life copy game

Chapter 447 The 'History' of the Fountain of Youth
"According to oral history, the Fountain of Youth originated from the unconscious excavation of a person who quarried and built a house. The spring water gushed out from the ground, forming an active spring."

The old patriarch went on to the next mural. This mural is by far the one with the most content. It uses a lot of lines to depict various animals, such as birds in the sky, animals on the ground, and running people.

They are running wildly in the picture, all with the same purpose - the specially marked spring.

"Is the fountain of youth really immortal?"

He Ao stared at the mural and asked softly.

"According to the legend of our generation, after drinking the fountain of youth, one can indeed live forever," said the old patriarch with a hoarse voice, and his eyes shifted to the next mural, "the stone quarryman who first drank the fountain of youth gained immortality." .”

In that mural, the little man holding a stick who first dug out the fountain of youth stood behind the fountain of youth, and the artist who painted the mural painted a smiling face on his face.

In front of him, there were countless lives fighting each other. Humans and alien beasts fought together, and the forest was covered with corpses one after another.

The mural depicts the flowing blood with the symbol of water flow, which converges into a river, flows into the fountain of youth, and mixes with the small circle symbolizing the fountain of youth.

It looks like the first stone quarryman to drink from the fountain of youth sparked the killing.

He Ao looked at the ninth mural.

In this mural, the stone quarryman is still standing behind the Fountain of Youth, while the large lush forest in front of him has turned into dry Gobi.

A few villains were lying on the edge of the Fountain of Youth like dogs, drinking the spring water from the Fountain of Youth, and behind these villains were camps.

He Ao looked at the drawing of the quarryman, and he found that on the original body structure of the quarryman, the artist added some very small dotted lines, which cannot be found without looking carefully.

These dotted lines are densely arranged together, almost covering the body of the quarryman.

He Ao's eyes moved down, and he found that the little people who were drinking water on their stomachs also had such dotted lines on their bodies, but they were much less than those of the quarrymen.

"What do those dotted lines mean?"

He Ao is not a person who is used to keeping questions in his heart, he pointed to the dotted line and asked softly.

"I don't know," the old patriarch shook his head. "Maybe it's a way to show strength. According to legend, the quarryman is very powerful. He can even move mountains and fill seas. He is the most powerful life around."

"Is the life around you dead?"

He Ao looked at the bare picture and asked casually.

"That period of history seems to have been deliberately erased. We didn't leave any effective information. That period of time was very scary,"

At this point, he paused, "My great-grandfather once told me that in the era ruled by the quarrymen, normal people would be regarded as lunatics, so all normal people have to pretend to be 'normal people', some When people dress up, they become really 'normal people'."

Changes in groupthink?

"Did your great-grandfather survive from the time of the quarrymen?"

He Ao suddenly asked casually.

"He lived to be nine years old," the old patriarch said hoarsely, "I also heard his story from his grandfather,"

He controlled the wheelchair and continued to move forward until he reached the tenth mural, "According to our current estimates, the quarryman's reign was about 300 to 900 years ago, and he ruled this area for 400 years. "

900 years ago, at that time, it was less than 100 years since Dawn City was established.

He Ao looked at the tenth mural. The content of this mural was very simple. There were clusters of dark clouds in the sky, and a ray of light pierced through the dark clouds. A tall figure stood in the radiance, holding a long stick in his hand. The stone man fell at his feet.

Those with dotted lines on their bodies, the minions of the stone quarrymen also fell around.

Most of the surrounding camps have collapsed, and the bottom is full of fleeing villains.

The Fountain of Youth in the center of the picture is also covered by collapsed rubble.

"During the last days of the quarryman's rule, his sphere of influence had expanded to hundreds of kilometers north and south. He was as strong as a god and invincible. At this time, a person who claimed to be a wizard appeared. and defeated the Quarryman in time."

The old patriarch slowly narrated, "After the death of the stone quarryman, our ancestors who were still alive fled from where they were and migrated north."

He Ao looked at the tenth mural, the appearance of that 'wizard' reminded He Ao of a word,
'Angel'.

And it seems that this 'wizard' is a good person, at least, he is rational.

If the legend of the Andavi family is not wrong, then even if the quarrymen are not A-level angels, they are the strongest group of B-level angels occupying an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers.

That 'wizard' can easily defeat him, and doesn't care about the fountain of youth, most likely already an A-level 'angel'.

Does this mean that, about 900 years ago, the humans in the copy world had figured out a way to maintain their sanity and become angels?
After the last dungeon, He Ao already knew that a wizard is not a specific name of a certain person, but a group of people who pursue the truth in the era of cataclysm.

