I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

Lin Xu continued to ask, "How is the situation on the moon?"

Zhou Pingbo pondered for a moment and replied: "It is another person in charge who organized the lunar expedition. I heard from them that no trace of life was found on the moon, so they have no contact with my biological group."

"Where's the corpse?"

"What corpse?" Zhou Pingbo was taken aback by Lin Xu's question.

Lin Xu frowned and sped up his speech, "There are human space bases on the moon. According to the history of the empire, the Ark fleet took off from the earth and crashed into the corner of the moon because of the yaw. It did not mention whether there were spaceships joining the fleet at the moon base. Even Without corpses, there should be traces left by human technology."

"When the Abyss Fleet discovered the ancient Earth for the first time, it sent unmanned probes to land on the lunar surface for investigation." Heinrich said at this time, "There are no signs of human activities on the lunar surface, unless..."

"Unless the human space base and the corner of the moon are crashed together." Lin Xu's voice became colder and colder.

"There is man-made space junk in the moon rock ring." Zhou Pingbo added, "A team is collecting this junk. According to them, this may be the wreckage left when some spacecraft in the Ark crashed into the moon."

"They said?" Lin Xu leaned against the back of the chair. He was only wearing a daily uniform, and his long hair was loosely draped over his shoulders, but his words and demeanor showed an unprecedented pressure.

Zhou Pingbo wiped his face, "The members of the Earth-Moon Surveying and Mapping Group are all from the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and so is my biology group. As far as I know, most of the external experts of the investigation team are concentrated in the field of humanities and social sciences. Before the Natural Evolution set sail, they gave some mission goals, including investigating the birth and evolution of ancient humans, the history of early human civilization, mythology, art, and so on."

"The research tasks of historians have nothing to do with the history of the Ark Fleet?"

"That's true..." Zhou Pingbo replied, "I heard that they dug up a museum, and the things inside are enough to study for a long time."

Zhou Pingbo talked about the excavation of the museum, but he couldn't hold it for too long, so he squinted his eyes while talking.

Heinrich told him to go back to sleep.

Zhou Pingbo rubbed his eyes and responded. Before ending the communication, he passed to Lin Xu a copy of the museum materials under investigation. Most of the materials of the inspection team can be shared, at least the humanities information is shared, and the members of the inspection group can have a look at it in advance. Remains of Ancient Earth Artwork.

I can also look at some of the materials of other inspection groups, but most of them are full of data and proper nouns, and the complicated sentence patterns and diagrams make people dizzy.

If a few data are deliberately tampered with in it, it will be difficult for people to notice, not to mention that the participants in the investigation are all experts in this field, at least the people of the empire tens of millions of light-years away will not think about questioning them Data from distant Earth.

After simply flipping through, Lin Xu fell into deep thought.

He propped his chin up, obviously not putting on an oppressive posture, but his whole body seemed to be covered with a sharp fog.

Unreliable, elusive.

When Lin Xu was still in a high-level administrative position at the base, he had his own office. The base's space resources were limited, and even he could not have much space.

But this little private space contained all the sharp thoughts and decisions after he took off the gentleness of the disguise.

Later, he personally went to the front line of the battle, so he didn't have to bear the responsibility of making decisions for other people's lives. When he arrived in the empire, he was alone, so he didn't have to worry about it.

Heinrich had never seen Lin Xu in this state. He opened his mouth, weighed things up and down in his mind, and asked, "What do you think?"

The contemplative look disappeared almost instantly, Lin Xu blinked lightly, subconsciously changed to a gentle gaze.

He looked down and saw Heinrich's golden eyes—Heinrich's elbows were on his knees, supporting his upper body. Unavoidable, it fell into Heinrich's eyes.

The deep skeletal contours of the eyes originally made these golden eyes look colder, like poisonous ice pool water in the deep forest, but when he looked up at Lin Xu from below, there was a kind of sincerity and affection.

The mask-like gentleness on Lin Xu's face gradually melted and dissipated. At this moment, his expression finally returned to Heinrich's usual, a little indifferent, but extremely real expression.

