Everyone has left the city far away, and there is only a deep passage spreading all the way in front of them. Looking back towards the direction of the city, there is only a faint light coming from it—this requires eyesight beyond the limit of human vision to see.
The surroundings were filled with dirty gas that was almost poisonous. It was obvious that Hao Ren and the others had chosen a gate that had never been opened: there had never been any ventilation behind this gate.
The passage is very wide, and most of the structures are complete, not as cramped and dilapidated as expected. It just looks quite old and dirty, thick dust can be seen everywhere, and everything has serious signs of erosion over the years. Obviously, compared with a fully enclosed and continuously operating city, this place lacks the necessary cleaning.
In the center of the passage, you can see a lot of steel guide rails arranged in parallel. Although it is different from the railway structure on the earth, it is still obvious that it is prepared for some kind of large transport vehicle. If nothing happened to the planet, this passage would be a busy subway line—it connects the city with a major transportation hub, an important arterial. But now it's just an old cave that has been abandoned for 10,000 years. Apart from dust, there are only old machines that don't know if they can be started.
The ceiling of the tunnel was inlaid with a row of dim lights, 80 to 90 percent of which were working, and these lights were the only thing that proved that the tunnel was not completely abandoned. With the dim light, he could see the surroundings clearly. Hao Ren saw all kinds of waste machinery piled up on both sides, including rusty carriages and dusty robots. Lily went forward to check it, and then jumped back to report the situation: "The model is not the same as the one in the city, it looks more primitive."
"In other words, the machines in the city are all evolutionary versions." Hao Ren nodded slightly. "It seems that some kind of 'research and development work' is indeed going on, and the machines are being updated... This is something that requires creativity."
"These machines should have been abandoned before the planet... Maybe they were abandoned earlier, such as 10,000 years ago," Izaks looked at the broken copper and iron passing by, "It seems that they were abandoned suddenly, and they must have been abandoned at that time Something unexpected happened."
Vivienne's eyes shone slightly red in the dim environment. She suddenly saw something that caught her attention from a pile of sundries, and a few small bats flew over, flipping out a small metal plate from the pile of sundries. Hao Ren took the metal plate from the little bat's claw. He found some pictures engraved on it. On the picture was a middle-aged man with a serious expression and meticulous clothes. At first glance, he felt that this face was familiar. After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized that this was just before he entered the shelter. The middle-aged man seen on the curtain wall of that hall!
It was the first stranger's face he saw on this planet.
Nangong Wudi came over and took a look, with a slight surprise on his face: "This person seems to be called the Grand Commander."
"Commander?" Hao Ren raised the metal plate in his hand, "Do you know him?"
"He will appear on the screen, which is the TV you are talking about," Nangong Wudi nodded, "except for major events. He only appears once a year. He is the highest official here. So I am very impressed by him. "
"Is the highest officer of this planet..." Hao Ren flicked the dust on the metal plate, "He appeared on the big screen, but the date of his birth and death is written under the sign, and the note says deep condolences. Ordinarily, only those who have died will mark XX to XX years after their names, right?"
"This grand commander is already dead?" Vivienne looked at the commemorative plaque in surprise, "...it seems that the person we see on the screen is more meaningful."
Hao Ren nodded, and led the crowd to continue walking deep into the passage.
After advancing for an unknown amount of time, the passage reached the end, and the group came to an open, large cave that looked like a subway interchange center.
The large cave is generally oval in shape, and circular tunnel entrances and exits can be seen on the walls of the cave in all directions. The style of each entrance and exit is exactly the same, and there are long rails extending out. And at the place where these railroad tracks meet, there is a huge saucer-shaped building. There is no doubt that this is an important hub of the planet's subway center, and the surrounding circular tunnels should lead to other cities.
A group of people cautiously stepped into the dish-shaped building in the center of the cave. This ancient facility is still structurally intact, but it is completely shrouded in darkness. It is unknown whether the energy system is offline or the lamps are all broken. Lily held up her fire as a torch to illuminate everyone. In the flickering light of the fire, everyone saw the criss-crossing railway tracks and the dispatching platform full of sundries. and the badly damaged control cabin.
A few little bats flew into the surrounding darkness. I don't know what these little guys bumped into. There was a sound of mechanical friction in the "subway station", and then the lights on the ceiling suddenly turned on, turning the Everyone was startled.
After confirming that only the lighting system was activated, Hao Ren heaved a sigh of relief and began to look around curiously. He suddenly saw a group of complex sculptures standing in front of the intersection of several railroad tracks, and he was immediately attracted.
The sculpture presents a group of human beings with strange behaviors. They gather in a circle and raise their hands to the sky, while above their heads there is a strange-shaped thing floating, which is a group of radial metal lines, which seems to express a A shapeless ray or thunderbolt. Vivian looked at the sculpture and muttered: "It's a bit like recording the third kind of contact."
Hao Ren didn't say anything, just bent down and gently brushed off the thick dust on the base of the sculpture. Unsurprisingly, there are still uneven embossed writings left there, and the passage of more than 10,000 years has not completely erased the writings on this special alloy. A short sentence was written on it: "Always remember and thank the people of the starry sky for warning us."
"People of the Starry Sky?" Lily muttered strangely, "Aliens?"
Nangong Wuyue frowned and thought for a while: "Could it be that this kind of alien called the people of the starry sky came to warn that the humans on this planet built the ark?"
Hao Ren didn't say anything, just stared blankly at the word "People of the Starry Sky". He felt an inexplicable sense of sight welling up in his heart. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized that he had seen similar expressions elsewhere. : "'Allies from the Stars' - do you remember this race being mentioned on the planet Holleta?"
With his reminder, other people remembered this incident one after another, Nangong Wuyue stared incredulously: "You said that the people of the starry sky mentioned here are the same group of people as Holleta's 'Allies of the Stars'? "
"It's just a guess." Hao Ren stood up and looked at the group of abstract lines above the sculpture group, "Many things in the Dream Plane are connected together. So far, nothing happened on any planet in isolation. "
Lily looked up at the sculpture for a long time, and suddenly felt: "The people of the starry sky look like sea urchins."
Nangong Wuyue corrected it seriously: "Sea urchins don't look like this—if you don't believe me, I'll change it for you..."
"You two be quiet," Vivian stared at the dog and the fish, "Let's go, maybe there are more clues ahead."
A group of people searched around the building, and finally found an underground space under the building. This underground space is unusually wide, almost the same size as the saucer-shaped building above, and in the center of this huge basement, you can see a large-scale facility composed of several arc-shaped structures that looks like an elevator bracket. Lily ran to the side of the facility and lowered her head to look down, and immediately squatted on the ground and quickly rubbed back: "It's so deep down there!"
In the center of the "elevator support" is a hollow with a radius of more than ten meters. A straight downward tunnel extends into the endless darkness. The remaining alloy guide rails can be seen on the four walls of the tunnel, but the elevator that should have been at the top of the tunnel has disappeared.
Of course, even if the lift is still here, it's hard to tell if it's still working—this place, unlike the city shelter, shows little sign of maintenance.
Vivian conjured up a little bat and threw it down, and waited for a long time before shrugging: "It hasn't fallen to the bottom yet."
Lily raised her hand and shouted, "Anyway, I don't want to jump! I'll bite whoever forces me!"
"You don't need it," Hao Ren rolled his eyes, "Vivienne, let's go down—others wait here."
(The unusual cartoon character design has been announced, you can go to the bar to find the voting stickers, hurry up and check it out, it’s only these two days!) (To be continued~^~)