Zhang Zian was not surprised to meet Peter Lee. After all, they had agreed to meet at the Bedouin tribe today, and Siwa was the last stop on the way to the Bedouin tribe.
Behind the Land Cruiser were several other similar cars, obviously driven by the members of the Cosmological Information Society.
"No, I still have to wait for the members of the expedition team. They will take a while to arrive." Zhang Zian shook his head and refused.
He did not have a good impression of these quacks, but in fact, they had not done anything bad or out of line. It was just that their brain circuits were different from ordinary people's. To be honest, from their faces, they might be gentler than many ordinary people. This was a common expression that people with firm beliefs often showed.
If he had met them in daily life, he would not have cared too much. It was likely that he would have laughed it off. Anyway, it had nothing to do with him. But if they were going to enter the desert together, the nature of teammates was very important.
"All of you are going?" he asked, counting the number of cars.
"No, there are doctors among our members. We did a physical examination yesterday and left the weaker ones behind. The rest of us will enter the desert together." Peter Lee poked his head out and whistled to the cars behind.
"Come on, take this opportunity to get to know each other."
Six people got out of the car one after another, five men and one woman. They came from different countries and had different skin colors. As Peter Lee had said, these six people were in the prime of their lives. Whether it was physically or mentally, they were at the peak of their vitality.
Zhang Zian had seen them before, but he did not know their names.
"I am a consul. I used to be in politics. Hello, little comrade." A middle-aged man with a Mediterranean hairstyle introduced himself first. The moment he opened his mouth, he spoke in the official tone that high-ranking leaders often used.
Zhang Zian was shocked. He thought that this man really used to be a diplomat, but why did he not say his name?
Then, the other five people also spoke in the same format. They called themselves a priest, a colonel, a poet, and a scholar. The only woman in the team called herself a detective.
The female detective had a similar temperament to Sun Xiaomeng, but she was about ten years older than Sun Xiaomeng. She was probably the doctor that Peter Lee had just mentioned. She called herself a detective. Did that mean she was in charge of examining the human body?
The others also had characteristics similar to their self-proclaimed identities. For example, the Colonel's eyes and movements indicated that he was a former soldier, the poet's curly hair was very romantic, the scholar's thick glasses looked a little like Wei Kang, and the priest's expression was solemn.
Strangely, none of them introduced themselves.
The more Zhang Zian listened, the more confused he became. Just as he was about to ask, he saw the invisible Pi quietly gesturing to him.
He had been with Pi for a long time, and Pi often asked him for his opinion on the novel, so he was familiar with Pi's gestures. Pi spread its hands out like an open book, and then moved its mouth, as if it was conveying some kind of message to him.
Wait a minute!
A consul, a priest, a colonel, a poet, a scholar, and a detective. Could this strange combination be …
Zhang Zian's heart was suddenly enlightened, and he immediately guessed the other party's intentions.
After they introduced themselves, Peter Lee smiled and observed Zhang Zian's reaction.
Zhang Zian turned his gaze and stared at Peter. He said calmly, "Then, you must be a saint."
"Haha! Brother, you've guessed it! "
Peter Lee laughed, and the others also smiled in response.
A consul, a priest, a colonel, a poet, a scholar, a detective, and a saint. Wasn't this combination the team of pilgrims in the science fiction novel Hyperion? They were quite pretentious!
Just like the team of pilgrims in Hyperion went through many hardships to make a pilgrimage to the pyramid-shaped Tomb of Time, Peter Lee and the others used the same profession as their code names, indicating that they had a similar purpose — to find the pyramid deep in the desert, hoping to discover a big secret comparable to the inverse entropy field.
Zhang Zian had this novel at home, and he had shown it to Pi. He had read it a long time ago, but if it weren't for Pi's reminder, he probably wouldn't have associated Peter Lee and the others with this science fiction novel.
He quickly tried to recall, but he could not remember many of the details in the novel. He only remembered that the background was in the background of the doomsday prophecy. A team of seven people with different identities, backgrounds, and experiences went to explore the secrets of Tomb of Light.
What impressed him the most was the Tomb of Time mentioned in the novel.
Tomb of Time was shaped like a pyramid, surrounded by inverse entropy, going against the flow of time.
In the prophecy, when the Tomb of Time opened, the Lord of Great Sorrow would come out of the tomb. He came from the other side of time, and his purpose was to announce the end of mankind.
To be honest, the narrative of this novel was very obscure. It was a typical style of a physical book, suitable for bedtime hypnosis. It was not the refreshing style of online literature. When he read it, he had to force himself to read it. Halfway through, he wanted to tear the book up, but he endured it until the end out of curiosity about the secrets of Tomb of Time. In the end, when the pilgrims arrived at the valley where Tomb of Time was located, the novel came to an abrupt end.
As for the sequels, he didn't even have the interest to read them. He regretted buying a set in one go. It was a waste of money.
However, when he gave this set of books to Pi to read, he had originally intended for it to slowly kill time. In the end, Pi read it with great interest and finished it very quickly. It even read the sequels, which made him wonder where the fun was in it.
In addition to being difficult to understand, the book gave Zhang Zian the feeling that the thing called Guangyin Mound was very unscientific. According to the description in the novel, it should connect the past and the future. What kind of technology could create such a thing?
This was obviously a fantasy novel, right?
But …
If he were to read the novel again now, he probably wouldn't dare to make such a presumptuous assertion.
He glanced at the invisible sea of stars.
Something even more unscientific than Tomb of Time was right in front of him.
Coupled with the strange sunset last night and the experience of Richard's blasphemy …
So, it was better not to speculate about things with one's own eyes or ears, right?
He wasn't sure if Tomb of Time really existed, but even so, he was very sure that even if there was a pyramid in the depths of the desert, it should be just an ordinary pyramid. There couldn't be anything mysterious like pure cosmic energy in it. It would definitely disappoint Peter Lee.
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