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The opening stone... is the key?

It may be because of translation problems, this sentence sounds very awkward.

Yan Zhaozhu turned around and looked at the corridor blocked by boulders, wondering what the "starting stone" was, could it be gravel from the grotto?Dinosaur skeletons in caves?

But no matter which one it is, it is impossible for them to go back and look for it now.

Shen Yonghui walked up to him, looking at the uneven and irregular groove that was the size of a quail egg, he frowned, as if thinking of something.

Yan Zhaozhu said to Aku: "Aku, you gave me a detailed translation of that sentence, and told me what each word means and what grammar is used in it."

Aku then said: "The first word means beginning and origin, and the second word means stone, solid, crystal... In short, this is the category. As for the word key, it seems that the original meaning is a bit abstract, and there are quite a lot of meanings." Yes, there are treasures, power, door opening... There are many meanings, but the meaning of the key is the most suitable for the context. The combination of these sentences is... Wait! What did I discover! This, this, this..."

Just as he was concentrating on thinking, Shen Yonghui took a step back, took out an ordinary zombie crystal nucleus, and inserted it into the groove.

"What are you doing..." He paused.

A miraculous thing happened. As soon as the crystal nucleus was inserted, the metal groove that didn’t fit the original shape actually flowed like water, changing its shape freely, wrapping the crystal nucleus completely, wrapping it into it in the door.

The place where the groove became flat, followed by the slow opening of the metal door.

The second half of Aku's sentence came to his mind belatedly, "Chief, I found it. This sentence is not a reminder to open the door at all. It is a very old proverb. This proverb originally It said 'Originstone is Power'."

"It is said that a long, long time ago, there was a civilization in the universe called 'Origin Stone Civilization'. This civilization produced a special ore called Origin Stone, so it was named. Later, for unknown reasons, the Origin Stone Civilization was destroyed. After that, other small civilizations slowly rose, and the big universe formed the current multi-hegemony pattern."

"However, because there are no other civilizations that existed at the same time as Originium Civilization in the universe, these are just legends. Up to now, no one has been able to find traces of Originium Civilization's real existence."

"Civilization at the same time?" Yan Zhaozhu asked suspiciously, "Could it be that the rise of civilization is staged? The universe has existed for so long, so there must be civilizations that evolved earlier."

"But the fact is that the longest lifespan of the existing dominant civilizations in the universe is only tens of millions of years. In terms of the lifespan of the entire universe, there should be earlier and more advanced civilizations. If they exist, why have they not Appeared? This is a paradox, chief, the paradox that the entire universe has not been able to solve, also known as the 'fault paradox'. It is a bit similar to the Fermi paradox of the people on earth."

The metal gate was fully opened, and Shen Yonghui had already stepped in. Seeing that Yan Zhaozhuo was still in place, he turned around and scanned him suspiciously with the light of the flashlight.

Yan Zhaozhuo smiled lightly, and under the flickering flashlight, he showed an extraordinary demeanor, "But I already know the answer to Fermi's paradox, don't I?"

The Fermi paradox is a well-known paradox about the existence of aliens. Its general point of view is: if there are aliens, as long as they evolve 100 million years earlier than the earth, they will have the chance to reach the earth. capabilities, but why haven't they appeared until now, and haven't even sent any information that can be received by the earth?The universe has a history of tens of billions of years. Logically speaking, it should be crowded with all kinds of intelligent life. It is crowded and noisy, but it shows a desert-like silence.

Now, Yan Zhaozhu already knew the answer to this question.This is because the Cosmic Civilization Convention stipulates that any civilization that has entered the interstellar space cannot disturb those civilizations that are still developing.

Yan Zhaozhu found that he seemed to be a puzzle-solving system. From childhood nightmares, to confusion at the beginning of the end of the world, to the huge ruins in front of him, he would always naturally or forced to face one difficult mystery after another. question.

But still the same sentence, don't worry, there will always be more and more known conditions.

For example, in front of him, the gate of the ruins has been opened to him.

He walked up to Shen Yonghui, and walked into the gate side by side with him.

"How do you know that you can use the zombie crystal nucleus to open this door?"

Shen Yonghui shook his head, "It's just a chance, I didn't expect it to open."

Yan Zhao closed his eyes and meditated, the door that can be opened with the zombie crystal core is engraved with the ancient proverbs of the origin stone civilization...

