The next day, Zhou Xin stood in front of a piece of wreckage that had been cleaned up, and after a day of cleaning, the robot had sorted out an area of about 100 square meters. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, they don't have much to gain, as if there is nothing left here except the remnant walls.

Touching the ruins here, Zhou Xin carefully observed the patterns left on the remnant wall, but these traces were incomplete, and he didn't see anything after looking at it for a long time.

"Did a civilization really exist here?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "If it weren't for the existence of these patterns, I would have to wonder if this place was naturally formed now." Although I saw the devastation on the video, it was a different feeling from the ground. ”

"This ship doesn't understand this feeling." The Voyager replied.

"Okay, okay, I know it's useless to tell you this." Zhou Xin said perfunctorily.

At that moment, the communicator rang, "Report, here's a new discovery." A probe robot reported.

After looking at the position on the communicator, Zhou Xin walked towards that place, and after walking about a hundred meters, Zhou Xin saw a detection robot standing in a place similar to a door. Walking up to the robot, Zhou Xin asked, "What new discoveries have been made?" "A relatively complete room was found here." The robot replied.

Zhou Xin looked inside the door and found that this room was not big, about a meter high. Zhou Xin bent down and walked in, and found that everything inside was gone, there was some black dust on the ground, and the walls were also pitch black.

"It's all burned." Zhou Xin said regretfully, "I thought I could make any new discoveries." ”

"The height of the room can show that the height of this race is not very high." The Voyager analyzed.

"That's all there is to it." With that, Zhou Xin walked out of the room.

Leaving the room, Zhou Xin walked on the street alone in a daze, "Host, this place has been destroyed like this, will we find anything?" The discovery of a new civilization was exciting, but now, seeing the wreckage, how can I not be motivated? This damn nova erupts. ”

"Please don't give up hope." The Voyager encouraged, "According to local calculations, with the level of development of this civilization, even if it has suffered such a large-scale global destruction, there will always be something left behind. It's just that the scope of our search is still very small, and we haven't found more clues. ”

Just as the Voyager had finished speaking, another message came over the communicator. Zhou Xin glanced at the message, and then walked to the detection robot that sent the message not far away. It was a small flying robot that had been temporarily assembled for this exploration, and when Zhou Xin walked up to the robot, he saw that the robot was circling around a place. Walking to the place where the robot was hovering, Zhou Xin found that there was a place on the ground that was different from other places, this place was about 4 meters long and 2 meters wide. It looks like there's a door to the basement.

"Ultrasound detected that there was a hollow underneath the ground." The robot hovering in the sky reported.

Zhou Xin carefully observed the door-like place and found that this place was completely uneven except for the difference in color from the surrounding area. Looking carefully along the edge of this area, Zhou Xin did not find anything like the handle that could open this door, and at the edge, Zhou Xin did not see any obvious traces of seams.

"This is the door?" Zhou Xin wondered, "How do I open it?" ”

"Couldn't find a way to open this space." The heavenly robot replied.

Zhou Xin called a large engineering robot and cleaned up the surrounding debris a little, and then Zhou Xin ordered the robot to forcibly open the space. With a loud noise, a gap was forcibly broken in the area.

"Don't be empty again." Zhou Xin prayed in his heart and looked at the gap. What appeared in front of him was a large basement with teardrop-shaped objects neatly arranged in it. These objects are about the size of a car, and their shapes are basically the same, with only slight differences in color. Bending down, Zhou Xin walked into this basement, and then he saw that those drop-shaped objects were lined up in two rows on the left and right of the basement door, walking in the middle of the two drainage droplets, Zhou Xin was slightly excited.

"Finally found something intact." Zhou Xin said happily, "But what are these things, it feels like a cargo hold here, so what are the goods around here?" ”

"The corresponding item could not be found in the database." The Voyager analyzes the photos sent back.

"No matter what it is, I don't think there's anything to analyze here, so let's just ship it back and study it slowly." Zhou Xin happily received it.

"The order refuses to be executed." The Voyager warned, "The ship will not return these unknown objects to the base until the safety of these objects has been determined." ”

"That's right." Zhou Xin scratched his head, "This is my negligence, then don't transport it back, just build a scientific research base here, and everything that is cleaned up from this ruin will be transported here for research." ”

Walking out of the basement, Zhou Xin walked through the ruins for a while, but there was no new discovery of the robot next, so Zhou Xin ordered the robot to continue the search and go back to the base first.

Over the next month, the robot conducted a detailed search of the ruins and drew a complete topographical map of the ruins. It's a city of about 20 square kilometers, and its buildings are so tightly packed that it's hard to see open spaces like that. Analysis of the foundations of the buildings showed that the buildings were once more than 100 meters high. Therefore, it is speculated that it was once a densely populated area. At the same time, after a detailed search of the area, the robot found underground buildings in many places, although most of the underground buildings have also been severely damaged, but there are still some deep underground buildings preserved.

During a detailed search of these underground structures, the robot collected a number of teardrop-shaped objects that Zhou Xin found in the first basement, in addition to some gadgets that were supposed to be household items. The most valuable of all is the machine with a display found in a place that resembles an underground mall, and it is initially suspected that it should be a computer or other tool used by this civilization. Strangely enough, however, there were almost no living creatures found in these underground structures, and even human remains were rarely found, and the only ones found were the remains of several small quadrupeds resembling cats and dogs held together in the corner of the mall, however, these remains had been completely dehydrated and turned into dried corpses. Immediately, the bodies were immediately transported back to the scientific research base for detailed analysis.

