Yu Lie glanced at Zhou Ran and said, "Let's let Professor Zhou talk about it!" ”

Zhou Ran has always been not good at words, but in this life-and-death situation, he has to change himself.

"Teammates, we are not in a desperate situation, but have made the most significant discovery in human history." Zhou Ran said with high emotions, "However, we can only make this discovery public if we go out." So, we can't give up, we must find a way out. ”

……

After the team members stabilized, Zhou Ran pointed to the disc on the column and said, "Have you seen this disc?" ”

All eyes were on the disc.

"I believe that the missing thing in this disc is the manual 'key', and we have to find it first!" Zhou Ran said loudly, "Now our task is to find this 'key', let's start acting." ”

With a goal, there will be no more aimlessness, no more dominance and no domination of panic and fear. This is especially critical at this time.

"Professor Zhou, I'm afraid we're in trouble." Yu Lie whispered.

"What's wrong?"

"The lights have been working for six hours and are almost going out. Moreover, we only have four left......"

"I'm a little less ......"

"Blame me, I didn't think it through," Yu Lie said to himself, "I only thought about the rescue operation, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen." ”

"Captain Yu, I didn't mean to blame you," Zhou Ran smiled, "We have to speed up the search." ”

"Well, in addition, I have arranged for someone to extinguish two 'self-response lights', and only two will be used at a time in the future."

Zhou Ran nodded, but he had already realized the seriousness of the problem, if they couldn't find a way out before the darkness came, what awaited them was despair and death.

He stared at the disc on the column in a daze, and his gaze moved down the column, finally fixed on the hexagonal platform.

It's dark under the lights.

For some reason, the word popped into his head.

The term originally referred to the dark area under the lamp due to the obscuration of the lamp itself. Later, it was extended that people were unaware of things and events that were happening in close proximity.

Zhou Ran walked around the hexagonal platform and found clues on one of them.

Just about thirty centimeters above the ground, a bulge that was not easy to observe appeared, and he tried to press it with his hand, but it loosened slightly. Then, he pressed hard, only to hear a "creak", and a small partition hidden in the face slowly opened, revealing a dull spherical object.

Zhou Ran guessed what this spherical object was for the first time, and couldn't help but think: "Could it be that there is a providence in the dark?" ”

At the same time, he was even more convinced of his guess: this operating compartment must have a manual operating device.

When he held the spherical object in his hand, he did not feel heavy, but rather a light and fluttering feeling, which did not match its own appearance.

In addition, Zhou Ran could easily distinguish the front and back sides of the ball, because there was a cylindrical groove at the bottom, which seemed to be in perfect contact with the bulge on the disc.

By this time, the crowd had already gathered around.

"Captain Yu, find someone to put it on it." Zhou Ran said and pointed to the disc above his head.

However, Yu Lie hesitated, not knowing whether to put this black ball on it.

It's so strange here, full of unknowns, or dangers, what if you put it in and get dangerous? However, if he does not try, he misses the last chance to escape, and he is a sinner.

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, and thinking of the only four "self-response lights", Yu Lie finally made up his mind.

"Zhang Qiang, you come."

Zhang Qiang used the safety rope to carefully climb to the position of the disc, and the team members below used the same method to slowly send the spherical object on, when he put the ball on the disc, the groove on the ball and the bulge on the disc just docked, and it was tightly fitted.

Everyone looked at the scene in front of them, and they didn't dare to breathe, looking forward to the appearance of a miracle. However, after more than ten seconds, nothing happened.

Yu Lie looked at Zhou Ran in frustration and surprise, not knowing how to express his emotions.

Zhou Ran was also surprised, thinking to himself, could he have thought wrong?

Just as everyone was confused, a slight "click" came from the disc, breaking the deathly silence in the room.

Immediately after that, the spherical object on the disc underwent a striking change.

I saw that it turned around three times in the disk, and cracks began to appear on the sphere one after another, and each crack emitted a light blue light. As the cracks gradually increased, the beams of light became denser, and soon the entire room was covered, and all the surfaces of objects were covered in this pale blue light!

While everyone was amazed, something even stranger happened!

First of all, countless small dots on the top of the room gradually lit up, like lamps, illuminating the whole room as if it were day. Secondly, the large screen in the center of the stone wall slowly lit up, followed by each screen on the operating table; Eventually, all the tables, chairs, and worktops in the room began to light up.

This light is very bright, but it is very soft, and it hits the face without the slightest discomfort.

When the room lit up, the cracks in the sphere gradually decreased, and the pale blue beam began to fade until it disappeared and returned to a dull sphere.

