our secret base

Chapter 26 Alien Palace
"What do you think?"

Yan Jing was walking on the long corridor, stroking the gloomy wall with strangely shaped reliefs beside it, he raised his head at the entrance, and looked at the huge broken hole on the roof of the palace. This dark and silent space adds a mysterious and quiet atmosphere.

"We really came to another planet, right?"

Looking around, everything you see is unimaginable colors on the earth, buildings with flesh-and-blood shapes and colors, as if the entire palace is a huge living creature...

In front of this huge, silent object, he felt an indescribable shock, muttered to himself, and seemed to be seeking approval from the other two companions.

"I think so..." Ji Chunzao looked up at the sky just like him, "We must have succeeded."

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

Once he accepted the fact of success, 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.

"This is not necessarily the case, maybe other stars are shining and heating."

Xie Yuzhi said she spread out her palms, trying to catch the dust in the air.

"What I am more concerned about is that we can breathe well now and do not feel any discomfort symptoms. I was still worried about the situation that the oxygen cylinder was not brought, but now it seems that it is all unfounded worry."

Could it be said that the types and proportions of gases contained in the air on this planet are similar to those on the earth, so is it suitable for human survival?Or, is the palace ruins itself special?

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

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

Yan Jingxing hesitated for a moment, he didn't know whether to bring up a certain topic.

After the initial shock gradually calmed down, the first question he thought of was:
How should we go back?

This is actually a question that should be considered from the beginning of the adventure plan, but this "first transfer" is simply an accident that no one thought of.

Yan Jingxing thought to himself, it's not so much because of recklessness, it's better to say that they never thought they would succeed in one go.

In fact, before taking the UFO ride, Miss Xie had already expressed that she did not believe that this machine had the magical function of transporting people to another planet from the bottom of her heart.

In fact, Lian Yan Jingxing, of course he is willing to believe in the guidance provided by the ghost astronaut, but... just imitating "him" and sitting in it, it actually happened directly, such an easy way, he still did not expect it and.

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

"How about this, let's think about going back first. We can try, if we sit back in that pitcher plant device, can it send us back to Earth."

—What if it can’t?
Yan Jingxing imagined it for a while, and felt a tightness in his chest, and a bottomless fear gripped his heart.

He began to regret it, thinking that if it was really impossible, we could only stay on this planet as three of us, trying our best to survive...

Can it really be done?

Accompanying them is only a huge and empty palace.

"No, don't worry..." he said hastily, "It's still too late to go back after a little exploration."

"That's right, that's right, this place is a real alien relic, I haven't seen enough of it yet." Ji Chunzao echoed loudly from the side.

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

"it is good."

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

However, just because Xie Yuzhi, who thought of the same thing as himself, acted calmly enough, he was able to be equally calm——

When Yan Jingxing collected his mind, he suddenly felt his sleeve being pulled.

"Don't worry, we can go back. The adventure will go well."

Ji Chunzao said to him with a smile.

"I have this hunch."

...Of course, there is Chunzao's positive optimism.

"I know."

He smiled again.

*
In the only luggage bag brought by Xie Yuzhi, apart from the thermal underwear, there are also several packets of sugar, chocolate and mineral water, which can be used for one to two days of life.

In addition, there are heaters, flashlights and batteries. With the help of these tools, they explored step by step in the palace.

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

On the walls painted with flesh and blood, reliefs and murals can be seen everywhere, filled with all kinds of strange landscapes and creatures, telling the history of a certain group of intelligent life to open up the world, fight against aliens, and establish settlements, with fine outlines It's like living things are embedded in it.

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

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

"It's left behind by the aliens who built the palace."

She is getting excited.

Yan Jingxing could understand her mood.

They've encountered genuine aliens, but they've been monsters that seem impossible to communicate with at first glance.

Either too disgusting or too scary.

But the real aliens should be the same as the humans on the earth, who use wisdom and advanced technology to dominate the planet.

"Measured by human history, the ability to produce such a lifelike surprise 'art' shows that the civilization of aliens has reached a highly developed level."

"Then, the appearance of...'people' 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 startled.

Because the appearance of the statues is too realistic, coupled with the addition of the weird metal material used as the base, he is afraid that they will come alive like in horror movies.

The heights of these statues are all similar, between two and a half and three meters, and their appearance is similar to that of a human being, but their limbs are thinner and longer than those of humans on earth.

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

"Convergent evolution." Xie Yuzhi suddenly popped out a word that was unfamiliar to junior high school students.

