bioinnovel Chapter 458 Star Map!
Chapter 458 Star Map!
Stargazing came quickly.
She didn't use the main entrance.
They climbed over the wall directly from the back garden of the villa.
When it landed, it knocked over Nie Qingcheng's most treasured pot of blue snow.
"Feel sorry."
She stood up, brushed the dirt off her knees, and stared intently at Zhang Yan.
"Urgent matter".
Zhang Yangang put the dishes and chopsticks into the dishwasher.
He glanced at the surveillance camera.
When Qin Xiao left twenty minutes ago, he locked the iron gate to the backyard with a military-grade lock. It took Guan Xing less than forty seconds to break through it.
"Would you die if you went through the front door?"
Nie Qingcheng's voice came from the living room.
"You won't die, but you'll be three minutes slower."
Guanxing didn't turn around, holding a dark blue velvet equipment case in his hand.
"I need the Heavenly Craftsmanship Center to perform a full spectrum scan."
Zhang Yan dried his hands and walked over.
Nie Qingcheng also got up from the sofa.
The silk pajamas shimmered under the living room light.
She walked over to Zhang Yan and stopped, her fingers naturally slipping into the gap between the third button of his shirt.
To assert sovereignty.
Guan Xing opened the equipment box.
Inside was a palm-sized, semi-transparent crystal plate.
She placed the crystal panel flat on the coffee table, ran her fingertips along the edge, and a layer of pale golden light rose on the surface of the panel.
"I discovered it three days ago while organizing copies of ancient books from Guantiange dating back 30,000 years."
He speaks very quickly, like a stargazer.
"Hidden in the interlayer of the seventeenth volume, it is written with the unique 'overlapping ink' of the Mo family, which is invisible to the naked eye."
The light film projects a star map.
Zhang Yan recognized the picture.
There are six points on it, which are the coordinates of the six gates around the world, marked with ancient seal script in vermilion color.
There are even smaller runes next to it, recording the construction time.
The first gate, 10,000 BC.
The second gate dates back to 8000 BC.
"The seventh location is here."
The stargazing direction points to the edge of the star map.
Zhang Yan looked over.
It is not in the solar system, nor is it near Proxima Centauri.
It was a completely blank star field, with only a coordinate marked in silver ink.
"The center of the Milky Way."
Nie Qingcheng spoke.
Guan Xing nodded.
"To be precise, it is the edge of the accretion disk of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years away from Earth."
The living room fell silent.
How did the Mohist school, 30,000 years ago, know the coordinates of the center of the Milky Way?
Zhang Yan asked.
"have no idea."
The stargazer answered very decisively.
"But the coordinates are real. I cross-referenced them with the most advanced star charts at Guantiange, and the accuracy error is less than 0.003%."
Nie Qingcheng unbuttoned Zhang Yan's shirt and squatted down in front of the coffee table.
Fingers hovered above the light membrane.
"What does this line of text say?"
There is a line of very small characters on the edge of the star map, written in the ancient seal script of the Mo family, with hasty handwriting.
"It hasn't been deciphered yet."
He shook his head as he gazed at the stars.
"There are more than 700 variations of the ancient seal script of the Mo family. This line of characters uses at least three different writing styles. I need time."
"Or you might need this."
Zhang Yan raised his right hand.
The birthmark on my right wrist shimmered under the light, with golden threads flowing around the edges of the light-colored mark.
Drawn by the frequencies in the star chart.
Zhang Yan pressed his palm onto the crystal plate.
The Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship trembled in his chest, and golden light seeped into the light membrane from his palm.
The runes on the star map began to recombine, and the hastily written ancient seal script was deciphered character by character by the system.
Less than ten seconds.
The analysis results are projected directly into the air.
It only has seven characters.
"The door is both a shield and a lighthouse."
Nie Qingcheng stood up, her fingers digging back into the seams of Zhang Yan's shirt, increasing the pressure and wrinkling the fabric.
Zhang Yan looked at the line of text.
Does this message have any context?
"no."
He shook his head as he gazed at the stars.