After spending more than ten days at the base on the planet, Zhou Xin returned to the Voyager. On this day, the Voyager was reporting to Zhou Xin on the search of the city in the previous month.

When the Voyager's report was completed, Zhou Xin asked, "I already know the results of the search." What results did the scientific research base draw from the items found? What are those teardrop-shaped things? ”

"The analysis showed that the mass of the teardrop-shaped object was about 100 kilograms for the small and 150 kilograms for the large. A glass panel-like light transmission plate was installed on the teardrop-shaped tail side, and a control panel and a single seat were found in the broken water droplet, and two front and rear seats were found in some slightly larger water droplets, and the water droplet was preliminarily analyzed as a means of transportation for this civilization. However, due to the difference in civilizations, we have not yet discovered a way to activate this teardrop-shaped vehicle. ”

"So, most of the basements we've found now are all underground garages of this civilization?" Zhou Xin felt a little helpless, "It's really the same living habits as us, but what's the use of so many cars for us now." What we need is something like the information of this civilization. ”

"Regarding these, we have collected sporadic information on some daily necessities of this civilization, and based on these sporadic materials, we have preliminarily reconstructed the writing system of this civilization, but due to the lack of information, basically only a part of the accurate words have been obtained, and more information is needed for analysis as for the more advanced grammar system. In addition, two machines that are suspected to be the civilization's recording tools are still being analyzed. The Voyager added.

"Well, it is very important to analyze the text, and it will be very helpful to continue to do so, and if you have the opportunity to find long textual materials in the future, it will be very helpful to interpret these materials." Zhou Xin said.

At this time, Voyager reported a new message from the scientific research base, "For the dismantling of the teardrop-shaped vehicle is completed, according to the analysis of the dismantling process and the dismantled parts." The level of industry of this civilization is about the same as that of the 23rd century, but the utilization rate of energy of this civilization is much higher than ours. The whole car is completely powered by stellar energy, with no additional energy source, and according to the ship's simulation of the car, the car's energy efficiency has reached more than 90%. ”

Zhou Xin was surprised: "So the technology of this civilization is even higher than ours?" ”

"Only the technology of using energy is higher than ours." The Voyager corrected.

"Can we use this energy technology?"

"The output energy is slightly different and cannot be universalized, and there is currently insufficient information in the database, and further analysis of the industrial condition of the civilization is necessary to draw conclusions." Voyager replied.

"Then speed up the analysis." "This technology should be very useful to us. ”

Over the next hour, the Voyager reported some more inconsequential daily reports. Zhou Xin listened to it for a while, and then asked the Traveler to deal with it on its own.

For the next two days, Zhou Xin received no new news, and the exploration of the city was almost complete.

"Are you sure you've searched in detail? Nothing left out? On the morning of the third day, Zhou Xin asked in frustration, "I still think that I can find more clues." ”

"There's only one corner left to search." Voyager replied, "This corner is where the only square in the city is located, and the search is expected to be completed today." ”

"The square." Zhou Xin was even more disappointed, "Isn't the square just a place to rest, what can be in this place?" ”

"That's why the ship made this place the last place to search." The Voyager explained.

"Well, it's pretty straightforward." Zhou Xin was speechless, "It seems that there will be nothing going on today, I'll go to the other cabins for a walk." After speaking, Zhou Xin stood up directly and walked to the entertainment cabin.

Just as Zhou Xin was playing a game with a virtual headset, an urgent message came in through the helmet. Zhou Xin took off his helmet with a puzzled expression.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Xin asked.

"A large space was found beneath the area of the plaza that was last searched, and when opened, it was found that there were a large number of storage tools and a variety of different equipment, which was different from any previously discovered underground space, and it was initially suspected that it was an underground factory or similar production facility."

As soon as he heard the news, Zhou Xin immediately dropped the virtual helmet in his hand and hurriedly rushed towards the command room. As soon as he arrived at the command room, Zhou Xin couldn't wait to report the situation.

"The scanning robot found a huge space under the square, and the entrance to the space was built in a hidden location, and it took us more than half an hour to find the entrance to this space. Like any other underground space, there is a door at the entrance to this space, and at first we tried to open it with a small door-breaking tool, but failed, and then we used a large tool to open the door. After the demolition, we analyzed the material of this door, and found that its material was completely different from that of other doors, it was very hard, and it belonged to the type of alloy that was not commonly used by this civilization. At the same time, we also noticed that the walls around this underground space are very thick. Therefore, we suspect that this underground space belongs to one of the important sites in the city. ”

"An important location?" Zhou Xin became excited, "I didn't expect to give us a surprise in the end." Did you find anything inside? ”

"We just entered the place 10 minutes ago, and our initial exploration revealed that there were a lot of direct transcripts in addition to a variety of different devices and storage tools. In addition, many traces of fresh life have been found here, and it is tentatively determined that there were signs of life activity here a few months ago. Further probing is ongoing, and we will send back more information at a later date. ”

"Big discovery! What a big discovery! Zhou Xin said excitedly to the Voyager.

"It's a big discovery." The Voyager replied, "With a wealth of written material, the ship's linguistic analysis of this civilization will make great progress. This will be of great help to us in learning more about this civilization. ”

"No, I can't wait." Zhou Xin said excitedly, "Arrange it for me, I want to go directly to this underground facility to have a look." ”

"For your safety, please wait for further investigation reports." The Voyager stopped.

"Well, let's go to the head office tomorrow." Zhou Xin scratched his head......