Volume 2 The Stone People of the Western Regions The Stone People of the Western Regions Chapter 45: High Latitudes
When the bronze coffin fell to the ground, the fat man jumped from the tree.
The scorpion reacted the most quickly, and after seeing the "Prairie Stone Man" popping out of the bronze coffin, he immediately gave Zhang Xiuxiu and the others a look.
Sister Ning's team has a tacit understanding that surpasses any team, and this tacit understanding is the foundation of the formation of this team. This is also related to their long-term action environment, and the places where the second uncle often goes are naturally some places that require a very high degree of tacit cooperation, so this has made the characteristics of this team.
Zhang Xiuxiu and the others did not hesitate or pause after seeing the scorpion's eyes, and a few wind-breaking sounds rang out. Immediately after, there was a series of clanging sounds. Five or six bronze coffins fell from the trees.
Scorpions are very cautious in their daily lives, and everything is focused on completing tasks. All things that are not related to the task and are prone to danger, they are able to restrain their curiosity. This is a team whose main purpose is to carry out orders, not an army, but an army.
Just like at the beginning, the fat man wanted to open the bronze coffin. For this unknown situation that may be very dangerous, the scorpion behaves very cautiously.
But what kind of character the fat man is, he won't dispel his judgment because of my and the scorpion's dissuasion.
When the "steppe stone man" was ejected from the bronze coffin, the scorpion's caution was also affected by its previous experience. Now in this team, Sister Ning is not there, the scorpion is the highest order-taker, and everyone unconditionally obeys the scorpion's order.
I don't know what the fat man and the scorpion went through after they were separated from me and Yiyi, but now is not the time to ask them what they have experienced, if we can get out of here smoothly, I will definitely analyze all our experiences this time.
What is certain is that these "grassland stone people" have left an indelible imprint on the hearts of the scorpions, so that after seeing these stone figures appear again, the scorpions, who have always been calm and cautious, have also lost their minds, regardless of whether there will be danger in other bronze coffins, and let Zhang Xiuxiu and them leave five or six bronze coffins together.
Fortunately, the unknown danger I feared did not arise. The five or six bronze coffins that were left behind did not pop out of the "steppe stone man" like the fat man kicked down, but smashed to the ground intact, and the strength was so strong that many stones on the ground were smashed into several petals.
This situation occurred because the coffin kicked down by the fat man had been opened by him. This kind of work is only done by a fat man, depending on the degree of stones in this coffin, and I don't know what kind of bonding technology to use to seal the coffin lid and the coffin body, according to my strength, I can't open a state like a fat man anyway. And the fat man, with only a folding sapper shovel and a crowbar, did this easily.
Not long after the fat man jumped off the tree, Zhang Xiuxiu and the others pushed five or six coffins from the tree to the ground. The fat man brushed his newly wet hair into a big back, and the clothes on his body were already crumbling. At that moment, it looked like a bit of a god's bones.
After the "Prairie Stone Man" popped out of the coffin, all of us, including Zhang Xiuxiu, who jumped from the tree, were some distance away from the stone man.
The fat man stood side by side with me and the scorpion, except for the three people who were still on duty at the "warrior" post and watched around the surroundings, the rest of the people also formed a fan on their own, surrounding these coffins and stone figures. The three of us stood in the middle of this fan, looking at the coffin and the ejected stone figure not far from us.
After waiting like this for a while, and seeing that the stone man who popped up did not move, the fat man turned his head and said to the scorpion:
"I said, scorpions, did you notice, these 'cuties' are a little different from the ones we encountered in the walls. ”
"This stone man is a bit like a young stone man. It hasn't grown yet. ”
"Eh, yes, it's more appropriate to describe Xiao Su!" The fat man moved his face from the scorpion to my place and said to me.
While we were looking at the coffins and stone figures, Xiao Qian was always behind me, inseparable from me. I'm used to having such a petite figure behind me, though she's still in an out-of-body state for the most part. However, I believe that if I encounter any danger, she will do her best to relieve me.
Among the dozen or so people in our group, only me, Scorpion, and Fat Man have really dealt with the "Prairie Stone Man", and the rest are all people who participated in our rescue, including Xiaoqian. Along the way, lime everywhere made the steppe stone people afraid to approach their rescue team.
The diminutive "steppe stone man" that popped out of the coffin in front of us was at least half as short as the stone man in the stone path who dragged me into the corpse fluid. The height ratio of those stone figures is one to one with the height of our normal adults. And the stone man in front of him is only less than a meter tall.
