That's right.

Unlike the front of the stone tablet, the back doesn't have any words at all but is engraved with two symmetrical images.

This was mentioned earlier.

The stone tablet is only about a foot square, and since there are many people in the lab, it can be somewhat difficult for everyone to observe it.

Considering that the activation of the stone tablet requires a large amount of Spiritual Power, it might disappear again at any moment.

Therefore, Lin Li quickly summoned a few researchers to make rubbings of the stone tablet's patterns and display them on the lab's main screen.

Generally speaking,

The resolution of stone-carved images is often not very high, frequently having many rough areas, making it difficult to accurately and thoroughly describe various details.

Like some ancient civilizations' carvings, even the facial contours of figures are hard to distinguish.

But the two images on this stone tablet are different.

Though they are carved into the stone, one can clearly see what they depict at a glance.

The content of the first image is actually quite simple:

Three suns hang in the sky, and in the center of the picture, a massive, irregular stone is breaking through the sky, rushing towards the ground.

And then nothing—after all, it's not a GIF.

But the second image is more complex.

It's a real-life battle scene:

On the left side of the image, a giant black hole floats in the void, continuously unleashing demonic beasts onto the earth, wantonly slaughtering humans.

On either side of the hole, there stands a coffin and a mysterious eyeball.

And on the right side of the image, opposing the demonic beasts, are countless cultivators, among them those who can defy gravity with their bodies.

The two sides are engaged in a fierce battle, with the scene being extremely tragic.

The mountains and rivers are scarlet, and blood flows like rivers.

Notably, the second image shows only two suns in the sky!

Perhaps the information conveyed by these two images is just too complex.

For a moment, the entire laboratory fell into complete silence.

Several seconds later, Lin Li snapped back to reality, took a deep breath, and decisively ordered Zhang Guanghua:

"Xiaozhang, immediately make multiple backups of this image and transmit it back to the headquarters for the core team. Colonel Lin, it seems we need to trouble you to make a trip."

Zhang Guanghua and Lin Ziming nodded simultaneously, speaking in unison:

"No problem, we'll make sure to complete the task!"

After issuing these instructions, Lin Li turned to another researcher from the Zhonghua Institute and said:

"Xiaolin, organize your team right away. First, try using Carbon-14 dating, and if that doesn't work, move on to isotope radiometric dating. If that still doesn't work, find other methods, but make sure to determine the approximate age of the stone tablet."

The researcher surnamed Lin nodded:

"Understood, I'll get on it immediately."

Carbon-14 dating, also known as the famous C14 method, is a fairly mature technique for age detection currently.

The half-life of carbon elements in the Damo Realm is similar to that on Earth, so this technique only requires simple calibration to be used effectively in the Damo Realm—this process was resolved back when the camp was still in the tent era.

The items left by Wei Siming previously were also dated using the Carbon-14 method.

However, while Carbon-14 is precise, it has a significant limitation:

It is essentially incapable of dating objects older than seventy thousand years—in fact, after reaching forty thousand years, the error in Carbon-14 dating exceeds a four-digit number.

For objects older than seventy thousand years, the relatively feasible technique is radiometric isotope dating.

But even this method has considerable errors.

Beyond the techniques mentioned above, there are more ancient ones like fission track dating, hydration dating, and micro-wear analysis.

But reaching that level makes it nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact year to a six-digit number.

If dealing with fossils from tens of millions of years ago, the error could even hit seven or eight digits.

Some may wonder:

If dating is so challenging, how are dinosaur fossils dated?

In reality, most dinosaur fossils from tens of millions of years ago in our realm weren't dated using technological detection methods.

In the field excavation research of modern dinosaur studies, the geological era of almost all dinosaur fossils is determined before they are excavated.

For instance, many fossils whose geological ages cannot be determined currently have uncertain specific timelines, such as those few pterosaur fossils in Sichuan Province.

However, the rabbits' objective is merely to confirm the approximate age of the stele, and precision is not a detailed requirement. The main goal is to determine whether the stele is related to the current Cultivator civilization.

The currently known Cultivator civilization has been passed down for about thirty thousand years, and its earliest starting point might be traced back to around forty thousand years ago.

If the stele's age is within a hundred thousand years, then theoretically there is a possibility that the stele and the current Cultivator civilization belong to the same time period.

