A hunting adventure [unlimited]

Wuma's eyes are like a miniature camera, which can automatically capture the images he sees to generate video data, and take out his eyeballs to read what he sees inside the stone tower.

When he said "I wrote it down", he meant that he converted the picture information into data and stored it in his eyeballs.

He Anli never doubted Wuma's loyalty and honesty, of course it was also because Wuma never showed anything abnormal in front of her—if having self-will is considered abnormal.

Seeing that the projection was divided into two parts instead of a coherent whole segment, He Anli didn't ask any further questions. She thought it was Wuma who deleted the side details and only captured the key scenes to save time.

The interior of the giant stone tower is very dark. Walking through the door, a long stone bridge connects to the round platform in the middle, which is lonely and deep as if leading to hell.Walking up the stone bridge, uncorrupted corpses are piled up in the [-]-meter-deep pits on both sides. The number is frightening; none of the corpses have heads, and the pale gray skin is full of elasticity and humidity.

Witnessing the huge mountain of corpses through the eyes of others is still shocking and frightening.He Anli's heart seemed to be clenched tightly, and it became difficult to breathe; she had seen thousands of skeletons in the catacombs, but the visual impact and psychological oppression brought by the bones and dead bodies could not be compared at all.

The corpses in the stone pagoda were all fresh and incorruptible, as if these talents were about to die, as if she had witnessed the deprivation and loss of countless fresh lives.

Wuma did not deceive her. The dead people were dressed in rough linen robes and leather. Their physical characteristics were no different from humans, but they were very tall, with an average height of 2.3-3 meters. The dead were almost young and middle-aged men, and there were no children or female.

"No head..." He Anli repeated anxiously, "They all have no head..."

When Lin Qi died, she also had no head.

Wuma stood on the stone bridge and looked down, the details of the severed head of the corpse could not be clearly seen in the dim light.Wuma strung steel wires into a noose, passed through the arm of a corpse, and then tightened them crosswise; the sharp steel wires cut off flesh and blood, and the palms broke off.Wuma threw another hook and caught the lonely palm.

If this series of movements were to be done by humans, it would take a lot of practice to be as precise and easy as Wuma.

The palm caught was the one brought back in the stone box.

Just when He Anli thought he would see Wuma continue to approach the round platform at the end of the stone bridge, the projection screen had already shifted to the first perspective of standing on the round platform.

The top of the stone tower is as dark as night, and a ray of light penetrates through the entrance through the ground at the top, which faintly illuminates the four corners of the building's oblique branches; the light source is the red light of a moonlit night in the desert, and looking at the sky from a well looks like a moon.

The dark moonlight filtered by the darkness shines on the axis of the round platform. A square pillar supports a round tray. The tray is a stone slab full of patterns, and a stone box with the same dense carvings is placed in the center.

Wuma's fingers touched the box, and the lines burst into a faint green light.

The stone box was opened, and the inside was empty. Wuma put the cut palm into it, picked up the box, and began to look at the patterns carved on the surface of the disc.

"I think it's a map, can you decipher it?" Wuma interrupted her thoughts.

He Anli turned her head, Wuma took out her left eyeball to read the memory, so the left eye socket turned into a black hole, leaving a red gold right eye to look at her.

"I'll try." He Anli said.She has profound attainments in the field of semiotics, and deciphering ancient characters and murals has always been her specialty.

The ruins currently found in Ciel-t45 have many similarities with human civilization, and she believes that she has the ability to decipher the words and codes of this planet.

"I trust you." Wuma said.He remembered something important, and said seriously: "By the way, since our only biologist, Arthur, died unfortunately, I did a genetic test on that palm on his behalf; the results are very interesting, you should go and have a look. "

Mentioning this point, He Anli was indescribably excited; she has always believed that the birth of human beings is no accident. Since there was a race highly similar to human beings on the planet Ciel-t45, is this race and human beings genetically the same?If so, the earth may not be the origin of human beings, and the so-called theory of evolution is naturally self-defeating.

We, human beings, actually have another family in the vast universe. They have surpassed us in civilization and technological development for a period of time; did Ciel-t45 and the earth happen to breed the same life, or did the same life choose to come? Birth to a different planet?

