Chapter 33 Oracle
After the steel plates were laid, a truck without a front end, loaded with rice, flour, grain, oil and other supplies with a total weight of 50 tons, slowly drove from the edge of the canyon on this side, towed by a tow rope on the opposite side, and headed towards the newly built wooden bridge.
At the edge of the canyon, countless people watched this scene together, and the air was filled with a tense and slightly expectant atmosphere.
The heavy truck bed pressed down on the steel plate. From that moment on, its weight was entirely supported by the tens of thousands of wooden planks and logs underneath.
The bridge creaked slightly. Zhou Cheng felt a little nervous, but his mind told him that this was normal. It was just the sound of the wood deforming.
Next to them, Feng Lan, Liang Chengdong and others were staring at a screen nervously.
A large amount of data is constantly changing on the screen, corresponding to the hundreds of sensors installed on the bridge.
The heavy truck moved slowly from one side of the canyon to the other.
Liang Chengdong slowly stood up and announced loudly: "All sensor readings... normal!"
Wow!
At this moment, countless people applauded at the same time.
Zhou Cheng clapped his hands frantically. At that moment, he seemed to see truck after truck passing over the wooden bridge, bringing countless grains and vegetables, countless equipment and instruments, countless personnel and supplies to the Yangjiagou base...
The most fatal breakpoint on the entire road was thus connected.
Facing the applause and cheers of countless people, Feng Lan slowly closed his eyes, and turbid tears ran down his rough face.
He suddenly turned around, facing Zhou Cheng and Liu Yu, clasped his hands together and bowed, "Thank you, thank you."
Zhou Cheng and Liu Yu hurriedly supported him at the same time.
"Uncle Feng, we should be thanking you. If it weren't for you, who knows how long the Yangjiagou construction site would have been delayed."
Tears glistened in Feng Lan's old eyes, and his face was filled with calmness and comfort after his wish was fulfilled.
"Before, when my father taught me the technique of building wooden arch bridges, I thought it was just a skill to make a living, and the intangible cultural heritage was just a gimmick.
Nowadays, all bridges are made of steel. This wooden bridge is useless except for being a curiosity in the scenic area.
His words were full of emotion.
“But now, I feel that I was wrong before.
This thing was invented when there was no steel bridge technology. At that time, our ancestors relied on wooden bridges to cross rivers and connect canyons.
This thing is real, a manifestation of our ancestors' ability to adapt to and transform the environment, and their courage to struggle with nature. It is a testimony to the arduous journey of human civilization, step by step, all the way to today. It is the true crystallization of wisdom."
Smiling with satisfaction and sighing, Feng Lan gently patted Zhou Cheng's shoulder.
"Your Uncle Feng doesn't have any other skills, so he can only help you up to this point. The future path still needs to be walked by you young people.
But I think that when our ancestors faced the river barrier, they did not give up, but used their wisdom to eventually build a wooden bridge to achieve the purpose of connecting the two sides. Now, we can't have children, and civilization seems to be on the verge of extinction. We can't give up either. We must use our wisdom and we will definitely find a way to solve the problem in the end.
There will definitely be a way forward in the future, definitely."
Facing the old man, Zhou Cheng bowed deeply: "Yes, Uncle Feng, I remember everything you said."
"Okay, let's go. It's time to go back and retire."
Feng Lan wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, turned around and walked back with a heroic look.
Decades of pent-up anger seemed to dissipate completely at this moment.
"Old Feng, you can't leave."
Liang Chengdong walked over quickly and grabbed him.
"Oh? Anything else?"
"Old Feng, you just missed a point. Your technology is not only the crystallization of our ancestors' wisdom, but also the bottom line of our civilization.
With this technology, we can build wooden bridges when faced with extreme situations like ours, where we can't build steel bridges. If this technology is lost, we'll be left with nothing."
Liang Chengdong sighed, "There's a huge demand for bridge construction around the world right now, but because steel bridges can't be built, there's a backlog, which is causing a lot of trouble for many countries.
Now that we have this wooden bridge technology, I want to try to solve the backlog of bridge construction needs. So, you have to teach us completely and in detail, teach us all, and then we can build wooden bridges together."
"Oh? That's true. Alright then, let's go. Old Feng, I promise I won't hide anything!"
"Walk!"
The few remaining bridge experts in human civilization gathered around Feng Lan in a lively atmosphere, like stars surrounding the moon.
…
With the completion and opening of the Nantushan Canyon Bridge, the remaining breakpoints on this road were also repaired one after another.
Thus, a large number of personnel, supplies, and machinery were transported to the Yangjiagou ruins like a rolling river. In a short period of time, the excavation site reached approximately 20,000 people.
Construction of the mountainous area of the Yangjiagou site finally began, and excavation began under the direction of archaeological experts.
In this gamble, human civilization finally handed over all its chips and placed them all on the gambling table.
One day, in the third month of the full-scale mountain excavation, a new tomb was discovered.
After careful manual treatment, some bones and some pottery, jade and other artifacts were unearthed.
One of the things caught Professor Wang Liyun's attention.
It was a small piece of stone with some lines on it that were obviously carved by humans.
Um?
Wang Liyun picked it up carefully and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.
The broken edge of the stone formed a semicircle. This circular shape... seemed to be somewhat similar to the moon-shaped carvings customarily used by the Yangjiagou tribe.
After thoroughly cleaning the burial pit, she found more than a dozen pieces of the same rubble. After piecing them together, a complete picture appeared before people.
The moon hung quietly in the sky. Beneath it, there were no longer any figures kneeling on the ground, but something that looked like a picture, or perhaps words.
Although its meaning cannot be deciphered for the time being, Wang Liyun can already confirm that this must be the original hieroglyphics of the Yangjiagou tribe.
Following this discovery, a meeting of archaeological experts was quickly convened.
"Judging from the decoration, the owner of this tomb was also a clergyman.
Skeletal analysis suggests he was approximately 45-55 years old.”
"The style of the burial objects is similar to that of the previous priest, and they might even have been made in the same batch. It's very likely that the two belonged to the same era."
"If the previous priest had seen the 'Moon God' with his own eyes, then this priest should have seen it as well.
The stone tablet of that priest has an image, showing the scene of the Moon Goddess’ descent. The stone tablet of this priest has words, so…”
People looked at each other cautiously, and each saw a hint of solemnity and joy in the other's eyes.
It has been speculated before that after the Moon Goddess descended, she most likely communicated with the priests, and these communications were most likely recorded.
At this time, stone slabs engraved with ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the tombs of contemporary priests. So, what these words describe is obvious.
It is very likely the content of the communication between the Moon God and the priests! What is recorded on it is the "oracle" sent down by the Moon God!
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