The structure inside the building is not tall and grand, and based on the size of the previous side door, Lu Ning can also judge that the height of the person who built it is probably about the same as that of Alliance humans.
But when it comes to details, the style is completely different. For example, the wall is actually made up of some polygonal materials. In order to build a building, using a large number of building materials with completely different shapes is superfluous. However, the connection of these materials The seams are not the strokes of those text patterns, which means that this troublesome behavior has no meaning.
You can clearly feel a sense of deflection on the ground. If you measure carefully, you can find that the left side of the floor is slightly higher than the right side, with an inclination of about five degrees. It cannot be felt under normal conditions, but under low gravity, Lu Ning When walking, I always feel that my perspective is crooked.
Passing through the corridor, the two came to the main hall. In the center is a circular platform slightly higher than the ground, nearly two meters in diameter, surrounded by a polygonal floor. It can be clearly seen that part of the polygons are slightly protruding from the ground, making the entire main hall floor full of pits. On the wall of the main hall facing the door, there is an entire regular dodecagonal bright panel, which is huge in size, with a flag hanging on both sides. On the left is a simple black eye on a dark red background, and on the right is a dark blue background. , there are four cross-shaped stars in the four corners, and a nebula-like vortex in the center.
"Spade, what does this remind you of?" Lu Ning asked after looking at it for a moment.
"Meeting." Spades replied honestly.
"I didn't know there were such formal things among mercenaries." Lu Ning pretended to be surprised.
"Haha, when we sit together and discuss which merchant ship to rob, we will still find a decent place to have a meeting, but most of the time we start fighting before the robbery starts because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. In the end They break up on bad terms, and sometimes two lives are lost." Spades said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Because of this, star thieves, mercenaries... these have always been just a mob." Lu Ning shook his head slightly, "Forget it, back to the topic, the ones on the left and right should be flags."
"Well, Captain, the appearance of such a representative thing as a flag undoubtedly proves that this place is indeed a product of civilization. Neither the Canglong Alliance nor other alliance countries have these two types of flags."
"But flags generally have meaning, and the more important the flag, the more meaning it needs to have - even though that's just the way we think."
"If there is, then first we have to judge whether the thing on the left is an eye." Spades pointed at the flag, "Different civilizations may have different perceptions and descriptions of eyes. We can't even judge whether those civilizations have eyes." Do 'people' have the same eyes."
"That's right." Lu Ning nodded, "And on the right, there are four stars surrounding a nebula. If it were me, I might judge it to be some kind of alliance flag. After all, this drawing idea is very similar to some countries that have sworn an alliance. Allied flag used.”
"Captain, why don't we touch the thing in the middle? Since we're all here, we have to touch everything to see if it's useful, right?" Spade stepped forward, carefully stepping on the bumpy floor and slowly walked forward. , he hesitated for a moment when he reached the circular platform, stretched out his foot and stepped on it to test it out.
Then others are gone.
Lu Ning was suddenly startled and immediately entered the communication channel: "Spade? What happened to you? Where have you been?"
After a while, Spade's voice came: "Don't worry... Captain, I seem to be on another level. That thing seems to have a teleportation function."
"Teleport?" Lu Ning glanced at the platform. The Alliance has not been able to teleport humans so far because it cannot overcome the errors that occur during the transmission process. No one wants to travel in space at the cost of blindness or even death. Even spaceships can only shorten their voyages by warping space. Rather than direct space transmission.
"Anyway...wait a minute, let me take a look here..." There were some noises from the side of Spades, as if they were getting up from the ground, "This is a place that looks like a leader's speech. We used to do training every night. There is such a thing. Tables, chairs, record boards, podiums, I hate this place. Could it be that a different civilization still abides by such old-fashioned customs?"
"Then I'll go over too..."
"Captain, please wait below. I saw something that looks a lot like a keyboard, but it's ten times larger than a normal keyboard."
