Text: Twilight, Chapter 4: The Pioneers

James walked up the stairs of the Grand Square and took out the binoculars from his backpack.

"I've seen the main pyramid, let's move on." James put away his binoculars and walked down the moss-covered staircase. The 40 steps of the Staircase were built for the ancient Mayan rulers to give speeches or execute the people, and the smell of blood on the steps has not dissipated despite the passage of time.

"Cherish the scenery in front of you, maybe there won't be a chance to see it next time." James spoke to the archaeological team.

Along the way, the members of the archaeological team were full of interest, and they discussed all kinds of monuments, nothing more than which century design style this is, which image is the abstract development of which image, and only James in the group is not interested in these things, what he is looking for is not the style of ancient buildings, he wants to find the origin of the Mayan civilization.

After a long trek, James and the archaeological team made their way through the ancient streets of Quetzalcoatl and finally came to the front of the main palace.

The majestic palace rises from the ground, all the stone bricks accumulate above the ground, the four boulder-covered roads converge to the main palace from the east, west, north and south, the statue of the giant snake is inlaid in the four corners of the palace, and the pyramid that has stood for thousands of years is still extraordinary, and it is impossible to imagine how magnificent the main palace was back then. The 200-meter-high building, which was completed by manpower, is worthy of a miracle.

"The Maya at its peak is unimaginable, in the brightest era, the Mayan rulers still practiced slavery, launched such a big project, and everyone was just a piece of city bricks under the Maya rule, used to compose, the 'Feathered Serpent Palace' that the Maya did not have." James took his pipe from his jacket pocket, struck a match, took a big puff, and slowly exhaled the smoke ring.

There were one hundred and twenty steps in the Feathered Serpent's Palace, and James and the archaeological team climbed for half an hour to finally step on the last step.

"Whew, whew." Dallas lay in front of the palace gates, panting incessantly.

Dallas rolled over and complained: "I, I, I'm an archaeology student, don't study hard, can I pass the academic paper review in Munich?" ”

In James's thick arms, Dellas was still weighed.

Walking into the palace, the smell of animal feces is scattered everywhere, and the cobwebs stretch from the outside to the inside, enveloping almost the entire palace, blocking out all the sunlight.

James pulled out a piece of wood from behind the stone chair, and the rotting wood was ignited by a match.

James tied vines to the tail of the pole to make a simple burning stick. The archaeological team members were all shocked by James's skillful movements, and instantly threw themselves to the ground in admiration of the 20-year-old leader.

James tossed through the cobwebs and walked down the stairs to the ground.

Unlike the fatigue when they came up, the archaeological team was so much easier to go down that they didn't realize that they had descended 200 steps, and they had reached an area where the sun could not extend at all.

From time to time, there are rotten wood panels on both sides of the stairs, each of which is a door that once existed. When James walked forward as if he didn't see it, although the expedition members had the intention of exploring, they did not say it to the leader, and at the end of the steps was a door sealed by two boulders, and the sealing post was against the stone door from the inside, which showed that the designer did not want anyone to open it in the future.

On either side of the door were twin snakes hovering up the pillars until they disappeared into the darkness, with no snake heads in sight.

"Team leader, we can't get in." An archaeological team member said to James.

"In the past, it was true that we couldn't get in, but now it's not what it used to be, and there's no place that empires can't go." After James finished speaking, he opened his bag and pulled out a time bomb.

"I'm going to blow it up."

The crowd was shocked and tried to stop James, but there was nothing they could do, because they couldn't think of a better way to get in. Everyone ran to the back of the altar and blocked their ears.

Bang, the loud noise of a lifetime made the entire palace shake, and the birds and beasts within a kilometer of Fang Yuan instantly ran, and the smoke filled the entire jungle.

James laughed coldly: "Hee-hee-hee, hahahaha, I'm finally here." ”

The interior of the underground palace is a variety of carved stone slabs, and the ground is full of stone tablets, which have not been opened for thousands of years and reveal a thick dead air.

All the Mayan chronicles filled the interior of this room, and while all the archaeologists were dizzying over the contents of each stone tablet, James only flashed by, and he wanted to see the golden disc placed in the center of the dungeon.

Whew, James blew off the dust on the surface of the disc, wiped it with his hands, and looked at the disc from beginning to end, the disc was made of pure gold, and the disc was divided into 13 circles and 18 circles, each circle was distributed with a number of square plates, and sentences were written in ancient Mayan hieroglyphics that were difficult for ordinary people to understand.

"What is this, Team Leader." Dallas asked, puzzled.

James took out a magnifying glass from his backpack and carefully studied the golden roulette wheel, which was one meter in diameter.

"The Dzolkin calendar, Columbus arrived in the exploration of the Americas and found ancient Mayan ruins, and the wonderful local chronology, which is the origin of the Zolkin calendar, and the original template of this chronology is before our eyes." James kept turning the ring on the drow's golden wheel.

After a certain arrangement, the Luo Circle got rid of the trajectory movement of the plane, rolled into the air, and the multiple Luo Circles were linked, rotating irregularly, revealing a blue light from the center of the Golden Wheel, flashing dots, and the stars were faint, reflecting a map on the roof of the entire underground palace.

The result is a star map of the entire universe, and there are two places in the map that shine brighter than the other galaxies. Everyone was so shocked by the scene in front of them that they couldn't say anything, and could only sigh at the greatness of the ancient ruins.

"What is this shape?" Dallas scratched his head and watched.

"Orion and the Solar System." James replied to Dallas.

"This star map seems wrong, why is there a planet in the solar system, and the location of this planet is too ......" Dallas wondered.

"I'm not wrong about the Zolkin calendar, the Mayans had only 260 days per year, they divided the year into 18 months, and each month had 20 days, and it's clear that this dating is not from the perspective of the earth, but from the perspective of the universe from a certain angle of the solar system." James kept walking in the dungeon.

"If the Mayan Drowin calendar were to be extrapolated by the gravitational formula, the place where this calendar would exist would be between our planet and our neighbor Venus." James's tone slowed.

"It is clear that in the universe that we have now observed, we have not found any planets between our planet and Venus, not even the moons of Venus, we speculate that a certain planet must exist, and this undiscovered planet we call 'X', and the proof of existence is the discovery of this golden wheel." James was already excited, ignoring the shock of his companions around him, and talked to himself endlessly.

"Now comes my speculation: the Mayans in the Dzolkin calendar always erase the last five days of the year, and I still don't understand. I think it might have something to do with Planet X. James sat down on the slate with his chin propped up, and took another puff on his pipe.

Suddenly, the light points of the Orion constellation in the star map continued to shine, and the beams of light gathered in one place, showing a grid, and the grid was stacked from the bottom to the top to form the appearance of a woman.

The woman rubbed the golden roulette wheel with infinite sentimentality in her expression.

The crowd was screaming and screaming for help in horror by this scene, and indeed anyone would believe that such an event had happened.

But only one member of the archaeological team was calm in this scene, and James's steps were as if he was tied to iron and lead and stood motionless on the stone slab, and there was not even the slightest emotion on his face

"Who are you?" James looked at the woman in his usual calm tone.

"We are 'pioneers.'" The woman answered James's question without emotion.