I couldn't figure it out about the shoe prints, so I could only pin my hopes on others.
Hearing my cry, the large army that was already some distance away from me suddenly stopped. Mo Xi turned around and said, "Sijiu, why didn't you follow me?"
Colonel White also said to me: "Mr. Lin, the roads here are very complicated. I advise you to follow us to avoid getting separated from the main force."
I quickly explained: "No, come over quickly and take a look, there are shoe prints left by others!"
"Other people's? What do you mean?"
White and the others then came over again and saw me pointing to the ground in another passage. White looked at me doubtfully and used the searchlight in his hand to shine in the direction I was pointing.
Immediately, they all saw the set of shoe prints I was talking about.
"What's going on?" White said to himself.
Mike seemed to associate the shoe print with something else: "Um... everyone, should we leave here to discuss it first?"
Jamie next to him said: "Don't say you are afraid of that kind of thing, right? Don't worry, how could a ghost leave footprints?"
"Then where did these shoe prints come from? We have never walked here."
While the two of them were talking, Agent Harris also squatted on the ground and looked at the shoe prints. After hearing Mike's conversation, Harris said to them: "This is not what we left. Judging from the style of the soles, it's not what we left behind."
The person who made the shoe print was not wearing diving shoes. Also..."
Harris clapped his hands, stood up and said: "The person who left the shoe prints is about 1.75 meters tall, which is shorter than everyone here except Ms. Mo."
After hearing what Harris had said about his findings, Colonel White called the staff staying at the base on the intercom: "Dean, Fiona, who of you is here now? Did anyone hear you?"
After a while, a woman's voice came intermittently from the intercom: "Here...base, on White...what's going on?"
"Damn, it seems that the environment here interferes with the signal!" White cursed in a low voice, and then shouted into the intercom: "Fiona, I want to know if the people from the diving team have sneaked into the spacecraft before?"
"No...I can...confirm..."
Although the communication with the base has been severely disrupted, you can still roughly hear what the other party means. It seems that no one from the diving team has entered this place. But in this case, who exactly is the one who sank a thousand feet above this place?
Did the spaceship leave footprints on the deep seabed?
After thinking for a while, Colonel White gave us a new order: "It seems that we need to expand the search area. Everyone, I decided to divide the team into two groups. One group will continue to move forward, and the other group will follow this footprint. Look.
See where these footprints went?"
"Separate? In this hellish place?" Mike seemed to have some objections. He said, "Colonel White, isn't this too dangerous?"
"No, he is right." Mo Xi said at this time, "Our oxygen tank can only last for one more hour. Counting the consumption on the return, there is not much time left for us, so dispersed investigation is the best option.
An efficient choice.”
After hearing Mo Xi's words, Mike shut up, and Colonel White began to divide into groups.
"That's it, I, Dr. Mo Xi and Mr. Lin will be responsible for tracking this footprint. Harris, Mike, Jamie and Elizabeth, the four of you will continue to search forward together."
After that, White led Mo Xi and I to the corridor with the footprints, and walked forward in the direction of the footprints. Harris and the others took out another spare searchlight and continued walking along the original path.
the way.
While following Colonel White to trace the set of footprints, I said to Colonel White: "Colonel, do we need to think about weapons? What if the thing that left this set of footprints attacks us?"
White shook his head and said: "No. If something really wants to attack us, they should have done it long ago. There is no need to wait until now."
His words put me at ease a lot, and I was able to continue tracing the footprints on the ground with all my concentration.
Following this set of footprints, we walked in the spacecraft for almost fifteen minutes. Mo Xi suddenly said to Colonel White who was walking in front: "Colonel, have you noticed that we are heading towards the stern of the spacecraft?"
White turned around and said with some surprise: "How do you know?"
"I just roughly calculated that the hatch we entered is located in the middle of the spacecraft. Since entering, we have been heading southwest, which is exactly where the tail of the spacecraft is."
I was surprised: "You know all this?"
"Nothing surprising, I just have a better sense of direction than the average person."
Regarding Mo Xi's words, White still seemed a little doubtful, not completely convinced.
However, not long after this conversation ended, Mo Xi's words were confirmed.
Following the footprints, we first came to the end of a corridor. Seeing that the footprints disappeared, Mo Xi suddenly found a button and a nameplate on the wall of the corridor.
Let’s not mention the button for now, but there is a pattern that looks like words on the nameplate. I took a look at the pattern, but couldn’t recognize what it meant. When I wanted to ask Mo Xi, I found that at this time
, Colonel White and Mo Xi both stared blankly at the nameplate on the wall.
After a long time, Colonel White was the first to come to his senses. He held his head and shouted: "Oh my God, what is going on?!"
Then Mo Xi came back to her senses. Her reaction was slightly better than White's, and she just whispered to herself: "I didn't expect to see this..."
I asked curiously: "Dr. Mo Xi, what's wrong with you?"
Then Mo Xi turned her head and said to me: "Sijiu, have you seen the words on this nameplate? It's not written in an alien language, but in English!"
"English?" I didn't react at first, but after a few seconds, I suddenly realized: "Wait, English? Here? How is this possible?"
You know, although English is now the most popular language in the world, this is no ordinary place, but a spaceship suspected of alien civilization! If this is the case, why does English appear in such a place?
Could it be that English is not only the most popular language on earth, but also the universal lingua franca of the universe? In my opinion, this kind of thing is as ridiculous as the Koreans saying that they are a powerful country in the universe.
At this time, I suddenly thought of another question: "By the way, Dr. Mo. Since you said this is English, what does it mean?"
"Engine room."
"Huh? Engine room?!"
After answering my question, Mo Xi pressed the button on the wall without consulting with Colonel White, who was still dazed.
The next moment, the wall in front of us separated to the left and right sides, revealing a huge space behind the wall.
At this time, Colonel White also came to his senses, but he seemed to be very scared and wanted to pull us away from here.
"Dr. Mo, Sijiu, let's go quickly. This is the engine room of the spaceship, and there may be radioactive sources in it!"
But before he could pull us away, Mo Xi suddenly said to him: "Colonel White, where is the radioactive source you mentioned?"
After hearing this, White turned his head, glanced inside, and then froze again.
Because inside this so-called engine room, we can't see anything that looks like an engine.
"What...what's going on?"
Colonel White walked in with a confused look on his face, and Mo Xi and I followed behind him.
After entering the engine room, I found that the space here was much larger than I imagined. The entire room was about the size of a small basketball gym. However, in such a huge space, we could not see anything that looked like an engine or anything.
Something else that looks like it could make the spaceship take off.
In fact, the entire room was almost empty, except for a metal ring with a diameter of about three meters that seemed to be a decoration in the center of the room.