After saying this, Lu Ning heard a tinkling sound coming from over there, as well as some gossip whispered by Spades. About a minute later, she suddenly felt that the light in front of her eyes was a little brighter again. The twelve-sided bright plate emitted a strong light, and then a black line emitted from the center, dividing the bright plate evenly into twelve parts.
"Spade, the screen-like thing I have here lights up."
"Really? It seems that my random pressing worked, but there is a new problem."
"what is the problem?"
"Oh, that question that has troubled us since the dawn of electronic technology. Please enter your password."
"..."
Although this is a perfectly reasonable situation, it is really ridiculous to be stuck in this place.
"How do you know I'm asking you to enter a password? Do you recognize the words here?"
"There is no text, twelve spaces are blocking the screen, and I don't know what else to do besides the password."
"Wait a minute, let me try the screen over there." Lu Ning glanced at the bright board whose light had dimmed. Different patterns appeared in each block. She carefully bypassed the circular platform and came to Under the bright board, he reached out and touched the bottom piece. In an instant, the black lines on both sides of the piece swept away into an arc, and the entire screen returned to cleanliness, and soon an image appeared vaguely.
"Captain! A symbol appears in the third square from the left here." Spades said immediately.
"Take a photo and send it to me." Lu Ning said quickly.
Three seconds later, a photo was sent to Lu Ning's terminal. She also saw clearly the appearance of the spade. It was not an electronic screen, but a whole piece of stone-like thing with something on it. Blue bright lines.
Lu Ning compared the symbols above and quickly copied them on the bright board. As she loosened her fingers, the image above suddenly became much clearer, and a circle shape appeared in the center.
"What is this?"
【What is this? 】
A synthesized voice with the same tone as Lu Ning came from the screen, and then a second circle appeared.
Lu Ning was stunned for a moment and immediately realized what it was. There are some records in the information in the distribution center. When advanced civilizations in technological scenes have friendly contact with unfamiliar civilizations, they usually do not force the other party to learn their own language because it is inefficient. Instead, they quickly complete the language through some kind of learning system. translation for efficient communication.
She immediately changed several different tones and said some irrelevant words. The logic in these words was quickly recognized. Spades over there also listened quietly, until about fifteen minutes later, the screen finally disappeared. The circle appears again, but an image. It is four bright stars running at the same speed in the same elliptical orbit, and in the center of the orbit is a nebula. In the middle of the nebula, the characteristics of an accretion disk can be vaguely seen. , there is no doubt that there is a huge black hole.
【Hello. 】
Sentences that had never appeared before came out from the bright board.
"excuse me……"
[The unknown civilization, now that it has arrived here, no matter who it is, should also understand it. 】 Liangban did not engage in dialogue, and Lu Ning closed her mouth after noticing this. Spades was a little strange: "They have such a strong language learning function, but they can't carry out semi-intelligent conversations?"
"I think this is not the problem, but the translation of language and text is likely to cause large errors in intelligent dialogue, so it is better to translate a line prepared in advance."
[This is the *Capric* Observer, the Dark Point Observatory. According to the system time, this message comes from Observer member *Tiraceno* 120,000 years ago. 】
Some nouns were pronounced directly, probably marked as proper nouns or names, and were not translated. Lu Ning could only write down the pronunciation and continue to listen.
[The Dark Spot Observatory has been initialized, only the basic module records are retained, and the permissions are fully open. Observers will be evacuated from here, and perhaps we will never be able to evacuate. According to the rules, this observatory will serve as a save point, and any subsequent civilization can call up the information. Next, we will introduce the astronomical observation board and use the corresponding secret key to enter the functional area. 】
"That's what I have here." Spades said.
[The observers have been observing the planet *Rini Tobbins* and its associated galaxy for 160,000 years. To avoid interference, all observation stations are established within the imaginary space of the planet. The observers will not interfere with the development process of civilization. According to the rules, state the reason for the observation here.
