As for the ruins buried underground, humanity actually did not study many of them over the next nine years.
For one thing, time was tight.
Frequent disasters, wars with the aliens, and the development of territory-wide livelihoods had consumed too much of the researchers' energy, leaving them no time to devote more.
For another, the ruins that had been excavated were somewhat disjointed, and no patterns could basically be found.
There were no clues inside leading to the next ruin, nor any further transmission of information. Even ruins from the same civilization were like isolated islands.
Su Mo had once guessed that the game had cut out part of the content, causing it not to fully replicate the main world.
Now, it seemed that his guess had indeed hit the mark!
As for the alien ruins mentioned by Old Man Pepys, the wasteland humans had searched for nine years with great fanfare, yet had found nothing.
The only place they had found was a den of the dead, where the godhood that allowed Yu Tie and the others to become gods had been hidden.
As for the ruins that could be excavated in the Future World, none of them could be found point-for-point in reality.
The game probably had not considered so much when making its copy and had simply fabricated some things and put them in.
"If I opened an alien ruin, what consequences would there be?"
While signaling for Pei Shao and the others to pack up the items on the counter, Su Mo still asked unwillingly.
"Consequences?" Old Man Pepys let out a cackling laugh. "That's a strange question. Wouldn't the consequence be that you released a group of demons? They would first kill you people who opened the door as thanks, and then..."
"And then what?"