Chapter 615: Aliens? Can You Stop Blaming Everything on Aliens!

The figure on the mural was begging the Queen of Jingjue for mercy.

Yet the Queen of Jingjue showed not a shred of mercy!

What the mural depicted at this moment seemed to be that, in her ultimate holy wrath, she had to kill someone to vent the hatred in her heart.

As a queen high above, as a self-styled so-called deity, she never cared whether that person truly deserved to die.

Every life was controlled by her alone!

"One more question for you all — after that beam of light shot out, guess what kind of ability the Queen of Jingjue actually has. I mean specifically."

Hearing another question posed, everyone's eyes lit up at once.

Ever since Zhang Lin began talking about the Second Archaeology Team, he had been constantly throwing questions at them, and this interactive format let everyone feel they had a presence.

Especially at the moment of guessing correctly, the people present felt a great sense of accomplishment at Zhang Lin's praise.

This could be seen clearly from the person who had received the reward.

Even though he didn't go on bragging about it afterward, right now the way he sat with his leg crossed, grinning and showing his teeth, proved he was still riding that high.

When the news reached the Second Archaeology Team, Wang Wang Kaixuan subconsciously swallowed hard.

"No way, a female demon? This... this this......"

Wang Wang Kaixuan had wanted to say this was too far-fetched, but this judgment about a female demon had come from Zhang Lin himself.

Even though he was full of doubt, he didn't have the courage to question Zhang Lin.

Professor Sun and Yang Lu exchanged a glance; from puzzlement to clarity, the shift happened very quickly.

Hu Hu Bayi could not help asking, "If this Queen of Jingjue is a female demon, didn't anyone else notice anything at all?"

Yang Lu shook her head and said, "Mr. Zhang's subtext is very clear — don't use normal human logic to understand the term 'female demon.' The reason he put it that way is to let people quickly grasp the shocking information inside."

Professor Sun also spoke up at this point: "Exactly, I agree with what Team Leader Yang said — don't rush to define a female demon. The Queen of Jingjue has a certain special quality because of her unique ability."

"The reason she covered her face with a veil was also to hide this very thing."

Hu Hu Bayi nodded slowly.

Yet Yang Lu had an even deeper understanding of what her senior fellow apprentice had said.

Now she finally understood why, whenever Jingjue Ancient City came up, it could never be separated from that eye motif.

It wasn't that the Queen of Jingjue worshipped the motif itself — the eye itself was a representation of her.

On that premise, the eye became the totem-like symbol of Jingjue Ancient City.

Otherwise, such a thing would never have come about.

The Prince of Gumo could be said to have accomplished a great feat with his own flesh and blood.

Professor Sun was quite moved at this moment and said, "Although we haven't yet heard the explanation of the murals below, this Prince of Gumo was absolutely no ordinary man. Just this courage alone is enough to earn a person's admiration."

A flash of surprise crossed Hu Hu Bayi's face as he asked, "Since she's a female demon, can ordinary methods really kill her? What the Prince of Gumo meant to convey should be that he killed the Queen of Jingjue by poisoning her, right?"

Yang Lu shook her head slowly and said, "These are all just surface appearances. The specific reason still depends on news from the Xin Yue Restaurant side. Whether these murals even mention the reason is itself an open question right now."

Saying this wasn't a lack of trust in Zhang Lin's judgment; on the contrary, it was precisely because of absolute trust that there was such concern.

Everyone here, Yang Lu included, believed that Zhang Lin had drawn these conclusions from the knowledge he possessed combined with the murals themselves.

But there's that old saying: even the cleverest housewife can't cook without rice.

After all, with only six murals, no matter how detailed the records, there would inevitably be things that got overlooked.

Under such circumstances, how much Zhang Lin could actually analyze remained an unknown.

Just as everyone was discussing this, a young man in the back had already retreated in terror, step after step.

After a moment, his legs trembling, he finally mustered the courage to say, "Team Leader Yang."

Yang Lu turned her head, and seeing the state he was in, she couldn't help being taken aback.

"What's wrong?"

The young man swallowed hard and said, "This Queen of Jingjue must be an alien. We... we..."

This kind of alien talk wasn't being brought up for the first time — back at the Xin Yue Restaurant, someone had already made such a guess.

Actually, speaking purely from the discipline of archaeology itself, such guesses were by no means rare.

Take the Jin Zita for example — internationally, opinions about it are still all over the place.

Some marvel at these people's industrial techniques; to this day, no gaps have been found on the outer surface of the Jin Zita.

One has to remember it was built up from stone bricks, yet achieved such an effect — this is simply too baffling.

Where some people offer reasonable speculation, others let their imaginations run wild. The claim that aliens left behind the Jin Zita has persisted for a long time and has never died down.

There are even quite a few people who go into archaeology specifically to find evidence that aliens once existed.

Just like that young fellow Xu Lang from the Second Archaeology Team.

Normally, he always brought up aliens at the drop of a hat; whenever he ran into something common sense couldn't explain, his first instinct was to offer that guess.

So upon hearing this, everyone could only shake their heads helplessly, thinking they'd all been overthinking it just now — they'd assumed he had some other point to make.