Interstellar leader

After the exam, the rest week came quickly.According to the previous agreement, Li Qing and his party came to Silver Sand Beach, and Linxi was also there.

As a well-known leisure and tourist resort in the Harper star area, the scenery of Silver Sand Beach is indeed very beautiful - from the sky to the coastline, the color of the sea water ranges from dark blue to transparent, like a tie-dyed gauze.The snow-white fine sand spreads from the edge of the forest into the sea, and it feels like soft cotton when you step on it.The most peculiar thing is the coexistence of fine sand beach and solid rocky coast, which should not exist under natural circumstances. It is said that the sand here was originally rough gravel, and it became like this after treatment.

They arrived here at three o'clock in the afternoon. Although the sunshine in autumn is not as fierce as in summer, the beach is still slightly hot at this time.According to Linxi's proposal, everyone rested under the shade of the parasol, drank iced drinks, and waited for the arrival of evening.

In order to cater to guests’ pleasure of getting close to the sea, the parasols and seats here are designed to be fixed on a track, and slide along the track according to the highest position that the waves can reach, so that tourists can touch the clear sea water at any time without be submerged.

As time went by, Lindsay realized something was wrong.Everyone's seats were sliding down faster and faster, indicating that the water line was getting lower and lower.It should be known that Harper's central star does not have any natural satellites or very close celestial bodies, so the sea tide phenomenon on it is not strong.

She has also come to this place to play before, and the position of the chair changed only one-tenth of the track for a whole day, but now, her seat has slid to the bottom, and the entire slide track has been exposed.

There was no trace of surprise on Li Qing's face, this was the result he had predicted before.He stared intently at a mountain several hundred meters away. Its middle part was covered with soil and plants, while its lower part was as smooth as jade. Layers of shellfish clinged to the foot of the mountain and appeared as the water level dropped.

Linxi found what Li Qing was looking at, but she couldn't guess what it was.Lin was extremely curious about the phenomenon of the ebb tide, and was asking Kaidian why.

Gradually, the water level has receded to the foot of the mountain, and the sand soaked by seawater gave off a faint fishy smell, and a few seaweeds hung on it.A hole appeared, very narrow and small, only allowing an adult to pass through, but there were obvious traces of artificial carving.

"Is there a cave there? It's really interesting." Linxi felt that a small cave was not worth mentioning at all, but she found that several other people seemed to be quite interested in it, so she just boasted.

No one responded to her.

After a while, Ethan opened his mouth wide and said something like a dream: "My God, the Gaia ruins can't be true, can it?"

"The ruins of Gaia, you mean..." Linxi widened her eyes in surprise and searched for the news. "coordinate--"

"Don't look for it, it's here." Li Qing said flatly, "Let's go, we only have six hours at most."

The hole was very narrow, and Lin, who seemed to be the strongest in physique, could barely get in.It's a little better to walk inside, but even the petite Linxi has to walk in it with her waist bent.

The cave wall is very smooth, with traces of stalactites being chiseled off, and dripping water dripping down continuously.The ground is potholed, and there are still sand and small fish and shrimp left by the ebb tide, exuding a salty and wet atmosphere.Li Qing magically took out a high-power flashlight and a gas detector from his backpack. After confirming that there was no problem with the gas composition here, everyone walked carefully along the downward tunnel.

At the end of the tunnel was a very rough staircase carved out of the stone wall. They climbed down the staircase and came to a narrow space.But the dome was high there and there was no hindrance, and they could finally straighten up and breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Hey, what is this?" Ethan, who came down first, noticed a thick stone slab in front of him, perfectly stuck in the middle of the stone wall, blocking his way. "These strange letters... My God, is this Old English?"

Hearing Ethan's exclamation, Li Qing shone a flashlight on the stone slab.The black inscriptions on the white marble are clearly visible under the light.

door to mother earth and fotten history

A door to the mother planet Earth and its dusty history.Li Qing silently recited it in Interstellar Common Language in his heart, but did not say it out loud.Ethan still kept exclaiming beside him, as if he couldn't believe that he had found a parent star ruins.

Interstellar Common Language generally still uses 26 English letters, and added 4 letters similar to Chinese radicals, a total of 30.This is also the reason why Ethan, who knows nothing about the language, can recognize Old English, but it is only limited to recognition. Let alone Ethan, no paleographer can accurately decipher the short eight words. really mean.

Except that the alphabet system is similar to English, Interstellar Common Language has nothing to do with the vocabulary of any language on Earth in the past—its pronunciation is completely different, and it is more like a wonderful mixture of English and Chinese. The three syllables are particularly distinct; similar to English, a word has many syllables.

The way it connects words into sentences is even more strange. Each sentence has only a few words, and each word is surprisingly long.The process of modifying, limiting, or describing a word is often completed by adding prefixes and suffixes. A complete word has many prefixes and suffixes, which must be arranged in a certain order, similar to the Latin botanical name, or the nomenclature of chemical organic substances.This language is of great help to science and engineering, but Li Qing is really unable to complain about how bad it is as a language in life.

There is a particularly strange phenomenon in interstellar history, which later scholars called the "cultural break". All the original culture, history, geography and other materials before 2000 disappeared completely as if they had never appeared before.

Interstellar lingua franca is the language that humans have used from ancient times to the present. Humans may have originated from a planet called "Gaia". The early history of human beings has been forgotten for a long time... At first, people believed that all these were written in The big lie in "Galaxy Encyclopedia History".

With the discovery of some materials written in ancient characters, people finally discovered that before the interstellar age, human beings had a completely different writing system.But even with the most discovered Old English, there are not enough surviving scholars to restore the language system. Scholars even believe that the "a" that appears many times in each document means "I".The quantifier of Interstellar is included in the prefix, and it never occurs to them that it means "one".