There are many abnormal astronomical data in this planetary system. After the exploration ship discovered that there was a nascent civilization here, the observers conducted observations of the civilization and the entire star system to ensure that there would be no danger to the physics and biology of the universe before the death of the star system. , ██████ and other fundamental changes. The observer will continue to observe until the star dies, the danger is eliminated, or the observer is eliminated.
According to the data obtained during the observation period, there is a commonality in the extinction of civilizations during the nine winters that the planet appeared. All civilizations failed to break through the galaxy system, raising the level of suspicion.
According to the study of the central star of the star system, it is confirmed to be a low-energy star, with a probability of close to 95% that it will directly collapse at the end of its life.
According to the celestial depiction data of the observatory's Nether Sky, Giant Shadow, and Floating Lao, the galaxy will die in about 120,000 years.
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The observer is about to complete his mission. We will be wiped out, which will be dangerous, but there is no way, we will save the observatory in the hope that the universe can cope with it in the last 120,000 years.
The civilization that knows the above information is our luck and your misfortune. [Auto delete]
Below, the basic use of the dark spot observation station will be introduced...]
Lu Ning listened quietly to the bright board's step-by-step explanation. The methods of higher civilizations are simple but easy, but just as the observer civilization initially announced, they will not interfere with the observed civilization at all, so this observation station also It has no offensive capabilities, it is just a "eye of the sky" wandering in this imaginary space.
After being closed, observations stopped here, which means that there is no historical data for the intervening 120,000 years to be read. Lu Ning mastered the use of this bright board after trying it twice, and also figured out the translation of the observer civilization's text to the alliance's text. There are still some inconsistencies in the previous logical entry, which were only replaced by approximate meanings, so some parts of the previous language were not conveyed. For example, the "Nine Winters" refers to the nine extinctions of civilizations.
In addition, it is true that some information has been deleted or artificially obscured. There may be some difference between the two, but Lu Ning has no way to verify it yet.
Finally, it can be known from some of the earliest records that there are a total of thirty-nine observation stations in the imaginary space, fifteen of which orbit this phantom star, and the rest are spread throughout the star system. These observations I'm afraid the site has long since expired.
"What kind of civilization is this? Observation?" Spades murmured.
"I'm afraid it's just a puzzle piece of that civilization. In the first image, four planets surround a nebula. It's not a real scene, it's just a very real image. It corresponds to the flag on the right. And the actual shape is also Similar to the flag on the left. They have their own foundation." Lu Ning touched the bright board. Even if it was initialized, it still contained a lot of information. At least the observation records of the 160,000 years had been preserved, but Lu Ning There's simply not enough time to see it.
"But their level is higher than the Alliance, right? They were higher than the Alliance 120,000 years ago."
"They are dead. At least those in this galaxy are dead." Lu Ning said.
Spade sighed.
"That's what I want to say, what can make such a group of civilizations perish? Captain, I don't feel safe at all now. I want to go back...back to the Alliance. I don't dare to set foot in such a place that has ruined advanced civilizations. "
"Impossible." Lu Ning flatly refused, "First of all, there are too many things that we have not yet confirmed. The alliance will not accept such unclear results in any case. Secondly, do you think it will be safe to go back? In this information Although many things have been omitted, one sentence is still retained. Observers believe that the situation here should be dealt with by the universe - in other words, once there is a crisis here, no corner of the universe can escape."
"this……"
"They believe that after 120,000 years, this galaxy will perish. Although it corresponds to our current time, we cannot confirm whether it is a few thousand years. It may be far away, or it may be tomorrow. And the demise of this galaxy may mean Are you willing to see this happen as danger spreads to the entire universe?"
"I don't want to, but I can't do anything." Spades said gloomily, "I have never had the ability to put the universe on my shoulders. How much responsibility is that? Captain, do you think you can kill them? , what could even be the thing that kills this universe?”
"...It's too much. There is something right in front of us that we are investigating, isn't it?"
Spades was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Are you talking about the reason for the destruction of the advance team?"
