The most important question Solid thinks is naturally "whether Rodrigo can interpret the murals here."

Because this is the key to everything, at least it is a stepping stone...

Whether it is the various abnormalities that have happened over the past few days or the way they escaped here, the answers are obviously hidden in this strange space, and these murals are the only information they can obtain so far.

Rodrigo did not disappoint his expectations, he could indeed understand... a little bit.

As an expert in studying ancient South American civilization, Rodrigo must have had some knowledge of the Mayan and Olmek texts, but the things contained in this ruins may be longer and more advanced than all ancient civilizations known to mankind at this stage. Fortunately, the Mayans seemed to have discovered the tip of the iceberg of this civilization earlier than modern people, so there are some traces of imitation and reference in their texts.

The professor's interpretation of these murals is basically based on this relationship... It's like a person who studies Japanese, who can more or less guess the meaning of some Chinese, but it may not be accurate.

According to the professor, the room they are in is similar to a "museum" or "archive room". There are two kinds of things recorded on the murals. One is the historical experiences and the other is scientific and technological knowledge.

The professor could hardly understand the "knowledge" part. I believe the Mayans at that time could not understand these profound knowledge, so there were very few traces left in their texts; and the professor could understand the "history" part. Combined with the context and a little speculation, he read some very shocking content. If these contents were all real, it would probably have a huge impact on modern archaeology.

Of course, these things are all good. Solid is concerned about whether they still have their lives to go out... If the three of them die here, it would be useless to know more.

After being reminded by him, the professor restrained his "desire to teach" and brought the topic back to the "handprint symbol".

There are words similar to "Telection Sign" on each side of those handprint symbols, but Solid couldn't understand them; the professor didn't understand every word, but there was one word he could confirm, and the word appeared many times - "center".

This word can also mean "source", "important", "hub" and so on; in short, in the five rooms that the professor and Soldier No. 2 have handprint symbols marked with the word "center", and this is no exception at present.

This... is their only clue now.

The professor said that he originally planned to ignore these symbols and teleport randomly, because in his opinion, the space of the ruins must be limited, so he wanted to explore as many rooms as possible.

But after listening to Solid's experience... he changed his mind.

Perhaps the concept of time and space in this ruins are different from that in the outside world, perhaps these "teleporting" take longer than they perceived. Anyway, no matter the truth, it is definitely not a good idea to continue wandering around.

The three of them discussed and soon decided to use the handprint symbol marked with the word "center" to transmit it; if nothing unexpected happens, they should be transmitted to a specific and important place after several times, and then... they will act again by chance.

As a result, things really went as they expected.

After that, they experienced twenty-nine teleportation, and after the twenty-ninth time... they came to a corridor.

This is a straight corridor that is endless to see at first sight. There are no murals or texts on both sides of the corridor, nor handprint symbols. Instead, they are light tracks paved with green light.

Obviously, it is different from the rooms they have visited before.

The three of them exchanged glances, cheered up and continued to move forward.

At this moment, Solid's calmness and fighting spirit have returned. Although the future is still uncertain, he met two living people, and the situation has made him rekindle hope.

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They walked along this corridor for a long time. Since the surrounding black metal walls were no different from the cyan light, and they would not feel tired at all in this space, it was difficult to judge how far they had walked.

Fortunately, before their patience was polished, the end of this corridor also appeared...

There was a wall, a black metal wall that was no different from the surrounding ones; there was a handprint symbol on the wall.

"It seems we have no choice." Solid looked back at the two people following him, then pressed his hand on the symbol.

The bright light lit up again and disappeared.

This time, the three of them were teleported to a very open place.

This is a huge space comparable to a football field, with a flat ground and a semicircular dome. The complex green light tracks on the floor paint a landscape of mountains, rivers and mountains, and the dome is dotted with stars-like words. In addition, there is a very conspicuous luminous figure on both sides of the dome, which looks like the sun and the moon respectively.

In the center of this space, a huge human head statue is more than 20 feet tall. It is not accurate to say that it is a "human head", because the face of this statue looks a little different from that of modern humans: its brow bones and nose bridge are protruding and forward, but the top-down curve is vertical and gentle; its eye sockets are very flat, and the eyes are almost on the inside of the face, but the size ratio of the eyeball is normal; there is no one under the nose, and the chin and mouth are nothing special; the ears are slightly strange, slightly higher than the ears of ordinary humans, and the shape is also longer.

You can see from a long distance that the statue's mouth is open, and there is a glowing object in its mouth.

