Ge Pang and the two said goodbye to Dai Mingdao because they were still busy with their own affairs, and drove back, but Dai Mingdao did not keep them, and gave them cigarettes and alcohol to express their gratitude.

After everyone found a homestay to stay, the girls all ran to Demingdao's room to inquire about Demingdao's discovery. They haven't been with Dai Mingdao for a day or two, and judging from Dai Mingdao's facial expressions just now, he must have discovered something that others didn't find.

There are no outsiders here, and Dai Mingdao revealed: "I'm not sure if this stone is the thing I think it is, but I have analyzed the following points through what Li Lei's village party secretary said, and you can guess what the stone is according to these tips."

Tip 1: When the stone appears, a certain range of space is black;

Tip 2: People in the village are normal during the day and have symptoms of sleepwalking at night;

Tip 3: Broken stones will spray black mist, and people who fall into black fog will become vegetative;

Tip 4: The stone will be automatically restored after it is damaged;

Tip 5: Stone has the effect of healing and longevity;

Tip 6: The investigation team tested it and said it was just a stone. ”

"What are you doing this old traitor, there are no outsiders here, just tell us! Please, Brother Mingdao! An learned from Meng Yuanyun's appearance to perform coquettish Dafa, hugged Dai Mingdao's neck and arched in his arms, and Dai Mingdao immediately disarmed and surrendered. He mysteriously lowered his voice and said, "Based on the above four prompts, I have drawn four conclusions:

1. There must be a direct relationship between black fog and black stone;

Second, the black stone has the characteristics of day and night;

3. The stone is just a crystalline body similar to an egg, and the black fog inside is the focus;

4. In what way does the effect of the stone act on the human body?

5. What is a living thing and what is not a living thing? The universe is so big, and the forms of existence of living things are so strange that we can't use the characteristics of the creatures on the earth to apply them to the creatures on other planets. Wound healing should be one of the characteristics of living beings, right?

I suspect that this stone is a very special alien creature. ”

"Really?" The women were shocked.

"Whether it's true or not, won't we know if we put this stone away at night!?" Demingdao said with a smile.

"At night, we all went to sleep and sleepwalked, how can we collect stones?" Li Lifei asked.

"This sleepwalking thing is related to this stone at first glance. So why do the people who live here sleepwalk? In the final analysis, it is because the mental power of ordinary people is in an undeveloped state, and what if this stone can emit a certain frequency of electromagnetic waves to hypnotize and control these ordinary people? And you are all people who have been strengthened by 'forging body fluids', and your physical strength and mental strength are much stronger than ordinary people, and I estimate that this kind of mental attack will be ineffective against you. Demingdao explained, "Even if the ** is controlled, it's not a big deal, just a good night's sleep, and it's all good and harmless, isn't it?" What's more, I'm here, if any of you don't want to be controlled tell me in advance, wouldn't it be okay if I woke her up? ”

After listening to Dai Mingdao's assurance, everyone was relieved, and groups of three or five went downstairs to eat delicious farm dishes and taste delicious crucian carp soup with the host's family.

After a full meal and wine, everyone got together again and began to share the spoils. These pieces of jade are used to create an ultra-luxurious bath, and of course they must be handed over to Deming Dao for safekeeping; There are good and bad things in the antique street, and one person picks three pieces, each according to his vision and luck.

Meng Yuanyun's eyes were quick, so she picked out three things, leaned over to Dai Mingdao's side and whispered, "Brother Mingdao, what do you think of my three treasures?" ”

Dai Mingdao just wanted to speak, but An was the first to refuse, and shouted: "Mingdao, you can't favor one over the other!" Also, Sister Xiaoyun's cheating is a bad behavior, and if she catches it, she will spank her ass! ”

Meng Yuanyun knew that she was at a loss, so she grimaced at An, and no longer pestered Dai Mingdao, and sat back in her place directly.

After everyone picked out their favorite little things, Demingdao put away the rest. Then everyone began to practice every day, waiting for the middle of the night to come.

