Volume 2 The Stone Man of the Western Regions The Stone Man of the Western Regions Chapter 23: The Puzzle

Sister Ning took the compressed biscuit accurately, ignoring my cannibalistic gaze, tore the seal by herself, and then took out the biscuit inside and put it in the lid of a thermos cup.

I couldn't wait to get up, and said to her in a tone that I hadn't eaten in my life:

"Rather... Sister Ning, don't be so troublesome, I'll just eat like this! ”

Sister Ning still didn't look at me and continued her movements. The size of the biscuit taken out of the sealed bag was just enough to fit into the lid of the thermos cup, Sister Ning pinched the lid containing the biscuit in her left hand, calmly picked up the thermos cup with her right hand, and poured out the water in the cup that was still steaming.

I watched as the biscuit bubbled open, and my throat kept swallowing.

"In your state, it's not suitable to eat hard food. At the moment, there is no liquid food such as porridge, so I can only use boiling water to soak biscuits instead! ”

Seeing me like this, Sister Ning couldn't help but shake her head, and while explaining to me, she handed the lid containing the melted biscuits to my eyes.

The aroma of steamed buns reached my nostrils, and all I could see was a lid full of food, and I would eat them even if the space collapsed.

When I was gobbling up and almost swallowing the lid of the thermos cup into my stomach, Sister Ning was still talking about something, and I didn't hear it clearly.

This bit of food was handed to my mouth from Sister Ning to my mouth, and then I licked the lid clean, no more than two seconds before and after.

After eating, I licked my lips unsatisfactorily, still staring at Sister Ning in front of me with greedy eyes.

Sister Ning instantly saw what I was thinking, and said in a flat tone:

"You can only eat so much! If you want to eat again, in an hour! ”

I know her way of doing things, and if she says something, she has to do what she intended.

I also understand what she has done. It takes a process for people to eat again after experiencing extreme hunger and extreme water shortage, which is like a long-distance runner who should not replenish too much water after a few hours of running.

However, this full lid of soft compressed biscuits has made my body no longer weak. Even after these cookies entered my stomach, I didn't feel it particularly at first, but as they bubbled in my stomach, I started to feel the urge to burp!

I think this is probably due to the starvation of the past few days, which has made my stomach smaller and smaller, so small that this lid of compressed biscuits soaked in boiling water can fill it.

After regaining my energy, my eyesight, hearing, and various organs in my body gradually recovered, and the situation in the space we were in gradually became clearer.

At this time, I knew how Sister Ning and the others fell from the sky.

On the opposite side of the mural wall, the wall I was leaning on, a one-meter-wide stone gate appeared.

The shape of the stone gate is exactly the same as the stone gate at the entrance when we entered the endless passage. A stone gate, also one meter wide, hung in mid-air from the entrance, like a roller shutter door in a store. The appearance of the stone gate is no different from the surrounding walls.

On either side of the stone gate, stood a strong man with a loaded gun, staring intently at the dark passage.

After seeing this stone gate, I was a little puzzled, this space had been carefully inspected after Yiyi and I entered. I didn't find any organs, although I didn't participate in the examination due to my injury, and everything was Yiyi's sole responsibility, but I was very relieved of Yiyi's carefulness. I figured that even if I could move around freely, participate in the inspection of the surrounding space, and follow the mechanisms that I hadn't found, then I wouldn't have made any new discoveries.

In fact, it's not just the inspection of the space that is responsible. After I woke up from entering this enclosed space, everything here was Yiyi's sole responsibility, and all my physical problems were completed with her help.

Sister Ning saw my eyes staring at the stone gate without blinking, as if she saw my thoughts, and said:

"The mechanism of this stone gate is outside, and it can't be opened inside!"

Hearing Sister Ning's words, I understood.

At the same time, a new question arose, watching Sister Ning's team grope around the walls of the space, not knowing what they were looking for. I clearly remember that except for the wall I leaned on, after people approached, there would be no phenomenon of being entangled by the "Prairie Stone Man". And with the close distance of these people, there is not a single "steppe stone man", which can't help but surprise me a little! Could it be that those difficult "grassland stone people" are afraid that Sister Ning's gang of subordinates will not succeed!