Has this 'wizard' already obtained part of the 'truth' and entered the ranks of angels?

And it's so close to Chenxi City.

The head of the city defense army of Chenxi City seems to be an angel. Is there any connection between the two?

It's a pity that all the history at that time left only a few words of the legend of the Andavi family, and He Ao couldn't be sure whether it was really an angel.

He looked at No. 11 mural. This mural is very simple. It is that the Andavi family left their original residence and moved to a new area.

There is no one inhabited here, surrounded by barren land with no beasts and no birds in the sky. The Gobi should not be far from the core area originally ruled by the quarrymen.

However, the artist who painted the murals drew a little bud among the rocks, which seems to imply that everything is recovering.

The surrounding Gobi itself was an abnormal phenomenon before, produced by the rule of the quarrymen, but now nature has returned to its original appearance.

However, what the quarryman did seems to be really amazing, even digging the turf.

Why did he make the surroundings look like such a Jedi?

He Ao turned his head and glanced at the mural of the quarryman again.

Then he walked to the No.12 mural. In this mural, the surroundings have recovered their vitality. The center of the picture is a simplified version of the camp. The camp is already very similar.

It seems that the Andavi family has recovered from the chaos of the war.

"The place where the Fountain of Youth was originally located, can you still find it now?"

He Ao stared at the mural and asked softly.

"it's here."

The old patriarch raised his hand and pointed to a corner of the mural.

In that corner, there loomed a magnificent city.

Limen City.

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Going around and back to the starting point.

"Is there a more certain location?"

Howo looked at the old patriarch.

The construction of the fortress city will inevitably face a series of moving mountains and filling lakes.

The terrain in the original murals should have disappeared.

In this situation, looking for a buried fountain of youth is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"We don't have the exact location of the Fountain of Youth," the old patriarch shook his head, "but we have preserved the original migration route map, which may be of some help to you."

After finishing speaking, he opened the small box hanging under the armrest on the left side of the wheelchair, took out a mini tablet computer from it, swiped his fingers a few times, and then opened a high-definition picture to show He Ao.

"This is a scanned picture," the old patriarch explained, "but the clarity of those pictures is not particularly high, and this kind of high-definition scanned copy can also be used, but these are secrets in our clan, only the clansmen with higher status and Only the patriarch can read it, so you can't let you copy it and take it away."

He Ao:······

They were just looking at the ancient murals and guessing the lost history, but with a snap, the old patriarch took out a tablet computer and showed him the high-definition scan.

Reasonable, but a little odd.

There is a feeling of time travel.

However, he didn't continue to think about it. He looked at these scans, turned on Super Memory, and quickly glanced at them.

The resolution of the old patriarch's tablet computer is not low, and the accuracy of the scanner is also very high. Many details and even damage on the picture are clearly visible.

There are four migration maps, each depicting the migration paths of the Andawi family in different time periods. The drawing methods of these migration maps are completely different from the current drawing standards used by the Federation. They should be the drawing methods invented by the Andawi family themselves, or some A popular cartographic method of an era.

However, the meanings of each icon are marked on the picture, so there is no big obstacle for He Ao to read, but it is more troublesome to change his mind.

He Ao memorized all four pictures when he flipped through them for the first time, but in order to avoid exposing his ability, he still flipped through them in detail for a while.

Finally, he raised his head and whispered to the old patriarch, "Thank you."

"It should be us who want to thank you."

The old patriarch put down the tablet and smiled.

His expression at this moment is much more relaxed than when He Ao first met him. It seems that solving the Merck family has indeed eliminated a huge threat to him.

He Ao scanned the previous twelve murals and memorized them all, then he turned his head and looked behind him.

Here's a new mural that's only been painted a little bit.

The background color of the mural is mushrooms all over the mountains.

Apparently, these 'mushrooms' are ghost mushrooms.

"Although there are more advanced storage methods now," the old patriarch manipulated the wheelchair and walked to the front of the mural, "but I still hope to record these histories in an ancient way, so that even if one day, we lose those History can still leave some traces.”

He Ao stared at the mural calmly and nodded slightly.

He pondered for a moment, sorted out all the information he had just obtained, and then asked slowly, "So what does the phrase 'After drinking the Fountain of Youth, people who live forever' mean?"

"I don't know the specific meaning," the old patriarch shook his head, he said slowly, "but this sentence is a motto that has been handed down from the time when the quarrymen ruled."

In the era when the quarrymen ruled, there were indeed people in the Andawi family who drank the fountain of youth.

Howo stared at the mural that only showed some mushrooms.

He suddenly remembered that the members of the Andavi family seemed to have high resistance to spiritual temptation.

