Chapter 102: Tunguska
The content of the file is a little scattered, but both of them are not low in mind, and after reading all the information, a clear context emerges in their minds.
In the content recorded in this file, the earliest clue started from a very famous event in history, if it wasn't for seeing this file, Xiao Buli would not have thought that these two things would be connected.
At dawn on June 30, 1908, Russians in the Tunguska region of Siberia were still asleep. Suddenly, the wind was blowing and there was a loud noise. After the wind stopped, there was a moment of silence, and an unusual sound came from in the distance. People were awakened by the unusual sound. At 7:43, an explosion sounded. A flaming monster, dragging its long tail of fireworks, streaked across the sky from south to north and disappeared beyond the horizon, where a huge flame rose. More than a minute later, the earth began to tremble as a clear roar that seemed to come from afar...... After that, 3 powerful explosions were felt. In the days following the explosion, the 9,000-mile sky over the Tunguska region was shrouded in an eerie orange hue. There are large areas with continuous white nights.
According to the later researchers at the seismic station in Irkuzek, the energy of this strange explosion was equivalent to 10 million ~ 15 million tons of TNT explosives, which was 1,000 times the energy of the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima more than 30 years later.
This bizarre explosion is known as the Tunguska explosion. The archives contain not only photographs of the time, but also interviews with people who personally felt the explosion.
In the years that followed, different scientists and military strategists came up with various speculations about the Tunguska explosion, and the first scientist to give an explanation at that time was Leonid Brown, a scientist from the former Soviet Union and the first to visit the Tunguska scene. Kulik, who believes that the Tunguska explosion of 1908 was due to a meteor falling to the ground. Later, American scientists also used computers in the laboratory to simulate the effect of the big explosion caused by the meteorite hitting the ground at high speed, and the computer simulation explained well that the dust raised by the shock wave reached the outer layer of the atmosphere, and the reflected sunlight caused the scene of day and night in the surrounding area of Tunguska. This is the most probable and plausible explanation from the results of the analysis, but it is regrettable that for a long time all field trips did not reveal any meteorite remains.
But according to this file, immediately after the explosion, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Tsarist Russia organized a manpower search of the blast area, and after several months of carpet searching the area, they finally found something. In the huge round crater left by the explosion, people found three giant metal spheres, as these may be alien falling metal objects, the metal balls were immediately sent to the underground warehouse of the Royal Academy of Sciences for preservation and research, from the data, these situations should be the oral information of a scientist who participated in the search many years later, because in addition to an interview dialogue that has been translated into Chinese, there are no specific photos of the spheres found at that time reflected in the data, thinking that the situation in China was turbulent at that time, There is no other force that has the leisure to conduct scientific exploration.
After the metal spheres were transported to the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences organized a group of scientists from chemistry, physics, astronomy, history and other disciplines to study the spheres for several years, but they were limited to the science and technology at that time, and there was no specific research direction for the spheres. In the years that followed, World War I and the October Revolution broke out one after another, and the international landscape was turbulent, and no one paid attention to these outsiders who did not know what to do.
Except for a biologist who had participated in the study of the sphere at that time, it can be said that he did not come in any use during the whole scientific research process, except for the beginning of a specimen collection and cultivation on the surface of the sphere, after discovering that there was no organism, he has been idle, but even so, he has always had a strange sense of these three strange spheres, according to the information, he once told others that he could feel a mysterious power in the sphere to summon it.
So in the end, when he escaped from the Red Soviet Union, he spent a lot of manpower and energy to bring two of them out, and later, due to economic reasons, in old Shanghai, he sold one of them as an extraterrestrial meteorite to a Shanghai tycoon as a treasure of the town, and fled to the United States with the other as a passage fee.
