When Nina was about to run to the second floor to say hello, Duncan appeared on the stairs. He heard the noise coming from downstairs.
"Mr. Duncan," Morris came to the stairs and looked up at the "Captain" who was looking down, "I found the symbol you showed me in a document about the ancient kingdom of Crete. ...at least very close.”
Duncan noticed the slight bloodshot eyes and slightly swollen eyelids of Morris. Obviously, the old scholar had spent a lot of time searching for these information, but there was a hint of excitement in his eyes, and his mental state seemed extremely exciting. ——This is the excitement you get when you are immersed in research and finally achieve something.
Duncan glanced at Nina, Alice and others downstairs, and nodded slightly: "You guys are looking at the store."
Then he looked at Morris: "Let's go upstairs and talk."
The old gentleman stepped up the stairs with the big book under his arm. The old wooden steps made a creaking sound. He followed Duncan to the master bedroom on the second floor - this was his first time coming to this place.
By the standards of a warp shadow's residence, this bedroom is a bit plain, but considering Mr. Duncan's special "hobby" of "playing mortals", this simple room seems quite normal.
Morris carefully controlled his actions, satisfying his curiosity without doing any unnecessary prying. Duncan pulled two chairs from the side and motioned to the old gentleman to place the big book on the desk by the window.
"Tell me about your discovery," Duncan said before sitting down. "What does this symbol mean?"
"...Some people have said that rigorous scholars should not blindly admit any possibility, even if its probability is extremely slim. But from my personal point of view, I think it is really impossible."
Duncan frowned slightly. He saw that this page was a picture, a rather exquisite hand-drawn illustration. It should show a part of a large building. It looked like the main entrance of a palace, and this one with an octagon The symbol of the frame and the complete cross structure appears in the relief above the main entrance, occupying the center of the entire picture. As Peng Rongzhen said just now downstairs, this symbol is in a very inconspicuous place - it is just a small decorative part on an illustration, accounting for less than one-tenth of the entire picture. One, it is not carefully marked.
As Crete spoke, he pointed to the text description on the page adjacent to the illustration. Among the slightly yellowed pages, it is not difficult to see the annotations written by the old scholar in his early years.
"On the first day after the expedition team evacuated, the fog dissipated, and another team arrived in the sea area and returned, but could not find this famous island when they returned."
He turned his head and looked at Crete: "I think it is possible that there is a Maurice family that has been passed down for ten thousand years, right?"
"The emblem at the entrance to an academic or religious facility..." Duncan touched his chin thoughtfully, "Why would a group of ascetics from ten thousand years ago carry with them a symbol from the ancient kingdom of Maurice? Amulet of time?"
"I don't think so," Crete replied immediately. "This is a very rigorous document. The painters of the illustrations and the compilers of the original documents are academic authorities with rigorous reputations. When they left these documents, they They would rather leave the ambiguities intact to future generations than make any additional adjustments without any evidence, or in other words, even if they make adjustments, they will definitely explain them specifically in the notes. Corresponding situation."
"As for its meaning... I don't have a clue yet. I just found the most likely source of it." Crete calmed down, opened this seemingly valuable document, and found a bookmark inside. page, "Did you notice this location? It appears there."
.....The main material of the building seems to be stone, but it is tougher than stone and pale in color. The soldier used an ice pick to try to cut through one of the wall bricks, and it took a lot of effort to succeed... The ice pick made a sound when it collided with the wall brick. Exaggerated firelight, and the broken parts of the wall tiles have a silvery gray texture.
Peng Rong listened to the old gentleman's thoughts, hummed noncommittally, and glanced at the written materials again.
"...On the evening of the eighth day, the big boat patrolled the island and found that it was originally located on
A collapse point above the water was submerged at some point, but there was no sign of rising tide... The sea in the distance would become foggy. The priest had a bad premonition and prayed to Bartok, the god of death, and sought help. After the revelation, he advises you to stay away from the island immediately. "
"There are several large islands in the distance of the island. They are all desolate, with sparse plants and not even insects... There are no buildings left. There may have been some, but they were too small and were swallowed up by time... ..
