There can't be a Harvest Moon in the RimWorld.

Driver Jackie said, "If you're really curious, there's a research building in the engineering command center we stayed in before. Maybe you can find the clues you're looking for there?"

The square-faced young man nodded: "That's the most likely possibility. But with the teacher there, I believe he knows more and more deeply than anyone else in the world..."

But the middle-aged man suddenly put down the biscuits in his hand, shook off the crumbs, looked up at the sky and said, "Have you ever thought that maybe your teacher doesn't know much?"

"What's the meaning?!"

The man gazed at the sky like a philosopher looking out into the mysteries of antiquity, his face bearing the luster of history like marble, standing eternally and unyielding in this field.

The feeling was as if the sky itself had collapsed, breaking his body, snapping his spine, and burying his mind and soul, yet nothing could stop his eyes from exploring the unknown and gazing at the sky.

The man said quietly.

"Perhaps you, like me, are not trapped in this space by chance. You have probably been used by someone to get here..."

"We are all pawns, destined to die at any moment."

Chapter 67 The Truth You Want

The man stood there, seemingly talking to them, yet also seemingly talking to himself.

"Look at this starry sky, isn't it magnificent and unchanging throughout the ages? Actually, the starry sky is constantly changing."

"For example, look at the constellation Apex in the fourth star sector. It will cross the boundary of the sky between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., falling off the horizon like a withered leaf."

"And Sirius in the first star sector will shine brightly until dawn, and no one can take away its brilliance even before the sun has fully risen. But in the dead of night when we look at it, it will draw a 120-degree arc in the sky."

Did you see that?

The people listening exchanged bewildered glances, not understanding why the man had suddenly brought up astrological matters.

Could astrology help them escape their predicament?

"Are you all thinking that I've gone so crazy that I'm resorting to astrology to find a way out?"

"Do you really not know the answer?"

The man smiled slightly and looked at them.

Several people were terrified by that gaze and couldn't help but lower their heads. The square-faced young man felt as if he were being called on by the teacher in a classroom he remembered.

He will always remember the detachment and serenity in his teacher's eyes, completely independent of the surrounding atmosphere. Back then, he was just like he is now, at a loss and speechless.

Therefore, the topic of that lesson remained in his mind forever—a new, obscure, and difficult topic.

At that moment, he and he now suddenly became one, and he spontaneously uttered the words from his memory.

Historically recorded points of temporal and spatial anomalies...

"I see!"

The square-faced youth's expression suddenly shifted to that of the middle-aged man, revealing a compassionate yet detached air, and he slowly stood up.

"I understand now..."

He first apologized to his companion.

"I'm sorry, my friend. Actually, this has nothing to do with you. I shouldn't have dragged you into this. My advisor actually called me, but because you were next to me, I got dragged into this."

The round-faced youth said discontentedly, "Can't you just explain yourself clearly! Why do you say it has nothing to do with me?"

"Um……"

The square-faced young man organized his thoughts for a moment, then suddenly asked the middle-aged man.

"Sir, did you come for the same reason? And was Mr. Jackie, the driver, also involved because of you?"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "I guess Jackie was chosen. From the moment his father got involved, this day was destined to come. Mr. Jackie, in your story you mentioned that a construction driver revisited that ancient graveyard. Wasn't that you and your father?"

Driver Jackie nodded grimly and said, "Now that things have come to this, there's no need for me to hide anything from you. Actually, my father later brought me along this road, wanting to get to where we are now. We all guessed that this place is full of secrets, and if we could find anything here, it could fetch a fortune outside!"

"Back then, only the research team from the convoy actually entered the circular ancient tomb and took away a very small device from inside. My father believed that such a large place must have contained more than just that one thing..."

The middle-aged man interrupted his description, "Isn't that why you drive this road so often, going back and forth?"

The driver, Jackie, remained silent.

"But have you ever wondered why the old project manager and the old experts kept this a secret until the project was in dire straits before they were willing to come in?"

“I don’t know,” Jackie said frankly.

The square-faced young man said firmly, "Because it's dangerous here! It's a place where you can never come back!"

“My mentor told me that he had woken up from nightmares countless times, all about his journey.”

"Back then, he was just a novice, blindly following along the way. But as his theoretical knowledge deepened, he realized how terrifying the road had been."

"The old expert used his unparalleled theoretical expertise to plan this scientific research expedition. The difficulty was akin to a primitive man who, after glancing at a pistol, directly copied all the design drawings and then hit the bullseye every time!"

"The reason they only extracted a portion of the knowledge is not because they lacked the scholarly thirst for knowledge. It's because they took away the most fundamental elements of the entire theory, the absolute core of the new discipline! As long as humanity continues its research, it will be able to deduce the entire knowledge system!"

"After the deaths of his teacher's classmates and mentors, he single-handedly shouldered the responsibility of this discipline. Even when no one recognized him, even when everyone mocked him, he never wavered. Because he knew that he was the last hope for the future advancement of human technology, the last inheritor of this forbidden knowledge..."

"But... but why did the teacher trick me into coming to this road?"

The fervent adoration for the teacher on the face of the square-faced young man suddenly turned into confusion.

