Morning, December 5th.

Since the metal spire was dug out, the excavator has been ordered to be deactivated; Workers picked up shovels and began the irritating manual operation.

They carefully gouged the earth away from the spire, widening the pit in all directions so that as much of the spire's surface as could be exposed.

The professor was holding the analyzer and his own I-PEN, crawling around the metal wall that had been dug up, looking east and west, looking excited and focused.

Before you know it, a morning has passed.

When it came to the meal, there were workers who had been taking turns to rest, but the professor, who had never rested at all, was still in good spirits.

Sollid could understand his state of affairs - when a person is fully committed to something, the power of the spirit can sustain the body beyond its limits.

Further afield, the time when Phidipitz ran from the plain of Marathon back to the central square of Athens is a good example; More recently, it is not uncommon for many teenagers to be able to spend days and nights in Internet cafes without sleep, eating, or drinking.

Compared to these examples, Rodrigo is nothing at all.

Over lunch, the three principals, Solid, Rodrigo, and Gimenez, sat down again to discuss their findings this morning and their plans for the future.

At this stage, the "excavation task" is carried out, and it is naturally time for the professor to perform; As the so-called art industry has a specialty, in terms of archaeology, it must be Rodrigo who has the final say, and Solid can only give him ideas from the perspective of a security consultant.

However, Rodrigo seems to have been too involved in the situation at hand, and he spat and brows of money the whole meal to teach the other two a history lesson on the "Olmec civilization", which made Soggie and the others confused and laughed.

In the end, seeing that it was already half past one in the afternoon, Sollid finally couldn't help but interrupt the professor and asked him what he was going to do in the afternoon.

At this time, Rodrigo realized that his "lecture addiction" had been on for too long and had forgotten what he was doing......

After a short period of thought, Rodrigo decided that the next step was to use an excavator to "attack" from the top.

Not to mention what they observed after the "pit widening", it is based on the dimensions of the "small pyramids" of South America found in the ruins of Paraiso, Peru...... The base of this pyramid is estimated to be the size of several football fields, and it is obviously unrealistic to dig it completely out of the ground, fearing that it will have to dig a canyon for several miles.

Of course, if you really want to dig like this, it is not impossible, but it must be reported to the federal leadership, and after approval, more than ten times more manpower and machinery can be mobilized than the current one.

With the manpower and material resources of the current excavation team, there are only two options at this stage: first, leave it alone, call it a day, and wait until you get in touch with the outside world; The second is to make an opening directly from the top of the spire, and then enter the inside of the pyramid through the opening to explore.

Of course, Rodrigo would choose the latter, and it was only natural that as an ambitious archaeologist, he could not have chosen to wait in the face of such an unprecedented discovery.

Archaeology is similar to many scientific professions, and if you want to succeed, you have to take risks, if you wait for the opportunity, or if you do everything in a proper way...... Then your work is very likely to be stolen by people who are not as talented as you but have more resources than you, Goebbels and Edison are good examples.

So, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the excavation work resumed.

The first thing the workers did was to bring a "net alloy drill bit" from the cargo hold of the plane; It was supposed to be something that I brought just in case (such as digging a hard vein), but I didn't expect it to come in handy this time.

Once the drill bit was installed, the excavator operator drove the Kemera back to the spire, turned the machine to its maximum output, and began to drill into the black metal wall.

The moment the drill bit touched the metal wall, many people covered their ears, but after a few seconds, they were surprised to find that the harsh metal grinding sound was not as loud as they had imagined, but rather ...... There was not even a sound at the drill, and even the engine sound of the excavator itself was gone.

Looking at the sparks bursting out between the drill bit and the metal wall, and the cyan light flowing from the black metal wall, Solid had a faint sense of foreboding.

"Stop......" After a moment, Sollid suddenly shouted, "Stop! "He's roaring for the second time.

But...... It's still late.

Just as his roar sounded, the metal wall also changed, and the cyan streamer converged on the hole drilled by the drill, and a recoil force suddenly exploded, sending the excavator, which weighed nearly like a tank, into the sky.

The operator in the cockpit was shaken into meat sauce the moment the impact occurred, part of the meat sauce was glued to the glass of the cockpit, and the other part was rained down with blood and water in the air......

Whew!

A few seconds later, the excavator made an arc in mid-air and fell to pieces in a distant clearing.

Everyone who saw this was stunned, and after a while, the silence was broken by a woman's scream, followed by a clamour.

Soon several workers were muttering words like "curse" with frightened expressions; Gimenez's entourage was fine, but the female companions he brought with him ...... With the exception of "Mandala", everyone went into a hysterical state, and they began to question why help had not yet arrived, crying that they wanted to get out of this hellish place as soon as possible.

