After seeing it with his own eyes, Hao Shen realized that the scale of this building was actually far beyond imagination.

It's a city!

The whole city was made of masonry, not unlike the mechanical steel that Hao Shen had originally imagined in the style of those giant engine vents, it was at least two kilometers long, slightly shorter in width, but certainly more than a kilometer, and the whole city was oval-shaped, and most of it was hidden under a huge canopy.

And that's the real staggering: the whole city is in a state of abandonment, most of the streets and buildings have been swallowed up by the surrounding vegetation, and the winding vines cover the buildings layer after layer, not only obscuring the true colors of the buildings, but even the edges and corners have been blurred, which makes the whole city covered with natural camouflage - the satellites of the system are not yet refined enough to distinguish the buildings under the thick vines.

Of course, the real shelter is the huge trees that rise from the streets and buildings of the city: 100 meters high, ten people can't hold each other, and the huge canopy of trees covers the sky. It's hard to imagine how long it took for these giant trees to grow like this.

The system controlled the Wuling shuttle to look around the city for several weeks, and finally it was completely determined: the city had been abandoned for a long time, and it was uninhabited.

"No traces of the activity of sapient beings have been found...... Based on those trees, the city has been abandoned for at least 10,000 years! The system flew around a giant tree twice, and by observing, he judged the approximate growth cycle of the giant tree.

10,000 years, that's just a vague estimate. If Hao Shen wants to see it, this place will have to be abandoned for at least tens of thousands of years—this place should be from the same period as the stone slab.

"There! Look at that! Hao Xiaomei's eyes were much better, she leaned on the window of the car, admiring the scenery outside with great interest, and suddenly pointed to the street under the big tree and shouted.

Hao Shen looked in the direction Hao Xiaomei pointed and found that it was a cylindrical object tightly intertwined with the roots and shrubs and vines spread out of the giant tree, according to the proportions of the building next to it, it was about three or four meters high, and the volume was not small. Several metal objects protrude from its surroundings rather abruptly, and circular saws and the like hang from them.

"Let's go down and see, it looks like a robot." The system also saw that thing, and without waiting for Hao Shen to speak, he drove down.

The three of them jumped out of the car together, and the system first cleared the mess of bushes, and only when they got to the thing did they identify the thing.

It was a robot, with a massive cylindrical body of dark metal, with four mechanical arms extending from the top on all sides, each with several tools: a circular saw, a laser cutter, and two mechanical claws with six mechanical fingers. All mechanical parts are seamlessly fitted, revealing a high level of craftsmanship. In the crevices of the vines, some symbols were faintly inscribed.

Hao Shen asked the system to clean up the vines covered by those symbols, and only then did he see a complete line of characters.

"A3 Street Office, District 4 of the Temple, Dual-purpose Environmental Protection Robot for Cleaning Engineering, No. A3X007......" Hao Shen analyzed the meaning of the symbol. Cleaning robots......"

Hao Shen turned his head to look at the various cutting tools on the robotic arm, and then at the huge trees. He nodded slowly.

It seems that these robots have been running for quite some time after the city has been emptied, so even though the whole city is no longer inhabited, the city has remained clean and tidy for a long, long time, until the robots stop working, and the vegetation gradually covers the city.

However, Hao Shen also noticed the other contents of that message - the fourth area of the temple? Is this a temple?

"Maybe, of course this may be the name of the city or simply the name of the road, Temple City or Temple Street, no problem." The system flashed, and he was radiating a light curtain from the surface, scanning the robot. It took a long time before he sighed: "It seems that the damage is very serious, the initial reason is that some components are shut down due to the aging of the components, and then the whole system goes down after the energy is exhausted." ”

"It looks like we can't get any more information from this robot." Hao Shen shook his head and pinched his chin, "Let's go, let's go find another place." It doesn't matter if the city is called the temple city or what the so-called temple is, but at least we can find something - the four districts of the temple are sub-district offices, this city has a management system, we can always find something else if we touch it layer by layer. ”

"Maybe you don't have to go one layer at a time...... Let's go directly to the city's management center! Hao Xiaomei suddenly spoke, she emerged from behind the cleaning robot, and waved her hand to let Hao Shen and the system pass.

A simple map is inscribed on the robot's back...... Of course, it could also be on the face, in the very center of the map, that is, in the very center of the city, marked with a special inscription - Temple Management Center.

It is the only large building in the entire city with a very different style.

Although Hao Shen's education is not high, he has finally made him somewhat appreciative of these years of struggle.

The architectural style of the whole city is actually quite unique, and all the streets diverge straight outward from the center of the temple administration, forming nine wide streets that can lead directly to the outside of the city. Each main road is connected by paths every few hundred meters, like a spider's web from top to bottom.

In those clearly divided areas, there are neat buildings, somewhat similar to the style of ancient Rome on earth, each floor is very tall, it looks very grand, but the overall number of floors is not much, at most three floors, so all the buildings are about fifteen meters high. The top is flat.

But the temple management center was completely different. It is an all-metal building, with no windows, only two entrances and exits, and a thick closed door that is very sci-fi. At the top of it was a minaret, fifty or sixty meters high, on which something resembling an antenna or radar was mounted. Although it is still entwined with shrubs and vines, it can hardly hide its gray and cold metallic color, and the whole thing stands like a pyramid.

