Plague Doctor

A low, frenzied murmur echoes in this tunnel.

But Miscellaneous Cat, Yucchi, Kezia-Mason and Gu Jun have been gone for half an hour, there is no end, a few turns, no human shadows, the lights on the wall are exactly the same, the vibration continues, and if there is no sound, it has always been this distance, as if nothing has changed.

Here we are, another aisle that connects in eight directions, and there's an iron staircase over it that leads down.

But this shouldn't be where they first came from, the old and new levels of the iron stairs are different.

And because of that, the miscellaneous cat, Wu Shiyu, had to admit the fact that, well, he was lost.

“Meow.” She stalled her claws and poured them in the middle of the aisle, indicating that she couldn't lead the way, and that she needed a break.

“Don't you feel anything?” Gu Jun asked, he didn't have it himself, and the perception here is very confusing.

Wu Shiyu shook her head, she thought she had it, but like a carrot dripping in front of a horse, walking one step further and further away. She figured the best way was to grow the horse's mouth a little longer, or have a long tongue like an ant beast, so she could eat it.

Gu Jun looked around, his mind just flooded with panic, what was happening...

There's less than an hour and a half left.

Kezia-Mason also seemed to have no idea, and she was interested in the lights on the wall, which was a novelty for her.

“Captain Gu, I have some ideas.” This is when Yucchi walked to the wall, "you came to look at the sculptures on these walls, I noticed a long time ago, from the entrance of the stairs down to the bottom, all the way down here, the walls were full of sculptures. ”

“Hmm." Gu Jun naturally also noticed that he had actually talked to Yucci before and thought it was part of the ritual, or the decoration of the altar building.

But now Yucchi has some new ideas, his face is all red, he grabs his beard, he has a lot to say, but he has trouble organizing the language due to the abnormal PTSD.

“These are rock paintings, symbols, text… how to put it, rock is a visual medium! So all these images of ancient times engraved on stones, on mountain walls, whether they are pictorial images or geometric symbols, can be considered markers, symbols. ”

Gu Jun nodded, "Understood. ”

“Meow.” Wu Shiyu over there is also listening, which is very understandable, both men and women are people.

“Symbols are words…” Yu Chi caught the head, "it should be said that the oldest written language of human civilization, there are three, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sumerian wedges, Chinese characters —— that is, Oracles. These are figurative symbols that have developed in the past. ”

Through the blurred light, Gu Jun looked at the delicate symbols on the wall, “Yu team, are you saying that the symbols on the wall actually have meaning? ”

“Yes, I'd like to say that these minutes could be a whole spell, or a sacrificial divine literature, or some kind of history. ”

Yu Chi said, his eyes are a little fanatical. If these symbols can be spread out, how many things can be figured out?

But Yucci didn't just want to say that, "I know some linguistics. The more I looked at this wall, the more I discovered some ancient hieroglyphics. You see, that's the word" bug "in Oracle. Pictograms are descriptive images of objects, concepts, and behaviors, which are like a bug. ”

Gu Jun can indeed see signs from it, like a bug, a snake, or an iron hook from the next generation.

When you think about it, there's an unknown surge in your mind.

The words they are now using, albeit evolving, are used when their ancestors may still be drinking their blood.

Of the three oldest hieroglyphics, the only one is still used by humans.

What do you mean they're on the wall?

“From the entrance to the iron ladder to below, I found that Oracle appeared less and less, Sumerian wedges appeared more and more, then Egyptian hieroglyphics appeared the most, and Oracle was almost invisible. I guess it's a matter of time, and the sooner we get inside, the sooner the symbols on the walls are born. ”

“Captain Gu, everything will go back to the beginning of human civilization. Those of us who are at the end of civilization will go back and start to connect with the end. ”

“Text is one of the beginnings of civilization, and it can be seen as an important information technology. ”

Yu Chi said confusion, but also expressed the meaning: “The beliefs of the followers of the locust gods are not so simple, it may not be just a bunch of bugs, but it is related to the power of time and space, the power of civilization development, and only then will their altars need to be built like this. I think we're already in the altar. ”

Technology? The word made Gu Jun's eyebrows wrinkle a little uncomfortably.

Technology is the means by which humans and Islam all fight against the forces of darkness...

“Meow?” Wu Shiyu asked, "So how do we get to our destination?

Or has it arrived, and now it's smashing and smashing against the wall, biting and chewing, so that even if it destroys the altar?

“She's asking what to do.” That's all Gu Jun can hear.

“Let's go along the timeline and go back!” Yu Chi said as he reached out and touched the symbols on the concrete wall, "These symbols have their birth order, human beings existed before civilization appeared, primitive people, apes... Look, there is hardly any hieroglyphic text here, but the symbols of the Stone Age appear in large numbers, this is the raw cow rock engraving, this is the feather-shaped graph - each has three to four forks on it, it is the rock painting of the Middle Stone Age...”

This knowledge of archaeology can only be understood by one person.

So Gu Jun couldn't give any opinions. Kezia-Mason stood aside and didn't seem to understand. Wu Shiyu was on the brink.

“Team Yu, lead the way.” Gu Jun said, "Maybe that's why you're here… we all have our reasons. ”

“Okay, let me try it, this is the Middle Stone Age...” Yu Chi is now walking a short road to all seven other intersections, and he is looking at the symbols on the wall, judging the time points represented by various directions. Some intersections lead to the Neolithic Age, which is the future for the Middle Stone Age.

And if they want to go back in time, back to where they came from, they need to walk to the junction of the Paleolithic era.

There are, however, three channels, all marked with paleolithic age symbols equal in number to the obvious.

But of these, there's only one channel, and there's the word "bug" in Oracle, the only Oracle.

“The word has always appeared and never disappeared.” Yucci grabbed the head, “it shouldn't have appeared, it shouldn't have appeared long ago, not even the Egyptian hieroglyph, how can there be Oracle in the Paleolithic era? Unless... it's beyond time. ”

Gu Jun looked at the worm, like a snake like a hook.

Is it the locust gods who transcend time? Or are they the intruders?

With less than an hour and ten minutes left, the tunnel has been chosen and the three of them step back into the depths of the tunnel.

I just don't know if they'll eat the bait and hook it up.