Chapter 79
Tang Zeyu chuckled: "It's good. Being able to do a job that interests you is a blessing that many people can't ask for."
"Right, right!"
Tang Zeyu gathered several members of the team together and briefly shared his guess with the others, asking them to be mentally prepared.
"What!" Yan Hong's eyes widened in shock: "Those *** people in the base, *********, ***!"
Tang Zeyu covered Lu Shiyu's ears, Yan Ning covered Xiaolu's ears, and Chen Yunliang and Shao Xingyang turned their heads away as if they were used to it.
Seeing Lu Shiyu's slightly stiff expression, Shao Xingyang explained, "You'll get used to it. Yanhong will scold you when she encounters something particularly annoying. You'll be fine after she finishes scolding you."
Lu Shiyu nodded stiffly, not knowing whether he had heard it or not.
After Yan Hong finished scolding, the discussion among them officially began.
"Although we're not yet certain whether the meteorite can truly restore the deformed creatures to normal, judging by the base's reaction, it's pretty close. Even if not, there's some connection," Chen Yunliang said, pushing his glasses. "The reason the base didn't kill us outright, but instead chose to have us taken back under the guise of arrest, is probably because they're afraid we'd spread the news of the meteorite too quickly and cause unrest. So they're trying to find a reason to lock us up and discredit our words."
"I estimate that before long, our charges will be changed to espionage or undercover espionage, and by then our words will no longer be convincing."
Yan Hong crossed her arms over her chest, her brows slightly furrowed, as if she was thinking about something.
"That's not right. The distortion disaster has been going on for so long, and I've never seen anyone get distorted. Logically, humans shouldn't be distorted, so why was I affected after I went down there just now? Could it be that humans only get affected when they're in close contact?"
Shao Xingyang: "We can't just let people touch the meteorite and see what happens, right? Who knows? Maybe this meteorite will only affect humans and not animals."
"That's easy," Lu Shiyu said. "Just find a deformed creature and throw it into the pit to see if anything changes. That way, we can know if the meteorite has any effect on the deformed creature."
"A distorted creature? This is easy to find. Just wait for me, I'll be back soon." After saying this, Yan Hong ran straight into the woods without even hearing Chen Yunliang calling her.
Chen Yunliang sighed. "Really? There was a battle nearby yesterday. Even if there were any distorted creatures, they would have run away long ago."
"Let her go find it. She'll be back soon," Tang Zeyu continued. "If the meteorite is really that important, we can't just leave it here. Otherwise, someone with ulterior motives will take it sooner or later. This place has already been targeted, and we can't be sure when the next hunt will come. Just waiting around is not an option."
"Perhaps you could ask my teacher," Yan Ning offered, "He might be able to offer some useful suggestions."
Tang Zeyu nodded. After all, they really had no choice at the moment.
As soon as the conversation between the few people ended, Yan Hong came back with a deformed creature that looked like a hairy pig.
If you pull aside its stiff, long, and messy hair, you can find that the mouth of this deformed creature is terrifyingly large. It is no exaggeration to say that it can even eat its own head in one bite. Its tongue is not as wide as that of a normal pig, but very long and thin. Its tail is as long and thin as a mouse's and is not covered with hair, but only a layer of wrinkled skin.
Lu Shiyu asked in surprise: "Why did you come back so soon?"
Yan Hong chuckled and handed the humming deformed creature to Lu Shiyu.
"Not long after I walked out, I encountered a group of deformed creatures that looked like wolves and dogs trying to catch this little pig-like thing. I picked it up," Yan Hong said, wiping the sweat from her forehead. "Don't be fooled by its small size. It's very heavy."
"I don't know if it's because I used my powers too much yesterday, but I feel so tired after just traveling such a short distance today."
Shaoxing Yang came over and said in a mean way: "You must have eaten too much recently and gained weight!"
"You want to be beaten, don't you?"
Lu Shiyu had a hard time holding the deformed creature, mainly because it kept moving around, making it very difficult for Lu Shiyu to hold it.
"It's so heavy! Why did Yan Hong catch it instead of other deformed creatures!"
Chen Yunliang understood it at a glance.
"I guess he wants to eat roast suckling pig. He can eat it after the test is finished."
Lu Shiyu: “…”
Tang Zeyu took the deformed piglet, walked to the edge of the pit and threw the deformed piglet into the pit without mercy.
The deformed pig rolled down the curve of the pit until it hit the meteorite at the bottom, humming and groaning all the way, and only stopped for a while after its body hit the meteorite.
Under the expectant gaze of everyone, the deformed piglet stood up tenaciously - fortunately, it was not thrown to death by Tang Zeyu. After standing up, it seemed to relax for a while, and began to hum again, even louder than before.
"It's so noisy!" Shao Xingyang covered his ears with his hands: "How can a pig squeal so unpleasantly!"
Chen Yunliang's face was gloomy. He also tried to block out the noise by covering his ears. He said, "Of course the squeal of a pig is unpleasant. Otherwise, why would they call it a "slaughtering pig squeal"?
When everyone retreated away from the scream, the screaming suddenly stopped.
