Chapter 91
"Are you all right?"
Lu Shiyu and Tang Zeyu quickly walked to the shore and pulled the two men out of the water.
When Lu Shiyu was pulling Yanhong, he felt it was extremely difficult. He thought it was because Yanhong's clothes had absorbed water. It was not until he dragged her up that he discovered that Yanhong was actually holding an iron box in her other hand.
“Ahem!”
Yan Hong wiped her face with her hand, threw the iron box aside casually, and started coughing.
On the other side, Shaoxing Yang's face was still red after he came out of the water, and his lungs felt like they were burning. He kept gasping for breath in an attempt to relieve the burning sensation as soon as possible.
Tang Zeyu looked at the two people who were soaking wet, and after confirming that they were both fine, he spoke:
"Didn't I tell you not to go in the water?"
Tang Zeyu's tone was neither cold nor indifferent, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry, but their bodies had subconsciously tensed up.
Yan Hong grabbed her dripping hair and pulled it back, saying guiltily, "Captain, listen to my explanation. This was really just an accident! I didn't mean to go down there. I just fell down by accident."
Tang Zeyu turned to look at Shao Xingyang: "Yan Hong can swim, and she swims better than you. Why did you jump in after her? Did you fall accidentally?"
Shaoxing Yang forced a stiff smile.
"Oh, I forgot."
Tang Zeyu sighed: "Even elementary school students know that swimming is prohibited in wild waters. You two..."
Faced with Tang Zeyu's endless nagging lecture, the two men lowered their heads and dared not say another word.
Lu Shiyu pulled out two dry towels and wiped the water droplets off the two people who were still dripping with water.
"Don't stand so close to the water next time."
"oh."
Yanhong's hair was soaked in water, so she simply took it down. It was easier to dry her long hair when it was loose.
Lu Shiyu noticed the iron box next to Yan Hong, picked it up puzzledly, and asked, "What is this?"
Yan Hong brushed aside her hair that was blocking her view, took a look and said, "I don't know, I just fished it out of the water."
Shao Xingyang turned around with an incredulous look on his face: "When did you fish it out of the water?"
"Just now, when I was swimming downstream," Yan Hongfeng said calmly, "I just got it and you pulled it up."
Shaoxing Yang was speechless. He thought Yan Hong had choked on water and sunk, but it turned out that she was diving. He had worked in vain. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
Seeing this, Tang Zeyu frowned and held his forehead. It seemed that he could not expect these two people to learn their lesson.
Lu Shiyu took the iron box and looked at it for a while. The iron box was a complete cube with twelve edges and eight corners that were very regular, and six faces that were smooth and flat. Although the whole box had been soaked in water for who knows how long, there was no scratch or rust on it. It looked like a brand new one right out of the factory.
"Strange, why doesn't this iron box have an opening?"
Lu Shiyu turned every side over and even scratched the edges with his fingernails, but he couldn't find any hidden openings. It didn't feel like an iron box, but more like a cubic iron block.
But when Lu Shiyu shook it, he could hear a slight sound of objects colliding inside. There was indeed something inside, but how was it put in?
The cube of iron is perfect from any angle, with no trace of welding to be found.
Lu Shiyu handed the iron box to Tang Zeyu. Tang Zeyu weighed it in his hand and found that the weight was obviously wrong.
First of all, this block is obviously made of metal, but it is not as heavy as expected when held in the hand. Secondly, the sound made when the things inside collide with the block is not loud. If you don’t get close, you can’t even hear it. This shows that the sound insulation effect of this metal is extremely good, and it is also very difficult to make.
If this block is really a box and the things inside are put in in the conventional way, then this block is most likely made using some special cutting and processing technology, which can achieve almost zero tolerance and seamless splicing, making it impossible to see any traces of cutting.
If this is true, then it means that there is actually a gap on the iron box, but because the error is almost zero, they cannot find it with the naked eye.
However, this is enough to show that this metal block is not simple. The most difficult thing to explain is why such a metal block would appear in the pond?
Fishermen have no place to use this kind of metal block, and they have never heard of throwing such a metal block into the water to raise any fish, so it is more likely that this metal block was secretly thrown here by someone. It is not known whether it was hidden or discarded, and it stayed underwater until today when Yan Hong accidentally fished it out.
"What are you doing? Such a big noise."
Chen Yunliang arrived late after packing up the dissection tools, not worried at all about what might happen to the two teammates who fell into the water.
"Take a look at this," Tang Zeyu handed the metal cube to Chen Yunliang and said, "Can you see any problem with it?"
Chen Yunliang was speechless: "Can you please stop giving me guesswork like a riddle? I'm not an encyclopedia."
Having said that, Chen Yunliang still took the metal cube, pushed his glasses and began to observe it carefully.
"Where did you get these things?"
Yan Hong: "Pulled it out of the water."
"In the water?" Chen Yunliang glanced at Yan Hong and said, "This block, whether made of materials or craftsmanship, is not something an ordinary person can use. Its original owner was not an ordinary person, but for some reason they hid it here."
Tibetan?
Lu Shiyu asked, "How do you know it was hidden and not discarded?"
"If you just want to get rid of it, you can just throw it into the sea. This place is not too far from the coast. If you throw it in the fish pond, it will be easy to salvage it again. But if you throw it into the sea, unless you have the exact coordinates, it will be difficult to find it in this lifetime. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack."
"Then can you find a way to open this thing?" Lu Shiyu pointed at the metal block and asked, "It seems that there is something inside. That might be the real hidden thing. But I just tried, and I can't find a place to open it."
