Ding Ling had already arranged everything in advance to ensure that our 'work' wouldn't be interrupted. She had cleared out all unrelated personnel from the ruins and set up a large area around the entrance of the mine. She had also set up a barricade and surveillance post around the entrance of the mine to prevent anyone from accidentally approaching this place. These were the experiences they had accumulated over the years. Generally speaking, the ruins of the Empire were not very safe. There had been incidents of explosions and minor psionic energy leaks in the ruins. By the standards of the Xi Ling Apostles, it was a 'minor leak', but by human standards, it was a disaster. Back then, Boundless Love and the Psychic Ability Group had a good time. So, now that we encountered these dangerous' alien ruins' that emitted blue light, any secret organization on Earth would be on high alert.
"Only a few staff members who saw the holographic projection in the ruins are inside." Lin Feng led us to the mine crack that emitted blue light. "Although they are our own people, it's better to clear their memories. An earthling has appeared in the alien ruins. Moreover, he is a senior officer of Boundless Love. Even the Psychic Ability Group can't keep this a secret. "
The dark and cramped shaft was filled with foul air. Even though the strong ventilator was constantly ventilating the tunnel, it was difficult to disperse the stench that had accumulated for half a century. However, the stench wasn't unbearable. That was why we didn't bother activating our energy shields. We came to the end of the shaft and confirmed that the blue light was emitted from a few wide cracks in the ground and the lower part of the wall. There was a newly dug small tunnel next to the shaft. The blue light in the tunnel was even brighter. It was obvious that it led to the inside of the ruins.
"We can't explain what's going on with the blue light." Lin Feng shook his head in confusion. "We have searched this area and didn't find anything similar to a light source. The blue light seems to be generated out of thin air around the ruins. Then, it permeated through a thick layer of rock and finally came out from these cracks. Speaking of which, what is this light for? It's so high-end. Could it be a power furnace? "
"If it was a power furnace, this place would have been barren." Sandora strode toward the small tunnel next to the shaft. "If I'm not wrong, this is just an alarm light that indicates insufficient energy. The focal point is broken, so the light is emitted far away."
Lin Feng muttered under his breath, "F * ck …" Thousands of words were condensed into this one sentence.
We walked in this newly excavated tunnel for a while. Soon, we realized that we were no longer stepping on stones and crushed rocks, but the familiar alloy of a starship. After we turned another corner, the scene in front of us suddenly opened up. A huge crypt appeared in front of us. The crypt was more than ten meters tall, and the surroundings were so dark that it was almost impossible to see the edge. There were already many temporary strong light sources set up in the surroundings, but they could only illuminate a very limited area. The ceiling of the cave and the surrounding walls still looked like natural rocks, but there was obviously a layer of alloy armor under our feet. This armor was covered in dust and gravel that had fallen from the ceiling, but some places had been cleaned up, revealing the silver-white metallic luster underneath. I squatted down and touched the metal plate. Then, I nodded professionally. "It's a starship's protective plate. It's a spaceship wreckage."
Lin Feng looked at me with admiration, "Brother Chen, you're really a professional …"
"Don't show off." Sandora patted me hard. "The words' Battleship Cannon Protective Plate 'are written on the armor belt."
Everyone was speechless.
I coughed awkwardly. Looking at the huge cave and the alloy plate under our feet, I confirmed that we were actually standing on top of a spaceship wreckage. Moreover, the entire copper mine was located right above the spaceship. I didn't know how such a big thing had dug its way here, but it shouldn't have been purely natural geological activity that had buried it this deep. If I'm not wrong, there must have been a large-scale collision that had caused the entire spaceship to sink into the ground. After the geological activity, the spaceship continued to sink (its remaining energy might have melted the rock beneath the spaceship at some point, speeding up the sinking process). Finally, a huge hole was formed.
Back then, the old copper mine was originally 'embedded' in a relatively stable rock belt. Its position was the shell-like rock layer above the spaceship's cave. However, as the copper mine continued to be excavated, the strength of the rock belt decreased. The vault-like rock shell started to crack and sink. In the end, people had no choice but to abandon the mine here. In other words …
I looked up at the top of the cave. "The thick layer of rock above us and the entire mountainous area above us are actually suspended on a layer of vault-like roof. Moreover, the vault-like roof has become hollow due to the excavation of the mine …"
As soon as I said that, the little puppet shrunk its neck. This little guy finally has a moment of fear.
"So, please take care of this place as well." Ding Ling lowered her voice as though she was afraid that her voice would cause the cave to collapse. "Based on our technical analysis, this place won't collapse in a short period of time. That's because the mountain above and the surrounding rock layers have formed a structure similar to a triangular roof. It can be considered as a second layer of vault-like roof. However, there are many earthquakes in this area. If one day, the 'triangular roof' is slightly dislocated after an earthquake, and the spaceship cave itself has already sunk … That would mean that the entire mountain would sink."
Lin Feng couldn't help but mutter, "Speaking of which, why did you build all the spaceships so big? This thing is already a few kilometers long."
