The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 621

Tears Streaming Down His Old Face

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Upon hearing the sound, Professor Amir voiced his guess. The group of five Dog-Headed People quickly recovered from their shock and continued cautiously into the area. After only a few steps, they discovered that there was no path ahead.

Before the Dog-Headed People could react, a prompt in a language they couldn't understand appeared again, and then a doorway was opened in the wall where there had been no path before.

Seeing this, even the most dim-witted Dog-Headed People understood that this was truly guiding them inside. They encountered no danger along the way, and the Dog-Headed People felt somewhat relieved.

Then, led by Professor Amir, they went back into the open doorway.

Having just witnessed the high-tech aspects of the passageway, they were mentally prepared, but they were still taken aback by the sight before them when they stepped through the doorway.

Unlike the previous passage, what now appeared before the group of five Dog-Headed People was a vast open space, over a hundred meters high and covering an area of more than 30,000 square meters. Every so often, a huge pillar supported the space. At first glance, everything in the space was unfamiliar, and under the lights, all of these things shone with a silvery light, as if they had entered another world.

After surveying the area, the five Dog-Headed People were drawn to the spaceship in the center of the space.

The spaceship had a beautiful appearance, measuring about 800 meters in length and 300-400 meters in width and height. It wasn't particularly large, about the size of an aircraft carrier. But to the inexperienced Dog-Headed People, it was already a behemoth.

Looking at the colossal spaceship before them, and facing the overwhelming pressure of the massive object, the five Dog-Headed People felt their own insignificance.

"This... could this be the coffin of the God of Light? It's so big!" Gou Erpang opened his mouth wide, his dog eyes wide open.

"Shut your mouth and stop talking about coffins," Wei Shiba said irritably.

"Then this."

Before Fatty Ergou could say anything more, Professor Amir's voice rang out. "It should be a ship, but there's no record of any floods in this area in ancient times. And strangely, this ship doesn't have oars."

"Teacher, could it be that the God of Light Civilization predicted a great flood would occur in our world in the future, and then built this ship for us?" Chun Liuzai said.

"No, I think this ship is more like a ship flying to the stars," Wei Shiba said, expressing his opinion.

"Starship? Hiss! Could it be that this is the true secret of the legendary Heavenly Gate? This is the true secret of the so-called Starry Sky Ancient Road?" Upon hearing what Wei Shiba said, Professor Amir's mind immediately flooded with a bunch of myths and legends recorded in ancient books.

Heavenly Gate, Starry Sky Ancient Road, Avenue to Heaven, Eternal Life, Home of the Stars.

All the legends seem to point in one direction: the starry sky.

That God of Light Civilization left us a legacy that leads to the stars. But why? Professor Amir soon realized this, and at the same time, he asked himself the same question.

He felt there must be many things he didn't know.

Just as Amir was pondering this, the scene lighting suddenly changed color, and then red and yellow indicator lights flashed in their area. A box-like object was then opened, and a hovering robot floated in front of them, emitting a synthesized mechanical voice.

"Hello, New Era Dog-Headed People, I am the management AI of this base. I am glad that you have activated the base."

The hovering robot is about the size of a suitcase and is not the core of the base management AI; it is merely a carrier that it controls.

When humanity left this planet, it was only Level 2 Civilization. It didn't have the amazing Nanotechnology or Strong Artificial Intelligence. So the AI left in this base is just an ordinary Intelligent AI.

The appearance of the hovering robot immediately attracted the attention of the five Dog-Headed People.

Professor Amir, who was at the head of the group, looked surprised, while Wei Shiba looked wary. San Mei was a little scared and subtly moved closer to Wei Shiba. As for Gou Erpang, he was rather comical. After the hovering robot appeared and floated towards them, Gou Erpang kept bowing and muttering incantations, saying things like, "Divine Messenger, please accept my bow."

"Who are you?!" Seeing the hovering robot getting closer and closer, Wei Shiba mustered his courage and stepped forward, blocking Professor Amir's path, his gaze fixed firmly on the robot.

Upon receiving Wei Shiba's questioning voice, the hovering robot paused for a moment, then immediately recorded Wei Shiba's words and Gou Erpang's self-talk into the system for comparison and analysis.

The language environment has changed!

The base's Intelligent AI quickly produced a comparison result.

So it introduced itself again. After speaking in Chinese, the AI then spoke in the language of the Dog-Headed People from back then. Then it lit up a screen in front of the Dog-Headed People, displaying both Chinese characters and the original Dog-Headed People text.

The five Dog-Headed People still couldn't understand. When they heard Chinese, they looked puzzled, yet also seemed to be trying hard to figure out the words. But when the hovering robot spoke the ancient Dog-Headed People language, they were completely bewildered.

Clearly, these modern Dog-Headed People seem to be more familiar with Chinese than with the language of the ancient Dog-Headed People.

Sure enough, after a line of Dog-Headed People appeared, Professor Amir kobold, adjusted his glasses on his dog nose and looked over, appearing to be trying to decipher them.

"Welcome. Happy, new era!"

Professor Amir managed to decipher a few words, then excitedly addressed the hovering robot. "God of Light... messenger of the God of Light, hello! We are an archaeological expedition representing the modern Dog-Headed People."

After one conversation, the base's AI couldn't match the language in its database at all, and naturally couldn't recognize what Amir was saying. The base's AI wasn't Strong Artificial Intelligence; it couldn't perform evolutionary calculations for this new language, and human technology at the time didn't support it having that ability.

But it's not stupid either.

The AI algorithm quickly informed it that there was a problem communicating with the five Dog-Headed People opposite it. The optimal solution then told it that it needed to make the five Dog-Headed People understand what was going on.

The next moment, a large projection screen appeared in front of the five Dog-Headed People.

Then, to the astonishment of the five Dog-Headed People, footage of humanity's time on the Dog-Headed People Planet began to appear on the projection screen. First, it showed the arrival of human spaceships on the Dog-Headed People Planet, followed by transport ships crisscrossing the planet, and towering Tactical Armor flying across its surface. Then came footage of humanity encountering the Dog-Headed People of the Volcano Kingdom, and of Shi Lifen and her companions crashing into the Dog-Headed People capital in their Tactical Armor.

Then came footage of humans imparting knowledge to the Dog-Headed People, and finally, the scene of humans boarding their spaceship again and leaving the planet.

Scene after scene unfolded like a movie, with the brief footage playing for a full four hours, leaving the five Dog-Headed People feeling as if they were in a dream.

Now, the five dog heads understood that the legendary God of Light was indeed an Alien Civilization from the universe. Countless years ago, when their ancestors were still in a state of ignorance, they came to this planet to impart knowledge.

What the five Dog-Headed People had just witnessed was footage of the ancient civilization of the God of Light Civilization visiting this planet.

"This is the historical truth of the Bronze Age, this is the secret of the mystery, this is the secret that our Dog-Headed People civilization has been searching for for countless years, this is the truth behind countless myths." After watching the brief video footage, Professor Amir was already in tears. He felt that this trip was worthwhile, and even if he died now, it would be worth it.

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