Chapter 2: Extraterrestrial Visitors

After breakfast, the sun was already out.

Xu Ziling sat with his grandfather and grandmother under the big tree in the courtyard and chatted.

Grandma said, "Ling Yanzi, your mother called last night and said that your college entrance examination results will come out tomorrow." I told you to go back today. ”

I should have turned off my mobile phone when I went hunting last night, and my mother couldn't get through to her phone, so she called the landline at home. Xu Ziling replied while thinking, "Oh, it's so good." ”

"Are you sure? I heard your mother say that your first and second choices are both applied to military schools, and I heard that military schools have high scores. Three generations of our family are counting on you as a college student. Grandma said with a little complaint. I really don't understand, your grandfather, your father, and now you are there, why do three generations like to be soldiers? ”

"What's so bad about being a soldier? You old woman, you know what. Ling Lingzi, grandpa, I support you. ”

"If you're sure, you'll definitely be able to get in, don't worry, grandma!" Xu Ziling saw that his grandfather was like an old child, and he was about to have a red neck with his grandmother, so he hurriedly played a round.

Xu Ziling likes to be a soldier, although he was influenced by his grandfather and father, in fact, there is a big secret in his heart that is the biggest reason why he went to the military academy.

Two years ago, at this time, Xu Ziling was 17 years old, and he returned to his hometown in the countryside to accompany his grandparents during the summer vacation from school. That night, he went out hunting alone as usual. The location of that time was a Taoist temple on the halfway side of the Lion Rock that I don't know how many years had been abandoned, and according to my grandfather, when he was young, the Taoist temple had been dilapidated. However, from my grandfather's predecessors, in the last dynasty, this Taoist incense was very vigorous. All of them are famous. It's just that I don't know when and for what reason, the Taoist temple began to slowly fall down, and there was no one after the end. And now, the Taoist temple has been shaking in the wind and rain for I don't know how many years, and there are only a few ruins and green bricks paved on the ground to show its former glory and the vicissitudes of history.

He had a modified miner's lamp on his head, a mountain knife in his hand, and an old shotgun from his grandfather. Xu Ziling walked for two hours and finally arrived at the old Taoist temple. From the stone pillars that have never fallen down until now, it can be vaguely seen that this is the former mountain gate of the Taoist temple. Walking into the mountain gate, there is the vestibule of the Taoist temple, a vacant land of hundreds of square meters paved with green bricks. Long grasses grew in the gaps between the bricks, and there were a few pine trees that had taken root and grown out of the bushes when they were blown or thrown here by birds. The rabbits here are the most abundant in the season, because of the nameless grass that grows under the bushes at this time, and there is a small spring on the side that has been diverted by the long rain. The rabbits like to come here to feed on the grass and drink water.

I took a few ropes from the bag I was carrying, used a few relatively large branches in the bushes to make a few sleeves under the bushes using the method taught by my grandfather, and put them under the bushes. I took out a few soybean seedlings from the bag and sprinkled them on top of the sleeve. Then I made two sets by the mountain spring in the same way. It looks like it's still early, and those animals won't come out so early. "Let's go get some sleep first, anyway, wild animals usually come out much in the second half of the night." Xu Ziling thought to himself, and then walked to the Taoist temple, found a corner that had not completely collapsed, and cleaned it a little. Then he took out his grandfather's self-made snake repellent from herbs and sprinkled it around. The gun was loaded with gunpowder and put aside. He took out a small roll of cotton thread, and made a cordon with a distance of more than ten meters from the thatch growing from the ground, tied one end to the grass by the wall, and the other piece of grass passed under the wall on this side, and the end was wrapped around his fingers. In this way, as long as any animal is close, it will inevitably hit the line, so even if you are asleep, you will wake up, although Lion Rock has never seen other large animals except wild boars in recent decades, but it is better to be careful. I picked up a few large tiles scattered around and put them on the corner of the wall with green bricks, so that a small space of about 2.3 square meters was collected between the corner and the tiles. Xu Ziling picked up the bag and put it in the corner, sat on the ground with his back against the bag, put the gun in his arms, wrapped the cord used for warning around his tail finger, tightened his clothes, and rested with his eyes closed.

Although it was a scorching June season, the night in the mountains and forests quickly cooled down. The cool breeze that blew from time to time between the ruins and broken walls, and Xu Ziling quickly fell asleep in the undulating sound of insects chirping from each other.

Time always flies quickly, and soon after midnight, the insects in the mountains and forests are still chirping hard. Suddenly, the cordon was slowly straightened, and his fingers were moved. Xu Ziling, who was asleep, immediately opened his eyes and grasped the shotgun in his arms with both hands. Standing up cautiously, in the moonlight, I looked at the large tiles in front of me, and there was an animal about ten meters in front. "It's a roe deer." Xu Ziling, who likes to read animal encyclopedias, saw it at a glance.

