Chapter Twelve: The Fiery Planet

  "Don't talk nonsense, the copper coffin has been overturned, and the lid hasn't settled yet, so it's definitely been displaced." Lin Jia said calmly, stabilizing the emotions of the crowd on the scene.

  Nine massive dragon corpses, all over a hundred meters long, with scales standing upright and dark spots shining, lay not far away. The bronze coffin was at least twenty meters long, pressed on the five-colored altar, bringing people a strong sense of unease.

  "I think we should collectively go explore that light in front of us."

  "I also think everyone should take action together."

  Many people suggested this, it's clear that they were intimidated, and almost no one was willing to stay any longer. In the end, everyone unanimously agreed to move forward collectively to explore the source of light.

  The vast land is all composed of reddish-brown soil and gravel, empty and desolate, with huge rocks scattered sparsely.

  As he walked past that huge stone where they had just climbed to get a good view, Liu Yunzhi exclaimed in surprise, "There are words on that huge stone."

  Going around to the side of that giant rock facing the light source, two huge ancient characters can be clearly seen carved on the stone body. Each character is about 5-6 meters high, with iron hooks and silver strokes, strong and powerful, majestic and magnificent, like two angry dragons coiled together.

  The characters are very complex and should have been carved a long time ago in ancient times, and it's unknown how many years they've existed. The crowd gathered in front of the stone wall, gazing at two sturdy ancient characters, and many people furrowed their brows, finding it difficult to discern their meaning.

  "This seems to be the Zhong Ding Wen, the first character should be 'ying'." Zhou Yi identified the first character, he furrowed his brow and muttered to himself: "Where exactly have we come to..."

  "It's indeed Zhong Dingwen, these two words are 'Huang Hua'. Ye Fan identified the two words and said them out loud, he seemed calm but the meaning of the two words made his heart tremble greatly."

  Halley, how could it be Halley? He simply couldn't believe all this, and he involuntarily looked up at the sky. However, although it was very dark now, only a few stars had appeared.

  "What does 'Huo Hua' mean?"

  "Is Huo Xing a place?"

  Many people don't understand and can't comprehend the meaning of these two words.

  Zhou Yi's face turned pale after hearing the two words "Huo Hua", and he said, "Flickering flames, scattered and confused. We really... have no way to return."

  "What does this mean? Where is this?" The crowd was in a state of shock and uncertainty.

  Wang Ziwu also understood the meaning it represented when he heard the two words "Huo Huan". He explained to everyone: "This is probably no longer Earth, Huo Huo like fire, ancient called Huo Huan, as an ominous sign, in ancient times Mars was called Huo Huan."

  In the endless years ago, the ancients had already noticed that Mars is red, its brightness changes frequently, and it shines like fire. Moreover, in the sky, it moves sometimes from west to east, sometimes from east to west, the situation is very complicated, confusing, "shining firelight, disorderly confusion", in ancient times called Huo Huan.

  In ancient times, emperors were superstitious and dreaded this disaster star, believing it to be an omen of bad luck. Every time it appeared, either the prime minister would be dismissed or the emperor would die. As for such superstitious legends, later generations naturally wouldn't believe them.

  "Oh my god!" Kayde, who was beside Li Xiaoman, was exhausted, but after understanding the Chinese meaning of the two words "Huang Huang", he continued to observe the geology, grabbing the reddish-brown soil and knocking on the rocks, making strange cries of surprise one after another.

  "How is this possible?" Many people were stunned and couldn't believe their eyes at the fact in front of them.

  "The reddish-brown earth beneath our feet is... Mars, have we not been on Earth?!" Whoever heard this result would be stunned and speechless, it was completely unreasonable.

  Half an hour ago I was still on the top of Mount Tai, half an hour later I was standing on the ancient planet of Mercury, this is simply a fairy tale!

  Lin Jia's slender figure, charming and elegant, her beautiful face slightly pale at the moment, her bright red phoenix eyes glanced at everyone, saying: "Now, we have only seen this stone carving so far, and we cannot truly determine whether it is really on the planet of Hwang-ho."

  "But isn't it said that the surface of Mars is covered with red soil and gravel? Isn't what we're seeing now exactly that?" a female classmate asked tearfully.

  Humans had already launched space probes to explore Mars in the 1960s, and in 1997, the "Mars Pathfinder" successfully landed on the surface of Mars.

  In the exploration of the past few decades, humans are no longer ignorant of Mars and have obtained a large amount of valuable data.

  "The Martian soil contains a large amount of iron oxide, and due to long-term exposure to ultraviolet radiation, the entire Mars is like a rusty world, just like what we see in front of us. Could it be... that we really left Earth and are standing on another planet right now?!" A male classmate clenched his fists tightly, with his knuckles already turning white.

  "If we were really standing on Mars, I think it would be impossible for us to survive, there's not enough oxygen, no suitable temperature..." Li Xiaoman said this, although her face was very pale, but these words came out and still brought a glimmer of hope to many people.

  And in this process, Ye Fan, Pang Bo and several others remained calm throughout. They were convinced that they were no longer on Earth, what could be worse than this? Whatever happened next, it was nothing more than that.

  The crowd stopped in front of the giant stone for a long time, and finally left, continuing to move forward towards the distant weak light source. It doesn't seem very far away, but after walking out more than 500 meters, they still haven't reached their destination, and it seems that they will have to walk another similar distance.

  Everyone's heart is heavy with worry, few people speak, it seems very depressing, afraid that the last glimmer of hope in front will also be shattered.

  Bang

  Pang Bo kicked out a piece of gravel under his foot, raising a cloud of dust. At this moment, he showed a look of surprise, and he noticed that the kicked-out stone seemed to be a tile.

  "What a tile!" As he picked up the half-fragmented tile, he immediately confirmed that it was an artificially made coarse tile.

  Suddenly, a crowd gathered around, watching this piece of broken tile, and many people showed excitement.

  "Since there are tiles and rubble, there must be buildings. This land is inhabited by people, it's not just a simple five-colored altar."

  "We're saved!"

  "We can definitely get out of this!"

  The pessimistic mood decreased, and the joyful mood increased a bit. Everyone saw the hope of survival.

  At this moment, the sky has darkened and the stars are twinkling in the sky.

  Ye Fan looked up at the starry sky and found a blurry disk hanging on the horizon, about half the size of the moon that can be seen on Earth, enough to prove that this place is not Earth. In another direction, there was a fist-sized bright star, much brighter than ordinary stars, but also dimmer than that small moon, it's too bright to be called a star, and too small and dim to be called a moon.

  Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwu and Liu Yunzhi were standing not far away, they noticed Ye Fan's movements, and couldn't help but look up at the sky. When they saw the two small crescent moons hanging in the sky, their faces suddenly changed color.