This seems to be an evolution in the face of harsh environments.

Generally, this kind of evolution takes a long time, so when did the Andavi family have this kind of resistance?

During the reign of the quarrymen?

It's very possible, but He Ao vaguely feels that something is unreasonable.

He looked at the old patriarch, "Do you know when the Andavi family's natural mental resistance began?"

"The era before the quarryman is unrecognizable, but what is certain is that after the quarryman, all members of our family have more or less this kind of resistance."

The old patriarch replied, "At present, we guess that this resistance may be related to the fountain of youth."

He Ao's guess is also similar.

Speaking of this step, he paused for a moment, and asked the question he had been thinking about for a long time, "Which god is worshiping in your 'hospital'?"

"Do you think we are offering sacrifices to the gods?"

The old patriarch was taken aback for a moment, he didn't seem to expect that He Ao would ask this question, and then his movements froze for a moment.

He suddenly realized that he felt that there was no problem with the hospital because he had lived in this environment since he was a child. In his world, the hospital should be the center of the camp, which was a matter of course.

It's always been that way.

Although the Andavi family entertained a lot of guests, most of them were just curious and surprised that there was a hospital in their camp, instead of thinking about whether the hospital was for worshiping a certain god.

After all, under normal circumstances, no one would associate a modern hospital with a temple. What's more, the Andavi family's hospital is the same as a normal hospital, and there are no mystical items.

He Ao's thinking took a big turn, and the old patriarch didn't react for a while.

But he soon realized why Hoo felt they were offering sacrifices to the gods.

The Andavi family's hospital is at the core of the entire camp. The doctor has a high status, and only the director of the hospital can be the patriarch.

Regardless of functionality, these conditions are conditions that only temples in other families of wilderness wanderers with faith have.

Some people have asked the old patriarch why the status of their hospital is so high, and his answer has always been, 'This is the tradition of the Andavi family, and it has always been like this. ''This means that we cherish the lives of our people, and the existence of the hospital has greatly reduced the death rate of our people. '

But from an objective point of view, it is indeed a bit wasteful for the Andawi family to maintain such a hospital building.

However, the Andawi family has many talent sequences of the 'doctor' pathway that have been handed down, which allows them to obtain high-quality doctors at a relatively low cost.

The old patriarch kept flashing in his mind to refute He Ao's words, summing up the reason why the hospital is not a temple.

At this time, He Ao, who has been waiting for no reply, has already looked back at the previous murals.

"If this 'hospital' building is very important, then it must have appeared in a mural. Since the person who painted the mural wants to record history, he must not miss this important thing."

Among the twelve murals, the first building that resembles a camp appears in the sixth mural.

The camp in this mural is very simple, it looks like a makeshift stone fortress.

Immediately following the eighth mural, the eighth mural depicts the scene where the quarrymen induce life to kill each other,

In the corner of this mural, several camps appeared faintly.

These camps have begun to take shape, and all the facilities are complete, but in the center of the camp is a square, not a circular hospital.

He Ao's eyes moved to the ninth mural.

This mural depicts the peak moment of the quarryman's rule, and the mural is full of a large number of camps.

Among these camps, almost every camp has a circular building similar to the current Andawi Family Hospital.

Just as the size of the camps is different, the size of these 'hospitals' is also different.

Some are big and have two or three floors, while others have only one floor and a small house.

At this time, the old patriarch also drove over in a wheelchair and saw the mural He Ao was looking at.

"These 'hospitals' are the 'legacy' left by the quarrymen."

He Ao looked at these camps and thought, "The gods believed by the hospital are actually the gods of the quarrymen? It's just that with the end of the rule of the quarrymen, people in your family overthrew the original gods they believed in, and only kept The more practical value of the hospital itself?"

The old patriarch watched the camps.

He had to admit that what He Ao said was very reasonable, there was indeed such a possibility, and it was very likely that it was the real history.

He choked back the words he just thought of to refute He Ao.

He looked at He Ao's thinking expression, and began to think about whether to publish these murals recording history to more young people in the clan.

Perhaps the active thinking of these young people can help them find points they have never found before and unearth a more authentic history.

Although the 'Pate' in front of him is also a middle-aged man, the old patriarch can feel that the other party's thinking is abnormally active.

But at this moment, He Ao's active thinking was blocked.

He vaguely felt that this 'hospital' might have a lot to do with the Fountain of Youth, but he couldn't be sure what the connection was.

He was still missing some crucial clues.

Rubbing between his brows, He Ao sorted out all the clues he got today. The next clues may need to be obtained from Limen City.

He gave up continuing to study these murals, but looked at the fountain of youth in the center of the room, and walked over.

