Life Dungeon Game

He Ao: ······

They were just looking at the ancient murals and trying to guess the lost history when, suddenly, the old chieftain pulled out a tablet computer and showed them a high-definition scan.

It makes sense, but it's a little strange.

It feels like time travel.

However, he didn't dwell on it any longer. He looked at the scanned documents, activated his Hyper Memory, and quickly glanced at them.

The old patriarch's tablet computer had a high resolution, and the scanner was also very accurate, making many details and even damage in the images clearly visible.

There are four migration maps in total, each depicting the migration route of the Andavi family at different times. The mapping methods used on these migration maps are completely different from the current mapping standards used by the Federation. They should be mapping methods invented by the Andavi family themselves, or mapping methods that were popular in a certain era.

However, the meaning of each icon is marked on the picture, so He Ao doesn't have much difficulty reading; it's just that switching between different ways of thinking is a bit troublesome.

He quickly memorized all four pictures during his first quick glance, but to avoid revealing his abilities, he flipped through them more thoroughly for a while longer.

Finally, he raised his head and whispered to the old clan chief, "Thank you."

"We should be thanking you."

The old clan chief put down his tablet and smiled.

His expression was much more relaxed than when He Ao first met him; it seemed that dealing with the Merck family had indeed eliminated a huge threat to him.

He Ao

His gaze swept over the previous twelve murals, and he memorized them all. Then he turned his head and looked behind him.

There is a new mural here, only a small part of which has been painted.

The background of the mural is mushrooms covering the mountains and fields.

Clearly, these 'mushrooms' are ghost mushrooms.

“Although we now have more advanced storage methods,” the old patriarch said, maneuvering his wheelchair to the mural, “I still hope to record this history in the ancient way, so that even if one day we lose that history, we can still leave some traces.”

He Ao gazed calmly at the mural and nodded gently.

He pondered for a moment, organizing all the information he had just obtained, and then asked slowly, "So what does the saying 'After drinking from the fountain of youth, those who live forever are not necessarily human' mean?"

“I don’t know the exact meaning either,” the old chieftain shook his head and said slowly, “but this saying is a proverb that has been passed down since the time of the quarrymen.”

During the era ruled by the quarrymen, there were indeed members of the Andavi family who had drunk from the Fountain of Youth.

He stared at the mural that only depicted some mushrooms.

He suddenly remembered that the Andavi family members seemed to have a high resistance to psychological manipulation.

This appears to be an evolution in response to harsh environments.

Such evolution usually takes a long time, so when did the Andavi family develop this resistance?

Was it during the period of quarry rule?

It's very likely, but He Ao still vaguely felt that something was amiss.

He looked at the old patriarch, "Do you know when this innate mental resistance of the Andavi family began?"

"The era before the quarrymen is unknown, but what is certain is that after the quarrymen, all members of our family have more or less possessed this resistance."

The old patriarch replied, "We currently speculate that this resistance may be related to the Fountain of Youth."

He Ao's guess was similar.

At this point, he paused for a moment and asked the question he had been pondering for a long time, "Which deity does your 'hospital' worship?"

Do you think we're worshipping gods?

The old patriarch was taken aback. He seemed not to have expected He Ao to ask such a question, and then his movements froze.

He suddenly realized that the reason he thought there was nothing wrong with the hospital was because he had grown up in this environment. In his world, the hospital should be the center of the camp, which was a matter of course.

It should always be this way.

Although the Andavi family entertains many guests, most of them are only curious and surprised that there is a hospital in their camp, rather than thinking about whether the hospital is for worshipping a certain god.

After all, under normal circumstances, no one would associate a modern hospital with a temple, especially since the Andavi family's hospital is just like any other hospital and doesn't contain any mystical items.

He Ao's train of thought took a rather unexpected turn, and the old patriarch didn't react for a moment.

However, he quickly realized why Heo thought they were worshipping gods.

The Andavi family's hospital was located at the very heart of the camp, where doctors held a prestigious position and only the hospital director was qualified.

To serve as the clan chief.

Functionality aside, these are conditions that only temples in other religious families of wandering wilderness people possess.

People had asked the old chieftain before why their hospital held such a high status, and his answer was always the same: 'This is a tradition of the Andavi family; it has always been this way.' 'It shows that we cherish the lives of our people, and the existence of the hospital has greatly reduced our mortality rate.'

However, from an objective standpoint, it is indeed somewhat wasteful for the Andavi family to maintain such a hospital building.

However, the Andavi family has many inherited talent sequences for the 'doctor' path, which allows them to acquire high-quality doctors at a relatively low cost.

