Chapter 1533 The clues that appear one after another
Basically all the sculptures have some parts damaged or even fragmented to the point of being irreparable. Even with the computing power of data terminals, it is impossible to repair the missing parts of the sculptures and reliefs out of thin air.
Hao Ren could only restore the data terminals to their original appearance as much as possible.
The data terminal floats in mid-air, and a light blue light curtain is projected into the air a few meters in front of it. Where the light curtain is shrouded, time seems to be reversed, and the broken sculptures and incomplete reliefs are reorganized into images and placed on the
Where they should have been, the vines and moss were removed by the screen filtering system, revealing the original appearance of the walls and columns. Only less than one-third of the scene could be restored. In the parts that could not be restored, a blue light screen projected
The large swaths represent dithering shadows of "unknown data".
Hao Ren saw human sculptures: men, women, old and young, and various races. They were neatly arranged on both sides of the entrance to the hall, as if they were standing there specifically to display standard models of human beings.
Further forward is a "star map" about the positions of the planets. It is carved on a metal plate with a length of five meters and a width of five meters. The metal plate stands like a screen in front of the human sculpture, with the planets and stars marked on it.
The relative position, and many things were marked with various symbols. After a simple translation by the data terminal, it was found that those symbols were all explaining the meaning of this star map.
"It looks like this is indeed a 'guest book'," Hao Ren rubbed his chin and muttered, "I guess there are more buildings like this on this planet... maybe they are built in the center of every large city.
Such a 'museum'?"
Vivian shook her head: "We'll have to wait until we find more ruins to find out."
The group of four people finally stopped in front of a group of reliefs.
"That should be it." Lily pointed at the picture on the relief with great joy, her golden eyes shining brightly.
On the picture restored by the data terminal, Hao Ren saw a very familiar scene: huge tentacles growing from the depths of the earth, the tentacles shook the structure of the entire continent, setting off devastating floods and earthquakes, and cities built by humans were destroyed.
In the face of the disaster, areas were destroyed in pieces, buildings collapsed, bridges collapsed, and countless magnificent buildings were destroyed.
After the continuous natural disasters, there is the arrival of the blood tide: the relief depicts this scene in a very vivid and vivid way. Large tracts of shadow cover the world of human existence, and various creatures twist and melt in front of the shadow, turning into chaos.
People who saw these pictures for the first time might be a little confused by the lines and clumps, but Hao Ren could tell at a glance that they were depicting the process of creatures being swallowed up by the blood tide and merging.
In the last few parts of the relief, Hao Ren saw the resistance process of the indigenous creatures on the planet. They seemed to have built huge steel fortresses and relied on completely isolating themselves from the external ecological environment to resist the attack of the eldest son. However,
Just like what happened on the planet Tanagus, these steel fortresses fell quickly; they also sent massive mechanical troops to attack the tentacles protruding from the surface. However, such counterattacks could only delay the disaster: because
They live in the body of the World Destroyer, and their enemy is the entire world they live in. They are everywhere and there is no escape.
"Look here," Vivian pointed to the end of the relief. Because this part was severely damaged, the picture restored by the data terminal also appeared blurry, but there were still some things that could be seen in the blurry picture. In one of the
On the picture, there is an obvious scene of a spacecraft taking off. "They seemed to have built a large spaceship and launched a large number of people and materials into space, but there was no follow-up after that."
Hao Ren showed a thoughtful expression. He subconsciously reached out to touch the picture on the relief, but his fingers passed through the light screen projected by the data terminal, and in the end all he touched was a layer of rough corroded metal.
: "Judging from these pictures, the indigenous civilization on this planet was indeed destroyed by the eldest son. Until the last part of the picture, the eldest son still had an overwhelming advantage... But I don't know what happened in the thousands of years after that.
The planet has become what we see now, and the ecological environment seems to have recovered. Although the eldest son is still active, he has not continued to destroy the ecosystem, and..."
"And there are also those 'survivors' who flew bombers and fought with the tentacles," Nangong Wuyue patted the ground with his tail. "Something must have happened after the time of these reliefs, which changed the course of subsequent events."
Hao Ren nodded: "This planet is different from what we have seen before. It seems that it is necessary to study it carefully."
During the subsequent exploration, they visited almost every corner of the building. Although they made some discoveries, they did not find any more valuable clues.
On the top floor of the building, they found some sealed chambers that were entirely wrapped in special alloys. After cutting open the shells of these chambers, Hao Ren found some ancient equipment that had been completely damaged and could no longer be repaired, as well as some
The human remains that may have been equipment operators were identified and the data terminal confirmed that all operators committed suicide.
The secret rooms are completely sealed. Not only can they not be opened from the outside, but structurally it is impossible for the people inside to come out after the locking device is dropped. Therefore, these secret rooms were designed as tombs from the beginning. Vivian guessed that the people left in these secret rooms
Humans should be the last city guards. They control the city's last defense forces through various devices here. After all defense facilities are destroyed, they end their lives in these "safe houses"
.
