Give the universe a little earth shock

Chapter 55 Arriving in Asia Minor
Temple of Time.

Artifacts buried deep beneath the remains of the Hittite civilization.

It can be said that before the Hittite civilization died out, it was already dead and buried under the mud layer of the Mesozoic Era.

At that time, the seven continents were still connected into one piece of Pangea, and the ancestors of mammals had just crawled out of the ocean and crawled between the toes of dinosaurs for food.

Therefore, since the discovery of the Temple of Time 30 years ago, it has always been an unsolved mystery for all mankind. Archaeologists from various countries have been running around, changing batches after batches, but still have not obtained any useful information. In the temples that appeared, no traces of paleontological activities could be found around them.

Welcoming and sending off, the small village [-] kilometers away from the temple has gradually turned into a town, and some enthusiastic and fanatical scholars have lived here for more than ten years.

The Asian Restoration Team came to the town at 14:[-] UTC, the City of Time.

The locals call it this name.

Surrounding the City of Time is an endless saline-alkali wasteland, towering strange rock pillars and hills. The locals dig caves on the rock pillars and worship gods. Under the blessing of the night, it is as desolate and paradoxical as coming to the moon. Territory.

There are lost shrines and tunnels everywhere. Thousands of years ago, the Hittites, who were pagans, wandered in these tunnels to avoid the Roman soldiers and built a huge underground city.

Li Kaiyang stood in the desolate wilderness, looking at the darkness where his vision was exhausted. He even felt that the appearance of the Temple of Time was not unexpected in such a lost civilization.

"Unload the truck! Assemble the exoskeleton!"

He withdrew his gaze and stopped staring at the wasteland.

"Old Wang, you go to distribute the simultaneous interpretation equipment, be careful, there are civilian armed forces in the ancient city, don't conflict with them."

Li Kaiyang glanced at the cautious locals around the street, and whispered.

Energy restoration equipment unloaded by the team filled the streets of the town.

Everyone camped on the spot and rested in place. Pharaoh shuttled through the crowd, distributing simultaneous interpretation devices. Once the small earphones were buckled, no amount of force could shake them off.

He was followed by a group of civilian armed forces with big noses and deep eye sockets, with heavy ammunition chains coiled around their bodies, and more or less dark turbans wrapped around their heads.

After the eternal night fell, the Asia Minor area, which was already running wild, became more chaotic. Civilian armed forces gathered and exchanged fire from time to time.

AK is the standard configuration to ensure safety, and safety is only within the emptying speed of the magazine.

Except for the leading brother, the armed forces are all young guys. Although they look fierce, the curious look on the outer power skeleton from time to time still betrays their age.

They are all playing hard.

The local armed guards are very vigilant, with their index fingers resting on the firing button of the firearm, and the safety is fully released.

In places of faith, be extremely careful.

"Abba, Abba?"

The bearded armed leader grabbed Lao Wang by the corner of his clothes and spoke a long list of foreign languages ​​with a windy and sandy atmosphere. Lao Wang didn't understand, so he compared his ears to indicate that he didn't know.

The simultaneous interpreter in his hand is not unusable, but he is afraid that if he gives it out, he will not be able to get it back. This thing is prepared according to the quantity.

Click, the younger brother behind the elder brother loaded the gun and pointed sensitively at Lao Wang's head.

"Abududu, Karacoka."

Lao Wang held his breath. He asked in the simultaneous interpretation if anyone knew Turkish, but the answer he got was that this person spoke not Turkish, but a dialect that no one could understand.

"Give it to him, Old Wang."

Li Kaiyang came over and signaled Lao Wang to give one of the few instruments in his hand to the captain. If no one can understand, he can only rely on simultaneous interpretation, which comes with a global language vocabulary.

Lao Wang happily handed over the simultaneous interpreter to the captain, gesturing how to use it in his hand, "Your, press this one, hold it here."

I don't know what's going on, but when I communicate with foreigners in Chinese, there's always a bit of a general questioning, maybe it's influenced by old movies.

The captain put on the simultaneous interpreter and operated it decently. After the channel was connected, his eyebrows twitched, "Amazing."

The first sentence that popped out of the headset was that he was praising the power of technology.

"Hello, stranger, I'm Yuerqu, the priest of the city of time."

Sacrifice?

Such an ancient vocabulary, Li Kaiyang has not heard this word for a long time, he put one hand on his left shoulder, and made a greeting from the locals, "Li Kaiyang, the leader of the Asian restoration team."

"Team leader, I'm looking for you, please come with us, outsiders need the permission of the great gods to approach the Temple of Time."

Yuerqu was polite and polite, which was completely inconsistent with the temperament of the bullet belt on his back.

Li Kaiyang and Lao Wang looked at each other, as if they hadn't thought that there were other beliefs in the ancient city.

Lao Wang blinked his eyes and signaled his boss not to go. No one can predict what kind of behavior the stranger with the ammunition will do, and any risk is unbearable before the restoration begins.

Li Kaiyang thought for a moment, then patted Lao Wang on the shoulder, "Go and organize everyone to practice together, I will go back as soon as I go."

In the wilderness where gods and Buddhas hide, respecting customs is the biggest risk avoidance.

The so-called gods are enshrined on the towering stone pillars in the center of the ancient city.

Yu Er held the torch and illuminated the statue. Li Kaiyang's first impression was that it was weird.

The shape of the statue is indescribably weird.

No matter what kind of totem worship is on the earth, including the agnostic Cthulhu, there are traces of the embodied image.

For example, the Lord of R'lyeh has octopus-like tentacles, his body is covered with fish-like scales, and he has giant bat-like claws.

All are elements of the existence of life on earth.

One cannot imagine what one has not seen.

But Li Kaiyang couldn't describe the statue in front of him. He tried his best to search for the words in his mind, trying to understand it with metaphors.

Hmm. Looks like a worm, no, like a ouroboros.

Under the bright red firelight, it seems to change a shape every second, and it is a different shape when viewed from different angles.

He can only use data to describe the abstraction. 80.00% of the god statue is curved, without edges and corners. The other 20.00% is a Klein bottle-like structure. I don’t know where it started and where it ends.

Uerqu devoutly formed a seal on his chest, which resembled the structure of a statue, "Great lord, insect of time, please allow outsiders to enter your temple and allow their offense."

Li Kaiyang imitated the example, folded his fingers into strange shapes, and leaned slightly.

"Outsider, have you learned it in secret?" Yu Erqu bowed his head and turned his head, "My five sons have not learned it for 15 years, and you succeeded at one time?"

Li Kaiyang was stunned, he only felt that everything was logical, as if he was constructing an engineering machine, it was all based on intuition, now when he looked closely at his hands, it was really inseparable, and he couldn't break it apart.

Yuerqu came over and held one of his fingers, the complex structure disintegrated in an instant, he smiled and said, "Master Time Worm will protect you, outsider."

(End of this chapter)