035 Professor Stein
As soon as the Osiris docked, Sima Qian contacted the historian Dr. Stein, and the professor was very interested when he heard that she had found something that might be a relic of legend, and asked Sima Qian to bring the relic to his research room.
The trio of reporters took technician Armstrong to Professor Stein's archaeological laboratory. As soon as Sima Qian knocked on the door, Dr. Stein greeted him in a white coat.
"Where's the relic?" That's the first thing Stein said to them.
"Here." The crowd pointed to the wooden box they had brought with them as tall as one man, and the relic was inside.
Dr. Stein didn't expect it to be such a big thing, and he asked, "Can I move in with the box removed?" β
Seeing that everyone shook their heads, Stein went back to the house and got a bunch of keys. Close the door of the institute and say: there is not enough space here, go to my warehouse! β
The group took the wooden box to a remote warehouse in the city, Stein opened the rusty door, and with a gentle push, the door creaked open, and the group struggled to move the wooden box to the warehouse, and when everyone came in, Stein stood outside the door and looked around for a while before closing the door.
"Doctor, what are you looking at?"
"Spy, HER's spy! These people don't even spare antiques, and I've lost five antiques since the war! β
There are no unusual treasures in the warehouse, it is dilapidated, it seems to have experienced a fire, and there are traces of smoke on the walls. Stein said he had moved everything of value to the institute, and now there were only a few worthless rags left.
The photographer, camera assistant, and Armstrong struggled to pry the wooden box open, and the triangle inside was still flashing green regularly.
"I look a little hairy with this thing now," said Thucydides, the assistant.
Dr. Stein's eyes lit up when he saw the triangle, and he pushed everyone to look at it, and saw that there was still a lot of dirt on the triangle, so he took the cleaning tools he had used for a long time, and began to clean it meticulously.
"Dr. Stein, look..."
Sima Qian wanted to ask some questions, but Stein didn't seem to hear it, and there were only relics in his eyes, so everyone could only retreat in amusement.
Photographer Herodotus was bored and began to look for interesting things in the warehouse, and he found a model of a spaceship on a broken table, and a lot of dust had accumulated on the model.
"It's... Marco Polo? Photographer Herodotus asked.
A few people approached, and Armstrong, the technician, replied, "That's right, it's the Marco Polo." β
"When I was a kid, I used to show this on TV, the first spaceship to explore the boundaries of the solar system."
"And the last one!"
Dr. Stein, who was busy cleaning up the dirt on the relics, actually accosted him, and he said without twisting his head:
"RX1960, shortly after the first human landing on the moon, wanted to explore the universe outside the solar system. Almost all countries in the world joined forces to build Marco Polo, selected ten astronauts, and headed for the outer solar system. But a few years later, Marco Polo lost contact when it arrived at the border of the solar system. It wasn't until RX 1980 that Marco Polo returned to the Earth's circle in tatters, and only one astronaut returned alive, and it is said that they encountered a black hole at the border of the solar system, and the hull was destroyed while escaping from the black hole, and nine crew members were killed at that time. β
"Dr. Stein, do you also like to study spacecraft?"
"No!" Stein was still cleaning up the relics, and he shook his head as he worked: "This is history!" I used to wonder why, more than two hundred years after Marco Polo, humans never tried to explore the world outside the solar system, and now the farthest spacecraft can only fly to Jupiter! β
Technician Armstrong answered: "Because the RX of Marco Polo's return in 1980 coincided with the beginning of cosmic colonization, everyone has long lost interest in exploring beyond the solar system. What is the name of the only surviving crew member of the Marco Polo? It's taught in history textbooks..."
"Jack. Moore. Dr. Stein replied; He was 50 years old when he returned to Earth, and at the age of 70 he founded the Moore Chamber of Commerce. β
After two hours, Dr. Stein finally cleared the dirt from the triangle, and everyone gathered to see what they had seen depicted on it.
"Isn't this just about cosmic colonization!?"
The three upward sides of the triangle depict the spaceship leaving the earth, the first colonial satellite in the universe, and more and more colonized satellites.
"Turn it over! Turn it over and take a look, there's another side down there! β
The crowd struggled to bring the triangle down, and the side that clinged to the ground depicted a war between a colonial satellite and the Earth.
"Thisβ" Everyone looked at each other. Isn't this the history of the RX era? β
The Doctor clapped his hands: "The RX Era is likely to repeat the history of 'legends'. And there may be more than one triangle, have you found only this one? β
Sima Qian looked carefully, and sure enough, she found that the four sides of the triangle were marked with different numbers of dots to indicate the order of the picture.
"Maybe there are other ones, maybe it's just this triangle and this four-sided painting?"
Dr. Stein nodded, "It seems that you really only have this one... It's almost time to arrive. β
"What is it supposed to be?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a car was parked outside the warehouse, and Dr. Stein opened the door, and two men in black with guns walked in.
Everyone was shocked, not knowing what was going on, and raised their hands and asked, "Dr. Stein, is this..."
Dr. Stein didn't answer, he angrily confronted the two men in black, "Didn't I say the goods are big and heavy?" You only sent two people!? β
The two men in black scratched their heads and said that their accomplices had other tasks for today.
"Dr. Stein, what the hell is going on!" Sima Qian finally couldn't help it, Dr. Stein hadn't taken good care of them since they met, and now he actually called two people with guns.
Dr. Stein still didn't answer, and stepped out the door and got into the car. The two men in black ordered the reporter trio and technician Armstrong to tie their hands and feet with duct tape to each other, and then the two men in black taped their mouths and lifted two barrels of gasoline from the corner of the warehouse and sprinkled them around the four men.
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This is to kill people!
All four were tied up and unable to move, only to writhe their limbs in fear, even if it was useless. The two men in black were expressionless at this, as if they had long been accustomed to this kind of thing. Running out of gasoline, a man in black dug into his pocket, but nothing came out.
"You stupid donkey, you just smoked and threw matches in the cart!"
The man in black, who had forgotten to take the match, hurriedly ran back to the car to get it, but did not return for several minutes.
"Huh?"
Another man in black noticed something unusual, and he cautiously walked to the door with a gun, and watched out vigilantly. All his attention was on the door, and he didn't see a nimble black woman coming in through the window on the other side of the warehouse. She tiptoed close to the man in black and stunned him with a stun gun.
"Whew... It's all solved. β
The black woman put down the man in black, wiped her sweat, and ran to the four to untie them.
"Phew!" Sima Qian first spit out the taste of the tape she had just eaten in her mouth, and she asked the woman, "Who are you?" What the hell is going on?! β
"My name is Cassandra, and your friends said that you guys had gone to see Dr. Stein with the 'legend' relics, and I always suspected that Stein was a thief of relics, so I came to save you!" β
Sima Qian looked puzzled: "Our friend? Who are you talking about? β
Cassandra picked up Sima Qian: "It's not safe here, go back to our base camp, your friends are there!" β