They were already far away from the city, and there was only a deep passage in front of them. Looking back at the direction of the city, there was only a faint light, which required eyesight beyond the limits of human vision to see.
The surroundings were filled with dirty, almost poisonous gas. Obviously, Hao Ren and his team had chosen a gate that had never been opened: the air behind the gate had never been ventilated.
The passage was very wide, and most of the structure was intact. It was not cramped and dilapidated as expected. It just looked quite old and dirty, with thick dust everywhere. Everything had serious traces of erosion over the years. Obviously, compared to the fully enclosed and continuously operating city, this place lacked the necessary cleaning.
There were many parallel steel rails in the middle of the passage. Although the structure was different from the railway on Earth, it was obvious that it was prepared for some kind of large transport vehicle. If the planet had not encountered an accident, this passage should have been a busy subway line. It connected the city with a major transportation hub and was an important main road. But now it was just an abandoned cave that had been abandoned for 10,000 years. In addition to the dust, there were only old machines that could not be started.
There was a row of dim lights inlaid on the ceiling of the passage. Eighty to ninety percent of them were working. These lights were the only thing that could prove that the passage was not completely abandoned. With the dim light, they could see the surroundings clearly. Hao Ren saw a variety of old machinery piled up on both sides, including rusty carriages and dusty robots. Lily went up to check and came back to report. "The model is not the same as the ones in the city. It looks more primitive."
"That means the machines in the city are evolved versions." Hao Ren nodded slightly. "It seems that some kind of 'research and development' is indeed going on. The machines are being upgraded … This is something that requires creativity."
"These machines should have been abandoned before the planet set sail … or even earlier, like 10,000 years ago," Y 'zaks said, looking at the scraps of copper and iron passing by. "It looks like they were abandoned suddenly. Something unexpected must have happened at that time."
Vivian's eyes shone with a faint red light in the dim environment. Suddenly, she saw something that caught her attention in the pile of junk. A few little bats flew over and rummaged through the pile of junk and found a small metal plate. Hao Ren took the metal plate from Little Bat's claw and found that there were some pictures engraved on it. The picture was of a middle-aged man with a serious expression and meticulous clothes. He felt that the face was somewhat familiar at first glance. After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized that this was the middle-aged man he saw on the curtain wall of the hall before he entered the sanctuary!
It was the first stranger's face he had seen on this planet.
Nangong Wudi came over to take a look, his face slightly surprised: "This person seems to be called Great Commander."
"Commander?" Hao Ren waved the metal plate in his hand. "You know him?"
"He will appear on the screen, the TV you mentioned," Nangong Wudi nodded. "Except for major events, he will only appear once a year. He is the highest official here, so I have a deep impression of him. "
"The highest official of this planet …" Hao Ren flicked the dust on the metal plate. "He appears on the big screen, but below this plate is written his birth and death date, and the remark is written in deep sorrow. Only people who have died will have XX to XX years behind their names, right? "
"This Great Commander is dead?" Vivian looked at the commemorative plate in surprise. "… Then it seems that the person we see on the screen is more profound."
Hao Ren nodded and continued to lead them into the depths of the tunnel.
After walking for a long time, they reached the end of the tunnel, and they came to an open, large cave that looked like the intersection center of the subway.
The large cave was generally oval, and there were circular tunnel entrances and exits on all sides of the cave walls. Each entrance and exit was exactly the same, and there were long tracks extending out. And at the place where these tracks intersected, there was a huge disc-shaped building. There was no doubt that this was an important hub of the planet's subway center, and the surrounding circular tunnels should lead to other cities.
The group carefully stepped into the disc-shaped building in the center of the cave. This ancient facility was still structurally intact, but it was completely shrouded in darkness. They did not know if the energy system was offline or if the lamps were all broken. Lily raised her Flamejoy as a torch to illuminate everyone. In the flickering light, everyone saw the crisscrossing railway lines, the dispatch platform full of debris, and the severely damaged control hut.
A few small bats fluttered into the surrounding darkness. It was unknown what these little fellows had touched, but the 'subway station' suddenly reverberated with the sound of mechanical friction. Then, the lights on the ceiling suddenly lit up, giving everyone a shock.
After confirming that it was only the lighting system that was activated, Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief and began to look around curiously. Suddenly, he saw a group of complicated sculptures standing in front of the intersection of a few railway tracks, and his attention was instantly attracted.
The sculptures showed a group of strange-looking humans, they were clustered in a circle, their hands raised towards the sky, and above their heads floated a strange object. It was a mass of radiating metal lines, as if it was representing an amorphous light or lightning. Vivian looked at the sculptures and muttered, "Kind of like a record of the third kind of contact."
Hao Ren did not say anything, he only bent down and gently brushed off the thick layer of dust at the base of the sculptures. As expected, there were still uneven embossed writings. Even after ten thousand years, the words on this special alloy had not been completely erased. There was a short sentence written on it: "Forever remember and thank the Denizens of the Stars for their warning."
"Denizens of the Stars?" Lily muttered curiously. "Aliens?"
Nangong Wuyue frowned and thought for a moment. "Could it be that these aliens called the Denizens of the Stars came to warn us, and the humans on this planet built the arks?"
Hao Ren did not say anything, he just stared at the words "Denizens of the Stars". He felt an inexplicable sense of deja vu, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized that he had seen similar sayings elsewhere. "'Allies from the Stars' — do you remember Holletta mentioning this race?"
His reminder reminded the others of the matter. Nangong Wuyue stared in disbelief. "You're saying that the Denizens of the Stars and Holletta's' Allies from the Stars' are the same people?"
"It's just a guess." Hao Ren stood up and looked at the abstract lines above the sculptures. "Many things in The Plane of Dreams are connected. So far, nothing that happens on any planet is isolated."
Lily looked up at the sculptures for a long time, and suddenly had a thought. "The Denizens of the Stars look like sea urchins."
Nangong Wuyue corrected her sternly. "Sea urchins don't look like that. If you don't believe me, I'll change it for you …"
"Be quiet, both of you." Vivian glared at the dog and fish. "Let's go. Maybe we'll find more clues if we go further."
The group searched around the building, and finally found an underground space below the building. The underground space was unusually spacious, almost the same size as the disc-shaped building above. And in the middle of the huge basement, there was a large facility made up of several curved structures that looked like the support of a lift. Lily ran to the side of the facility and looked down. She immediately squatted on the ground and quickly ran back. "It's so deep down!"
In the middle of the 'support of the lift' was an empty space with a radius of more than ten meters. A tunnel went straight down into the endless darkness. Remnants of alloy rails could be seen on the walls of the tunnel, but the lift that was supposed to be at the top of the tunnel was gone.
Of course, even if the lift was still here, it was hard to say whether it could still be used or not. This place was different from the sanctuary in the city, there were almost no signs of maintenance.
Vivian casually conjured a small bat and threw it down. After waiting for a long time, she shrugged. "It hasn't reached the bottom yet."
Lily raised her hand and yelled, "I'm not jumping! I'll bite whoever forces me! "
"You don't have to." Hao Ren rolled his eyes. "Vivian, let's go down. The rest of you wait here."
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