Chapter 302: The Secret of the Ancient Heritage

Rat Huangfeng also took a sip: "The most important thing is the lees!"

"It took us two thousand years to cultivate this distiller's grains... I think we used something like... the three-east worm..."

Naturally, humans also bought this strange wine lees, the price was... 1 Lingyun.

It is indeed a good thing. Humans can cultivate mutant fruits vigorously. It does not take too much effort but can reap great rewards.

I also ate some local specialties - aged bacon, a piece of monster meat that had been hidden for who knows how many years, and it tasted like wood when I chewed it.

But there is a lot of energy in it!

It's a bit like salamander meat.

If you taste it carefully, it is a bit spicy and quite flavorful.

Lu Yuan said: "The Rat King is wealthy, but he can only live a life of eating and sleeping in the open air. He is truly the ascetic monk in the legend."

Rat Huang Feng sighed and said, "We have no choice but to travel around the world... Who doesn't want to live a better life?"

“But we are already part of the vision, and we must rely on spiritual energy to maintain our sanity.” He pointed to his brain.

"And our race has no future. Our population is already fixed, our ability to produce spiritual energy is not high, and we have no way to reproduce the next generation."

"If you want to live, you can only make a deal!"

"If we make a little money here and there, we can get through this era."

This is true. After observing for a month, this civilization is indeed a dead end, without even a child...

There are many high-ranking rat people who get drunk every day, and they don’t even care much about the transactions between humans and the Rat Miba civilization.

This may be what a race that has lost hope is like.

If we just live in misery, this life will be too monotonous and boring...

Rat Huangfeng lowered his voice again: "Little brother, we will stay here for a few years. If your craftsmen have finished products, they can come to us to trade at any time!"

"We'll take the worse ones too, and we can even give you a small premium! How's that, brotherly, right?"

This Rat King is indeed a sharp-tongued man. He actually started talking about friendship and feelings.

Fortunately, this guy was too ugly, and there was some bacon stuck in the gaps between his big yellow buck teeth, which gave off a strange smell - no matter how sincere he was, Lu Yuan would not be easily persuaded.

If this Rat King was a cute girl...

Ahem, maybe Lu Yuan is a little tempted...

The saying that clothes make the man is indeed true. Some equipment can increase "charm". Are they really useless? "Brother, I see that you have a bright future. I will show you a clear path. It's a good news for free!"

Shu Huangfeng leaned close to Lu Yuan's ear and pointed to the east, "There is a big mountain over there, and there is a sinkhole on the mountain."

"The time ratio in the tiankeng is one hundredth of that in Pangu Continent. That's really good stuff!"

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows. Don’t I know about the tiankeng?

I was the one who killed the vision lurking inside...

He said, "I've been to that place before. The whole mountain is full of winding caves..."

“Little brother, you know the facts but not the reasons.” The Rat King waved his hands, shaking his head and said, “That mountain is a product of the ancient times, or even longer ago. They piled it up with human lives.”

"The civilizations of the ancient era only respected idealistic technology, not materialistic technology. The methods they used at that time were also more bizarre and could easily accomplish things that physical technology could not accomplish."

"In order to avoid epochal disasters, some powerful civilizations took the initiative to create this [Time Lock] to separate themselves from the Pangu Continent. Think about it, that is noble time technology. If it is accomplished with physical technology, it is almost impossible, right?"

Lu Yuan nodded. It would be too difficult to use materialistic technology to create a thing like a "time lock".

As far as humans currently know, the only thing that can be related to time is the distortion of space.

Either get close to the black hole or board a sub-light speed spacecraft.

But Idealistic Technology can do it relatively easily...

Of course, the difficulty for Weixin Technology is that it cannot produce at low cost and in large quantities.

Rat Huangfeng added: "In a certain era in the past, using this kind of time lock to avoid era disasters was quite popular."

"But there are usually powerful visions guarding it. Now the vision has gone to nowhere, but the time lock remains. It's really a treasure left without an owner!"

