Chapter 427: Starry Sky Road
The deep sea is silent, cold and dark.
A giant pyramid three hundred meters high stands quietly on the seabed.
Suspended at the bottom of the pyramid and looking up, you can see the huge stone steps extending upwards into the invisible deep sea. The top is not visible at all, which is shocking.
Countless huge stones were used to build this miraculous building, making it still majestic and magnificent after countless years.
There are hardly any gaps between the huge stones, which shows that the construction technique is very delicate.
"What an incredible building." Su Xia exclaimed. He had never been to the pyramids on the other side of the earth, but had only seen related videos on TV.
The huge building before him shocked him much more than the pyramids in the video.
"If it is really an energy tower, then there must be a special launch device inside. It cannot be a pure stone building. We need to find a passage..."
After Su Xia issued the order, more than a dozen small deep-sea exploration robots dispersed and conducted a detailed search around the huge building, trying to find a passage leading to the interior of the building.
Even if it is not an energy tower, but just an ordinary tomb or sacrificial temple, there should be passages or something like that.
On the other side of the Earth, the famous Pyramid of Khufu has a road leading to the interior, and it is open to tourists.
"You want to go in?" the big whale suddenly spoke.
"Yeah." Su Xia replied.
"Why go to all this trouble?" asked the whale. "How long will it take to find the target with just a dozen robots? Your submarine is so big, don't you have any exploration equipment?"
"You're right, you reminded me." Su Xia laughed, patted his head, and immediately turned around and looked at Sarah beside him.
Sarah smiled slightly, waved her hand to display an image, and said to Su Xia: "Captain, we are already exploring."
The picture she presented to Su Xia was a three-dimensional pyramid structure diagram, which was constantly changing, sometimes turning into an image of varying shades of color similar to infrared detection, and sometimes turning into a pure line pattern.
This large submarine carries a lot of exploration devices, which are combined with each other to form a complex exploration system.
"Captain, this exploration system is an additional feature of your submarine. Other standard submarines do not carry it. Your submarine is actually an upgraded version of this model..."
Sarah briefly introduced the exploration system to Suxia, but Suxia basically didn't understand anything.
The only thing he understood was muon detection.
Su Xia first learned about muons when he was learning about the special theory of relativity. This is a standard particle with negative charge and a spin of 1/2. It can be used to verify the length contraction effect and prove the existence of the special theory of relativity.
As a college student who likes science fiction, Su Xia basically knows a little about this aspect.
He knew many physics formulas and famous experiments, but he didn't know much about them and had never had a deep understanding of them. He only used them when bragging to his roommates and could gain admiring looks.
Su Xia's specific theoretical ability may not be as good as those crazy people in the folk science bar.
As for the muon detection that Sarah mentioned, it is another application of this particle. It has relatively high energy and can pass through large absorbing objects with only a small loss of energy.
Its trajectories are completely different when it passes through different media, so the basic structure inside the pyramid can be determined.
"How long will the exploration take?" Su Xia asked.
"Captain, if it's just pure exploration, it might take more than ten days to figure out the approximate internal structure." Sarah said with a smile.
"So long?" Su Xia was surprised. He really knew nothing about this.
"Yes."
Sarah nodded, her tone more serious, but she immediately said: "If you just want to find a few passages, then it's easy. Now you have found the entrance to a passage."
"Oh? Where is it?" Su Xia was shocked and asked immediately.
"here……"
Sarah pointed with her little hand at a constantly changing blue light band on the screen in front of her. This blue light band existed inside the three-dimensional pyramid structure image and was very conspicuous.
Its specific location is at the bottom of the right side of the pyramid.
"Here? I seem to have searched here just now."
Su Xia frowned slightly and immediately sent a small robot to scout and try to find the entrance to the passage.
However, after the small robot arrived, the images it fed back were still giant long stones weighing several tons or even dozens of tons. The stones were covered with a thick layer of seabed dust, and there were almost no gaps between the stones, and there was no entrance to the passage at all.
"Could it be that the entrance is blocked by rocks?" Su Xia thought, and it seemed that this was the only possibility.
"Do you want me to help you?" the big whale suddenly asked.
"How can I help?"
