death of hope

Chapter 448 "Enterprise Warrior" (358) Salt Civilization

Shaft was gearing up and wanted to continue exploring this underground country, and an error message box began to pop up on the drone operation interface.

The picture began to tear, distort, and shake, and after a few seconds, the four sets of camera pictures disappeared at the same time.

"What, no electricity?" Uzuki Shimizu asked.

"Impossible, it's still fully charged before takeoff, enough to fly for two hours." Shaft clicked on the error prompt boxes one by one, and carefully checked the error codes:
"Let me just say, it's not about the battery...I found the reason!

The four-channel signal was interfered... What the hell, all the four drones that searched and attacked all lost contact. It took me a week to transform it. "

"Who did it?"

"Panasonic Lai Sheng, it is estimated that his people are carrying anti-drone equipment."

"The signals of the powerful anti-jamming drones have all been cut off, so aren't we going to lose contact with the above?"

"Don't panic." Uzuki Shimizu said, "My lord will bring someone down."

"What should we do now?"

"Of course to explore the ruins, the traitor may be there." After that, Uzuki Shimizu couldn't wait to lead the four samurai out of the area covered by the light, and walked quickly into the darkness.

"What the hell!! These grandsons want to take the credit!" Shaft scolded, "Obviously we discovered it first, and this is likely to be a big archaeological discovery! Follow up! Boss!"

"Um... let's go."

The dark and dead atmosphere, just like Marcus Lynch's mood at the moment,

Traveled to various colonies on a starship, stained with blood, and now went deep into the magic cave, reaching [-] meters underground,
Still did not find any clues about the two children, and the hope of saving lives became increasingly slim. He had no choice but to take one step at a time.

Using night vision goggles to the outskirts of the underground city, the warriors slowed down, as if waiting for them.

"What the hell! These grandchildren, Qing is waiting for ready-made ones!"

Lodayev cursed and fired upwards, this time with a powerful flare he made himself.

Hitting the roof of the cave and sticking directly to it, the improved mixed metal charge can continue to burn for a long time.

One shot, two shots, three shots, Lodayev fired up the remaining flares in one go, and three small suns appeared on the top of the cave.

With the help of the drone night vision device, I was already deeply impressed by just looking at the blurred outline, but now witnessing the magnificent buildings of the underground city with my own eyes, everyone is greatly shocked.

At a glance, its architectural style is a mixture of ancient Egypt, ancient Aztec, and ancient Babylon. They are thick stone buildings with sharp edges and corners, engraved with gorgeous patterns and strange inscriptions.

"An astonishing discovery, enough to go down in history."

"This is not Panasonic Lai Sheng's secret base."

"It wasn't built by humans at all."

"This planet originally had a brilliant civilization, but it was buried underground after it died."

"It feels like it's tens of thousands of years old."

"What an ancient civilization with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The layout of the city is completely symmetrical, and the streets and statues are spotless."

"Wait... how is it possible?!"

"Touch it yourself, there is really no dust."

"Damn... really..."

"This statue looks like the intelligent life of the underground civilization, huh! It looks like no one, just like Pai Daxing in "SpongeBob SquarePants"!"

"Hahaha! The old company commander is so funny."

"In the eyes of others, humans are probably as ridiculous as Boss Crab."

Everyone walked along the main road of the city, admiring the huge stone statues lined up along the way. The flares fired before gradually faded, and Uzuki Shimizu immediately raised his hand to fill it up.

"Hey! I'm obviously carrying flares, and I've been hiding them all the time!" Lodayev scolded, "You really know how to calculate, these Japanese iron roosters!"

The main road leads directly to the center of the underground city. The buildings here are taller and more magnificent. Some look like Roman arenas, some look like ancient Greek temples, and some look like Babylonian towers.

The most gigantic of these, a massive stone structure resembling an Aztec pyramid, its spiers poke almost to the top of the cave.

"It looks like I'm about to suffer from cervical spondylosis, this thing is at least 200 meters high..."

"It's much larger than the Pyramid of Khufu on Terra's home star, but this one has a flat top and a larger inclination angle."

"Again, it's spotless, which is weird, like a cleaner cleans it every day."

Before the flares were completely extinguished, the doorman Comanche found something stuck in the gap between the floor tiles under his feet. He pulled it out with tweezers and found that it was a SanDisk brand data memory card.