"A few kilometers is considered a small spaceship." I gave him a sideways glance. "The Empire builds spaceships to fight in space. Crashing on a planet has always been an amateur project. Speaking of which … Why didn't you tell Lin Xue about such a big discovery? "
Usually, Lin Xue would be the one to inform the Metahumans about any discoveries. After all, she was both an officer of the Metahumans and the Matriarch of the Empire (although she had almost wasted her first identity). However, Miss Lin didn't get involved this time, so I asked her in passing.
"Her? The organization has almost removed her name. "Ding Ling sighed." It's not that they want to expel her. It's just that she would be running around or working for you three hundred days a year. 'Gramps' also spoils her so much that the organization could only turn a blind eye and treat it as if she had left the organization. Basically, unless she takes the initiative to look for work, we won't give her any missions. As for the ruins we found this time, we initially thought that it was the same as the other small things we found before. We planned to find someone from Boundless Love to deal with it. It wasn't until noon when the thing in the ruins suddenly moved and your sister made a stunning appearance that we thought we might have dug up something fatal. Didn't we immediately inform you? "
Only then did I nod in understanding. At the same time, I also lit a candle for Miss Lin in my heart. 'That girl, Lin Xue, I'm quite touched that she cares about the affairs of the Empire. But she's obviously a married girl, like water that has been poured out … I feel bad for her parents and Gramps Lin …'
It didn't take much effort to enter the spaceship. In fact, the spaceship was already in an open state. One of its back-up passages was completely open, and there were no signs of damage. Obviously, it was opened according to normal procedures. This phenomenon was very thought-provoking. 'Could it be that there were survivors on the spaceship when it crashed on Earth 70,000 years ago? Otherwise, who opened the door? '
Following the back-up passage, we entered the spaceship. Judging from the length of the corridor and the structure of the spaceship that Sandora had scanned, we should be in the upper cabin of the spaceship. It was located in the surface area where the security was relatively low. (The deeper areas of the spaceship were kept closed, so the people from the Metahumans couldn't enter). We met a few members of the Metahumans in one of the cabins. They were the ones who had accidentally seen the shocking secret.
"Captain Ding, Captain Lin." When they saw us, they enthusiastically came up to us. One of them greeted Ding Ling and Lin Feng. "This place is really unusual. If we open the few doors in front, how big do you think the space inside will be?"
"Don't court death," Ding Ling immediately scolded him. "This thing is enough to destroy the Earth. By the way, do you still remember the image you saw on the projector? "
The few members nodded. Then, one of them with sharp eyes saw his elder sister behind me. Before he could say anything, Sandora stepped forward and used her mind interference.
After the harmless and mild mental shock, the staff members were confused for a moment. When they came to their senses, they looked at their elder sister with the same expression.
Lin Feng seemed to want to test the effect of the memory erasure. He stepped forward and patted one of them on the shoulder. "Lao Zhao, when we went to Yunnan last time …"
"Oh, you lent me 200 yuan that time. I almost forgot about it if you didn't mention it," the tall man called Lao Zhao immediately reacted. "You're so careless. How could you let someone else pay for it?"
Lin Feng was stunned. Then, he gritted his teeth and took out the money from his pocket. At the same time, he stole a glance at us. "Brother Chen, why is it different from what we agreed on?"
I glared at the rascal and lectured him through the mental connection, "Nonsense! Sandora only blurred their short-term memories from this afternoon. She didn't brainwash them into fools! "
The few members of the crew couldn't remember what had happened at noon. Soon, Ding Ling and Lin Feng coaxed them out of the cabin. Then, Lin Feng looked as though he had something on his mind. He hesitated for a while and said hesitantly, "Brother Chen, to be honest, the scale of what we found this time is bigger than before …"
"So?" I looked at him. I didn't know what he was thinking.
"In the past, what we found were caves, altars, pyramids, and the like left behind by ancient people. At most, there would be equipment that the Shiring Apostles used tens of thousands of years ago. The largest one was just a small outpost," Lin Feng said slowly. "This time, we found a spaceship that was a few kilometers long. Moreover, the interior was as good as new. This is different from the previous ones. I'm afraid that we will have to perform a large-scale memory wipe to deal with the aftermath. Let me think … Are humans really not allowed to come into contact with these things? "I looked at Lin Feng.
It wasn't strange for him to think that way. Just looking at an alien spaceship that was a few kilometers long lying on Earth and not being exposed was enough to drive a big mouth to death. If I were in his shoes, I would definitely be tempted too. However, I still had to explain the situation to him. "Don't even think about it. We have a team of experts that analyze every civilization as a whole. There are strict standards for which civilization can come into contact with the Empire at which level. It's too early for humans to come into contact with these destructive things. Let's not talk about anything else. If the news of this spaceship were to be leaked, there would be a world war within three days. Then, the Empire would intervene and reorganize the world order. On the surface, it would promote human civilization, but in reality, it would rule the world. Let me tell you, it's definitely not a good thing for a primitive civilization. "
Lin Feng opened his mouth, but he was speechless in the end.
