High Above

But the content of the murals that followed was rather lackluster.

Through bloodline memory and an auxiliary memory organ located in the back of the brain, not to mention ordinary people, at least the leaders and professionals of the past dynasties can maintain their professional ability and lead the tribe to live.

Sequoia Base originally had the function of a doomsday fortress, with all the internal facilities. As long as you don't forget how to operate it, there is absolutely no problem in surviving.

It was the alternation of life and death for several generations. Gradually, the employees of different functions and professional abilities led by the four leaders gradually transformed into the four major tribes inside the base, and the four leaders became the four tribes passed down from generation to generation. Great Elder.

Although the social structure has degenerated into the tribal system of elders over time, due to the number of people, this may be the most efficient and stable method of governance.

The four tribes communicate with each other and compete for power, but because the internal resources of the ruins are indeed rich, all parties need the technology of all parties to ensure the quality of life, so there is no real conflict between them.

Arriving here, the colors of the murals suddenly became brighter, and the content was also quite interesting.

Ian saw an image of a tall, resolute man with gray hair and sky blue eyes, and a confident smile in the center of this mural.

The man looks ambitious, and the four keys surround him.

Obviously, this man should be the Great Elder during the mural painting period - he gathered four keys, unified the four tribes, and gathered the power of the Sequoia leaders in one person.

The murals came to an abrupt end here.

Ian closed his eyes, lost in thought.

After a long time, he let out a breath: "It seems that the reason why the natives left the base is related to this great elder."

To enter and exit the gate of Sequoia Base, you must collect all four keys. Sequoia people in the past did not have this idea, nor did they have this right. Many dangerous and high-tech areas, Sequoia people are not allowed to enter at will.

There is no need for a hunch, Ian can be 100% sure that all the changes are due to this guy.

Below the unfinished mural is a corpse.

The clothes and the tools in the hands of the skeleton are still quite intact, and it sat under the mural painted by itself, sitting peacefully and dying.

Ian didn't intend to disturb the ancient Sequoia man's long sleep at the beginning. There are many reasons why the other party did not complete the next mural, but the cause of death was very simple.

He could tell through the silver chip that the other party committed suicide by taking poison, and there were a lot of highly toxic substances remaining on the bones.

However, it was precisely because Ian used the silver chip to scan that he noticed something was wrong.

"Hey, behind this painter..."

With a slight snort, Ian frowned slightly. He stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and slightly tilted the corpse forward, exposing the wall blocked by the corpse.

There is a mass of rotten handwriting on the wall. It can be seen that when writing it, the owner of the handwriting was very emotional, and it can even be said to be desperate. The trembling handwriting is so obvious.

If it is an ordinary person, there is no way to distinguish these fonts.

But Ian could see it.

With the auxiliary correction of the silver chip, he read those words softly.

"Madara Qunsen, the great elder of the Four Keys. He has gone mad, opened the forbidden door, and modified the echo of the ancestor's blood..."

The more I watched, the more Ian frowned: "He replaced the mastermind of the inheritance, and we will all become him... We will all die completely, and even our souls will not be at peace!"

"Monster, vicious lunatic, monster who wants to live forever! I curse you..."

The handwriting was corroded by blood, and it is not clear now, but it was just a curse after all, so there is no need to care about it.

And Ian fell into silence, staring at the place, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

"Echo?" The young man frowned, "Eternal life?"

"Is it a coincidence?"

The group of white people that Ian belongs to used to be the "Chehalorvo Family", a well-known maze scholar family in the imperial capital.

They were originally prosperous and enjoyed a lot of glory because of the new development movement initiated by the late Emperor Inaiga II and the "Maze Development Discipline", but because of an extremely secret mistake, the entire family was exiled, and their practice has the sublimation inherited by the Silver Peak Messenger The inheritance of those who were left was abolished, and even all of them were executed.

Outsiders don't know about it, and they don't care about it, because during the period of the black tyrant's rule, it was not uncommon for families and organizations with similar endings... Although the Cehalorvo family is indeed the largest among all the families that were dealt with That, but at most it is just another footnote under the bloody debt of the tyrant.

From an outsider's point of view, everything looks like this.

But Ian knew that the reason why the Cehalorvo family was dealt with was a 'mystery of eternal life' related to 'echo'.

As for the other families dealt with by Inaiga II, either they were playing blood sacrifices, or they were trying to rebel, or they were corrupt and really made a big mistake—to be honest, when I knew these things, there was no family like Ian. People with a sense of honor want to complain for their family.

——Compared with these insects, it really lowers your own style!

And right here, at the end of the world that is far away from the imperial capital, in the Nanling ruins group.

Ian saw the same words again.

"Echoes...and Immortality."

Standing where he was, Ian was a little hard to understand: "Is it the same thing, or a coincidence?"

"Could it be that the family found the 'echo' in such a large relic as Sequoia Base?"

There is such a possibility. As a relic, Sequoia Base has almost everything you need, not to mention other things. At the same time, it gathers space engineering, alien ecology, energy cores and key facilities of the Department of Bioengineering... Even if it is a pre-epoch civilization, it may be difficult to find. Several bases are bigger and more comprehensive than the Sequoia Base.

Moreover, just as Inaiga II scolded angrily.

Also related to Echo, the ancient Sequoia Great Elder was hated and feared by his people as "the devil who wants to live forever".

With such doubts, Ian returned to the crowd.

He didn't intend to tell Master Gesai and Yisen about this matter, not because he was offended, but because he didn't know how to say it—if these two guys mistakenly think that he wants them to help restore Ciehalorvo What about the family honor?

Restoration is definitely needed. Exiles are not discriminated against in Nanling, just because Nanling is a large exile place, and 80% of the residents have ancestors from exiles. Whoever discriminates here may not be able to tell.

However, the status of "exile" is inconvenient in other places.

Among other things, it is very inconvenient that there is no way to legally organize a chamber of commerce, purchase land, and set up a Warcraft breeding business.

The Ellen family and Master Goser are definitely capable of speaking in front of the emperor and helping the Ciehalorvo family restore their reputation.

But not now.

Now, Ian must figure out the real body of the "Echo" in order to predict the fate of the Ciehalorvo family.

Otherwise, Inaiga II could exile the family, as could Axel the Landkeeper—even if he didn’t know what the taboo was, how could he possibly predict the future?

With such worries, Ian planned to go to Isengarde and ask about the team's situation.

But in the middle of the past, he was found by Qingchao.