As the detector gradually approached the statue, Zhou Xin and the others gradually saw the appearance of the statue clearly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was an ordinary standing statue of a man wearing a short-sleeved shirt on the upper body, a pair of ordinary trousers on the lower body, and a pair of shoes that resembled leather shoes on his feet. His left hand naturally drooped, his right hand stretched out straight in front of him, and his outstretched right hand held a slender command knife tightly, the tip of the command knife was facing straight ahead, on the same level as his outstretched right arm, his legs were tense, and he stood straight, his whole form was like a commander directing a charge.

Then, Zhou Xin motioned for the detector's camera to continue to move up, looking at the head of the statue, and the face of the statue appeared in front of their eyes.

It was a very ordinary round face, he had the same distribution of facial features as a human, a pair of large bright eyes under the short thick eyebrows, a large nose under the eyes, the mouth under the nose was tightly pursed into a straight line, his lips were thick, and a thick beard grew under the lips. The only thing that distinguishes him from a human is his ears, the upper part of which is pointed. After seeing his ears, Zhou Xin showed a very surprised expression.

"Elves!" Zhou Xin exclaimed.

"Elves?" Ralph repeated it in confusion, then asked, "What is an elf?" ”

Zhou Xin ignored Ralph's question, he shook his head, looked at the statue again, and found that his ears were indeed pointed. After that, he fell into deep contemplation.

However, Ralph's voice interrupted his thoughts, "Uncle Captain, what is an elf?" ”

Zhou Xin came back to his senses, "Elf, that's a creature imagined by our civilization. They are characterized by their thin ears, just like this statue. But—" Zhou Xinyou looked at the statue's face, "his face is different from the delicate face we have imagined. ”

"Well—" understood Ralph, she continued, "if it's just ears, it's probably just a coincidence." ”

"Maybe—" Zhou Xin thought thoughtfully, "Forget it, let's not discuss this issue, let's go back to this statue." This is probably what this civilization looks like, and this is the first time we have seen what this civilization really looks like. ”

Ralph only then reacted, "yes, this is the first time we've seen this civilization since we arrived on this planet. But she was excited and lost for a moment, "This civilization looks like us." It's boring, I thought they had some weird faces. ”

Zhou Xin couldn't laugh or cry, "Do you think that every civilization will grow up with a fierce and vicious appearance." ”

"At least it doesn't look like us."

"Isn't his ear the same as ours?" Zhou Xin teased.

"That's just a little bit different." Ralph held out his little finger and gestured to a tiny point.

"Alright." Spred patted Ralph on the head and said, "You're more serious, we should get down to business." ”

"Oh-" Ralph craned his neck.

So they turned their attention to the statue again, and after looking at it carefully for a while, Zhou Xin asked, "Do you have any thoughts about this statue?" ”

"This statue is placed here, which shows that this person was once a very famous person." Ralph said preemptively.

Spred said on the side, "Isn't it obvious, who would put a statue of an unknown person here." I saw him holding a weapon, apparently a combatant, and judging by what he was wearing, I thought he should be a commander-like figure, and the movements on the statue should have depicted him directing the battle. ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "I also have such thoughts, are there anything else?" ”

Spred shrugged, "We don't have enough clues right now, and we can only judge this based on his appearance." ”

At this point, a probe came back with a report of the probe who had first entered the door to investigate the monitor on the table.

So, the camera on the screen switched back to the room they had entered at the beginning, and the monitor that Zhou Xin had seen at the beginning appeared on the screen, but at this time, the monitor had already lit up, and there were rows of words that Zhou Xin and they couldn't read.

The text on the screen is arranged horizontally, and the way the text is written is very unique, which Zhou Xin has never seen before. Each character is in the shape of a square, but the strokes that make up the text are not horizontal and vertical like Chinese characters, but are composed of a series of arcs, which are connected even at the turn of the strokes, and each stroke has an arc-shaped hook at the end. On the whole, the characters of this civilization give people a very soft feeling, and each word is like a painting.

Zhou Xin scanned the content on the screen slightly, and found that he couldn't understand it at all, so he asked the Voyager, "Traveler, can you analyze the content of these words?" ”

"There is not enough information to analyze the content of the text." Voyager replied.

At this time, Ralph said on the side: "The text of this civilization is really beautiful, but it is really not too troublesome to draw a circle at the end of each stroke. ”

Zhou Xin looked at the text on the screen carefully, the screen was still flipping down, and new content kept appearing on the screen, after looking at it for a while, he found that he didn't know the point, so he asked the Traveler to continue to analyze the text.

After coming back to his senses, Zhou Xin found that there seemed to be nothing to do now, the investigation of the hall had just begun, and it would take a long time to complete, and the analysis of the text would obviously take even longer. Zhou Xin was idle all of a sudden......

=Dividing line of time=

Originally, Zhou Xin thought that the investigation of the hall would be completed quickly, but later they found that the structure of the hall was beyond their imagination, and the complex room structure and various items in the room seriously affected the progress of the probe's investigation.