Even the soldiers brought by Solid began to look at each other and whisper; At this moment, although they were still holding on to their posts and were not panicking like the general public, the sprouts of fear and uneasiness were evident in their hearts.

"Both...... To give...... Lao Tzu ...... "Before the situation became more chaotic, Sollid decisively implemented an effective initiative, he turned up the external volume of the armor mask to the maximum, and shouted, "...... Shut up! ”

The cheer was like a spring thunderbolt, which immediately attracted everyone's attention and interrupted their nonsense and nonsense.

"Don't mess around, it's just an accident." When the crowd quieted down, Solid readjusted his voice and continued, "It's not a curse, it's science...... The spire in front of us was defensive, and the cyan streamers weren't magic, but a power source powering the metal walls. ”

"How do you know?"

"I think you're guessing too, right?"

"If you know, why didn't you say it earlier? Do you say it when you're dead? ”

"Yes, you're lying, right, explaining that science is to trick us into digging up, right? We won't be fooled! ”

The rhetoric of the "curse" has influenced the thinking of the workers so much that it is difficult for them to be convinced by such unsubstantiated rhetoric...... Even if this argument is much more plausible than the so-called curse theory.

"No, you don't need to dig anymore." Unexpectedly, Solid immediately said, "The rest of the matter here will be handled by our federal army, and the others can call it a day and go back to the camp to rest." ”

It stands to reason that if he said this, the workers should have nothing to fight about, but ......

"Hey! You can explain it clearly, huh? How is this not a curse? ”

"I don't want to stay in a camp that is so close to the cursed site!"

"It's the third day, why hasn't the rescue arrived yet? Have you ever been in contact with the outside world? Why do you always sneakily avoid us when talking? ”

"The plane crash the day before yesterday was also very strange, why did the wings disappear? Is this also a curse? ”

"That's right! What the hell is going on, get it clear! What the hell are you trying to trick us into coming here? ”

The problems that had been building up for days had finally erupted, and the elements of confusion and distrust had spread among the crowd, all caused by a strange death in front of everyone.

In this wild land, the collapse of civilization and order seems so easy, or rather...... These two things are inherently more fragile than is commonly believed.

"I've already said that this is science, not a curse, and what just happened is just because we don't know enough about the goal and don't ...... accidents. Calm in the face of questioning, Sollid stood up to the workers and calmly responded.

But his answer was exchanged for another round of questioning.

These people ...... Already mentally defining Solid as a wicked person, identifying the anomaly as a curse, and taking for granted these things that they subjectively believe to be the basis of facts.

Solid knows that you can't communicate with someone like that—you can convince someone who is open-minded and willing to accept and think about different voices, but you can't convince someone who thinks their standards and opinions are objective facts, and uses that as a basis to refute all voices that disagree with you.

Of course, these two types of people are not absolute, and each of us will become the latter at some point in our lives...... Either because of the arrogance given by knowledge and experience, or because of the blind obedience brought about by the guidance of public opinion, or because you are a self-righteous and unaware pretending criminal.

At all costs...... Sollid wouldn't bother talking to such people, he had his own way.

Bang –

The sudden burst of gunfire interrupted the shouting of those men and triggered another scream.

In the midst of the shocked and frightened gazes of the crowd, one of the most furious workers fell to the muzzle of Solid's gun.

However, he did not die, but was shot in the leg, and the bullet passed through the leg, causing a bloody hole in his muscle.

"What are you doing!" Two seconds later, Rodrigo pushed through the crowd and rushed up, saying to Solid, "Solid! Are you crazy? How can you ......"

"In the execution of the mission, the devil confuses the crowd and disobeys orders, if he is a soldier under me, he has been shot by me three times at this time." Sollid interrupted coldly.

"But they're not your soldiers, they're just civilians!" After Rodrigo finished yelling at this, he turned his head and shouted at the person next to him, "Why are you still stunned? Grab the first aid kit! ”

"'Civilian'......" Sollid repeated the words, then looked up at Gimenez, who was standing in the distance.

At this moment, Gimenez was looking at this side with a smile that seemed to be not a smile, as if he was watching a good show.

"You're almost supposed to get things out of the way, right?" Sollid raised his voice and said to him, "Otherwise, the professor would really think that these workers are unrelated people you just found in the local area." ”

"Huh?" When Rodrigo heard this, he also turned his head to look at Gimenez, "What do you mean?" ”

"Okay, I'll admit it, these workers are my people too, okay?" Gimenez replied with a smile.

"Whew......" Rodrigo's mind was still a little spinning, "but...... But they ...... when they were at the airport."