"I remembered that at the banquet in Baiyin Airport, I met Li Qing—he was my classmate at Capital Star University, who originally studied the history of early technology in the empire—he said that after communicating with some people, the direction of research changed. He joined the investigation team as a researcher of mythology." Lin Xu recalled,

"Researching the early technological history of the empire will inevitably touch the history of the Ark Fleet. The leap and curvature engine technologies that are crucial to galaxy navigation were invented during that time, but the only information that can be found in the past has been the official chronicle of the Ark Fleet. The discovery of the ancient earth can provide more precious historical materials for the study of the history of early science and technology. Everything is in the ascendant, and he has no reason to give up."

"Who has he communicated with?" Heinrich grasped the abnormality.

"I don't know, he didn't go into details. Maybe I should ask him." Lin Xu began to plan the reason for contacting Li Qing, they were not familiar with each other, or more precisely, during Lin Xu's college days, The only familiar person is Marlene Anna.

Marlene Anna...

Lin Xu didn't hear her mention that any weird person came to contact her, and the literature and poetry studied by Marlene didn't touch the sensitive history of the Ark Fleet like the history of science and technology.

Why did those people act so simply?

Li Qing came to him at the banquet to introduce Godric to him. Lin Xu and Godric had exchanged books several times, and he could get in touch with Li Qing again from here.

But the sudden access to the video communication interrupted Lin Xu's thinking, and Ryan's energetic voice came out of the communication, which directly disturbed the dignified atmosphere between Lin Xu and Heinrich.

"Mr. Lin! Look what I found!"

Lin Xu pressed his temple with a headache, and Heinrich glanced at Ryan, but only poor Arnold received the threat signal.

Arnold coughed twice, and held down Ryan who was dancing.

Finally, Lin Xu said helplessly, "What did you find?"

As soon as the camera turned, a vast expanse of white appeared on the screen, and there were a few groups of black fluff in the expanse of white.

Ryan and Arnold went all the way up from the mid-mountain where the lander was located, and crossed the snow line. At this moment, the background of the communication video is the cold and snow-capped white peak.

Lin Xu looked at the picture and suddenly sat up straight, even leaning his shoulders forward, "This is..."

"It's rolling! Isn't it, Mr. Lin?" Ryan squatted on the snow, stretched out his finger and lightly poked the little sesame glutinous rice balls in the snow.

"Yes...it's rolling." Lin Xu replied.

I don't know what went wrong with the empire's atlas that records the lost creatures of the ancient earth. It lost the scientific name of the giant panda, and only recorded a cute and catchy reduplicate word.

This Roll looks about the same size as Xiaoheixiaobai, probably still in its infancy.

"Is it alone here?"

"Well, it's still alive, but it's about to freeze." Ryan looked around, and there were no footprints left by other large animals on the snow. "It looks lost, and its eyes can't be opened."

The isolation suit can isolate the breath of human beings, so there is no need to worry that this little Gungun will be abandoned by its mother after being touched, but now where to find its mother has become a problem.

"You carry it to a place with a mild climate down the mountain first."

Lin Xu suggested so for the time being.

Ryan picked up Rolling according to his words, and the little black and white thing was so soft in his hands that even Arnold couldn't help but touch Rolling's head.

After getting closer, Ryan found that the corners of its eyes were oozing pus. He gently lifted his eyelids, and the rolling eyes showed signs of inflammation and redness, and the little thing let out an uncomfortable cry.

"Oh, it sounds like a bunny cat." Ryan was full of affection, "But this poor little eye is inflamed, it's not easy."

"Maybe it's snow blindness." Arnold followed suit and said affectionately.

Heinrich closed his eyes, not wanting to comment on his adjutant who was full of eyes.

"Wait." Lin Xu suddenly stopped them, leaning forward more than when he saw the rolling, Ryan stopped suddenly and looked at the camera.

"Back up." Lin Xu said quickly.

"Ah?" Ryan hesitated for a moment, did Lin Xu want to deal with this rolling cub in another way?But this icy and snowy place... Ryan turned around reluctantly, but was suddenly stopped by Lin Xu in front of a rock.

Lin Xu didn't give an explanation, but just ordered: "Camera down, dig this piece of snow."

