Chapter Twenty-Eight: Celestial Bodies
The ravine was quiet again, large clouds obscured the sky, and the surroundings grew darker and darker. Comrade Liu looked at the tablet, the tracking signal was in front of him, he searched in the grass, and found the three trackers, the trackers were excreted by the monsters when their bodies changed, and they had been scattered in the grass. Comrade Liu held a searchlight and looked at the surrounding environment, it was some dwarf trees, the grass was also very dense, and he did not find anything special, and the ravine came to an end here, with upward slopes on both sides.
Comrade Liu said: "It doesn't look special here, but there must be a reason why these creatures are staying here." ”
Qiu Tian said: "Comrade Liu, do you suspect that the celestial body is also here?" ”
Comrade Liu nodded and said coldly, "Well, let's search." ”
The two carefully searched in the grass, and Qiu Tian wondered: What is the heavenly body? Comrade Liu took out a few instruments and tested them in the woods, but found nothing, at this time, Qiu Tian suddenly pointed to the steep hillside and said: "Comrade Liu, look here!" ”
Comrade Liu immediately walked over, only to see a pothole on the hillside on the right, and they walked over with their rifles in their hands and holding their breath. The hillside was full of weeds, and there were a few small trees, but there was a large crater about five meters in diameter, which was obviously knocked out.
Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian held the lamp and looked carefully at the pothole, the trees around it were all broken, the weeds were gone, and the edges of the pit were cracked. Comrade Liu looked up and saw a steep mountain wall, this big crater was on a sloping hillside, completely covered by dense woods, and in the mountains with such complex terrain, satellites could not photograph it, and relying on manpower to find this place was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This pit is very deep, and it is pitch black inside, Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian turned on the lights and looked carefully at the pit, there are many residual stones and broken branches in the pit, and there are traces after the rain. Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian suddenly discovered that in the deepest part of the pit, there was an oval-shaped gray object.
Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian looked at this object carefully, it looked like a meteorite on the surface, but they didn't know what it was. The object remained motionless in the pit, did not react to the light, and did not look like a living thing. In the dark ravine, such a strange object was found, and Comrade Liu and the others did not dare to act rashly, Qiu Tian thought to himself: Is this thing a celestial body that fell from the sky? What creatures are related to it?
Comrade Liu took out a few instruments from his backpack and carefully scanned the object, which was not a living thing. Comrade Liu gently touched it with a metal rod, and Qiu Tian held his breath, holding a gun and a searchlight, just in case, because anything could happen now.
Comrade Liu tested the object with a metal rod, but the object was very heavy, so he took out a collapsible metal rod with metal claws, carefully pulled the object out of the pit, and then gently placed it on the ground.
Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian carefully observed this oval object by means of the bright light: the object was not large, about 60 centimeters long and 40 centimeters in diameter, dark gray, and the surface was full of pits, full of signs of wear, and it looked like a meteorite, but if you looked closely, it was not.
Comrade Liu studied the material of this object, the texture is hard and wear-resistant, it is not metal, I don't know what kind of substance. Comrade Liu took out his camera and began to scan and detect the object with various instruments and record it. After a brief examination, Comrade Liu and his wife suddenly felt that this was some kind of shell, because there was a very fine crack on the back of the object, Comrade Liu took out a set of mechanical tools, used a precision pry tool to probe the crack, and gently pried it open, the object cracked, and the inside was empty, and the object looked very much like a ripe husk.
Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian looked at each other, and the two of them thought: This thing turned out to be a shell, and there was some kind of object hidden in the shell, which flew to the earth and then came out of the shell.
Comrade Liu observed the section of this shell from the side, which was already very thin, but it must be resistant to high temperatures. He looked at the cracks in the shell, the fracture bite was precise, the sealing was very good, and if it was completely closed, it would be tightly closed. Qiu Tian saw that the thickness of this shell was not too thick, judging from the degree of wear and tear on the outside, this shell must have experienced a lot of collisions in the universe, and after entering the atmosphere, it underwent serious combustion and wear, and it was almost polished, and it fell from a high altitude to the hillside, and it was not broken.
Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian looked at each other, and now this object is likely to be the "demon star" that fell from the sky, that is, the celestial body that fell here, but there is nothing else in this shell.
Qiu Tian thought: What kind of things are in the shell? Can the villagers of Huangjia Village mutate? Where is this "thing" now? Is it dead?
Qiu Tian said: "Comrade Liu, these creatures and this shell are here, and the things in the shell should also be nearby, right?" He was also wondering at the moment, could the contents of the shell not adapt to the environment on Earth and be dead? Or is it already attached to the body of a mutant villager? Or have you already left here? When Qiu Tian thought of this, he suddenly felt a little ridiculous, and he didn't expect that he would worry about these problems today.
Comrade Liu took out a silver bag, carefully put the shell in, and the bag was automatically vacuum-sealed. Comrade Liu sorted out the other instruments and said, "Be ready for battle." ”
Qiu Tian said, "Where are those creatures? "The tracker is dead, and it's very difficult to find the exact location of those creatures. Comrade Liu said: "We don't need to look for them, they will come to us." He went on to say, "Those creatures are so desperate to attack humans that maybe our bodies can be their hosts and allow them to expand infinitely." We just fought with them and took this shell, and they will not let us go. ”
Qiu Tian nodded, facing the monsters that were about to swarm, it was inevitable that there would be a fierce battle, and he took a deep breath. Qiu Tian carried the silver bag containing the shell behind his back and concentrated his attention, that group of monsters was already difficult to deal with, after all, the contents of the shell had not yet appeared, and he didn't know what it was.
Comrade Liu and the two moved forward cautiously, Comrade Liu looked at the mountainous terrain on the tablet, and it was not far ahead, it was uphill, and it was better to get out of the ravine. At this time, the sky was cloudy, and the ravine was dark, and the two walked through a grassy thicket, and the terrain was a little wider, with a steep cliff on the left and a dense forest on the right.
The meadow was unusually quiet, there was no wind, the grass and trees were motionless, and time seemed to stand still. Qiu Tian looked at it, and after passing here, he could go up the mountain, he walked a few steps, and suddenly saw a black shadow slowly coming out of the dense forest.