Solid and the other two walked over carefully. When they walked closer, they found that the thing was a slightly larger and irregular-shaped blue crystal than the rugby. The light it emitted was consistent with the green light that could be seen everywhere in the ruins, but it looked deeper and more intense.

"Do you think the same as me?" Solid said after standing in front of the statue for a few seconds.

"Ah...it seems that this is probably the energy core of the entire ruins." Rodrigo continued.

"Ha..." Solid smiled bitterly, "I'm not interested in the function of this thing. I mean, you probably guessed it too? The thing the Federation sent us here to dig this time... is it."

"Well..." Rodrigo's voice suddenly became very cold, "...I knew it from the beginning."

Compared to the content of this sentence, the tone he said this sentence surprised Solid even more.

"Oh?" Solid's voice also became cold. Years of fighting instinct had already made him smell the danger, and blood in his body was running at high speed. "I didn't see this."

"Of course you can't see..." Rodrigo said, turning to look at Solid, "You are just a soldier, a tool placed at the terminal..." He paused, "No matter how good the tool is, it is just a tool. Users will not let the tool know too much... because the tool does not require thinking. All you have to do is obey, forget, and eventually... be forgotten."

As the professor said this, Solid noticed that Soldier No. 2 had quietly walked between him and the professor, and faced him in a posture of preparing for battle.

"It seems...not only I am good at keeping secrets," Solid said in a deep voice, "Professor, you are also a hidden person."

"Hmph...keep secret? What other secrets can you have?" Rodrigo raised his head slightly and responded in an almost contemptuous tone. "You think the 'visual barrier' thing, if you don't say it... I can't find it?"

When Solid heard this, he was shocked again. It turned out that Rodrigo had already known the vision of "the eagle disappearing in the sky" he had observed before.

"No need to show that expression, whether you find it or not... we have discovered it." Rodrigo said. "Although we cooperated with the girl Jimenes brought to you just to avoid being exposed, we did follow what she said... with a bunch of equipment, trying to get out of this area for help." He showed a slightly helpless expression, "I can tell you that in the past twenty days, we have discovered far more than something interfering with barriers... There is even the phenomenon of 'time and space folding' in this area. It's no wonder that outsiders can't find us after so long."

"Well..." Solid pondered and said again, "I keep it secret from everyone because I am afraid that my discovery will cause riots." He paused, "But you know more than me, but you don't say anything. Why is it for?"

"Because I can't tell you guys." Rodrigo replied, "The excavation team is either a soldier like you who come to the gang, or a man from Gimenes... Even if I tell you, you have entered a defense circle of super ancient civilization ruins. In addition to signal and magnetic field interference, there are various optical barriers, space-time circuits, etc.... So what can you do?"

"So, that's what..." Solid heard some new information from this sentence, "You have known about the fact that the workers were arranged by Jimenes.... You are the one who has been acting all the time..." When he said this, he turned his attention to Soldier Two, "...and you."

"It's okay." Soldier No. 2 responded with a joking attitude, "I didn't play it much, after all, my role is just a soldier, at best, a supporting role without a name... Unlike the professor, he is one of the focus figures in the excavation team, and there are many dramas."

"When it comes to this..." Solid changed his mind and continued, "What's wrong with you? I have personally checked your files, and there is no problem with your soldier's identity."

"Hmph..." Soldier No. 2 snorted coldly, "No file you can find can record my 'real position' because..."

In this second, Rodrigo took over his words: "...because, we are all guests of the 'tea banquet'."

"'Tea Banquet'?" Solid was the first time he heard about the name of this organization, so he looked suspicious.

"What? Do you think... which agency has the highest authority and strongest strength in the federal government? Is it the Ten Cabinet Supporter? FCPs? Or the Supervisor?" Rodrigo saw his doubts and said, "I can tell you... If these people were relying solely on, the order of this world would have been subverted by the 'reverse cross' twenty years ago."

"I'm increasingly unable to understand this." Solid said, "But I understand the point... Simply put, you both are from an organization called "Tea Banquet". In terms of position... it seems that they are still standing on the side of the Federation." His eyes swept across the faces of the two people, "As for their identities... whether it is a 'professor' or a 'soldier', it's just a cover."

"Not necessarily." Rodrigo corrected, "because I became a professor first and then joined the tea banquet. After all, it is difficult to disguise something like 'learning'."

"It's easy." Solid said in an indifferent tone, "I just want to know what does it mean to suddenly reveal your identity in front of me?"

"Naturally..." Soldier No. 2's expression suddenly became gloomy, "It's to make you understand."

"Ha..." Solid laughed again, "I want to hear, what are the reasons why you two want to kill me?"

