In March 2028, three human experts and six elite soldiers who were nominally part of the peacekeeping force walked into a crack in the huge iron tool.
Xiangshan struggled with his feet in the mud. Even with the help of a powered exoskeleton, he almost fell.
Fortunately, a soldier in front helped me.
"Thank you..." Xiang Shan said embarrassedly.
A small amount of sediment poured into the interior of this huge structure along the crack, but it did not hinder it.
In other words, the sediment did not really enter the interior of Ogun.
Because the inner wall is too thick. Although the metal wall is divided into several layers, the total thickness is several meters.
On the deformed fractures of the metal walls, several layers of metal are squeezed together like shale.
Several people stepped directly on the inner wall of the huge creation. The surrounding area was empty and it was obviously a huge space.
Xiangshan's breathing was a little rapid. He looked around nervously. The six soldiers moved in different directions and swept the military lighting flashlights everywhere, only to find that the surroundings were empty, and there was nothing above them.
The wall exists.
"What... happened?" Shen Yuanzun was a little confused: "Empty?"
A soldier unscrewed a red lighting rod, then left it on the ground and said: "Follow the established procedures and continue to explore inside."
"Okay, okay..." Xiangshan sighed.
Those soldiers were actually talking to their three scholars. These guys had already familiarized themselves with the process during simulation training. However, these three scholars did not follow the orders and prohibitions like the soldiers. They had only received assault training and commanded the team.
The official made up his mind to remind these three scholars from time to time.
The six soldiers were divided into two groups, front and rear, protecting the scholars in the middle, and then walked towards the sharper end of "Ogun". There was a slight curvature on the ground. The alien creation deformed when it landed.
So it's a little bit uneven.
Fortunately, the group has powered exoskeletons, so they can walk freely.
After walking for about sixty or seventy meters, the group finally saw some ups and downs. It was a steel column rising from the ground—considering that this was the inner wall of "Ogun", this might be a beam.
The beam was also somewhat deformed. The leading commander reached out to stop a few people, and then made a gesture. A soldier carefully stared at the deformed huge metal pillar, slowly approached it, and kept shining it with the light source in his hand.
Following this pillar, they found more metal beams, crisscrossing them. These seemed to be the internal pillars supporting "Ogun".
The soldier pushed the steel column slowly, but it didn't move at all.
"Even if it is deformed to this extent, is it quite stable?" Xiangshan thought: "Deformation was considered at the beginning of the design, so there was enough...enough leeway to cope with this level of deformation?"
Yawgmoth turned his head: "You mean, they were originally considering, uh... just falling down?"
Xiangshan thought for a moment and shook his head: "That's not necessarily true. 'Ogun' as a whole will even be crushed by its own weight. Even if it wasn't dropped, it will definitely collapse when placed on the ground. Even after entering the atmosphere, it will collapse.
...but...well..."
The voice of the NASA engineer came from the earphones: "Do you doubt that this so-called outer wall will interact with the air, deform, collapse, and then release the inner layer after entering the atmosphere? Well... as long as the things inside
If it can hit the ground of a certain planet, this thing will have accomplished its mission."
Xiangshan was very shocked: "Why don't you use... a parachute? Well..."
The soldiers around him couldn't help but glance here, thinking: "What nonsense are these engineers talking about?" But Xiang Shan felt that it was indeed not impossible.
After all, "Ogun" has been wandering in the starry sky for a long time. And a complex structure like the "parachute" is likely to have various unexpected failures over a long period of time.
And "a parachute that can't open" means nothing.
The simpler the structure, the more it can withstand a long time. Such a means of landing purely relying on the structure is indeed safer than a parachute.
After all, such a huge metal structure can indeed remain unchanged for a long time without oxygen and gravity.
Until it landed on an unknown planet.
In other words, it doesn't matter if this huge outer wall falls apart instantly.
If these steel columns are a huge shock-absorbing system, just to transport a small thing to the ground...
As long as the design is reasonable, the outer layer can be used as an energy-absorbing structure...
"But what's the point?"
After getting the permission of the soldiers, Kambara-san also approached the steel pillar and observed it carefully. But after looking around, he came back angrily and said: "There is nothing that looks like a symbol."
Yawgmoth asked seriously: "Is it possible that the material they use to write symbols is invisible to the human eye? For example, it can only be seen in the infrared or ultraviolet frequency band..."
"We have infrared and ultraviolet observation instruments." Kanbaru said: "There is no sign. This is just a pillar."
Xiangshan sighed: "This is not the main entrance of Ogun. Aliens would not expect us to come in from there. Even if there is a symbol, it won't be written here, right?"
A soldier threw down another glow stick, and then the group continued forward.
Every few dozen meters, they would see an obvious metal structure. At this time, the soldiers would drop a military lighting rod and continue moving forward.
They had walked a long way. They turned towards the mountain and found that at the farthest point, the light of the lighting rods had been swallowed up by darkness and was almost invisible. Many lighting rods were connected into a curve that was not straight, like the arms of an invisible giant.
The luminous footprints passed through a sparse grassland.
Soon, the group arrived at one end of Ogun.
There are no aliens, no machines, not even a controllable terminal or mechanical mechanism.
Ogun is almost empty.
Yawgmoth fell into deep thought again: "Maybe those aliens don't rely on vision at all? We can't see it either?"
"I don't think it's realistic. An alien whose whole body refractive index is almost exactly the same as the earth's atmosphere is a bit too science fiction." Xiang Shan waved his hand: "It doesn't make sense at all."
"And we didn't detect any sound waves beyond the background noise of the environment." Kanbaru Zun also said: "Even if they don't rely on vision, they should have a feeling, right?"
"Neutrino?"
"Well, if there were such cells, as the discoverers, we might be able to win a Nobel Prize."