It took a total of five days and hundreds of probes to complete the investigation of the entire hall, and at this moment, Zhou Xin was sitting in the command cabin looking at the probe's investigation report.

According to the probe's report, the eight sectors are clearly functionally distinct, and can be divided into office areas, experimental areas, databases, and food areas, each of which occupies two sectors, but none of the same areas are adjacent. Among them, the structure of the office area is the most complex, the fan-shaped structure is divided into many small rooms of different sizes, each small room has a display terminal, the probe needs to investigate and analyze each terminal, and upload the obtained information to the Voyager, which is the longest work.

What Zhou Xin and they didn't expect the most was that the area with the simplest structure was the data area, because there was not even a little bit of data in the data area, and the reason why it could be seen that it was the data area was because there were rows of shelves in this area, and there was a sign with text on the side of each shelf, but there was nothing on the shelf, Zhou Xin didn't believe it at first, he ordered the probe to investigate each shelf, and finally believed the result. In this area, the only thing the probes found was a terminal placed at the entrance to the area, and the information stored on the terminal corresponded to the information on the shelf, so they could deduce the original purpose of this area.

The rest of the experimental area and the eating area are not complicated, the eating area is arranged with rows of tables and chairs, there are shelves with cutlery on the side of the wall, and the counter near the curved wall is obviously a place to receive food, except that this place is fan-shaped, the overall structure of this area is similar to the ship's canteen. As for the experimental area, this place is simply divided into several areas, and there are several experimental devices in each area, and some of the experimental devices are also placed in the experimental materials, but what puzzles Zhou Xin and them is that in addition to the experimental equipment, there is no record of data in this area, not even an ordinary terminal.

After reading the information of the probe report with Spred, Zhou Xin asked: "What's going on, except for the office area, I can't find anything that stores information in the most likely place." The data area is even empty, where did the data and information carrying these civilizations go? ”

Spred thought for a moment, then stretched out two fingers, and then replied: "I think there are two possibilities: one is that this place has been patronized by a third-party civilization, and all the materials have been looted by this civilization, and the other is that the materials here have been moved by this civilization itself. He paused and continued, "I think the first one is more likely, after all, who would have nothing to do to move all this information." ”

"But-" After listening to Spred's words, Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "If it was moved by a third-party civilization, then why is there no trace of battle in this hall?" They wouldn't willingly let this third-party civilization move away their civilization materials. ”

"Who said there was no fighting." Spred pointed to the top of his head, "Isn't there any signs of a battle in that room before, where the battle took place?" ”

Zhou Xin shook his head, "I still don't believe it, if this civilization is defeated, how can there be so many battle platforms left on the upper layer." Moreover, this third-party civilization is really polite, except for taking the information here, it didn't destroy other facilities here? On the contrary, I think your second hypothesis is more plausible, this civilization took the initiative to evacuate this base, and only in this way can they calmly collect these materials without showing any traces of destruction. ”

While they were discussing the topic, Voyager reported a new message.

"The analysis of the terminal data in the office area has been completed."

"So fast?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised.

"The information displayed on each terminal is the same content." The Voyager reported a disappointing and somewhat surprising news.

"The same content?" Zhou Xin asked.

"Yes." The Voyager replied, and a page of text appeared on the screen, and the Voyager explained, "This text is 1043 words in total, with a pattern drawn at the end of the text. Then the irregular pattern that Zhou Xin and the others had seen a few times before appeared on the screen, but this time the pattern was relatively small and very sketchy, and the pattern was drawn with just a few strokes.

"Can't you figure out what this text says?" Zhou Xin asked.

"There is too little textual information to know what it is." Voyager replied.

Zhou Xin frowned, "That means that we still haven't found anything in this hall?" ”

"Who said that?" Ralph blurted out, "Don't we at least know what life is like in this civilization?" ”

"It doesn't work." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "I want to know why this civilization has not appeared until now, and they have guided us to this base, but they have not left us any information, what is their intention." ”

"Then we can only find out if we continue to investigate." "Didn't the probe find a new passage in this hall?" He then asked.

"Seven new passages have been discovered." The Voyager replied, and a floor plan of the hall appeared on the screen.

"Seven-of-a-kind?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised, he looked at the floor plan in front of him, in the middle of the plan is a large circle, the circle depicts the regional distribution of this hall, the circle extends outward eight roads, these eight roads are symmetrically distributed around this circle, the road directly below the plan is green, and the other seven roads are red.

As Zhou Xin looked at the floor plan, Voyager explained in the back, "The probe found a clear passage on the outer wall of each sector area, which was of different lengths, and the probe did not continue to explore it after that. On the floor plan, the passage marked green is the one we came in earlier, while the remaining seven channels marked red are all newly discovered. ”

"So many passages?" Zhou Xin said to himself, "It looks like this base is not small." ”

"Big doesn't necessarily work." Spred said, "What's the use of having no information like this hall." ”

"Then we can only wait until the investigation is completed." Zhou Xin said, "Okay, let's decide, what direction should we go to explore next?" ”

"Let's go in order, starting with the first one on the left of the passage we're in." Spred said.

"Okay, then it's decided......"