"I can spit out a few energy bubbles, control the force, and help you blast open the rock that's blocking the passage."
"Really? Thank you very much."
"You're welcome."
The big whale showed a wave of curiosity and said, "In fact, I also want to know what is inside this big pyramid. I even thought about directly knocking it open before. Every time I see this pyramid, I have this thought, but I am afraid of smashing the things inside, so I restrain myself and have been enduring it for so many years."
Hearing this, Su Xia's brows twitched. He thought that this big whale really had no interest in the mysteries of the seabed.
Now it seems that it’s not that he has no interest, but that he has explored everything he could, and only the most mysterious part is left that he cannot touch.
Indeed, considering the huge body of this whale, if it intended to ram it, it would most likely knock open the giant pyramid in front of it, unless the pyramid was solid.
"Tell your little robot to move aside. I don't want to hurt anyone by mistake." said the big whale.
"good."
Su Xia sent an order, and the small robots near the entrance of the passage immediately retreated a hundred meters away.
At the same time, the rest of the small robots that were exploring around the pyramid also retreated.
Su Xia was worried that the big whale couldn't control the strength and that his energy bubble would cause the pyramid to collapse, so he withdrew these small robots in advance.
He didn't want these precious little robots to have any problems here. Even the loss of one would make Su Xia heartbroken.
"Attention, I'm starting." The big whale came with a message.
Then, his huge mouth opened slightly, as if opening a dark abyss in the deep sea, and setting off a hidden undercurrent.
For a creature as huge as him, the slightest movement would trigger a series of chain reactions.
Then, an energy bubble the size of a human head floated gently out of his mouth.
Through the little robot's vision, Su Xia saw the appearance of the energy bubble.
"I see. It concentrates chaotic energy at one point and then makes it explode, similar to a psychic bomb."
The energy bubble, in the silent sea water, flashed a dangerous dark blue light, like a crystal ball about to crack, slowly approaching the huge stone at the entrance of the passage.
Under Su Xia's gaze, the bubble and the stone touched each other lightly, and the energy membrane on the surface deformed slightly, seeming to be a little soft.
A moment later, the bubble suddenly burst!
With a loud bang, energy exploded, the sea water became turbulent, and the enormous power that burst out was shocking, causing chaos in the deep seabed. If an ordinary person was hit, he might be directly blown into pieces of flesh and blood.
After dozens of seconds, the seabed debris and dust stirred up by the explosion gradually fell down, and the area gradually became clearer from being chaotic and blurry.
At this time, at the entrance of the passage, the huge rocks weighing more than ten tons had spider-web-like cracks appearing, as if they would disintegrate at any time.
At the site of the explosion, there was a deep depression, and the cracks spread out from the center of the depression.
"It seems not enough." said the big whale.
"Yes, we have to blow it up again." Su Xia nodded.
"I used only a tiny bit of energy just now, and I was afraid that the pyramid would collapse. Now it seems that this pyramid is very solid. I will make a bubble with more energy..."
After saying that, the big whale spit out another bubble, which was indeed much bigger than the previous one, about one third larger.
As he and Su Xia watched, the bubble gently floated over and exploded when it came into contact with the stone.
The power of this explosion was much stronger than the previous one.
After the explosion, the long boulders were completely shattered, collapsed, and disintegrated, turning into scattered pieces of rubble that rolled onto the flat ground at the bottom of the pyramid.
Behind the boulder, what appeared before Su Xia's eyes was an arched door-like entrance.
“There is indeed a passage.”
This arched entrance has a long stone support on each side, and an arc-shaped stone on the top. It is about two meters high, just enough for an adult to enter, and is about one meter wide.
After seeing the entrance, the big whale urged: "Let's go in and take a look!"
"good."
Su Xia smiled. He was also very curious and immediately sent an exploration robot over.
He stood in front of the control console, staring intently at the images fed back by the little robot .
This giant pyramid, which has been covered in dust for thousands of years, finally welcomes visitors today.
In the picture, the long stone bars on the left and right of the arched entrance are engraved with complex and inexplicable patterns, and the same is true for the curved stone on the top.
Looking inside, the passage was dark at the bottom and filled with sea water.
