Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 861

Although it was not the temple he was looking for and he had little interest in excavating the ruins, Perfecto still patiently allowed the scholars to lead the archaeological team to conduct a thorough excavation of the entire temple.

She stood beside the broken columns of the temple, watching scholars directing workers to carefully clean every inscribed slab and record every detail of the mural.

The cold wind blew in tiny ice crystals through the gap in the temple, and the white breath exhaled by the workers condensed into frost in the low temperature, but the scholars seemed not to feel the cold and were concentrating on interpreting the ancient symbols.

Just when Perfect was about to lose his patience, they actually discovered a buried secret room in the back hall of the temple.

The entire secret room had long been flooded by seeping groundwater and is now completely frozen in a thick layer of ice, like a giant piece of amber, sealing unknown secrets.

The scholar lay on the ice, and with the light of the lantern he carefully identified the murals and texts faintly visible under the ice.

His voice trembled slightly with excitement: "My lord, these inscriptions... seem to mention the 'Age of Frost' and the 'Never-Ending Winter Night'..."

Although it has not yet been fully deciphered, based on scholars' interpretation of what has been discovered, the information is likely to have some connection to the doomsday prophecy that Perfector was looking for.

So Perfect changed his mind.

Instead of asking scholars to decipher the code on the spot, she directly ordered the entire ground to be dug up, ready to cut out the frozen secret room intact and pack up and transport it along with the surrounding frozen soil.

The workers dug up the ground, melted the ice at the edge with steam, and laid a support frame around the secret room, preparing to pack up the entire frozen ancient secret and bring it back to the laboratory in the floating city to slowly disassemble and study it.

With the reward of this unexpected discovery of the secret chamber, Perfecto's attitude towards exploring ancient ruins changed significantly.

She began to push forward this work with almost harsh requirements. She not only urged the governor to immediately summon more scholars who were proficient in ancient characters to join the research team, but also sent out several exploration teams and asked them to conduct a systematic investigation of all known temple sites in the desert kingdom.

This time, her target was no longer limited to the temple of the Ice and Snow Goddess.

Perfect signed a detailed investigation list that listed all the gods recorded in the history of the Desert Kingdom - from Rahmat, who controls the scorching sun, to Sekhet, who dominates the sandstorm, and even some long-forgotten minor gods were not spared.

She asked scholars to thoroughly screen the murals and inscriptions in each temple, looking for any clues that might be related to the doomsday prophecy.

In order to ensure the comprehensiveness of the investigation, she even asked the governor to summon the kings and chiefs of the desert kingdoms and ordered them to provide assistance in her capacity as the regent of the empire.

Any chief who can provide valuable clues will be rewarded with a small mobile energy tower. This condition immediately caused a commotion among the chiefs present.

In Perfect's eyes, these small energy towers are just ordinary equipment mass-produced in the floating city's industrial zone.

As the industrial blocks are relocated and production capacity is increased, as long as there are enough raw materials, this type of equipment can be mass-produced like steam engines.

In essence, they are just mobile heat sources and generators for field surveys, with limited technical content. Even if they are handed over to the tribesmen for use, they do not understand the core principles, and subsequent maintenance still depends on the technical support of the empire.

But for the kings and chiefs of the desert kingdom, this is simply a magical weapon that can change the fate of the tribe!
Those tribal leaders who have seen the power of the energy tower have long privately called it a "mobile oasis." In the severe cold of dozens of degrees below zero, equipment that can provide a stable heat source means that the tribe can expand its range of activities, ensure the survival of the elderly, the weak, women and children, and even maintain military deterrence in extreme weather.

Thus, an unprecedented "treasure offering competition" began among the tribes of the desert kingdom.

Some chiefs presented golden scarab statues that had been guarded by their families for generations, some handed over ancient stone slabs engraved with mysterious symbols, and some even led their guards to dig up the ancestral forbidden areas.

In just half a month, the "precious cultural relics" received by the Governor's Office filled three warehouses.

And Perfect also kept its promise and distributed a batch of small energy towers that had just come off the production line to the tribes that provided effective clues.

Looking at the backs of the chiefs escorting the energy tower away as if it were a treasure, Perfect couldn't help but shake his head.

These tribesmen will never understand that the priceless artifacts in their eyes are just industrial products that can be mass-produced. Instead, the ancient relics they handed over are the truly priceless things.

But it is precisely this cognitive gap that allows her to obtain the deepest secrets of this ancient kingdom at the lowest cost.

With the information she obtained, Perfect quickly pieced together what she wanted to know.

"The Book of Frost Prophecy of Heliopolis" - this is the true name of the doomsday prophecy that Perfecto has been searching for.

An elderly chieftain presented the fragments of a prophecy book that had been treasured by his family for a thousand years. Although the papyrus had become brittle and yellowed, and the text was blurred due to its age, the key information was successfully restored through the joint efforts of more than a dozen top scholars.

The faded paintings on the papyrus show that according to legend, she was originally the sister star of Sirius. Because she disobeyed the will of the sun god Ra, she was deprived of her glory and exiled to a place of eternal winter at the edge of the world.

Those ancient cuneiform characters describe: her breath turned into a biting cold wind, her tears condensed into unmeltable ice, and her anger foreshadowed that the world would eventually usher in the "White Silence Era" - the ultimate winter when everything froze and life was silent.

Legend has it that she was once one of the brightest stars in the night sky, the twin sister of Sirius. Because she challenged the authority of the sun god Ra, she was deprived of her light and exiled to the eternal ice prison at the end of the world.

Every breath she takes turns into a cold wind sweeping across the earth, and every drop of her tears freezes into solid ice that will never melt. When her anger reaches its peak, the whole world will usher in the "White Silence Era" - the ultimate cold winter when even time will be frozen.

This is highly consistent with some of the information that Perfecto had, but there are also some discrepancies, but these are not important.

This book of prophecies was written thousands of years ago. It is a product of the mythological era, so it is normal that some of the information does not match the current one.

What was really important was that Perfecto finally had access to concrete information directly related to the prophecy, rather than just fragmentary legends.

More importantly, by cross-checking the clues provided by several kings and chiefs, she successfully locked on the location of the main temple of Safra - a giant building buried deep under the moving sand dunes, where it is said that the most complete text of the prophecy is preserved.

This discovery may be the last piece of the puzzle to solve the mystery of the last winter.

(End of this chapter)