Chapter 46: Monsters
"Zhao, it's great that you can come. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Ricciardo quickly helped the five men put their few bags in the car, and quickly drove out of the airport to his laboratory on the outskirts of the city.
"Is this your student?"
"Hello Dr. Ricardo, I'm a student of Mr. Zhao, Ju Fan."
Ju Fan introduced himself, and introduced Xiao Wen and the three of them by the way.
"Oh, Ju, Dr. Zhao always mentions you in front of me. I've read your article, it's great and thoughtful! To be honest, I got a lot out of your article, which I didn't expect at first. "Ricardo was clearly a man of many words, and he kept telling them what they knew along the way.
"After observing for so many years, it is not uncommon for meteorites to fall into the lake. It's just that most meteorites are made of rock and iron, and although there are some trace elements that are valuable for research, they are not very rare, but this time the situation is different.
The meteorite was extremely massive, and it was very difficult to collect, and it fell to the bottom of the lake, which made it even more difficult for us to salvage. ”
As he spoke, the car had already driven out of the city and into a small road with a strong rural atmosphere. It is said to be a trail, but the speed of the car does not slow down due to the scarcity of vehicles.
At this point, the sky is not completely dark, and the sun in Portugal is still very strong. On both sides of the road, there are faintly terraced rice fields, large areas are connected together, and the bright green color makes people look relaxed, and occasionally you can see a few rabbits or pheasants leisurely jumping on the edge of the fields, and from time to time pecking two mouthfuls on the ground.
"Ricardo, this place is really nice. No wonder the University of Coimbra didn't ask you to go, it turned out that I would have chosen this way if I hid in such a beautiful place. Zhao Youshu looked at the scenery on the side of the road, and his expression was slightly longing.
"Haha, Dr. Zhao, I said a long time ago, you can come to me at any time after retirement, and the environment here is honestly much stronger than your F big laboratory."
While talking and laughing, the six of them had already arrived at their destination.
"I'll show you the meteorite samples and the experimental data we have obtained, and tomorrow morning we will set off for the field in Mount Lothar, where there is still a huge energy reaction." As soon as Ricardo walked into the lab, he immediately switched to working mode.
Zhao Youshu and Ju Fan quickly followed Ricardo, and Xiao Wen and Ali Zhou Yawen didn't understand those professional data, so they first observed the layout of this laboratory with great interest.
It is said that it is a laboratory, but in fact, it can almost be described as an experimental base. The hall alone is three hundred square meters, and there are all kinds of machines arranged, and the large and small screens are full of ripples and numbers.
Ricardo waved at Xiao Wen and them, with a smile: "Come over quickly, three, we will enter the elevator in a while, you should get lost." ”
"The machines on there are all used to receive our observations, connected to external receivers." Ricardo gave a brief introduction, led the five people to a door, swiped the card and scanned the fingerprints, and the electric door quickly moved to both sides.
"It's so advanced, it's like making a movie, but aren't there iris scans in movies?" Zhou Yawen muttered.
"What?" Ricardo couldn't understand Chinese and asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, nothing." Looking at the strange eyes of the people around her, Zhou Yawen waved her hand again and again, her face was slightly red.
"Originally, these samples were going to be shipped downstairs, but they were so heavy that we tried them and decided to put them here."
"How much do these stones weigh?" Seeing Ricardo repeatedly mention the weight of the stone, Ali finally couldn't help but ask.
Ricardo thought for a moment and made a fist: "In layman's terms, the weight of such a large piece is almost a little five tons, which is about the same as a car." ”
Xiao Wen and the three of them were prepared, and they were almost shocked to bite their tongues.
"So heavy?" Zhou Yawen exclaimed, what is the concept of a fist-sized stone as heavy as a car?
"It's just a metaphor, in fact, a few cubic centimeters in size, the weight can be added or subtracted by hundreds of kilograms." Ricardo said solemnly, "I've never seen anything on Earth weigh so much. ”
It's better to hear than to see, Xiao Wen finally saw the true face of these meteorites. The gray-gray stone looks like limestone, but unlike the countless holes on the surface of the limestone, the surface of this stone is very fine and extremely smooth.
Circling around the stone specimens, these specimens are all irregular in shape, but without exception the surfaces are all very round and smooth, without broken sharp edges and corners.
"These don't feel like they're broken naturally, they feel like...
"It's like it's been polished over and over again. Is that right? Immediately picking up the conversation, Ricardo wandered with his hands on the keyboard and called up a set of data: "After analysis, most of this meteorite was consumed by the friction of the atmosphere, and the rest of the meteorite should have fallen into the lake as a whole before splitting into fragments." ”
"It's not impossible for a meteorite of this density to break after impact, right?" Xiao Wen's English is also level 4, so he can only ask Ali to help translate.
Ricardo said: "The truth is true, but with such a huge mass, the so-called rigidity is only relative, I am afraid that except for itself, there is no natural force in this world that can divide it in such a short time!" ”
"What do you mean?" Zhao Youshu's eyelids jumped, and he glanced at Ju Fan.
"If you look at the data of these stones, we have compared them and found a terrible phenomenon. Their size, weight, and shape change in a tiny amount every once in a while, as if they are in, as if they are breathing! ”
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Ricardo was just about to drive the car to the lake, when Xiao Wen suddenly said, "Dr. Ricardo, please don't drive to the lake, park the car at the intersection." ”
When Ricardo heard about Xiao Wen's experience, he almost immediately thought that it might be related to this strange meteorite, and he immediately stopped the car: "Have you thought of something?" ”
Xiao Wen described the scene of Ricardo talking to Zhao Youshu on the phone, and Ricardo was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"Looking at the calm appearance of this lake, I really can't imagine that such a terrible thing will happen." Ju Fan couldn't help but say: "There are too many things in the universe that we can't understand, and we must have a heart of awe when dealing with science." ”
Ricardo looked at the lush mountains in the distance, still incredulous: "It's all terrible, we have to stop those two climbers, they're going to die." ”
"Wait, what's that?"
Following the direction of Zhou Yawen's hand, a group of six people clearly saw a few milky white "people" about a hundred meters away, with their backs bent, a pair of long arms hanging in front of them, blood-red eyes, staring at them deadly!