Chapter 1406 The Tomb of Civilization

Vernal swore.

Even though he had unearthed many miracles of the civilized world, he had never been so deeply shocked by what he saw today as he is today.

It was an open space comparable in size to a football field. The ceiling was about a hundred feet high. The square stone monuments were like chess pieces on a chessboard, filling almost the entire area of ​​the open space. The mirror-like smooth and flat surface, as well as the edges and corners cut out by a knife, are like finely crafted handicrafts.

What makes people amazed is not the huge amount of engineering like the terracotta warriors and horses, but that billions of years have failed to smooth its water chestnuts, or even leave a single scratch on its body.

"God... just incredible."

Stepping forward with trembling steps, Professor Vernal passed the stunned Schultz and walked to the nearest stone monument. I saw the old professor stretch out his trembling right hand, as if he was stroking a handicraft, and pressed his palm on the flat and smooth surface.

"This is a cemetery..."

Putting his hand on the nearest stone tablet, Professor Vernal murmured to himself, "The cemetery belonging to civilization... It's hard to imagine how they have remained intact for so long, and who, for what? What accomplished this miracle."

Finally recovering from his astonishment, Schultz swallowed, stepped forward and stood beside Professor Vernal, looked at him and said in a questioning tone.

"...the cemetery?"

"Yes."

Professor Vernal nodded, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally took out the multifunctional shovel he had picked up earlier, and swung it with all his strength.

After a few ding ding sounds, the mirror-like smooth stone finally couldn't resist the beating, and it split apart along the point where the shovel landed, just like broken pieces of tofu.

A fragment was knocked out along the crack, and Professor Vernal held it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a moment, before analyzing it earnestly.

"At least three billion years ago, the fragment in my hand should have come from some kind of alloy material. After billions of years of weathering, it has turned into hematite, but the rare metals dispersed in the alloy are not It is not completely oxidized, and even because the relatively dense oxide layer is well preserved, a special natural alloy with iron oxide as the main component is formed, which should also contain cadmium, nickel, and carbon, but the specific components need professional equipment for analysis .”

After a pause, he continued.

"It's not just these things that surprised me, but under this 'handicraft' made of high-strength alloys, there are some organic debris containing calcium carbonate minerals."

"These things are like coffins... no, exactly, they are coffins."

Taking a deep breath, Professor Vernal carefully put the collected samples into the sample bag he carried with him, and affixed a label containing information such as the sampling location on it.

Seeing Professor Vernal who made such an inference, Schultz's Adam's Apple with a shocked expression on his face moved slightly, and he spoke with difficulty after a while.

"But... why did they send the coffin to the seabed several kilometers below? I remember you said that this place should be a sea billions of years ago."

It is not an easy task to carry out such a large project on the seabed.

Schultz is quite skeptical. With the current technology on the earth, it may not be possible to excavate such a huge ruin on the seabed several kilometers below.

Regarding Schultz's statement, Professor Vernal nodded.

"Yes, I did say that, and the depth here is probably not small, just like you said, it must be at least several kilometers or even tens of hundreds of kilometers."

Looking up at the wide grotto, and the square stones so neat that they could almost be measured with a ruler, he couldn't help frowning slightly and lost himself in thought.

"Maybe it's some kind of special religious ceremony, maybe it's a sacrifice to that holy relic..."

"Or, in fact, this is not a cemetery."

"But some sort of shelter?"

Vernal felt a little tricky.

The possibilities are simply too many.

...

Just when Professor Vernal and Schultz were so shocked by the discovery in front of them that they almost forgot the purpose of their trip, Lu Zhou, standing in an empty grotto, finally heard the voice from another civilization.

"I originally expected that it would take at least a few centuries to see you again, but I didn't expect this day to come so soon," said the voice with a little approval and joy, "Then congratulations, Chosen one, I believe you should have brought the answers I need, right?"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded, "I have turned on the file transfer function, if you can successfully receive the data, you should be able to see my proof. If there is something you don't understand, I can also tell you for you."

"No need, there are many methods of verification, not to mention that this level of mathematical problems is not difficult for us."

It's not too difficult...

This world-class problem that has plagued him and his collaborators for a whole month is actually only "this level" in the eyes of this guy.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help showing a bit of a dumbfounding expression on his face.

Putting this inexplicable frustration aside for the time being, Lu Zhou took a deep breath, faced the empty grotto, and spoke in a clear voice.

