Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 795 Activation
Just when Ke Lan was talking to Sanshisan, something strange happened!
The figure that was crouching on the corpse in a very pious posture suddenly screamed, and his limbs danced wildly, as if he wanted to get up from the ground, but his face was tightly attached to the inscriptions, as if it was smeared with strong glue and could not be separated from the floor tiles.
The next second, the flesh and blood in the body of the Erosion seemed to be drained away, and the whole body shriveled up. Just like the Erosions killed by Mo Jue, only a skeleton tightly wrapped in black hard skin remained... and the floor tile that absorbed his flesh and blood changed as well.
The material of this floor tile gradually changed from black- gray rock to a transparent substance like crystal. A dim light as red as blood flowed inside the floor tile...
This strange phenomenon lasted for more than half a minute before the floor tiles returned to their original color, but Ke Lan noticed that the order of the characters on the tiles had changed dramatically from before.
Ke Lan's heart moved. He gritted his teeth and looked intently at the inscription characters whose arrangement order was completely different from before.
This time, the expected severe swelling pain in the head did not appear, and those mysterious chanting sounds did not sound either. Ke Lan read the changed inscription very smoothly.
But his body just relaxed for a moment, and then immediately tensed up again.
After the order of the characters in the inscription was changed, the inscription on the floor tile was no longer a "formulaic" prayer, but a piece of text without a beginning or an end, but with a huge amount of information.
"Everything is just a disguise."
"We disguise ourselves as sheep kept in a pen, docile, harmless, pious, and willing to contribute all our strength and resources to His will."
“Maybe some people have really become sheep, but there are always people awake in the darkness, always awake.”
"Those who are awake must take on the responsibility of keeping watch. They must be the leaders of all the survivors and, when necessary, wake up all the sleeping people."
“We sharpen our weapons for Him, but they are also our weapons, weapons presented to Him, and will eventually pierce Him.”
...In the middle was a long paragraph of meaningless, scattered characters, perhaps to confuse the audience, or perhaps they were intentionally erased. But just the first half of the text was enough to make Ke Lan feel like he was struck by lightning.
Alpha civilization's piety to the great gods...is it a disguise?
No wonder... No wonder the tactical mecha they made was called "Blasphemer", a name that sounded disrespectful to God. Ke Lan once thought that this kind of mecha was specifically aimed at the enemies of the "great God", those "evil gods", "evil gods" or "false gods"... But now it seems that the blasphemer, the blasphemer... The god that the Alpha people wanted to "blaspheme" was probably the "great God" they had always believed in and worshipped!
Ke Lan stared at the inscription on the ground, and his breathing gradually became rapid. He completely ignored the panicked call of Thirty-three and continued to read the second half of the inscription.
"We can't let Him know our true intentions."
"The secret must be maintained."
"Before that moment arrives, all those who wake up early must be wiped out."
"Among the Night Watchmen, if there are any who have corruption levels exceeding the danger threshold, they must be eliminated."
"The 'sheep' who participated in the construction of the altar must be obliterated after the work is completed."
"...Eliminate everyone who knew about it."
"The person who recorded this inscription must also be obliterated."
"It's too late."
“Perhaps He has already noticed it.”
"Maybe He doesn't care at all."
"To Him, our strength is nothing but an ant trying to shake a tree." (Note: The language of the Alpha civilization certainly does not contain Chinese idioms, including the word 'sheep' mentioned above. Of course, there are no earth species like sheep on Alpha. These sentences are translated by Ke Lan himself based on the context and semantics. Just understand it. Don't argue.)
"He doesn't seem to have taken any action against us... Is it out of disdain? Or does He have another purpose?"
"Are we not overestimating our own capabilities by trying to guess the thoughts of gods with our mortal minds?"
"Does this really make sense? It can't possibly work, right?"
"Do you want to give up?"
"Even if we spend the entire civilization, it's impossible to do it, right?"
"His existence is almost as eternal as the entire universe, while the years of our civilization are but a fleeting moment in this world."
"This is just like the man named Yugong--" When reading this, Ke Lan was stunned again.
The words in the previous inscriptions, whether "sheep", "ants shaking trees" or "white horses passing by", are unique to Earth civilization. They are the result of Ke Lan's brain polishing them in the process of reading and translating inscriptions. For people with a certain level of literacy, when they see or read something, they will naturally think of some corresponding idioms or phrases in their heads. This is a very natural thing. Many people who grew up in a Chinese environment have this ability. (Of course, people who grew up in an English environment also have this ability, but there is also a set of corresponding things in English, such as slang and proverbs. This kind of fixed sentence with a specific meaning appears in almost all language systems of Earth civilization.)
When Ke Lan read this sentence, his brain automatically translated the "stupid old man" in the inscription into "Yugong".
But for someone who is familiar with Chinese, "Yugong" in most cases is not a direct translation of "stupid old man" or "stupid old man", but refers to a specific role.
That is the protagonist in the idiom "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains".
The reason why Ke Lan's brain directly translated this word into "Yugong" is because there is a prefix used to modify this "stupid old man" in the inscription.
This modifying prefix is: "the one who attempts to move mountains single-handedly"
Putting all of them together means “the foolish old man who tried to move the mountains single-handedly”…Isn’t this “Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains”?
In English, the idiom "Yugong Yishan" is translated as "The foolish old man, who removed the mountains" - the foolish old man who moved the mountains.
Isn’t this exactly the same as the meaning of this inscription?
Could it be that there is also an allusion to "Foolish Old Man Moving Mountains" in Alpha Civilization? Is this a coincidence?
