Falling into the Cretaceous

Shen Ye and his companion finally returned to the edge of the camp without any major incident.

Ningbo was the first to spot them; he was practicing with the slingshot Shen Ye had given him at the edge of the woods.

He suddenly noticed Shen Ye and Chen Yue appearing in the woods.

He thought he had misread it, so he rubbed his eyes and, after confirming that he hadn't misread it, immediately shouted loudly.

"Ye-ge is back! Ye-ge is back!"

Ningbo ran around the camp shouting like a newspaper boy.

As soon as the news spread, the survivors immediately put down their work and headed towards Shen Ye and his group.

Seeing that Shen Ye and Chen Yue had no other problems besides some superficial injuries, everyone's anxious hearts finally relaxed.

Such a miracle made Westerners firmly believe in Shen Ye's identity as God's messenger.

"Where are Zhou Jian and the others?"

Shen Ye couldn't see Zhou Jian, Cui Zhengxi, the photographer, the reporter, Mike, and Jack.

He then asked Zhang Qiming.

"They went out looking for you. Oh, and I'll tell them to come back now!"

Zhang Qiming picked up the walkie-talkie and began making calls.

"Zhou Jian, Lao Cui, Ye Ge and the others are back. They weren't seriously injured. You guys should come back soon!"

There was a quick response on the walkie-talkie.

"Okay, received. We'll be back soon!"

Zhou Jian's voice came through the walkie-talkie.

Zhang Qiming turned off the walkie-talkie and looked at Shen Ye and Chen Yue.

"They'll be back soon, Brother Ye, Miss Chen, you two go and rest for a bit. I'll have Xiao Chao get you something to eat."

Zhang Qiming said.

Shen Ye nodded. They had gone through a lot of effort to get out of the deep pit, and it was almost noon now. Their stomachs were rumbling with hunger.

At this moment, Zhou Jian and his four companions were at the edge of the deep pit.

They looked at the deep pit with great curiosity.

"Brother Ye and his buddy must have escaped from here, just missing us," Zhou Jian said. Then he added, "Hey Korean, should we go down and check out this strange thing?"

Cui Zhengxi hesitated for a moment.

"Now that we're here, let's go down and take a look. But not everyone can go down. Who wants to come with me?"

Cui Zhengxi asked.

"I'll go with you!"

The photographer said, and Cui Zhengxi nodded.

Zhou Jian tied the rope to a nearby tree. This rope was the network cable he had used to tie the drone. It was a braided rope on the outside, but the network cable was inside. It was tougher than ordinary network cable, but not strong enough to be used as a climbing rope.

Before setting off, Zhou Jian had already braided multiple strands of rope together to form a thicker rope.

He tested it at the camp and it could support the weight of a person.

After the rope was tied, Cui Zhengxi was the first to slide down it, her freehand rappelling technique was very standard.

Although the photographer wasn't as decisive and efficient, he was still much better than the average person, and it was clear that he had a lot of experience with outdoor activities.

He was holding a small camera.

He's taking pictures of everything here.

Cui Zhengxi squatted down and cleared away the mud and rocks at the bottom of the pit, revealing a larger spherical surface.

Then they saw the "words"!

"There are words! But I can't understand them!"

The photographer saw a cleared spherical surface with several lines of white characters on it. These characters were not letters, but some kind of hieroglyphics. Underneath the hieroglyphics were numbers.

Yes, those are numbers they can understand.

"These numbers... seem to be the coordinates that Shen Ye engraved before, Cui Zhengxi, do you remember them?"

The photographer asked Choi Jung-seok in shock.

Cui Zhengxi was also dumbfounded.

"That's right, it's that coordinate line!"

Cui Zhengxi hurriedly cleared away more mud and rocks, and the tendon dragon slid towards the edge of the sphere, and the entire spherical surface in the middle was soon exposed.

The photographer held a video camera and recorded the strange white text on it.

They made no other discoveries.

Those above weren't clear about the situation below and could only wait. Mike and Jack patrolled the area, glancing back at the pit opening every now and then.

"Let's go back. Staying here for so long is dangerous for us too!"

Cui Zhengxi shook the dirt off his hands and said.

The photographer packed up his camera and climbed up first, followed by Cui Zhengxi.

The crowd gathered around and asked questions.

"What exactly is it?" Zhou Jian asked.

Mike, Jack, and the reporters were all very excited, as if they were waiting for an announcement that some incredible treasure had been discovered.

"Let's go back first; we've been exposed to the elements for too long," Cui Zhengxi said.

The group looked around. Although the sun was blazing, the ferns and bushes were still eerie. The prehistoric palm trees and cycads served as a constant reminder that this was not a modern, primitive mixed coniferous and broadleaf forest, and that danger lurked everywhere!

Therefore, they did not linger and immediately returned the way they came.

They did not encounter any more Tyrannosaurus Rex along the way. After returning to the camp, they immediately went to Shen Ye, who was eating dinosaur meat and drinking dinosaur soup.

Their abrasions had been disinfected and bandaged.

"Why are you back so late?"

Shen Ye asked.

Based on his calculations, Shen Ye believed they shouldn't have stayed that long.

"We've found the pit you fell into!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Ye was taken aback.

"You guys found that pit too? We don't even know how to tell you yet. What do you think that thing is?" Shen Ye tore off a piece of small bully dragon meat and asked slowly as he chewed.

"Let me show you something you didn't notice!" The photographer walked over, turned on the camera, and played the video he had taken down there.

Shen Ye's expression changed slightly when he saw the words and numbers.

"Copy these characters without any mistakes. I need to study their meaning," Shen Ye said immediately.

His major includes in-depth research on ancient writing systems. As long as they are pictographic characters, the differences are not actually that great.

The only differences are twofold: first, the shape is slightly deformed; second, the meaning represented by a single character is polysemous.

Most of the characters we use today have only one meaning.

However, in hieroglyphics, a single character may represent an entire event. They cannot be called characters, but rather condensed "scene paintings" or "comic strips," with a great deal of content in just a few lines.

Before long, the reporter wrote out all the words inside exactly, and Shen Ye took them and studied them carefully.

About half an hour has passed.

Shen Ye stood there for a long time, and no one around dared to approach and disturb him.

Until he slowly opened his mouth.

"With their advanced technology, it's impossible for them to still use these characters. The reason they write these characters is simply because they believe that we use this kind of script. But indeed, only pictographic script can become a means of communication between different times and different races. This is because every human civilization inevitably goes through the Stone Age and agricultural civilizations, and pictographic script is used to depict these. Therefore, it is possible to understand pictographic script."