I patted his shoulder. "Don't think that the Empire's laws are inflexible. I used to think that many of the rules were inflexible. But after I read the information, I realized that behind every rule, there were dozens and hundreds of races that sacrificed their own species for the sake of extinction. These rules are related to the progress of civilization. Behind one word, there are hundreds of millions of lives."
Lin Feng and Ding Ling stuck out their tongues at the same time. Both of them didn't say a word.
"This spaceship doesn't look like it was built with a standard frame." Sandora had already done a preliminary scan of the spaceship. The spaceship had been abandoned for many years, and the power furnace had long stopped working. There wasn't much energy left in the spaceship. Naturally, there wasn't any interference or shielding. Sandora easily grasped the overall structure of the spaceship. She looked around and found the data terminals in the cabin. "These data terminals are directly connected to the mainframe. Let me see its status …"
"Sis, this is something that you used back then." Seizing this chance, I lightly touched elder sister's arm and muttered, "Do you have any regrets?"
"Not much," the elder sister shrugged. "Didn't I say that I have long forgotten what happened back then? If I had to say something, I would say that we drove a spaceship to Earth back then … "
"But according to the results of Lin Xue's backtracking, didn't the few of us float to Earth in the form of remnant souls?" I still felt that the question was a little contradictory, so I couldn't help but mutter.
The elder sister didn't dwell on the question too much. "When I came into contact with you, Reggie, who was Lin Xue's previous incarnation, was already dead. It's normal for her backtracking results to be a little distorted. Even if she was a remnant soul, it didn't say that she couldn't drive a spaceship. How many things that are related to the Empire can be explained with common sense?"
I thought about it and agreed with her. This question was really not that important. And now I was actually more concerned about something else: when I and my elder sister (in my previous incarnation) failed to save the world, we didn't all die on the spot. According to the spaceship that landed on Earth, we were at least still breathing (Why does this sound so awkward?). What kind of state did we land on Earth in? Did we move around for a while after we landed on Earth? Or could it be that everyone had died long before that, and the ship had automatically sailed to this place?
I kept thinking about these questions in my head. The more I thought about it, the stranger it became. In the end, I broke out in a cold sweat. I tried my best to guess how I had died. I even thought about what I had been doing when I died. It wasn't an ordinary curiosity.
At this time, Sandora had successfully activated the MDT in the cabin. The antique machine made a very faint sound and then displayed a large number of messy images. Sandora quickly flipped through the pages and slowly frowned. "No wonder it started without authorization … and was operated by a few earthlings. The authorization database of this thing is actually empty?"
As soon as I heard that there was progress on Sandora's side, I quickly went over to check on the situation. It turned out that the MDT was refreshing the database entries. Behind each entry, the reading authorization was N/A — absolutely open.
"No authorization to control it?" I was stunned. The thing made by the Shiring Apostles had no authorization system. This could be described as horrifying as Jingle writing a full score test paper. "… The root database is open! Anyone can control it. "
"But the database is in a read-only state, and the read-only lock is very thorough," Sandora said quickly. "Although anyone can access the equipment here, no one can modify the data stored in the database. This means that the security mechanism of the database is still working. Maybe this open state is intentional … Ah Jun, why do you think this is?"
I didn't expect Sandora to suddenly throw this question at me. But after thinking about it carefully, I had some ideas. "The reason it is open is to read. Maybe in her previous life, sister had considered that she might reincarnate, and after reincarnation, the spaceship might not recognize her authority. So, she set the database and other things in an open state while she was still able to control the spaceship. So, she could still use the things here after she reincarnated … Damn, why do I suddenly think of the funerary objects in the tomb for the next life?"
Big sister didn't say a word and twisted my ear three times to the left and three times to the right …
But my guess should be reliable. Regardless of how long we survived in the spaceship after the failed tower crossing incident, sister (in my previous life) should have made arrangements for her reincarnation. She was the leader of the fifteenth sky zone back then, and she had high attainments in soul science. Naturally, she would have considered the big problem of losing the authority to reincarnate. Maybe that was why she opened the spaceship's database, but set it to read-only state.
However, sister probably didn't expect that her reincarnation would be so complicated because of the Void Creatures.
Just as we were about to start the database according to the log sequence, Lin Feng's voice suddenly came from behind, "Then … should we leave?"
I turned to look and saw that he and Ding Ling were smiling. The latter spoke in a hoarse voice, "I feel like I saw something incredible. This is considered your secret, right?"
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you see it," I said, rubbing my chin. "But it's better for you to leave. You will only be confused if you stay here anyway."
"Then, let's go out first. Gather all the people involved in this incident. Don't forget to come and help with the aftermath," Lin Feng said, and left the spaceship with Ding Ling.
Sandora turned to the MDT and said, "Alright, now let's see what you left behind in your previous life …"
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