"Can I ask a question?"

"go ahead."

"In fact, this is not the only way to get here."

"Yes, but this is the fastest," the voice continued with a tinge of pleasure, "there is more than one way to solve the problem itself, traversing all the results, and passing exhaustive methods among the infinite possibilities Finding a way out is also one of the joys of exploration. Of course, you can also be opportunistic and let yourself flow with the bubbles of the four-dimensional space as you do now, but I have to say that this requires not only courage and wisdom, but also a lot of responsibility. risks of."

pleasure?

Lu Zhou couldn't help but have a strange expression.

At least he had no idea that there was any fun in it.

"I don't understand the point of such a test."

"This is a very interesting question. A long time ago, someone asked me this question... You were probably just cells at that time."

There was a bit of nostalgia in that voice, and he continued.

"The meaning of the test is to let the right person inherit what belongs to him."

"You must know that civilization itself is an abstract concept. Giving gifts to civilizations is not enough to pack up the gifts and throw them on their home planet. We have to go through some special methods to filter them. Appropriate individuals, and then cultivate the individuals who pass the screening, and guide them to find and inherit those gifts, and only under such circumstances can the gifts prepared for enlightenment be used as they should be... In fact, those things came to my mind afterward.”

Lu Zhou: "So you are not an observer civilization."

"No...but you're asking, it seems you've already met them?"

There was a hint of interest in the voice.

Hearing the change in the tone, Lu Zhou nodded and said succinctly.

"It's a pleasure to meet once."

"Being able to face the void is not the luck that ordinary people can have, although sometimes too much luck does not mean a good thing."

Lu Zhou didn't speak, but waited for the voice to continue.

"Okay, since you have met the Observer, it must have told you about the 'inheritance'. If it likes you, maybe you know more secrets than me."

"Go ahead."

"A gift from the void lies ahead."

"I believe that you have already stood here, and it should not be difficult to pass the last test."

Lu Zhou nodded.

"Of course."

After that, he took a step forward, came to the invisible wall, and slowly stretched out his right hand towards it.

The moment his right hand finally touched the transparent wall, Lu Zhou could feel an obvious resistance, preventing his hand from moving forward.

However, miraculously, he could clearly feel that there was nothing there.

It was as if what blocked him was not some visible substance, but something similar to a law.

After pondering for a long time, a look of interest suddenly appeared in Lu Zhou's eyes, and he thought to himself.

"...I didn't expect the cracks in the four-dimensional space to grow like this."

There was a tinge of approval in that voice.

"Yes, you are the first human being to discover this."

"Where are the Martians?"

"They used it for 20,000 years."

"Twenty thousand years...that's really a long time."

"From the tribal period to the information age, they have almost been close to the truth, but unfortunately, those little guys are too arrogant about their own power, and this heavy truth eventually destroys them."

Lu Zhou continued to grope on the invisible wall with both hands, and asked casually with an expression of interest on his face.

"What happened to them?"

"Disasters are man-made, and some are caused by nature... If you want to know, you will naturally know when you pass through the barrier in front of you. I have saved some information there. If you are interested, you can share it as a gift." They take it away."

"That shouldn't take long."

Having said that, Lu Zhou took two steps back.

"What are you going to do?"

There was a hint of curiosity in that voice, as if looking forward to Lu Zhou's next move.

As if responding to this curiosity, Lu Zhou smiled faintly.

"Is there even a need to ask?"

"Of course it is to continue the unfinished work of the predecessors billions of years ago."

After that, he reached out and pressed a few buttons on the wrist computer.

Soon lines of different colors were projected on the screen inside the mask in a three-dimensional form, and reflected in Lu Zhou's pupils at the same time.

Those zigzag lines correspond to the passages in the ruins, which are the things he showed in the conference room earlier.

Although only a small part of the surveying and mapping of the relic tunnel has been completed. After all, the maximum exploration distance of the wire-controlled remote control car operated by Fan Tong is only one kilometer, but it is enough for Lu Zhou.

As long as the four-dimensional space debris interferes with this three-dimensional space, there are certain laws.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete map.

There was a slight hey from the communication channel, and there was a hint of unconcealable approval in that voice.

"...I underestimated you."

"But unfortunately, you only have two hours."

"It's okay, it's just a topological geometry problem, although it's a bit complicated..." Lu Zhou, who had completely calmed down after turning off the communication module, took a deep breath and said calmly, "But two hours is enough for me. "