The external expressions of dragon and immortal inscriptions are different, but they have similar effects. Immortal inscriptions allow those who practice Qi to understand its meaning without having to read it. Dragon inscriptions have the same effect on dragonborns.
This made Gu Bei immediately connect the two.
But even if there are similarities, the two are completely different words, just like a person going in two completely different directions at a fork in the road.
The two are slightly different in form, but their essence is the same.
This led Gu Bei to start thinking about the relationship between Lianqi and hybrids...
Wait, now is not the time to think about such things.
"Keep going up, maybe there will be new discoveries." He turned around and walked up the steps to the higher level.
Fingal followed.
Along the way, the two passed by more caves, each with a coffin parked in it.
Coffins of different textures.
Some are carved from a whole block of granite, some are made of black iron, and some are made of precious metals such as gold and silver. None of them are priceless treasures - except for the black iron ones.
Of course, there is another commonality between them.
Each coffin was hooped with iron hoops and locked in the cave with iron chains.
Towering cypress trees, giant snakes that shed their skin repeatedly, coffins all over the mountains and plains, unverifiable remains...
As described in the legend, this island has both life and death characteristics. The cypress and giant snake are "life", while the coffin and bones are "death".
Life and death, two completely opposite concepts, have reached a balance on this strange island.
"Boss, have you heard of the Valley of the Kings?" Fingel asked.
Gu Bei shook his head.
He is not interested in things like scenic spots. Even if he travels, he is more concerned about exotic food.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't know, it's fine if Fingel knows.
"The Valley of the Kings is the main tomb area for pharaohs and nobles during the New Dynasty of ancient Egypt. There are 64 pharaohs buried in the valley. Under the heavily weathered surface is a magnificent crypt, which contains the mummified king wrapped in gold... Is it possible here? Will it be the Dragon King Valley?" Fingel asked.
To put it this way, this place does look like a Valley of Kings.
But to be honest, Gu Bei actually prefers ancient Rome to the Valley of the Kings in ancient Egypt - after all, the architectural structure here is too similar to the Colosseum in ancient Rome.
The surrounding stone walls are a ring-shaped structure like a colosseum, and the seats that should have housed the nobles have been replaced by the caves of the kings. Their souls still seem to be sitting on the mountain wall, overlooking the fighting beasts in the field. Performance……
If you think about it this way, the beasts in the Colosseum are not Gu Bei and Fingel?
Gu Bei scratched his hair and suddenly felt that he had been scolded invisibly.
"I understand what you mean." Gu Bei nodded, "You are saying that these kings were all incarnations of a dragon king during their lifetime, and this dragon king was the master of the Nibelung. He ended his life as a human being Then he will collect his bones...but this inference is wrong."
Gu Bei denied Fingel's guess.
"Do you remember those two granite coffins we just saw?" Gu Bei asked.
Fingel nodded: "I'm very impressed. Among so many precious metal coffins, granite and black iron are the most conspicuous."
Gu Bei pointed out: "Although I am not good at archeology, the two coffins are obviously products of the same period. Even some of the carving details are almost the same. If you go by your inference, is it possible that the Dragon King of that era turned around at the same time? Two humans were created?"
Fingel thought: "But the dragon kings are both twins. Is it possible that the two kings ruled together at that time? This would also explain why the two coffins are of the same specification."
Gu Bei shook his head: "Even if two kings rule together, there must be priorities. It is impossible to use exactly the same specifications. The two coffins are obviously two kings of the same status. Even the carvings are probably from the same period and the same king. Civilization exists simultaneously in
The kings of the two countries... To take a step back, if they are really twin kings co-ruling, then they should be placed in the same mausoleum or cave, but in fact they are not only separated, but also separated by another person. coffin, which shows that they have little connection with each other. "
"Using this to explain...isn't it a bit far-fetched?" Fingel's mouth twitched.
Gu Bei sighed: "Haven't you noticed yet?"
"Did you notice anything?" Fingel was puzzled.
Gu Bei pointed to the steps at his feet and the cave beside him: "There is still order in time."
He asked: "The first coffin we saw was..."
"The golden coffin," Fingel replied immediately.