The full moon hangs high. Dai Mingdao was the first to wake up from his cultivation state. He was awakened by the sound of the door opening downstairs. "Well, it's almost time......" he stood up and walked to the window, gently parting the curtains, and through the window he saw that the road outside the house was full of figures in the bright moonlight. Some of these people were wearing their usual clothes, and some were wearing pajamas, but without exception, they all slowly moved towards the location of the "Black Gold Divine Stone" with their eyes closed, silent and orderly, and the process was very strange.

Demingdao's movements woke up the girls who were cultivating with him. They also stood up silently and approached the window, staring at the strange scene outside the window, like a hundred ghosts walking at night, and they all stretched out their hands to cover their mouths, not daring to make a sound. The well-informed ones quickly stabilized their emotions and took out their mobile phones to start recording.

Deming Dao's group had the shallowest cultivation, and she began to be in a trance when she recorded it, and she couldn't hold her mobile phone drowsily, and slowly turned around and walked in the direction of the door.

The sound of the phone falling to the ground startled the rest of the room. When the girls looked back, they saw Ann's strange behavior and quickly rushed over to hug her. Mu Xiaodie stretched out her hand and slapped two slaps past, and the two "pops" were crisp and loud, directly waking up An Hu.

"Can't you just tap? How can I see people if my face is swollen? An rubbed her little face and complained to Mu Xiaodie.

"Hehehe, I'm afraid I won't wake you up, I'm really embarrassed to start a little harder." Mu Xiaodie said apologies rarely, and then asked, "Why did you sleepwalk just now while patting?" ”

"I don't know, just now I thought it was like something was whispering in my ear, and then I started to get sleepy, and then I didn't know anything." Ann recalled.

"This should be a kind of spiritual inducement. However, the strength is not very strong, and there are some cultivators and strong-willed people who can be immune. Deming Dao touched his chin and said, "Now that the time is almost up, let's go to the 'Black Gold Divine Stone' to have a look." ”

The group came out of the B&B, and did not follow the sleepwalking crowd to move slowly on the main road, but picked some sheep intestine trails to make a detour and soon came to the outside of the wall of the "Sacred Stone Temple". The wall is not high, just over two meters, and with the ability of everyone, they climbed up in three or two clicks.

They sat on the fence and took out their mobile phones to take pictures of the square. At this time, the huge square was already crowded with people. These sleepwalkers stood in a circle around the sacred stone, and it was evident from their clothing that the inner circle was full of tourists dressed in everyday clothes, and the outer circle was full of local villagers in pajamas and pants.

Once all the sleepwalkers had arrived, everyone began to writhe at the same time, looking like a group of tribal wizards performing a ritual around the totem pole. Although their movements vary, the frequency of their writhing movements is roughly synchronized overall. It's a pity that there is no musical accompaniment here, otherwise the sense of ritual would be stronger.

The sleepwalkers jumped for about five minutes before gradually stopping, and then slowly turned around and left the square in an orderly manner, and walked towards their respective quarters.

"Did you see that?" Demingdao asked a little inexplicably.

"I only saw that they were all dancing, and I didn't see anything else. Brother Mingdao, what are you asking? Meng Yuanyun replied curiously.

"I haven't seen anything strange...... everyone shook their heads, indicating that they hadn't found anything.

"Maybe it's too dark here, and it's normal that you didn't notice it." Deming Dao touched his chin and said in a deep voice: "I saw that this stone stretched out countless almost transparent tentacles connected to the top of all the sleepwalkers' heads, and then those people began to dance the gods. After five minutes, the tentacles left the top of their heads, and they stopped, then turned and went back. ”

"So disgusting?" As soon as everyone heard the word "tentacles", they reflexively got goosebumps all over their bodies.

"Not all tentacles are disgusting things, okay, squid shreds are delicious......" Deming Dao complained and went straight to the point: "Now I can already be sure that this so-called 'Black Gold Divine Stone' is a creature." Combined with the features I had summarized that night, I found that this stone matched the characteristics of a creature very well. ”

"What creature?" Everyone came over and asked curiously.

