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The box fell to the ground, and the sparkling crystal discs were scattered all over the floor.

Xiaobai: "I'm sorry."

Wang: "Don't worry about it. The ancient human empire used this kind of thing to store information mainly because they were durable. The key is to find an instrument that can read this thing, and then pray that this instrument is as durable as the chip."

Xiaobai: "What does that instrument look like?"

Wang stopped and looked at her helplessly: "I don't know. The book about the scenery of Gralia written by my teacher only recorded this incident, but did not record what the instrument looked like. But if it wants to read such a large disc, there should be a place of similar size to accommodate the disc - or a slot to insert the disc.

"Also, with the disc like this, it doesn't make sense that the content on it is engraved horizontally, right? It must be engraved around the axis, so the disc should be rotating when reading it."

Xiaobai: "Then take a look at this thing. I think it looks very similar to your description."

Wang stared at what Xiaobai was holding for a few seconds and said, "You really are good at picking up good things."

Xiaobai: "The main thing is that the other things here are either the feces and corpses of living things, or the remains of plants. This is the only man-made thing. I saw it at a glance."

Taking the thing from Xiaobai, Wang fiddled with it and opened a disc-shaped lid.

Xiaobai: "It looks like a shell. I caught it to satisfy my hunger when I was at the beach. The organs inside taste terrible, and there's also feces."

Wang: "Didn't you meet us only half a year after leaving home? How come you've been everywhere?"

Xiaobai: "I'm different from you. When I run, I can turn into a bird. How can I turn into a white-headed sea eagle if I haven't been to the beach?"

"That makes sense." Wang said, lowering his head to study the machine in his hand, "Look... this thing should be the rotating shaft."

As he spoke, he took out a chip, fixed it on the rotating shaft in the center of the device's disc, and then closed the shell-like lid.

Xiaobai: "Then?"

"Don't make noise, I'm studying it." Wang studied it for a few seconds, then made up his mind to use the exhaustive method. He pressed buttons randomly, and unexpectedly, a clicking sound was heard from the lower middle part of the shell.

Then the device that had been dormant for so long began to turn again.

Xiao Bai exclaimed: "This thing can still move? It's been so long!"

Wang: "What's so strange about this? Look, the Cyclops' floating island has been floating for so long, and it can even cause earthquakes."

"That's the Cyclops! The Cyclops Empire that once tried to replace the glory of God. Their great arcanist even wanted to kill God. It's strange that their things can't be touched, right? But this is something from the Second Epoch. It's natural to think that they are inferior to the Cyclops Empire, right?"

Wang: "You are right, but this device was made by the Second Epoch Human Empire to demonstrate the Empire's technological strength. I forgot what it was later. Anyway, it can work because it was designed to be able to start up even after various natural and man-made disasters."

"Why?" Xiaobai asked.

Wang: “Because the Second Age’s human empire has many records of the First Age’s collapse, many eyewitnesses wrote down their experiences after the catastrophe.

"Although these histories later gradually became oral histories, then legends, and finally myths, they all laid the foundation for the human empire of the Second Epoch. They were preparing for their inevitable demise from the moment they were born."

As Wang was speaking, the machine made a "sound".

Xiao Bai: "Is it my illusion? Why do I feel like I understand? After all this time, this thing speaks the universal language?"

"No!" Wang interrupted Xiaobai, "Use your sensitive ears! There is no sound at all. This is telepathy, and the information it conveys is automatically translated by our brain into the language we are most familiar with, that is, our mother tongue. What you heard is the universal language, and what I heard is the multiverse language."

Xiaobai: "Multiverse language?"

Wang: "It is a language created by planeswalkers. It is very simple and easy to learn. It can serve as a bridge for communication between planeswalkers from different planes. The best thing about this language is that even if some creatures cannot pronounce a certain sound and therefore change it, it does not affect communication much."

Xiaobai: "Is this the language used in your Mage Tower?"

"Yes, I have spoken this language since I was born, so it is like my mother tongue."

"Really? That's great, but did you hear what the machine said just now?"

Wang then realized that he was so busy talking to Xiao Bai that he didn't listen at all. He fiddled with the machine in his hand again, and the content of the disc started playing again from the beginning.

"May 5th. Today I was studying the body structure of the Immortal Barbarians. Damn, they are indeed different. They are even a little hard."

Wang stood there awkwardly.

Xiao Bai asked: "Is that so?"

Wang: "How should I know? I've only tried humans."

Xiaobai: “Really?”

Wang: "Well, it's true that I ran into Nini by accident, but... um,... no, what is this engraver from the Ancient Human Empire doing?!"

At this time, the device played the next content: "Today, the Survey Corps returned, with three quarters of its personnel lost, and only a few barbarians were captured. I looked around and saw several long-lived barbarian women, and five short men."

Xiaobai frowned: "Are you talking about elves and dwarves? Why are they called barbarians?"

Wang: "Because the ancient human empire knew very little about the elves and dwarves living outside their own territory, they thought that the elves and dwarves were barbarians."

Xiao Bai: "Forget about being a dwarf, but how can you regard elves as barbarians? The art and magic skills of elves are not barbarians at all."

Wang: "Elves are actually very slow at learning magic. Humans with talent can already reach the ninth ring at the age of sixty, and those with even more talent can become ninth ring masters at the age of fifty.

"Elves, look at Nini. The highest achievement they can eventually reach is higher than that of ordinary humans. A considerable number of elves can eventually reach the ninth ring. But that is achieved at the cost of age.

“But from the human perspective, even after a hundred years of fighting, the elves still have the same few great wizards, and the young elves have made no progress at all.

