"Ma'am, take the liberty of asking, is this your real surname?" Whether it is a star or a planet, Hong Tao is not here for a beauty pageant, since he saw this middle-aged woman who called himself Ou Sijia, he was even more sure that he had come to the right place.

The other party's surname is not like Chinese, but she has an Asian face, black hair, and a little yellow eyes, which doesn't matter, after tens of thousands of years of lack of civilization, inter-ethnic mixing is normal and inevitable.

“…… My family seems to have an ancient surname, but only the old people know about it, and they haven't used it for a long time. Ms. Ou Sijia glanced at Claire before carefully answering Hong Tao's question.

"If it's not too much trouble, can you take us to your house for a visit?" Hey, a little door, the first question has a harvest, Hong Tao plans to strike while the iron is hot. As long as the original surname of the other party is clarified, there is another corroboration of the question about the ancient civilization. But the second question was not raised by herself, but by Claire.

"Of course, of course...... No trouble, no trouble......" Ms. Ou Sijia definitely didn't think so in her heart, but in front of Claire, she didn't seem to be able to refuse, nodded vigorously, and tried to show a very welcoming look, but unfortunately the smile was not in place, it was too much.

Her home is in the underground city directly below the orbital space station, which should be a large regional underground city called a provincial capital if you count by size, with a population of more than 2 million.

However, the architectural style here is markedly different from that of Noor's house, although they are all multi-storey underground buildings that go straight up and down, many of the entrances are not rectangular, but semicircular or peach-hearted, and there are couplets on the door frames and lintels, on which there are no Chinese characters, but many zigzag symbols.

Ms. Ou Sijia also said that these symbols are not words, but a kind of ornamentation of their ethnic group, not only on buildings, but also on many daily objects. She can't figure out exactly how it came about, anyway, it is the cultural inheritance of generations, and if there is it, it means good luck and auspiciousness, and if there is not, it is not suitable.

The oldest person in her family was her grandmother, who was over one hundred and thirty years old, with gray hair and neatly combed, a good body but a little fat, but not dazzling or deaf, and a good mouthful of teeth, very talkative.

By the way, as long as the New Eden people have enough money, the problems of vision, hearing, and teeth have been solved, and they can all be replaced with substitutes, and they are no different from the original, anyway, Hong Tao can't see anything unusual about the old lady's artificial cornea and artificial teeth.

Lifespan, that's two things to say. Excluding the clone pilot group, the nobles of the empire should live the longest, and it is not uncommon to be more than two hundred years old. If it weren't for the fact that there was a law that cloned pilots could not enter politics, it is estimated that the leaders of various countries and the rich would all become immortal.

The average life expectancy of the middle level is about 150 years, and they don't have so much money to replace artificial organs again and again, but they can also replace them once or twice at critical moments, and they don't have to do too dangerous work.

The life expectancy of the lower classes is even worse, less than 80 years old. Don't think about changing organs, you have to do the hardest and most dangerous work. Many people do not die of old age, but are eroded by harmful atmosphere, minerals, and cosmic rays over a long period of time, and eventually die of disease.

Hong Tao didn't care about the average life expectancy, he chatted with the old lady for more than 40 minutes, most of them were homely, and accompanied the old lady to watch the family photos with great interest, and copied two photos before leaving after asking for permission.

"Aite, don't forget that I'm your boss or your teacher!" Claire has been by Hong Tao's side, listening more and asking less, but after listening for a long time, she still didn't have a clue.

She also flipped through the two photos and saw them, nothing unusual, nothing more than a photo of the old lady and her grandparents when she was a child. But she was pretty sure that this student who opened his mouth to talk nonsense would definitely gain something, and the more casual he was, the more abnormal it became.

"I found you, sometimes you are smart and frightening, and sometimes you are in trouble with gains and losses. In my current state, if it weren't for your help, let alone any big discoveries, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to figure out the history of the New Eden world, let alone discover any new technologies and materials. Even if you find something, you won't do anything good if you put it in your head. Hong Tao's answer was very philosophical and realistic, but the more he talked, the more he had to pay attention to it, and the little shovel began to dig a hole.

"Don't try to confuse concepts, you are just my employee and student, not my slave, and it is impossible to monitor forever. This has given me a new idea, and if you keep worrying me like this, it would be easier to become a slave! ”

The road is one foot high and the magic is one foot high, Hong Tao can be regarded as a natural enemy, Claire is not only not fooled, but also made the right response. One force will drop ten times, and no matter how much you flicker, you can't stand up to humane destruction.

"There's a lot of people here, let's go back to the ship and talk about the details." Bow your head one more time, you haven't been able to lift it anyway.

"I have to thank you for that dinner, which inspired and inspired me. The word dragon is found in ancient texts, but it does not have the same meaning as dragon in any of the existing languages of New Eden. The word porcelain also has a special meaning, it is a kind of tableware fired from minerals in ancient cultures, usually white, but also in other colors. The name of the porcelain tribe is very strange, and the appearance of the dragon in their family emblem makes me feel that this group may be closely related to ancient civilizations. ”

The speed of returning to the spaceship is several times faster than it came, Claire is really a resolute person, in order to hear the results a few minutes earlier, she did not hesitate to use her privilege and got on the shuttle of the planetary management agency of the Emma Empire, and there was no need to wait for the civilian shuttle. Then Hong Tao was caught by her mechanical arm and put into the escape pod, and immediately confessed after connecting with the main brain, not daring for a second late.

"And then what did you find here?" The mechanical monster was holding Hong Tao tightly in his arms with his mechanical hand at this time, and his head to head was absolutely intimate. Although she did not understand why this man was so enthusiastic about the primitive copulation methods of savages, she was sure that this cunning man would be much easier to deal with as long as there was close contact.

"First of all, Ou Sijia is not the original surname of her family, her family's original surname is Wu, which is a branch of ancient civilization. There are a lot of ornaments on the architectural decoration of her house or the whole city, and it is not ornamentation, it is also one of the ancient characters, but unfortunately I don't have many memories of it in my head. Looking at the backgrounds of these two photos, what do you see? ”

“…… The old cities, the maintenance costs of the cities built on the ground are too high, not only the empire, but also many surface cities have been moved underground in the past hundred years. Claire looked at the photos in the image for a long time, but still didn't find anything suspicious.

"The characters on the lintel of the building are not the imperial Chinese language, nor are they federal languages, it is another embodiment of the ancient script, which should be called Hanyu Pinyin." The meaning is the name of the street, I guess it should be called Shuangyue Cave or something. ”

To be honest, if Hong Tao hadn't discovered Ou Sijia's original surname, he wouldn't have looked at every detail in the photo so closely. When he discovered the secret of those two lines, all his previous guesses seemed to correspond.

"If the porcelain people are the descendants of ancient civilizations, why did they want to be slaves to the Emma and never resisted?" Claire hasn't fully believed this speculation, but she's not ignoring the evidence, and is secretly asking the mastermind to help analyze the rules of pinyin.

"I don't have many memories of this in my head, but one thing is for sure, the porcelain people are a relatively weak race even in ancient civilizations. After the disappearance of the ancient civilization, they only inherited a simple fragment of life habits, and did not continue the entire culture, why this is still to be studied. ”

Who are the porcelain family? Hong Tao is 100% sure that they are descendants of the Korean Peninsula, and those lines are converted from Korean, but unfortunately he doesn't know a word.

The surname Wu is also an ancient surname on the Korean Peninsula, and Ms. Wu's father is a foreigner, so I can't tell it, but the old lady's grandfather and grandmother are obviously of pure blood, even after more than 20,000 years of reproduction, they can still distinguish the physical characteristics at a glance.