In the part of the building that had sunk underground, Nangong Wuyue found some ancient machine rooms and reactors that were half submerged in water by manipulating the water element. They should be the "brain" and "heart" of this ancient facility, because
Due to being soaked in water and aged, the computer room had turned into a pile of scrap copper and iron that had completely lost its value. Hao Ren originally expected to find some information-storing chips and other things from those ancient machines, but in the end he found nothing.
As for the completely destroyed reactor...the data terminal could only determine that it was an extremely efficient fusion furnace, but the specific technical details could not be restored.
The exploration continued until nightfall that day.
After finishing the exploration of the square pyramid building, Hao Ren and his party also checked several other places in the city and found a lot of abandoned machines and weapon wreckage. Lily even found an exquisite ship model, Vivian
They thought it should be a toy played by children back then. From an archaeological perspective, their subsequent explorations were fruitful, but from the perspective of uncovering the historical truth, only the things seen in the previous "Sculpture Hall" were
is the most valuable part.
Since the existence of the eldest son was confirmed, the natural environment in the wild was no longer safe. Hao Ren gave up his plan to spend the night between the ruins and the forest. After establishing a coordinate connection between the data terminal and Nolan, the group teleported back directly through space.
Arrived on the spaceship.
The people on the spacecraft have been waiting in boredom all day. Due to the damage to the central host, Nolan had to transfer all the computing power to repair the system, so the people left behind on the spacecraft didn't even have to watch a movie. This is boring.
It shocked everyone: especially the lively Elizabeth. When the little girl was bored, she wandered around in the spacecraft with a screwdriver for a whole day, which scared Nolan to death.
Probably Guan had a relatively pleasant day. As a cat, at least mentally, she has not yet developed many messy human hobbies. She spent half of the day napping.
The other half of the time was spent dealing with a ball of yarn. To be honest, everyone else on the spacecraft envied this stupid cat. It would be great if she had a mind like her. Each person could play with a ball of yarn until the end of time...
All in all, the return of Hao Ren and his entourage immediately ignited the spirits of Elizabeth and Nangong Sanba. Even Doudou jumped on Hao Ren and asked the latter what he had discovered during the whole day.
"I found a lot of things, but can you please let me take a breath first?" Hao Ren waved his hand and drove Elizabeth and Nangong Sanba aside. After sitting on his captain's chair, he looked around the bridge.
I found that many things that were destroyed before have now "grown" as before, "Nolan, is the regeneration going well?"
"It went smoother than expected," Nolan's voice came from all around, "because there was no external interference, the ship's repair work can proceed at full speed."
"Is there any signal response from the discovery of indigenous civilizations on this planet again?"
"Except for the group of air units you encountered during the day, this ship did not detect any more signal responses."
"Hmm... Okay, there's no rush," Hao Ren waved his hand and found some messages left by the ancients in the ruins of the city..."
A circle of people gathered on the bridge, listening to Hao Ren and his party describing the findings of their exploration trip. Except for Doudou and Gun, who were just making up the numbers, everyone was actively using their brains to think about the things behind the reliefs.
meaning, as well as the information revealed by the several aircraft that appeared during the day.
Yzaks was the first to speak: "Those reliefs should be recorded by the last group of people left on the planet. After the spacecraft took off, they retreated to these cities and stayed in these cities for the last time.
Sculptures and reliefs. This could explain why the content of the reliefs ended abruptly after the escape ship took off: the people who left the reliefs did not know what happened after that.”
"I think so too," Hao Ren nodded. "The spaceship they launched should only be able to take away a part of the population, perhaps less than one-tenth of the total population. The remaining large number of people will remain on the planet. These left-behind
The attackers should have resisted for a while after the spacecraft took off, until the eldest son completely destroyed all defense lines. During this time, they had time to leave enough information for those who came after."
Nangong Sanba interjected: "But the city was not completely destroyed by the eldest son. Although it is indeed in ruins now, it is obviously more damage caused by the passage of time. If it was caused by the eldest son, the entire city should be
It will destroy it more completely.”
"So I suspect that the destruction process of the eldest son has not reached the last step," Hao Ren expressed his conjecture. "After the death of human beings on the planet, the activities of the eldest son probably stopped, leaving those relatively well-preserved ones.
Urban ruins and entire ecosystems.”
If this were not the case, what Hao Ren and his party would have seen after arriving here would have been an even more desolate world.
Vivian mentioned another thing at this time: "Speaking of those aircraft seen during the day, what do you think?"
"A survivor," Lily didn't think much at this time, "what else could it be."
"'Survivors' is no problem, but the key is... where are they survivors?" Hao Ren tapped the armrest of his seat with his fingers. "Are they the descendants of the resistance organization who stayed on the surface of the planet, or... were they... back then?"