"Don't worry, it's nothing."
Li Zongmengguan smiled and said, "These kinds of stones have also appeared in the capital. Dean Xu and his team have tested them and found no radiation."
We're not sure yet if it has any special uses. If you can find this kind of stone where you are, please collect it. Once we have some research results, I'll send someone to retrieve it.
Wen Chaohui nodded: "Okay, don't worry, I'll make the arrangements right away, so that everyone can bring back to the base if they come across such a boulder in the future."
"Yes, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, Wen Chaohui went to make the arrangements.
After Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan returned, they remained silent.
After a long while, Shen Yanming said, "I feel that there is something special about that stone."
“I feel the same way, but there’s only one stone, and it’s still in Wen Chaohui’s hands. Even if we wanted to get in touch with it, we couldn’t.”
Bi Qiaoan thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered Miao Ruzong's injured left eye. She asked An'an, "How did Miao Ruzong injure his left eye?"
Shen Yanming was taken aback, then realized what had happened. The child's wound was clearly caused by a hard object; why hadn't he thought of that before?
"I don't know either. I just heard a scream, and when I turned around, I saw that Miao Ruzong's left eye was injured," An'an said.
"Did he fall?" Bi Qiaoan asked.
"No, he was standing. There were a lot of people at the time, and if he had fallen, he would have definitely been trampled. But he didn't say how he got hurt afterwards. I guess he might have been cut by small stones kicked up by the hot air."
Shen Yanming nodded: "Then let's go to the scene of the incident and see if we can find similar stones."
Even so, he didn't take it too seriously. After all, so much time had passed; even if there were stones, they might have been picked up by someone else.
The couple decided to give it a try, so they took their two children out. Returning to the scene of the incident, the four of them split up and began searching the ground.
The sun had already set, leaving only a sliver of afterglow illuminating the earth.
Worried about potential danger, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan dared not stray too far from the two babies. The four of them searched for more than half an hour but still couldn't find them.
Shen Yanming said, "Go back. It's probably just an injury from an ordinary pebble."
An'an felt regretful, but didn't persist. Perhaps it wasn't meant to be.
The family of four went home, ate dinner, and went to bed. In the middle of the night, they were startled awake by a loud bang.
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan changed their clothes and let An'an warm herself up in the space. The couple went out to check together and saw that another building in Area A had had a corner collapsed by the heat. However, this time there were no boulders. After they looked around, they went back inside.
As time passed, the buildings at the Haishi base became riddled with holes from the scorching heat, but the mysterious boulder from before was nowhere to be seen. It was only then that Wen Chaohui learned that such a stone was extremely rare and highly sought after. He wondered what mysterious substance it was that made it so scarce.
After searching for a long time without success, the couple stopped focusing their attention on the base. They would occasionally travel through space to Cloud Spirit Mountain, hoping to try their luck there. However, the area was vast, and their chances of encountering heat were fewer. Three or four months passed, and they still hadn't found a single stone.
The weather is getting colder and colder. Temperatures have dropped from three or four degrees Celsius to minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius. It's warmer than in previous years, but it hasn't returned to normal.
Finally, on New Year's Day, the couple spotted a palm-sized black stone on Jiaqi Mountain near Yunling Mountain. It was similar to the one they had seen before. Since they didn't know the specific function of this kind of stone, the couple put on rubber gloves and stored the stone in their spatial storage.
As soon as Black Stone entered, the couple sensed that the space was different.
Upon closer inspection, Bi Qiaoan exclaimed in surprise, "Honey, I feel like I can control a 100-meter radius around the mountain!"
"This thing really helps with leveling up!" Shen Yanming was also surprised.
"And what about you? Have you seen any changes on your end?"
"The place is a bit too big; now we can even divide the area using our consciousness."
Bi Qiaoan was delighted: "That's great, it seems we'll have to be more diligent."
The couple searched in the mountains for a long time, but after finding nothing, they returned home.
In the days that followed, the couple went out even more often, but Black Stone seemed to be playing hide-and-seek and disappeared without a trace.
That day, the couple was cooking at home when they heard a "rumbling" sound.
What followed was an earthquake. Just as An'an and Nuannuan reached Bi Qiao'an's side, the entire building collapsed.
Shen Yanming quickly put the two treasures into his spatial storage, but he and Bi Qiaoan were already buried under the rubble.
Fortunately, the sofa and stove were sturdy enough to form a triangular area with the collapsed floorboards upstairs, protecting the couple inside. However, with the scalding hot food poured over her ankles, Bi Qiaoan felt as if her very soul was steaming.
Shen Yanming didn't waste any time. After confirming that he couldn't get out anytime soon, he carried his wife into the space.
An'an and Nuannuan were terrified, but they couldn't get out and could only worry anxiously. Seeing their father carrying their mother in, they quickly went to the bathroom and kitchen to get basins and spring water to clean Bi Qiao'an's wounds.
"I'm fine, I just got burned." Bi Qiaoan smiled and touched An'an's head despite the pain: "We've finally gone through something together, this burn really hurts."
"Mom, I'm a tough guy, a little burn won't hurt me. But you're such a delicate girl, how can you bear this kind of pain!"
Bi Qiaoan: "..." Who taught you this weird tune?
Turning to look at Shen Yanming, I saw Old Shen nod: "That's right, how can boys be compared to girls!"
Bi Qiaoan: "I'm already in my thirties." She felt quite embarrassed when people called her a girl.
"No matter how old she is, she'll always be a little girl in my heart," Shen Yanming said, having already treated the burn on Bi Qiaoan's ankle.
Since it was just a regular burn, it was much easier to treat than An'an's burn.
Shen Yanming's burn ointment was a good product; it relieved the pain quickly after application.
"Luckily you were wearing thick clothes, and your skin isn't particularly sensitive, otherwise it would definitely have become red and blistered, and it wouldn't have healed for a long time."
Bi Qiaoan said, feeling wronged, "At least try to comfort me!"
Shen Yanming chuckled and patted his wife's head: "Cough, it's alright. Ah, we still have to deal with things outside. We can't just stay inside all the time."
Bi Qiaoan's face froze. The thought of the sub-zero temperatures outside, and the uncertainty of how long she would have to stay there, made her want to cry.
"Well, let's just stay in this space until the search and rescue team arrives, then we can go out."
Shen Yanming thought about it and agreed. However, he added, "We need to wait in the storage area, otherwise we won't be able to get there in a while and we'll be exposed."
An'an and Nuan Nuan nodded, and the family of four went to the storage area. Because they might have to go out at any moment, they didn't dare change their clothes. They simply took off their cotton coats and sat around the coffee table.
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