Crouching next to a giant machine that looked like a supercomputer, Charles looked at the tablet in his hand, his hand placed underneath the tablet to charge it.
The green screen lit up, and Charles' eyes lit up as well, but after he quickly glanced at it, the light in his eyes dimmed again.
There was nothing he wanted in it. Apart from all kinds of data that he could not understand at all, there was also a photo of a man and his wife.
Charles turned his head to look at the various machines in the house. The cables running up and down the rectangular machines spread everywhere like tree roots. His crew members were searching quickly while moving around with torches in hand.
The other rooms were used to store things, but this house of nearly 200 square meters was full of unfamiliar machines.
Although it is unknown what the Foundation uses this room for, compared to other places, this is the most likely place.
Just as Charles was frowning and thinking about the possibility of success of this mission, he saw Lily running towards him with the mice.
"Mr. Charles, we seem to have found a secret door!" Lily, squatting on the ground, looked up at Charles excitedly, her tail wagging behind her.
"Secret door?" Charles immediately perked up. Usually there are a lot of good things hidden in such places. "Where is the door?"
Following the mouse to the southeast corner, Lily pointed with her little paw at the white wall in front of her that was no different from other places and said, "This is it."
Charles stepped forward and touched it with his hand, and found that this wall was no different from other places. "Are you sure it's here?"
"Hmm! Our noses are very sensitive. There's the smell of steel in here, which is different from the smell of other places!" The other colorful mice squatted aside and nodded in agreement.
With a quick glance out the window at the huge, motionless tree, Charles waved to the crew in the distance. "Linda!"
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~" The residual green gastric juice continued to corrode the wall in front of them, and soon a heavy steel secret door inside appeared in front of everyone.
"Is there really a secret door? What could be hidden so carefully? Or is this the door the Pope was talking about?" Charles couldn't help but feel curious as he watched the secret door that was constantly corroding.
As the steel door was completely corroded, a red leather, palm-sized diary appeared in front of Charles.
Charles reached out and grabbed it in his hand, and found that it was not paper, but felt more like plastic.
Turning to the first page, a huge scarlet warning appeared in front of Charles.
"Warning, this document is classified at the highest level. Any member who is not authorized by O5 to view this document will be immediately terminated if discovered."
Such a severe warning made Charles more and more curious. What could be so severe
His fingers trembled as he was about to open the book, but then he stopped and ordered the mice to quickly flip through the book.
After the mice quickly turned it over and found that it was really just a record file without any traps, Charles took it and continued to turn it over.
"After the research of Dr. O5, we finally understood part of 3521-1 (Note 1). Dr. O5's previous guess was correct. They have bodies, but they are just colors themselves. Their bodies are not in the same color realm as ours."
"We humans are good at using tools, but various instruments cannot replace our eyes. Our eyes can only observe 165 colors, but this is far from enough. If we cannot understand these colors, we cannot observe them, just like they cannot observe us."
"By looking at Painting 12 of 612 (see page 3), we can see them beyond the limits of human color vision, and I have to say they are so beautiful."
"After all this time, it's another lab report?" Charles impatiently turned to the third page. There was nothing on this page, only a black stain the size of a coin.
Charles' eyes were unconsciously attracted by the stain. The dark stain began to move, and it gradually spread out in front of Charles. Various colors that he had never seen before flowed out from it and into Charles' eyes.
Just by looking at it, he could smell the fragrance of the lilies, but the smell became stronger and stronger, so strong that it even made Charles feel nauseous.
"Ugh~" Charles slammed the book shut, leaned against the wall with his right hand and vomited violently.
He felt his stomach churning and his eyes were swollen and hot.
Fortunately, this feeling did not last long. Just when he was about to vomit bile, the uncomfortable feeling finally disappeared.
"Captain, are you okay?" Dipper helped Charles to sit aside.
"There's something wrong with this book, don't read it yet."
Just as Charles took Dipper's water bag and took a few gulps, a folded and worn piece of paper was placed in front of Charles.
"Captain, take a look, is this what you are looking for?" Linda asked hesitantly.
"What's inside? Is it a nautical chart?" Charles took it and opened it quickly in confusion.
There is indeed a nautical chart inside. The chart is not big and only records the islands within 300 nautical miles around this island, but it looks very detailed.
Not only are the names of the islands marked, but there are also routes between the islands.
Charles glanced over the information directly, his attention was completely drawn to a coordinate point on the nautical chart.
His fingers trembled a little as he reached for a dot on the sea chart. There was a place name that he had been dreaming about. "The east exit of the surface."
"Found it? How did you find it? Really found it? Where did you find it?" Charles was so excited that his voice was a little incoherent.
Linda pointed to the huge tree trunk next to her and said, "Let's go out first. That thing makes me feel uncomfortable."
Charles nodded vigorously, trying to suppress his excitement, but failed. His heart was about to jump out of his chest with excitement.
Charles, with a red face, trembled as he stuffed the chart into his arms and waved his hand fiercely. "Let's go! Go back to the ship! We'll go back to the ship and leave this place immediately."
Everything was so normal, and that was how it should be.
But just as the excited Charles led the crew away, he subconsciously glanced out of the transparent glass window.
The big tree is still the same big tree, but the area around it is no longer empty.
Charles saw them, floating around the trees, those colors that were constantly distorted and indescribable, those colors that broke the limits of human eye perception.
"They are so beautiful..." Charles was almost mesmerized. "They... So they are the 3521-1 mentioned in the book just now?"
"Shua~" Those cloud-like colors suddenly froze. In an instant, tens of thousands of eyes swept towards Charles.
At this moment, when Charles "saw" them, they also "saw" Charles.
(End of this chapter)