"The engineering robots found an identical pattern at the bottom of each weapon platform. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Oh? What pattern," Zhou Xin asked curiously.

A picture appeared on the screen, and in the picture, Zhou Xin and the others saw a familiar pattern.

"This pattern, how does it feel like I've seen it somewhere?" Ralph asked, confused.

"It's the pattern on the alloy door." Zhou Xin replied, "You forgot about it so quickly." ”

Ralph stuck out his tongue, "That's the pattern, I didn't look at it seriously yesterday." ”

Looking at this irregular pattern, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then said to himself, "What does this irregular pattern represent, and why does this pattern appear on every platform." It doesn't look like anything special. ”

"Maybe it's just that we don't think it's anything special, and it has some special meaning for this civilization." Spred said.

Speaking of patterns, Zhou Xin remembered one thing before, and he asked: "Voyager, didn't you analyze the location information of those special creatures before, why hasn't you finished analyzing it for so long, and has it been a result?" ”

"Due to the large number of these points, the analysis of this ship has not yet been completed, but in the process of analysis, some regular patterns have been found."

"Oh? Check it out. Zhou Xin said.

So, more than a dozen strange patterns appeared on the screen, Zhou Xin looked towards the patterns, and found that the images simulated by the Voyager were all creatures, or items or the like, however, many of the images only appeared on the earth, and there was nothing on this planet, and at the same time, when connecting these patterns, the Voyager did not use all the dots, and Zhou Xin did not find any clues from these patterns. Therefore, Zhou Xin believes that these patterns are just coincidences.

"Let's continue the analysis." Zhou Xin couldn't see anything after looking at it for a long time, so he had to let the Voyager continue the work, and then he looked at the irregular pattern at the beginning.

After reading Zhou Xin for a long time, he didn't have any thoughts, so he asked Spred: "This is the second time we have seen this strange pattern, do you have any new ideas for this pattern?" ”

"It's so weird, I can't tell what it looks like." Ralph preemptively said.

"I also thought the pattern was weird, and I didn't think of anything similar to it." Spred said slowly, "With such an irregular pattern, I think it may not represent something concrete, but an abstract concept, or is this pattern just their own imagination?" ”

"How is that possible?" Zhou Xin retorted, "How could they use a random pattern as a symbol, if it was so casual, then just find an ordinary pattern, why use such a complex pattern." ”

"Then I don't have any ideas." Spred said, spreading his hands.

"You say—" one of the researchers asked hesitantly, "could this particular pattern be like the place where they lived?" ”

Hearing this researcher's new idea, Zhou Xin and Spred glanced at each other, then looked at the irregular pattern carefully, and after looking at it for a while, Zhou Xin said: "Don't say it, this irregular pattern really looks like a continent, and the surrounding points should be small islands." ”

Spred nodded, "I can't even think of it if I don't say it, it feels like it, but what kind of place is this continent drawn?" Is there similar terrain on this planet? ”

While Spred was speaking, Zhou Xin had already opened the topographic map of the planet, and at the same time he ordered: "Voyager, compare the topography of this planet and see if there is any place similar to the shape depicted in this map." ”

A minute later, Voyager replied, "No similar terrain has been found on this planet. ”

"Didn't you?" Zhou Xin said to himself, "Could it be that this idea is also wrong?" ”

"Could it be the terrain on another planet?" Spred guessed.

"If it's on another planet, then we won't be able to investigate." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "There are so many alien planets, where can we find them." ”

"That's right." Spred sighed, "It seems that the speculation about this pattern can only go here, and there are still not enough clues." ”

Zhou Xin also sighed deeply, "I always feel that the most important link is missing from the clues we have now, as long as we find this link, we should be able to know all the truth." ”

While they were discussing, the probe sent back a message that the ceiling was smooth and there was no sign of a door, not even a small gap.

This news disappointed Zhou Xin again, and Zhou Xin subconsciously looked at the screen, wanting to find an anomaly that the detector did not find, but this was obviously impossible. However, Zhou Xin's glance found a strange pattern on the ground.

"What is this?" Zhou Xin pointed to a screen that showed the perspective of the detector looking at the ground from the ceiling, and the detector was about to return to the ground to explore the ground.

"This is a trench." Ralph glanced at it and said, "Haven't these trenches been explored a long time ago?" And what's weird. ”

"No, no, no, I'm talking about the pattern of the trenches." Zhou Xin looked at those trenches of different lengths and said to himself, "I'm not mistaken, this is the 'leaving' hexagram?!" ”

"Huh? What is it? Ralph clearly didn't understand.

"Oh, you don't know about it." Zhou Xin said casually, and then he muttered to himself, "It can't be such a coincidence, or else—" A thought popped into his mind, and then he asked, "Voyager, do you have this topographic map, I mean a topographic map including the trenches." ”

"Not really." The Voyager replied, "But if you need it, we can draw it right away." ”

"Draw it and see it."

Seeing that Zhou Xin didn't pay attention to himself, Ralph asked again, "Uncle Captain, what melon did you just say?" Is it OK to eat? ”

Zhou Xin couldn't laugh or cry a little, "It's not a melon, it's a 'separation' hexagram, one of the historical cultures of our civilization, maybe I think too much, it's just a coincidence." He said uncertainly.

Seeing that Zhou Xin didn't explain in detail, Ralph's curiosity was aroused, "What is this, Uncle Captain tell me quickly." ”

Seeing that the Voyager was still drawing a topographical map, Zhou Xin introduced the concept of gossip to Spred.

