"Come in, Yuanchu people, let Bubu take you. It's more convenient and you can save some energy."
I looked at the beautiful and glorious palace in front of me, and my open mouth never closed. Fortunately, I was wearing a transformation helmet on my head, otherwise these Atlan people would have seen my unseen appearance. .
"Ah, okay, okay." I agreed casually.
"Bubu has arrived." The high priest called over.
"Where is it? Why didn't I see it?" I saw no Atlan people coming around. Who is this Bubu?
"Right at your feet, Yuanchu people."
"What?" I lowered my head and found that a stone moved on the seamount rock at my feet. When I looked closer, I saw it was a manta fish about the same size as our coffee table! If he hadn't moved a few times, I wouldn't have noticed that there was such a strange thing under my feet!
The scientific name of this thing is manta ray, probably because they look a bit like a bat with spread wings. The whole body is like a spread carpet, but there is a long and thin tail behind it. When it is motionless, it Hidden under the sea, it swims like a kite on the seabed.
Is this Bubu? The transportation sent to me by the high priest? How should I ride? Hold it by the tail or sit on it?
"Come on, Yuanchu people, please stop stepping on Bubu's tail. He's worried about pricking you."
After being reminded by the high priest, I saw that the tail of the devil fish named Bubu in front of me had many sharp spines. These spines should be poisonous.
I carefully stood on Bubu's back. With the buoyancy of the sea water, I shouldn't crush it. But as soon as it started swimming, wouldn't I fall down?
The manta ray beneath me felt that I was standing on its back, and its thick pectoral fins like wings began to swing, fixing me within the range of its back, and then it leaned forward smoothly toward the square of Atlan. Swim away.
Close to the square, the stone in the middle that emits light but is not dazzling makes me feel warm all over. As far as I can see, there are all kinds of decorations scattered high and low. The materials are nothing more than corals and gems, and they are colorful. Schools of fish move in and out of the corals, making these decorations even more charming.
The ground in the center of the square was very smooth and even somewhat reflective. Bubu took me around in a circle and finally stopped smoothly in the square in the middle. There were many Telans who looked similar to the driver in the square, and they were all surrounding the square. Next to the luminous crystal in the middle, it seems like praying to the crystal.
I looked around me. The high priest and the pilots were doing the same thing. They were looking up at the spar. They opened and closed their mouths as if they were reciting something. They placed the palm of one hand on their chest and the palm of the other hand pointing upward. They were connecting things on the crystal, and I saw that nothing fell off the stone. In my eyes, this was a completely non-physical performance...
This didn't seem to be a collective behavior. I saw that the other Atlan people went to do their own things after finishing. After the high priest completed the ceremony, I asked them what they were doing just now.
"This ether crystal is a sacred stone given to the people of Atlan by the people of the early Yuan Dynasty."
"Aetherite? What a special name!"
"The underwater palace of the Atlan people is entirely built on three etheric crystals on the seabed. This etheric crystal, placed in the central square, is the energy source for all Atlan people."
"So? You Atlan people don't need to eat anymore?"
According to Chi You, a race that can directly absorb pure energy without eating should be regarded as the same existence as a demigod in this dimension!
"We can sustain life by absorbing the energy of the aether crystal, but we will also eat, under certain circumstances."
So the ceremony they just performed was to absorb the energy of the ether crystal. "Can all Atlan people absorb the energy of the crystal?"
"Yes."
"Will there be a time limit?"
The high priest shook his head, "Sir, Yuanchu, I know what you are concerned about. You are worried that some Atlan people will absorb the ether energy uncontrollably, and the energy of this crystal will be exhausted, right?"
"Well, it's not all..."
"If the energy absorbed exceeds one's own needs, it will be counterattacked. Yuanchu people, you don't want to see how terrible the Atlan people are when they are counterattacked..."
Going around the back of the ether crystal, I saw the fountain I saw on the sea mountain. It turned out to be a bead placed on a base carved from rock. I got closer and found that this bead also hid a mystery. It's actually hollow! Inside the bead, there is a small blue water ball suspended.
"What is this?" I asked the high priest.
"My lord from the early Yuan Dynasty, don't you even recognize this? Isn't this the place where you once lived?"
"Earth?!"
The high priest nodded. In order to commemorate the place where they once lived, these Atlan people also built such a rare object to commemorate the earth. It can be regarded as affectionate and righteous.
I looked at the small blue water ball representing the earth floating in the middle. It really looked like that. Even the tilt angle was similar to that of a globe, but it had no central axis to support it and was completely suspended inside.
"We Atlanans have never stopped studying that flood," the high priest said slowly, circling the bead, "Your Excellency, do you know the reason for the flood?"
"Extreme weather caused seawater to pour back and engulf the land?" I expressed my opinion.
The high priest shook his head, "No... look," he approached the bead and continued, "This blue ball is filled with void up and down, so why doesn't the water inside spill out?"
"Because of gravity."
"Yes, but do you know where gravity comes from, Yuanchu people?"
"This..." This was obviously beyond the scope of the five-year college entrance examination and the three-year simulation exam. I could only shake my head...
"We Atlanans now have two factions on the cause of the flood. One believes that the blue ball lost its gravity for a short period of time, and the other believes that the blue ball experienced a magnetic reversal."
"Magnetic reversal?!" This conjecture is too bold!
"Yes, just like this," as he said, the high priest put his hands into the beads holding the basketball, one hand on top and one on the bottom. A beam of electricity instantly hit the upper and lower ends of the blue ball in his palm, and then the high priest withdrew it. With both hands, I saw that the blue ball in the bead shook slightly twice, and then fell up and down. The previously protruding areas were all covered by the blue liquid, while the areas previously covered by the ocean were exposed. out of the water.
"The world has changed..." I murmured. This conjecture is completely possible! If this is the case, the vicissitudes of life were definitely not formed within ten thousand years! Depending on the size of the earth, such an inversion may complete the transformation from sea to mulberry field in a matter of days or weeks!
"If the Atlanans have already left the earth, why are they still studying the cause of the flood?"
"Sir, in the early Yuan Dynasty, if it was the cause of magnetic reversal, don't you want to know who stretched out those hands to turn the blue ball over? If you don't know the reason, the next time that hand reaches out , where should we Atlanans go?”
When the high priest asked me this question, I suddenly felt a chill running down my back!