He had no complaints about the teacher's design; in fact, he was pleased with it. He only lamented that his understanding was too shallow, and he couldn't even grasp the teacher's most basic intentions. That frustration transformed into a huge burden, causing his expression to gradually become pained.

The round-faced youth stepped forward, patted his companion on the back, and said, "I don't know what you mean. But the last time I met the teacher, I saw him calculating something, and I asked him if I could help him with anything."

"He asked me how much of the densely packed formulas on the paper I understood, and I could only say that I didn't understand any of them. There were too many vectors and vectors in it, and it looked more like an engineering design drawing than a formula."

"The teacher was very angry and scolded me. Later, I left and when I got back to the dormitory, my advisor sent me a text message to apologize."

"I believe my mentor is not a bad person and would not do such a thing intentionally."

His words of comfort had no effect; instead, they only caused the square-faced young man to look on in astonishment.

"You mean, your tutor asked you about the formula? And even apologized to you?"

"Yeah, I really don't understand it, it's too complicated..."

The square-faced youth broke free from his companion and said with a sudden realization, "I know, you're not innocent either! We're all part of the teacher's plan... You thought the teacher was apologizing for scolding you? No... He's apologizing for orchestrating your scheme... You're part of his plan too..."

"I...but I don't understand anything!"

"That's exactly what he wanted: a recorder, an observer who knows nothing! Someone who knows nothing and records this journey without any subjective bias!"

"But...why is that?"

The round-faced youth muttered to himself, as if he couldn't believe what had happened.

But all of this did not earn him any understanding from his companions; instead, he received only a cold remark.

"You want to know? Then I'll tell you the truth you're looking for!"

Chapter 68 The Truth in My Heart

"The teacher has always suspected that the plane crash was not a coincidence, but another plan orchestrated by his teacher. The two plans have in common that they both involve the entire research team working together to uncover the truth."

"Sir, you must have been sent here by the teacher as well?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Your teacher told me to rush to the neighboring city to find him overnight, and he gave me this phone number to contact the driver. But he didn't tell me what to do, only that I would find out in time."

“Sir, I don’t know what’s so special about you, but since the teacher has made these arrangements, you’re part of the plan. Mr. Jackie, do you also know my teacher?”

Driver Jackie gave a wry smile: "Back then, my father and I were the original engineers of the highway when your teacher found us. He asked us many questions about the details of our journey that night, which led my father to further believe that there was treasure in that round ancient tomb."

“That’s right. Each of us plays a different role in this plan.”

The square-faced young man pointed at the driver, Jackie: "Mr. Jackie, you represent everyday experience. Everyday experience can guide us to accomplish things, is more than enough to meet our daily needs, and is even more valuable than knowledge."

He changed the subject and said...

"But here, when everyday experience fails, you are the one most likely to break down. Because in a world where common sense is invalid, the meaning of all common sense is denied. Things that were once clear in your mind will become completely unfamiliar."

"So Mr. Jackie was the initial pawn, used to bring us here."

The square-faced youth then pointed to his companion.

"My classmates represent awe of ignorance. When faced with something completely unknown, awe of the unknown becomes the best way for us to preserve all reason."

“From the very beginning of our journey, as we listened to radio programs, my classmates played a crucial role in articulating the concerns we had overlooked. You could call it timidity, but this very timidity is humanity’s most precious asset in this unknown world.”

"So in the middle of an event, someone has to go along with the human instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, and take the worst possible options along the way. That's Murphy's Law."

He then pointed to the tip of his nose.

"And I represent humanity's thirst for knowledge."

"If we are left in this unfamiliar environment and simply feel lost and desperate like the driver who came here before us, we will have completely deviated from the teacher's ultimate plan."

"Therefore, I need to record, study, and explore these mysteries before me. For humans, our visible part is limited to visible light, and our audible part is limited to sound between ultrasound and infrasound. Therefore, the truth we see is not the truth at all, but the truth we want to know."

"All of this was already destined in the blood of humankind, and there is no escaping it."

"What I played was to be smugly pleased with a pitiful conclusion during the later, aimless search for answers."

"So I'm going to be here and tell you everything we've been through..."

His companion suddenly retorted, "Then what about this gentleman?! Why is there no part about this gentleman in your story?"

The square-faced young man said frankly, "I don't know. Maybe his stage hasn't come yet, or maybe my wisdom isn't thorough enough to realize it. In any case, my conclusion is the same."

"So tell me, what exactly did we encounter?"

Driver Jackie cut off the round-faced youth's next sentence. He wasn't interested in listening to the two young men bickering; he just wanted to know what had happened along the way.

"The incident started when we got on the highway, right? We listened to a mysterious radio station, and they told us a lot about the things that happened along the way."

"We can believe that what was said on the radio is highly credible."

"But the subsequent encounter with the dense fog, the mysterious parking lot and the ghost car, and finally ending up here, have been troubling me ever since, and I can't give a definite answer."

"Our route is the same as everyone else's, so why do only a very small number of people encounter these things, instead of experiencing them throughout the entire process like we did?"

The square-faced young man pointed at the middle-aged man.

"What inspired me was this gentleman. He discovered the truth of the matter even earlier than I did."

"The answer lies in the starry sky!"

"The starry sky?"