Become a legend in the interstellar

A road to the stars!

The path is abstract.

The ancients could not express its specific meaning, but could only draw an actual road on the mural.

On the left side of the passage, the last mural depicts those aliens boarding a flying disc-shaped aircraft, flying along that road into an unknown world full of stars.

"The alien left in an aircraft." Su Xia understood what he meant.

At this point, all the content of the mural is over, and the little robot has come to the end of the passage.

Taken together, ten thousand years ago, a group of alien creatures did arrive, taught the people of this civilization to do farming, and led them into farming civilization. This huge pyramid was built at that time.

After the pyramid was built, those alien creatures stood on the top of the tower, and they didn't know what to say.

After speaking, they left in the spaceship and never came back.

"Why would they do this?"

Su Xia wondered, there is nothing good without a reason in the world. Are those alien civilization creatures coming to this planet just to spread knowledge and help people here?

Could they be trying to turn this place into a resource star or a colony star?

Helping the people here to enter farming civilization, is it to make it easier for them to control this planet?

"Is it a charity?"

Su Xia suddenly remembered some basic knowledge that Hal had told him.

Hal was the guide for Susha to know the starry sky, and he opened the door to the vast universe above his head for Susha.

"Hal said that the resources in the universe are almost endless. Many large organizations that have developed for a long time no longer need to worry about resources. There are even few wars. Therefore, there have been many purely charitable organizations that do not make profits. For the purpose, only to help some low-level civilizations in remote star fields.

"They will impart knowledge, spread crop seeds, and help low-level civilizations develop rapidly, allowing them to complete the road of civilization that can take hundreds or even tens of thousands of years in a few decades..."

At first, Su Xia didn't believe it.

For those so-called "charities", he has always been skeptical.

Even though Hal gave many cases, Su Xia didn't fully believe it. After all, Hal is just a smart steward of a small exploration spaceship. The information in the database is limited. He only knows the information on the surface, and he doesn't know what's behind it. of.

And Su Xia's suspicion is not without basis. There are a large number of charities on this side of the earth, and there are many people who use charities to launder money in the name of charity to do other things.

"Is there really such a pure organization in the interstellar world?" Su Xia was thoughtful. He had never been in contact with these interstellar organizations, and everything could only be guessed.

"Captain, are you thinking about those charities?" Sarah asked with a smile.

"Ah."

"There is such an organization."

"I know." Su Xia nodded, "Your database should be similar to Hal's. It's all superficial information."

"The captain doesn't have to think of people as sinister. In the vastness of the stars, there will always be that kind of pure and kind people." Sarah said with a smile.

"makes sense."

During the exchange between the two, the little robot had already walked out of the passage.

The murals on the passage have been recorded by Sarah and can be viewed at any time in the future.

She can even construct a virtual inner world of the pyramid based on the images recorded by the little robot. Susha only needs to wear a device similar to VR glasses to experience the immersive feeling.

Beyond the long passage is a long and narrow room.

To be precise, it is a stone tomb.

On both sides of the room, there are six gray-black stone coffins.

"How could there be a coffin?" Su Xia was surprised. "The inside of the pyramid is huge, and it hasn't reached the center yet. Even if it's a tomb, the owner of the tomb shouldn't be here. It's more like... the tomb guard?"

Moreover, according to the description of the previous murals, this pyramid is obviously not a tomb, but was specially built for aliens.

In the room, on the left and right sides, there are six stone coffins, which look very strange, because they are all placed vertically, like soldiers standing in two rows.

On the surface of the sarcophagus, a large number of complex patterns are also carved.

On the left and right sides, there are engraved patterns of mountains, trees, flowing water, animals, etc., but they are relatively abstract, and you can't recognize them unless you look carefully.

On the front, on the stone coffin lid, is engraved a humanoid pattern of the same height as the sarcophagus, with eyes, mouth, nose and other facial features, lifelike, strong limbs, and a sharp trident in his hand.

The depicted eyes are very spiritual, staring at the entrance of the passage, and closely watching the little robot that comes in.

They seem to be able to look at Susha who is far away in the submarine through a display screen.

"Are these guards?"

Su Xia observed carefully for a while, and probably understood the purpose of the sarcophagus.

The people in the stone coffin were probably the most brave and fearless warriors in the entire civilization at that time. They voluntarily stayed here and became soldiers guarding the pyramid, guarding this symbol of theocracy, faith and power forever.

No matter who wants to enter the pyramid, they have to pass through the passages they guard.

