Chapter 587 (1/2)

Hao Ren was stunned beyond word. “Your city is a spaceship?”

Shaqira and Sorma looked puzzled. The latter froze for a while before she asked, “What?”

“Don’t you know your own city?” The siren’s response surprised Hao Ren. He pointed to the nameplates on the pipe next to him. “Look at this, the Nasaton. This is obviously the naming scheme of a spacecraft. We have just passed a facility called a resonant wheel. Its written operating instructions indicate that it’s a device used to offset the changes in water pressure during the acceleration process. Besides, there is this thin pipe on your left where its sign indicates that it leads to the engine compartment—why would a city need an engine? Only vehicles have this thing.”

Shaqira froze for a long while before she came to her sense and grabbed Hao Ren’s arm suddenly. “You know the siren script? You know what these things mean? Where did you learn it from?”

Hao Ren and other people looked at each other while Y’zaks was wide-eyed. “What do you mean? Don’t you know your own language?”

Shaqira shook her head. “Nobody knows what these signs in the city mean. We might have used this written language before but for some unknown reasons it was lost. The sirens responsible for maintaining the city probably only know how to operate some key equipment. The Queen and some scholars are said to be able to recognise some of these ancient texts, but not much.”

It was much unexpected. Hao Ren felt it incredible. “I couldn’t believe it… have you not cracked your own written language for the past ten thousand years?”

“Cracked a part of it, but the grammar of these ancient texts is very unique, and it’s very difficult to understand them, especially if they are used in a jargon, they’re totally incomprehensible,” said Shaqira, looking embarrassed. “Now the language we use was reconstructed based on the ancient texts thousands of years ago. Apart from the glyphs, there’s no connection with what is written in the signs in terms of meaning, but it was good enough for daily use—only the professional scholars continue to study these symbols in the city. The ordinary sirens have no interest in them.”

“The symptoms of amnesia as a result of crossing to Earth,” Vivian said in a whisper, pulling Hao Ren’s sleeve. “There are similar phenomena in other aliens.”

Yes, this was exactly the weird condition experienced by all aliens on Earth, including the demon hunters. After they came to Earth from The Plane of Dreams, they suffered from memory loss as if it was erased from their minds. Not only had they completely forgotten their memory about The Plane of Dreams, there also existed some bizarre innate memories, such as hostility towards the otherworldlings. This kind of memory erasure seemed to be random: some races still remembered the Letta Runes, some remembered their own written language, some remembered more or less their production techniques, some were said to have degenerated into primitive animals during the mythical era. The memory erasure of each race was not the same, and what the sirens had forgotten was undoubtedly their writing and everything about the city.

It was hard to tell as to what extra memory or racial instinct they had.

No wonder they did not even know how the city was built: The city was already there before the sirens ‘got’ their memories, and Nasaton seemed to exist in the deep sea matter-of-coursely. The sirens were following some vague instincts to thrive here, fumbling with the equipment that, theoretically, they had made themselves, but otherwise they knew nothing about their homeland.

It was hard for outsiders to imagine what kind of lifestyle it was, but it was clear that they were already accustomed to it all.

“Compared with other aliens, the sirens are really the most amazing race,” Hao Ren looked at this incredible city in disbelief. After he found out the city was a spaceship, the many doubts about the city were resolved instantaneously, which included its weird, completely enclosed structure and architectural arrangement. “You actually landed on this planet with a space fortress? You know how to operate these equipment… don’t know what these written instructions mean on them? It’s incredible that you’re essentially challenging the cognitive rules of a smart race.”

Shaqira looked puzzled. “I’m not sure if this is a compliment or something else.”

“At least it’s not malicious,” Hao Ren hurriedly waved his hand. “I’ve seen many different otherworldlings. You people are the most incredible race. Obviously, your advanced technology … or advanced magic has played a big role. You people have done very well compared to other aliens on Earth.”

Hasse looked on quietly. His face showed not much animation. However, the gleaming of his eye suggested that this old demon hunter was not as calm as he pretended to be. He patted the pipeline next to him. “That is to say, Nasaton is a spaceship from an alien planet? The siren came from another planet?”

Hao Ren shrugged. “More distant than other planet … but there’s nothing wrong with your understanding.”