(PS: This chapter is a little bit of my own brain hole. If you have a verified party, please don’t care~)

Qin Qiangsheng took a sip of tea and slowly spoke in his thoughts: "I am an archaeologist, but my main work is more about the translation of ancient characters. At the earliest, my research direction was Chinese oracle bone script, and later it gradually involved various hieroglyphs from abroad..."

Chen Xin coughed twice. Seeing that Qin Qiangsheng was a little reminiscent of the past, he couldn't help but remind him softly: "It's almost dinner, why don't you tell me a long story?"

Qin Qiangsheng smiled and sighed: "When people get old, they always like to recall the past... In the earliest written records, there were many records of rare beasts, including corresponding myths, such as Houyi shooting the sun, especially in "Shan Hai Jing", which records many unheard monsters, such as Taotie, and you should have heard of them, right?"

Chen Xin nodded.

"At first, almost everyone just thought that it was just a myth. After all, the most primitive ancient people lacked enough writing ability. Perhaps they only saw ordinary beasts, and then recorded them too exaggeratedly. These also have corresponding situations abroad. The most typical example is that there are various monsters in Greek mythology."

Qin Qiangsheng was silent for a while and continued, "But later, until a few years ago, a foreign friend sent me an invitation letter saying that he had found a very strange biological fossil in a desert, which was different from any known ancient creatures. After reading a lot of information, my friend thought that the fossil was probably a hell guard dog in Greek mythology, that is, a three-headed dog, and invited me to study it together."

According to Qin Qiangsheng's recollection, the research and excavation progressed smoothly at that time. The fossils suspected to be three-headed dogs were preserved quite well. Everyone involved seemed very excited because everyone understood that this major discovery was likely to rewrite the ancient history of mankind, and the huge fame and fortune that accompanied it made everyone excited.

Seeing that the excavation was about to come to an end, one day, Qin Qiangsheng's friend suddenly went crazy and poured all the car gasoline he carried on the fossils, the excavation site, and himself. The last fire burned everything. When the others rushed over, the fire was too big to be regained, so they could only watch the friend roaring like an evil person in the fire.

Speaking of this, a hint of fear appeared in Qin Qiangsheng's eyes: "My friend kept shouting before his death, that we are all sinners, we release the most brutal demon, and human beings will eventually be destroyed."

Chen Xin couldn't help but say in surprise: "What do you mean, can these stone gates be caused by that excavation?"

Qin Qiangsheng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How is that possible? As my best friend afterwards, I sorted out many of his notes before I learned some clues. My friend thought that the site was the entrance to hell, and the fossil of the three-headed dog in hell must be the gatekeeper. Our excavation angered the demon and opened the entrance to hell, so he made up his mind to burn everything."

After a pause, Qin Qiangsheng thought for a moment before continuing: "Of course, in fact, that site is just the most ordinary desert. Whether the fossil is really a three-headed dog in Greek mythology, it has been dead for at least tens of thousands of years. So everyone at that time thought it was a mental disorder caused by friends due to excessive excitement, and the excavation work ended here."

It was time for the end of this, but Qin Qiangsheng was also a person with a strong desire to explore. He took his friend's fragmentary notes home and reorganized them, because a small amount of documents were unearthed from the site, and Qin Qiangsheng happened to be an expert in this field, so he took them to translate and research one after another, and then discovered something even more amazing.

Those written records were about tens of thousands of years ago. The general meaning was that demons surged out of the abyss and destroyed all humans. The people who recorded these words were the last survivors. They escaped from their hometown by chance. Although the demons died together, there were still demons who escaped the net to hunt humans at will until they gradually died of old age.

"So you thought those demons would make a comeback? Are they the monsters in the stone gate?" Chen Xin said half-believingly.

Qin Qiangsheng shook his head with a wry smile: "After all I have received materialistic education for so many years, how could I easily believe it because of a written record that I don't know whether it is accurate or not? What's more, the document itself also has a lot of loopholes and questions, such as the origin of human beings, the emergence of civilization, etc. These are much different from the current known ancient human history. So I continued to study and search for information with curiosity, but gradually began to believe in the correctness of the record."

"In this world, there are a few scholars who are conducting very strange research. For example, Western countries often want to prove the existence of God, or look for the remains of Noah's Ark, etc. If you pay attention to these things, you will find that there are a lot of various speculations and information on the Internet."

Chen Xin remembered that he had watched similar popular science programs before and nodded, "That's right, but it seems that the information on the Internet is basically rumored, or just speculations from some scholars."

"Yes, most of them have no basis, but the truth is often hidden in these disorderly information. I spent many years searching for it. At that time, many scholars and friends abroad had similar interests. Everyone occasionally communicated information and information, and with their help, they found some clues."

Qin Qiangsheng took a deep breath and his speech began to slow down, which meant that he was about to talk about the most important part: "If according to the records of that document, a relatively large-scale civilization should have been destroyed in the past very early, no, if the description of the demon is true, it is not only the civilization that destroyed, but may have been completely erased, along with the home of this civilization, and even the entire continent where it lives."

"In the current known human history, there is no such civilization, so most people disagree with that record and think it was just a fantasy expressed by the ignorance of ancient humans. But if I can fully associate it without considering the authenticity, I finally found the legendary civilization destroyed by the demons, the legendary Great Western Continent and Atlantis civilization!"
Chapter completed!