On the long shelf, there are bones one after another. The scene is strange and sacred.
Lu Pingping walked among them, but he couldn't feel that the long time in his soul had washed away the non-sediment other than knowledge.
What record is more difficult to detect than human memory.
What collection is more hidden than the bones of the dead?
Is there any secret worth spending countless lives to bury?
"After we have carried the poison of knowledge, we are destined to be unable to enter reincarnation. Our souls should be broken into pieces and return to the earth, but some things are destined to be unable to dissolve."
These gravekeepers are destined not to enjoy the treatment of normal dead people in the above world. After their souls have been severely damaged, even without the rejection of the world, they cannot be completely reincarnated to the underground world and start a new cycle.
And even if they could cycle through and consider that the underground world has a more primitive social structure than the one above, it's obvious that they didn't bring the knowledge with them.
"These bones are the tombs we want to guard."
The nameless old man guarding the tomb spoke plainly about his duties.
The number of gravekeepers is not large, and they often die young, so they need to be replenished regularly. In a sense, this is also a kind of murder.
However, some things are just passed down.
Under the "big cemeteries" scattered throughout the world, those bones that cannot be digested by the earth are the true inheritance of this world.
"The cemetery is our real library. I don't know how many large cemeteries there are in this area. Many of the things stored are duplicates of each other and are not systematic. This does not affect our inheritance."
Every "book collection" may be incomplete. After all, the knowledge they record may only be a small part of what was learned during his lifetime.
But with a large cemetery like this, I'm afraid that the entire world is filled with a large amount of memories and knowledge they have stored, and destroying most of them won't completely cut them off.
Although they are all fragments, if there is enough "book collection", the "real thing" can eventually be pieced together.
"Can you let me see the content of this?"
Although it was a bit blasphemous, Lu Ping'an was really curious about what the inheritance of this world was.
Will civilization and history alone arouse the hostility of the entire world?
"Please, please take them away if you can"
There was some expectation in the old man's tone, and he didn't know what the meaning of passing it on like this was. But if the world was really destroyed and these things were passed on, at least the lives of people like him would still be valuable.
At the same time, he even handed Lu Pingping a silver umbrella.
After opening it, there were pieces of bones.
Lu Ping'an closed his eyes, touched it, and tried to "read" it.
And this is the general outline.
Just one glance made Lu Ping'an confused.
"How could this be?"
The most basic foundation of a civilization, or a world, is always history.
The "General Outline" not only provides the correspondence between "ancient writing" and "modern language", but for senior scholar Lu Ping'an, it is equivalent to directly giving a translator. More importantly, it also explains the true nature of the world.
history, the truth before the world was forced to become like this.
"This ancestor is really rich."
What appears in Lu Ping'an's hands is not the history of "orcs".
In fact, this world has gone through several epochs.
In the beginning, it was a world of dragons, and the ancient dragon king ruled this world.
After that, it was a world of giants, and they drove away the dragons.
Then, there is the world of mixed-blood dragonborn. They are weakened hybrids of dragons and other races (mainly giants), but they succeeded in expelling the giants.
Further back, there is the world of beasts. Huge and powerful monsters and mythical beasts occupy the world.
But like the giants, they were also born as hybrid orcs who were expelled by their own descendants, which meant that the "beasts" were also destined to end.
"Now, I finally understand why those ancient orcs behaved like this."
In this world, it is not only the orc tribe that has evolved, but also the intelligent tribe. The latecomers are constantly expelling the former, causing the dominant race to constantly change.
Before, Lu Ping'an didn't know why the "ancient orcs" closed themselves off and refused to evolve. They might have seen through everything and expected that their own tribe would always be the masters of the world.
In today's exquisite world design, there must be intelligent creatures involved, and if you guessed correctly, they should be the oldest ones in the pantheon, or in other words, the ancient orc gods. Is this their choice? Let their descendants
Continuing in such a foolish way.
Lu Ping'an shook his head. There was still too little information to make a judgment.
According to this era of generational change, it is also true that evolution has stopped here.
Perhaps, the so-called "orcs" are not just a mixture of beasts and "humans", but also a continuation and genetic mixture of creatures from all previous eras. This can explain why their racial potential is so high.
"Some of us possess knowledge from previous eras"
Now, Lu Ping'an finally understood.
Whether it is art, music, the private cultural creations of a race, or the extraordinary power that fleetingly disappears in memory, they are all of great value.
Even the genetic modules of those extraordinary races that existed in the past could make life systems like Lu Ping'an very fond of them.
However, the older something is, the lower the chance of it being passed down.
This is like a little pornographic book in Haoran's library. It takes a lot of luck to get it.
And looking at this little old man, Lu Ping'an also suddenly understood.
He, and they, hoped that the safe ark would be able to take everything away.
"How many cemeteries are there?"
"I don't know if anyone knows. It's very possible that most of the gravekeepers in a certain area are dead. They will be buried together as much as possible, or even buried underground, to avoid being discovered as much as possible."
"The source of knowledge should not be just inheritance."
"Yes, the most valuable part is actually recorded by the ancestors themselves. They are the experiencers and the victims."
I'm afraid the gravekeepers are always there, but they won't have any impact, they just record everything silently.
Does it make sense? I'm afraid they were looking forward to the rise of new races before. After changing the world, they eliminated these rules that hindered civilization and used the "treasures" of the past to rebuild the new world.
But until the end of the world, this day still has not come.
"I will try to take as much as I can"
After reading the book for a while, Lu Ping'an determined its "value" and it was a treasure that simply could not be rejected.
"Dragon spells, giant martial arts, and beast talents really have their own unique skills."