"...Ah, what?"

Xie Yuzhi quickly explained:

"Even different organisms, unrelated species, and those organisms that are far apart in evolution, 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 natural evolution. condition."

"Since aliens can develop civilization, it means that they have brains as developed as humans; they need to use tools, and they will evolve flexible hands...Even on different planets, life similar to humans may be born. "

Of course, the similarity in this situation only refers to body shape and limbs. In terms of detailed appearance, aliens and humans are still very different.

For example, although aliens have organs that look like eyes, their positions are completely different from those of humans. As for the nose and mouth, they are completely invisible, and there is no hair on their bodies.

From the perspective of human aesthetics, each of their heads is bald, and their faces are like toys made by naughty children;

Plus, they don't appear to have human-like skin, but are instead covered by a layer of bone, muscle and membranes.

"This is... a real alien."

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath.

It is precisely because "they" are very human-like in shape, but they are completely different in some features, which makes him feel an indescribable horror.

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

"If our discovery is published, it will definitely shock the whole world."

Ji Chunzao didn't seem to feel this kind of horror at all, her heart was always 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, this kind of discovery that is destined to shock the world is not worth it? I still want to be famous in history!"

"Then don't worry, it must be better than Nobel. Let me think about it. If I want to use an analogy, it should be similar to the history of Columbus discovering the New World. He became the pioneer of the great geographical discovery... No, discovering a star with highly developed wisdom The historical significance of alien planets with traces of civilization is even greater than that."

"...Really? It would be great if that's the case."

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

"I'm not going to ask you guys not to talk about it."

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

"……Any questions?"

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

Xie Yuzhi explained.

"Except for the ghost astronaut that only Jing Xing saw, the iron door, the radio, the bed, and the materials that are still in my house can all prove that someone has stayed there for a long time; on the other hand, when did the UFO What about the one that appeared in the cave?"

"You mean, someone, like us, used UFOs to come to this planet?"

"Possibility is nine out of ten. After all, at present, that machine is really easy to use, without any restrictions and requirements. However, the world has not changed because of this, has it?"

"If the matter of aliens is really exposed to the outside world, I won't be suspected all the time..."

Ji Chunzao muttered.

"Well. In other words, the news was covered up, or it was not exposed for more special reasons; but we don't know the reason behind it. In this case, the conservative strategy we can adopt is to Can also be concealed, can't it?"

"...Yes, right..."

"you're right."

Faced with Miss Xie's deliberation, the remaining two can only agree dryly.

……

Most of the rooms in the ruins of the palace were suppressed by the collapsed buildings. They found some statues and metal containers, but they were of no use.

In addition, there are various strange mechanisms:

There are telescopic arms that seem to be made of a dozen people's arms; there are also two huge trembling lung lobes hanging from the ceiling, covered with a thick layer of dust, which seems to be some kind of air purification device.

All they can do is walk around cautiously.

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

When they came to the most central hall, they saw the most magnificent mural so far; and judging from the coherent clues, it seemed to tell an epic that occupied an important historical position for this civilization.

The mural in the middle is three aliens with different appearances and different costumes in the forest; countless towering giant trees surround them, and in the middle of them is a long pillar piercing the sky and full of eyes.

Looking at the texture, this long column feels like it is made of "meat", like some kind of giant organism that humans cannot understand the way of life.

"so weird……"

Yan Jingxing thought to himself.

Next, they dug out three things from the fleshy pillar, two of them were holding a bloody eyeball in their hands, and the remaining one was holding a bunch of long bones like thorns in their hands—probably spine.

At the end of the mural, the pillar of flesh collapsed, replaced by endless lightning all over the sky, forming a doomsday scene together with landslides and ground cracks...

"This mural seems to be expressing the meaning of this palace." Xie Yuzhi pondered, "Considering the role of murals in human civilization is often related to religion, could it be that they are worshiping a... strange thing ?”

The huge living creature surrounded by aliens has a strange and indescribable appearance. She can only call it "strange thing".

"No, looking at their attitude, it doesn't look like they are treating God at all. You see, these three different aliens took three organs from that thing and broke it."

"Well, is that some kind of prophetic or mythical creation? A warning to people not to be greedy or destructive."

"It may be true," Ji Chunzao interjected at this moment, "We have all seen the super-large alien creature in that cloud! Maybe one day, we will also meet the monster on the mural?"

"..."

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

"Chunzao, you are really fearless."

(End of this chapter)