Ryan hugged Rolling and didn't know why, so Arnold quickly stepped forward to execute the order, extending a section of the exoskeleton's forelimb, and digging away the snow.

The covered cold dark gray rock gradually reveals the whole picture.

Its exposed surface was incredibly smooth, and it was almost impossible for it to be a natural product. Arnold gradually realized something, his expression became serious, and the mechanical movements of his hands became gentle.

After all the snow covering the rock was cleared away, Ryan realized that it was a man-made stone monument!

At first, there was a line exposed on the part of the snow layer. At first, Ryan only thought it was a crack in the rock. Now that all the lines on the stone tablet are connected together, he realizes that they together form a geometric image.

There is a square in a vertically long rhombus, the four vertices of the square are against the four sides of the rhombus, and another circle falls in the square.

On the entire image, several square characters are engraved.

Arnold can only see that these must be human symbols that contain some kind of information, but he doesn't know what they are, and Ryan, who is hugging Rolling, is staring at the characters.

"This is... um... Chinese characters?"

Ryan knew that Lin Xu could read and write Chinese characters, but because there were very few cultural relics of Chinese characters left by the Marion Empire, there were very few researchers, and because it was too difficult to understand, Ryan practiced with Lin Xu for several years and never learned it. Chinese characters.

"Yes." Lin Xu's answer at the moment sounded like this stone tablet, as if it had gone through countless hours and exposed the cold memory in the wind and snow.

The stele reads: Xin·Eastern Region Base - I would like to remember the last fire of human beings.

Lin Xu clearly remembered all the plans of the base, which did not include this stele.

Moreover, the original name of the base was: General Base of Human East Region.

The Eastern Region also includes a dozen scattered human survivor bases.The word "Zong" was removed from this stele, and the words "the last kindling" were added. Lin Xu couldn't help thinking that all the other bases in the Eastern Region were destroyed?

"What was said on the stele?" Heinrich's hand covered the back of Lin Xu's trembling hand outside the video screen, and the collective graphics under the stele text were also the patterns he saw on the recording box.

Lin Xu recounted the original text to him word by word. After the retelling, Lin Xu tried to hold his breath, "Colonel Arnold, please send me the coordinates, and I will come over now."

"Then..." Ryan said weakly.

Lin Xu had already got up and walked towards the equipment room, "You don't have to wait for me as you carry Gun Gun down the mountain."

Without hesitation, Heinrich immediately followed Lin Xu.

The wind was howling, and the high-altitude sky was clear. Without thick clouds, there would be no new snow falling, but the strong wind blew the accumulated snow like sand and dust, and the snow particles hit the isolation film, sparking bursts of bright spots.

A knife-like chill was scraped across the face through the film.

Arnold stood by the stele like a straight flagpole. When he raised his hand to salute Heinrich, Lin Xu was already squatting beside the stele to check.

The high-altitude cold weakened the corrosion, and even after 3000 years, you can still see the red dye residue in the inscribed marks on the stone tablet. The square and square Song style is used. Lin Xu guessed that the stone tablet was carved with laser engraving. The technical level has not returned to the original state due to the mutation.

There was a break at the bottom of the stele, and Lin Xu dug down several layers of snow, but found no base.

The stele was broken elsewhere, and then appeared here.

He looked up at the real Kunling Peak, the extremely steep peak could no longer be covered by snow, and further down, the sharp ridge carved like an ax seemed to pierce the blue sky, and the unobstructed sunlight made the blade ridge stand on the other side The side casts a clear shadow, and huge ice cubes and fine stones are piled up in the shadow.

The site where the stele was found was an ice cirque that may have been brought down from a higher place by glacial erosion over the past 3000 years.

What bitter cold place did the later humans build their bases in?

Heinrich stood behind him: "What does this pattern refer to?"

Lin Xu got up, when Cassandra sent a message that Ryan had returned to the lander, and the initial results of the lake excavation work were obtained, and the computer established a preliminary foundation for the buildings under the lake based on the data sent back by the detection equipment. Model.

The model shows a rhombus with nested circles and squares.

Lin Xu glanced at the model and replied, "This is the logo of the General Base of the East Region in the Doomsday, drawn according to the outline of the base."

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