Walking into this gate is like stepping from a primitive society to a high-tech society. Outside the gate are grottoes and caves, and inside the gate is a metal world.The square room resembles a large office, and there are many metal facilities with strange shapes inside. Like the dinosaur skeleton outside, each piece is well preserved and has not been corroded.

The light of the flashlight hit the wall, and they found that there were also some irregular grooves on the wall here that were similar to the gate.

The two looked at each other, took out a zombie crystal nucleus and put it in.

The moment the crystal nucleus was put into the groove, it was immediately wrapped by the flowing metal and completely submerged into the wall. Immediately, the wall unexpectedly lit up slowly.

Yes, this wall, made of metal, is glowing.

It is not only a wall, but also a lighting facility.I don't know how many years it was buried in the ground, but now it reappears in front of people, it has not been damaged and can still be used.And the most frightening thing is that what can drive it is not other things but the crystal nucleus, which turned out to be the crystal nucleus.

Incredible.

More crystal nuclei were stuffed into more grooves, and gradually, the entire metal room became as bright as day.

The whole picture of the room was reflected in the eyes of the two of them.

The strange-shaped metal equipment is nothing, and the transparent plants growing wildly in the corner are nothing. It is not these things that attract people's attention first.

It is a transparent cover.

A large, transparent, oblate hood replaces an entire wall on one side of the room.

Outside the hood is the deep sea.

With the illumination of the internal lights, you can clearly see the sand and stones deposited on the seabed, swaying aquatic plants, and groups of swimming fish...

"The bottom of the sea." Yan Zhaozhu's tone was like admiration, like emotion.

They walked through the path at the bottom of the big crack, walked through grottoes and huge caves, and passed through a narrow and long corridor. This distance is actually very long. Converted to the surface, it can just reach the coast in a straight line from the road.

Swimming fish found the huge light source that suddenly lit up, and after the initial shock, they came to the transparent cover in groups and pecked curiously.

Shen Yonghui stretched out an index finger, tapped it on the cover, and played with them, knocking suddenly from time to time, scaring the little fish out of their wits, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

When Yan Zhaozhu saw it, he laughed and said, "Childish."

Shen Yong glanced at him sideways, grabbed his hand directly, pinched an index finger, pressed it against the cover, and continued to do what he had just done with his hand.

"Hey!"

"They like to play with you," Shen Yonghui said, "This is the deep sea, and it has not been infiltrated by corpse poison. Look, everything is exactly the same as before the end of the world, free and carefree..."

"One day it will cease to exist." After Yan Zhaozhu finished speaking, he was about to withdraw his hand.

Shen Yonghui subconsciously wanted to hold on tightly, followed by a throbbing pain, and unconsciously let go of his hand.

Yan Zhaozhu stopped looking at the deep sea outside the cover, turned around and said, "Hurry up and find a vent, or we will starve to death here sooner or later."

However, after searching around carefully, this room is sealed everywhere, and there is no possibility of vents.

In this case, how does the oxygen that fills the space come from?

Aku answered this question for him.

Aku hesitated and said: "Chief, look at the grass next to you."

"What?" Yan Zhaozhu looked at it privately, the grass in the room?Only those transparent plants growing in the corners.

"This seems to be something called 'anaerobic grass'. They live deep underground and can absorb nutrients in the soil and release oxygen. It is said that a long time ago, when the mirage people were still living in caves, they relied on them survived."

Aku hesitated for a moment, "This grass will also release a substance that can affect the transformation fluid in your body and make it inactive. Chief, isn't the transformation fluid's failure rate very fast these days?"

Yan Zhaozhu told it everything he had seen and heard in the past month.

Aku said: "That should be right. Although I don't know what happened to the dinosaur skeleton, the big cave where the dinosaur skeleton was placed undoubtedly existed as an oxygen bank. The grotto should be used to hold garbage and other things. Anaerobic grass nourishment. If I guessed correctly, there should be more than one corridor in the cave, and it may be connected in all directions. The oxygen reservoir is the place that supplies oxygen to the entire underground space, and it is generally located in the very center of the underground space.”

"However," it added, "this is the habit of mirage people. I don't know why it appeared on Earth."

Yan Zhaozhu was silent.

Why the habits of mirage people appeared on the earth is not important. He has encountered too many headaches today.

The question now is, there is no vent here, how are they going to get out?

