The temple hall was very spacious and dark.
Besides the stone statue in the center, there are many man-made objects, which should have been tables, chairs and other furniture, but have been eroded by time and turned into piles of gravel.
The two turned the mech's spotlights to maximum power and examined the pictures on the wall from left to right.
Ye Chen walked ahead, carefully scanning the patterns on the walls, not even missing the smallest lines.
These are all valuable first-hand materials, and they will be important clues for future research on this civilization.
Chen Ziqiao followed behind him, initially quite interested in studying the patterns, but after a while, he felt dizzy and lightheaded, as if he were reading a book written in a foreign language. He turned his head and peered into the main hall.
Suddenly, as the spotlight swept across a clump of gravel not far away, a reflective white object caught his attention.
He walked over with some curiosity and stretched out his foot to clear away the sand around the white object.
The next moment, Chen Ziqiao's eyes widened, and he almost jumped up in fright.
What appeared before him was a pale white bone.
The bone is only half intact, and its surface is severely weathered, but it still retains its general shape.
He swallowed hard, steadied himself, and shouted, "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, come quick! We've made a new discovery! There's a bone here!"
"Bones?!" Ye Chen was taken aback upon hearing this, stopped scanning the mural, and turned to look in Chen Ziqiao's direction.
Sure enough, at his feet, there was a piece of bone.
In an instant, Ye Chen felt a chill run down his spine, and his heart was filled with horror.
Are these animal bones? Or... human bones?
He didn't have time to continue scanning the murals; he rushed over to Chen Ziqiao's side.
The two squatted down and looked at the exposed bone. They exchanged a glance, both feeling a sense of horror.
The mysterious temple on the far side of the moon has existed for countless years.
Regardless of what kind of creature this bone belongs to, its presence here is terrifying!
Ye Chen pondered for a moment and said, "It's possible that it was left behind by the creature that built this temple. Let's continue searching and see if there are any other bones."
They cleared away the soil and rocks around the remains and found several more bones, the most complete of which was a skull that was half broken.
Laying all the bones out in a row, Chen Ziqiao looked at their shapes and felt they were somewhat familiar.
After a while, he said with some doubt, "Brother-in-law, this looks like a human skeleton?"
Ye Chen shook his head and said, "I can't be sure. There are quite a few missing parts. It's just that it resembles a human skeleton. We need to take it back for further DNA testing."
"This is incredible! Whatever it is, this is absolutely the greatest discovery of this century!"
Chen Ziqiao clicked his tongue in admiration, and said excitedly, "Haha, this young master will go down in history because of this discovery!"
"Don't be so smug. Take these skeletons and statues back with you and do an appraisal first. Let's see if we can get more information." Ye Chen frowned, a bad feeling creeping into his heart.
Based on these current indications, there are definitely more than just humans as an intelligent species that has existed on Earth.
But they all disappeared. Did they perish naturally or were they destroyed?
"This place doesn't seem simple either; it's full of unknowns and variables. We'd better be careful."
Ye Chen gave Chen Ziqiao some instructions, then looked around the main hall. There were several mounds of earth and gravel inside, which looked like graves, and many of them buried unknown secrets.
The unfamiliar environment, the mysterious ancient temple, and the fragmented skeleton sent a chill down Ye Chen's spine.
The two searched carefully in the remaining piles of rubble, but found no more bones or any useful information.
After the two reunited, Ye Chen said, "Zi Qiao, let's split up. You move these bone fragments to the driverless car outside, and I'll finish scanning the remaining patterns on the wall."
“Okay, brother-in-law,” Chen Ziqiao nodded in response.
After carefully moving the bones onto the driverless car, Ye Chen completed the scanning work.
The two of them came to the stone statue, walked around it, and began to cut along the junction of the base and the ground.
Since we can't cut off any fragments of the statue, let's move the whole statue back for research.
Although the stone statue was made of a hard material, the part of the base that connected to the ground was not made of the same material, so the two of them quickly cut out the entire stone statue along with the base.
"Let's go, lift it to the driverless car, and we'll transport it out."
As Ye Chen spoke, he lifted the stone statue.
The statue didn't move!
He increased the mecha's output power, and the stone statue only swayed slightly.
Seeing this, Chen Ziqiao also came forward to help.
The two of them had to push the mechs to their maximum power output before they could lift the statue.
Chen Ziqiao clicked his tongue and said, "Brother-in-law, this stone statue probably weighs over a thousand tons!"
"If this were on Earth, it would probably be even heavier!"
Ye Chen was also astonished. The stone statue was only three meters tall, and if it were made of ordinary stone, it would weigh no more than a hundred tons. But considering the weight-bearing capacity of the mechs, the statue definitely weighed over five thousand tons!
The two men carried the stone statue out of the main hall and placed it on the unmanned vehicle.
The driverless car was visibly crushed into the ground.
"No, brother-in-law, this is too heavy. The unmanned vehicle can't carry it."
Chen Ziqiao tried to control the driverless car to move forward, but it couldn't get it moving at all.
"The two of us pulling the driverless car together, along with the car's own power, should be enough."
As Ye Chen spoke, he cut the cable trailing behind the driverless car into two sections. One section was used to firmly secure the stone statue, while the other section passed in front of the driverless car.
He handed the other end to Chen Ziqiao and said, "Give it a try."
Fortunately, the two mechs, along with the autonomous vehicle's own power, were able to pull the vehicle up.
It took the two of them almost half an hour to tow the unmanned vehicle to the cave entrance, a distance of nearly five kilometers.
Next, Ye Chen had Zhi Zi lower a steel cable from Mousse II to secure the unmanned vehicle, and then pulled the vehicle and its occupants up together.
......
Headquarters of Mousse Group.
Li Muyue received a notification from Ye Chen that Ye Chen's private laboratory had been prepared and equipped with several state-of-the-art testing instruments as per his requirements.
A day later, the stone statue and what appeared to be human remains were secretly transported back.
Ye Chen personally operated various instruments to test the two items.
"Big sister, you don't know, when I first saw this stone statue..."
Outside the laboratory window, Chen Ziqiao excitedly recounted his trip to Li Muyue. Li Muyue was clearly distracted, listening to his rambling while watching Ye Chen working in the laboratory.
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