Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Vernal swears.

Even if he discovered many miracles of the civilized world, he had never been deeply shocked by what he saw before him, as he is today.

It's an empty space on a football field with no more than a hundred ceilings, a square stone tablet like a chessboard, and a chessboard full of almost all the space. It's like a mirror-smooth surface, and the edges of a knife are cut out, like a piece of craftsmanship.

What is astonishing is not the magnitude of the work as a figurine, but the billions of years that have failed to flatten its diamond horn or even leave a scratch on it.

“God… is incredible. ”

In trembling strides, Professor Vernal crossed the gazing Schultz to the nearest stone tablet. The old professor stretched out his trembling right hand and pressed his palm against that smooth, smooth surface, as if touching a piece of craft.

“This is a graveyard...”

On the nearest tablet, Professor Vernal whispered to himself, "A cemetery belonging to civilization… it is hard to imagine how they have remained intact over these long years, and who and why they have accomplished this miracle. ”

Finally, returning from stunner to God, Schultz swallowed his mouth and stood next to Professor Vernal, looking at him and saying in a questioning tone.

“... graveyard? ”

“Yes.”

After a moment of hesitation, Professor Vernal finally pulled out the multifunctional shovel he had previously picked up, causing his whole body to crush it.

After a few stinging crisps, the mirror-smooth stone finally couldn't resist the knocking, like a broken tofu block, splitting apart along the shovel's drop point.

A piece of debris was knocked down along the crack, and Professor Vernal took it in his hand and carefully analyzed it for a moment, he said.

“At least three billion years ago, this fragment in my hand was supposed to come from an alloy material that, after billions of years of weathering, had turned it into red iron ore, but the rare metals dispersed in the alloy were not completely oxidized, even because the denser oxide layer was well preserved, thus forming a special natural alloy with iron oxide as its main ingredient, which should also contain cadmium, nickel and carbon, but the specific ingredients also required specialized equipment for analysis. ”

After a pause, he continued.

“It wasn't just these that surprised me, it was this‘ craft ’made of high-strength alloys, wrapped with organic debris from some calcium carbonate minerals. ”

“These things are like coffins… No, they are coffins, to be exact. ”

Taking a deep breath, Professor Vernal carefully placed the samples collected in the sample bag he was carrying and labeled with information such as where the samples were taken.

Looking at Professor Vernal, who had made such an inference, Schultz's throat, with a shocking expression on his face, moved slightly, and it took a while before he could say it.

“But... why did they send the coffin to the bottom of the ocean a few kilometres below? I thought you said that billions of years ago, it was supposed to be a sea. ”

Implementing such a large project on the seabed is not an easy task.

Schultz is rather skeptical that, with the technology now available on Earth, it is not necessarily possible to dig such a vast ruin at the bottom of the ocean a few kilometres below.

Professor Vernal nodded to Schultz's point.

“Yes, I did say, and the depth here is probably not too small, and as you said, it has to be at least a few kilometres or even dozens of kilometres. ”

Looking up at this wide cave and the square stone that was neat enough to measure with a ruler, he frowned slightly and fell into contemplation.

“Maybe it's some kind of special religious ritual, maybe it's a sacrifice to that sacred relic...”

“Or, actually, this isn't a cemetery. ”

“Some kind of shelter? ”

Vernal felt a little tricky.

There are too many possibilities.

……

Just as Professor Vernal and Schultz, shocked by the discovery in front of them, almost forgot their purpose, stood on an empty rock boat and finally heard the voice of another civilization.

“It would have taken at least a few centuries for me to see you again, and I didn't expect the day to come so soon," with a little praise and pleasure in that voice, "so congratulations, the chosen one, believe you've brought me the answer I need, right? ”

“Yes," the ark nodded, "I've turned on file transfer, and if you can successfully receive this data, you should see my proof. If there's anything you don't understand, I can tell you. ”

“No, there are many methods of validation, and this level of mathematical problem is not difficult for us. ”

It's not that hard...

This world-class dilemma that haunted him and his collaborators for a month was only “to this extent” in the eyes of this guy.

To think of it, the face of the ark could not help but show a slight crying expression.

Put this strange sense of frustration aside for a moment, the ark took a deep breath and said with a clear voice in the face of this empty stone cave.

