Vernal swore.

Even though he has discovered many miracles of the civilized world, he has never been so shocked by what he saw in front of him.

It is an open space with an area comparable to that of a football field. The height of the ceiling is about one hundred feet. A square shaped stone tablet is like a chess piece on a chess board. It covers almost all areas of the open space. It's a smooth and smooth surface like a mirror, and the edges and corners like a knife. It's like a craft carved by a play.

What is amazing is not the huge amount of work like terra cotta warriors, but the fact that billions of years have failed to smooth its water chestnut, or even leave a scratch on its body.

"God It's incredible. "

With a trembling step forward, Professor vernal crossed the stunned Schulz to the nearest stone tablet. I saw the old professor stretched out his trembling right hand, like touching a handicraft, and pressed his hand on the flat and smooth surface.

"This is a cemetery..."

With his hand on the nearest stone tablet, Professor vernal murmured to himself, "a cemetery of civilization It's hard to imagine how they have remained intact in these long years, who and for what they have accomplished this miracle. "

Shultz swallowed his saliva and came up to Professor vernal's side. He looked at him and said in an inquisitive voice.

“…… Cemetery? "

"Yes."

Professor vernal nodded his head. After hesitating for a while, he finally took out the multifunctional spade he had picked up before and swung it up with all his strength. After several tinkling ringing,

, like a smooth mirror, finally failed to beat, like a piece of bean curd, which was broken up, and was split along the point where the shovel fell.

He knocked a piece of debris down the crack and held it in his hand for a moment, carefully analyzing it.

"At least three billion years ago, this piece of debris in my hand should have come from some kind of alloy material. After billions of years of weathering, it has become hematite, but the rare metals dispersed in the alloy have not been completely oxidized. Even because the dense oxide layer is well preserved, it has formed a special natural alloy with iron oxide as the main component The surface should also contain cadmium, nickel and carbon, but the specific composition needs to be analyzed by professional equipment. "

After a pause, he continued.

"It's not just these that surprised me, but this' handicraft 'made of high-strength alloy is covered with organic debris containing calcium carbonate minerals."

"These things are like coffins No, to be precise, they are coffins. "

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

Looking at Professor vernal, who made such an inference, Shultz's Adam's apple, whose face was full of shaking expression, moved slightly, and it took a long time to say it difficultly.

"But Why did they send the coffin to the bottom of the sea several kilometers below? I remember you said, billions of years ago, it should have been a sea. "

It's not easy to carry out such a large project on the sea floor.

Schulz doubted that with the current technology on earth, it would not be possible to excavate such a huge relic on the sea floor several kilometers below.

Professor vernal nodded at Schulz's statement.

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

He looked up at the wide grottoes and the square stones which were so neat that he could almost measure them with a ruler. He could not help frowning and thinking.

"Maybe it's a special religious ceremony, maybe it's a sacrifice for some relics..."

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

"But some kind of shelter?"

Vernal felt a little tricky.

There are so many possibilities.

……

Just as Professor vernal and Schulz were shocked by the discovery in front of them and almost forgot the purpose of their trip, they finally heard the voice from another civilization when they stood in a land boat in an empty grottoes.

"I expected to see you again in at least a few centuries. I didn't expect this day to come so fast," said the voice with a little praise and joy. "Congratulations, the chosen one, I believe you should have brought the answers I need, right?"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded. "I've turned on the file transfer function. If you can successfully receive the data, you should see my proof. If you don't know anything, I can tell you. ""No, there are many ways to test it. Besides, this level of mathematical problems is not difficult for us."

It's not difficult, it's ok

This is a world-class problem that has puzzled him and his partners for a full month. In this guy's eyes, it's just "to this extent".

Think of here, the face of land boat can't help but emerge a trace of expression that can't help crying and laughing.

Put the inexplicable frustration aside for the time being, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and said in a clear voice in front of the empty grottoes.

"May I ask you a question?"

"You ask."

"In fact, it's not the only way to get here."

"Yes, but it's the fastest," continued the voice with a hint of pleasure. "There is not only one way to solve the problem. It's also one of the fun of exploration to traverse all the results and find a way out through exhaustive methods in the infinite possibilities. Of course, you can also use this opportunistic way to let yourself follow the bubble of the four dimensional space, but you have to say that it requires more than courage and wisdom, but also risks.

Fun?

The expression of Lu Zhou is strange.

At least he had no idea what fun it was.

"I don't understand the significance of this test."

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

The voice, with some nostalgia, went on.

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

"We need to know that civilization itself is an abstract concept. The gift of civilization is not enough to pack the gift and throw it on their parent star. We have to first select the right individuals through some special ways, and then cultivate the selected individuals to guide them to find and inherit the gifts given, and only in this case can we let the gifts prepared for enlightenment play their original role In fact, these things came to my mind later. "

Lu Zhou: "so you are not an observer of civilization."

"No But you will ask, it seems that you have met them? "

There was a sense of interest in the voice.

Hearing the change in tone, Lu Zhou nodded his head and said concisely.

"It's a pleasure to meet you."

"To be able to face up to the void is not the luck of ordinary people, although sometimes too good luck does not mean a good thing."

The boat did not speak, but waited for the voice to continue.

"Well, since you have met the observer, it must have told you about the legacy. If it suits you, you know more secrets than I do. "

"Keep going."

"The gift from the void is ahead."

"I believe you have all stood here. It should not be difficult to pass the last test."

The boat nodded its head.

"Of course."

Then he took a step forward, came to the invisible wall, and slowly extended his right hand towards it.

When his right hand finally touched the transparent wall, the boat could feel an obvious resistance, which was preventing his hand from moving forward.

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

It's like blocking him is not something that can be seen, but something similar to the law.

After pondering for a long time, Lu Zhou suddenly saw an expression of interest in her eyes and said to herself thoughtfully.

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

There was a trace of approval in the voice.

"Yes, you are the first human to find out."

"And the Martians?"

"It took them 20000 years."

"Twenty thousand years That's a long time. "

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

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

"What happened to them?"

"Disasters are caused by people and partly by nature If you want to know, you will know when you pass the barrier in front of you. Keep some information there and take it away as a gift if you are interested. "

"That shouldn't take long."

With that, the boat took two steps back.

"What are you going to do?"The voice, with a trace of curiosity, seemed to be looking forward to the next action of the boat.

As if in response to this curiosity, Lu Zhou smiled lightly.

"Is that a question?"

"Of course, we should continue the unfinished work of our predecessors billions of years ago."

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

Soon, lines of different colors were projected on the screen inside the mask in three-dimensional form, and also reflected in the pupil of the boat.

The zigzag lines correspond to the passageways in the ruins, which he showed in the conference room before.

Although the surveying and mapping of the relic tunnel has only completed a small part, after all, the maximum exploration distance of the remote control vehicle operated by fan Tong is only one kilometer, but it is enough for the land boat.

As long as the interference of the four-dimensional space debris to the three-dimensional space is regular.

Even without a complete map.

The communication channel came a light Yi, that voice with a trace of hidden praise.

“…… I look down on you. "

"But unfortunately, you only have two hours."

"It doesn't matter. It's just a topological geometry problem, although it's a little complicated..." He turned off the communication module, took a deep breath and said calmly, "but two hours is enough for me."