Of course, thousands of years have passed, and these people are now dead.

Even if there were intruders, they couldn't intercept them.

"Perhaps, they died before they entered the sarcophagus." Su Xia thought that in some civilizations, there were special methods to make mummified warriors.

In these civilizations, people do not fear death.

Some people firmly believe that the gods they believe in will resurrect their bodies one day in the future and give them a new life.

Others believe that after death, the soul will remain in the body, and as long as the body does not rot, immortality can be achieved.

Therefore, this kind of guardian warrior is very likely to take the initiative to end his life before entering the sarcophagus, and let others make his body into an incorruptible body, so that they can guard the pyramid forever.

"Unfortunately, death is death. There is no soul."

The so-called soul has 21 grams, so far it is just an experiment full of doubts.

For a materialist like Susha, these beliefs, legends and the like are naturally false, but he respects the normal beliefs of other people.

Of course, there may be worlds such as "dark world" and "energy universe" that cannot be observed by human beings, and souls exist in such worlds.

If such a world is really confirmed to exist, Su Xia will believe it.

As for now, he only believed in the real world, and only valued what he had when he was still alive.

"Sarah, do you think souls exist?" Susha turned her head and asked.

Hearing this, Sarah smiled slightly and asked, "Master Captain, do you think I have a soul?"

"No."

"Yes, I'm just a bunch of data."

"Well, let's live in the moment..."

Su Xia thought for a while, even if there really was a soul, she couldn't put her hope in the way of the corpse not decomposing.

The other side of the earth is a very real example.

Over there, the ancient Egyptian civilization loved it.

From pharaohs and dignitaries to common people and slaves, they are all willing to mummify themselves so that their incorruptible bodies can preserve their souls.

But...Those unlucky guys probably couldn't imagine that after hundreds or thousands of years, the incorruptible bodies they worked so hard to preserve became the food and medicine that some western countries fanatically pursued.

Their bodies of hope for the future and their souls were devoured one by one by the fanatical Europeans for hundreds of years.

At the end of the meal, there were not enough mummies dug up, and there was even an industry of fake mummies.

"I don't know what it tastes like, is it similar to aged bacon?"

Su Xia pondered for a moment, shook her head, and stopped thinking about it.

After thinking about it, he might not even be able to eat today's dinner.

When he is about to die in the future, he will definitely not choose this path. If he has money, he will ask someone to bring his ashes into space and scatter them in space.

"Go on."

Su Xia's attention returned to the display screen. Under his command, the little robot walked forward slowly, passed through the passages in the room, passed the stone coffins, and came to the end of the long and narrow room.

Standing at the end, looking forward, there is a stone step that slopes upwards.

The steps appear distorted in the rushing water.

On both sides of the steps, every three meters or so, there is a small stone platform, on which there are stone lamps, which look like lighting supplies.

"Huh? There's still lamp oil?"

In the picture fed back by the little robot, Su Xia saw that inside the lamp, there were some burnt black solid substances, which should be the lamp oil that that civilization once used, most likely some kind of animal fat.

Going forward, picking up the steps, Moyo walked up more than 30 meters, and the end of the steps appeared in front of Su Xia.

"When you walk out of this slanting step, you should be able to see a large room." Sarah said based on the conclusion drawn by the exploration system.

The little robot continued to go up, and after a while, it walked out of the steps.

Sure enough, what appeared in front of Susha's eyes was an extremely large inner hall, which was also the central hall inside the entire pyramid.

"This is the center?"

The stone walls around the hall are all inclined inward, and the four sides are very regular triangles. The shape of the entire hall is like a pyramid that has shrunk to one level.

From a rough look, the height of the hall is at least a hundred meters, and there is a huge gray-black stone column in the middle as a support.

The position of the little robot is the lower right corner of the right wall of the hall, which is an obvious entrance and exit.

"There is more than one entrance and exit, there are three on the right side alone." Su Xia observed carefully, "It seems that there should be twelve passages leading to the outside inside the pyramid, and I just opened one of them."

Looking forward, the interior of the hall is extremely empty, empty, only endless sea water.

On the surrounding walls, there are still weird murals, most of which are about the history of the city's development.

"Nothing at all?"

Su Xia was puzzled and asked the little robot to explore carefully in the hall.

If this pyramid is really some kind of power tower, there must be at least some metal equipment inside, right?

Even if it has been corroded by seawater and the equipment is dilapidated after tens of thousands of years, there should still be some metal residue left behind.

"No?" The surprised voice of the big whale also came over.