After listening to Zhou Xin's introduction, Spred digested it for a while, and then asked, "So, the pattern of the trench on the ground is very similar to the one in your 'gossip'. He muttered the new word with some awkwardness.

"It's exactly the same." Zhou Xin emphasized, "But the probability of coincidence with only one of the hexagrams is still very high, after all, it is only a pattern composed of several short lines." ”

"That's why you asked the Voyager to map the terrain and find more of the same pattern?" Ralph asked.

Zhou Xin nodded, at this time, the Voyager had already drawn the terrain map, Zhou Xin looked at the screen, and on the screen, he saw a very familiar pattern.

It was a complete Bagua map, the same as the Bagua map that Zhou Xin knew, this pattern was octagonal, and the moats of different lengths on the ground constituted the pattern of each hexagram in the Bagua map, and there was not even a single redundant trench. Zhou Xin silently recalled the gossip in his impression, and after comparing it with the gossip patterns on the topographic map, he found that even the order of the hexagrams was the same. This result shocked Zhou Xin very much.

Seeing that Zhou Xin's face was a little cloudy, Spred asked, "How is it, is there any resemblance to the gossip map in your impression?" ”

"It's exactly the same." After a moment of silence, Zhou Xin replied.

This answer surprised Spred and the others, and Ralph blurted out, "How is it exactly the same as your civilized things?" ”

"How do I know?" Zhou Xin replied weakly, "However, I am now beginning to believe that this civilization should have something to do with us, otherwise how could even gossip appear." ”

"But why did they draw this pattern here?" Spred thought for a moment and asked, "What is the purpose of painting here?" ”

Zhou Xin recalled the content of the gossip in his heart, and asked the Traveler to search for relevant information, and then, he thought for a long time, and finally said uncertainly: "It won't really be like this, if it's really like this, it's not too metaphysical." ”

"What the hell is it, what metaphysics?" Ralph asked anxiously.

"This is going to talk about another ancient culture that corresponds to gossip - Bamen." Zhou Xin explained, "In our ancient culture, gossip and eight doors correspond. And the location of the eight gates represents the safety of the place. Zhou Xin pointed to the topographic map on the screen, the topographic map has indicated the corresponding positions of Bagua and Bamen, "The positions of the three gates of death, shock and injury on the map represent the murderer, while the positions of the three gates of opening, rest and birth represent Ji, and the remaining two Du Gates and Jingmen represent Zhongping." Of course, this is just a general situation, and sometimes the good and bad situation will change according to some other information. But—" At this point, two red areas appeared on the map, "this is where we first found those weapon platforms, did you find anything?" ”

Spred glanced at it and asked tentatively, "Are they all in the 'fierce' position?" ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "They are all in the position of the murder gate, and-" Zhou Xin pointed in the direction of the alloy door that came in, "This alloy door also happens to be located in the position of the Hugh Gate, and this position represents 'Ji'." ”

"But these locations are known to us for a long time." "What I want to know is, can we infer anything from that?" If you can't deduce any information, it's useless to just know the relationship between location and gossip. ”

At this time, Zhou Xin smiled: "That's because you don't understand our culture, we paid attention to one-to-one correspondence in ancient times." One life and one death, life and death correspond, that is to say, one life corresponds to one death, and vice versa. If it doesn't correspond, it's called 'crippled', that is, incomplete, and if you understand this, you can understand it by looking at this topographic map. ”

Ralph reacted quickly this time, "You mean that the two murder gates on the topographic map are both placed with battle platforms, and the only entrance that represents the birth gate is the one we entered, so it is not corresponding?" ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "That's right, according to this correspondence, there should still be a 'sheng' in this place, which should be the location of another gate in this place, and there is a high probability that this gate represents the direction of 'Ji' in the eight gates." ”

"Then what else do you say, hurry up and start looking for it." Ralph urged.

Since the location of the entrance is in the direction of the 'Kan' hexagram in the Bagua, Zhou Xin asked the detection robot to start a careful search along the direction of the 'Gen' hexagram and the 'Qian' hexagram. More than an hour later, a detector spotted something unusual in the direction of the Qiangua.

To Zhou Xin's surprise, the place where he found something unusual was not somewhere else, but in the ditch representing the Qiangua, in the middle of the three ditches representing the Qiangua, the detector heard the sound of metal hitting the bottom of the trench, and the detector swept away the floating soil on the surface, and an obvious crack appeared in front of him.

"Finally got the clue back." After discovering the crack, Spred breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This should be the location of the entrance." ”

"Just think about it." Zhou Xin said, "Here's how to open this door." ”

At this time, the probe reported a message that the material of this door was the same as the previous alloy door, that is, they could not use violent methods to open this door, which made Zhou Xin frown.

"Do we have to find the location of the switch? What a hassle. Ralph also thought of this key at once. But fortunately, Ralph's words did not come true, after the robot cleaned the floating soil on the door, Zhou Xin and they saw that in the middle of the door, a device appeared in front of them.

"Let's see how we open the door this time." Zhou Xin motioned for the detector to approach the device on the door, on the device, Zhou Xin saw a square pattern, in the middle of the square is a cross-shaped pattern of five dots, and around it are arranged three circles of dot patterns, of which several sides have been fixed, and the rest of the parts are some buttons, press the buttons, and the patterns on the buttons change in the order of black dots, white dots, and nothing. After watching it for a while, Zhou Xin suddenly had a familiar feeling again.

"What is this in your civilization?" Ralph asked with a puzzled look on his face when he saw the picture.

"It's familiar, but I can't remember it." Zhou Xin said hesitantly, "Voyager, can you analyze what this picture represents?" ”

"River Chart." The Voyager spat out two words......