Chapter 329: Not an Illusion(1/2)
Mike said I heard the illusion again and said that I must watch me and don’t be plotted against by the evildoers.
But he didn't know that it was not me who was being plotted against now, nor Chen Qinghan. It seemed that the black hand was plotted against because it screamed too badly.
I guessed that Chen Qinghan should be fine, so I didn't rush to see if there were any handprints behind him.
Time passed little by little, and as soon as the rest time came, Chen Qinghan asked everyone to pack up and prepare to set off.
The black hand did not appear again, and Mike seemed to be unwilling to give up and followed me when he set off again.
Dr. Du and Wang Le were walking in the same row, Huang Zaijiang was in front of them, and Chen Qinghan decided to continue to move towards the city center. He said that since it was a trouble that could not be avoided, he might as well meet it.
If Chen Qinghan told me what he said to me, he would be afraid that they would be in trouble, so he would only secretly tell me one person. After all, my psychological endurance is different from that of normal people.
For example, I know that every building, every street, and every corner of this ancient city is hidden, and they have been silently monitoring us, and they don’t feel any discomfort in their hearts.
In the streets we walked and the houses we had spent, evil spirits lurked everywhere, and sometimes we might just sit in front of them or beside them.
They are like parts of the city, like bricks and tiles, and exist in every corner and have become one with the ancient city.
But these things are not murals, they are living things. If Dr. Du knew that she was convenient, an evil spirit would squat behind her and stare at her, and would not has her separated and die.
Of course, Chen Qinghan didn't say that the main reason was that he didn't want to alarm the evil spirits. The whole city was filled with evil spirits. They were just "surveillance" now. If they alarmed them and surrounded them together, we are not enough to stuff their teeth.
Chen Qinghan also wanted to know why they were just staring at us and doing small movements like clapping hands.
It is useless to call them evil spirits, and so many people come in, without returning. If they say they have good intentions to us, only fools will believe it.
Since you don’t have good intentions, why not take action?
Just because he wanted to find out the reason, Chen Qinghan pretended not to see them and observed them in turn.
Xiaohong and Gu who joined the team halfway through were gone. I was not worried about Xiaohong. Gu's disappearance didn't seem to be in danger. Judging from what Wang Le meant, he seemed to have found an excuse to run away.
When we entered the desert, we were only a few of us. Now the staff remained unchanged, the fog had not dissipated, and the visibility was only two meters. We left the hut and walked towards the city center. Not far away, Wang Le recognized the yard where he had a dinner and pointed it out to us.
It was a house that looked a bit like a courtyard house. The door was open and it was quietly inside. Huang Zaijiang proposed to go in and take a look. What if he could find evidence that what Wang Le saw was not an illusion.
In this situation, we cannot act separately. It is convenient for a team of several people to step up the steps and enter the main entrance of the mansion.
There are eight stone tables in the front yard, with basins, bowls, plates, and small jars of all sizes. They may be used for drinking and drinks. At first glance, the yard looks like it is holding a banquet.
But when I got closer, I saw that the bowls and bowls were either insects or grass, or soil and mud. The liquid in the jar was turbid and smelly.
Seeing this, Wang Le wanted to vomit again, so Huang Zaijiang told him to turn around and turn his back to the "chef" to make him lose his eyes and stomach.
Some of the bowls are full, while most of the bowls and plates are almost empty, leaving only some bases. Wang Le can't eat so much, and there are eight tables. He is not a big eater. Besides, eating dirt and mud is so hungry, so these dark foods are definitely not eaten by one person.
The dining plate on the table was not overturned, and there were no broken tableware on the ground. Wang Le said that he saw the two groups fighting, but after thinking about it, he could not remember the details.
"The things are still on the table, it seems that they are his hallucinations." Mike looked at the 'food' on the table and spoke to the conclusion.
Wang Le said that when the two gangs fought, they swept all the food to the ground. He felt it wasted, so he grabbed a plate of sea cucumbers and thought to have to choose expensive rescue.
But at this time we saw that the food was placed on the table, the ground was clean, and the "food" in the bowls and plates did not sprinkle on the ground.
"It may be someone who cleaned it up," said Huang Zaijiang.
Not to mention whether anyone has ever tried it, just the "food" arrangement of this table requires someone to do it.
The insects that Wang Le ate were very fresh, as if they had just been dug out of the soil, and the insects were still covered with mud.
So the "food" in the yard cannot be something that was originally available. Who prepared such a sumptuous meal for him?
Mike said that it might have been dug out by Wang Le himself in his hallucination, but he just doesn't remember it.
Wang Le immediately denied it, saying that he had watched the people come up with his own eyes, and he had been sitting next to the yard and never had it.
The stone table is placed in the open-air yard, with dust on the table top. If the bowls and plates are placed on it, a circle of round marks will be printed. Looking at this mark, you will know that the plates and bowls have just been placed on the table, because there is also dust in the round marks.
Mike disagreed: "Maybe it was you who put it on yourself."
Wang Le was anxious now, "It must be not me. If you don't believe me, look at my hands!"
Wang Le stretched out his hands, and he moved his fingers, letting us look at his nails.
His nails were neatly trimmed, but they never cut them after entering the desert. They were a little longer. If he grew dirt, even if he wiped his hands afterwards, the mud in his nails would easily be ignored.
Mike looked at Wang Le's nails, there was no dirt inside, but he shook his head: "Have you checked the shovel?"
Each of our equipment includes a folding shovel, because it goes deep into the desert, tents, cars, and even people, which may be buried in the sand and need to be cleaned.
Wang Le carried his shovel with him on his back. He took out his hand and let us see that there was no soil on the shovel's head.