Gu Bei nodded: "That coffin should be from the Sumerian period among the two civilizations. It was the oldest recorded human civilization. It was probably around 4000 BC. At that time, iron smelting had not yet been developed. Invention, but gold is easier to come by... Where is the coffin after that?"
"Kurotetsu..."
"The Hittite Civilization. In 2000 BC, the ancient Hittite Empire relied on powerful iron swords to sweep across Asia Minor... What about after that?"
"Can't remember clearly...Granite?"
"That was further back... The granite should be a product of the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt. The bird inscriptions on the coffin are evidence. It should be around 1500 BC... Have you discovered it now?"
"Time and order..." Fingel suddenly realized, "You mean, the order of these coffins is arranged according to the time of their death?"
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Gu Bei nodded: "The time it takes for a dragon to hatch can be calculated in hundreds or thousands of years. It is impossible for the same dragon king to hatch twice at the same time. In other words, the contents of the two coffins at the same time are absolutely They are not the remains of the same Dragon King."
Fingel also smoothed out his logic at this time and understood what Gu Bei meant.
If we follow this logic, the idea of different reincarnations of the same Dragon King is self-defeating.
"Then who are the remains in these coffins?" Fingel wondered, "Who is the owner of this island? Why did he collect the coffins of so many people?"
Gu Bei rolled his eyes: "You ask me, who should I ask?"
"But one thing you just said is probably right." Gu Bei looked around, "I'm not sure whether this is the Dragon King's Valley, but it's possible that this is the King's Valley."
Judging from the manufacturing level of those coffins, these coffins may indeed contain kings, or king-level figures.
In other words, this is a museum of the remains of emperors that is never open to the public.
The two finally reached the highest point of the mountain wall.
Looking out, the sea water is constantly undulating, the sky is always the same color, and the surroundings are always half-dark, like morning and evening.
Looking back at the center of the island, I don't know when the mist has engulfed Stonehenge. Even the towering cypress trees only have their tops exposed to the mist.
Everything is somewhere between reality and fiction.
Standing here is like reaching the end of the world, which makes people suddenly feel world-weary and want to sit down and breathe slowly, and then turn into a stone statue.
Even Fingel, who has always been aloof, was shocked by the beauty of this moment.
"I don't know how many people have arrived here since ancient times." Fingel murmured.
Gu Bei was slightly startled: "Do you remember what Vincent said?"
Fingel was also stunned for a moment, and he immediately understood what Gu Bei meant: "Vincent said... "Christmas on December 25th every year is the official time for the ship to work, and the rest of the time is just Used to confirm the route"..."
Gu Bei looked at the unchanging scenery in the distance: "In other words, does he mean - 'It is only possible to find this island on this route every Christmas'?" "
Fingel nodded: "You can say that, after all, Vincent's real purpose is
It is to find Avalon and resurrect his leader, which means that this is his real purpose and the real job of the YAAL... Wait, today is..."
Fingel took out his phone and took a look.
February 13th, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.
"The time is wrong..." Gu Bei chewed on the thumbnail of his right hand and frowned, "If it is true that he only opens the door on Christmas every year, then why do we see it at the wrong time today?"
There is a problem, it is too problematic.
Recalling the causes and consequences of the two entering Avalon, they first accepted the mission to explore the ice sea, and then followed the mission arrangement to the YAAL. They investigated Vincent based on the additional mission and learned about the existence of Avalon. Then came the electromagnetic storm, elemental turbulence, the skirt of the goddess, the giant iceberg that changed its course and smashed the ice floe.
So Vincent, who had been unable to find a way for many years, suddenly appeared in front of them.
These coincidences one after another are like gears that are precisely fitted together on a machine. No matter which one is missing, they will not be able to enter Avalon so smoothly.
But it was precisely because of this that Gu Bei felt a little shuddering.
What a coincidence, everything is too coincidental.
Only then did Gu Bei realize that there had been some error in his judgment. He had always thought that Avalon, as a Nibelung, would be the stage set up by the mastermind behind the scenes, but in fact he was wrong.
In the hands of those who can control destiny, the world itself is the stage.
Gu Bei followed his fate and came here, so fate did not give him any warning, as if he should come here and welcome his own...
die.
