"W-How is this possible?" Di Qiu was completely shocked.

"You think I'm joking?" Jessica asked with a serious face, "I've seen those two slaves poaching in the mountains with guns and robbing near town, but I've never seen them loaded with bullets, they just broke the flintlock device and fired it. ”

Di Qiu's heart was awe-inspiring: a gun that can kill people in a tangible way without bullets? Is this a kind of black technology that is far beyond modern times? Or is it a kind of magic that only exists in myths and legends?

"Have you tried a gun?" asked Dick.

"Of course I did!" Jessica replied.

"How?" asked Dick.

"No," Jessica replied, "I can't shoot." ”

"Oh?" said Dichael, "that's weird, let me try it too." ”

As he spoke, Di Qiu turned sideways, pointed one of the blasters at the door of the duty room, broke the flintlock device, and then pulled the trigger, but the trigger did not move.

"Huh?" Dick's fingers were pressed, but the trigger still couldn't be pulled.

"It's weird!" Dick handed Jessica back the other blaster, holding the handle of the blaster in his hand with both hands, and the two index fingers tried to pull the trigger together, but still didn't move.

"This ...... Can you pull it?" asked Jessica, tilting her head.

"No," Jessica said, "I even tried to destroy one of them, but it didn't work." ”

"Really?" asked Dick.

"If you don't believe me, you can give it a try. Jessica still had a cold expression.

Di Qiu held the head and handle of the blaster gun with both hands, and tried to break it, but he used all his strength, and the gun in his hand was still unscathed - you know, Di Qiu is 2.7 meters tall, weighs nearly 400 kilograms, has unusually developed muscles all over his body, and the breaking force of his hands can reach several tons.

"You get out of the way. Dick motioned for Jessica to lean back, then threw the gun to the ground, pulled out the "woodpecker" from his waist, and fired a shot at the blaster on the ground.

"Boom!" the electromagnetic energy bomb accurately hit the body of the gun, and the huge kinetic energy also blasted a large hole in the floor.

When the dust cleared, the two of them could see that the blaster was still lying intact at the bottom of the pit.

Di Qiu leaned down to pick out the blaster gun and wiped it clean, the body of the gun was still intact, not even a single mark was left.

"Ha," Dick shook his head with a wry smile, "that's interesting! By the way, Captain Jessica, don't you have anything to say?

"I'm a robot," Jessica pointed to herself, "and an inorganic elemental body, I guessed that this blaster can only be triggered by organic lifeforms, and all biological features, such as body temperature, smell, sound, fingerprints, and even consciousness, spirit, and various senses, can be triggered, so I came to you, but now it seems that you can't either." ”

"Hmph, I see," Di Qiu's expression suddenly turned cold, "Are you using me?"

"Officer Di, you're going a little too far," Captain Jessica said coldly, "If I'm not sincere, I can go back to ABP and report directly, and I still need you?"

"Hmm...... Also right...... Well," said Di Qiu after a battle between heaven and man, "believe you for the time being, have you ever tried a gun with another human slave?"

"Yes," Jessica said, "I found a few slaves from the town and tried it, but it didn't work. ”

"In other words, it's not something that ordinary biological characteristics can trigger?, or maybe our previous judgment was wrong, is there really something special about those two slaves?"

"They had luggage, they had belongings, but I couldn't find any valuable clues. Jessica replied.

"Uh, you bring their luggage and let me see. Dick said.

"Wait a minute, I'll get it in the car. Jessica said, turning and walking out the door, while Dick moved a chair and sat down.

Soon, Captain Jessica came back with a big burden, pulled a desk with him, spread it out on the desk, and said, "It's all here." ”

Dick approached the table and examined the table with the professional eye of a professional police officer: identity documents, a satellite phone, a bunch of keys, a few hundred silver coins, a waterproof map, a dagger, a few photographs, canned food...... Finally, his gaze fell on an old-looking animal skin, and the words on the animal skin seemed familiar.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Di Qiu picked up the blaster and approached the hide, only to find that the words on the skin were quite similar to the dark lines on the blaster's body.

Di Qiu put the blaster aside, picked up the animal skin with both hands and examined it carefully, only to see that one side of the animal skin was full of strange words, and the other side was painted with a mysterious perspective of the human body, on which different lines and veins were outlined in different colors, like nerve veins, but also like blood vessels.

Dick pointed to the hide and asked Jessica, "Do you recognize the words on it?"

"I don't know," Jessica replied, "Those two slaves took it out from time to time and looked at it, and on a few occasions they argued for some reason, saying something like 'Qi Hai Acupoint', 'Ren Du Second Pulse' or something, I didn't understand a word." Let me scan the strange words above, and wait a minute. ”

As she spoke, Jessica's eyes shot a red light, and she scanned the words on the animal skin, and then began to silently decipher, and after about a few minutes, Jessica said: "I compared these words in the database, these words are the characters invented by a Chinese dynasty called 'Xia' in eastern Asia during the ancient period of human slaves, called 'Xia Rope Script', which is said to be the first script invented by human slaves from the "knotted rope chronicle" to the civilized period, which is older than cuneiform and oracle bone inscriptions. ”

"What is written on this hide?" asked Dick.

"It is more messy, there is the main text, and there are also annotations written by hand later, these annotations have a variety of handwriting, and should have passed through the hands of many people. Jessica replied.

"What's in the text?" asked Di Qiu.

"It's like a scripture, it's like a medical book, but when you read it throughout, it's like metaphysics or theology. Jessica replied.

"What about the commentaries?" asked Dick again.

"It should be a bit of a realization, and an epiphany or something," Jessica replied, "It's quite miscellaneous." ”。

"These two words look like titles, what are they, can you decipher them?" Di Qiu asked, pointing to the two larger summer rope characters on the hides.

Translated, it should be read as "Zhou Tian". Jessica replied.

"Zhou Tian?" Di Qiu wondered, "where do you seem to have heard of it, and you looked it up in the database?"

Jessica was silent for more than ten seconds, and replied: "Zhou Tian, a kind of practice for cultivating and practicing qi by cultivators in ancient times, it is said that once these cultivators succeed in cultivation, they can be reborn and gain immortality," After speaking, Jessica suddenly looked at Di Qiu, "Officer Di, how old have you lived?"

"One hundred and fifty-two years old," said Di Qiqi, "what? You ask this, has something to do with this ancient animal skin?"

"It's much stronger than the indigenous slaves, and I've heard that the average lifespan of your beasts has increased to two hundred and sixty years," Jessica said, "If what is recorded in Zhou Tian is a historical fact, then thousands of years ago, the ancient cultivators of the human slaves have reached or even surpassed your current average lifespan......

Di Qiu and Jessica seemed to realize something at the same time, and suddenly suddenly said in unison: "Those two slaves are cultivators?!"

"No wonder they take this ancient animal skin book from time to time to discuss some strange terms that I can't figure out," Jessica continued, "This 'blaster gun' is special, and the rest I don't know if the human slave is special or this animal skin ancient book is special, or is it the human slave who practiced the exercises in the ancient book and then became special?"

"Which do you prefer?" asked Dick rhetorically.

"In the latter case, the human slave practiced the exercises in the ancient books and then became special. Jessica said.

"Actually, I'm also inclined to this opinion, it seems that we are getting closer and closer to the truth," Di Qian had a very rewarding expression on his face, "I think we really need to go to Qinghe Ranch to have a look." ”