First came a large pile of written documents found in a drawer. Most concerned incoming and outgoing goods, patrol attendance records, and the like. There seemed to be nothing important in them.
Yet this unremarkable material instead provided the breakthrough for deciphering the language. Once they had decoded even a little through guesswork, they could infer a whole string of words.
Old Wang swallowed. "This civilization-the Moses Civilization-stationed its experts in groups of about four to guard these exits."
"This continent had sixteen exits in total."
"The records show that all four experts were Statesman-level, so this civilization might have been much stronger than humanity. They would have needed at least sixty-four Statesman-level experts to cover guard duty. Counting shift changes, surely they would have needed 128. Even Statesmen needed rest."
"Of course, given another two hundred years of development, we could probably produce that many Statesman-level experts too..."
At their current rate of development, humanity believed it could do so.
Zhang Ming frowned. "In other words, the Moses Civilization believed that four Statesman-level experts, supported by other soldiers, could use the Mirror Corridor and various light weapons to repel Shadow Beasts invading from outside?"
Wang Fumin replied, "Yes, but how these Shadow Beasts breached this defensive fortress is another matter."
"Besides, these tables reveal another very important piece of information: the walls were about thirty meters thick."
"In other words, the Shadow Beasts' spatial movement ability couldn't penetrate these thirty-meter-thick walls of concrete and metal, much less teleport them inside."
"To enter the interior, they had to pass through the Mirror Corridor."
"The Moses Civilization should have built a large safety margin into that figure. They wouldn't have gambled with their own lives..."
Beside them, Zhong Yunlong shook his head and sighed. "Not necessarily. We'd better find out exactly