"We, the Shumiba civilization, don't have the ability to dig up that mountain. We can only collect some luck..."

"But you can dig up the foundation of the entire mountain and take it away with the Sky City. Even if it takes decades to take it away, it's still a profit. This is a real treasure, and the method of refining it has been lost!"

Lu Yuan was silent for a moment: "I was actually the one who killed that [monster]. But what's the use of the tiankeng?"

Rat King Huang Feng continued to chatter away: "The tiankeng has many uses. One percent of the time flow rate can seal strange phenomena. If you want to study ghosts, hehe... With this tiankeng, safety is guaranteed."

"There are also many materials that are difficult to preserve, which can also be stored in it."

"There are many extraordinary items that decay very quickly..."

That’s it?

Lu Yuan felt that it was not very attractive. His storage space also had the ability to store supplies. Did he need to move a mountain over? Rat Huang Feng narrowed his eyes, and then suddenly reacted. His green eyes widened like broad beans, and his voice became sharp.

"You killed him?"

The other rat men in purple clothes also looked over one by one, their long beards trembling and expressions of shock.

One of them asked, "Which one?"

Lu Yuan said: "I killed it a long time ago, but I didn't know why the monster was so weak at that time..."

"As for the ranking, ahem, the top few..."

Lu Yuan did not hide it either.

After all, the Shumiba civilization has revealed some information to him, so he has to return the favor.

"Brother Lu, who is among the top few, is really a man of great luck." A purple rat man said enviously.

“Oh, Purple Rat, you underestimated me! This is not just luck, but also strength!” The Rat King took a bite of the monster meat and chewed it hard twice.

"One of the four natural disasters is the rarest and most difficult to deal with."

"Even if it's dying, you may not be able to find its true form!"

"How can this be described by luck? Unless you have spatial abilities and can deal with it a little, you will be trapped in multiple different dimensions for the rest of your life and unable to get out."

This guy's flattery is really just right.

Lu Yuan was completely unimpressed by the layman's random comments, but this Rat King really knew a lot. It was really comforting to hear an expert evaluate an expert.

Even the human diplomats looked at Lu Yuan with great curiosity.

A hero never brags about his past achievements, and Lu Yuan would never keep talking about such things.

Since the old story was brought up again, he casually talked about the past, including the abilities of that [monster], and the general steps of the final victory...

Of course, Lu Yuan slightly modified the ending...

He didn't want to expose the power of the Tree of Life, so he changed it to a scene where he barely survived the explosion.

"So Uncle Cat and Uncle Wolf are so brave!" Lu Tiantian exclaimed, "I will worship Uncle Wolf when I go back."

"The old wolf is old and can't stand your messing around." Lu Yuan said with a smile, "Besides, the Lize civilization has also made great efforts."

"I'm here with some comrades. I don't know if they have woken up yet... After a while, we will have to contact the Rize civilization and buy some technological products."

On the other side, Shu Huangfeng remembered the huge red light he saw with the "Eye of Luck" that day.

Among the top few, no wonder this person’s fortune is so prosperous, being among the top few in an era is not easy!

He savored it for a long time, and that luck... was really conspicuous.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

They are the Shumiba civilization, and it is definitely a good thing for them to make friends with them now.

So he began to think, if he could make concessions, could he give in a little, help a little, and give a push? Of course, there must be equal exchanges between civilizations, not a vassal relationship.

In this world, ungrateful civilizations are everywhere.

"Should we pack up the tiankeng and take it away?" Lu Tiantian asked again, "The project is huge. It will take a long time to finish the work of a mountain."

"That's a really good thing." Rat Huangfeng said, "I'm not lying to you! That thing was only popular in a certain era, and no one made it after that. There are fewer and fewer of them in the world now, and it's hard for you to find another one that's so well preserved."

"To put it bluntly, if we didn't have the industrial capacity, we wouldn't have given it to you for nothing..."

His voice was trembling, slightly painful, and had a bit of gangster undertones.

Lu Yuan was also a little tempted. If the sinkhole was dug out and the old wolf moved in, perhaps it could live longer.

