They fell into the water suddenly, and both of them were falling. Fortunately, they have been vigilant since they entered the garden. No one has torn off the oxygen stickers. This will not cause them to be unable to breathe, but they just sink to the bottom of the water with their weight.

The pond can't be seen from the outside. After jumping in, I realized that there are some large pipes around this place. They are all barrel-shaped barriers made of stones, and there is nothing in the barriers.

The water was too cold, Lin Yanfei simply didn't let go of Qin Chen, the place where his body was close to conveyed a little warmth, so that it wouldn't make people feel so cold, Qin Chen stretched out his hand, but only gently grabbed Lin Yanfei's arm, close your eyes.

...The endless falling down that can only rely on each other like this almost gives people the illusion that they are dependent on each other.

I don't know how long it has been sinking, but Lin Yanfei felt the disappearance of the water level. He stepped on the air first, and threw out the elastic rope to hang on the wall, and led Qin Chen through the water curtain into the air bubble. Out of the water, the two fell down uncontrollably. Fortunately, the elastic rope hung firmly and tightened to restrain them so that the two would not fall completely to the ground.

When they were dragged into the water, they were in a hurry, they didn't put on their goggles, and they barely opened their eyes all the way. When they were in the air bubble, Qin Chen opened his eyes and looked around, and found that they were in a room similar to a temple. In the main hall, many connected parts of this hall are circular, and long steps lead to the hall, which looks particularly gloomy in the extremely dark bottom of the water.

"Crack." Lin Yanfei turned on the lighting, and the surroundings suddenly lit up.

Under the illumination of the light, through the gap between the broken temples, Qin Chen saw the epitome of the outer city-state, and the bronze snake head at the main entrance faced the gap in the broken corner of the wall.

They returned to the underwater city-state, this time apparently in the great temple outside the city-state.

There are countless murals and dense writing on the walls of this temple. If you look at the distance directly behind, you can also see the sculpture of soldiers guarding the gate of the temple with a fork. The pillars supporting the temple are huge and magnificent. Intricate patterns of vines and snakes.

"What's that? It looks like a... scale?"

After stepping on the ground, Lin Yanfei let go of Qin Chen, took the rope away with the other hand, looked around the temple first and then cast it into the main hall. After being attracted by the object in the center of the main hall, she raised her head slightly Taking another look, he frowned, "Why is it so big."

Qin Chen looked into the hall after hearing his words, squinted his eyes, and finally confirmed, "It's not like, it's a balance."

The main hall of this temple is as big as a football field. In the center is a huge bronze scale. The base alone is as big as a small lounge. The trays on both sides of the scale are enough to hold several people, but they are high on one side and low on the other. The lower side is surrounded by dense chains of bronze snake heads, while the higher side is empty.

The bracket of the balance is a bronze snake, and the two extended horizontal levers are vines. The coiled body of the snake serves as the base of the balance, and a totem of the sun is engraved on the upright snake.

The top of the temple is broken, and light shines through the water into the temple, just falling on the serpentine balance in the middle, constructing a weird and sacred scene.

"Go over and have a look." Lin Yanfei looked around, the temple was already in ruins, the bricks and tiles were scattered on the ground, and the long steps were covered with moss, lifeless, such an empty place where nothing could be hidden, dangerous It won't be high either.

Qin Chen didn't leave, and turned his gaze to the temple wall, "Wait a minute, let me read these words first."

"Can you translate it?" Lin Yanfei asked him.

Qin Chen shook his head: "It's basically impossible, but with the help of murals, maybe some characters can be barely deduced. After all, if this ancient civilization is inherited by characters, the meaning of pictograms is also very important, so we can still see a little bit."

Lin Yanfei: "Then go and have a look."

The two postponed their plan to go to the balance, and walked to the wall first.This temple is really too big, and it takes a lot of time just to walk to a wall, maybe because I know that if I go out of the water again, I will face a "cold winter", or maybe I want to wait for other people in Falcon, want to It's good to be eager to solve this mystery, they don't think the journey is too long.

The number of words on this wall is extremely large, and the top is a colorful painting. Although it is blurred and faded due to water vapor and the passage of time, it is still possible to see what the painting is.

"The reading order should be from right to left," Qin Chen looked at the paintings, "Hmm...this is the history of the city-state's development?"

"The first paintings were a few very simple houses, and then a man with a snake on his head came to these houses, and in his hand was a sun entwined with vines." Lin Yanfei read these pictures, "He put the sun to the inhabitants of these houses."

"These residents bowed down to him, and the houses gradually turned into various magnificent palaces, and then came the first picture we saw on the square," Qin Chen thought, "The snake on the man's head came to his hand , instead of a crown on the top of the head, there is something shining in the crown."

There is something connected in the dark, they looked at each other, let go of the consideration of the text, and turned to the next wall, "Here is another picture on the square. After the rise of magnificent buildings, the residents of the city-state are getting more and more More and more, the man with the snake coiled on his head stretched out his hand, the vines and the snake became one, he waved his hand, and the sun that was originally given to the residents suddenly fell to the ground."

"The entire city-state became dark, and then a priest-like man with a staff came out. With a wave of his hand, nine pillars stood erect on the northwest side of the city-state, pushing up a sun, and the city-state regained its light."

"The sun fell on the square from the nine pillars, and the residents of the entire city-state are bowing to the sun on the square. This is their new sun, but they don't know that the old sun is still under their feet."