Gu Bei grinned, feeling that things were starting to get interesting.
Although he has always shown a strategizing attitude, only he knows how boring a person's life would be if he could predict everything. Gu Bei hates boredom.
He longs for peace, but that doesn't mean he can accept boredom.
After all, he is a person who pursues "interesting" at heart, and now there is finally another person standing outside the chess game like him. How can he not be happy and excited about it?
The opponent has already laid out the chess game and, together with fate, has led Gu Bei into a trap. In other words, they have prepared a "surprise" for Gu Bei.
"Fingel," Gu Bei raised a smile, "have you heard the singing."
"Singing?" Fingel listened intently, "No."
"Well, you can't hear it...but that's normal." Gu Bei stood up straight and opened his arms facing the sea, "That's...the whale song."
Along with his words, Fingel also heard the ethereal singing voice. The singing voice was vast and boundless, like the singing of gods heard by mortals far away from the temple.
This is not only a whale song, but also a spirit of speech!
The junction of the sky and the sea in the distance suddenly lit up, as if a blazing flame was ignited with a "pop".
On this island where there is no passage of time and no changes in day and night, it seems like the sun is about to rise.
That glimmer of light expanded extremely quickly, and soon half of the sky turned golden, and the cyan clouds were completely engulfed by the light.
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The wind began to blow at some point on the island, and the strong wind swept the fallen leaves all over the ground. All the dragon cypress trees were twisting in the wind, as if a group of wild dragons were awakening from their petrified state, and the leaves fell like snow.
The light became more and more intense, emitting the ultimate light and extreme heat, burning Fingel's face.
Fingel didn't dare to look directly at the light anymore, so he could only lower his head and look towards the island.
He saw those winding giant snakes reappearing on the mountains around the island, their scales reflecting the fierce light like a river of fire, changing colors, as if they would burn at any time.
They split up and hid in the stone caves where the coffins were stored, huddled tightly together.
Now think about it, they were
The reason for escaping was not because they were afraid of Gu Bei or Fingel. For giant snakes of their size, even tigers and lions were just delicious meals in their belly, far from being enough to make them feel scared.
What they really fear is "someone landing on the island".
Because that means that the master of the Nibelungen will also return to this island. Every time he appears, he brings such light and heat. For the snakes, this day is probably the day when the world will be destroyed.
They came to the seaside and crossed the deep blue ice sea into the blue waves in Avalon. Then the whole sea was dyed fiery red, even the sky was filled with firelight, and the sea seemed to be boiling with flames.
The strong wind was blowing from the sea to the island, and waves as high as a person repeatedly crashed into the island. It looked like a line of burning lancers!
Gu Bei finally saw the fire clearly!
It was a huge whale.
The largest whale in the world is the blue whale, with a body length of over 33 meters. The YAAL is nearly five times as long as the blue whale, at 150 meters long. The whale that appeared in front of Gu Bei and Fingel was even longer than the YAAL. Much longer.
He is even bigger than Avalon under the feet of Gu Bei and Fingel!
He exuded the aura of ancient times, as if he had swam from the long river of history.
The source of the fire is not the whale itself.
The firelight comes from a lantern.
There is a person standing on the back of the whale, a person wearing tight white clothes, who looks like a mummy, and behind him, there is a coffin, and the light that is as strong as the rising sun comes from the hand of the person in white. lantern!
This scene is just like the "Island of the Dead" collected by Vincent. The only difference is that the man in white in the painting is riding a small boat, while the man in white in front of him is also riding an extremely huge whale.
No, that's not a whale, that's the Dragon King.
Leviathan, one of the twins of the King of Neptune and the King of Water.
As for the man in white, the moment he saw him, Gu Bei understood why he had a paradoxical feeling of familiarity with the man in white in the painting "Island of Death".
It wasn't that person who really felt familiar to him.
But the white clothes.
This is clearly the attire of a heroic spirit under Odin.
And the man in white clothes in front of him was also an old acquaintance of Gu Bei.
"It's been a long time...well, it hasn't been that long..." Gu Bei looked at the man in white, "Uncle Chu, it's time for you to follow me back this time, right? Chu Zihang asked you to go home for dinner. "
