Chapter 28: The Emergence of the Solar System

  Everyone gathered around, and we carefully studied these carvings. We found that it was indeed impossible to explain these things because we still knew too little now. So we had no choice but to temporarily take pictures of these things as temporary data archives. Wen Long walked over at this time. He had not participated in our work all along. As a member of the assault team, his main task was to find that downward mechanism.

  "There's no mechanism." Wen Long walked over and said, "I've searched everywhere, there's no mechanism."

  "It's impossible. A place like this, you tell me there are no traps, how is that possible? Here..." I thought for a moment, and then seemed to mutter to myself, "Actually, it's also possible that there are no traps here, because this is a high-altitude, enclosed space, and those kinds of mechanisms need some kind of power source to drive them. There's neither water nor wind here, what would drive the mechanisms?" I looked up at the plants on the ceiling, these guys' vitality was really strong, it was strange, didn't they need water to survive? Where did the water come from in such a high place?

  I turned to Wen Long and said, "No way, this place should have water."

  Wen Long smiled and said: "Yes, there is a small pool over there. I took a look, they should be using the principle of capillary action to lift the water to such a high altitude."

  "I said anxiously: 'Where there is water, there should be a mechanism.'"

  "No," Wen Long told me very certainly. "That small pool can only support the growth of these plants, and there's nothing else. I've checked it very carefully."

  "I said blankly: 'This is impossible, this is unrealistic, there's no mechanism, how can we go down?'"

  Wen Long suddenly burst out laughing and said: "There's no mechanism, but there's a hole over there that should lead directly to the bottom."

  I went, and with one flying kick, I aimed at Wen Long. He easily dodged it, then let out a "ouch" and clutched his butt in pain. I was stunned - didn't I just miss? Then, I saw Su Yi behind Wen Long's back. Shadowless Kick, indeed still Su Yi's most accurate move.

  Wu Feng sighed on one side: "Alas, self-inflicted doom, can't be saved."

  We arrived at the entrance of the cave found by Wen Long, which was still a slope. Looking at the direction, it should be leading to the center of the array below again. Come on, not this trick again. It seems that the thinking of the ancients is relatively simple, but if we didn't have cameras, then this trick would be the best way to deal with us. And one move would kill us.

  "What's next?" Su Yi asked.

  I shook my head to indicate that I didn't know, and said: "Although I don't know what it is, it's definitely another heavenly formation array. But it doesn't matter anymore, we've already found a way to deal with this kind of thing, haven't we? This won't be difficult for us, let's go down."

  The old man nodded and said: "If there's a way, then it's no problem, let's go."

  Wen Long took the lead, immediately jumping down. The old man followed closely behind. I also jumped into the cave and found it was another slide. I wondered why these ancient people couldn't think of something else? But after some thought, it's indeed not very realistic. If they built a staircase, in such a small space, you'd still have to slide down, and if that's the case, your butt would probably be split in two.

  Here is the translation:

  Just as I was about to land, I felt a sudden emptiness below, and another free fall. Whatever, I continued to relax and land, shifting my center of gravity. Then, my foot slipped, "thud" I landed solidly on the ground. Damn it, why is there a patch of ice underfoot? Just as I was thinking this, Su Yi also jumped down, landed, shifted her center of gravity, "thud" she slammed solidly onto me.

  No good, an idea rose in my mind, I hugged Su Yi and rolled on the ground a couple of times, leaving that place. Sure enough, with a "bang", Wu Feng heavily smashed into the position where I had just left.

  "Hey." Wen Long's voice chimed in from the side, "Being teammates, what's with the huge difference between this guy and girl?"

  Wu Feng was also visibly shaken, he lay on the ground and said: "If I don't say anything this time, I won't say anything. Can't even make a sound to remind you? My god, can't we just grow up with our buttocks intact?"

  I just realized I was still holding Su Wei, and this feeling is actually not bad. But at this time, if I continue to hold on like this, it seems that's not the right thing to do either. I hurriedly let go of my hands, got up from the ground, and apologized: "Sorry, sorry, I'll be more careful next time, I'll be more careful next time." As I spoke, I reached out to help Su Wei up.

