Chapter 967 Mysterious Corpse

Coffins are something that almost all civilizations that have the habit of "collecting corpses" have similar things. Humanoids often develop such cultures independently.

Even Europe and Asia, two continents that have almost no intersection, can independently develop "coffins". The main reason is very simple.

This is all due to the real existence of the "underworld" and the communication function of the "coffin" to the underworld.

In a sense, this is also a kind of "sacrifice", which is one of the operating logics of this universe. The underworld is real and the dead can really be reincarnated.

Therefore, many contents about the dead can be explored, just like discovering the existence of the four basic forces. Some individuals with particularly high inspiration can perceive the special effects of funerals, coffins and other things.

And at this moment, on this mysterious planet, at its North Pole, there is actually a coffin.

This is really unreasonable.

Obviously, this planet is still in the Hadean period. Is this period a planet that has just been formed, and the process of gradually cooling and solidifying from a hot magma ball?

It takes hundreds of millions of years for the original planet to gradually cool and solidify from a hot magma ball, and then slowly appear the original ocean, atmosphere and land.

In this process, geological activities will be very intense, volcanic eruptions are everywhere, various greenhouse gases cover the planet like a quilt, lava flows everywhere, and there are violent shocks between the new strata and the mantle cycle. Earthquakes are as common as eating, and they happen every day.

This kind of planet is obviously lifeless.

In fact, it is not entirely true. The Boundless Clan once saw a special life called "demon" on other planets in the Hadean Universe. They have no physiological characteristics and are basically talking stones.

This is different from inorganic life.

Generally speaking, special life forms such as mineral life and rock life, even if they are composed of inorganic matter, they still have "organs" and "bodies" inside.

Their consciousness either comes from various structures inside the body, and the thinking organs have a certain degree of materiality. In other words, although the materials that make up the body are various, there is always a body, metabolism, and interaction with the surrounding environment.

In other words, a real stone and a ‘rock life’, although they are both made of stone, if you carefully examine the structure of the body, you can find that the rock life has ‘raciality’ and is significantly different from ordinary stones.

But the life called ‘demon’ is completely different.

‘Demon’ actually does not have such a body, it is just a stone. If it does not move, you can not find the difference between it and ordinary stones even if you scan it.

Their thinking organ is not the body, but the strange thing called ‘soul’. The body is just the carrier of the ‘soul’, so monsters can be born on any material.

A stone can be a monster, a pool of water can be a monster, a teapot, a water cup, a bed, and even a planet, or even a Guixu, can all be monsters.

No matter what your body is like, as long as it is ‘enlightened’ and awakened to spiritual wisdom, it will become a monster.

Therefore, there will be monsters on the planets of the Hadean Universe, which may be magma monsters or stone monsters, but this kind of primitive monster cannot fight against these boundless civilizations, so it should have been discovered long ago.

You know, the Boundless Civilization has confirmed that there is absolutely no civilization on this planet, and this planet has just been born.

Since it is a newly born planet, then... where did the coffin on it come from?

Perhaps, it is a coffin floating in the nebula material of the original star? I heard that many civilizations have the custom of "empty burial", which is to throw the coffin directly into the void.

The answer is unknown now.

But there is no need to be afraid, this is an opportunity for all civilizations.

The Boundless Civilization is very powerful. As a sixth-grade civilization, they have many sixth-grade warships, each of which can fight against sixth-grade practitioners who specialize in combat.

If you are not specialized in combat, but a pharmacist, a refiner, an inventor, or a pure speculative practitioner, you can't beat these warships.

The Boundless Civilization has also come into contact with those individual cultivation civilizations, which are also very interesting. Their civilization is obviously divided into "two layers". The Boundless Civilization calls this stratification: "embryo" and "adult".

Their 'embryos' are probably just feudal civilizations on the surface. These mortals in the feudal era don't have to do anything but 'reproduce'.

Keep giving birth to children, keep producing newborns, and then, most of these newborns will spend their lives as mortals in a muddle.

A few will participate in various selections, screen talents, and then embark on the path of cultivation, becoming practitioners with strong individual combat power, which is considered 'adulthood'.

Some civilizations call this their own set of 'differences between immortals and mortals'. They are a civilization, but the upper and lower levels are not interoperable. The practitioners maintain the reproductive speed of the feudal era, and then select the geniuses of the upper class. These geniuses with the ability to practice constitute the main body of the civilization.

In fact, it is also a solution. At least these civilizations are very good at fighting and developing technology. Although they are all individual technologies developed, many things can only be used by themselves.

In short, after integrating all considerations and assessing all risks, the control group of the boundless civilization finally decided to scan the coffin.

They couldn't destroy the coffin, just like primitive people with stone tools had no way to deal with the coffin made of high-strength alloy. Even if the stone was smashed, it would not leave any trace on it.

But just scanning it might work.

The extremely precious prototype was dragged by the machine, with a heavy energy source behind it, leading all the way down.

The surface had long been flattened, and there was a huge crack on it.

It was where the rift and the canyon intersected. This rift seemed deeper than the map showed, and there was a gravel slope leading all the way to the entrance of the rift.

Below here, there was a hole, and in the hole, there was a square tower-like rock.

"On a normal planet, this kind of hole would not exist." Aber walked in it and commented.

"Yes, so our survey team members couldn't help but go in and take a closer look, and then they found that thing." The owner continued.

