Chapter 7: Fate
"Nope! I can't die like this! The secret must be told to my people! ”
Suffering... Blood, eyes were about to fall into darkness, thick and warm blood continued to pour out from the wound that could not be healed, she was dying...
Leslie woke up from her sleep, her body trembling, her eyes not fully open, her heart beating wildly, she screamed, as if she had fallen into another space, her lower bunk was sleeping in Kaidara, unaffected.
She felt the wetness of her hair and stroked it with her hand, but she felt a burst of warmth, as if it were not sweat, but blood, and drops fell from her hands, glowing green in the light.
"Ahh She woke up completely and really screamed because Kedara was so frightened that she hit her head, "Oh,, what's wrong with you, Les, what's the ghost calling in the middle of the night?" But the other party just screamed, even if she lost her voice because of the lack of breath for a long time, but with the help of the faint light, her terrifying expression could be clearly seen, even if the nerves were bigger, Kaidara realized that the situation seemed to be a bit serious, she quickly comforted her, and woke up the team's doctor with the help of a communicator. After the doctor hurried in and injected a tranquilizer, Leslie finally fell asleep again, but all the team members, including Ramoses, did not feel sleepy, because just now, Darrys, a man, had experienced a similar nightmare, which was not explained by ordinary means, and it was really a big deal.
However, none of this affected the continuation of the work, and Ramoses seemed to be obsessed, and he no longer resisted Daris's joining the excavation team, which really surprised Darius, and it is worth mentioning that Darius obviously did not go to any doctors, and he believed that he was suspicious after a long time in a narrow area, which was not uncommon for scientific researchers. When it was time to rest, a few people got together to play poker for a while, and he was back to the rough man.
Over the next few days, there was more of a rough job, digging passages, and locating the place where the professor had fallen, and luckily Dahl had wisely recorded the route at the time, however, the farther and closer to the first floor of the space could be broken and transported with large equipment, but the closer to the core site, due to the existence of the puzzle, it could only be done by manual earthwork, little by little, in the case of ensuring that it was intact. So Dahl's joining was obviously warmly welcomed by everyone other than Ramoses, and Ramoses had nothing to do but sigh helplessly, which was really tiring, but it was nothing compared to the joy of solving the puzzle and breaking the door.
Ramoses had always hated Dahl and her men, who were simply resistant to them, always holding guns and watching them coldly as they worked, rested, and never left.
"We're not prisoners, captain, and please give us some space, you'll make me and my team feel like we're slaves to your prince!" , Ramoses complained more than once, "Believe me, your work is very welcome, but it does not include guns"
"You have your job, and I have my assignment, Professor, to get through that so-called door. I don't care about the rest of your teammates, they obviously don't care, even if there is an initial impulse, but after going through so much, what is behind that door, no one knows, in short, you and I are not in conflict, for the sake of our respective work", the words of the female captain made Ramoses speechless, and only accepted this actual fact.
After the initial success, the team came to a long standstill, and although Ramoses made a major discovery, it did not seem to have a major connection with the excavation of the temple, and they were still unable to break through the door, as if the so-called pattern or password was just a prank of alien creatures. His prestige was enough, and the team had obviously experienced the same scene too many times, so they weren't frustrated, every day the professor would take different team members to measure and observe the tunnels and corridors, compared to the team members, he was carefully observing the text code he found, and after observing and comparing the green concentration, he came to a conclusion that there was an energy creature here, just behind the door, and that door was obviously not what they had imagined before, but the wall with the pattern depicted, Because the green is the deepest there, the emerald-like color also shows that this place is different.
More than once, he would take off his gloves and almost caress that wall. He treated it like a woman, which didn't seem to be in line with the basic rules of operation, but he knew it was fine. You have to touch it to understand. You have to use all your senses, because the secret is deep in it. If everyone can see it at a glance, there will be no challenge. He wanted it to speak to him, to reveal the secrets of the Creator. Tell him how to open this door between Jacob Ramsay and the core of the alien temple. It's what he wants every time he digs. He wanted relics from the past, whether ceramic shards or buildings or tools, to tell him about the creatures that made them.
It wasn't that he didn't want the others to come here, but the performance of Darius, Teresa, Leslie, and Kedara made him look anxious, and here they relived the paranoia of the previous days, "Here, as if it's crying", Darius shuddered a little
"Crying? Will the walls cry? Dahl laughed, "I said, you guys are really... It's the wind, you. . . ”
Darius's face flushed, and Ramoses agreed with Dahl's opinion, but he watched his team members carefully, and the feedback he received still silenced him.
