"Th-These are... Ancient Secret Script?!"
Evelina's beautiful eyes widened as she immediately recognized the origin of those words.
Strangely enough, her grasp of the Ancient Secret Script could only be described as superficial.
Moreover, none of the Ancient Secret Script she had encountered in the past had ever been like these characters, which constantly writhed like hyperactive insects.
Yet in this utterly unfamiliar situation, Evelina could somehow clearly "read" the words crawling all over the walls as though she were reading her native language!
It was a structured collection built upon specific rules, used to describe, organize, and locate complex information resources.
It contained an unimaginably vast amount of information!
Yet through orderly methods, it could be presented in a tempered and efficient manner.
Those words were a catalog!
A catalog recording something called the Trik Ancient Civilization!
The instant she understood the truth, Evelina's "advance" suddenly accelerated!
If the previous playback in the corridor had been at double speed, then the scene now began frantically fast-forwarding at a hundred, or even a thousand times the speed!
In an instant, Evelina saw once more the medium used to preserve and transmit information—
the lone stone coffin sitting on the ground.
Only, unlike before, the coffin lid was closed this time.
Perfectly shut, without even the slightest gap.
"Because there were no guards in the 'playback,' and no one opened the stone coffin, the lid was simply closed?"
"That actually makes sense..."
A detached, spectator-like smile appeared on Evelina's face. She folded her arms across her chest and waited calmly.
Judging by her previous experience, the process of obtaining the information she most wanted should have been entirely automatic.
Perhaps in the next second, a white-bearded old man would suddenly appear in the seemingly empty surroundings and explain everything she needed