Unexpected Answer
Sanyi's expression told me that although this guy is still a novice, the style and temperament of the Zhang family's clam spirit have been thoroughly absorbed.
The first thing I felt was a sense of familiarity, which made me feel a lot more at ease. Then, looking at these hungry kids, I actually saw that they looked a bit like wicked bears.
He told his deputy to stop busying himself and come over to be his bodyguard.
The assistant was tucking in the corners of the tent, but he was not angry at all when I called him back. He ran over and asked questions as soon as he opened his mouth: "What did you find? Where is it? What should I bring?"
I am different now than I was in the past. I remain unmoved under the attacks from both sides and let the accompanying helicopter above me go over to take a look at the situation and scan twice in advance to see if there is anything wrong.
I felt swelled in my heart, if I go just because they call me, wouldn't that make me lose face? I am a consultant and I won't do it if they invite me.
As a result, the head was stunned for a moment, and said in a daze:
"Advisor, can we use some of his uncle's professional terms to describe it?"
"You guys are so professional now." I said angrily, "Finish your sentence."
"…three-dimensional grid?"
I was stunned, wondering what this was, could it be my turn to be illiterate? But of course I couldn't let on in front of a bunch of newbies who were waiting to be taught, so I put my arm around my assistant's shoulders and pretended that I understood everything.
The group walked for about ten minutes with strange looks on their faces. In the bright sunlight, the stone forest continued to expand before them without any obstruction.
It looked fine when viewed from a distance, but when I got closer I discovered that the stone forest was taller than I had imagined, especially since there was no obstruction on all sides and all I could see was the dark blue color of the stone forest. When I looked up, I almost had the illusion that the stone forest had grown into the clouds.
I began to look up unconsciously, and my neck seemed to no longer belong to me. The closer I got, the more I was shocked by its full appearance. I almost instinctively gasped and found that the scene in front of me was indeed difficult to describe clearly in words.
No, it may not be accurate to call it "Stone Forest" now.
It is better to say that it is as if someone used a sharp knife to split an extremely towering mountain into long strips, and then threw the strips straight onto the earth one by one, thus connecting heaven and earth.
It was as if someone had frozen a section of a waterfall falling from the sky, freezing each thin and fast stream of water into a solid line; or some invisible giant hand had grasped the taut cloth and pulled out the fine warp yarn on it.
That extremely sharp aura suddenly hit my field of vision. I blinked violently and felt a little pain in my eyes.
But compared to its steepness, the area of this stone forest is pitifully small, only about half the size of a middle school basketball court, and all the stone pillars are squeezed together. The contrast between the horizontal crampedness and the endless vertical extension is so contradictory that it makes people want to vomit blood.
I lowered my head and began to rub my eyes to ease the sting in them, and I had to admit that you guys were right. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would have been hard to understand the shocking details.
More importantly, this distance is enough for me to see clearly with my vision of only 3.9. The surfaces of those "stone forests" are extremely regular, and the molten metal luster is very strong.
Oh my god, is this man-made?
I couldn't believe it, so I picked up a stone from the ground and threw it far away. As a result, I seemed to see a blur in front of my eyes, and the stone seemed to hit the surface of a stone pillar with a thud, but I didn't see where it was knocked to.
What is this? I was stunned. All my imaginary images of the quarry were shattered.
In my original imagination, this should be a place full of mine carts, railroad tracks, gravel, and long smelting pools. There may be a lot of quarrying debris scattered around, or large blackened wicker baskets filled with waste stones.
But right now, the only things in this environment are simply inexplicable.
What on earth were those mountain people mining for in the past? Did they send those kids to use their broken baby teeth to gnaw off a piece of stone?
But at the same time, a strong sense of familiarity came over me, making the hairs on my body stand up.
Strange, I seem to have seen something similar somewhere, but where?
The strange feeling of uneasiness made me very uncomfortable. There was a voice in my head saying that part of this stress must come from my own experience, and it was definitely not left by Taizai, and it was not long since I last encountered it.
Seeing that I looked strange, the deputy got a little nervous and quickly opened his arms to push me back, whispering, "Advisor? Are you possessed?" Then he raised his hand as if to slap me awake.
I slapped his hand away and thought hard.
In my opinion, it is best to stay away from it and remember what kind of weird thing this is, so as to avoid plunging into some weird story and crying.
But the terrible thing is that I forgot that the people around me were not a group of bandits and old foxes.
I had just pondered for a moment and was about to discuss it when suddenly two figures appeared beside me and curiously jumped under the nearest stone pillar.
This scared me so much that I almost lost my soul. I screamed for them because I felt the same pain as them. Then I saw that the two bastards, the deputy and Sanyi, had already reached out and touched them.
"...Uh", Sanyi looked at me, a little confused, "It seems to hurt a little."
I looked at him too, to confirm that what he meant by "pain" was pain. Judging from his expression, it was just like being bitten by a mosquito at most.
The shock subsided and turned into confusion. I was really confused about what was going on today. I looked at the deputy again, and that guy was even more thick-skinned. Hearing what I said, he said in surprise: "Where? Is it there?" Then he pulled his hand back and looked down, his expression became strange.
I didn't go forward, but took two steps back. At this moment, the helicopter immediately hovered right above me, and with two clicks, it raised its racket and pointed it coldly at the two of them.
Five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour, the three of us looked at each other, no one suddenly turned into a zombie or Spider-Man, and all of us had rosy faces.
I don't know who breathed a sigh of relief first, but the two idiots finally got scared and quickly ran back, and when they reached me, they sat down on the ground.
I finally came to my senses and was so angry that I kicked each of them, wishing I could knock them down.