Duncan looked directly at the end of the quote and saw that the author of the document recorded this:
"That's true, but it's also possible that the relevant information has been lost."
"He had some vague impression. He should have seen it a long time ago. Thanks to the blessing of the God of Wisdom, this impression can still be used today, allowing him to find this big thing. ," Crete explained, "That illustration is a copy. Its original manuscript first appeared in a document about the study of the architectural remains of the ancient Maurice Kingdom. This document is currently in Pland, but I doubt his Some academic friends should be able to help...
"It looks very similar - but at that time there was not very mature Holy Emblem beacon technology, and there were not enough correct observation methods, so several normal phenomena including border collapse and 'fog bite' phenomenon were confused together."
.....Unfortunately, this document is only a general introduction and does not involve a detailed interpretation of the various details of the ruins." Crete shook his head, "But that is an unavoidable situation - Mo. The Ancient Kingdom of Lys has been around for thousands of years. There are very few relics left behind and most of them are seriously damaged. Coupled with the loss or contamination of various materials, the knowledge that can be analyzed by future generations is already fragmented. We should It is difficult to find an article that specifically studies a certain pattern on a certain door in the Ancient Kingdom..."
"This picture... shouldn't be possible for the copyist to use it freely, right?" He suddenly asked uncertainly.
While listening to Mr. Peng Rongzhen's interpretation, Peng Rong's eyes slowly swept over the pictures and words. His attention fell on the octagonal pattern in the center of the relief of the main entrance in the picture, and his brows wrinkled slightly: " There is no specific interpretation of this symbol."
"This kind of relief with strong and deep lines and a large number of rhombus elements in the pattern are the architectural characteristics of Peng Rongzhengu Kingdom. They advocated an architectural style with thick lines and a sense of power. Most of the main parts of their palace buildings were in the shape of various cuboids or pyramids. Shape, this building fits those characteristics perfectly..."
Duncan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Duncan muttered softly, thoughtfully.
Crete said cautiously while thinking. It's really hard for Peng Rongzhen to find this book among piles of documents and find such a corner in this book.
"The fog-eating phenomenon..." Duncan recalled briefly and found the corresponding knowledge in his mind - he had been supplementing his knowledge in this area through books during that time. "It must be the fog-eating phenomenon. Then this island still has It is possible that it may briefly reappear in the world in similar dense fog in the future, but it seems that no records of this have been handed down.”
As for the content of this relief...it seems to be just some patterns with no obvious meaning.
"A group similar to ascetics, whose number may be very small and whose activities are extremely secretive, has experienced the great chaos after the collapse of the ancient kingdom, the age of strife, and the wars of the old city-states. It has been passed down for ten thousand years without interruption. They have not been discovered for generations... If this possibility is true, he would prefer to go there. They are a secret cult group that was only established in modern times. Because they accidentally discovered some ancient documents or similar relics, they It is more likely that he used a certain symbol from the Morris period as his own mark."
"Of course, even without the original manuscript, the content recorded in this book is very useful. It mentions that the hand-drawn illustration depicts a lost ruin that was once located in the border waters. This ruin is located on a deserted island, and the The island mysteriously disappeared in a thick fog around 223 years of the New City State calendar. Before it completely disappeared, several expeditions successfully landed on the island and verified the shape and age of the ruins, confirming that it should be a product of the ancient kingdom of Peng Rongzhen. Judging from the architectural surface decoration and relief, the entire facility should
It is a large-scale building with both academic and religious significance..."
"...It stands in the center of the island. The main building and surrounding ancillary buildings occupy almost the entire island. It seems that the island was not created specifically for this building...
"It was just swallowed up by the thick fog..." He sighed softly, "It sounds like the result of the border collapse."
Duncan hummed, and his fingers involuntarily brushed over the illustration, brushing over the complete cross mark on it.
In the data, there are some passages that clearly quote the records in the original documents, describing the few words left by this group of explorers more than a thousand years ago: "Can it be tested if it is true..."