Shocked, surprised, came so suddenly!

When all the screens light up, they freeze into the same frame, with only a pale blue gloss letter. Although it came in an extremely strange, twisted form, everyone was roughly recognizable: a capital X.

Zhou Ran stared at the screen carefully, and thought that this uppercase X should be some kind of sign, just like the boot screen of the computer system, and it is also necessary to enter the password to enter the system.

But what exactly is this "password"?

"Don't touch anything!" Yu Lie shouted alertly, anything that happened here stimulated his nerves.

He was a little late, and several of the team members had already climbed into their chairs and sat in an inappropriate position. Hearing Yu Lie's shout, Deng Shi was stunned and didn't dare to move.

Fortunately, nothing out of the ordinary happened.

When Zhou Ran told Yu Lie his thoughts, he agreed, and at the same time, he also showed a helpless expression.

Zhou Ran understood what he meant, how could humans enter the system of an alien spaceship? At this time, he also had the same idea as Yu Lie before: "You should bring a team of scientific and technological experts over!" ”

As expected, more than two dozen people couldn't find the clue after fiddling for a long time, and the pale blue luster on the screen became brighter and brighter, as if laughing at their uselessness.

At this moment, the operation compartment slowly dimmed, and before the two "self-response lights" went out, the other two lit up.

Seeing the "self-response lamp", Zhou Ran thought of what Yu Lie said before.

"The lights have been working for six hours and are almost going out. Moreover, we only have four left......"

Zhou Ran calculated in his heart that if each "self-response lamp" could only work for six hours, the remaining four could only last for twelve hours, and the best case scenario would be eighteen hours. If you haven't found an exit by then, I'm afraid you'll ......

"Professor Zhou, what do you think?" Yu Lie interrupted his musings by suddenly speaking.

When the sphere on the disc was activated, Zhou Ran hoped to find an automatic door opening device, but could not enter the system. So, he turned his hopes to find a device to open the door manually, but found nothing.

The players started to get anxious, and he started to panic.

"What can I think," Zhou Ran shook his head weakly and said, "Maybe I'm really going to be trapped here, if only I hadn't been in a hurry to come in at that time......"

As he spoke, Zhou Ran sat on the steps of the spiral staircase and looked at the lifeless team members in a dejected manner.

Yu Lie saw him like this, and didn't speak again, but walked away silently.

After a while, the deputy captain Lu Xuan walked in the direction of the spiral staircase, and kept looking down as he walked.

"It's weird......" Lu Xuan muttered to himself.

Zhou Ran noticed it and couldn't help asking, "Captain Lu, what's wrong?" ”

"It's kind of weird about these lights." Lu Xian whispered.

"Light?" Zhou Ran couldn't help but look at the "self-response lamp", "What light do you say?" ”

Lu instantly raised his head, saw that it was Zhou Ran, and hurriedly said, "Professor Zhou, do you look at these points of light on the ground, do they seem to be some kind of guiding markers?" ”

As he spoke, he gestured with his hand: "This one, from that to here, and that one, although the middle interval is broken, but it is connected to this side again......"

Zhou Ran followed his gestures one by one, and sure enough, it was just as he said. And, even more peculiarly, each point of light eventually converged at the bottom of the spiral staircase, right at his feet.

Zhou Ran took a closer look at his feet, and found that there were also patterns on the ground, and these patterns formed an irregular circle around the root of the spiral staircase. The pattern in the circle is similar to the one on the left side of the large screen, stacked one by one in a clockwise direction.

Lu Xian also discovered the pattern, and whispered: "It's this kind of pattern without a head and tail, what does it represent?" ”

Zhou Ran looked at the pattern on the ground and was distracted, but he didn't speak, and he didn't even hear what Lu Xian said.

"Oops!"

I don't know who screamed in pain, which attracted the attention of the team members, and it turned out that one of the team members accidentally slipped off the operating table.

Before Zhou Ran came back to his senses, he suddenly felt that his feet gradually vibrate, the amplitude of the vibration was not large, and he could feel a slight shaking.

"What's going on!"

"Is there another earthquake?"

"Ah......h

With the dizziness caused by the shaking, the patterns under Zhou Ran's feet suddenly cracked slowly, and those petal-like patterns shrank back one after another, and there was a "click" sound.

Zhou Ran and Lu Xuan hurriedly stepped back, and one step later they fell into the air!

When the shaking stopped, the vertigo disappeared, and at the spiral staircase, a dark hole appeared in front of everyone.