Gradually, people began to wonder what happened 2000 years ago.Why is there no childhood in human culture and history, and an adult who knows everything from birth?Why is there not even the slightest clue about the location of the mother star?Why is the language not inherited at all?

It was broken, the entire past of mankind was broken 2000 years ago, at that time, it happened to be the beginning of human beings going to the stars.These questions have not yet been answered.

"Oh, this stone is really heavy!" Ethan's voice brought Li Qing's thoughts back from 2000 years ago.He walked up to this stone slab and tapped on it.Cadion had scanned the writing on the slate with a scanner.

"What are you doing?" Linxi watched Li Qing's movements curiously, every time he tapped five dots, he would stop and think for a while.

"This slate is stuck too tightly, and it's very thick. I'm looking for its fragility. Hey, wait, you--" Li Qing suddenly got stuck in the middle of speaking.He saw Linxi stepping forward and rolling up her sleeves, her slender arms suddenly radiated a metallic luster.With a random punch, she shattered the seemingly indestructible slab of marble with ease and ease.

A+ level genetic ability, protein enhancement.

Li Qing was stunned for a second, and had no choice but to accept this violent loli.Ethan and Lin didn't hide their surprise at all, their mouths became O-shaped, and Kaidian, who was always very calm, also widened his eyes in astonishment.

This is how cruel ah.

Linxi, who had just dispelled her ability, stood on the white gravel that was shattered into slag and spread all over the floor. She turned her head and showed an innocent and lovely smile to the four men.The four of them just felt that their hair was standing on end, and lamented in their hearts that they were scum with five combat effectiveness.

Behind the stone slab is an extremely spacious karst cave hall. Along the way, it feels like another village.The floor of the hall is much flatter than that of the passage, as if it has been cut, and the highest point of the dome is hidden in the darkness, making it impossible to see clearly.The underground river meanders through the center, scouring the ground into an S-shaped deep ditch.

Looking to the edge, everyone found that the cave should have been bigger, probably due to some geological reasons, such as the earthquake and tsunami that happened a few years ago, its edge collapsed a lot.

Li Qing took out a mini metal detector and slowly moved along the edge of the cave.Kideen hesitated several times before finally asking, "Isaac, are you prepared?"

"Well, probably. I found some problems with the water level before." The detector suddenly made a sharp beeping sound, and Li Qing stopped at this place.He probed the other places again, there was no exit, and there was no sign of any metal, it seemed that this was it.

In front of him was a pile of collapsed stone slabs and gravels. The sharp sections revealed complex mineral crystals, reflecting cold light under the flashlight.This was really a headache, Li Qing looked at the communication bracelet, the countdown displayed on it had four hours left, and after the departure time, they had two hours left.He touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, and turned to Linxi: "Can I ask you a favor?"

Under Li Qing's near-perfect calculation and Linxi's extremely efficient destruction, an hour later, they finally dug out a box under the pile of collapsed rock masses.Although they didn't hurt the box at all, the metal box collapsed a large piece under the pressure of a sharp stone cone.Li Qing brushed off the ash on it, and a few words could be discerned faintly on the scratched surface: oca*ion

location?Li Qing guessed.

Taking out the nano material knife and scratching lightly, the surface of the box was easily cut open like a piece of paper.Alloy materials cannot be perfect. On the one hand, they have advantages, but on the other hand, they must have disadvantages.Obviously, the material of this box is extremely resistant to electrolyte corrosion, and at the same time, as a material for a box, its hardness is simply frighteningly low.

It is equipped with an information storage device, which is the USB flash drive of the interstellar era, which is more than an order of magnitude higher than that of the earth era, but its surroundings are already stained with rust, and there is a hint of salty smell of sea water.The tiny internal circuits have been completely destroyed, and there is almost no possibility of repair.

Seeing this, everyone stood silently for several seconds, until Li Qing broke the silence with a faint sigh.

If the person who hides this box is not so conceited and thinks that the geological structure of the place he has detected is very solid and will not cause any physical damage to it, will the mystery of the parent star be revealed at this moment?

He thought about it, why did that person pay so much attention to the storage time of the box in sea water?Does that person think that this place will be discovered tens of thousands of years later?The most important point is - why hide.

Li Qing knew that dusty history is usually because of some ulterior secrets in history itself.As for what the secret was, no one seemed to dare to think.

He turned the box upside down and a piece of metal fell out from the bottom of the box.It was so small that it was hidden under the storage so that no one noticed it at first.He picked it up, and there were two lines of small characters written on the front of it.

rigel

stenortista

Rigel is Rigel, the brightest star in Orion.Li Qing remembers that the distance from it to the earth is 864.3 light years.But what planet is the stenortista in the second row?Li Qing closed his eyes, and searched for the memories of celestial bodies in his mind again, but found that none of the names matched.

Turn it over to the back, and the corresponding position on it is written in interstellar lingua franca: Eastern Ortesa-Nine, the terminal star.

This means that the ancient English name corresponding to East Otessa-[-] in the federal territory is Rigel?Li Qing compared their characteristics in memory, and confirmed this conjecture even more.Rigel, the brightest star in the night sky, and its distance from Earth.

an exact coordinate.

At the same time of joy, Li Qing was a little bit disappointed - he really didn't know what stenortista was, it didn't look like an English name, but more like the format of Interstellar Common Language.If he could know its name in the age of the earth, he could recall its distance from the earth.

With two points and two radii, the whereabouts of the earth can be locked in the vast universe.

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