283: Chapter 283: So where is it?

"A flying saucer?"

"Holy crap, Atlantis's aircraft is a flying saucer???"

"A circular aircraft, isn't that just what we universally recognize as a flying saucer?"

"So, what the hell, are the people of Atlantis aliens?"

"My scalp is tingling; Plato didn't write mythology, but lost history?"

"How could ancient people know the shape of a flying saucer?"

"Unless… they had seen one?"

"…"

As Xiao Yu finished speaking, the chat stream went completely out of control, with hundreds of thousands of comments flooding the screen every second.

Inside the physics professor dormitory at Huaqing University.

Ouyang Baili stared at the tablet screenshot on the screen in astonishment, "Circular aircraft, magnetic propulsion, this is clearly the modern concept of a flying saucer!"

Professor Wu Ming's mouth hung open, and he said with a look of horror, "It's… it's terrifying. Plato lived over two thousand years ago; how could he possibly know what a flying saucer looks like?"

Guan Jingming took a deep breath, "Plato might not have seen one, but almost every mythology in the world contains accounts of objects descending from the sky, as well as aircraft that don't fit their era. Actually, Jiang Zhe mentioned this in his livestream half a month ago; it's a type of aircraft found in myths all over the world, just with different styles."

"I still suspect that during the 100,000 to 200,000-year blank period in human geological history, one or more technological civilizations might have truly developed, and then those civilizations didn't last more than ten or twenty thousand years, either destroyed by war or by unequal resource distribution; otherwise, it's impossible for the whole world to have so many identical super-ancient civilizations and technologies and myths that don't fit their eras."

Li Mo couldn't help but frown, "If the people of Atlantis could really pilot flying saucers, were they aliens, or the previous human civilization? After all, there really is a 100,000 to 200,000-year blank period in human history."

The four of them looked at each other, all seeing the shock on each other's faces.

…

At this moment, in the principal's office at Gusu High School.

Principal Fu, Old Wang, Xiao Wang, and Ren Xiaoyao were watching the screen, the room deathly silent.

After a long while, Old Wang slowly spoke, "Records of disc-shaped aircraft are actually not rare in ancient literature."

Xiao Wang turned his head abruptly, "Uncle Wang, are you saying…?"

Old Wang pondered and explained, "Actually, the ancient Indian epic 'Mahabharata' records a type of aircraft called Vimana, described as disc-shaped, capable of flying in the air, and even becoming invisible—Jiang Zhe actually mentioned this in his livestream half a month ago."

"And there are also patterns similar to discs in Ancient Egypt's murals."

"Also, in our Xia Kingdom's ancient book 'Shi Yi Ji', it records the [Moon-Piercing Raft] and [Star-Hanging Raft], which are also objects capable of flying in the air, and they are also circular."

"In the past, scholars regarded these as mythology…"

As Old Wang changed the subject, his expression tightened, "But if Atlantis really existed and possessed this technology, then these records might not be mythology, but eyewitness reports lacking direct evidence."

Ren Xiaoyao gasped, "So those discs drawn by ancient people weren't fantasies, but things they had actually seen?"

Old Wang didn't answer directly, but nodded slightly.

…

Kyoto, Qingfeng Temple, inside the living room.

Zheng Ming stared fixedly at the big screen, his face turning deathly pale, "Impossible, impossible, he's just making all this up!"

"What flying saucers, what circular aircraft, it's all a lie!"

He turned to look at Jin Xianmeng, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, "Brother Jin, say something!"

"Is he lying?"

"Isn't this a common technique in suspense movies—first prove the reality, then throw out things that don't fit the era, making people think and feel terrified—it's all a trick, right?"

Jin Xianmeng frowned deeply, and only after a long time did he slowly speak, "A trick? No, what he's saying is true."

"Records of disc-shaped aircraft exist in ancient literature all over the world."

"Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Babylon, the Xia Kingdom; these civilizations had no contact with each other, yet they all left behind the same descriptions."

"I don't care what this is called, and I don't care about any akashic records."

"I only know that they had no intersection with each other."

"Also, brother, do you know about the Abydos Temple in Ancient Egypt?"

"Right on the lintel of the Temple of Seti I, in a relief from over three thousand years ago, are carved several patterns: a helicopter, an airplane, a submarine, and other instruments, with outlines so clear they make one's scalp tingle."