  Wen Long helped Wu Feng up while saying: "Who can you blame? You can only blame yourself for not being careful. Others didn't do anything wrong."

  Wu Feng hastily made a gesture of surrender and said: "Right, right, right, it was my fault, it was my fault."

  Su Yu's face turned red with anger, and she shouted: "Are you guys done yet? Don't you see where we are?"

  I looked around. The Ten Extremes Formation, the Ice Formation... just now I was still playing around and hadn't reacted yet, but suddenly I felt a chill run down my body. Although I had put back on all the clothes I had taken off earlier, in this space, it was clearly still not enough.

  "Penguin." Su Yi pointed in one direction and said.

  I followed her finger to where she was pointing, but there was nothing there. Just ice as usual. I shook my head and said: "Too simple-minded, in a situation like this, you still have time to think about those things. Unbelievable."

  Wen Long apparently didn't see anything either and said, "No way, this isn't the Arctic."

  "Never mind where we are, let's just follow the previous steps and get moving, or I'll freeze to death in a moment, we didn't even bring down jackets,"

  Wu Feng fumbled with the camera, muttering to himself: "Next time we go on an adventure, I'll definitely bring everything, including a quilt. If we encounter this kind of situation again, I'll be warm and cozy, and you can all look on with envy."

  This broken array is even more torturous than the last one. We're almost all working at top speed, which not only guarantees work efficiency but also warms our bodies a bit. Fortunately, the camera is fine; the cold here is purely a product of our own consciousness. That thing doesn't have consciousness and can't experience what we're feeling now.

  When I was sure of the direction, I found that Wen Long had already tied the rope and hooked it to the climbing buckle on my body. Then he said: "Ma Er, hurry up and run, don't be like the last one who was slow."

  He didn't even give me a chance to retort, and with one fierce push, he pushed me out several meters. I had no choice but to turn around and move forward towards the target. This time, with experience, my speed was much faster, and I quickly walked out of the illusion zone. After that, I pulled all those people out.

  Those few are almost frozen into ice sugar gourds, each one bent over, upper eyelid hitting lower eyelid, feeling like they could fall asleep at any moment. What's even more frightening is that the old man has already started to show signs of stripping off his clothes, looking like he's getting a bit dizzy. We quickly gave him a few mouthfuls of water, and only then did he come around a bit.

  "Wu Feng said: 'Old man, it's so cold today, you still want to take off your clothes?'"

  The old man was still obviously weak and didn't respond. Wen Long said, "You don't know, actually many people who froze to death were naked, because the cold from outside in makes them feel a warmth in their internal organs, and from inside out there's a feeling of being about to burn up. This feeling makes people before they freeze to death keep taking off their clothes until they're completely naked."

  I said: "Unbelievable, fortunately we entered the desert first, if we had entered this place first, I'm afraid nothing would have worked."

  Su Yi said: "Can we talk about this later? Dad, can you still move? We need to at least get out of this formation before considering other things."

  Wen Long patted his chest and said: "I'll carry Grandpa, you guys divide up the backpacks."

  I and Wu Feng each took another backpack, Wen Long carried the old man. Although the weight increased, after finding the path to break through the array, it was no longer difficult to walk, and more than half an hour later, we finally walked out of this broken array.

  Everyone fell to the ground, panting heavily. I teased Wen Long and said: "Hey, when you're dating a girl, remember to bring her here to play. Sahara Desert plus North Pole one-day tour, how about it? No travel agency in this world can offer you such a tour route."

  Wen Long leaned against the wall and said, "You can just forget it, coming here once is enough. Besides, if I really wanted to come here on a date with you, would I bring you or not? If I brought you, wouldn't that be like adding insult to injury? And if I didn't bring you, what if I couldn't get out of here?"

  "Stop arguing, all of you." Wu Feng chimed in from the side: "You've forgotten, that kind of plant, when it encounters blood, takes ten years to bloom. Ten whole years! By then, I reckon I'll have to bring my kid along too. If we can make it before marriage, that is... hmmph!"

