26.3 per cent for option two, 52.6 per cent for option three and 21.1 per cent for option four.

……

[Option 3]

[Change the storage location.] Hide those artifacts under your own (Zheng Zhuo's) bed]

……

"Those things are affecting you."

Zheng Zhuo said to Chu Huairen.

"Do you remember? On the first day of boarding, one of the sailors showed signs of physical discomfort. And he was the same sailor who helped Professor Lin Wen carry his luggage at the docks. ”

"......" Chu Huairen was silent. But Zheng Zhuo knew that he was listening.

"During the docking, all the crew members and students who were resting on the ship contracted a particular skin disease. The sailor's symptoms were the most severe. Zheng Zhuo stared at the rough sea and said, "Only me, you, and Professor Lin Wen who are sleeping in the tent are not infected. But the professor also became fanatical. I suspect that the scientific harvest in that box—including the pottery shard that the professor has been carrying—will affect those in its vicinity. ”

"It's already affecting you. Give it to me and we hold it alternately. ”

"What?"

Chu Huairen finally moved. He looked visibly surprised.

"And what about it...... Doesn't it affect you? ”

I was going to the deep sea. Zheng Zhuo thought so.

"We alternately hold. In this way, we will all be weakened. ”

But he found a reason.

……

Professor Lin Wen's collection was transferred from under Chu Huairen's bed to Zheng Zhuo's bed. For the next two nights, Zheng Zhuo did not dream of the ocean, the temple, and the statue that Chu Huairen had mentioned. He didn't know if it was because he hadn't been in contact long enough, or because he was clearly aware that he was a visitor from outside this world.

But there was no time for Zheng Zhuo to continue the verification.

Because, on the third day, a long and narrow island appeared in front of everyone.

The Beautiful Future arrives at the second island on the map drawn in the shrine. This time, the landing was more than ten times smoother than the first island. Since the tether was not damaged much during that night of terror, the research ship easily approached the beach and firmly anchored its massive body to the shore.

Professor Lin Wen and his students slowly climbed down the boat along the fire rope ladder with equipment on their backs. The gangplank was abandoned during the fish-like attack, but luckily or unfortunately, they no longer had any large equipment to carry with the gangplank.

The scenery of this second island is also significantly better than that of the first island. The current docking location of the Beautiful Future is located on the east side of the island, and if you look to the east, you can see the rocky hills. To the west, the lush forests resemble an undulating green belt over the sea.

"Right there."

Professor Lin Wen stood on the beach, holding a telescope, looking at the top of the hills in the east.

Zheng Zhuo looked at it. At the top of the hill, he could faintly see the shape of the stone pile becoming regular and orderly.

"That's artificial."

The professor affirmed.

"The map in the niche points to this island, and it must be because of that."

……

Under the leadership of Professor Lin Wen, Zheng Zhuo, Chu Huairen and four other students set off. The destination, of course, is the top of that hill.

All the students stopped talking. They followed the professor in silence, quietly and eerily eeri. Zheng Zhuo could only occasionally hear them scratching their necks, their nails rustling against their skin.

And this is the only sound that this team makes on the way, apart from the sound of footsteps, breathing, and the grinding of equipment.

“……”

As he gradually moved away from the research ship, Zheng Zhuo turned his head to look at the [Beautiful Future].

Long-lost docking. However, no crew disembarked. Zheng Zhuo saw from a distance that the captain, first mate, and sailors ...... Everyone stood in a row on the deck, quietly watching the direction in which the expedition team had left.

Chu Huairen, who was walking behind, also subconsciously wanted to look back when he saw Zheng Zhuo turn around.

Zheng Zhuo pushed him.

"You go ahead of me."

He interrupted Chu Huairen's movements.

……

The research ship docked not far away, and the beach was not difficult to walk, so it only took everyone fifteen minutes to reach the hills.

The hills are not high. With their instruments in hand, they walked up the slope, which had been gently eroded by the sea breeze, and after a few minutes, they reached the top of the slope.

Pregnant.

It was Professor Lin Wen at the forefront who discovered those artifacts first.

The top of the hill is made of gravel. Rather than being rubble, though, Zheng Zhuo prefers to think of them as bricks that have been shattered by weathering—because they have obvious signs of polishing. The parts of the gravel that are still well preserved are all regular square shapes.

All the stones are stacked together into a stone platform of about ten meters by ten meters. At the top of the stone platform, a semicircular stone bowl rests on a cylindrical low bowl. The stone bowl is about slightly larger than a human head and is made of a stone of pure black texture.

……

【■■■'s altar】

[Date: 372 B.C.]

[Degree of damage: 90%]

……

After coming here, the results shown by the [Identification] are even more strange. The ruins were completely exposed, destroyed by the sea breeze to the point of a bowl – yet far more intact than the intricate ancestral hall of the first island.

(Can you tell what the material is......?) ）”

Zheng Zhuo thought, repeatedly switching on and off [identification], and constantly debugging the accuracy range.

……

[Material: ■■■■■, obsidian]

……

Finally, the material of the bowl was revealed.

(Obsidian.) Obsidian...... Yes...... ）”

Obsidian processed in 372 BC. It's getting more and more exaggerated.

Zheng Zhuo looked at the people around him again. Chu Huairen, who had been anxious these days, still stood aside, and every other student took out their cameras, brushes, rubbing paper, plaster and other tools and began to follow Professor Lin Wen's instructions to survey.

Zheng Zhuo walked over slowly.

He circled around the stone platform a few times. The ancestral hall of the first island has a complex structure and interior surface, but there is nothing but stone platforms and bowls.

Inadvertently, Zheng Zhuo's afterglow glanced at the jungle on the island.

“……！”

A picture suddenly flashed through his mind.

The island is a long, narrow island, half sandy beach, and deep into the dense forest behind the sand, grazing the wreckage of a crashed propeller plane......

That's what he saw when he followed the cards.

Small islands, sandy beaches, dense forests. Every single one of them fits into this place.

However, instead of the stone platform and bowl, the card passes through the wreckage of a plane that crashes deep in the forest.

(What's the point?) ）”

Zheng Zhuo began to walk back. He returned to the front of the stone platform, where Professor Lin Wen was still standing.

"Professor. I want to go to the jungle and see it. ”

He said to the professor.

"I think there might be other ruins in there."

"Oh, okay." The professor quickly jotted down the findings on a piece of paper, and without looking up, said, "Don't go too deep, keep in touch, stay safe." ”

Zheng Zhuo nodded.

At this time, he saw Chu Huairen again.

Chu Huairen recovered a little. Now, I was looking at the stone bowl.

So......

Zheng Zhuo thought that it was time for him to go to the jungle to have a look.

Still, do you want to go alone?

……

【Question】

[There may be clues in the jungle!] How to explore? 】

[Option 1]

【Explore Alone】

[Option 2]

【Bring Chu Huairen to explore together】

[Option 3]

[Bring Shen with [Climbing] skills to explore together]

[Option 4]

[Bring Xue Ying, who holds [Radio Technology], to explore together]

[Option 5]

[Bring all three of the above to explore together]