"How can there be roe deer in our place, aren't all roe deer in the north?" Xu Ziling thought to himself.

I suddenly remembered that when I was chatting with my grandfather during the day, my grandfather said that there were people in the next village who raised roe deer to produce incense to sell, and it seemed that they ran away because they didn't take care of them half a year ago.

"It must be a roe deer from the next village, and the artificially raised roe deer have all been knifed, and they have no reproductive ability, so let's talk about it." Xu Ziling thought to himself.

Holding the gun, he raised the tiles in front of him and aimed at the roe deer about ten meters in front. The trigger was pulled, and with a "bang", the roe deer fell in response. But within two seconds, the roe deer got up again and quickly ran towards the Taoist temple. It turned out that the shotgun Xu Ziling used was still the earthen gun that his grandfather had been using for a long time, and he usually hunted pheasants, rabbits or something. Once you want to fight big wild things, you have to add gunpowder and solid bullets, this time Xu Ziling only wants to hunt a few rabbits, so he is loaded with small steel balls. If you can't kill the roe deer, that's for sure. However, at a distance of more than ten meters, the power of the small steel ball is also very great, and it is estimated that the roe deer is also seriously injured and can't run far.

didn't have time to think about it, Xu Ziling put the gun on the wall, picked up the mountain opening knife, and chased it into the Taoist temple by the moonlight. After chasing dozens of meters, I came to the innermost part of the Taoist temple, and it seems that this was once a lodging room. Here is the mountain forest behind the Taoist temple, see the roe deer limping to the direction of the mountain forest, only a few meters to arrive, he is still seven or eight meters away from the roe deer, not to mention that there is a wall in the middle of the fallen general. It must not be able to catch up, if it is allowed to run in the mountains and forests, the firewood is so deep, it will be difficult to find, Xu Ziling was suddenly anxious.

Without thinking about it, Xu Ziling stopped suddenly, stood on the spot and jumped up violently, and the mountain knife in his hand shook the roe deer who ran up the slope and was about to enter the forest. Throwing out the knife, the strength was exhausted, Xu Ziling's feet fell heavily to the ground, but he didn't expect that at this time, he suddenly changed. Where his feet landed, the ground paved with blue bricks collapsed suddenly, and a black hole appeared.

The body and the broken bricks fell down together, Xu Ziling's heart was blank, and his right hand reflexively grabbed the ground at the entrance of the cave, but he didn't expect that the green bricks that had been loosened around the cave fell down with the person due to the strong inertia generated when the body fell down, and the body that originally fell straight down also fell head up and back down because of the instantaneous traction when the hand grabbed the ground. In the dark, I only felt a shock from my back, and then there was a "click" like something breaking, and Xu Ziling fainted. In a few consecutive "clicks", the body finally hit the ground, if Xu Ziling is awake now, he will find that the place under the hole turned out to be a small house, and on one side of the house was a row of wooden shelves, which fell right in the middle of the wooden shelves. The shelves had decayed over time, and the layers of wooden planks on top of them just cushioned the force of the body falling down. Look at the ground is four or five meters away from the entrance of the cave, if you fall directly, you will definitely be seriously injured.

After the cushioning of several layers of wooden boards, when Xu Ziling fell to the ground before the last plank, there was not much impact, and when the last plank broke and fell on the ground, there was a rebound, making his body turn in a direction of one hundred and eighty degrees, turning into a four-legged lying on the ground, and the hand that was cut by the green brick because he had just fallen to the ground also smashed a dull stone about the size of a fist.

At this time, a strange scene happened, the blood flowing on his hand was instantly absorbed by the black stone under the palm of his hand, and slowly the stone showed a slight light, as more and more blood flowed out of Xu Ziling's hand was absorbed by the stone, the light became more and more vigorous.

Suddenly, a mechanical voice appeared in the void.

"Discovering DNA...... Binding DNA ......"

System Self-Test..... Lost ..... weapons repository Network subsystem corruption..... The medical subsystem is partially damaged.... The simulation optimization system is intact ....."

"The host is slightly injured.... Activate the medical subsystem..... "At this time, Xu Ziling's hand was wrapped in a soft light, and the wound on his hand healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after ten seconds, except for some blood scabs and dust, his hand was the same as before he was injured. There was not a single slight scar.

"Done."

"Vectors were found on the host..... Transfer vector ....."

"Warning..... Low energy! Warn..... Low energy! Go to hibernation .... Please recharge the host as soon as possible. When the light moved out of the stone, passed through Xu Ziling's right hand, and transferred to the electronic watch on his left hand, a hurried voice sounded.

After a "drop", the small room fell silent. Silence returns.