As for sealing a [ghost] in the tiankeng to slow down its escape - it's really a bit nonsense, isn't this courting death?

But does the tiankeng have more functions? I'm not sure, so I can only find ways to develop it in the future.

Rat Huangfeng thought of something again: "It is normal for the strange phenomenon to be weak. How difficult is it to avoid the disaster of the era?"

"Once the time lock is set, contact with the outside world must be completely cut off."

“It can’t come out again until its energy is exhausted, so the [monster] appears very weak at first.”

Lu Yuan was thinking, could it be that the weakness of all the anomalies at the beginning was not the work of "God", but the terrible "epoch disaster"? What is "God"? What is the epoch disaster? Where did those powerful civilizations go?

Really... is it so easy to become extinct?

The Shumiba civilization is definitely not as good as the Dalai Empire and the Gear Civilization. Even the rat people survived, so where did the other civilizations go?

"I don't know... We have to abandon these memories in order to survive." When talking about these issues, Rat Huangfeng said helplessly, "Alas, let's just live in confusion. We know too much, but we are powerless to change it."

"There will be peace for a long, long time. New civilizations will grow up like weeds."

"We strive to live to the next era, and the next era... Our lives are connected to the giant stone turtle... Staying alive is the only way to go."

"Drink while you can!" A master craftsman sitting next to Shu Huangfeng seemed a little drunk. His old face was red and he was muttering some strange syllables.

Lu Yuan sighed in his heart. The Shumiba civilization should not be weak in the eighth era...

Definitely not weak!

Otherwise, they would have died long ago in the harsh "gambling fight" environment.

But at this moment, the Shumiba civilization only bullies small shrimps.

With a population of just over 2,000, it is impossible to develop technology.

They just want to earn enough spiritual energy and then hide until the next era.

This may be a way of survival, but why... isn't it a kind of sadness?

If humans reach the final moment, will they choose this method? Lu Yuan...is not sure.

No matter how ambitious he is now, he dare not guarantee it.

As they drank and chatted, their interest grew. After all, the epoch-making disaster was still too far away, and it would be unnecessary to think too much about it. So everyone started talking about more joyful things such as "legendary equipment".

The strength of Shumiba civilization lies in the fact that they truly have five master craftsmen who have created legendary and even epic equipment!

Five!

Unfortunately, after the disaster of the era, with the loss of memory, the master craftsmen also became mediocre and had to learn again - but how easy is it to learn again? The luck of their entire civilization has been gone.

When the overall environment becomes irreversible, the work enthusiasm of the craftsmen will naturally drop significantly.

This is inevitable.

Of course, when talking about the glorious moments in the past, both sides shared their own creative experiences, which was very interesting.

"I vaguely still remember the scene when the inspiration first burst out..."

"I was traveling in the sea in a small wooden boat. The surroundings were vast and boundless. A red sun rose from the remaining night, big and round, making the world seem even more empty and quiet, without a speck of dust. Thinking back to my century of hard work, I felt that I had also merged into the whole world..."

"After I returned, I forged the Twin Red Fire Swords, which are also the proudest works of my civilization!" The speaker was a mouse in golden clothes.

Yes, as producers of spiritual rhyme, their status is the same as that of the king.

"After comprehensive evaluation, the newly added spiritual charm alone is more than 18,000, which is a treasure of our civilization that has never been passed down."

"What a shame, what a shame. Now there is no passion at all. I can't even make an ordinary one. There is no spirituality at all."

Stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade.

Lu Yuan admired this epic and extraordinary item for a long time and deeply felt the mysterious artistic conception.

There were some carvings that he didn't recognize.

“It is truly comparable to fine works of art, the fruit of wisdom and sweat.”

"From a technical point of view, he and Daedalus have their own merits."

So he also took out his donkey head mask.

Even though it was a broken thing, it was at least a "legendary" item and could represent the dignity of mankind.

As for the legendary gloves, they were made of Painted Skin leather and were a little sensitive, so he didn't take them out.

(End of this chapter)