Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The Mechanical Giant Three Thousand Years ago

A bright moon is still there, but on the earth in the 24th century AD, human beings can only live in thirteen artificial shelters, relying on the artificial sun produced by Bobcat Kugel to relive the temperature of the sun a hundred years ago. There is a city in the thirteen curtains, named Tiexiancao City, which is located on a famous ancient continent. Because the famous "Superman War" was tragic and abnormal hundreds of years ago, most of the crust on the surface of the earth has been displaced, so the continents and oceans of the earth in the 24th century are quite different from the cognition of hundreds of years.In order to correlate and refer to the ancient surface state, any place in the 24th century can find out the position several centuries ago from the latitude and longitude.

The location where the Tiexiancao Market is located was the famous ancient China before the 20th century AD. Because of this, among several famous cities in the 24th century, Tiexiancao City is unique in the world in terms of archeology and civilization research. The study of archeology and ancient civilizations is a very important subject in the 24th century, because the superhuman war two centuries ago destroyed the entire civilization of the earth, and even most of the ancient historical records were lost in the war , Therefore, after the reconstruction of human civilization, many ancient histories have become legends without circumstantial evidence.

Just because since human beings have civilization, the tools for recording information are very unreliable and fragile items. From bamboo slips and cloth in ancient times to paper and digital information later, they are all the most useless waste in the face of war. Bamboo slips and cloth are easily destroyed by high temperature and carbonization, and paper is even more fragile and useless. As for digital information, it is even more absurd that it will disappear without electricity. According to the estimates of later scientists, there were several large-scale magnetic field battles during the interstellar war, and all digital information on the earth, about one or two before the magnetic field. They were all wiped out during the war.

It is said that in the 21st century, digital information once covered all the information in the history of human civilization, but it was completely destroyed in several magnetic warfare. So in the twenty-fourth century AD, many historical events have really become eternal one by one?Until conclusive evidence of antiquities is found, it is all just guesswork. For example, there are several schools of thought about the time when the century computer crisis that once caused the Time Devil Realm actually happened. Some historians believe that it happened at the moment when 1999 AD was about to turn into 2000, while others think it was It takes place in the year 2037 AD when the 16-bit computer timer runs out of last second.

Therefore, excavating and analyzing ancient relics has become the most important research method for historians in the 24th century. The sun is shining brightly, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. In the blue sky, a pair of playful white butterflies are flying around mischievously, and their light figures are flying on the emerald green grass. Even though all these scenes are imitated by artificial equipment, whether it is true or not, it is very pleasing to take a deep breath of such fresh air. At this gentle and soft moment, something seemed to shrink in the air, and for a while, the temperature, sound, and light seemed to condense.

Then, there was a loud noise that almost made one's feet limp and paralyzed. "Boom...long!" With a length of seven meters and forty-nine centimeters, the detection rod "Hermes instrument" containing more than a hundred kinds of alloys penetrated hundreds of meters deep like a hot iron branch with the explosion of strong explosives. among strata. This is the first sound. Immediately afterwards, there was another loud bang, but the sound was already far away. Because the "Hermes instrument" has launched the powerful explosives again, and has penetrated a little deeper into the soil layer.

The staff on the ground began to get busy at this time, yelling loudly back and forth, each staring at several analyzers and shouting to each other about the data they saw. Seeing the rise, there will be people cheering loudly. Archaeological methods in the twenty-fourth century are, of course, very different from archaeological methods in the ancient twenty-first century. After the tragic interstellar war in the 22nd century AD, the surface of the earth has been devastated. It is even more difficult to trace such an earth from ancient times.But fortunately, thanks to advanced technology, the prototype biological quantum computer that has appeared in the 21st century AD can analyze an incredible amount of information. Compared with ancient archaeologists, it is of course much better.

