablets, his purpose at the time seemed to be to leave traces of his activities. He tried to teach the locals a kind of 'divine' writing. , if you guessed correctly, he refers to Xi Lingwen. He also tried to let the locals understand astronomy and geology. These were probably to prepare for the construction of astronomical knowledge in the local culture. In this way, he wanted to retain There is only one reason for creating a 'cultural mark' that can be spread on this planet for a long time..."

Bingtis was the first to think of the conclusion: "He knew at that time that he was bound to die. This was to prepare for death!"

I looked at Bingtis and then at Sandora, and spent half a minute trying to figure out how they came to this series of conclusions. Then he realized in hindsight: "Oh... then we need to revise our initial guess."

"Well," Sandora nodded thoughtfully, "Initially we thought that some external force on the earth killed the soldier. Although this was impossible, it was the only guess at that time. Now it seems. The soldier After coming to the earth, he began to prepare for his own death. In other words, it was not something on the earth that killed him, but some internal force that he had already known and could not resist. Could it be that...he was... Suffered a fatal injury while traveling through the world? A fatal injury that was completely unable to repair itself?"

This is also a possibility, but soon, my thoughtful sister realized that there was a doubt here: "No. There seems to be something wrong with the time... When is the approximate age of this clay tablet?"

"According to the sacrificial activities and customs mentioned on several other clay tablets, it was probably hundreds of years before this king came to power." Ji Xianxian sat in the middle of a pile of mud with a stern expression, like a knowledgeable old scholar. "It must have been more than five thousand years ago."

"Due to the desynchronization of the timeline, the soldier's journey occurred more than 1,200 years ago to me." Sandora did a simple conversion, "And according to the information just obtained now, when he arrived on Earth The time is ancient times at least five thousand years ago."

If there is no "debugging" by advanced civilization, the timeline between the two native worlds will be misaligned. I am already familiar with this phenomenon. In the world where Sandora was trapped, her soldier disappeared more than 1,200 years ago (for Sandora), but that soldier left traces in the ancient Uruk civilization on earth. . It means that the time when he arrived on Earth was more than 5,000 years ago (for the New Empire timeline). This is the so-called timeline misalignment phenomenon.

But these two points in time are actually not important. What is important is another point in time——

"The tomb ruins we found in the Taklimakan Desert were established more than a thousand years ago." Sandora recalled what happened that year, and she discovered the biggest problem, "The soldier arrived five thousand years ago. The earth died after more than three thousand years: he definitely did not die of injury and exhaustion! After more than three thousand and five hundred years, he had enough time to repair himself, even repair his transmission device, and return to me."

That's right. The biggest doubt was finally exposed: the soldier who wandered back then had been active for more than 3,500 years after arriving on Earth. He had such a long time to repair himself, or send a signal for help to his superiors, or even just leave some Larger ruins are also possible, but in the end he accomplished almost nothing in the past three thousand years. After leaving behind a bunch of unintelligible legends and a group of confused primitive people, he died in obscurity: even his grave was buried under the yellow sand.

"How far can an elite imperial soldier with a high degree of autonomy transform a primitive planet in three thousand years without any way to contact the home planet?" I looked at Sandora, she must understand what I mean. .

"Even the most basic Xi ​​Ling soldiers have sufficient thinking and planning abilities," Sandora said slowly, "According to the level of the earth's indigenous civilization at that time, if the whole process is carefully guided, three thousand five hundred years will be enough for a final A clumsy soldier expanded a group of the stupidest natives into the orbit of Neptune. He only needs to use his absolute authority to rule mankind with god-like power, and then let mankind quickly enter the industrial age. You also know that in forcibly catalyzing alien races In terms of technology tree, the Xiling Empire has a long history, and it is not difficult to bring a primitive civilization into the space age within thousands of years. The intelligence of primitive people is not much different from modern people. Human brains have been around since they first It has basically matured since I set up the torch, and in the following thousands of years, people on earth have just tinkered with a few areas of their brains."

In this way, if the imperial soldier who wandered to the earth at that time had no problem in his mind, and he really wanted to leave traces of his activities in human civilization, then the people on earth have at least built colonies to the edge of the solar system and begun to Research deep space navigation technology. But just like what I just said, for more than three thousand years, that soldier has accomplished almost nothing.

"There is something that is seriously restricting his actions. It is not the damage to the body or the hidden wounds left by traveling through the world, but something deeper, something that can suppress the core abilities of the Xiling Apostle," Sandora was a little anxious. He tapped the table lightly, "I know Apostle Xiling, and I know my soldiers better. From the various signs recorded on the clay tablets, that soldier did try to leave his own cultural heritage among the indigenous people of this world. Nine percent Ten most likely wants to prove that he has been in this world. This is like a road sign or a lighthouse, which he prepared for after his death - maybe he hopes that one day his army will pass by this world so that he can see what he left behind. mark. Now that he has this clear goal, he should adopt a series of effective methods... I think about it, his hypertime support ability must be locked, and part of his logical thinking ability, across the The world's communication capabilities are also locked. He did not use powerful weapons to create 'notches' on the earth such as giant rifts, which shows that even the weapons in his own space are locked... What on earth can it do? To completely suppress a Xiling apostle to this extent?"

I don’t know anything that can suppress a Xiling apostle like this to the point where he is almost completely unable to move and can only act as a super thug. But I suddenly remembered another thing related to "suppression", so I looked at Shan Dora: "Sandora, do you still remember that when we first met, you and your army were trapped on a planet polluted by the abyss..." (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome Please come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go and read.)