However, the argument ended unhappily, and Darius took a sip of his own hard drink, otherwise, he really could not continue to work, only alcohol could numb his nerves at this time.
Ramoses sat in front of the door every day, either in the light or simply in the dark, he carefully studied the words on the wall, although he was a master of decryption, but he had no clue about himself, and the feedback from the laboratory was to tell him that it was not the text of humans and insects, well, then it was the astral spirit? Or a higher creature? This is the code? Prompt? Last words before death? Or is it simply misleading and gibberish? He felt like he was going crazy.
"Jack?" , Teresa's communication rang out
"What's the matter, dear"
"I want to talk to you"
In the picture, Valerian looks visibly uneasy, his patience almost exhausted, "Professor, you have to give me an explanation, I can't look at it so indifferently"
"I'm pretty sure it's the text of the Star Spirit"
"I know, you said that"
"Yes, this is a temple, and this is where the gate is"
"Are you sure?" , Valerian was visibly suspicious
"Yes, I'll send you a report on speculation later, I don't think the creature inside is in a good state, because it flows a lot of blood, although the blood is green, but after laboratory testing, these condensations contain a lot of energy, which is more consistent with the star spirit."
"But that's just your guess, do you think there's at least one star spirit in there?"
"Yes, but we're trapped behind this door, though, I'll find a way to untie it"
"Okay, Professor, please forgive me for being unreasonable, you are indeed the one who is closest to solving the problem, don't let me down"
Although he succeeded in stabilizing the gold owner, Ramoses was not as confident as he said, he hid his anxiety, but the passage of time still made everyone's confidence less and less, if it wasn't for his motivational speeches from time to time, it is estimated that the team would have collapsed long ago.
"Maybe you should think like a star spirit", he walked alone that night in the camp covered by atmospheric generators, looking at the universe above his head, although the planet has no atmosphere, but there is no shortage of creatures, at least when there was still an atmosphere, they did exist, and now, it has become a pile of fossils. He played with his hands unconsciously, counting them little by little, as if this was his way of dissipating his sorrows, but gradually his movements slowed down, and his brow furrowed, and then he quickened his movements as if surprised and incredulous, but this time, he kept each fossil in front of his eyes for a moment, and searched for other fossils on the ground, and even ran to his tent to find his stock.
"1.618", leaf veins, carapaces, and even the knots of fossil organisms, the golden section? Is this true? He felt that he needed to try, and as for telling the others, he didn't plan to do it, maybe it wasn't too late to tell him when he solved the puzzle, at least it was his guess, and even if he failed, it wouldn't embarrass and disappoint everyone.
He picked up the flashlight, climbed alone in the narrow hole, and slowly walked to the door, his hand was attached again, and the light appeared again, this time he paid attention to the shape of the light pattern, and the proportion of the lines, and a smile slowly appeared on his face, "So you are so obvious"
He did not take his hand away, but traced the line with his pen, and when everything stopped, his hand left the door, and the light disappeared, but the line remained, and then he drew a lot of small golden section rectangles in this rectangle, one by one, and then, he found the key point, not in the center, but at the bottom. He stepped forward and drew a mark, and then put his hand on it, but the surprise didn't appear, if this was an anime, it is estimated that three crows would appear above his head, and then croak, in short, it was very embarrassing.
"No, it won't be that simple, think about it, what else is missing?" Ramoses was not depressed, he tried to calm down, and then began to think about all the theories about the golden section and its connection, and finally, he stood up and drew a spiral on it, yes, the Fibonacci spiral, the most perfect golden ratio pattern in nature, the shape that will appear on many crustaceans in the universe, perhaps, it is the two golden sections, forming this door, but after the painting, there is still no movement, he stubbornly draws one spiral after another, and then, At some point, these lines began to glow with green, and his palm attached to the door, and the green lines began to converge towards it, and gradually lit up the entire wall, and the door appeared again, only this time it appeared with a strong light, and even the professor had to cover it with another hand, and then, the door supporting his palm disappeared, and he was unprepared and staggered forward.
The door that had been bothering him for a long time disappeared like this, and he felt as if he was in a dream, and at this moment a passage appeared in front of him, and he raised his eyes to look at the end of the passage, it was...