"What do you think?"

Yan Jing walked on the corridor, stroking the gloomy wall with strange reliefs next to it, he raised his head at the entrance, looking at the huge broken hollow in the roof of the palace, the bright sky light sprinkled down, illuminating the dust floating in the air, adding a bit of mystery and seclusion to this dim and silent space.

"We're really on another planet, right?"

Looking around, there are unimaginable colors on earth everywhere you look, buildings with flesh-and-blood shapes and colors, as if an entire palace is a huge living thing......

He felt an indescribable shock in front of this large, silent object, muttering to himself, as if seeking recognition from the other two companions.

"I think so......" Ji Chunzao, like him, raised his head and looked up at the sky, "We must have succeeded." ”

"Where does the light in heaven come from? Is it day or night? Could it be that there is also a sun on this planet? ”

Once he accepted the fact that he had succeeded, a lot of questions about the real world and the laws of physics came to his mind, even though he was only a junior high school student.

"Not necessarily, maybe another star is shining."

Xie Yuzhi said she spread out her palms in an attempt to catch the dust in the air.

"What I'm more concerned about is that we can breathe well now and don't feel any discomfort. Originally, I was worried about the situation that the oxygen cylinder was not brought, but now it is all unfounded. ”

Could it be that the air on this planet contains similar types and proportions of gases to Earth, so it is suitable for human life? Or is it the palace ruins themselves that are special?

"I don't know how big this place is, and I don't know what is hidden, so everyone should be careful."

"yes, after all, this is our first exploration, and ......"

Yan Jingxing hesitated, he didn't know whether to throw out a certain topic.

After the initial shock gradually subsided, the first question that came to his mind was:

How do we get back?

This is actually something that should be considered from the beginning of the adventure plan, but this "first shift" is simply an accident that no one expected.

Yan Jingxing thought to himself, it was not so much because of recklessness, but because they didn't think that they would succeed at the first time.

In fact, before the UFO ride, Miss Xie had already said that she did not believe in the magical function of this machine from the bottom of her heart that it could teleport people to another planet.

In fact, Lian Yan Jingxing, of course, he was willing to believe the guidance provided to him by the ghost astronaut, but ...... Just learning to sit in like "him", it actually became directly, and in such an easy way, he still didn't expect it.

He pondered for a long time, Xie Yuzhi seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and she proposed:

"Let's think about going back first. We can see if we can get back to Earth if we sit back in that pitcher plant. ”

- What if not?

Yan Jingxing imagined it for a moment, and he felt a tightness in his chest, and a bottomless fear grabbed his heart.

He began to regret it, thinking that if we really couldn't, we would have to stay on this planet with three of us and try to survive as much as we could......

Can it really be done?

Accompanying them, there was only a huge and empty palace.

"No, don't be in a hurry......," he said quickly, "it's too late to explore a little and go back." ”

"That's right, this place is a real alien ruin, I haven't seen enough of it." Ji Chunzao echoed loudly beside him.

Xie Yuzhi raised her head seriously and glanced at him, and then the girl didn't say anything more, just nodded slightly.

"Okay."

Yan Jingxing sighed, feeling that the worries in his heart had been seen through.

However, it is precisely because Xie Yuzhi, who thinks of the same thing as himself, is calm enough that he can be equally calm-

When Yan Jingxing was cleaning up his mind, he suddenly felt that his sleeve was being pulled by someone.

"Don't worry, we can go back. This adventure is sure to go well. ”

Ji Chunzao said with a grin at him.

"I have this hunch."

…… And, of course, there is the positive optimism of Chunzao.

"I know."

He smiled again.

*

The only duffel bag brought by Xie Yuzhi contained a few packets of sugar, chocolate and mineral water, in addition to thermal underwear, which could provide one or two days of life.

In addition, there are heaters, flashlights, and batteries, which they use to explore the palace step by step.

"Speaking of which, are these reliefs left by people?"

The flesh-and-blood walls are full of reliefs and murals, which are painted with all kinds of strange and strange landscapes and creatures, telling the history of a certain race's intelligent life to open up the world, fight with aliens, and establish settlements, and the outline is so fine that it seems that living things have been inlaid in it.

"This is an alien planet, in other words......"

Xie Yuzhi's pupils were still bright in the dim environment, and she stared intently at the mural, her eyes bursting with interest.

"It was left behind by the aliens who built this palace."

She's feeling excited.

Yan Jingxing could understand her feelings.

They've indeed encountered real alien creatures, but they're monsters that they can't communicate with at first glance.

It's either too disgusting or too scary.

But the real aliens should be the same race as humans on Earth, who dominate the planet with wisdom and advanced technology.

"If you look at human history, being able to produce this kind of lifelike and surprising 'art' shows that the alien civilization has reached a highly developed level."

"So, the appearance of ...... 'humans' on these reliefs is the appearance of aliens, right?"

Ji Chunzao stared at one of them, stood on tiptoe with great interest, and tried to poke its eyes, this action made Yan Jingxing's heart tremble.

Because the statues are so realistic, and with the material bonus of the weird metal that is used as the base, he is afraid that they will come to life like in the horror movies.

The statues are all similarly tall, ranging from two and a half to three meters, and resemble a humanoid appearance, but their limbs are more slender than those of humans on Earth.

"It doesn't look that different from us humans......" Yan Jingxing muttered.

