Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 865

The charcoal pencil in Perfectok's hand rustled on the drawing, and the architectural structure of the temple was being reproduced bit by bit under her pen.

The position of each column, the direction of each wall, and even the broken relief patterns were all depicted by her with amazing precision.

However, as the temple had gone through thousands of years of wind and rain and had long since become a ruin, many blank spaces and broken lines inevitably appeared on the drawings. These were parts of the building that had collapsed or completely disappeared in reality.

Perfect frowned slightly, staring at the missing parts.

For these missing parts, she needs to rely on her architectural knowledge and logical reasoning to fill them in, but this is not easy.

Fortunately, scholars are conducting detailed archaeological excavations at the temple ruins, and the placement of every stone and every remaining carving they record may become key clues to fill in the gaps in the drawings.

By comparing the two, the complete structure of the temple is gradually becoming clear.

However, the Temple of Safra is a large-scale ancient building after all. Although its overall structure is not as complicated as some maze-like religious buildings, in order to decipher the possible secrets of the temple, every detail of it, whether it is the load-bearing columns supporting the dome, the decorative arches on the corridors, and even the long-blurred ritual patterns on the floor need to be carefully restored.

To achieve an accurate restoration, even with Perfecto's almost photographic memory and meticulous thinking, it would take a considerable amount of time and energy.

However, she was not in a hurry.

She has plenty of time and energy, not to mention that she can mobilize other people to assist her.

Thinking of this, she put down the charcoal pencil, rolled up the drawing that had been mostly completed, and then summoned the team of scholars responsible for excavating the temple.

"This is the architectural blueprint of the temple. I need you to complete it." She handed the blueprint to the leading scholar, her tone calm but unquestionable.

Several scholars carefully took the drawings and gathered together to discuss in a low voice.

One of the older scholars hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke cautiously: "Regent, if we want to accurately map the temple's architectural structure, we may need some additional equipment...especially lifting equipment.

Many of the temple's structures have collapsed over time, and if we can properly repair some of the key support points, we can more accurately restore their original form."

Perficot thought for a moment and nodded, "It's a reasonable request. I will have the floating city dispatch two autonomous robots to assist you, and also arrange a team of steam knights to be responsible for carrying and fixing the structure."

She paused, looking around at everyone, "Anything else you need?"

The scholars looked at each other and finally shook their heads: "Not for now, Regent. We will complete your request as soon as possible."

"Very good." Perfect nodded slightly, and then added, "Remember, it's not 'as soon as possible', but 'do your best'."

Her tone was not harsh, but it instantly made the scholars tense up. They bowed and said, "Yes, Regent!" Then they left in a hurry with the blueprints, fearing that they would delay the task assigned by the imperial regent.

Perfect watched them leave, shook her head slightly, and then turned her attention back to the pile of materials on the table. These documents, rubbings, and measurement data sent by scholars might help her piece together the complete appearance of the temple and the secrets hidden in it more quickly.

Perfector flipped through the mountain of documents, his fingertips lightly running over the yellowed parchment and fragile papyrus scrolls.

Most of these materials compiled by scholars are based on later research on the mythological era. Although the content recorded in them is not completely wrong, after thousands of years of erosion, many truths have long been blurred by time or even distorted by the conjectures of later scholars.

She couldn't help but frown slightly. In the mythological era, this barren land now covered with yellow sand was once a fertile land with abundant water and grass, perhaps because of the blessing of the gods or the completely different natural environment at that time.

The descriptions of "oases everywhere" and "fertile river valleys" in the documents seem like fairy tales to modern people, but Perfectocote knows that the ancients would not make up such records for no reason.

Those ancestors who established a glorious civilization would obviously not be so foolish as to ignore the habitable places and choose to expand their territory in the barren desert.

However, time flies, and in the long years before the arrival of the doomsday winter, the prosperity of the desert kingdom has long disappeared.

The dramatic changes in the environment, climate change, and many other natural factors caused the land to gradually dry up, and the once powerful kingdom declined.

In the end, only scattered nomadic tribes and independent chieftains remained, as well as the ruins buried under the yellow sand, silently witnessing the glory of the past.

Perfect sighed, lamenting that because of this, the academic community has always lacked historical research on the Desert Kingdom.

After all, even the kingdom that ruled this land no longer exists, so how can we expect future generations to respect history and study their once glorious culture?
If the countries of the Old World had not suddenly started to admire the ancient desert civilization at a certain period of time, these relics would probably still be forgotten by the world under the endless yellow sand.

She thought of those antique crafts that the nobles vied to collect and those overly beautified historical legends, and couldn't help shaking her head.

These superficial pursuits are more of a disguised consumption of ancient civilization than a respect for history.

It is also because of this that much of the research on the Desert Kingdom is actually a form of pandering to the admiration of the Old World countries, rather than a true investigation aimed at restoring the historical truth.

This undoubtedly brought some resistance to Perfect's work.

She had to restore their original appearance from those "beautified" documents, which was not easy.

Due to the demise of the ancient desert kingdom, the language and writing they once used have been lost and become a dead language, resulting in early research on the ancient desert kingdom relying entirely on speculation, which contained a considerable amount of subjective conjecture and errors.

If it weren't for archaeological discoveries and a French linguist who deciphered the writing of the ancient desert kingdom, many things would probably still be buried in history, with their truth impossible to restore.

This also meant that when Perfecto was analyzing and studying these documents, he had to first compare them to see if they were early research materials, which added a lot of unnecessary work.

(End of this chapter)