"I believe it this time?" Huang Zaijiang said with some dissatisfaction.
"I just want to prove whether he had hallucinations, which is very important to each of us," Mike said.
"Now, that's not his illusion. Someone brought him here and prepared a big meal. Don't be suspicious of any hallucinations. Someone wants to confuse us." Huang Zaijiang said in a raised voice.
His words were said to all of us, and Dr. Du continued: "The same is true for handprints. It cannot be an hallucination. I think there is something that has the ability to invisible."
Dr. Du's speculation is closest to the facts. It is not accurate to say that invisibility is actually. It should be said that the "evil spirit" has the ability to confuse our brains and eyes, so that we can turn a blind eye to them.
Of course, Chen Qinghan said that they squat in the wall or lie on the ceiling, and their invisibility is to integrate into the environment and architecture, and unless they are willing, we cannot touch them at all.
Mike once saw Ou Chen in the wall. Could it be that he has also become an evil spirit?
If a person can be transformed into an evil spirit, is the cowboy hat disguised as an evil spirit of a normal person?
Mike could not refute it, and could only accept Dr. Du and Huang Zaijiang's statement. In fact, when he said that this caused hallucination and that caused hallucination, it was really proved that it was not an hallucination. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked relieved.
Hallucinations are always a big knot in his heart, or the thing he fears the most. They can prove that the hallucinations do not exist and their psychological burden will be reduced a lot.
The people present have experienced bizarre and strange things to a greater extent and encountered strange creatures.
After Dr. Du said that he was invisible, Huang Zaijiang thought for a while and said, "I have seen a creature that has the same ability as a chameleon."
Wang Le immediately said: "I have encountered a plant that releases fragrance that can make people hallucinate, make people fall into illusions with their thoughts, and finally get trapped at its feet to provide it with nutrients."
The more Mike listened, his expression became more relaxed, and it was obvious that accepting the animals and plants would make him feel better.
However, Wang Le and Huang Zaijiang only proposed a way of thinking, not that the evil spirit is really a chameleon or a man-eating flower.
It is just another kind of living organism with similar functions. It is my understanding that life and death are life.
I have never seen something immortal. Even when my energy is exhausted or the heart is aging and decaying, I will die one day.
When Chen Qinghan saw that I was in a daze, he asked me what I was thinking. He asked me tactfully if I had ever heard of such creatures.
I think he wanted to ask whether such living things existed in our era.
"I haven't heard of it. They may be the new life forms that have originated from the roots."
"What do you think is that light source?" Huang Zaijiang mentioned that his eyes shined, and it was obvious that he was very interested in the core of the universe.
"Maybe it is an energy body," Mike said.
The higher-ups are willing to send us here. Isn’t it because there are things they are interested in in the Death Desert? Modern people can see the people and cars on the ground clearly with satellites. Maybe they have used satellites to see the luminous body in the center of the ancient city.
It just needs someone to come in to confirm, after all, Wei De can see it, but can't touch it.
This thing must be close to know what it is and to further study it. Unfortunately, so far, no one has successfully left after getting close to it.
"Will there be radiation?" Wang Le asked.
"This... is not known radiation at least." Mike has a mechanical box in his backpack with lots of numeric symbols and small buttons.
Every time he walked, he would take it out and fiddle with it a few times. I only knew what this should be a device for checking, but I didn't know what it was specifically tested.
His most recent test was when he was just resting. He took out the box and looked at it for a while. He also went to the door and pointed the box into the direction of the city center for two minutes.
There is a probe that can be pulled out, like an antenna, in front of the box, and this device is like a large radio.
Since he said there was no conventional radiation, it was measured, but what we approached was unknown. Without conventional radiation, it does not mean there is no fatal danger.
Everyone present knew this, so the expression did not relax.
After chatting in the yard for a while, the fog in the city dissipated a little, and Chen Qinghan called us to continue on the way.
After walking for about ten minutes, an obstacle similar to a roadblock appeared ahead, blocking the road.
It was as high as my neck, and it was said to be a roadblock because it blocked the road. In fact, it was a row of stone slabs, or stone walls, with metal signs hanging on them and geometric figures.
We have seen the "station sign" on underground traffic lines. Now when we see this sign, we can think about the purpose of the roadblock. Even if we don't recognize words and cannot understand the graphics, we can guess its meaning, just like a warning sign that is prohibited from passing.
This ancient city has a history of ten thousand years. The time it is underground alone can be confirmed for thousands of years. This is useless to prove it.
But many things are preserved very well, such as the stone houses on the periphery of the city, which are just painted, or the door panels are corroded, and the main structure is well preserved. The tracks and station signs of the traffic line, and they look at their status. I believe it even if the ancient city has just been abandoned for a year.
The evil spirits, useless, cowboy hats all want us to go downtown, and they are unlikely to set up this obstacle to stop us from moving forward.
Besides, the roadblocks of this level could not stop us, so this time our team finally agreed that the roadblocks were set up by the ancestors of the ancient city.
In other words, the initial "leakage" incident may have spread to the entire city in the city center, with the city center as a dot.
Chen Qinghan first looked over to check the situation, and then he asked us to go there without finding any abnormalities.
I was at the end of the team, and I jumped until they all flipped over, but when I jumped over, there was no one inside.
Hey??What's going on?
"Chen Qinghan? Doctor Du - Mike!" I couldn't find anyone in front of me, so I quickly looked at the ground. They must have footprints when they turned over.
As a result, the ground was clean, no, the dust on the ground was flat and there was no trace of being stepped on. There were only my own footprints on the ground.
To be continued...