The samples of subsurface soil quality and contact objects collected by the "Hermes Instrument" that penetrated into the soil, and then the data were instantly transmitted to the huge biological quantum computer "Prophet Seventy-Nine" in the city center. In nanoseconds, the computer The age of the rock layer can be analyzed based on the changes in the earth's crust, geological characteristics, and historical accumulation over the years. If the "Hermes instrument" detects any suspected ancient relics in the stratum, it will send out ultrasonic waves from various angles in a short period of time, and then send the comparison information to the ground to determine whether it is worth excavating remains.

Because the Tiexiancao Market is uniquely located on the top of the most culturally rich ancient civilization in history, in recent years, a lot of important information that can determine the rise and fall of ancient history has been unearthed from here. Based on this information, the Earth Federation also proudly determined several major events in history. In 1911 AD, a man named Aixinjueluo Puyi stepped down from the throne and became the last emperor of ancient China. It was not until 1969 AD that humans first landed on the moon. Also, in AD 1220, a Mongol king named Genghis Khan conquered a kingdom named Khwarazm and brutally slaughtered the entire city.

Because of the successful reconstruction of ancient history, the archaeological team in Tiexiancao City redoubled their efforts, hoping to reveal more amazing ancient history in future excavations. When the third "bang" sound came out, it meant that the "Hermes instrument" had penetrated deeper into the stratum, and it also indicated that today's excavation project seemed to have made new discoveries, and a possible historic site had been found. It is of course a good thing to find the historic site, which can be known from the cheers of the engineering staff below.