Just putting forward such a hypothesis, He Anli's heart is already surging.

- What are we?Where do we come from?Where are we going?

In the face of this ultimate question, all the wealth and history, civilization and artistic treasures created by mankind become insignificant.

Has she finally gotten a chance to get closer to the answers to these questions?

Wuma led her into the laboratory.The test samples were the palm of an unknown giant male, and a piece of black hair belonging to a human.

He Anli asked, "Whose hair is that?"

Wuma replied: "Your, I hope you don't mind if I collect one of your hairs."

"I do not mind."

"That's good." Wuma's eyeballs had long been put back into their sockets, returning to a flawless appearance. With a smile on his lips, he showed her the comparison chart of the two DNA sequences in the genetic test report.

Seeing the result, He Anli was stunned at first, and then he was speechless for a long time, his eyes were hot and his nose was sore.

It's exactly the same.

She didn't expect it to be like this, and she didn't expect that this journey with an illusory destination could bring her such a great meaning.

What they found were not alien civilizations and other races, but human beings living on another planet, "us" with the same genetic sequence.

***

Yu Zhen slept for a full twelve hours and was very contented, but when she woke up she was very hungry.

Du Yu dug out his private stash of snacks and put them all over the bed, letting him eat whatever he wanted.

Thinking of the food provided by the spacecraft, Yu Zhen really lost his appetite, so he just tore open a bag of snack jerky and ate it, regardless of whether it was past the expiration date.

Du Yu hugged the little bear and looked at him dryly.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Yu Zhen didn't understand, this kid was quite aloof and mature at first, how did he become a pug dog after a day, the main reason is that he didn't have any bones to feed him.

"I heard from them that many people died." Du Yu wrinkled his face and said sadly, "I was very worried about you..."

Children pretending to be deep and sad can only make people laugh, Yu Zhen smiled appreciatively, and said, "You are really different from yourself when you grow up."

"Everyone is subject to change," said the child.

Yu Zhen stopped chatting and got down to business: "I asked you to go to Wuma for something, did you go?"

He slept for twelve hours, Du Yu couldn't have slept for so long, the kid must be lazy.

"He's working with others. It seems like he's trying to get a big rock or something. I can't get in the lab, and they won't open the door for me..." Du Yu shrugged and said guiltily, "I didn't want to."

Yu Zhen: "Study stones? With whom?"

The stone definitely refers to the stone box that Wuma brought out from the stone pagoda, only that thing has some research value.

The child scratched his head in deep thought, "He... what, the one with long hair."

"...I'll go take a look." Yu Zhen quickly got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up.

His impression of Wuma is extremely corrupted, he looks so much like the adult version of Du Yu (the version he hates the most), and has more thoughts, which is not a good thing, it is not safe for He Anli and Wuma to be alone.

In this ship, in this incident, he could not be decisive in anything he could do, always being pushed by developments.

Maybe it's the so-called supporting role?This feeling sucks.Yu Zhen hoped that since she was involved, she would take the initiative, otherwise she would not know how she died, it would be too embarrassing.

It's a pity that Yu Zhen couldn't go out smoothly, because Luo Er came to him.

He could have slept on the boat, watched movies, entertained the children, and spent leisurely time, but because Lore was inexplicably poisoned by arsenic, he had to fill in the vacancy and almost died with the expedition team on an alien day trip.

Yu Zhen didn't have a good face to treat others, and said slyly: "Is there anything you can do with me?"

He Anli's two assistants are both young, and Luo Er has a more lively personality, always looking like a college student who has just graduated, but now his eyes are swollen from crying, and he looks listless.Lore held a notebook, with a strong nasal voice, and said in a low voice, "I'll talk to you alone, is that okay?"

Yu Zhen nodded, and told Du Yu who was behind him: "You wait for me to come back obediently."

"Oh..." The child responded with a teddy bear in his hand.

They went to the atrium, one-third of the people on board were missing, and it was not meal time, so the dining area was extremely deserted.

In fact, Yu Zhen also wanted to ask Lore some questions, such as: What happened to your poisoning?

A spaceship with extremely high safety performance, it is unlikely that the crew will be poisoned for no reason.Time was running out before departure, and there was no time to think about it, but the question was always buried in Yu Zhen's heart.