The deputy was quite sensible, grinning and not hiding, carefully smiling. Seeing that I was still worried, he quickly raised his palm to let me see what was going on.
I looked down in annoyance and was suddenly stunned.
In an instant, all the fear, self-blame, and anger disappeared, replaced by an intense sense of horror.
On the deputy's calloused palm, including the base of the thumb, there were very conspicuous white marks. However, because they were very small, the cracks on the surface seemed to be stuck by the tension of the skin itself, and there was no bleeding or skin eversion.
I've seen this kind of wound.
No, I had the exact same wound once.
The numbness hit my heel directly onto the top of my head, making my head buzz.
Damn it, damn it, I remembered it. I kept cursing in my mind, and sweat broke out on my back.
"... cave"
I spoke to myself in a hoarse voice, so soft that I could hardly hear it, and two images from my memory jumped out one after another:
The first scene was me and the broker confronting a blue-faced person (a New Year family sacrifice). In order to stop the blue-faced person from howling and attracting others, I raised my hands to cover its ears. As a result, my palm was cut by an unknown object, leaving a thin cut mark.
The second picture was a flash of firelight in the cave wall. It was obviously a flat surface, but I felt a sharp pain as if a pair of scissors were pressed against my eyelids.
All the confusion turned into greater doubt and horror at this moment.
I just felt my heart pounding, and somehow I bypassed the two people and walked under the stone forest.
The closer I got, the sharp stinging sensation became stronger. I carefully reached out my hand and put on two layers of work gloves, one layer of latex to resist acid and alkali, and one layer for welders to prevent puncture or high temperature burns, and touched the endless blue-black area in front of me.
I wasn't sure if it was hallucination, but there was a slight sound, and then my hand felt slightly pricked. The leather fur on the outermost layer of the glove broke off silently and fell off.
At this moment, there was a cry of surprise from the helicopter above my head, and a voice was shouted on the channel: "Advisor, look!"
Two strong beams of light came down from the sky.
I felt a pain in front of my eyes again, and my obsession was interrupted. This time it was caused by a sudden flash of light, and my assistant and San Yi immediately ran over and raised their hands to shield my forehead.
I didn't have time to curse at anyone this time. I thought that I had acted rashly when I lost my composure. Looking at the two people staring at each other nervously, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
When we looked at the several stone pillars illuminated by the strong light, we were horrified and held our breath.
After a while, I didn't know whether it was in my ear or on the channel, someone murmured "Mom".
I was also a little dazed. "...It really is a three-dimensional grid. How professional."
The ridiculous metaphor I made up before was surprisingly accurate. In the strong light, I discovered that beneath the seemingly smooth surface of the bronze pillars, there were countless tiny cracks.
How to put it, it's like putting the blades of countless kitchen knives side by side to form a cylinder, but with the sharp edges all facing outwards.
At the same time, the blade is so thin, flexible and uniform that each blade is tightly attached to each other, so that the sharp edge actually forms a plane.
When strong light shines down from above, countless rays of light are cut by those tiny gaps, and the light paths are parallel. At first glance, it really looks like a grid used in 3D modeling.
The cuts we just had were actually caused by running our hands across countless parallel, outward-facing sharp blades. With so many small contact surfaces, you can imagine how great the pressure on each contact surface is.
I didn't expect the mystery of the cut to be solved here.
I felt a little scared when I thought about it. Are there all these sharp things on the cave walls?
If I had not restrained the blue-faced man immediately and instead started a fight, once I was thrown hard and hit the stone wall... I'm afraid that in an instant all the skin and flesh on my body would have been scraped off neatly like shredded potatoes.
It turns out that this damn thing was not torture by burning with fire, but rather lingchi.
No, I can’t think about it anymore. My whole body hurts just thinking about it.
Although I had long thought that I would be able to find relics from when the ancestors built the underground palace and renovated the caves in this quarry, I never expected that there would be no traces of processing or leftover materials around.
This stone forest is both the building material itself and the finished product.
However, at this moment, I didn't care about the salt dust and mud that I hadn't found yet, nor about the missing food bags that Sanyi's team had mentioned. At this moment, only one crazy question emerged in my mind, and it kept magnifying.
"——Why is this kind of thing built in the cave to form a stone wall?"
No, or to be more precise, isn't the structure of the cave wall a bit strange?
These sharp invisible blades all seemed to be pointing into the cave, including the faces of the people who had undergone the changes during the family sacrifices, which were also covered with such blades.
All of these seem to be a kind of defense mechanism, not for defending against outsiders, but against something inside the cave.
In that dark cave, besides the blue human face, what else is hidden?
They and them, it's almost like... it's like they're trying to prevent something from running out of the cave.
My heart sank, and I suddenly thought of the crazy and weird Taizai again.
Although I don’t know why my consciousness was moved into the underground palace by him, I also don’t know why the underground palace has a replica of the Zhang Family Hospital.
But a new and terrible speculation involuntarily emerged.
I asked myself tremblingly:
Taizi never came after me after I escaped. Why?
Since human skin itself is of no use to Taizi, and is just a form of self-comfort and imitation in his subconscious fear as a "Tianyi" pseudo-man, then where exactly is the source of his immense anxiety coming from?
Why was he in such a hurry to mend his clothes?
——His fear was due to his misunderstanding of Dongzai. What on earth did he misunderstand about Dongzai?
Does his anxiety to repair his clothes mean that he thinks he is in danger and thinks he can rely on clothes to hide himself and avoid disaster?
So, after I escaped from the cave, Taizi didn't show up again... Is it possible that he ran into that dangerous thing?
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