As Chen Yunliang was fiddling with the metal cube, Yan Hong draped the towel she had used to wipe her hair over her shoulders, looked up, and asked, "Can't we just cut this thing open? Or have the captain melt it?"
Chen Yunliang sighed tiredly and said, "What if the things inside are broken? We are here to open it and take out the things inside, not to damage it. Don't put the cart before the horse."
Yanhong said "oh", took off her shoes and poured out the water inside.
Chen Yunliang looked at it for a long time, but in the end he couldn't figure out what it was, so he handed the metal block back to Lu Shiyu.
"I can't find a way to open it either. You should keep it for now. It's probably something very important. When we have the chance, we can see if we can break it open without damaging the contents."
Lu Shiyu held the box in his hand, at a loss: "If it's something important, why do you want me to keep it?"
Lu Shiyu knew that she was the weakest one in the team, so it was not her turn to keep anything safe, right?
Chen Yunliang turned and left, waving his hand and saying, "Perhaps it would be safer if you kept the things."
Lu Shiyu and Tang Zeyu, one holding a large iron box and the other holding a flower, stood there in confusion. The scene even looked a bit baffling.
Shaoxing Yangjiang felt more comfortable only after he took off all the clothes he could. He threw the clothes that were soaked with water and still wet aside as if he was disgusted. Just when he was about to ask Tang Zeyu to help him light a fire to dry the clothes, he saw Tang Zeyu holding a pink lotus flower in his hand.
"Hey, Captain, when did you go to pick the flowers?"
Shaoxing Yang jumped up and moved to Tang Zeyu's side. When he saw the inside of the flower, his body stiffened instantly. Tang Zeyu turned his head away and without warning brought the lotus flower to a distance of one centimeter from Shaoxing Yang's face.
"What the hell is this!!!"
"Really? Why did you scare him?"
On the way, Yu covered Shaoxing Yang's forehead with a wet towel and looked at Tang Zeyu as if he was wronged.
"I was so frightened that I had a fever."
Tang Zeyu argued, "He had a fever because he was soaked in water, and his underwear was soaked with water. Finally, he took off his clothes and let himself be blown by the cold wind, so he caught a cold."
"And as a member of the exploration team, I'm too timid..."
Tang Zeyu's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he stopped before he finished speaking.
Lu Shiyu glared at Tang Zeyu with dissatisfaction, and handed the clothes on the wooden stick to Yan Hong who was squatting beside him.
"The clothes are already dry, put them on quickly, or you'll catch a cold."
Yan Hong hastily put on her clothes, pointed at the bubbling thing in the soup pot and asked, "What is this?"
"Lotus seed pod soup clears away heat and reduces internal heat, perfect for Shaoxing Yang."
Yan Hong thought she had misheard, so she scratched her ears and asked again uncertainly, "Where did the lotus pod come from?"
Lu Shiyu felt that this question was a bit puzzling: "Where does the lotus pod come from? A lotus pod is just a lotus without its petals."
Yan Hong: “…”
As he spoke, Lu Shiyu lifted the lid of the pot and stirred it with a spoon.
The lotus pod that was cut into four pieces was stirred up and down, and along with it were some coix seed, red dates, and a few small fish. Needless to say, the origin of the small fish was also stirred.
Although Yan Hong had never drunk lotus seed soup before, this pot of soup looked like a witch's poison.
Is this really drinkable?
Yan Hong swallowed subconsciously, but ultimately turned her head away out of fear of the appearance of the soup.
Lu Shiyu poked a hole in the lotus pod with chopsticks. The lotus pod had a hole in it just like a steamed potato. Lu Shiyu then felt that the soup was almost cooked, so he called Shaoxing Yang to drink the soup.
"Um...is dinner ready?"
Shaoxing Yang had just opened his eyes in a daze when a spoonful of warm soup was handed to his mouth. Shaoxing Yang, who was not fully awake yet, drank it subconsciously, and then looked at the others with a confused look on his face.
"We'll have to wait a while for dinner, so have some soup first."
"good……"
The soup bowl was stuffed into Shaoxing Yang's hands, and Lu Shiyu was about to prepare the dishes. When he stood up, he saw Yan Hong who had been looking at him, and asked her if she wanted a bowl too.
"No, no, no! No thanks!" Yan Hong waved her hands quickly and said, "Since it was specially cooked for Shaoxing Yang, let's leave it for him."
Lu Shiyu was about to say that there was still plenty of soup, but Yanhong covered her stomach and said, "Oh, my stomach is so hungry, when will we have dinner?"
Faced with Yan Hong's exaggerated acting skills, Lu Shiyu had to pretend not to notice.
"It will be ready soon, just bear with it for now."
I turned around and started preparing ingredients to make today's dinner.
Seeing that Lu Shiyu was no longer looking in this direction, Yan Hong moved to the side of Shaoxing Yang who was sipping soup. She watched him drink the soup in the bowl one gulp after another and asked, "Is it delicious?"
"Hmm?" Shaoxing Yang looked up and said, "It's quite delicious, sweet. Do you want some?"
"Um, I don't need it," Yan Hong said with a smile, her eyes drifting to the horizon, "I'm just waiting to finish my meal."
"I see."
For some reason, Shaoxing Yang always felt that there was something strange about Yan Hong, but his feverish brain made it impossible for him to think normally. He could feel it but couldn't figure it out.
"It's okay, drink more if you think it tastes good."
Hopefully you won't know what this soup is made of.
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