Chapter 574: Five Elements

"These inscriptions are getting longer and longer..."

"Can't understand, what information is the person who carved the inscription trying to convey?"

"In the process of recording events, ancient people often had exaggerated parts; encountering phenomena that couldn't be understood, they threw them directly to the gods. To interpret them, one cannot simply look at the literal meaning."

"..."

While the audience was discussing heatedly.

The work in the great fog continued.

The shuttle traveled back and forth between the ground and the starship, transporting "Scranton Reality Anchors" into the thick fog, attempting to stabilize the reality of the fog zone.

It might be useful, it might be useless.

But at least it would have a psychological effect, making people believe that the probability of "Reality Restructuring" happening here would be reduced significantly.

Within the mist, a large amount of engineering machinery was operating, but there was no annoying sound like in a general construction site.

Lingering in the unknown ruins were only slight humming sounds, and small friction sounds like a gentle breeze.

Asta looked at the equipment performing "excavation" work in the mist, stunned slightly, only feeling that her cognition had been refreshed once again.

Their size wasn't huge, a bit taller than an Astartes, and they only had a structure similar to a mechanical arm, with a probe installed at the end.

The probe rotated slowly, projecting a pale blue line, evaporating everything it swept over—regardless of mud, rubble, or stones—yet it didn't hurt the ancient building in the slightest.

Instead, it cleaned up the traces left by the years on it.

"Even if it were from the Shang and Zhou dynasties... after being cleaned up by such equipment, it would become from last week..." an audience member commented.

"What kind of black technology is this, directly annihilating matter? And how does this machine accurately identify which part cannot be damaged and which part can be cleaned?"

"I think this is unscientific."

"But it's very Foundation, isn't it?"

And on the "Astral Express," Welt Yang silently swept his gaze toward the box beside him.

It contained Bai Xuan's gift, and that thing was too similar in shape to the probe.

Yet it didn't need external energy, the cleaning speed was many times faster, and the volume was only the size of a camera.

Bai Xuan's connection with the Foundation was indeed not simple—but this wasn't surprising.

After all, even if this young man with a mysterious background revealed his identity as a director of some star sector, he wouldn't feel surprised.

As for an O5 Councilor, or the Administrator, that was impossible no matter how one thought about it.

Such big shots of that level should be busy with official business every day, unable to spare even a bit of time.

Jarilo-VI, inside the fog zone.

"Command, entrance discovered, requesting entry."

As the blue light continued to sweep, amidst the mud and rubble, a passage leading diagonally downward appeared, not knowing where it led.

"Request granted, good luck."

"Received."

The team leader of the task force glanced at the standby team members, and at the same time, he stepped to the edge of the hole, attempting to illuminate the interior with his headlamp.

A straight beam of light extended inward, illuminating nothing except the dust suspended within it, like a clay figure entering the sea.

How deep was this passage?

"Looking at the shape of this passage, it seems to be some kind of tomb?" an archaeologist in the audience inferred.

"We have gone through the historical materials of Jarilo-VI and didn't find any information related to the previous five scripts... how did the Foundation decipher the inscriptions?" a historian was still struggling.

"Our family's ancestors seemed to have fled from Jarilo-VI seven hundred years ago, but we have never heard any legends related to these ancient ruins."

In the next second, the Astartes carried their chainswords and bolters and entered the passage.

The Mobile Task Force carried the reality anchors and followed closely behind.

They walked in the passage for a while, and the scenery before their eyes suddenly opened up.

Ahead was a huge cylindrical space, with countless night-luminous stones embedded in the inner wall, like a sky full of stars, or like fireflies covering the night sky.

These things emitted pale blue light, illuminating the entire area incredibly brightly. **CHAPTER 576**