No! This is not a coincidence!
Ke Lan thought about what he saw in the Super Dream video, and he vaguely had a guess... It seemed that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.
He suppressed his shock for the moment and continued reading.
"What Yugong couldn't do, his descendants can continue."
Seeing the next inscription, Ke Lan became more and more certain that it was referring to the Chinese idiom "Yugong Moves the Mountains". Isn't this the famous saying "My descendants will be endless"?
"But who can continue for us if we can't do it?"
“When our civilization is completely lost in history, and when the last human skeleton turns to dust, we will not be able to break free.”
“Is what we are doing really meaningful?”
"It's meaningful." This sentence seems to be a conversation with the previous sentence, and it seems to be asking and answering itself. "We can't be sheep kept in a pen. If we give up, we might as well choose destruction."
"But these sheep died of old age before they could even be slaughtered... The shepherd just took a nap and the sheep had already lived their entire lives... Is this considered keeping them in a pen?"
This inscription finally ended in a question-and-answer format. Ke Lan could see that there should be more content to follow, but it was just that this floor tile could no longer hold that content.
He glanced at the other floor tiles that had not absorbed flesh and blood with the corner of his eye. After just a few quick glances, his head felt as if it was pierced by millions of needles. Ke Lan didn't even need to confirm to know that the inscriptions on the other floor tiles had not changed. They were still the "original" prayers.
The prayers were just disguises, disguises to cover up the truth, but in order for the truth to be revealed, something must be used to activate these tiles...
Is this thing the flesh and blood of the Erosion Corpse?
Ke Lan took a look at the shriveled corpse of the Erosion Corpse. The flesh and blood of this Erosion Corpse had been sucked dry, but at the moment, he had no way to find a second Erosion Corpse.
There are more than 100,000 floor tiles in the square. Just this one tile has such shocking information. What kind of secrets are hidden on the other tiles?
Ke Lan felt an itchy sensation as if his heart was being scratched by a hundred claws... If he could find more flesh and blood from the eroded corpses and activate all these floor tiles... then perhaps he could piece together the truth behind the disappearance of the entire Alpha civilization!
Could it be that these things are the secrets that turned Heruni and his companions into corpses? If these things were made public, would the entire human civilization be destroyed?
I wonder how many floor tiles were activated when they first arrived here?
Ke Lan thought about it, and it was obvious that the "secret" he saw on the floor tile was not enough.
The members of the Undead Crew and the scholars who studied the Alpha Civilization might treasure this information, but for ordinary people, it was just a topic of conversation after dinner. Not to mention subverting the order of the entire human society, it was even unclear whether it could compete with the scandal of a popular actress to win the headlines of the news.
What's more, if they tell these things to others, who among the ordinary people will believe them?
Unless... this information alone is enough to transform a large number of humans into monsters called "Erosion Corpses".
Wait a minute?
Ke Lan suddenly noticed a suspicious point.
From the timeline, Heruni and his crew should have seen the inscriptions on the tiles first (assuming that the secrets they were talking about were these things) before returning to the Shaojiang Modified frigate. It was precisely because of this that Heruni and other crew members had a debate about whether to return to the Ark and return to human society, and whether to announce the news.
But the problem is that as time went on, the crew members except Heruni were "overeclipsed" one after another. They committed suicide or were killed by their companions... In the end, only Heruni was left, and his physical condition was getting worse and worse... until he locked himself in the "confinement room" that had been prepared long ago.
During this process, Heruni often heard the mysterious call in his ear and saw the starry sky calling him in a half-asleep and half-awake state... At this time, he discovered that he had gradually mastered the language of the Alpha civilization.
If he couldn't understand the language of the Alpha civilization or read its writing before, then even if he could see the activated floor tile inscriptions, he wouldn't be able to understand what was said on them?
Could it be that he forgot? In that half-asleep and half-awake state, people's memories are easily confused. Maybe he forgot that he could read the language of the Alpha civilization?
That's not right. Language ability is different from other memories. Unless the language center of the brain is damaged, it is difficult for humans to lose this almost instinctive ability. If Heruni had mastered the language of the Alpha civilization before, then when he first heard those whispers, he should have been able to understand them.
What went wrong?
Ke Lan squatted down, stroking the changed inscriptions on the floor tiles with his fingers, thinking...
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came into his mind!
The timeline is not wrong, it’s your preconceived notions that are wrong!
Those recording files do not have time marked on them, which means that the files at the front do not necessarily represent what happened before, and the files at the back do not necessarily represent what happened later!
Moreover, Hruni himself has edited and deleted these recording files, so the files do not have to be sorted in chronological order!
Although it seems to make sense from a logical point of view, it also makes sense if the order is reversed!
Heruni first heard the whispers and discovered that he understood the language of the Alpha civilization, and then went to the core area of the Gray Mist Forest with the other crew members. Then he discovered the secret and was eroded... After returning to the wreckage of the battleship, the others left one after another, and finally he locked himself in the confinement room.
And that part where the character is half asleep and half awake and hears whispers could be cut from the front and then inserted into the second half of the plot.
Ke Lan recalled and found the recording clips that mentioned being half asleep, wandering, and whispering. Although the clips did not mention other crew members, they also did not mention that Heruni's own body had mutated.
Before his death, Heruni often suffered from confusion, and before he left the wreckage of the battleship, he also had a period of frequent nightmares.
Because those recording files were "perfectly connected" to each other, I subconsciously thought of them as happening in the same period of time.
