Jing Jiu did not know that remnants of an ancient civilization were hidden in the Star Gate Museum, though that was often how things went in movies.
There were no records of the ancient civilization on either the Starfield Network or the Hidden Web. The Priestesses who inherited the ancient civilization did not go online, and the Academy of Sciences' database had a physical barrier. If even he could find no clues, other people had even less chance. The descriptions of the ancient civilization on television and in books were all mere conjecture, without any archaeological evidence. Many people in the Alliance even suspected that the so-called ancient civilization was a grand government hoax meant to give the public a sense of security.
Having seen this Mecha buried in the earth today, he naturally knew it was no hoax. That ancient civilization had indeed existed.
He had found this deeply hidden storeroom because, before coming to the museum, he had checked its map online and compared it with the construction plans from when the museum was built three hundred years earlier, discovering a few oddities. While listening to the opera, he had pulled up more information, including the amount of high-strength alloy used in the museum's construction, and finally confirmed that there had to be a hidden storeroom here. He had also located it.
Leaving the museum and stepping onto the square, he looked at the people basking in the Sun and the fat pigeons, thought of the Mecha that would forever struggle to see daylight, and fell silent for a while before turning toward the nearby art gallery.
As with the museum, there was ultimately a great difference between the actual objects and the images seen on television or online.
Those electronic books could not preserve the original authors'