"Nothing has been found so far," Su Xia said.

"Strange, the contents of the murals discovered before are similar to those of the old sea monsters. They are related to aliens. It stands to reason that this pyramid should be an energy tower." The big whale was also surprised. Those old sea monsters Not to lie to him, but the hall was indeed empty.

In this way, the word-of-mouth news of this sea monster is mostly wrong, and errors occurred when it was passed down in a certain generation.

Perhaps this pyramid is just an ordinary building symbolizing theocracy, not an energy tower for external communication.

"Don't worry, I'll look for it."

At this moment, the little robot has already walked around the entire hall, and has not found any special area.

It went to explore the interior of other passages separately, but the situation in each passage was similar to the one it had walked through before.

"Perhaps it was the pillar?"

Su Xia thought for a moment, then quickly set her eyes on the huge gray-black stone pillar in the center of the hall.

The diameter of the stone pillar was more than ten meters, and it was as high as a hundred meters. It was shocking, like a huge pillar supporting the sky, supporting the dome of the inner hall of the pyramid.

The little robot started to move, getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer to this giant stone pillar, and the picture on the display screen became clearer and clearer.

Soon, Su Xia discovered something strange.

"There is nothing carved on the surface of this stone pillar?"

As the little robot walked along, everything it saw, whether it was the stone wall of the passage, the stone coffin, or the surrounding walls and ground of the hall, was engraved with all kinds of weird pictures and patterns.

Only this stone pillar has a smooth surface, as if it has been carefully polished by someone, without any damage.

This is obviously problematic.

"Look carefully."

The little robot surrounded the stone pillar, exploring bit by bit, extremely slowly, without missing any details.

Su Xia's eyes were focused, staring at the screen, and even the blinking speed slowed down.

Sarah also watched from the sidelines.

About 10 minutes later, the little robot finally found a distinctive area at the position where the stone pillar was about three meters above the ground.

"Gap?" Su Xia stared at the screen, her body subconsciously leaned forward a little.

In this area, there is an extremely secret gap, if you don't look carefully, it is easy to miss.

Slowly exploring along the gap, a triangular pattern made of cracks appeared before Su Xia's eyes.

"Could it be...is this an entrance?" Su Xia made a bold guess.

Under his command, the little robot stretched out its mechanical arms, pressed on the huge triangle pattern, and pushed hard.

With Weng's sound, the whole picture trembled, and the triangular pattern was sunken inward a little.

"really……"

Su Xia's heart moved, and she ordered again to let the little robot continue to push in.

Outside the stone pillar, the floating little robot exhausted all its strength, and the propellers on its back were all activated, pushing the triangular stone, pushing it into the stone pillar bit by bit.

The triangular stone continued to move inward, and was quickly pushed a distance of more than one meter.

And the little robot also entered this triangular column-shaped passage, and continued to push. After a while, with a bang, the triangular stone collapsed suddenly under the huge force of the little robot.

What appeared in front of Su Xia was the hidden space inside this stone pillar!
Inside the stone pillar, there is a hole in the sky!
"what is that?"

In the center of this hidden space, there is a smaller stone pillar.

On the stone pillar, there is a vague oval object, like a cold stone egg.

"Is it something left by aliens?" Su Xia wondered.

Before the little robot stepped forward to investigate, the stone egg trembled, and even the surrounding sea water trembled, as if it had been impacted by some external force.

Suddenly, a beam of dazzling blue light shot out from the stone egg.

The blue light swept across the body of the little robot, as if scanning something, from top to bottom, and disappeared after more than ten seconds.

"What's going on here?" Su Xia's eyes were calm, and she kept the little robot motionless.

After a while, the oval-shaped stone egg was radiant and generous, exuding strands of dazzling blue light, spinning and intertwining in this secret space.

After about half a minute, the rotation speed of those blue lights slowed down, turning into dots of light in the dark sky, flashing and flashing, like a dazzling galaxy of stars.

A voice suddenly appeared, coming from the stone egg, as if describing something.

Su Xia couldn't understand, he had never learned this language.

Fortunately, the system comes with a language translator. He immediately turned on the translator and heard the translated words.

"Accepting the civilization sponsored by us, you have finally come to this point. Presumably you have already started to explore the starry sky?"

There was a bit of relief in that voice.

"This star field of yours is very remote, and it is too far away from the rest of the surrounding civilizations, so I left a copy of the starry sky coordinates, you can regard it as a map, it will guide you the way in the starry sky..."