At this moment, the ship owner was walking in the cave with the old man, saying, "But when they carefully checked everywhere, they found an unusual and strange thing, that is, under the pile of rocks, they actually found the coffin."

While speaking, the sounds around became weird, as if pouring into the open space from the darkness on all sides.

This is because the surrounding atmospheric composition has changed, so the sound transmitted by the air will also be distorted.

However, the Boundless Clan relies on telepathy to communicate. Although they have the most basic hearing, telepathy is what they are best at, so communication will not be affected by atmospheric composition.

"This place makes people uncomfortable." The old man said.

"It's okay now." When saying this, the ship owner stopped.

The old man also stopped.

I saw a coffin, which was placed there crookedly, surrounded by some mysterious formations.

Only the lower half of the coffin was intact, and the upper half was damaged, revealing a human face inside.

This human face is similar to a skeleton, and the dry face skin has turned dark black, like the texture of parchment.

There were many cracks on his skin, especially on his face, and even two rows of ferocious teeth were exposed.

The two eyeballs were gone, leaving only two empty deep holes. Although he could not see anything, the dry eyelids seemed to continue to stare at the world.

Even now, looking into the other person's eyes, he seemed to be able to feel a deep chill.

"This, this coffin, is broken?" Abo was stunned.

This kind of metal, if the report did not lie, could hardly be destroyed by any of their forces.

But this kind of metal was actually torn apart by someone!

The owner said: "Yes, it is broken. It was broken when we encountered it, but even so, we could not destroy its wreckage."

Strength is divided into material strength and structural strength, just like a complete steel bar is difficult to destroy, but a steel bar with a crack can be broken by hand.

This is because the structure is destroyed, it is easier to bear force.

However, this mysterious metal, in this damaged situation, still does not move, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be torn off.

It is simply... cheating.

"Okay, we don't need to delve into what this thing is. We just need to get this material and leave quietly." The ship owner said so.

Obviously, he also knew that there were some things that could not be done.

For example... provoke something that looks like it's dead.

This universe is full of dangerous things. Even if they are dead, a little bit of their remains is enough to cause a devastating blow to the civilization itself.

Inside the boundless civilization, there was once an observation. When they were observing a backward civilization, that backward civilization liked to "enter the dream".

They would use a special meditation method to let their spirits sneak into the dream world.

There, they found some kind of power. The civilization itself evolved directly to the point where it could use superpowers. They entered that deep dream, contacted those dangerous beings, and then drew strength and gained various special abilities.

Control lightning, transform, absorb life, spit fire, strengthen the body, control magnetism, etc.

It was originally a backward civilization, still in the era of cold weapons, but with this power, they quickly expanded their destructive power to the city level.

The boundless civilization was observing this civilization at the time, trying to find the source of this power.

But suddenly one day, an infectious mental illness appeared in this backward civilization, which was also brought out by them from their "dreams".

It is obviously a mental illness, but it is contagious. Once exposed, symptoms such as madness and mania will quickly appear, and then spread, and start to kill other lives crazily, and finally exhaust themselves to death.

This mental illness is transmitted through "witnessing", that is, when you "see" someone having an attack, you will be infected, and the general incubation period ranges from three months to one year.

In just less than ten years, this civilization became extinct, and this infectious disease also spread to the borderless civilization, causing their observatory to collapse.

In the end, the observatory was completely destroyed, and the spacecraft that went to rescue people later discovered this from the work log of the observatory.

After that, the boundless civilization quickly blew up the planet, destroyed all possible traces, and immediately made a decision on the rescue ship. The ship owner ordered that all the people who knew about it, including himself, be quarantined for a year to ensure that there was no infection or illness, and then he felt relieved.

This universe is so dangerous...

Even a powerful high-energy civilization like the boundless civilization that can cross galaxies and blow up planets often feels terrified.

This universe... is too dark, so dark that it is impossible to see where the danger is lurking.

Both the uncle and the ship owner deeply understand this, so they know the severity.

"Have you done an isotope test?" The uncle asked the ship owner with this in mind.

"I have done it, but you will definitely not believe it. The isotope test result of this thing is... within a thousand years, if the error is removed, he might have died yesterday." The ship owner explained.

As we all know, all living organisms will ingest a fixed proportion of elements such as carbon, or radioactive isotopes of several other elements.

When alive, organisms keep the ratio of these isotopes at a "normal" level.

But after death, organisms no longer take in new isotopes.

Therefore, the radioactive isotopes that already exist in the body will begin to decay according to a predictable law. This mechanism provides a very reliable timer that is activated at the moment of death.

By analyzing the decay residue, people can get a relatively accurate value, and thus calculate how long it has been since death.

This method can be used to infer the age of a planet. As long as there is material, the age can probably be calculated in this way.

Similar tests have been done countless times by the borderless civilization. This is a very mature scientific and technological achievement. The results have been verified by many people and are very reliable.

But...

When the isotope measurement was performed on this corpse and the coffin above, the time on the other party seemed to have stopped.

The results showed that the other party seemed to have died yesterday.

Even if the error is taken into account, it means that he died between yesterday and a thousand years.

Yesterday to a thousand years... Is it possible?

Look at the surrounding magma rocks. These magmas have been formed for at least 50 million years!

But the person embedded inside is only a thousand years old?

Absolutely impossible.

"All the mysteries are waiting for your machine to solve, my great scientist." said the ship owner.

"Then... start scanning." Abo took a deep breath.