"Are you going to explain to me why you were accidentally poisoned by coincidence?" Yu Zhen sat down casually.

Luo Er sat opposite him, resting his hands on his forehead tiredly, lowered his face and admitted, "I took the medicine myself."

Yu Zhen: "What's the reason?"

Could it be that Lol, the prophet, predicted that this expedition would be extremely dangerous, so he ate poison to escape?Then he has to look at this journey in a different way, because death cannot be avoided when it comes.

But Luo Er said: "You beat Lin Qi like that...I'm ashamed to see him."

Yu Zhen took away Luoer's arm supporting his head, "Hey, look at me."

Luoer raised his face, still avoiding him, and looked away; sniffling his nose, and said in a weak voice: "...the words on that bear were written by me."

Yu Zhen was startled, "What!?"

"I just wanted to make a joke with you..." Luo Er wiped his eyes, his nose was red, and sobbed, "Lin Qi has a sketchbook, and he likes to draw; he doesn't talk much, and hides most of the time. I paint in my own room, including landscapes and portraits. I trained with him before boarding the ship, and we have a good relationship, so he allowed me to look through his paintings."

Luo Er took out the notebook in his hand, put it on the table, and opened it for him to read.

And said: "Recently he painted you a lot, so I asked him if he had a crush on you, and he told me to mind my own business; I couldn't understand his bored look, and how boring it was on the boat... I just wanted to Have some fun. The other day I saw a bear fall outside your room and I picked it up... I wanted to tease you and see how you reacted, so I wrote that sentence on the bear's stomach, then put the bear by the door, and later Let the children pick it up."

Yu Zhen took the sketchbook with a red cover and flipped through it. The drawings included streets and landscapes, as well as portraits drawn in charcoal; Lol is telling the truth.

Yu Zhen troubled: "... Then when I beat him so badly, why didn't you say anything?"

"Because you struck too hard! I'm afraid you'll beat me up if you tell me...and I can't fight back..." Luoer said and lowered his head again, "I did this wrong, I didn't expect the consequences It's so serious, you will be so angry. I have to set off the next day, and I don't know how to face Lin Qi, so I swallowed some wild insect repellent, not a large amount, not fatal and no sequelae, just enough to cancel my Qualifications for action..."

"I want to wait for you to come back in a few days, and the anger will definitely disappear. Maybe he will find a chance to explain to you, and then I will admit my mistake and apologize... But..."

"But Lin Qi died." Yu Zhen continued the last sentence, stopped turning the page with his fingers, and stared into Luo Er's eyes, "He never explained to me, if you don't tell me, his image in my heart will always be like that gone."

"He's not that kind of person! He's introverted and shy, and he's a nice person..." Luoer cried and confessed, "I'm sorry for him..."

Yu Zhen listened to the other party crying indifferently, flipped through a few more pages, and finally found his own portrait; he closed the notebook, and said annoyedly: "Okay, you go and cry to him."

Luo Er was so fierce that he stopped crying, covered his eyes with his palms, and wiped his tears silently.

Yu Zhen wanted to say a lot of words, including accusations and comfort, but the words reached the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them back. In the end, he only said: "I took the painting."

Yu Zhen was walking on the road, holding the sketch book, her eyes depressed.

Everyone is dead, so what else?No matter how many apologies and regrets, the dead can't hear it.

If Lin Qi hadn't died, when he heard the truth, he could only smile awkwardly and say sorry; after seeing those paintings, he might add another sentence: You draw very well.

Other than that, there will be no more.

***

When Yu Zhen walked back from the central hall, He Anli and Wuma had already been working in the laboratory for 8 hours.

He was holding a book of sketches in a red envelope, and was hit by the oncoming white coat——

He Anli rushed out to hug him. She put her arms around his neck and said excitedly, "Yu! Guess what we found!"

Yu Zhen couldn't guess, he felt He Anli's body temperature and her pounding heartbeat; he suddenly thought, if Lin Qi hadn't died, the person she hugged must not be him.

In the team she led, only the two of them came back alive.

When she wanted to share her newfound joy, she had to turn to him.

Yu Zhen tried her best to express her curiosity and joy, and asked, "What did we find?"

"The temple! The real temple!"