  Wen Long smiled and said: "That makes sense, haha, okay, I'll go think of a way to get some food, what are you guys going to do?"

  Wu Feng took a glance at the old man and said: "Take a rest, let's talk after dinner."

  We lay there until Wen Long called us to eat, and after eating some compressed dry rations, we gradually regained our strength. We stood up and looked at the carvings on this floor.

  When he saw the first carving, Wu Feng said: "Wow, this is a serial painting, it's basically a continuation of the one above."

  We all fell silent, in this sculpture, those two flying spheres collided, it seemed that they should have been unclear after the collision. We felt that the collision scene presented by the sculptor was a huge explosion. The range of the big bang is very wide, almost occupying 90% of the entire sculpture. There seems to be something at the center of the explosion, and the sculptor carved out that blur with superb technique. And the arrow-shaped body in this sculpture has become even smaller, we had to find it with great difficulty in the remaining 10% of space, it has shrunk to almost the size of a small thumb.

  The old man looked carefully and said: "Unbelievable, if we look at the proportion of this explosion. That's too shocking."

  Wu Feng took pictures while asking: "Old man, what's your take on this? Share it with everyone."

  The old man didn't answer, but instead led us to the next sculpture. This one was truly a test of the sculptor's skills, and fortunately, he passed with flying colors. The explosion had created a large area of dust that was uneven in texture - some parts were rough, while others were fine. Amidst the dust, I saw several small spherical objects, especially the one in the middle, which seemed to be something burning into a circular shape.

  The old man suddenly became excited and said: "I understand, this is the Big Bang of the universe. Oh my god, they can actually create stars in the universe."

  "Ah!" We were all shocked, the cosmic explosion, this word may have been heard by many people, but no one has ever seen it, and can only find some relevant information from books and online. But on this wall, someone actually carved out the scene of the cosmic big bang. How is this possible?

  The old man didn't care what we were thinking, he continued: "I've figured out these carvings a bit. Think about the content above. Those are Pangu, Fuxi and Nüwa and several other gods in ancient myths. We can consider that they might be a family or a tribe, because they basically look similar."

  I nodded woodenly, still not fully digesting the old man's theory. The old man continued: "That arrow-shaped thing should be a kind of spaceship. I've read reports that such spaceships have appeared in the research data on aliens from various countries, which we call arrow-shaped flying saucers."

  At this time, I remembered the dragon farting earlier and suddenly realized: "Oh my god, their planet exploded, so they came to Earth by spaceship?"

  The old man nodded and then shook his head, it's unclear whether he was in agreement or opposition. He said: "Their planet should have exploded, we've seen it above, but they don't seem to be coming to Earth. You see, they haven't even come to the solar system, instead they're conducting experiments in a cosmic space, they're carrying out universe-level explosion experiments. What are they trying to do? Could it be... no way!"

  I was scared out of my wits by the old man's expression, which can be simply described as terrifying or more complexly as making one's hair stand on end. The old man almost rushed to the next carving. In the carving, the dust produced by the explosion decreased a lot, and several spherical objects gradually appeared inside, with the arrow-shaped spaceship flying towards the third sphere.

  I don't know why, but every time I see this picture, it feels a bit familiar, but for a moment, I couldn't recall where I had seen it before. The people around me were silent, no one spoke, and I didn't know what they were thinking now. All I knew was that my skin seemed to have goosebumps because I slowly recalled the scene of this sculpture - oh my god, this is the solar system.

  "Good grief!" The thought burst out of my mouth in a loud exclamation. "This is the solar system."

  Still, no one spoke, but I think they must have all heard my voice, and I think they were also stunned. The old man stood there woodenly, his face filled with an expression of disbelief and difficulty in accepting it. He opened his mouth but couldn't say a word.

  "They created the solar system here." Nor did I know how long it had been, nor even that this was a sentence someone had spoken.

  The old man seemed to have come back to life and said, "No, it shouldn't be, it's impossible. The solar system was actually created by humans, not formed naturally?" He was a bit frantic.