Perhaps as early as tens of thousands of years ago, when this pyramid sank, sea water poured into it through some cracks. After all, it is just a stone building, and no matter how precisely it is built, it is impossible for there to be no cracks at all.
Even a metal tower made of steel will be corroded by sea water over the long years and become a pile of scrap metal.
"After entering...what did you see?" the big whale asked impatiently.
"Still in the passage."
Su Xia replied: "There are some murals on both sides of the passage. I am looking at them."
"What mural?"
"About this civilization..."
After being soaked in sea water for thousands of years, the murals on both sides of the passage have faded. Fortunately, there are still traces of deep and shallow carvings, which can show their original appearance.
In the murals at the entrance of the passage, you can see many little human-like figures. Their facial features are vague, but their bodies and limbs are relatively clear. Behind these little figures are dome-shaped animal skin tents, and in front of them are piles of bonfires. They are portrayed vividly and are basically fragments of primitive tribal life.
Walking further in, more murals appeared in front of Su Xia.
The pictures show hunting scenes of primitive tribes, birth scenes, and many scenes of wars between tribes.
There are many war scenes depicted. In this painting, one can see tribal warriors holding rough bone spears, stone spears, wooden scissors, etc., fighting with the other tribal warriors. It was a bloody fight, the battle was brutal, blood flowed like a river, and many people died.
In a series of fierce battles, a tribe finally rose up, defeated the other surrounding tribes, successfully unified into one large tribe, and formed the basic prototype of a country.
"Is that all?" the whale asked. "Just some scenes of primitive people fighting? Is there anything else?"
"Don't worry, I'm watching..."
At present, the small robot has only explored an area of five meters in the passage and has not yet gone really deep. There are still a large number of unknown areas ahead waiting to be explored.
Going deeper, more mural contents appeared in front of Su Xia.
Although the tribes were unified, those people's lifestyles were still relatively primitive. They needed to fight wild beasts to obtain meat and often fill their stomachs. They had not yet developed a successful agricultural civilization.
Until one day, a strange-looking giant bird appeared in the sky.
"UFO?"
Su Xia focused his eyes on the picture on the wall of the passage and saw something very familiar.
A disc-shaped flying object appeared on the mural.
Below the flying object, the facial features of the primitive inhabitants depicted on the murals finally became clear. They showed expressions of panic, fear, and uneasiness, because it was something they had never seen before and was beyond their cognition.
In the subsequent mural, we can see that many human-like creatures descended from the disc-shaped flying object.
"The painter of the murals seemed to have regarded these creatures as gods, so they added something like halos behind them to express respect for the gods."
As you continue to look further, you will find that the content of the mural has changed drastically.
The creatures that came down from the flying objects brought a magical crop to the original inhabitants of this civilization and taught them how to farm. This way, they no longer needed to fight wild beasts and gradually developed an agricultural civilization.
On the mural, people's expressions changed from initial panic to extreme respect and submission.
"So that's how it is. It looks like aliens really have come and helped this civilization." Su Xia said.
"That is to say, what those old sea monsters said is true. This pyramid is really an energy tower?" asked the big whale in surprise.
“I’m not sure yet.”
Su Xia looked focused and continued to read.
After the development of agricultural civilization, the people in this area gradually formed the rudiments of a country and began to build more stable houses.
They mined rocks from nearby mountains and gradually built the stone city that Su Xia saw in the relatively flat areas.
Soon, Su Xia saw the end.
The passage is only about thirty meters long in total, and the content on the mural has come to an end.
The mural shows the scene of building a pyramid. Surrounding the pyramid are countless laborers, and one can vaguely see the difficulty of building this huge structure.
"Even now, building this thing is not easy." Su Xia sighed.
After the pyramid was built, several humanoid creatures with halos behind them stood on the top of the pyramid with their arms outstretched, as if announcing something.
Seeing this, Su Xia's eyes changed, and he saw a road behind those people.
On the mural, the road extends from behind those people, going up and up, slowly rising, as if leading to the distant horizon, and finally disappearing into an area depicted with starlight.
Su Xia took a deep breath and guessed the meaning of the mural.
"The road to the stars..."
