David said: "Based on the speed I saw before I fainted, it felt similar to Zhuowu's fastest speed. I can't tell which island this is, but I think it's in the Sea of Hope. ”

The Sea of Hope, named by David himself, is located in the eastern and western parts of the continent of Eden, one-third larger than the Pacific Ocean on Earth. Its surface extends to the west and north shores of the southern side of Proxima Centauri B, a southern part of the dark side, called the Dark Continent, and the northern part of the dark side, called the south coast of the Resurrection Continent.

"Alas!" Muma looked down and thought for a moment, and seemed to understand that although this place was not far from home compared to the human base, it was an island in the sea, separated by a sea that could not be crossed by itself, so he sighed, lowered his head, and bit the jerky in his hand fiercely.

After the two monkeys and the little dragon had eaten and drunk enough, Duozu ordered Muma and David to enter the hanging basket, and then asked Zoya to grab the hanging basket and take off, while he led the way in front and flew towards the huge mountain.

As the height increased and the distance narrowed, Muma and David saw through the viewing hole of the hanging basket and saw a huge hole on the top of the mountain below a cloud of mist.

David said: "It turns out that this is a volcano, the volcano knows, right?" ”

Muma looked at the huge black hole that was slowly getting closer and closer to him, and said: "I know, in your earthlings' movie, Fast and Furious 102, there is a bad guy car, which was thrown into the volcano by robots, bang!" But down here, there is no fire. ”

David said: "Not all craters are spewing fire, this should be a dormant volcano, and this volcano should be the main cause of this island, and there are freshwater hot springs on the far side of the mountain, which is probably also caused by this volcano." ”

Muma asked, "Volcano, isn't it a mountain, how can it sleep?" Will it wake up and breathe fire? ”

"Volcanoes are the landforms that both the Earth and the planet have, and if you're on Earth, the average volcano is 100 to 150 kilometers below the Earth's crust, and there's a liquid zone where there's hot magma, and if the magma accumulates to a certain level with the pressure of the gases in it, or because of plate movements, it will erupt," David said. According to our previous exploration, there are many volcanoes on Proxima Centauri B, for example, there is an underground liquid area of a dormant volcano on the Guizhou Plateau of the Eden Continent, which is more than 300 kilometers away from the surface. I estimate that the liquid zone of this volcano is about two or three hundred kilometers deep. So we can't see the fire, that is, the magma, from the mouth of the cave, or even into the depths of the cave. And many volcanic eruptions occur in tens of thousands or even billions of years, so you don't have to fear that it will erupt now. ”

Muma scratched her head and said, "I don't understand..."

David: "..."

While the two monkeys were chatting, the hanging basket had slowly flown to the top of the center of this huge "sinkhole" with a diameter of five or six kilometers, and descended vertically.

I saw that the top of the inner wall of this sinkhole was a black cliff two kilometers down. Further down, there is a circular area of shrubs and vines, which stretches down for five or six kilometers until the light begins to dim, and then a long black cliff that continues down for seven or eight kilometers.

When the basket slowly stopped on the side of the bottom of the sinkhole, David and Muma climbed out of the basket door facing the cliff side, and Zhuoya released the gondola and flew to Muma's shoulder to lie down.

At this time, the sky was already like a mirror, suspended overhead, and the light of Proxima Centauri came here, which was as faint as the moonlight on the earth's night, but it was still able to illuminate the bottom of this sinkhole with a diameter of about five kilometers.

Of course, this is from the perspective of David and Muma's night vision, if humans come here, the visual experience should be the same as on a cloudless, moonlit night on the earth.

In the center of the sinkhole, there is an oval-shaped hot spring pool about one kilometer long and half a kilometer wide, steaming with heat.

The gondola landed at one end of the long axis of the oval hot spring, and at the bottom of the wall not far away, there were several small mountains of various shining gems and piles of black meteorite of various sizes.

David had also seen this situation in Zhuowu's lair, so he didn't think it was strange, but when he turned around the hanging basket and looked at the rest of the pit, he suddenly saw something on the left side of the short axis of the oval hot spring.

The thing caused him to immediately forget that he was a captive and run towards it with his legs spread.

And Duozu seemed to have expected David's reaction, and said lightly to Muma and Zhuoya: "You can also go over with me to have a look." With that, he followed David and slowly paced towards the thing.

David gasped and looked up at something that struck him in utter wonder.

A statue of the Buddha, a seated Buddha statue of déjà vu.

I saw that this Buddha statue with a dark yellow body together with the pedestal was more than one meter high, more than three meters wide and more than two meters deep. On the pedestal, sitting cross-legged is a statue of a human being on earth with curly hair and big ears, more than five meters tall, except for wearing a modern one-piece bodysuit and a pair of thin socks on his feet, his eyebrows, eyes, sitting posture, and gestures are no different from most of the Buddha statues on the earth.

At the same time, its rectangular base is carved with various patterns that are either simple and clear, or very detailed.

The first is the front of the pedestal, which is a simple drawing of dots and lines, and the left side of the pedestal is clearly a Centauri.

Although most human minds have constellations in the shape of a view from the Earth, David has studied this galaxy for many years and knows the arrangement and combination of the stars in the centaur seat by heart.

This drawing of a centaur is specially marked with Proxima b on the edge of Proxima Centauri.

A thin line is drawn from Proxima Centauri B, which extends to the Earth in the solar system drawn to the right of the base.

Secondly, on the left side of the pedestal, there are cannon-like things drawn with long barrels. A group of humans wave near the cannon.

Then there is the right side of the pedestal, which depicts Shakyamuni in a one-piece robe, preaching to a group of people dressed in similar clothes.

Next, David walked to the back of the Buddha statue with a very narrow gap between the inner wall of the sinkhole, and saw that on the pedestal on this side, there were dense and neat unknown hieroglyphs, and after a rough calculation of the number of horizontal and vertical words and multiplication, there were more than 5,000 words.

David tried to decipher the words, but he had no clue, so he came out and said to the Buddha standing in front of the Buddha, "Excuse me, how did this Buddha statue come about?" ”