“May I ask you a question? ”

“Ask. ”

“In fact, this is not the only way to get here. ”

“Yes, but this is the fastest,” the voice continued with a hint of pleasure, "there is not only one way to solve the problem in itself, traversing all the results, and finding a way out through an endless number of possibilities is one of the pleasures of exploring. Of course, you can speculate like you do now, letting yourself flow with the bubbles of four-dimensional space, but it takes more than just courage and wisdom, it takes a lot of risk. ”

Fun?

The look on the face of the ark is strange.

At least he had no idea there was any fun in it.

“I do not understand the significance of such a test. ”

“This is an interesting question, and a long time ago, someone asked me that... at that time you were probably just cells. ”

The voice carried a bit of nostalgia and continued.

“The point of the test is to let the right person inherit what belongs to him. ”

“You know, civilization itself is an abstract concept, and a gift aimed at civilization is not enough to pack a gift and throw it on their home planet. We have to first screen the right individuals in some special way, then cultivate the individuals through the screening to guide them to find and inherit those gifts, and it is only in this case that the gifts that are prepared for enlightenment will be able to do what it is supposed to do… in fact, these are what I later thought of. ”

Ark: “So you're not an observer civilization. ”

“No… but you will ask, it seems you have already met them? ”

The voice gave a slight sense of interest.

Hearing the change in tone, the ark nodded its head and said concisely.

“Kind of a privilege to meet. ”

“Being able to face the void is no ordinary man's luck, although sometimes being too lucky does not mean being a good thing. ”

The ark did not speak, but waited for the sound to continue.

“Well, now that you've met the observer, I'm sure it's already told you about the 'legacy'. If it likes you, I don't know if you know more secrets than I do. ”

“Keep moving. ”

“A gift from the void lies ahead. ”

“I'm sure you've all stood here, and it shouldn't be hard to pass the final test. ”

The ark nodded down.

“Of course. ”

Say it. He stepped forward and came to the invisible wall, slowly extending his right hand towards it.

As soon as his right hand finally touched the transparent wall, the ark could feel a clear resistance that was preventing his hand from moving forward.

But amazingly, he could clearly feel that there was nothing there.

It was as if it was not some visible substance that blocked him, but something similar to the law.

After a long time of indulgence, a slight expression of interest suddenly appeared in the eyes of the ark, speaking to himself thoughtfully.

“… I didn't expect the cracks in the four-dimensional space to grow like this. ”

The voice carried a little compliment.

“Well, you're the first human to discover this. ”

“Where's Martian? ”

“They used it for 20,000 years. ”

“Twenty thousand years… that's a long time. ”

“From the tribal era to the information age, they were almost close to the truth, but unfortunately those little ones were too proud of their power, and this heavy truth eventually destroyed them. ”

He continued to grope on the invisible wall with his hands on his face and asked casually with an interested look on his face.

“What happened to them? ”

“Disasters, man-made and partly obstructed by nature… If you want to know, when you pass this barrier in front of you, nature will know. Save some information there and if interested, you can take them away as a gift. ”

“That shouldn't take long. ”

With that said, the ark took two steps back.

“What are you going to do? ”

With a hint of curiosity, the sound seemed to be anticipating the next move of the ark.

As if in response to this curiosity, the ark smiled lightly.

“Is that a question? ”

“Continuing, of course, the unfinished work of those billions of years ago. ”

Go ahead, he reached out and pressed a few buttons on his wrist-mounted computer.

Soon a line of different colors was projected in 3D on the screen inside the mask and reflected in the pupils of the ark.

That curved line corresponds to the passage inside the relic, which is what he showed in the conference room earlier.

Although only a small part of the site tunnel has been mapped, after all, the maximum exploration distance between Van and the operated line-controlled remote-controlled vehicle is only one kilometre, but it is sufficient for the ark.

As long as there is a certain pattern of interference in this three-dimensional space by these four-dimensional space debris.

Even without a complete map.

There was a slight echo on the communication channel, and the voice carried an obscure compliment.

“... I underestimated you. ”

“Unfortunately, you only have two hours. ”

“Sure enough, the district is just a topological problem together, although it's complicated…” Shut down the communication module and take a deep breath in the ark, completely quiet, "but two hours is enough for me. ”