Sima Qian contacted historian Dr. Stein as soon as the Osiris docked. The professor was very interested when he heard that she had discovered something that might be a legendary relic, and asked Sima Qian to bring the relic to his research laboratory.
The trio of reporters took technician Armstrong to Professor Stein's archaeological research laboratory. As soon as Sima Qian knocked on the door, Dr. Stein came out wearing a white coat.
"Where are the relics?" This was the first thing Stein said to them.
"Here." Everyone pointed to the wooden box they brought that was as tall as one person, and the relics were inside.
Dr. Stein didn't expect it to be such a big thing. He asked, "Can I move it in after dismantling the box?"
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Stein went back to the house and got a bunch of keys. He closed the door of the institute and said: There is not enough space here, go to my warehouse! "
The group of people took the wooden box to a remote warehouse in the city. Stein opened the rusty door. With a slight push, the door creaked open. The group of people moved the wooden box to the warehouse with difficulty. After everyone came in, Stein stood outside the door and looked around before closing the door.
"Doctor, what are you looking at?"
"Spies, HER's spies! These people don't even let go of antiques. I've lost five antiques since the war started!"
There are no rare treasures in the warehouse. It is dilapidated and seems to have experienced a fire. There are traces of smoke on the walls. Stein said that he moved all his valuable things to the institute, and now only a few worthless rags are left.
The photographer, photography assistant and Armstrong struggled to pry open the wooden box, and the triangle inside was still flashing green light regularly.
"I'm a little bit confused when I look at this thing now..." Assistant Thucydides said.
Dr. Stein's eyes lit up when he saw the triangle. He pushed aside everyone and went over to observe. He saw that there was still a lot of dirt on the triangle, so he took the cleaning tools he had been using for a long time and started to clean it meticulously.
"Dr. Stein, look..."
Sima Qian wanted to ask some questions, but Stein didn't seem to hear him. He only saw the relics in his eyes, so everyone could only step away knowingly.
The photographer Herodotus was bored and started looking for interesting things in the warehouse. He actually found a spaceship model on a broken table. A lot of dust had accumulated on the model.
"Is this...Marco Polo?" photographer Herodotus asked.
Several people came forward, and technician Armstrong replied: "Yes, it's the Marco Polo."
"When I was a kid, I always played this on TV, the first human spacecraft to explore the edge of the solar system."
"It's also the last one!"
Dr. Stein, who was busy cleaning the soil from the relics, actually spoke to him. He said without turning his head:
"RX In 1960, shortly after humans first landed on the moon, they wanted to explore the universe outside the solar system. Almost all countries around the world joined forces to build Marco Polo, selected ten astronauts, and headed for the outer solar system. But a few years later, Marco Polo It lost contact after reaching the edge of the solar system. It was not until RX1980 that the Marco Polo returned to the earth in tatters. Only one astronaut came back alive. It is said that they encountered a black hole at the edge of the solar system, and the hull was destroyed when escaping from the black hole. Nine crew members were killed at the time.”
"Dr. Stein, do you also like to study spacecraft?"
"No!" Stein was still cleaning up the relics. He shook his head as he worked: "This is history! I used to be curious about why humans have never tried to explore the world outside the solar system for more than two hundred years after Marco Polo. Far spaceships can only fly to Jupiter!"
Technician Armstrong answered: "Because the year 1980 when the Marco Polo returned from the RX happened to be the beginning of space colonization, everyone had long lost interest in exploring things outside the solar system. By the way, what was the name of the only surviving crew member of the Marco Polo? It's in the history textbook. teach…"
"Jack Mohr." Dr. Stein replied; "He was 50 years old when he returned to Earth and established the Mohr Chamber of Commerce at the age of 70."
After two hours, Dr. Stein finally cleaned up the soil on the triangle. Everyone came together to take a look and found that they had all seen what was written on it.
"Isn't this about space colonization!?"
The three upward sides of the triangle depict the spaceship leaving the earth, the first colonial satellite appearing in the universe, and more and more colonial satellites.
"Turn it over! Turn it over and look, there's another side underneath!"
Everyone struggled to move the triangle down. On the side close to the ground, there was a picture of colonial satellites at war with the earth.
"This..." Everyone looked at each other. "Isn't this the history of the RX era?"
The doctor clapped his hands: "The RX era is probably repeating the history of the 'legend'. And there may be more than one triangle. Did you only discover this one?"
Sima Qian looked carefully and found that the four sides of the triangle were marked with different numbers of dots to indicate the order of the pictures.
"There may not be others. Maybe it's just this triangle and this four-sided painting?"
Dr. Stein nodded: "It seems you really only have this one... It's almost time to arrive."
"What's due?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a car parked outside the warehouse. Dr. Stein opened the door and two men in black walked in with guns on their shoulders.
Everyone was shocked and didn't know what happened. They raised their hands and asked, "Dr. Stein, is this..."
Dr. Stein did not answer. He asked the two men in black angrily: "Didn't I say the cargo was very big and heavy? You only sent two people here!?"
The two men in black scratched their heads and said that their accomplices had other tasks today.
"Dr. Stein, what the hell is going on!" Sima Qian finally couldn't bear it any longer. Dr. Stein had not dealt with them properly since they met, and now he actually called two men with guns.
Dr. Stein still didn't answer, walked out the door and sat in the car. The two men in black ordered the reporter trio and technician Armstrong to tie each other's hands and feet with tape. Then the two men in black sealed their mouths with tape, took two barrels of gasoline from the corner of the warehouse, and sprinkled them on Around four people.
"!!!"
This is to kill people and silence them!
The four of them were tied up and unable to move. They could only twist their limbs in fear, even though it was useless. The two men in black had no expressions on their faces, as if they were used to this kind of thing. After pouring out all the gasoline, a man in black dug into his pockets, but found nothing.
"You stupid ass, you just smoked and threw the matches in the car!"
The man in black who forgot the match hurried back to the car to get it, but did not come back for several minutes.
"Um?"
Another man in black noticed something strange. He carefully walked to the door with a gun in his hand and looked outside the door vigilantly. During this period, his attention was all on the door, and he did not see a nimble black woman climbing in from the window on the other side of the warehouse. She crept close to the man in black and stunned him with a stun gun.
"Huh...it's all solved."
The black woman put down the man in black, wiped her sweat, and ran to the four men to loosen their bonds.
"Bah!" Sima Qian spat out the smell of tape she had just eaten, and asked the woman: "Who are you? What is going on?!"
The black woman said while untying: "My name is Cassandra. Your friends said that you brought 'legendary' relics to see Dr. Stein, but I have always suspected that Stein was a cultural relic thief, so I came to rescue you!" "
Sima Qian looked confused: "Our friend? Who are you talking about?"
Cassandra helped Sima Qian: "It's not safe here. Let's go back to our base camp. Your friends are there too!"
