"Roar!"
The staff and tourists in the ruins lay on the ground in panic. They looked at each other and did not know what to do. The violent earthquake could be felt throughout the ruins and the town of Copan.
"Is, is it an earthquake?"
"Run towards me, be careful of the stone pillars!"
"Don't panic, the earthquake will be over soon, and we are now in a very open place. Don't worry about being crushed by the buildings. Everyone, lie down!"
Most of the tourists who were interested in coming to the Copan ruins were experienced backpackers. They were relatively calm in the face of an emergency, and the flat ruins were surrounded by open space. It was not like they were in a metropolis full of high-rise buildings, so they did not have to worry about being buried by collapsed walls.
"Boom!"
After a few seconds of shaking, the ground returned to normal, as if it was really just an ordinary earthquake. Central America, where the tectonic plates intersected, was an area with frequent earthquakes. At the same time, it was also often hit by tsunamis, and coastal cities often suffered heavy casualties.
After the earthquake passed, the tourists who were originally lying on the ground slowly stood up, sighed in relief, and silently said in their hearts that it was a false alarm.
"Phew, fortunately we are in the ruins. If we were still sleeping in the hotel, we would be unlucky. Those old buildings in the town …"
"I wonder what the town is like now."
"Can you still get a signal on your phone?
My phone just broke. "
The group of people talked at once. After the initial panic, the earthquake did not seem to be scary anymore. What they worried about was how they, as tourists, were going to get out of here by car after the earthquake.
"Don't worry, this is not far from the capital of Honduras. Help should be here soon …"
However, some people with keen observation saw a shadow slowly rising not far away. The Copan ruins were very small, and even the slightest movement could be seen clearly, not to mention a giant rising under the bright sun.
"What, what is that?"
A tourist who was discussing the evacuation plan suddenly looked north. They had just come from that place, and it seemed to be the Sacred Rune Staircase.
However, what he saw now was not the ancient staircase, but a shadow that made people feel uneasy. A long tail.
A tail!
A huge tail emerged from the ground. From its shape and scales, it looked like a crocodile's tail, but the strange thing was that this tail was a combination of rocks and mud. It was brown and gray, like a small mountain.
With patience, a few stonemasons could carve such a tail, but this rock crocodile's tail was not a soulless, rigid creation. It swayed and extended upwards.
This was no longer a soulless stone statue.
"Boom!"
The ground shook, and the crocodile's tail flipped over, revealing the huge body of a terrifying beast.
The largest crocodile in history was the Emperor crocodile, but it was only about ten meters long.
This crocodile made of stone easily broke through the 40 meters long mark, and its height was also much higher than the buildings in the town.
In other words, if this crocodile were to walk in the city, its huge body would fill up the streets of the city, and the hard scales on its body would cut down the outer walls of the buildings.
If it was born in the era of dinosaurs, this crocodile could kill a dragon in two bites.
"A transcendent being?"
Although this crocodile was not as huge as other transcendent beings that could easily reach 100 meters, it was still a transcendent no matter how small it was, not to mention that it was dozens of meters long. Compared to humans, it was already a huge monster.
All the tourists and staff in the ruins combined might not even be able to take one bite of this crocodile. Without the use of heavy weapons, human armed forces would not have much effect on it.
The terrifying crocodile opened its bloody mouth and roared at the sky. The loud sound shook everyone's eardrums and the ground.
The calm ground trembled slightly again.
"Roar!"
Only then did the people in fear realize that the sound that came from underground was not the sound of plate movement caused by an earthquake, but the crocodile's roar.
It stared at the entire Copan ruins with a pair of ferocious eyes, and its hard brown surface seemed to have a living aura. Everyone who was looked at by this pair of eyes trembled from the bottom of their soul.
"It's … the crocodile god in Mayan mythology that controls earthquakes — Kabaraka."
An Asian man dressed in local clothing walked out of the building, followed by a few archaeologists from other countries.
Not only were there tourists and Honduran staff in the ruins, but there were also archaeologists from all over the world.
As the southernmost city-state of the Mayan civilization, the ruins of Copan used to be the center of the entire Mayan civilization during a certain period of time in the classical period. The more famous Mayapan was a city-state of the post-classical period. It was only because it was contacted by Western colonists earlier that it was named Maya.
"Legend has it that this crocodile god caused the earthquake in the Mayan world. In the end, it was fed a poisonous divine bird by the hero twins to weaken its power. When it shook the mountains and rivers, they worked together to bury the crocodile god Kabaraka."
An expert from Angelica held the shoulder of the person next to him. There was not much panic on his face. When he saw the crocodile god, he showed the worship of a fan seeing his idol.
He did not worship the evil god that caused chaos, but he was excited when the cause that he had dedicated his life to finally appeared in front of him. The Mayan civilization that he had studied for a lifetime had finally revealed itself in front of him.
Now that supernatural beings were appearing frequently, no one could say for sure whether there would be a supernatural god in the perished Mayan civilization. However, even the Lady of Death in Norse mythology had appeared in the capital of the Island nation. It was not difficult to understand why the gods of the Mayan civilization had been resurrected.
The Mayan mythology had died at least much later than the Norse mythology.
"We've worked hard for two hundred years, and we've finally succeeded."
The professor spoke in a somewhat deranged tone. The deciphering of the Mayan civilization had indeed lasted for two hundred years, but it was definitely not to resurrect the so-called Mayan mythology.
"Professor, let's run. We're only deciphering, not to resurrect these gods." The professor's assistant pulled the professor out of the ruins.
"No, I want to die here!"
The professor was extremely agitated. Archaeology was not like other professions. For example, archaeology focused on the Mayan civilization. An archaeologist might spend his entire life researching the Mayan civilization, or even several generations of his clan might be excavating the Mayan civilization.
Among them, the archaeologists from Angelica were the most extreme. After all … there were really no relics of civilization in Angelica that were worth excavating.
"It's worth dying here to see the resurrection of the Mayan gods!"
The huge crocodile god collapsed on the ground, and the mountains and rivers shook violently again.