《Outpost City Older Than Time 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】

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*A City Older Than Time* * * * * It was out on the Other Arm --the one where Earth isn't --that we found it (said Nicodemus Mayflower). There were these two competing groups of archaeologists, and neither of them trusted the other, so they each hired some bodyguards to make sure that the other side's bodyguards didn't attack them. (Yeah, I know, that made it more likely. But how are you going to talk any common sense to guys who like to travel halfway across the galaxy just to dig in the dirt?) Anyway, we came to this binary system that wasn't on any star maps, and since I was the guy who first spotted it, they told me I could call it anything I wanted, so the brighter star became Alpha Nicodemus and the other one was Beta Mayflower --and if you don't believe me just check any navigational computer that was programmed after 6519 G.E. Well, for some reason, they decided that the third planet circling Beta Mayflower was the most likely to have whatever it was they were looking for, so we landed, and sure enough