"Looking at our side, the Nine Ring Masters have changed three times. Naturally, the final conclusion is that the elves are barbarians."

Xiaobai: "So... this is the record of a slave-catching captain in the human empire? He even used elves to test the elasticity of breasts?"

King: "In the Second Age, the elves and humans fought several great wars. Do you know the reason now?"

Xiaobai: "You humans haven't been driven to extinction because you give birth too fast."

The king laughed out loud.

At this time, the machine in his hand said: "On June 1, a few idiots from the Guards touched the shield and were cut into several pieces. For this reason, I had to use the disruptor to temporarily disrupt the operation of the shield, so that those people could clean out the body parts that were splashed into it."

Wang and Xiaobai looked at each other.

Xiaobai: "This jammer! Maybe it can help us get into that passage!"

Chapter 242 An unexpected gain

Wang looked around and sighed, "The problem is that we don't know what the jammer looks like, so we can't even find it."

"You didn't even know!" Xiaobai exclaimed.

"I just don't know. The Human Empire in the Second Era was in a very awkward position, stuck there. It had many unique technologies, but these technologies were in a delicate position."

Wang raised the crystal disc reader in his hand.

"Like this, you say it's not awesome, but it can just put the meaning into your head and adapt it to your native language. You say it's awesome, but that's it, it's one level lower than the more ancient Cyclops Empire."

Xiaobai: “That makes sense.”

Wang: "Look for anything that looks like a jammer. Logically, this kind of key item that is not normally used should be kept in a place like a safe."

Xiaobai said "Oh" and opened a cabinet casually, but a skeleton hit her head and shattered all over the floor.

Xiaobai: “Ahhh!”

Wang was startled and reflexively released a mage armor, then he realized it was Xiaobai who was shouting.

"What the hell, you made me waste a spell. Luckily I prepared a second set of mage armor today."

Xiaobai: "I was hit by a skeleton!"

Wang: "It's not a moving skeleton."

He squatted down and carefully examined the scattered bones on the ground: "This looks like... an elf's skeleton. The leg bones are longer than humans, and the structure of the pelvis is also different. The elves' pelvis has a shock-absorbing structure to ensure that their organs are not damaged when they leap through the forest."

Xiaobai: “You really know.”

Wang: "I only know it on paper, but what I learn on paper is always superficial. For example, the human female body..."

Xiaobai: "I don't want to hear about your love affair with Rosalie. Why is the skeleton of this elf in the cabinet?"

Wang: "I don't know. Wait a minute, look at the bone fragments on the ground. This elf only has the first section of its hands and feet. The parts starting from the joints are missing."

Xiao Bai frowned. "Having his hands and feet cut off below the joints and then locked in a closet? This guy is pretty cruel."

"There's a chip here. Let me see what it says." Wang said as he replaced the chip he found in the cabinet into the machine in his hand.

The next moment, a thought entered his mind: "Today I got a very good-looking barbarian child. If I make it into a pet and sell it to the nobles, I should be able to make a lot of money. But, damn, why do the good things only go to the nobles?

“No, I want this one, I want to lock her in the cage I prepared long ago.

"When we removed her hands and feet, she actually cried. Seeing her cry, I actually felt that she was actually an intelligent creature just like us. This must be what the wizards said, the natural charm of the barbarians."

Xiaobai: "This is disgusting. How could you humans build such a perverted empire?"

King: "I'm sorry... But academically speaking, the Empire really didn't regard the elves as equals to itself at that time. If the climate hadn't prevented humans from settling in the northern regions, the total retreat of the elves and dwarves wouldn't have started until the Third Age."

Xiaobai: "To be honest, humans remind me of locusts."

Wang: "Hurry up and find the jammer. The box should look similar to Guan Jingling's box."

As Wang said this, he opened another cabinet door, and another skeleton fell out and hit Wang in the face.

Xiaobai: "What kind of creature is this time? The leg bones are not long, so this time it's a human?"

Wang: "It looks like a cat-man, but because the claws were cut off and not preserved, we can't confirm it."

It is difficult to distinguish a cat-person from a human by looking at the skeleton alone - except for the claws.

The cat-man's claws weakened his holding ability in exchange for a stronger ability to attack with bare hands - no, that should not be called bare-handed attack, the cat-man's claws are even sharp enough to tear leather armor directly, but they are relatively weak when facing heavy iron armor.

In order to achieve this attack power, the bones of the cat-man's claws are completely different from those of humans, which can be used as the main distinguishing point.

Other than that, there are only a few minor details left, like the small holes on the top of the cat-man's skull for the ears.

The reason why it is difficult to confirm is that the cat-man has almost the same holes in the human ear. So it is difficult to say whether the two holes on the top of the head are eyes made by later generations.

Xiaobai: "Even cat people? Did this pervert take in a werewolf?"

Wang: "This person lived in the Second Age, and probably during the heyday of the Human Empire, while the werewolves were born much later than that."

It is said that werewolves first drank the blood of wild beasts, hoping to imitate the ancient shamanic magic and invite the spirit of the wild beast to possess their bodies. Unexpectedly, the beast would not leave after being invited, and would take up residence in the human body.

Over time, the current werewolf tribe was formed.

This is why the ancient race of werewolves did not worship shamanism like other races of the same era.

Xiaobai: "So we were born late? That's fine. Let's continue looking for the jammer."

As she spoke, she opened a new cabinet, and this time a machine fell out and hit the pretty boy accurately in the face.

Wang picked up the device: "This looks like some kind of machine... Based on my experience with starting the player, I guess I should press here."