"There is only this one star map; no other related documents were found in the interlayer of the ancient book."
"What about the timestamp?"
"Around 10,000 BC, which coincides with the construction time of the first gate."
Zhang Yan withdrew his hand.
The birthmark's light dimmed, but the star map remained suspended in the air.
Nie Qingcheng walked to the liquor cabinet, opened a bottle of whiskey, and poured three glasses.
A real half cup.
"drink."
She handed the cup to the stargazer.
"Your face is whiter than the ice of Antarctica."
Guan Xing took over.
I don't drink much.
"Drink it now."
Zhang Yan didn't stop him and picked up a glass for himself.
Three possibilities.
Nie Qingcheng leaned against the bar, twirling the handle of a glass in her hand.
"First, while providing defense, the doors also radiate a certain energy characteristic, which lights up the lights. Second, the 'lighthouse' is a metaphor, referring to the fact that the network of doors themselves constitutes a kind of landmark on a cosmic scale."
She paused.
"Third, the door is actively sending signals."
The cup in the stargazer's hand stopped in mid-air.
"To whom should it be sent?"
"have no idea."
Nie Qingcheng looked at Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan took a sip of wine.
He recalled his conversation with "Existence Outside the Door" a few days earlier.
The entity from Proxima Centauri said, "Interesting."
Then comes "always".
"Verification required."
Zhang Yan put down his cup.
"But not now."
Guan Xing frowned.
"Now is the best time. The synchronization rate of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart is still 99.4%. If—"
"If we perform a full-spectrum scan now, it might activate the hidden protocols of the gate network."
Zhang Yan interrupted her.
"Last time we activated the warp protocol, we almost ran out of energy. We don't know what will happen this time."
Nie Qingcheng walked over, took the cup from Guan Xing's hand, and placed it on the coffee table.
"Go back to sleep."
"Come here for a meeting tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. Bring all the ancient books and materials related to 'doors'."
"but--"
"No buts."
Nie Qingcheng looked at her.
"In your current state, even if you unravel the secrets of the star chart, you won't be able to make the right judgment. Take a break."
Guan Xing put away the crystal plate and glanced back as he walked to the door.
"Zhang Yan".
"Um."
"That sentence... 'The door is a shield, and also a lighthouse,' do you think the previous maintainers wrote this as a warning, or...?"
"I will find out the truth."
Zhang Yan said.
Guan Xing nodded, pushed open the door, and left.
After the door closed, Nie Qingcheng leaned closer, resting her forehead against Zhang Yan's shoulder.
I'm sleepy.
"You were quite energetic just now."
"It's an act."
She yawned.
"If you don't pretend, she'll keep you studying it until dawn."
Zhang Yan put his arm around her waist and walked towards the stairs.
Are you attending the meeting tomorrow?
"It depends."
Nie Qingcheng's voice was muffled inside his shirt.
"If the information I bring from the stargazing station is too boring, I'll go to the company for a meeting."
"Didn't Qingcheng International just acquire Qimenzhe's business?"
"The acquisition is complete, but it will take time to digest it."
She looked up.
"The asset lists, legal documents, technology patents, personnel files of the six locations... just sorting them out would keep the legal department busy for three months."
"What did you look up?"
"The historical differences between the gatekeeper and the Guantiange Pavilion."
Nie Qingcheng took out her phone from his pocket, turned on the screen, and started browsing.
"The founder of the Gate Openers is the younger brother of the thirteenth generation Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Pavilion."
"The older brother thought the door should be kept in place, while the younger brother thought it should be opened. They argued for twenty years, and finally the younger brother left with a group of people to start his own business."
"Therefore, the one who opens the door has been researching how to open the door."
"It's not just research."
Nie Qingcheng turned to a certain page and stopped.
"In 1887, in the Sahara Desert, they bombarded the outer structure of the third gate with rudimentary nuclear fission technology. They failed, but the experiment was documented."
Zhang Yan recalled the warning he had seen in the fifth-level underground warehouse in the Sahara: "Fragments of the Third Door. Do not move."