After all, the rabbits don't know much about the secrets of the Damo Realm, so in extreme cases, the possibility of a small Cultivator civilization existing earlier cannot be ruled out.

But if the stele's age is two hundred thousand or even millions of years ago, then it definitely has nothing to do with today's Cultivator civilization - at least not in terms of time.

After Zhang Guanghua and others left, Lin Li addressed everyone again:

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's analyze the information this engraving can provide first. The images are being transmitted in real-time to everyone's phones. If anyone has an idea, feel free to speak up?"

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded and started looking at the image information.

After a while, Dai Chaohong slowly raised his hand:

"Captain Lin, I have some thoughts."

Dai Chaohong had previously analyzed the city wall situation when the rabbits first arrived in the Damo Realm, thus deducing the key information that 'Chixian City had enemy attacks,' contributing significantly to the rabbits' initial decisions.

However, he became obsessed with analyzing the Damo Realm's cultural environment and hadn't been seen for a long time, causing his exposure to be far less than Ma Ning's.

Now with the version update... ahem, following the appearance of the stele, Dai Chaohong once again demonstrated his strong divergent thinking ability:

"Everyone can clearly see that the first picture looks like a meteorite hitting a planet.

You might not be aware, but from the perspective of civilization studies, such 'heavenly change' records either foreshadow destruction and disaster or indicate some kind of 'arrival.' Over 95% of the engravings discovered locally are like this.

For example, at a Maya site in southern Mexico's Chiapas State, a similar scene is recorded. In their myth, the creator descended on a meteorite, bringing life.

And in the ancient civilization of Abyssinia, now known as Ethiopia, an engraving codenamed i.e.142 also shows a meteorite landing, later proven to be a depiction of a severe plague.

Based on the content recorded in the second engraving... I personally lean toward the second interpretation, that the meteorite brought disaster."

Then he paused, seeing that most people showed approval, and continued:

"As for the second picture... let's discuss its key points first.

For instance, why are there only two suns in the sky?

When depicting this scene, even if clouds obscure the view, theoretically at least the corner of the sun should be visible. This is an expression of artistic painting, not possible to simply ignore the sun.

Next are the two objects beside the black hole. What is the relationship between that coffin and the ice coffin we discovered?

And what is the origin of that eyeball?

Without evidence, I propose an irresponsible guess...

We have local myths about 'nine stars in a row' or 'eight stars in a row' heralding the world's end, right?

Local myths may not be true, but in the Damo Realm, where extraordinary powers exist, is it possible for such events to truly occur?

I remember our astronomers mentioning that there is a special 'membrane' outside of the Damo Realm that isolates a significant amount of cosmic high-energy radiation.

So this is what I'm thinking:

At a certain moment, one of the three suns was obscured by another celestial body, causing the external membrane of the Damo Realm, which can shield high-energy radiation, to develop some kind of breach.

And the meteorite fall is the precursor.

After this change, the Demon Realm or some other world took the opportunity to launch a major invasion—perhaps the coffin and the big eye are the entities or objects that opened the passage, followed by the arrival of monsters, the lands being ravaged, and blood flowing.

Upon hearing Dai Chaohong's words, everyone fell silent.

It must be said that the possibility Dai Chaohong mentioned does exist, and the entire storyline sounds quite smooth.

Then Lin Li turned around and looked at Director Zhang of Zijin Mountain Observatory next to him—this person, like Dai Chaohong, had contributed several major pieces of information before returning to focus on scientific research:

"Director Zhang, is there a possibility of what Professor Dai said?"

Zhang Lin pondered for a while, then nodded and said:

"Currently, the spectra of the three suns of the Damo Realm have been determined, and they are all 100% stars, with the largest being in the southeast at 7.7°, called 'Sun No. 1.'

Its spectrum doesn't have a helium free-line spectrum, but its hydrogen spectrum is very clear, belonging to the B0V category, a blue supergiant. The Alnilam in the local Orion is also such a stellar body.

Their distances from the Damo Realm are still being calculated, but theoretically, there are four scenarios that match Professor Dai's judgment."

These words once again brought the scene to silence, and after a while, Wang Qiang's grumpy voice suddenly rang out:

"Hey, how come this miserable person looks a bit like Xiaowu?"

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