  Wen Long had already walked over, possibly watching us in a daze, and he didn't say anything either. At this time, he chimed in: "I think this explanation is quite reasonable, Pangu opening up the sky and earth? The sky and earth were all chaotic, so he took two axes and chopped open the sky and earth with one swing. This myth isn't scientific, but now it's scientific, in a corner of the universe, Pangu used high-tech to create the solar system, and the sky and earth were formed."

  I blankly turned my head to look at him, then turned back to stare at the carving, really unable to accept this reality. The old man's emotions were pulled back to reality by Wen Long's words, and he was also thinking about something. After a long time, he said: "Maybe, let's not think about its authenticity for now, just treat it as real, just treat it as real." He walked towards the next carving while speaking.

  I was about to move on when I found Wu Feng still staring blankly, so I patted him and he came back to his senses a bit. I said: "What are you thinking? The old man has already reached the next pass, hurry up and take a photo." After finishing speaking, I walked to the next sculpture.

  That was a landing diagram, the shuttle-shaped spacecraft had already landed on a planet, and I saw them unloading something. Pangu's huge body revealed that he was the ruler of this planet.

  The old man took a glance and asked Su Feng: "Which planet were their spacecraft flying towards just now?"

  Su Yi thought for a moment and said, "It seems like it's the third one."

  The old man chuckled and said, "Regardless of whether these carvings are real or not, at least they didn't get the location wrong." He looked at me and Wen Long standing there in confusion, and explained, "Earth is the third planet in the solar system." Only then did we nod our heads in understanding.

  The old man said, "They established the solar system and then landed on Earth. It turns out that those ancient gods were not just myths, they were indeed creation gods. I really didn't expect it, our solar system was actually created."

  "I said: 'Old man, actually I think this is normal too. I remember that in foreign myths there are also stories about creating the world, like needing light and water.'"

  The old man should have fully recovered, saying: "You're right, I shouldn't be so excited. Even if the solar system was built, it's normal. After all, high-end life forms are also scientifically proven to exist."

  I nodded in agreement. Su Xi said on the side, "Actually, we've also solved a mystery of the scientific community now, how the solar system appeared, huh, I don't know if it'll make us famous after publication?"

  The old man shook his head and said, "Don't even think about it, you don't have any actual evidence, just relying on carvings won't do, don't forget that with today's scientific technology, making a few photos like this is simply easy. Unless, you really find real evidence to prove this theory. At that time, not to mention becoming famous, I'm afraid even this theory will be named after you, called the Su Yi Theory."

  I feel like I'm about to suffocate, but the old man is occasionally quite humorous. Su Yi gave me a hateful glance, but didn't kick me with her invisible foot. I secretly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.

  "Alright, let's finish filming this level and then find a way to go downstairs to take a look. Maybe we'll make some new discoveries. Wu Feng, hey, Wu Feng."

  I found Wu Feng still standing in front of the original carving, as if he had thoroughly foolishly stood there. The camera was held in his hand, but he didn't have any intention of taking a picture at all. I saw Lao Ye Zi's face start to look bad. Hurriedly walked over and put his arm around his shoulder, saying: "What are you thinking about? Don't take pictures quickly, Lao Ye Zi is going to get angry."

  Wu Feng put down the camera, as if it were a thousand pounds heavy, and then said woodenly: "This carving has an awkward composition."

  "My goodness gracious," I said, "Big brother, what's the big deal, it's just a photo shoot, can't you just take a picture?"

  Wu Feng shook his head and said: "It's not that, take a closer look, this solar system seems to be different. I can't quite put my finger on where the difference is."

  The old man had walked over by this time, his face stern as he asked, "Wu Feng, what's going on?" He rarely looked so severe, it was clear that he was truly angry.

  Wu Feng repeated what he had just said, and the old man also carefully looked at this carving. I was also slowly attracted by the content on it, although I didn't understand much about this aspect.

  The old man only looked for a short while, suddenly inhaled a mouthful of cold air, and my heart immediately rose to my throat. This action of his must be an extraordinary discovery.

  "Good heavens... this chart... is missing a planet."

  What? A planet is missing!