It is not difficult to read this paragraph of pictures consecutively, Qin Chen said, "It seems that our order was wrong before. In the square before, our reading order was first a person holding a snake and wearing a crown, and then a group of people Worshiping in the square, there is a sun in the center of the square, another one underground, and finally snakes and vines entangled together."

"The murals in the temple are obviously more readable and coherent, and closer to the facts, so it is probably a person who helped a backward village develop into a prosperous city-state, so he was crowned king and queen. For some reason, It may also be because he has been malicious and has taken back all the gifts given to the residents."

"Then there was turmoil in the city-state. Fortunately, there was a priest with strong magic power...well, let's call it a priest. After all, he held a scepter in his hand, and he could support the Nine Pillars and create a new sun. Most of them are priests. He restored the city-state to the peace of the past, and everyone bowed down, but they didn't know that the old sun did not disappear, but fell under their feet."

Lin Yanfei: "It's a very strange story, with a mythical color, but these paintings did not explain the fate of the king and priest in the end. A story without an ending is always not perfect."

"Maybe it's recorded, but it's just in the text." Qin Chen turned back to the first picture and pointed to the text below, "If the picture is on the top and the explanation is below, it makes sense, but compared to the picture , the text is obviously too difficult to understand, the Satra civilization is disconnected from other civilizations, if it is really a 'city-state created by God', it is not impossible."

"Because this man, or the king of the city-state, the image he displays in the murals is a god," Lin Yanfei said. "He can create and give as he pleases, and he can take it back without mercy."

His views on gods are rare and mean. Qin Chen glanced at him and kept silent rationally. Then he changed the subject, "Look at these words."

For Lin Yanfei, these words were really as difficult to understand as a bible. When he looked around, they were all tadpoles, and his head grew dizzy. "You usually study this when you study history? What's the difference between them?"

"There is research on the ancient Chinese characters. Are these characters very different? Captain Lin can't tell?" Qin Chen pointed to the characters above and below, "Look at the strokes below, one of them turns to the left and the other to the right. Guai, there is no similarity at all."

"Forgive me, they really look like they came out of the same mold." Lin Yanfei took a closer look again, and was full of words to persuade them to quit on the spot, "I can't figure this out, I have a specialization in surgery, and Deputy Qin please. "

"..."

Qin Chen had a deep meaning: "Captain Lin is really flexible."

After he finished speaking, he began to carefully observe the words one by one with the light on. Lin Yanfei looked around, but did not dare to stay too far away from Qin Chen—even though he knew that Qin Chen was not a person without self-protection ability, But in the end, he was a little worried. He couldn't understand the writing on the wall, let alone research.

So after scanning around, he cast his eyes on Qin Chen's face.

After all, this may be the only and most pleasing view of the entire underwater city.

He actually spends a lot of time looking at Qin Chen's face, but when he sees it often, there is always a new feeling. Qin Chen has black hair and black pupils, and his complexion is cold and fair. It has the taste of a dignified gentleman in the old days - bright like a star, but not a bit girly like a butter boy.

It is an image that perfectly blends contradictions. Even if Lin Yanfei himself advocates force, he cannot deny this beauty. To put it bluntly, Lin Yanfei thinks that he quite likes Qin Chen's face.

This small appearance...how did it grow.Lin Yanfei watched and couldn't help rubbing her chin.

His gaze was not concealed, even if Qin Chen concentrated on looking at the wall, he could still feel it. Qin Chen stopped his head on one side and glanced over, "Captain Lin, is there something on my face or a flower bloomed?" Hua, it is worth your study for so long, your gaze makes me feel that I should charge a visit fee for my face."

"Then Deputy Team Qin might be able to make a fortune from this in the future." Lin Yanfei snorted, "Did you find anything out of your research?"

"Have."

Qin Chen took a step back and motioned for Lin Yanfei to come up, "Look."

He stretched out his hand and pointed at several places, Lin Yanfei could barely see that these characters looked exactly the same and appeared several times.

"These characters appearing very frequently and coherently should be the man's nickname or name. What is usually followed by the name?"

"Verb? What did this person do? What happened?" Lin Yanfei guessed.

"Well, it should be about the same here." Qin Chen nodded, "If you connect the sequence of the murals above with the sequence of the sentences below, using people as the demarcation point, you can probably find some usages of fixed sentence patterns. For example, this symbol symbolizes giving—this character appears twice, once at the very beginning and once under the mural that takes back the sun.”

"This shows: He gave these people the sun, but can he take it back one by one?"

"Yes."

Qin Chen's eyes were eager to try, and he also had the joy and excitement of deciphering the characters, "Following this trend, I might be able to read these sentences, can you give me some more time?"

Who can refuse a happy Qin Xiaochen?

At least Lin Yanfei couldn't.

Lin Yanfei rubbed him lovingly, and gently pushed against the wall, "The organization has approved it, Comrade Qin Xiaochen, don't worry."

The author has something to say:

Lin Yanfei's appearance in the ancient text is very similar to boyfriends who are scalp numb at their girlfriend's red lipstick [That's what it means, the meaning of the metaphor is messy, it's good to understand x]

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感谢在2021-08-0421:41:06~2021-08-0521:46:30期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 4 Feifei;

Thank you to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Yuesi; 10 bottles of Qiannan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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