"It's very simple." Rodrigo replied, "The 'Eternal Core' has been found now, and we have no intention of handing it over to the Federation; you are not the person at the tea banquet, and you are one of the people in charge of this operation. You want you to keep it confidential for us forever... The best way is undoubtedly to kill you." He shrugged, "In fact, when I met you in the teleportation room before, I was thinking about whether to kill you directly, but I was worried that there were some defense mechanisms inside the ruins, so I wanted to keep you for a while and act as cannon fodder."

"Then why don't you just do it later?" Solid said, "For example... wait until we escape this ruin..."

"So you don't know anything." Rodrigo interrupted him. "Once I take the 'Eternal Core' out of the statue, the remains will lose power, that is to say... by then most of the defense mechanisms and shielding functions here will stop operating; then when you do it, if the "dog card (i.e., military identification card, usually hung around the soldier's neck, is carried close to your body, and the dog card of the federal soldiers in this era is all equipped with chips)" wrote down some information and sent it out, wouldn't it be a mess?"

"Well... it's true." Solid nodded, "I thought very thoughtfully." As he spoke, he had already paced a few steps to the side, moved his wrists and neck a few times. "Before I'll ask again... I won't think about it, will you also develop me into a member of the 'tea banquet'? Then you don't have to kill me, right?"

As soon as this said, Rodrigo and Soldier No. 2 were both stunned for a moment, then looked at each other and laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha..." Rodrigo was so happy that he patted his fat legs.

Soldier No. 2 laughed for a while before he recovered and continued: "Solid Wilson... To be honest, I sympathize with you very much," he restrained his smile and continued, "Let me do this... I will treat it as a good thing, and I will tell you something before you die."

It is almost impossible for Solid to investigate the person who is a tea banquet, but it is easy for the person who is a tea banquet to investigate him...

Before this trip, Soldier 2 and Rodrigo had already known the information of each fellow traveler, so at this moment, No. 2 told Solid's life story in an almost ironic tone.

"Do you understand?" After saying that, looking at Solid, No. 2, said again, "People like you, let alone tea banquets... Even those institutions in the federal government will not easily promote you, because once someone tells you about your life experience to instigate you, you will immediately become a major hidden danger."

After listening to the other party's statement, Solid fell into silence.

He could see from reason that the other party was telling the truth; when facing a person who was about to kill, the other party had perfectly no reason to improvise these contents. Solid's experience and situation over the years were also a good proof of this statement.

Solid was shaken.

His parents, whom he had never met, died at the hands of the federal government, gave him life and protected him with the last little dignity and flesh; and he was deceived since childhood, and he has been working for the federal government for many years, obeying a group of scum that he despised, and numbly performing one task after another that he was not interested in.

There was a nameless fire in his heart all year round, as if a force in the dark was stimulating his anger, but he didn't know what it was, so he suppressed this anger and shackled himself with calmness and reason. He vented that anger in missions and killings, hoping that this emotion would eventually disappear one day.

But at this moment, he seemed to suddenly understand a lot of things.

After a brief wave, there was a sense of joy, and then a huge remorse surged into my heart, and it turned into anger of revenge in an instant.

And this fire has a clear goal...

"Okay, I understand." After a while, Solid finally spoke, "I understand everything..."

"In other words, you can die peacefully, right?" Soldier No. 2 said, taking a step towards Solid.

"You talked about killing me and said it lightly for a long time..." Solid looked at the other party, "I guess he is very confident in his combat power?"

"Ha..." Soldier No. 2 smiled, "Do you think... a person who is a 'ordinary soldier' ​​as a cover must be just a small character in the organization?" He paused for a second, the smile on his face suddenly cold, and his murderous aura rose sharply, "But unfortunately... I am a 'evil-level' ability."

Before he finished speaking, his right hand suddenly spread, and a knife that cut off the air brought out a long-range slash that could even tear the air, directly hitting Solid's chest and neck.

Solid was also prepared for a long time. He instantly twisted his body and turned his back, and supported the ground with one hand and jumped, avoiding the attack and reorganizing his situation.

"Well... Although I've known for a long time that you are just 'strong', there are not many people who can train their physical fitness to the peak of their current realm like you." Soldier No. 2 looked at Solid's movements and said with interest, "It's a pity... you met me."

As soon as he said the word "I" was released, he flashed and came behind Solid.

Although Solid had reacted as fast as possible and returned to meet him, Soldier No. 2's movements were faster, and a downward elbow knocked Solid to the ground.

From Solid's perspective, at that moment, I felt a thousand force hitting my back. The "pain" feeling was not enough to convey to my whole body, and my face was already pressed against the hard ground.
To be continued...