"Said bad things about me in front of you, right? Hehe......" Gimenez laughed, "of course it was deliberately played for you." ”

Solid also said to the professor at this time, "You are so naïve, Professor...... This is South America, what if Gimenez really hired a group of third-party diggers in the area, and there were a few killers who wanted to assassinate him? He will definitely avoid this kind of risk that can be avoided, otherwise he would not have survived today. ”

"Then there's no need to hide it from me, right?" Rodrigo said.

"Because most of these people are transferred from his cannabis plantation...... And the people who will work there all have a case record, so that you, an outsider who doesn't know the rules, will know it, and write it in the report afterwards, it won't look good. With that, Sollid said to Gimenez, "I'm right, right? Gimenez. ”

When Gimenez heard this, he shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, which was considered acquiescence, and said to Rodrigo: "Professor, forgive me." ”

After saying that, he didn't wait for Rodrigo to respond, so he said to Solid: "Say...... Sir, when did you find out that these workers were also mine? ”

"I knew it from the beginning." Solid replied, "Although the identity information you submitted is complete and there are no problems in the database, I am a more cautious person...... I know very well that with your local power, it is not difficult to get the police to help you change the identity information of some people in the database...... So, before I acted, I went to look up the paper copies of the identity documents that these people had filed when they were just adults, and as I expected...... Their identities are all real, except for the photos. ”

"Huh...... You're a tough guy......" Gimenez laughed.

"Each other, each other." "Now, now that you've spoken out, can your people stop this senseless commotion, and...... Is it a temptation for me? ”

Gimenez thought for a few seconds, and a subtle gloom flashed in his eyes, and then he put on a smile and said, "Did you all hear that?" Don't get in the way of the chief's work, people say it's science, who wants to mention any more curses...... I'm not going to be happy. ”

His words, Bisolid's gun still works......

As Gimenez's words fell, the workers dispersed, and the wounded man, who had been wounded in the thigh, was quickly carried into the tent by the bystanders; A shot in the thigh might have been fatal in the 21st century, but in 2218, a quick-healing spray and a concentrated antiseptic tonic injection would be fine.

Moments later, Sollid ordered his men to return to the camp and stand by, and Gimenez spread his men apart...... Around the spire, only the two of them plus the professor remained.

"Well, my secret, it's not a secret now." Gimenez said to Solid, "Sir, should you share with us what you know?" ”

He would ask this question, indicating that he already knew or deduced something.

Solid didn't hesitate, and quickly continued, "That female companion of yours has already told you...... It's about the fact that I'm a capable person. ”

"Uh-huh." Gimenez answered, motioning for the other to continue.

"Then I'll be straight to the point." Solid added, "Yes, I'm the one who is capable, and I feel like I have a chance to break through the defenses of this spire. ”

"Huh...... I'll just say it. Gimenez laughed, "Someone as reliable as you, sir, must have some kind of certainty before he would say to my workers, 'You don't need to dig anymore.'" ”

"Solid, do you really have a way to punch through that metal wall?" Rodrigo on the side didn't bother to bother with the intrigue between the other two, he cared more about the ruins than about that.

"It's just an assumption, do you want to say it...... About forty percent. Solid said as he opened his visor and breastplate and stepped out of his armor.

"Forty percent is OK!" Rodrigo quickly continued, "We archaeologists generally dare to set off in a team when we hear some local legends or pick up a leak in Panjiayuan, but if we are 20% sure, we dare to deceive ...... Belch...... Pull sponsored! ”

Sollid didn't answer him, but followed his words: "As far as I can see, in addition to the super hardness of the outer wall of this spire, it also has the property of 'gradually increasing its own defense to adapt to external pressure', and it also has the function of 'absorbing sound and kinetic energy and counterattacking when it accumulates to a certain extent'...... You've seen the results.

"But even with this perfect defense, the metal wall was drilled a hole in the first few seconds of being drilled by the drill, which suggests...... Its defense mechanism is 'late-start', and the defense of the late-mover is bound to have a certain amount of reaction time, and if it can instantly destroy its structure with a quick, powerful attack before it can react, it should be possible to make a gap......

"The piece we saw before seems to have been 'filled', and the eight achievements were left by someone in the past who opened the gap through the way I said."

His words were well founded, and both Rodrigo and Gimenez felt it worked.

"I see what you mean......" Gimenez said as he looked at Sollid with a suspicious look and raised an eyebrow, "but are you sure that your moves are more powerful than the impact of a net alloy drill?" ”

By the time he asked the question, Sollid had reached the side of the pit and had withdrawn some distance, as if to run.

"Just try it." Solid said, looking down at his right hand before clenching his fist......