Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 265 The First Clue

"Why don't you try again?" said the Hound.

"Try again... wait a minute, I know what's going on!" Ke Lan raised his head suddenly, a light flashed in his eyes, "This mechanism is like a Rubik's Cube, because we didn't turn it after the first "turn". Resetting will cause the trajectory formed by the second rotation to become a 'garbled code'!"

"Reset? Do you mean to move the three of them back to No. [-]?"

"Yes, let the stone chamber be restored to the state before we woke up, and then perform another transformation, so that the trajectory obtained will be completely different from the trajectory obtained when the second time is not reset... I try to simulate it in my mind After a while, I can faintly piece together a few complete characters, which shows that this idea is correct!"

"Then hurry up! I saw the doctor, he's about to lose his grip!" the hound said as he lifted the man up.

First reset the No. [-] stone chamber to the connecting shaft in the middle, and then move the three of them to the corresponding No. [-] stone chamber—finally, the content of the second half of the sentence came out.

"What did this sentence say?" After Ke Lan finished injecting the three of them with medicine, the hound asked impatiently.

"When the silver ring and the golden ring overlap..." Ke Lan said silently.

"anything else?"

"Gone."

"No more? Isn't this only the first half of the sentence? What about the second half of the sentence?" the hound said in amazement.

"This is the whole content of the upper and lower two half sentences together, roughly what it means." Ke Lan shrugged, "But my translation may not be accurate, because I can't understand the two sentences in this sentence. word."

"Which two words?"

"'Silver ring' and 'golden ring'... Literally speaking, it is a golden ring and a silver ring, but I don't know what special meaning they have in the language of the Alpha civilization .”

"Could it be a ring made of gold and silver?" The Hound gave an example.

"No, no, no," Ke Lan shook his head. "In the alpha text, gold, silver and gold and silver in metal are completely different phrases. There are only colors in this sentence, and no material is mentioned."

"But the problem is that there are no gold and silver rings in these nine stone chambers... except for stones, they are still stones." The hound squatted on the ground, took a sip of the water bag, and said angrily, " This clue is useless."

Seeing this clue of "no brains and no brains", Ke Lan couldn't help but also fell into confusion.

When the silver ring and the golden ring... overlapped...

What exactly do these two rings symbolize?What is the meaning of overlap...

There was a clue, but Ke Lan felt even more confused.

"Let's eat something first. We have been trapped in this place for more than ten hours, and we haven't eaten anything." The hound said, took out a compressed biscuit from the backpack, tore off the outer package, and broke He took half of it and handed it over to Ke Lan.

"Ten hours..." Ke Lan took the biscuit, and subconsciously glanced at the watch on the hound's wrist—it was an old-fashioned mechanical watch that used a clockwork as a power source, although its functions could not be compared with those on the market. Compared with a variety of high-tech timers, its only advantage is reliability: all parts are forged with anti-magnetic alloy, the shell is mixed with a large amount of Nino alloy, and the dial is polished from the hollow shell of energy crystallization. As a result, even in the harshest environment, it can also achieve accurate timing.

Ke Lan also has a watch like this. Like the hunting dog, it is made by a factory called "Jung Precision Machinery". This factory specializes in the production of various precision mechanical equipment for elite hunters. There are almost no disadvantages.

"I know what this sentence means..." Ke Lan said excitedly, staring at the dial on his wrist.

"Uh... don't know... the meaning of gods and demons?" the hound quickly swallowed the crumbs of biscuits in his mouth and asked.

"The golden ring and the silver ring refer to the 'Double Moons'... that is, the two natural satellites of Alpha Star. Due to the difference in the elements contained in the stars, one of the 'Double Moons' appears golden, while the other It is silver, exactly corresponding to the two colors of gold and silver in this clue!"

"When the rings overlap, it means that their orbits coincide... Ah bah, I made a slip of the tongue." The hound also reacted, "It means when the double moon and the alpha star are on the same straight line?"

This phenomenon is called "bi-moon eclipse" by humans - because the orbits of the two moons are on the same horizontal plane, the frequency of "bi-moon eclipse" is extremely high, based on the revolution period of the two moons , Almost every 35 hours, there will be a "bi-monthly eclipse".

"How long has it been since the last 'bi-lunar eclipse'?" asked the Hound.

"Exactly thirty hours! In other words, there are still five hours until the next 'double-moon eclipse', which is the 'time when the golden ring and the silver ring overlap' mentioned in this clue! "

"Wait!" The hound squeezed the biscuit packaging bag in his hand into a small paper ball and squeezed it in his palm. "I hope there will be a surprise in five hours."

……

Just half an hour before the "double moon eclipse", among the people who fell into the dream world, two people woke up first.

The two people who woke up were trainee hunters of the Polaris Hunting Group. After seeing the stone room in front of them, their first reaction was very similar to that of Ke Lan. The weapons of the people in the dream world have been taken away by Ke Lan and the hound in advance.

"Yes, the vigilance is very high, and there is nothing to fault in the emergency response. He is a good seedling." The hound sat on a corner of the stone platform, looked at the two and said.

"Where is this place? Why...why am I here? Who are you?" The trainee hunter named Martin looked around in surprise. When he noticed Cao Feng lying on the ground, his surprise turned into fear.

"You...you killed Cao Feng?!"

"Martin, don't get excited, Cao Feng is not dead, he is just in a coma." The person who spoke was not Ke Lan or the hound, but another intern hunter who was also the only female among them——Qin Zhao .

"Hey, take back what you just said, you are a big man, you are not as calm as a woman in this situation, and your observation skills are not very good, shame on you." The hound teased with a half-smile.

They don't have any malice towards the rookies of the Polaris Hunting Group—if possible, they don't mind poaching a corner to attract these young people... Of course, the premise is that these rookies can gain their approval.

"You are also hunters?" Qin Zhao glanced at the attires of Ke Lan and the hunting dog, and made a judgment, "Can you tell us what happened before this?"

(End of this chapter)