Chapter Seventy-Six: The Alienated Banyan Tree Cave
Gurong Village is a settlement formed by the river, with a population of nearly 1,000 in the past. In the past, those low-rise bungalows and newly built small bungalows were inhabited by villagers, and the quaintly decorated tourist homestays also had some travelers, some elderly people sitting under banyan trees, and children and dogs running along the riverbank.
But now, there was silence, only an eerie silence.
There were no villagers anywhere, no dogs or cats, and even the alert rats were gone.
However, there are more patrols from the Operations Department of the Tianji Bureau in the village, and there are many newly built guard towers, and there are people guarding the towers at all times.
The dark sky seemed to be brewing a thunderstorm, and the cold mountain wind blew the crumbling telephone poles on the side of the road.
Gu Jun had been looking out through the car window, and the motorcade passed by a luxurious government building, which was also dilapidated, which was also the address of the "Cultural Tourism Zone Management Committee" in Gurong Village, and he had made a phone call there......
"This ancient banyan village is an outbreakpoint of banyan disease." Uncle Dan said to him, "I don't know if it's the source, but the epidemic here is the earliest." ”
"Hmm......" Gu Jun was silent, if it was now, those villagers should be able to be treated by the Ministry of Medicine.
Still some distance from the big banyan tree, the convoy stopped in a riverside clearing. Some prefabricated barracks were built here, connected to several surrounding villagers' houses, and became a command center, in which some celestial personnel were busy walking.
After the Demon Hunter Team and Gu Jun got out of the car, they met with the personnel of the Anomalous Force Investigation Team here.
Gu Jun just stood aside and watched, the big banyan tree in front of him was different from the one in the tourism promotional photo, there were no more verdant and vibrant, the twisted branches and withered leaves were only withered gray and black color, as if it had been dead for a long time.
He noticed that a large hole had rotted under the trunk of the banyan tree, which was pitch black and seemed to have a faint light.
"Uncle Dan, is that banyan tree still contagious?" Gu Jun looked at the banyan tree, and his bones were a little chilly. One of the ways in which the disease is transmitted is through direct contact with diseased trees, but it is a mystery how the whole village was infected.
"Yes, but we can't burn it for the time being, wait for Team Xue to explain it to you." Uncle Dan likes to sell guanzi, which is not liked.
After a long while, Xue Ba, who had finished talking with the personnel of the Investigation Department, came over, "Ah Jun, do you know the Pinturas River Hand Cave?" ”
Gu Jun seemed to have an impression, but he couldn't say it, "I don't know ......"
"To put it simply, it was a mural in a cave in a narrow valley in Argentina, painted by ancient humans, most notably with some dense handprints." Xue Ba spoke eloquently, like a teacher giving a lecture, but his Contra Douluo and Xueba's style really didn't match.
Seeing Gu Jun frowning slightly, Xue Ba was suddenly a little anxious: "Really, I'm serious!" I don't believe you to check. ”
Uncle Dan squeezed his eyebrows behind him and reminded Gu Jun, don't be anxious with Captain Xue, this guy cares most about his image as a scholar.
"I believe it, I've heard it before." Gu Jun nodded and said, "What is the relationship with this?" ”
"Look at the banyan tree." Xue Ba handed Gu Jun a military binocular, "It's right there in the hole of the rotten tree." ”
Gu Jun took the telescope and looked at it, and now he could see it clearly, just around the tree hole, there were some messy handprints on the gray rotten bark, and it seemed to be the natural lines of the bark, and the pairs seemed to be struggling......
He looked at it and his heart burst out, "Are those the handprints of the villagers?" ”
"No, the investigation team has sampled and compared, there are a total of 16 handprints there, and none of them match." Xue Ba paused, and there was a hint of confusion on his strong face, "16 handprints, 16 people, this is the current maximum capacity of the Banyan Tree Cave space." ”
"Banyan Cave Space?" Gu Jun was stunned, didn't he mean that tree hole? There weren't sixteen people in there.
"There's an anomalous space in there." Xue Ba said directly, turning his head to find which member, "The scientific research department is going crazy over there, Lin Mo, come and explain!" ”
Lin Mo is a scientific researcher in the team, in his thirties, but he didn't come over when he was called, but just gave the captain a middle finger.
"Hehehe." Xue Ba was enjoying himself, and then explained to Gu Jun: "Einstein is here, and it is estimated that it is not clear. You know wormholes, wormholes can warp time and space, and there is a theory that you can go through wormholes to other places. That banyan hole is like a wormhole with another space in it. ”
Xue Ba's tone was light-hearted, as if he was saying that there was a yard behind his house.
I don't seem to think that these words and this incident will have any impact on the perception of the whole world.
It will make countless scientists ecstatic, and it will also make countless scientists collapse.
Wormholes? Gu Jun looked at the unfathomable banyan tree cave, and his heart was beating a little too fast......
"I told you." Uncle Dan over there laughed, this is not something that G-class personnel have permission to know, which is why Gu Jun is special.
At that moment, Gu Jun listened to them talk about the reason in detail.
After the disease in the ancient banyan village was discovered and controlled, the investigation department immediately discovered this shocking situation, the three-meter radius around the big banyan tree became a strange area, and the magnetic field, gravity, etc. were all confused.
As a result, the Investigation Department, the Scientific Research Department, the Operations Department and other departments jointly set up a "Gurong Village Emergency Team" and called their demon hunter team to support.
Xue Ba used his mobile phone to play some images to Gu Jun.
At the beginning, the emergency team used remote-controlled robots, drones and other machines to explore the Banyan Tree Cave, but the signal was cut off as soon as they entered. Later, they figured out that the signal from the outside could not enter the other space, but the ground-wave radio could be transmitted from the inside, but because the attenuation was too severe, only this command center could receive it.
Then there were the lab animals, but they lost control and starved to death after a few days - the calorimeter signal and the personnel who entered later confirmed this.
"Animals wear video and audio recording equipment, but the images and images that are taken and transmitted inside are all ......"
Xue Ba showed Gu Jun some pictures and videos again, all of which were distorted and blurred indescribable appearances, "The scientific researchers have worked hard to recover, but no." ”
A week ago, the emergency response team made their first attempt to let a living person in, and it was the Witcher team who risked it.
Originally, there were some personnel from the Operations Department, but only one more person could enter, and it was also at this time that the "capacity" of the Banyan Cave was discovered.
"After we went in, we found ......," Xue Ba recalled the strange scenes, "there is it." ”