It's just that Gu Shucheng, the chief mechanic of the Tiexiancaoshi Historic Site Mining Site, couldn't feel such a happy atmosphere in the command post of the mining site. On the contrary, he was sweating profusely and his face was as pale as a ghost. When the third loud noise came out, he was holding a huge high-explosive gun in his hand, with both hands behind his back, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at his forehead. The hands holding the gun trembled slightly, as soon as there was a loud noise, he planned to pull the trigger. In this case, the sound of the high-explosive gun was mixed with the loud sound of the "Hermes instrument" digging into the ground, and the engineers would not know that the chief mechanic had blasted his head with a shot in the command post. From just now to now, Gu Shucheng has almost pulled the trigger three times, but for some reason, he always fails to pull the trigger tightly at critical moments. Maybe it’s because the sky is still blue, the sun is still shining, and the world is still beautiful. I always feel that there is something that involves me, so don’t leave the world in such a decisive way. But like him, his wife and children died tragically, and now he is the only one left in the happy and happy family, so what is the need to live? The third loud noise gradually subsided, but Gu Shucheng still didn't pull the trigger of the high-explosive gun, more sweat beaded on his face, and tears welled up from his eyes unconsciously. With tears in his eyes, what came into view was a warm photo of him, his wife, and their two young sons on the desk. Less than ten days ago, Gu Shucheng's life was as sweet as this photo. He was proud of his youth, and he became the chief mechanic of Tiexiancao City by virtue of his mechanical genius when he was less than forty years old. His wife is gentle and beautiful. The two of them artificially bred two lovely sons of Yuxue through the 24th-century reproductive institution "Mum Ma". Everything seemed to be extremely perfect, until the serious car accident in the center of Irongrass ten days ago, which shattered his perfect life and turned all happiness into naught. A total of sixty-nine traffic boats were destroyed in that major car accident. Gu Shucheng's wife took two children to the city center for shopping, but was caught in the violent explosion of the car accident. Because the explosion was so strong, the small reactor of the traffic boat radiated radiation. All the living tissues of his wife and two children were burned. Although the biochemical and molecular doctors tried their best to rescue them with DNA reconstruction, they failed because they could not save enough living tissues. In terms of today's technology, they can only store their remaining tissues and wait for the DNA reorganization technology to be more advanced in the future to see if they can be rescued. Therefore, Gu Shucheng, who originally had a happy family, has since become alone. After becoming such a lonely person, after living a life of walking dead for ten days, from the eighth day onwards, Gu Shucheng planned to end his own life. On the surface, he still comes to the mining site to work every day, directing all the excavation work in the construction site, and correcting the operation of all machines. Gu Shucheng seemed normal. It was so normal that some engineers whispered, saying that he was really hard-hearted, his wife and children died so badly, but he was still working normally, as if nothing happened. It was only from the eighth day that Gu Shucheng found a high-explosive gun in the utensil cabinet of the engineering office, and secretly planned how to end his life. This high-explosive gun is a tool used when mining work requires small blasts. Each high-explosive bullet can punch a hole the size of a human head in solid rock. If you let this kind of bullet hit your forehead, it will definitely smash your entire head to pieces, even with molecular reorganization, you can't save it. If you really made up your mind to leave this world, then of course you have to adopt the method of not being able to get back. However, in Gu Shucheng's heart, if there is still a little bit of hesitation, it is the molecular doctor's sentence, "When the technology is more advanced in the future, see if I can save it." The remaining tissues of his wife and children have been well preserved by the doctor and given to him. What if his wife and children can really come back to life, but he has already died? While hesitating, I saw that the screen in the command post began to emit a glowing blue light, which was a notice that the Hermes instrument would launch the fourth outbreak. In the past few months, the excavation site has never activated the fourth Hermes instrument explosion. Generally speaking, it can be activated until the fourth time, which means that there is a lot to be said about this opening, and there must be extremely important discoveries. Gu Shucheng seldom cares about matters such as archaeology, he only cares about the mechanical problems during mining. What's more, besides letting the high-explosive gun in his hand blow his head off, there seems to be nothing meaningful to him... The air was condensed and compressed again, coming from the depths of the formation, and the chilling aura before the Hermes instrument erupted emerged from the ground. "Boom!" After the dust settled, there was a burst of ecstatic cheers on the construction site. "Yes! There is!" Budel, the vice-captain of the archaeological team, is a bold and cheerful big man. At this time, under the ecstasy, he jumped a few times, remembering the chief mechanic Gu Shucheng who made great contributions to the mechanical device, he strode to the command room, thinking To tell him the good news. He walked towards the command room in three steps and two steps, without knocking on the door, the cheerful big man opened the door with a "bang", and when he opened the door, he was shocked. "Chief... Chief Mechanic..." Budel said in a low voice, "Here...what happened here?" I saw Gu Shucheng's pale face, covered in cold sweat, with his hands behind him, but