The old patriarch kept thinking of rebuttals to He Ao, summarizing why the hospital was not a temple.

Meanwhile, He Ao, who had been waiting for a reply but hadn't received one, turned back to look at the previous murals.

“If this ‘hospital’ building is very important, then it must have appeared in some mural. Since the person who painted the mural wanted to record history, they certainly couldn’t miss something so important.”

The first mural to depict a camp-like structure appears in the sixth mural among the twelve murals.

The camp depicted in this mural is very rudimentary, looking like a hastily assembled stone fortress.

Next is the eighth mural, which depicts a scene where quarrymen induce life to kill each other.

In the corner of this mural, several camps can be faintly seen.

These camps were already taking shape, with all the facilities in place, but at the very center of the camps was a square, not a circular hospital.

He Ao's gaze shifted to the ninth mural.

This mural depicts the peak of the quarrymen's rule, and it is filled with numerous camps.

In these camps, almost every camp had a circular building similar to the current Andavi Family Hospital.

However, the size of these 'hospitals' varied depending on the size of the camp.

Some are large, with two or three floors, while others are only one floor, a small room.

At this moment, the old clan chief also drove over in his wheelchair and saw the mural that He Ao was looking at.

“These ‘hospitals’ are the ‘legacy’ left by the quarrymen.”

Looking at these camps, He Ao pondered, "The god that the hospital worships is actually the god of the quarrymen? It's just that with the end of the quarrymen's rule, your family overthrew the god they originally worshipped, and only kept the hospital itself, which has more practical value?"

The old clan chief watched over the camps.

He had to admit that what Heo said made a lot of sense; it was indeed possible, and very likely the true history.

He swallowed back the words he had just thought of to refute He Ao.

Seeing He Ao's thoughtful expression, he began to consider whether to reveal these murals recording history to more young people in the tribe.

Perhaps the active thinking of these young people can help them find points they've never looked for before and uncover a more authentic history.

Although the man in front of him, 'Pete,' was also a middle-aged man, the old clan chief could sense that the other man's mind was unusually active.

However, He Ao's active thinking was blocked at this moment.

He vaguely

He felt that this 'hospital' might be closely related to the Fountain of Youth, but he couldn't be sure what that connection was.

He still lacked some crucial clues.

Rubbing his temples, He Ao reviewed all the clues he had gathered that day. The next clues would likely need to be obtained from the inner store.

He abandoned his study of the murals and instead looked at the fountain of youth in the very center of the room, and walked over to it.

"This fountain of youth was brought out by our people when they migrated,"

The old patriarch slowly caught up with He Ao's pace.

"After bringing it back, we sealed it in this metal space."

"To prevent descendants who cannot control their desires from opening this container, the first chieftain after the quarrymen consulted a passing wizard and designed a self-destruct mechanism for the spring. If anyone tries to open the container, it will explode and take away the fountain of youth inside."

"Over the years, the life force it exudes has saved countless clansmen and extended the lifespan of clan leaders who have been allowed to enter and exit this room."

"To prevent the clan leader from being tempted, we have chosen a strict succession mechanism. Only the superhuman with the best resistance can become the hospital's director, and then the clan leader."

"Has no one been tempted all these years?"

He Ao took out a test tube from his pocket and asked softly.

“Yes,” the old patriarch said, staring blankly at the spring water of the Fountain of Youth.

"The first patriarch who designed this device was tempted by the spring when he was old and dying. Although he was stopped at the time, it still caused heavy casualties."

"When a person is on the verge of death, the allure of immortality becomes infinitely strong."

Finally, he gently shook his head, "So when the patriarch of our family gets old and is about to die, he will choose to exile himself and leave the family."

This is a rather heavy topic.

No matter how strong an old person is, it is difficult for them to be alone in the wilderness.

Self-exile is, to put it nicely, self-exile; to put it bluntly, it's suicide.

After listening, He Ao casually asked, "So, do you plan to move to the city to retire?"

"?"

The old clan chief was taken aback.

Have you heard of the Wilderness Immigration Act?

He Ao continued to ask.

The old clan chief shook his head blankly.

It seems that there are still some problems with information dissemination among wilderness wanderers.

Wilderness wanderers rely mainly on exchanges with surrounding cities for intelligence. If no one in the city is willing to share this intelligence, the speed at which wilderness wanderers obtain information will be greatly delayed.

The traveling caravans relied on nearby wilderness wanderers for supplies, while the wilderness hunters leaving the city needed to buy cheap furs or gems from the wilderness wanderers.