"Convergent evolution." Xie Yuzhi's mouth suddenly popped out of a word that was very unfamiliar to junior high school students.

“…… Ah, what? ”

Xie Yuzhi quickly explained:

"Even if they are different organisms, unrelated species, those organisms that are evolutionarily far apart, if they are allowed to live in the same environment, they may also produce the same or very similar morphological structures to adapt to the conditions of natural evolution."

"Since aliens can develop civilization, it means that they have brains as developed as humans; When tools are needed, they evolve dexterous hands...... Even on different planets, it is possible to give birth to life similar to humans. ”

Of course, this convergence only refers to body size and limbs, and in terms of detailed appearance, aliens and humans are still very different.

For example, aliens have organs that look like eyes, but they are completely different from humans, and their noses and mouths are completely invisible, and they have no hair on their bodies.

From the point of view of human aesthetics, each of them has a bare head, and the face is like a toy made by a naughty child;

In addition, they do not appear to have the same skin as humans, but are instead covered in a layer of bones, muscles, and membranes.

"That's what it is...... Real aliens. ”

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath.

It is precisely because "they" are very similar to people in size, but they are very different in some of their appearance characteristics, which makes him feel an indescribable horror.

Frightened, he couldn't help but look away, unwilling to look more.

"If our findings were published, it would shock the world."

Ji Chunzao didn't seem to feel this horror at all, her heart has always been big, but she smiled happily.

"A few of us, will we get that...... Nobel Prize? ”

"The Nobel Prize has nothing to do with this kind of thing."

Yan Jingxing complained.

"Hey, can't you make this kind of discovery that is destined to shock the world? I want to go down in history! ”

"Then don't worry, it must be better than Nobel. I think that if you want to use an analogy, it should be similar to the historical story of Columbus's discovery of the New World, becoming the pioneer of the great geographical discovery...... No, the historical significance of discovering an alien planet with traces of a highly developed intelligent civilization is even greater than that. ”

“…… Is it? If only that were the case. ”

Miss Xie shook her head, her expression was serious after mentioning this topic.

"I'm not going to ask you to stop talking about it."

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao looked at each other, and they both saw the doubts in each other's eyes.

“…… Any questions? ”

"Of course there's a problem, that cave is now our secret base, but don't forget, someone has already entered it before that."

Xie Yuzhi explained.

"In addition to the ghost astronauts that only Jing Xing saw, the iron door, the radio, the bed, and the materials that are still in my house can prove that someone stayed in that place for a long time; On the other hand, when did UFOs appear in caves? ”

"You're saying that someone has used UFOs to come to this planet like us?"

"Nine out of ten possibilities. After all, at the moment, that machine is really easy to use, without any restrictions and needs. But the world hasn't changed because of this, has it? ”

"If the alien thing really came to light, I wouldn't have been suspected all the time......"

Ji Chunzao muttered.

"Hmm. In other words, the news is covered up, or not exposed for a more specific reason; And we don't know why. In this case, the conservative strategy we can adopt can only be the same concealment, isn't it? ”

“…… yes, yes......"

"You're right."

In the face of Miss Xie's thoughtfulness, all the remaining two could do was to agree dryly.

……

Most of the rooms in the ruins of the palace were crushed by the collapsed buildings, and they found some statues and metal containers, but to no avail.

In addition to this, there are all kinds of strange traps:

There are telescopic arms that seem to be glued together by the arms of a dozen people; There were also what appeared to be two trembling large lobes hanging from the ceiling, covered in a thick layer of dust, what appeared to be some kind of air purifying device.

All they could do was to go around cautiously.

However, the murals and carvings along the way do carry all kinds of important and novel information about alien civilizations, which is eye-opening.

When they reached the central hall, they saw one of the most magnificent frescoes to date; And judging by the coherent thread, it seems that this is still an epic that occupies an important historical position for this civilization.

The mural in the middle is three aliens in the forest with different appearances and very different dresses; Countless towering trees surrounded them, and in the middle of them was a long pillar that stretched through the sky and covered with eyes.

Looking at the texture, this long pillar feels like it is made of "meat", like some kind of giant organism whose life cannot be understood by humans.

"It's weird......"

Yan Jingxing thought to himself.

Next, they dug up three things from the flesh pillars, two of them holding a bloody eyeball in each hand, while the remaining one carried a string of thorny bones—most likely vertebrae.

At the end of the mural, the pillar of flesh collapses, replaced by endless lightning bolts that spread across the sky, creating an apocalyptic scene along with landslides and earth cracks......

"This mural seems to be talking about the meaning of this palace." Xie Yuzhi muttered, "Considering that the role of murals in human civilization is often related to religion, could it be said that they are worshipping a ...... Something weird? ”

The huge creature surrounded by aliens in the middle has a strange and indescribable appearance, and she can only be called "strange thing".

"No, judging by their attitude, it doesn't look like God at all. You see, these three different aliens took three organs from that thing and collapsed it. ”

"Well, is that some kind of prophetic or mythological creation? Warn people not to be greedy or destructive. ”

"It's also possible that it's true," Ji Chunzao interjected at this time, "We've all seen the huge alien creatures in that cloud!" Maybe one day, we'll meet the monsters on the mural? ”

“……”

Xie Yuzhi's expression became strange, and she looked at her face fixedly. After a while, the eldest lady whispered with some emotion:

"Chunzao, you are really not afraid of heaven and earth."