"Shadow Star Beast!" Deming Dao slowly reported the name of such a creature unique to Predas.

"Isn't the Shadow Star Beast one of those huge, disembodied creatures, and what does it have to do with this stone?" Mu Xiaodie didn't believe such an outrageous thing, "You wouldn't mean that this stone is the egg of the Shadow Star Beast, right?" ”

"No, if it is an egg, once it is destroyed, the contents will leak out, and the life in the egg will gradually become inactive and eventually die. But judging from the performance of this stone, it repaired the damage on its own, and did not show any signs of losing its vitality. Dai Mingdao shook his head and denied Mu Xiaodie's judgment.

"The reason why Shadow Star Beasts are considered disembodied is because they are so large, they tend to be larger than a planet, and their weight is almost negligible compared to their size. But what if they weren't disembodied but gaseous beings? Deming said in a surprising voice: "Let's take a look at the characteristics of the Shadow Star Beasts that we know so far: they are huge, afraid of light, disembodied, like to hide in the dark side of the planet, and have few numbers. I don't even know what they eat, so I think their research is very unreliable. ”

"Let's recall what Li Lei said: first the sky suddenly darkened, and I couldn't see my five fingers, and then the black stone appeared; If someone destroys the stone, a black mist will appear, and the next day the stone will return to its original state, and so on. The most important of these things is that these things happen during the day. Demingdao concluded: "We can assume that a long time ago, a Shadow Star Beast came to Earth for some unknown reason. With its usual habits, it will definitely run to the night side of the earth to stay, but for some reason it can't move freely, so it falls straight from space here. But it was daytime, and the light-fearing Shadow Star Beast shrunk its body into a ball to protect itself, so that it could survive with very little sunlight. Let's imagine how much a gas bigger than a planet should weigh when it is condensed to such a small size. Not to mention one person, even hundreds or thousands of people can't move it. ”

"Although your hypothesis is very reasonable, it is only a hypothesis, and there is no direct evidence that this stone is the Shadow Star Beast." Mu Xiaodie said.

"Xiaodie is right, I don't have direct evidence that this stone is a Shadow Star Beast, but I can prove that this stone is a creature." "The reason why I think this stone is a living thing is because it doesn't have the characteristics of a living thing on Earth, but it automatically heals from trauma. Of course, there are some inanimate materials in nature that can be restored to their original appearance with the help of living things, such as corals. But whether the shell of this stone is living or not, the black substance inside it is definitely biological, because it is aggressive, and the black mist it spews out turns people into vegetative people. Just now I saw the dense transparent tentacles sticking out of this stone, which confirmed my inference. ”

"Even if this stone is a creature, how do you come to the conclusion that this creature is a Shadow Star Beast?" Li Lifei asked.

"As I said, we don't know what Shadow Star Beast eats so far, but as a living creature, it is absolutely inseparable from the life activity of eating. From the man who was turned into a vegetative person by the black mist and the transparent tentacles I saw connected to the top of people's heads at night, I could conclude that the stone was eating 'souls'. Deming paused and said, "Don't be nervous, I'm not talking about 'soul' as you think. It is true that the man with the axe chopping the stone was attacked by the black mist and had his entire soul eaten and became a vegetative person, but the sleepwalkers were only eaten by it the part of their 'soul' that was harmful to them, or it could be said that they were eaten away from negative emotions. Didn't you hear that Li Lei say? Since the appearance of this stone, the men, women and children in the village have basically been disease-free, and their life expectancy has increased a lot. Negative emotions are gone, and keeping a good mood is beneficial to a person's lifespan. And isn't this kind of selective eating a major characteristic of living things? Whether it's a Shadow Star Beast or not, don't we know if we let it come out of its stone state? Deming said confidently, instructed Xiaoka to turn off the nearby surveillance, and jumped off the fence and walked towards the "Black Gold Divine Stone".