Chapter 1534 Sculpture Hall
There are still survivors on this planet.
This fact greatly inspired Hao Ren's spirit and aroused his curiosity. His attention to this matter made him even temporarily forget about the terrible current situation of the planet's surface when he was talking about it from outer space: in the dream plane, this ghost In the apocalyptic world, planets destroyed by the Firstborn and the Firstborn have never been uncommon. A group of drones can send back at least ten ruins scanning signals when they go around, but there are very few survivors among them. It is unprecedented that survivors still insist on resisting - it can be seen from the previous few aircraft that the survivors of this planet not only persist in resisting, but even dare to take the initiative!
Therefore, although Hao Ren did not rush to establish communication with those aircraft, he also asked the data terminal to keep an eye on them and intercept their communication content as much as possible. As long as there was a chance, he had to establish contact with these survivors as soon as possible.
Of course, the most important thing at this stage is to gain a firm foothold on our own side. Acting cautiously is the first condition to ensure the completion of the mission. Now that Nolan is still a seriously injured person lying in the impact crater, Hao Ren can only use the power at hand. Apart from a group of friends at home, there were only a group of self-disciplined machines and an arsenal in his own personal space. He estimated the combined combat power of these and believed that it was not enough to control the field when in contact with the local indigenous people. , so he has to take his time.
The survivors are not necessarily friendly. After fighting a crazy eldest son for thousands of years, they may also be another group of crazy people.
But Nolan made so much noise when he fell... Maybe the natives of this planet have noticed that there is a group of extraterrestrial visitors on their planet.
After the two aircraft were completely out of everyone's sight, Hao Ren received a communication from Nolan. The ship's wife sounded a little nervous: "Boss! Are you okay over there? I just sensed a strong wave on your side. Energy response!”
"Let me tell you, the civilization of this planet is not completely extinct as we thought before. There are actually survivors here..."
"Why?!"
"And they are at war with the eldest son of this planet. From visual inspection, the fighting is going back and forth."
"Hey?!"
The data terminal sent the images it recorded to Nolan. Lily and Nangong Wuyue recited what had just happened. Finally, Hao Ren expressed his thoughts, and Nolan agreed after a brief pause.
"Now that we are in a bad situation, we really need to regain some strength before considering expanding our operations. It is best to collect enough intelligence first, so that the initiative is in our hands. I often did this when I was a 'mercenary' ," Nolan said, "As for whether it has been discovered by the local indigenous people... I don't think so yet, because I haven't felt scanned by anything like radar yet. Although many of my external observation devices have been destroyed. , but he has not become blind, if someone actively observes him, he will definitely be able to feel it."
"That's okay. All in all, collecting information on the civilization survivors on this planet as soon as possible and determining their contact level, restoring the functions of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform as soon as possible and finding a way to contact the drone group are the two most important things at the moment. Work."
"Nolan understands that our ship will launch a new batch of probes to find the survivors' base and conduct observations. Captain, when will you return?"
"I plan to continue exploring the ruins of this city," Hao Ren replied. "Although this ruins may have been abandoned for thousands of years, there will still be clues of survivors hidden in the ruins... At least we can know where their civilization is. What it was like before being hit hard by the eldest son.”
"Please be careful. Although the lullaby system has been activated, we are still standing on the head of a planet-level monster - and this monster has just been provoked once. Its subconscious activities are catastrophic."
Hao Ren reassured Nolan, then hung up the communication and led the trio toward the center of the ruins of the city.
The bombings and counterattacks that occurred at the edge of the distant forest did not seem to affect the tranquility deep in the ruins. This desolate ruins remained peaceful. Only some wild animals living in the ruins gradually began to move, making the place gradually more lively. the sound of. Looking at the peaceful ruins and the lush vegetation between the ruins, Hao Ren could hardly imagine a world still under the shadow of the wrathful eldest son: everything was too peaceful.
The cleansing of the ecosystem after the eldest son goes crazy is destructive. Wherever the tide of source blood goes, both organic and inorganic matter will be completely corroded, assimilated, and reset. Not only intelligent creatures, but also every plant in nature. Mudu will be completely destroyed. However, on this planet, the eldest son is in an active state, the ecosystem is still lush, and the forest has even become so lush that it can swallow up the civilized world.
Looking at the alien animals jumping around among the ruins, they seem to have no idea what is happening in their own world.
The only thing that can prove that the eldest son and the second son are still at war seems to be the bombing in the distance just now.