Hao Shen frowned and thought for a long time, only to be surprised to find that the style of this thing seemed to have seen before: the appearance of the Terran base in the interstellar world......

“…… Brother, there won't be a bunch of robot soldiers jumping out of here to catch us, right? Hao Xiaomei obviously thought about it too, she hugged one of Hao Shen's arms, and shrank behind Hao Shen a little frightened.

"Ah, even if a lot of Diablo jumps out, no one will hurt you." The system was not very surprised, and said lightly, so he entered the mechanical hall first: "Seriously, this is nothing strange, it is quite in line with the product of the technological era, let's go, go in and take a look, I hope there is something left." ”

"Don't worry, I'm here, it'll be fine." Hao Shen rubbed Hao Xiaomei's head and followed her with her.

The central structure of this base seems to be very simple, and there is a corridor that is not very long from the entrance, about ten meters, and the walls on both sides of the corridor are carved with some strange lines, as if they are murals. The system swept back and forth for a long time, and came to the conclusion that it did not contain any information, as if it were just ordinary graffiti.

Continuing deeper through the corridor, there is a huge hall, the hall is very large, if you have to ask how big it is, it is so big that Hao Shen and the three of them were all dumbfounded, and they said in unison: "Really Nima is big!" ”

The height of this hall is at least 300 meters high, Hao Shen has been in Jingnan City for ten years, and he has also groped for the imperial capital, the political and economic center, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen the metropolis. But if you really want to compare it with this hall, Hao Shen feels that even if he moves the tallest building in the imperial capital, it is estimated that he will not be able to reach the top of this hall!

And in addition to its height, its length and width are also unexpected, this is a square hall, running from one end of the hall to the other, to estimate the smaller, it must be a kilometer long!

In a word, when he suddenly stepped into this hall, Hao Shen felt like he had come to the land of giants, and he was like an ant!

"Wait! And so on and so forth! I'm going to go, isn't it, why is this place so big? Hao Shen hugged his head and exclaimed, and it took five or six seconds for the echo of his voice in the hall to come back. Just kidding! How big does this place look from the outside? Inside the twenty or thirty-meter-high temple is a three-hundred-meter-high hall? It's not scientific! ”

"Brother, we're not going to cross over again, are we? This...... It's unreasonable! "Hao Xiaomei is a well-behaved student, and she is still in the period of establishing three views through learning, but at this time, it is obvious that the worldview in the three views is showing signs of collapse, and her eyes are dull and she is almost speechless!

"This ...... Quite an exaggeration indeed! Only the system of the three can barely keep calm, after all, he is a system, he immediately calmed down after a slight pause, and began to make various instruments, radiating various colors of light to sweep around the corridor when he came, and said after a long time: "Mom, it's a big deal, it's really a big deal." The space here is distorted...... The curvature is very high...... The hall we see is even just a corner of the distorted space......"

"What...... What does it mean? Hao Shen rubbed his face, and finally recovered his stiff muscles, and at this time, he was helping Hao Xiaomei break back her jaw that was almost dislocated, and when she heard the system's whisper, she hurriedly asked.

"It means...... The space in this place is distorted! The system explained slowly, and he tried his best to describe the situation here in a language that Hao Shen and Hao Xiaomei could understand, "Hao Shen may not understand, but Xiaomei is in her third year of high school this year, so she should have read the relevant knowledge." Space is not static, gravity, electromagnetic force, and many other factors will cause space to bend. And here, it's a huge space bending field - the creator here has bent the space, cramming a huge area of space into the small house that you see outside. This is obviously not something that ordinary civilizations can do, and it seems that I have underestimated the civilization that has been displaced to this planet before......"

The system looked at the Hao family brothers and sisters, and when they found that Hao Xiaomei was just thinking about it a little, she was very relieved, but when she saw that Hao Shen still had a confused face, she was a little speechless.

Hao Xiaomei also discovered her brother's situation, and patiently explained: "Brother, it's actually very simple. Looking at the universe from a high-dimensional perspective, the composition of space is like a membrane. You can think of it as a balloon, space is the surface of the balloon, and the distortion of space is the stretching of the surface of the balloon, and we are all on this balloon......"

Hao Shen was even more confused.

The system looked at Hao Xiaomei speechlessly to explain to Hao Shen, it thought for a while, and interjected: "Hao Shen, you can understand this as a space ring in a novel......"

"Oh! You said it earlier! Hao Shen understood in seconds.

Hao Xiaomei: "......"

"With him, you can't talk too deeply, you have to learn to make analogies in a simple and easy-to-understand way...... "The system communicated with Hao Xiaomei, who was lost and depressed. The group set off again.

The hall was large, but it was also empty, with only a few large bare desks except for a few long bars that looked like office desks, and there were no clues to them. Therefore, they could only target the very center of the hall, where there was a hexagonal pillar nearly 100 meters wide that connected the floor of the hall to the zenith.

It's nothing to have a big pillar in such a huge hall, but if there is a door on it, it's much more intriguing.