a cabinet behind him had completely collapsed, forcing a big hole in the metal floor. Budell still wanted to ask something, but Gu Shucheng put down something behind his back without any trace, and half pushed the big deputy captain out of the command room. "Your 'Hermes instrument' must have some good news, right?" Gu Shucheng forced a smile and said, "The main event is here, let's go and see." When the two arrived at the excavation site, they saw a group of engineers still shouting and dancing with joy.Gu Shucheng took a look at the nearest imager, and sure enough, the quantum computer had calculated the simulated conditions of the excavation site. "Is there anything good?" Gu Shucheng cheered up and asked reluctantly, "What era is it?" The man on the side flew his hands back and forth on the controller quickly, analyzing the data non-stop, and while analyzing, his face glowed red with excitement. "It's great! It's so beautiful! This is a real treasure!" This person is Xi Zhengming, the chief archaeologist of Tiexiancao City, who has his own uniqueness in the study of ancient history. "According to the isotope simulation, it should be about three thousand years ago." "Three thousand years?" Gu Shucheng was stunned. "What era was that?" "In ancient China, there was probably an era called 'Spring and Autumn'." Xi Zhengming stared at the screen without blinking his eyes. "There seem to be a lot of things, now it all depends on your real skill!" Gu Shucheng nodded, then boarded a huge and strange machine, shared different driver's seats with several technicians, and began to dig from the part of the Hermis instrument buried in the soil. This unique digging machine "Yugong" is one of Gu Shucheng's most powerful mechanical works. It can complete excavation operations at a depth of 800 meters by itself. A sharp tool, in addition to digging deep into the soil, such as searching for things, it can also excavate the original appearance according to the condition of the cultural relics in the soil, and minimize the damage. In the anticipation of everyone, "Foolish Old Man" raised dust all over the sky and drilled into the soil without sound. In less than half a day, he formed a tunnel tens of meters wide on the excavation site, which penetrated nearly a hundred years into the soil. meter deep well. Moreover, during the excavation process, "Foolish Old Man" can also build long ladders on the four sides of the deep well, so that the miners can walk down. The sand and dust gradually stopped, and after a while, white mist sprayed out from the pit. "Okay!" Xi Zhengming jumped up from the imaging device with a "hoo". "This mechanical monster might break the mining record again!" With joy, several people climbed down the long ladder and reached the bottom of the deep well. They saw "Foolish Old Man" standing on the ground like a group of post-modern sculptures, while several mechanics stood around in a daze. with. Walking to the bottom, I saw that "Foolish Old Man" had dug up most of the cultural relics on the top layer with ease. Xi Zhengming was overjoyed, bent down and picked up a piece of metal covered with dust, and scanned it with a portable detector a few times. This is an alloy of copper and tin. "That's right, that's right!" Xi Zhengming nodded hastily, smiling so much that his whole face was about to glow. "It's bronze, the favorite metal of the day." On the ground, there are various utensils and objects scattered here and there. This place may be a mausoleum, and all the things are likely to be funerary objects. "Foolish Old Man" can only be responsible for digging to the location of the cultural relics, and for the rest, Xi Zhengming's archaeological team has to use the most delicate methods to dig out these objects for analysis. Xi Zhengming looked around, but he didn't see Gu Shucheng in the dark well. He walked a few steps, being careful not to step on the ancient objects, while patting a mechanic on the shoulder. "Where's your boss?" The mechanic clicked his lips and motioned him to go to the other side of "Foolish Old Man". Xi Zhengming walked around "Foolish Old Man", and sure enough, he saw Gu Shucheng's figure in another darker corner. I saw him with his back to the person, motionless towards the earthen wall, as if he was in a daze. Xi Zhengming has a good relationship with this silent mechanical expert, and he also knows that this Gu Shucheng is not very interested in archaeology. He often digs a hole and turns around. He didn't even bother to take a look. Seeing him so preoccupied this time, Xi Zhengming was not only curious, but also found it a little funny. "Hello..." He walked over and patted Gu Shucheng on the shoulder. "You won't change your sex, do you want to change your career?" Gu Shucheng was still looking at the wall intently, and after a while, he spoke. The voice that came out was like the most confused and bewildered child. "Old Xi... You said, this is an ancient relic from 3,000 years ago...?" "Yes!" Xi Zhengming smiled and said, "What's wrong with that?" "Three thousand years ago..." Gu Shucheng's voice was hollow. "What Spring and Autumn Period are you talking about, aren't you?" "En!" Xi Zhengming bent down and picked up another piece of metal, which was covered with verdigris, but the engraved characters were still legible. "And I took a look. This ruins should belong to Chu State at that time." "The Spring and Autumn Period..." Gu Shucheng asked blankly: "How advanced is technology? Is there any flying machine?" Xi Zhengming was startled, and when he heard his question clearly, he couldn't help laughing. "I know your brother only plays with machines and is not very interested in history, but don't be so outrageous, okay?" Xi Zhengming said with a smile: "From that era, human beings have to wait at least 2,600 years. The Wright brothers in ancient America invented simple flying machines!" "So this 'Chu Country' won't have flying machines?" "No," Xi Zhengming said firmly, "Your brother, stop joking." Gu Shucheng quietly took out a luminous stick from his body, turned on the switch, and it emitted a blazing soft yellow light. "Then tell me, what is this?"