At this time, the surroundings had completely darkened, and he didn't tell his teammates, wanting to put it in his pocket.

"Hey, Ke, what did you find just now?" Shaft asked.

"Really, still want to mime it? Let's take a look!"

"It's nothing..." Comanche took it out reluctantly.

"Could it be that I picked up a gold coin!"

"A worthless thing..."

Shaft took it over: "I'll go! What the hell underground people still use memory cards? Is it true that you sent a big star to take pictures of SpongeBob SquarePants?"

"Your uncle, this is obviously brought over by humans..."

"Is there a card reader, plug it into the tablet and have a look."

"How could it not be, I am a toolbox for walking!"

It can be seen on the screen that the 4TB memory card only stores less than 10GB of data, and the content is all articles, pictures, and log videos. Shaft flipped through a few pages at random and made a major discovery:

"The owner of the memory card is Shuichi Sakamoto, a doctor of interstellar archaeology, an expert in psychic research, and a former Umbrella senior researcher.
This salt mine was accidentally discovered during the third phase of the underground research institute's construction. For some reason, the remote sensing equipment made a mistake, and such a huge hole was not found.
It is similar to the salt mine on Terra's parent star, except for halite crystals, which are common symbiotic salt minerals.
Gypsum, Anhydrite, Glauber's Salt, Glauber's Salt, Lapis Lazuli, Calcite, Dolomite, Carnallite, Potash Salt, Polyhalite, Trona, etc.

What is puzzling is that, judging from the traces, this salt mine seems to have been excavated artificially in an extremely primitive way.

The construction crew continued to explore and soon discovered a magnificent underground city. In the process of alien colonization and exploration, the remains of ancient civilizations are not uncommon, but such strange underground remains have never been seen before.

As most people expected, this discovery did not attract the attention of Matsushita Laisheng himself.

At that time, this young master was preparing to lead his cronies to unite with the Green Party to rebel against the family, and was focusing all his energy on expanding his military power and researching spiritual power.

Due to the lack of attention, only a few people were sent to set up an investigation team to enter the ruins, mainly to see if there are treasures and cultural relics in the ruins that can be realized. This Sakamoto Shuuichi is one of the members.

Judging from the article, this man is quite ambitious. He is quite dissatisfied with the young master's greed. He hopes to conduct a comprehensive investigation and study of this civilization, so as to leave a name in the archaeological world.
I wrote a lot just about the plan, and I flipped through it later, and I have...

The article, written a month after the investigation began, deciphered the meaning of the writing on the statue's base,
This is a civilization that worships 'salt' extremely, and calls itself the 'salt people'.

Their bodies seem to be built to need a lot of electrolytes, and sodium is in dire need.

The planet also lacks seawater or saltwater lakes, and a large amount of rock salt must be mined to meet the needs. It was once faced with a crisis of extinction due to lack of salt.

According to the inscriptions in the underground temple, in the second era, the 'Salt People' tribe was attacked by the 'Sand People' tribe, and the city walls fell.

They had to cede territory and offer tributes for peace, lost the salt mines, and had to buy a small amount of rock salt mined by other tribes at high prices to make ends meet.

When he was precarious and humiliated, a young ascetic monk of the Salt People dreamed of the revelation of the "Earth Shaking Dragon God" and went to the Temple of the Earth to find his companions. No one believed him.
Then the ascetic monk went into the depths of a natural cave alone to search for a miracle, and then there was no news.
Despite the 'salt man''s night vision and tough physique, cave exploration is still a near-death errand,

A whole star year has passed, and everyone has tried their best just to survive, and has long forgotten about it. One evening, the ascetic monk in ragged clothes returned to the Saltman tribe and died of exhaustion outside the chief's tent.

A large piece of high-quality rock salt was found in the ascetic's package, as well as a bundle of scrolls, recording the route through the long cave to the huge salt mine.

Since then, the Salt tribe has recovered its vitality, its population has increased, its productivity has been developed, and it has successfully transitioned from a primitive tribe to a feudal dynasty.

Once there are sufficient material resources, excellent physical conditions, and abundant martial arts, the Salt people will become unstoppable.
Within an era, the four hostile civilizations, 'Sandman', 'Tree Elf', 'Swamp Lizard' and 'Fire Troll', were conquered and eventually became the overlord. "

(End of this chapter)