"There's even a disc-shaped aircraft with three landing gear supports!"

Zheng Ming looked dumbfounded, "It's a forgery, right?"

Jin Xianmeng turned his head to look at him, "That is not some later forgery."

"When the archaeological team first discovered it in 1848, they took photos on site."

"Airplanes hadn't been invented back then, let alone helicopters, but the Egyptians from over three thousand years ago had already carved them into stone."

"And there are the Duogate petroglyphs in Habahe County, Northern Xinjiang."

"In a cave from ten thousand years ago, there are drawings of patterns resembling airplanes and rockets. Ten thousand years ago, when humanity was still in the tribal era, the outlines of streamlined flying objects appeared on the rock walls!"

Hearing this, Zheng Ming opened his mouth, unable to speak.

Jin Xianmeng watched the intrigued expressions on Zheng Ming and Celestial Master Zhang's faces and continued, "And India, needless to say."

"In a temple in Kanchipuram, South India, there is a type of spacecraft called Vimana. Literature records that this spacecraft could fly at 5,700 kilometers per hour."

"The temple sculptures are carved with rotor blades, jet engines, lightning rods, and even insulation devices."

"Also, in 1943, the Sanskrit Library in Mysore, India, discovered a Sanskrit manuscript called 'Vymaanila Shaastra' in the basement of a collapsed temple."

"That manuscript is exactly six thousand lines long, detailing the structure of the spacecraft, the propulsion method, and the manufacturing materials, and it even clearly writes out the training methods and clothing for the pilots."

Finishing this, he couldn't help but shake his head himself,

"You tell me, could these things be made up by one person?"

"If one person were making up a story, it would be impossible for all civilizations to have made up something so highly consistent."

"The only explanation is that they all saw the same thing, just in different styles."

Jin Xianmeng couldn't help but take a deep breath, looking back at the screen, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"I had almost forgotten this knowledge before, and I once tried to debunk it; but the more I debunked, the more I found I knew; and the more I knew, the more I realized how little I actually know!"

"Damn it, the ancient era is truly full of unsolved mysteries!"

"And this J, he isn't making up a story; he is simply restoring history in a way that Xiao Yu is interested in, and this history is being verified bit by bit."

Zheng Ming slumped on the ground, unable to speak for a long time.

Celestial Master Zhang's eyes flashed with a sharp light; he was a Taoist, and his cosmic worldview was somewhat different from the modern physical worldview.

He was very willing to accept this knowledge, and it was helpful to his cultivation!

"This confirms a statement you made in the past, Zheng Ming."

Hearing the Celestial Master call him, Zheng Ming looked at Celestial Master Zhang in confusion, "Which statement?"

"Only after seeing immortality can one truly yearn for it!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Ming's whole body suddenly froze, and it took a long time for him to shake his head and react, "Sigh; even if what you said about those artistic mythical aircraft appearing in ancient times globally is true, even if Atlantis existed, it was just an ancient civilization like Athens; it's impossible for there to be any high technology like aircraft."

After a long while, on the big screen.

In the living room, Xiao Yu was still staring at the circular aircraft on the tablet, her little brain buzzing.

Flying saucer, Atlantis, twelve thousand years ago, the Great Flood, the Moon…

These keywords spun crazily in her mind, causing her brain to crash.

She slowly raised her head to look at Jiang Zhe, her appearance of wanting to speak but hesitating made Jiang Zhe smile repeatedly.

"Big brother, does Atlantis really exist?"

Jiang Zhe smiled slightly and nodded.

"Big brother, then, where is it?"

Xiao Yu's question caused countless viewers to guess wildly.

"It must be on the seabed, submerged by the Great Flood."

"That's right, it sank twelve thousand years ago, so it must be on the seabed!"

"Is it on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean? Didn't Plato say it was outside the Pillars of Hercules?"

"I remember someone discovered an underwater structure in the Caribbean Sea a few years ago, right?"

"That was debunked; it was naturally formed; nature has many uncanny works!"

"Someone found something in the Mediterranean too, but the dates don't match."

"Could it be in the Bermuda Triangle?"

"Stop guessing, who can guess Big Brother's train of thought?"

In the livestream with twenty million people, the chat was filled with guesses, but no one could convince everyone.