At this time, the true face of the sphere was only accepted by Xiao Buli and Qin Shiyue, in the photocopied black and white photos, Xiao Buli saw an inconspicuous metal sphere, from the gray tone in the photo, the specific color of the sphere at that time could not be seen, let alone what kind of metal it was, but no matter how you look at it, you can't see any mystery, but it seems that the kind of transfer ball that is often common in buildings on weekdays, according to the comparison ratio of the objects next to it, it is estimated that the diameter should be about one meter, which is really not huge, However, for meteorites or meteorites, such a volume is still worthy of praise, the surface of the metal object is convex and uneven, and there is an irregular line of scratches in the middle of the object, the scratches are dark black, which looks very obvious. It doesn't seem to have any eye-catching luster, if it weren't for meteoric iron, it is estimated that selling scrap iron would also be disliked, which made Xiao Buli's sense of mystery about this object greatly reduced, I don't know how much spare money the tycoon had at that time to buy such an iron lump and put it at home. The second photo is a close-up view of the sphere, the ugly scratch that didn't look clear from a distance just now, showing a strange pattern in the photo, although he is not an archaeological expert, but Zhan Shao can also see that these patterns should be some kind of hieroglyphs. I don't know if the scientists in the Soviet Union at that time could have figured out what they meant, if it was really words, then these things should not be as simple as meteorite, they were probably artificially made, and maybe even aliens. Unable to come up with a specific result for a while, Xiao Buli simply put the picture aside and continued to look down.
The orbs have been placed in the lobby of the tycoon for decades, and it is unknown how their home has changed over the years, but the meteorite has always been there, standing the baptism of time.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in a movement to break the four olds, people's eyes were once again focused on this strange metal monster ball, and the strange hieroglyphs on the sphere made this object look full of heavy old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits, and according to its position, it must have been a criminal product belonging to the exploiting class in the past, so it must be broken according to the instructions and guidelines of the time.
Without any verification and no need to verify, the Red Guards immediately spent several people to transport it away, and then whether it was smelted or smashed was not specifically explained, and only a few strokes were brought in the file, indicating that the Red Guards used means to secretly expose the sphere and contributed to the development of science. At the same time, the imperial court issued Directive No. 53, tasked with the establishment of a research group, codenamed 'Death Star', and the head of this research group was Huo Guangxiung.
Although there is not much introduction, but by this point, the origin of this game is already very clear, and it is obvious that it is one of the three giant metal spheres.
But what exactly was found in the sphere, and how it was discovered, there is no detailed explanation in the file, but Xiao Buli guessed that it might be related to the metal disc he found.
Seeing this, another bold idea emerged in Xiao Buli's mind, if there were three balls at that time, then are the other two still asleep? The two great powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, are bound to be impossible to let these two strange things disappear in history, so is it not the only ones in the world who are in contact with this game, if the other two countries are also developing its functions, then how many people like him are still in this world, just in the face of Zulong, he has felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness, if there is a more powerful existence, God, Xiao Buli is not willing to continue to think about it, and living well now is the key.
"If the game came from outer space, then why is the content of the game an ancient Chinese setting? And many of these things are closely related to Chinese traditional culture, no matter from the race, language, clothing, and various settings in it, why are they so close to ancient China? Also, the hieroglyphs on this sphere, you see," Xiao Buli took out the photo of the text and took it to it, and pointed it out to Qin Shiyue, "Although I don't understand the meaning of these words, I think they are similar to the words found on those ancient Chinese pottery in history textbooks." Because of the huge shock and doubts in his head, Xiao Buli naturally discussed the doubts in his heart with Qin Shiyue beside him.
"Well, this is also what I am confused about, although each ancient civilization has its own hieroglyphs, but the characteristics of each civilization are different, and these characters seem to have Chinese characteristics, if we can translate the meaning, I think it will be of great help for us to better understand the truth." Qin Shiyue obviously had a shock in her heart, and it was rare for her to have such a sincere conversation with Xiao Buli who was cold to Xiao Buli along the way.
In fact, strictly speaking, Qin Shiyue still had a good impression of Xiao Buli, after all, it was Xiao Buli who saved her at the moment of life and death, but when she thought of Xiao Buli trying to control her with the soul contract, she couldn't help but feel a wave of anger.
(To be continued)