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You decide to investigate the <span class="mu-i">Mysterious Mounds</span>. Your Pikmin have no attraction to the place, the same way they do to their own onions, so you're fairly certain there is nothing of the sort there...
You spend a few moments baiting out enemy ambush as best you can- using an orange pikmin to carry in another, using them as bait, preparing a force- but it's all quiet. It is merely mounds of the strange snow, it seems. You order the pikmin to dig. Digging through the snow isn't tough work, just slow and makes them fairly cold. Strangely enough, it seems Yellow pikmin are especially good at digging. But as the mounds begin to disappear, you realize that there are objects underneath, covered in snow, which forms the mounds.
Under the mounds are unusual objects. With unusual angels and bright colors, you know these are not naturally formed. These are <span class="mu-i">artifacts</span>, artificial pieces of technology or art created by whatever intelligent race or alien species once visited or lived on this planet. It is impossible to see these and not speculate. What are the purpose of these things? Why were they abandoned? You fear any one of them could be a weapon or time-manipulation device, something that could pose a great threat to you, but at the moment they seem all powered down. All you know is whatever race or being created these things- you have the feeling they must be very wise and powerful people indeed.
You decide to order the pikmin to carry a few of these treasures back to near the campsite. When you leave this planet once you recover your final part... you could take some of these with you. Alien artifacts from PNF-404 are worth a considerable amount of Pokos on your homeworld- not to be too materialistic, but it's the least you can do to get some compensation after being stranded on this alien planet. Perhaps there could be some other value too, some kind of historical or scientific; any one of these mighty and regal artifacts could be the secret origin of the pikmin or the fate that befall this strange, toxic world.
It's already getting too cold for the pikmin too continue. Time to plan for tomorrow.
>Go to the Cavernous Dungeon
>Travel to your final Ship Part