Yan Ning was the first to go over and check, and he saw that the long hair on the deformed piglet had actually begun to fall off, dropping sparsely to the ground, leaving only some hair of medium length. Its appearance seemed to have changed a bit, and although it still did not look like a completely normal pig, it was not much different from an ordinary wild boar overall.
The others also came over at this time, and were very surprised to see the deformed piglet whose appearance had changed in a short while.
Yan Hong rubbed her eyes and said, "It actually works."
Chen Yunliang stared at the deformed piglet in the pit without blinking, as if afraid of missing any details. He said, "It seems that the impact of the meteorite is much stronger than we imagined."
Lu Shiyu turned to look at Tang Zeyu: "Since the meteorite is so powerful, then we won't be able to take it away. Even if it's just a little bit, it will be affected."
Tang Zeyu thought about it for a while and felt that it made sense.
"Although we can't take it away, the good news is that no one else dares touch it," Tang Zeyu said, looking at the piglet struggling to climb out. "Once the base discovers something's wrong with this meteorite, they'll probably give up on taking it back. After all, the risk is too high and it's not worth it."
"Well, the situation isn't too bad," Lu Shiyu stood up and asked Yan Ning beside him, "You said before that you would take us back to find Professor Chen, right?"
Yan Ning nodded, and Lu Shiyu then asked the question that had puzzled her since they met.
"How did you get lost here? There's a mountain between here and the woods where Professor Chen is. Even if you got lost, it wouldn't be that outrageous."
"It's not easy to explain."
Yan Ning looked up at the position of the sun, pointed in a direction and said, "Come with me, you'll see when we get there."
Several people looked at each other, not knowing what Yan Ning meant, but they still picked up their backpacks and followed Yan Ning.
On the way, Yan Hong pouted and moved closer to Lu Shiyu. Looking at Yan Ning, who was leading a pig and a fawn in one hand, she whispered, "Why let him lead the way? Didn't he get here because he was lost? If we let a lost person lead the way, won't we get further away?"
In fact, Lu Shiyu also felt that it was unreliable, but Yan Ning offered to lead the way. If he directly refused, would it cause trouble?
"Hey! Do you know the way?"
While Lu Shiyu was still muttering to himself, Yan Hong walked up to Yan Ning and asked him directly, so bluntly that Lu Shiyu started to sweat secretly.
These two people have bad tempers, don't turn around and fight...
"Huh?" Yan Ning turned around and saw Du Yanhong coming to question him.
"You think I don't know the way?"
"What else?" Yan Hong said, "If you knew the way, you wouldn't have come here."
Lu Shiyu quietly stepped forward and wanted to pull Yan Hong back, but then he heard Yan Ning say:
"Well, actually I don't know the way."
"Ah?" Lu Shiyu looked up: "If you don't know the way, how can you lead the way?"
After talking about the route, Yu realized that he had blurted out what he was thinking.
"I just relied on my memory and walked back the way I came here."
Yan Ning looked up and found that the sun was indeed nowhere to be seen. Except for the open space cleared by Tang Zeyu and others, the sun was blocked by leaves in other places. He could not see where the sun was at all, so it was naturally very difficult to determine the direction.
So when Yan Ning came here, the only time period he could determine the direction was when the sun rose and set. He could tell the direction by which direction the light came from, but most of the time he was still groping in the dark.
Fortunately, he had already determined the direction in the open space before setting off, so he could find it by just walking straight ahead.
Yan Ning led a few people full of doubts all the way to the foot of the mountain. In front of them were towering rocks and there was no way to go forward.
At this point, several people finally believed that Yan Ning really didn't know the way.
"Damn it! Why are you pretending to be so stupid when you don't know the way?" Shao Xingyang couldn't help but cover his face and complain: "Now we don't even know where we are."
Yan Hong said calmly, as if she had expected this: "I knew it..."
Chen Yunliang and Tang Zeyu were silent, observing the surrounding trees and thinking about the feasibility of cutting down a few trees to clear a piece of sky for observing the direction of the sun.
Lu Shiyu walked up and gently poked Yan Ning on the back.
"Um, Yan Ning, did you go the wrong way?" Lu Shiyu paused for a moment, "There's no road nearby."
Yan Ning held his chin with his hand and pondered for a moment.
"No, it's around here."
Lu Shiyu: “…”
As long as you are happy.
Lu Shiyu thought Yan Ning was just being stubborn, so he turned around and was about to discuss with others where to go next when he heard a loud rumbling noise.
Several members of the Flying Eagle Squad looked over at the same time, and saw Yan Ning putting one hand on a certain stone brick. The stone brick looked both special and unobtrusive among the rocks. With the moss and weeds on the outside, it was hard to tell what it was at first glance.
The stone brick sank deeply, and the rocks on the side suddenly began to shake. The whole stone, which was originally tightly fitted, suddenly split open in the middle and turned into a stone door.
Behind the stone gate is a deep passage, pitch black as far as the eye can see, just like the terrifying tunnels in horror short stories, as if there is something shameful hidden in the darkness that cannot be gazed at.
A stale smell hit me in the face, and the lack of air inside made it feel like I couldn't breathe. The feeling of suffocation increased my fear of the unknown.
Seeing the stone door open, Yan Ning released his hand that was pressing down on the stone bricks and said to the people behind him:
"That's it, come in."
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