"This fountain of youth was brought out when our people migrated,"

The old patriarch slowly followed He Ao's footsteps,

"After we brought it back, we sealed it in this metal space.

"In order to prevent descendants who can't control their own desires from opening this container, the first patriarch after the quarryman asked a passing wizard to design a self-explosion mechanism for this spring. Once you try to open this container, it will explode. Blow it up directly and take away the fountain of youth inside.

"For so many years, the breath of life it exudes has saved countless clansmen, and it has also extended the lifespan of the clan leaders who can enter and leave this room.

"In order to prevent the patriarch himself from being tempted, we have chosen a strict succession mechanism. Only the extraordinary with the best resistance can become the dean of the hospital, and then the patriarch of the family."

"Over the years, no one has been tempted?"

He Ao took out a test tube from his arms and asked softly.

"Yes," the old patriarch stared at the spring water of the fountain of youth, his eyes were a little dazed,

"The first patriarch who designed this device was tempted by this spring when he was old and dying. Although he was stopped at that time, he still caused heavy casualties.

"When a person is dying, the temptation of eternal life will become infinite."

In the end he shook his head lightly, "That's why the patriarch of our family will choose to exile himself and leave the family when he is old and dying."

This topic is a bit heavy.

An old man, no matter how powerful, is sad to be alone in the wilderness.

Self-exile is self-exile at best, and suicide at worst.

He Ao asked casually after listening, "So do you plan to retire to the city?"

"?"

The old patriarch was taken aback.

"Have you heard of the Wilderness Immigration Act?"

Howard continued to ask.

The old patriarch shook his head blankly.

It seems that there is indeed a problem with the dissemination of information among the wilderness wanderers.

The information of the wanderers in the wilderness mainly depends on the communication with the surrounding cities. If no one in the city is willing to share this information, the speed at which the wanderers in the wilderness can obtain information will be greatly delayed.

The walking caravan relies on the nearby wilderness wanderers for supplies, and the wilderness hunters who go out of the city need to buy low-priced fur or gems from the wilderness wanderers.

No one wants wilderness wanderers to leave their active places and migrate into cities.

Even going to the city will make these wilderness wanderers live better.

Of course, there are also some wilderness wanderers who may not want to enter the city for various reasons.

The world is often complex.

"It's okay." He Ao glanced at the test tube, "I'll explain it to you in detail after the matter is over."

The test tube in his hand was one of the test tubes obtained from the shadow, and it contained a milky white translucent liquid.

Howe put this test tube together with the container containing the fountain of youth. The color of the liquid in the test tube is very similar to the spring water of the fountain of youth.

At first glance, it looks like a translucent fountain of youth.

"A dilute solution of the fountain of youth?"

The old patriarch also noticed the test tube in He Ao's hand at this moment, he was a little shocked, "Can you show me?"

"Give."

Howe handed him the test tube.

"Ingenious design, almost no energy overflow."

The old patriarch played with the test tube in his hand, then looked at He Ao, "Can I open it?"

He Ao thought for a moment, then nodded slightly.

The old patriarch is obviously an expert in this field, and the other party's inspection is much more accurate than his intuition.

After getting He Ao's affirmative answer, the old patriarch carefully opened the latex stopper of the test tube, and a warm feeling permeated from the test tube instantly.

The old patriarch took a sniff and immediately put the plug back.

"It's the Fountain of Youth, there's nothing wrong with it. I've been here for more than 100 years, and I can't be wrong, but the Fountain of Youth is not the main substance, and it's mixed with other things. I don't even know what he mixed into it, but he added It does neutralize part of the pollution of the diluted fountain of youth, although it greatly weakens the medicinal effect of the fountain of youth."

He raised his head to look at He Ao, and handed the test tube back with some reluctance, "The person who researched this medicine is a genius, where did you get this thing from?"

"In the city."

Howe took the test tube.

"Is that why you must understand the Fountain of Youth?"

The old patriarch pondered.

Howard didn't answer.

In fact, the old patriarch shared the information of the Fountain of Youth with him, which was equivalent to paying him the reward in advance. After all, the information of the Fountain of Youth was the reward for destroying the ghost mushrooms agreed by He Ao and the old patriarch.

"Are you not afraid that I will break the contract and run away?"

He Ao glanced at the murals around him, and said with a light smile.

"Although I am old and not strong," the old patriarch said in an old voice, but he was extremely confident, "But I still have a certain vision of seeing people."

He stretched out his hand and handed a folded paper to He Ao,

"This is the secret medicine formula of 'Talent Sequence 115: Nightcrawler'."

It's trust.

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(End of this chapter)