Chapter 111 3.33 The Old Ones

After a rather long climb, everyone was exhausted and lying at the door of the pyramid gate.

Only Youm, holding Old Gore's hammer in his left hand, Loki's blood ax in his right hand, and Lawrence's staff on his back, jumped up easily step by step.

At first Loki would try to pull him to his side, but he found that disciplining this naughty kid seemed to make him make more noises, and finally he gave up.

After lying on the cold obsidian ground and resting for a long time, Loki calmed down the spasming muscles in his body and sat up again. Looking up, he saw a tall gate. The firelight reflected the outline of the doorway, which was more than seven stories high.

Mortals stood at the door like ants.

Old Gore could no longer contain the excitement in his heart. Even Lawrence, who was most tired after carrying the cross all the way, stood up with force. Youm had signaled him several times to hand over the cross to him, but the devout monk insisted on carrying the cross into the pyramid with his own strength.

By the light of the fire in the huge brazier on the steps, Emma took out the charcoal and recorded everything in front of her as quickly as possible. Loki originally wanted to signal the others to step back, but then he thought, if there were really guards in this temple who stayed at the door, they would still die.

Several people entered the hall lightly.

After entering, there is an array of statues like a Go board. All kinds of monsters and monsters stand on top. As small as insects and ants seen in the passage of a few people, as large as dragons with a length of almost 50 meters, these statues carved from snow-white marble are neatly erected in the first hall, with several oil lamps hanging on the walls. illuminated by fire.

(Why does this place feel so much like a sculptural version of a ‘catalog’?)

Maybe this is the 'list of monsters' in this "sanctuary"?

In the center of the sculpture array stand four tall Cyclops. Using the lasso to climb to the top of the 30-meter-high statue, Loki took a bird's eye view of the surroundings and saw nearly a thousand monster statues of various shapes. These icy stones are divided into 5 different areas. Each individual area has its own characteristics.

For example, behind the Cyclops at his feet stood the Minotaur "Minotaur", the Gorgon "Medusa" and so on. In Loki's memory, these are monsters from Greek mythology.

The monsters in an array at the back are rather strange. Among all the weird monsters, Loki could only recognize one, which was the "Capricorn" with a goat's head and horns on its upper body and a fish tail on its lower body.

This creature recorded in the "Twelve Constellations of the Zodiac" is the most peculiar existence in the zodiac. According to archaeological excavations in the 21st century, this thing originated from the Sumerian civilization 5,000 years ago.

The dominant "King of the Earth" in the Sumerian civilization was named "Enki". Enki taught the Sumerians survival skills and rules for establishing civilization, and also raised the first city-state ‘Eridu’ for the Sumerians from the bottom of the water! .

It was this sentence that made Loki remember this ancestor among the Sumerians.

This is another god full of strong technological meaning. The words stopped like some kind of spaceship or technological creation rising from the bottom of the water. Loki felt that this "Enki" was very likely to be similar to the Scarlet Creator, an ancient god who fell from the sky to the earth.

It's just that the Bloody Creator family lives on the bottom of the sea and focuses entirely on research. As for this ancient god, his interest lies in assimilating the inhabitants of this planet and preaching the gospel.

Later, Loki saw giant dragons carved into flying forms, monsters as tall as hills, and more monsters from ancient times. If all these things inhabited this city, then this city would be extremely terrifying.

Climbing down the statue on hands and feet, Loki pulled up Emma who was desperately recording, "Even if you paint until next year, you won't be able to spend so many statues! Follow me so you don't fall behind, and keep this stack of paper you are carrying behind you safe. Returning to Constantinople is your most important thing now."

Everyone entered the second hall.

The interior of the second hall is composed of frescoes. The circular hall has 6 huge murals evenly carved on the outer wall. The base of the mural is a white Dali mountain slab, which is carved with vivid reliefs and then painted with colorful pigments.

These paintings show extremely high artistic attainments.

In the last life, Loki had seen many colorful murals from ancient people, from the murals in the pyramids of the Egyptian civilization to the flying statues in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Most of these murals are flat and simple in shape. The colors are also pure colors produced by grinding colored rocks into stone powder.

The ancients' understanding of "color mixing" was extremely limited.

But these murals are not the same. Each chapter picture has a bright "tone", and then the whole picture is drawn under the same tone, just like a semi-three-dimensional color comic book!

The first painting is a gloomy gray mural, in which a huge meteorite lands on a dark, primitive planet and smashes into the endless ocean.

After falling into the sea water, the hot meteorite began to cool down, and at the same time, the fragments of the meteorite began to decompose. From the fragments, many tiny strange creatures emerged. These creatures floated on the water and spread rapidly throughout the world through ocean currents.

Seeing this mural, eight words immediately appeared in Loki's mind: Cambrian Explosion of Species.

Until the 21st century, paleontologists could not explain why so many creatures suddenly appeared in the oceans of the Cambrian period (600 million years ago). Seeing this mural, Loki vaguely guessed an answer.

After the outer skin of the meteorite decomposed, its core continued to sink to the bottom of the sea. After an unknown number of years, the stone outer skin retreated layer by layer, revealing a black egg wrapped in the center.

This strange egg continued to drift with the waves and rolled on the seabed. Finally, a six-legged creature like a turtle was hatched. When this creature rushed to the surface of the sea, the tiny creatures that were originally scattered from the outer skin of the meteorite had evolved into huge land overlords over a long period of time.

They were covered with thick armor and bird feathers, and their sharp teeth were extremely ferocious.

This is the dinosaur in Loki's memory.

Large dinosaurs ate small dinosaurs, and small dinosaurs ate plants on the ground. Even most plants have evolved venom, spikes and other defensive means to continue their offspring.

On Earth, a complete food chain has been formed.

The six-legged turtle that just crawled out of the seabed couldn't beat these ferocious overlords at all, and could only survive by eating rotten corpses and weak plants. At the end of the gray-tone painting, Loki saw the six-legged turtle hiding in the cave and saw the huge dinosaurs biting each other in the distance.

And in the distance, a giant as big as a towering tree passed by!

The giant only showed one leg in this mural, but from the perspective of proportion, the dinosaur, which was as big as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, was only the same height as the giant's foot.

The giant didn't even look at the dinosaurs fighting desperately on the surface. He easily trampled a group of dinosaurs to death wherever he passed and walked away. The remaining dinosaurs temporarily gave up fighting after surviving the disaster and ran to the footprints as deep as the canyon to eat the corpses of their own kind.

The gray mural stopped here. Loki stared at the huge foot and thought silently for a long time.

If he was right, this giant who looked different from any creature on the surface should not belong to this cycle of life. He does not regard these dinosaurs as "food" and even disdains to find a place in their "food chain".

His existence may even be older than the Cambrian Explosion!

This is the "Old One" of the Jurassic era!