Shen Yonghui also realized this after searching around the room.

His eyes fell on the strange metal objects in the room.

"What did you think of?"

Shen raised his hand dimly, touched the smooth metal surface, and said, "I was thinking, people must have lived in this place many years ago."

He turned his head to look at Yan Zhaozhuo, "But there is no upward exit here. Then, how do they usually get out?"

Yan Zhaozhu was thoughtful, and the eyes of the two turned to the huge transparent cover at the same time.

"If it goes out from the bottom of the sea, there must be transportation."

After he finished speaking, his hands felt a small groove.

He stood next to a huge fusiform object, carefully looking at the fusiform object.If there is something that can be called a "ship" in the room, the one in front of me is undoubtedly the most suitable.

"Try it." Yan Zhaozhu said.

The crystal nucleus was pressed into the groove, and the top of the fusiform object emitted a little light, and the light became more and more intense, pulling the fusiform object to stand up slowly.

The thickest part in the middle of the fusiform object quietly opened a sliding cover, revealing the strangely shaped cabin inside.

It's the cabin, that's right!It's really a ship -- or rather, a submarine.

After the shock, Shen Yonghui stepped forward first, carefully inspected the cabin, sat in cautiously, and made sure there was nothing wrong before signaling to Yan Zhaozhu.

The cabin is spacious and spacious, and there is no problem in accommodating two people, but the seats are oddly shaped, and people don't know how to sit.

Also, they don't know how to steer the ship.

But don't worry.After Yan Zhaozhuo went in, he didn't know where to press, and the hatch cover was closed again without a sound.A square piece of metal in front of him gradually became transparent, showing the scene outside the ship.Afterwards, the shuttle-shaped boat vibrated for a bit, and it started to drive automatically according to the original default route.

When the tip of the boat touched the transparent cover, the expected impact did not occur, and the transparent cover accepted the passing of the shuttle-shaped boat as if melting. During the passing process, the materials of the two were almost fused together, forming a harmonious until the shuttle-shaped boat passed through successfully, the cover closed automatically again, and not a drop of water seeped in.

The two watched this shocking process through the transparent screen and remained silent for a long time.

Afterwards, the shuttle boat began to rise steadily in the deep sea at a fixed speed.

After this process went on for a while, Yan Zhaozhuo regained his wandering thoughts.

He finally had time to think about all the strange things he saw just now, and what these strange tools that could be driven by crystal nuclei really meant.

At this time, Aku excitedly said to him: "There is a chip! Chief, look at the console in front of you, it seems that there is a chip that I can interpret!"

Looking over, a square metal piece with a diameter of about five centimeters lay unremarkably on the table in front of it.

"Chief, you put this away, and when you get back to the spaceship, I'll see if I can decipher it!"

Yan Zhaozhuo had just put the chip into the space, and before he had time to say anything, the hull of the shuttle-shaped boat suddenly shook.

The shaking ended quickly, and nothing major seemed to happen. However, it didn't take long for the two of them to discover that the shuttle boat stopped rising and even began to sink slowly.

"what happened?"

Shen Yonghui thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Is it because the energy of the crystal nucleus has run out?"

"I'll go and have a look." Yan Zhaozhuo sat on the outside, heard that he found the button just now, tapped it, opened the hatch and got out.The strange thing is that the hatch is clearly open, but no water enters it.

I found the place where the crystal nucleus was installed, and found that the groove reappeared there, but the crystal nucleus that was originally placed there disappeared.He must be sure, it really is a problem of energy.In order to avoid frequent switching, he directly installed the third-level crystal nucleus of the wisteria flower. After installing it, the light at the tip of the fusiform ship turned on again.

"Are you ready? Be careful." Just as Shen Yonghui finished speaking, the boat swayed violently again.

Yan Zhaozhu only felt a sharp pain in his waist, and when he turned around, he saw a huge mutant shark attacking him fiercely.

Shen Yonghui immediately wanted to get out, but the shuttle-shaped ship automatically turned on the defense mode due to the attack. He was only one step too late, and the hatch closed in front of his eyes with a "snap". started.

"Yan Zhao!" Shen Yong hit the button to open the door in desperation, but there was no response from the hatch, and the defense mode was always running, and because it was replaced with a third-level crystal nucleus, it didn't surface until it surfaced and sailed to By the sea, the shuttle boat didn't stop for half a step.