Isn't the eldest son of this planet crazy? Or maybe the indigenous civilization of this planet gained the upper hand in the war, completely suppressed the activities of the eldest son, and even allowed the planet's ecosystem to recuperate during thousands of years of tug-of-war?
With this question in mind, Hao Ren and his party walked through the collapsed and abandoned ancient buildings. What they needed to collect were mainly written and picture records of ancient civilizations, but these two things were the least easy to preserve, which required a lot of effort. patience.
Perhaps we should take the opportunity to look for the wreckage of the destroyed aircraft on the edge of the forest - if they fall on this side of the forest and away from the Tentacles of the Firstborn.
At noon, the group arrived at the foot of the huge building in the center of the city.
This large building that looks like a square pyramid should be the best-preserved part of the city: it obviously uses stronger materials and special construction techniques to extend the life of the building itself as much as possible, although all the exterior decorations on its surface are It has fallen off, and large holes and wide cracks can be seen everywhere on the main body. However, after using radar scanning, the data terminal confirmed that the skeleton of this building with unknown purpose is still intact, just like a giant beast with steel and iron bones, with flesh and fur. It has become decayed over time, but it still has a strong skeleton.
There are indications that this building should be very important.
Due to the collapse of the city, the building itself has settled by more than ten meters. The original entrance was naturally buried among the remaining bricks and rubble, but its surface was full of holes and cracks, so Hao Ren didn't need to look for any entrance. , and after letting the data terminal roughly confirm the internal structure of the building, he led the people to get in through a relatively stable crack.
The faint blue light emitted by the data terminal and the warm flame radiance of the fire illuminated the dark interior of the building. This ancient ruins like a decaying tomb are full of traces of time, moss and microorganisms that grew in the dark environment. Photobacteria grew wantonly along the walls, and winding vines emerged from the broken floor slabs. In some places, Hao Ren also heard the faint sound of running water: the city's underground structure has evolved into an underground river. According to the data Terminal detection, this underground river connects two depressed areas in the city, and leads all the way to streams and underground waterways in the forest. Together with the surface water system, they nourish the nearby plant system.
The new ecosystem is operating quietly and vigorously in this ruins.
Nangong Wuyue crawled next to Hao Ren in the form of a sea snake. She was surrounded by three water balls. With the relatively humid environment inside the building, she could perceive every detail around her in an all-round and three-dimensional way. Suddenly she stopped and pointed in a certain direction with the tip of her tail: "Landlord, look at this."
Hao Ren walked over curiously and used a data terminal to provide lighting, and then he found a decorative sculpture there.
The sculpture had broken and collapsed, with only the upper body lying on the ground and the lower body missing. After the moss on the surface of the statue was removed, its original appearance was revealed to everyone.
A statue of a human being - at least it looks similar to a human being.
"It seems that the intelligent creatures on this planet have also followed the information disturbance and evolved into this 'standard template' form," Hao Ren nodded. "Now we can at least determine what the native creatures on this planet look like."
"It's not just this." Vivian's eyes were slightly red, and she looked towards a dark hall in front of her. "This is either a museum, or... it's used to leave messages."
Hao Ren raised his head, and following Vivian's gaze, he understood what the other person's words meant.
In the hall in front, countless sculptures and reliefs are lined up quietly, like soldiers waiting for review, or like silent tombstones.
Sculptures, whether on earth or on alien planets, have the shadow of these things in the development and inheritance of many civilizations. Whether it is a piece of wood or rough stone that was casually carved in the budding period of civilization, or it was cast with alloys when civilization rose. Delicate objects, sculptures always occupy an important position in information transmission with their direct and vivid expressions. If the information capacity is not considered, the accuracy and reliability of sculptures in transmitting information will far exceed that of any text or language. Therefore, if If you want to pass down an important thing to future generations for thousands of years, and hope that it can be easily interpreted by those who come after you, then one of the best ways is to engrave it.
Whether carved into reliefs or made into statues, it can keep information for a long enough time. At least in front of some civilizations that have not yet been able to defeat "time" itself, the "shelf life" of these statues and reliefs is sufficient.
This building may really be just a museum for exhibiting sculptures, but Hao Ren hopes that it is a guestbook left by ancient civilizations when they faced disasters. Although the existence of the six previous aircraft proved that this planet still has Survivors, but for some reason, Hao Ren always felt that he could not place his hope of uncovering the historical truth on the "survivors" represented by the aircraft.