Although the eye patterns on the bronze coffins are not large, some are even the size of thumbs, their clarity is very high. All the details were not lost, and during this time I glanced up at the "ghost cloud" above us, and the thunder and lightning were no longer there. Only the clouds in the shape of "ears of the earth" are still gathered there, covering the forest where we are, and there is no sign of dissipating.
The shape of the ears was an enlarged version of the pattern on the coffin in front of me. What I didn't know at the time was not only the shape of the ears of the "ghost cloud" above our heads and the pattern on the coffin, but also the shape of the ears in this endless forest where we were, if viewed from the air. This is what a few of us found out after coming here again a few years later.
The fat man apparently also shifted his attention from the stone man's body to the shape of the coffin's ears. After only observing it for a while, I told the details that I hadn't noticed.
"If you look closely at the sky above those little ears, the slightly larger ear pattern is more similar to the "ghost cloud" above our heads! ”
After the fat man's reminder, I also saw the clue. I saw that on the coffin board, which was less than one meter high, the thumb-sized ear patterns were all gathered at the bottom of the coffin board, and the slightly larger patterns were all in the sky, and there was a gap between the two. Moreover, there are some lightning bolts, which appear vaguely below the ears above.
I turned my head and said to the fat man, yes, Comrade Shengang, you are still more observant. The fat man was not modest, and said to me: "That's nature, what kind of character this god stick is." ”
After the fat man finished speaking, he tentatively took a few steps closer to the "steppe stone man" who ejected the coffin, and I reminded him to be careful. The scorpion followed the fat man with a submachine gun in his hand, and Zhang Xiuxiu and they all looked nervously at the stone sculpture lying on the ground, hoping to react as soon as something happened.
I pulled Xiaoqian and took a few steps forward. Looking at our cautious state, I wanted to laugh a little, and said in my heart, it seems that the experience of the stone passage behind the stone gate has made us all start to be afraid of such stone sculptures. Even the fat man who is not afraid of the sky and the earth is so jealous.
In fact, the coffin did not fall too far from us, and the rest of the coffins without opening the lids lay under a few trees around us.
The fat man was taller and took big steps, and in a few steps he approached the place where the stone man popped out. He always held a folded sapper shovel in his hand, and the crowbar was taken over by me after he jumped from the tree. My submachine gun has been handed over to a few brothers who need to be on duty, and the repeated strange experiences have made me have to hold some weapons in my hands to be able to feel at ease.
Before receiving the fat man's crowbar, I kept holding Xiaoqian's cold hand.
When he was less than two meters away from the stone man, the fat man stopped. I was not far from the fat man, and I was also in front of the stone man at this time. When it gets closer, the pattern on the coffin becomes clearer. As the fat man said, this pattern carving is exactly what these "ghost clouds" look like, and some thumb-sized ear graphics under them are more like aerial aerial views.
I remember Yiyi said that the shape of an ear is an aerial view of the entire Lop Nur. And judging by the number of these patterns in front of my eyes, it is an aerial view of countless Lop Nur! Could it be that there are so many Lop Nur on this earth? It's just that we didn't find out?
My idea is a bit unrealistic, and the degree of technological development on this earth today cannot be described as fast. Since the launch of the first artificial satellite by the former Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, there have been more than a few thousand satellites orbiting the Earth. With such a large number of satellites orbiting the Earth, there is no unknown territory on the planet we live in that can escape their scanning.
If there really is such a number of patterns engraved on the coffin, then the only reason that can be said is that those "Lop Nur" are hidden in some high-latitude space! Ordinary satellites simply can't catch it!
This idea is not a conjecture of mine, and so far I don't know if the forest I am in is real in the world we are familiar with. Perhaps, this forest is a high-latitude space!
The fat man who was the first to walk to the stone man didn't know that so many thoughts could flash through my mind in such a short time. Not only did he not expect it, but even I wondered how I could suddenly have so many ideas. Perhaps this is the strong pineal gene of our Su family, which makes my imagination a little ahead of my time.
At this time, the fat man cautiously stretched out the folding sapper shovel in his hand and walked towards the stone man bucket two meters away!
At the moment when the fat man shoveled the sapper bucket towards the stone man, the environment around us suddenly changed! It's getting sunny! Even the surrounding trees are gone!