After leaving the barren hills, Cangye really understood how far the environmental system in the vicinity had deteriorated.

There are no rivers flowing through them, there is no water source for irrigation, the vegetation is extremely shrunken, or even almost none, and in such an extreme environment, not only people, but also insects are not seen.

Traveling downstream along the ruins of the two riverbeds, the night enters the wider desert.

Although no creatures have been found, the ruins of the city have been found in the night, which is enough to prove that there was a civilization here before the river dried up.

Cangye excavated countless artifacts from the ruins of these civilizations.

Pottery-made vessels with various motifs depicting a half-human, half-scorpion creature that records the living conditions of such a race.

From the excavated cultural relics, it can be understood that the life around the scorpion people is mainly gathering, hunting, war, sacrifice and other activities, with the characteristics of any early civilization.

The Scorpion seems to have been very fond of construction, and the triangular four-sided stacked towers made of large numbers of tawny stone slabs seem to have been used as mausoleums, and only the king of the scorpions is qualified to use them.

Judging from what is depicted in the picture, the king of the scorpions has a body that is far larger than that of his kind, and he can wear enough gold or gems to show his dignity.

And the scorpion people always have some traces of excessive worship of their king, and most of the praise for the king is to boast of his strength, the victory of the alien war, and the killing and enslavement of powerful beasts, but from the content expressed in these pictures, Cangye always feels that the scorpion man does not simply worship the king, but worships him as a god.

Countless scorpions enslaved a group of earth elementals, allowing them to use themselves as part of the tower, and countless earth elementals followed one after another, so that huge tombs of the dead were piled up.

The biggest reason why it is said to be enslavement is that Cangye saw the war between the scorpion and the earth elemental on some stone tablets.

Scorpions can fight with bronze, bronze, or the rudimentary of iron weapons, as well as a large beetle, and the defeated Earth Elemental is brought back as prisoners of war to serve the Scorpion as slaves.

This is enough to show that these earth elementals were not summoned by the Scorpion from the Elemental Plane, although as can be seen from the drawings, the Scorpion Sacrifice is also a spellcaster unit.

Thousands of years have passed, and the king's tomb has long been in ruins, in addition to the strong traces of the old bedroom, the night also saw the traces of violent destruction, which should have been smashed by the huge stones that could be thrown by the heavy trebuchet.

This may indicate that the Scorpion civilization may have been destroyed by war rather than by the drying up of rivers.

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From this civilization, Cangye has seen many shadows of other planes of the multiverse, but it also has its own characteristics, and the biggest change is the understanding of the concept of death.

Death, that is the concept of death, there is an underworld in the multiverse, and any dead creature must first enter the spiritual realm that overlaps with the material realm, in order to wait for the arrival of the messenger of the underworld to bring themselves back to the underworld.

The River Styx connects the planes of the multiverse, and the underworld follows the River Styx to each plane to bring back the souls of the dead to Hades for judgment.

The standard of judgment is based on the standard of good and evil that follows the rules of society, so as to determine whether or not rebirth can be performed, and the severity of the sin committed will serve in the underworld to atone for one's sins.

But because of the existence of gods, in addition to the judgment of good and evil, there is another standard that affects the judgment, and that is faith.

Souls of devout faith are pure, and they do not need to pass judgment before they are received by messengers sent by their gods to enter the kingdom of the gods.

This is the extreme of good, and the extreme of evil is to commit irreparable major sins, and there is no chance of atonement, and such a soul will be deprived of the opportunity to be reincarnated and sent into the abyss to live as the dirtiest monster.

However, in fact, due to the existence of demons and demons, some of the tributaries of the River Styx are controlled by the forces of the Abyss, and the souls passing through the River will be directly pulled into the Abyss without even having a chance to be judged, and will be reborn as monsters.

This is the mechanism of the reincarnation of life and death in the multiverse, no matter which plane, there is a striking similarity in the treatment of life and death, and the biggest reason is the existence of Hades and the distribution of the River Styx.

In the Forgotten Realm, there is no Styx, and it is also visited by Hades, so the concept of life and death is undoubtedly very different from the mainstream.

The scorpion built the huge king's mausoleum, the most fundamental purpose is not to show the glory and authority of the king during his lifetime, and even to continue this honor after death, the greatest significance of the existence of the triangular four-sided stacked tower is to be set up for rebirth.

In the Scorpion civilization, death is nothing more than the time when the skin has reached the end of time, and the real eternal is the soul, after the physical death, the soul will enter another world to enjoy and squander its endless life.

Therefore, the scorpions do not care about the time they live, they take great pains to prepare for their own death, and decorate their tombs with various objects, because the existence of the mausoleum is the space where the soul can move after the death of their own body, and it is also a station connecting to another world.

As the king of the scorpions, the value of his existence is to lie down in an extremely richly decorated and majestic mausoleum after death, and usher in a new rebirth after a short period of suffering.

He was a king in life and a king after death, and the existence of the mausoleum is proof that the king is in the underworld.

Such an idea would seem ridiculous to anyone who has the mainstream values of the multiverse, but there is no Hades and the Grim Reaper here, and whether death is really what the Scorpions think.

But at least it can be proven that the Forgotten Realms also have a spirit realm, but the spirit realm is not approached by the messengers of the underworld, so it may indeed be the ultimate eternity after death, as the scorpion man claims.

However, after countless years of accumulation, the spiritual world may have reached the level of overcrowding.

Cangye found a relatively complete tomb of the king, and walked into it after removing the gate.

Scorpions are extremely taboo for the living to enter the tombs of the deceased, as this will disturb the deceased's new eternal life.

Therefore, when building the mausoleum, the designer will always load all kinds of deadly mechanisms, pursuing the most extreme killing, until the living who enter it become the dead, among which the mechanism of the king's mausoleum is the most complicated and the most deadly.