After this idea came to me, I saw something different. Through the light of the flashlights that kept converging in the stone chamber, I saw that the intersection of the wall and the ground around me was neatly sprinkled with a circle of white powdery substance, which looked like white ash. Except for the mural wall behind me, which was devoid of these substances, the other three wall roots were not spared.

"Sister Ning, she's awake!"

As I was drawn to the white substance around me, the thin voice of the thin-eyed woman who was taking care of Yiyi came over.

She called Sister Ning's name, but she looked into my eyes and said this. I knew her purpose was for me to hear, because I was more concerned about Yiyi's situation than Sister Ning. Reporting to Sister Ning is just out of habit or strict military discipline.

Yiyi sat up slowly under the support of the glasses girl, looked around blankly, and the moment he saw me, his expression began to relax a little.

In the voice of a thin mosquito, he asked:

"Su Mo, what's going on?"

I pointed to Sister Ning, who was sitting next to me, and pointed to the stone gate behind the two big men who were standing with loaded guns and ammunition, and said to her:

"Yiyi, this is Sister Ning, they... It's from there. ”

As for how Sister Ning and the others suddenly appeared here from Lop Nur, I have no way of knowing at all. What I said to Yiyi was all I knew.

"Sister Ning?"

Yiyi stared at Sister Ning beside me for a moment, and asked in an inquiring tone.

Sister Ning didn't speak, but just confirmed my introduction and nodded at Yiyi.

"Su Mo, didn't Aunt Ming say that Sister Ning and the others went to Lop Nur to find their father's whereabouts? How did they end up here? ”

Yiyi's tone became a little angry, although her body was still weak, but I could hear the angry tone. Because of this haste, somewhat stern tone, I have never heard it in all the days I have been in contact with it.

Obviously, for the safety of Master Liu, Yiyi has always pinned her hopes on Sister Ning and them. When she saw Sister Ning and her team suddenly appear in Altay, thousands of miles away from Lop Nur, Yiyi felt that she had been deceived!

Sister Ning also heard the unfriendliness in Yiyi's tone, and she was not angry about this, and still said in a calm tone:

"Yiyi, Master Liu, I left some people on my side to continue to explore. Your situation here, I got the mysterious news of a mysterious person, so I rushed here! ”

Sister Ning's explanation is also the first time I have heard it. At this moment, I knew why Sister Ning and the others rushed here from Lop Nur.

"What did the mysterious man say? Have you identified him? ”

I asked curiously.

"When we were in the middle of Lop Nur, our UHF mobile communication equipment suddenly received an unfamiliar signal.

The signal has been repeating your position since the call was unblocked.

While searching for the person who sent the signal, our men found some packages of lime and a map to your location. The map is marked in detail with your location, where the stone gate will open and close.

Other than that, there was not a single figure around. The person who gave us the signal was like a ghost, and disappeared into thin air in that no-man's land where there were no buildings to hide.

With the distance of our equipment, when our team arrived at the search site, we could have bumped into that person, but we didn't get anything out of it. The speed of this disappearance is completely beyond the scope of human beings! ”

"Could it be Ah Jin!"

After Sister Ning finished narrating, I first thought of Ah Jin. I've seen the speed of Akin, and that speed is not at all what a human should have.

"You're saying it's Ah Jin who spreads the signal for us!"

Sister Ning asked in surprise after hearing me mention Ah Jin.

At this moment, Yiyi was no longer sitting in the original position, but with the support of the glasses girl, she came to the position of me and Sister Ning and sat down. Quietly listened to the conversation between me and Sister Ning.

Seeing that Yiyi was safe and sound, I was relieved. Then, we got off the highway and what happened after entering the stone gate, and I recounted it to Sister Ning one by one.

Among them, I described in detail the clip of me and Yiyi hearing the hissing sound, and when Sister Ning heard the shadow full of tentacles that Yiyi saw before she fell into a coma, she said in an angry tone: "Hmph! Sure enough, I guessed it! This Ah Jin is not human at all! The real Ah Jin is dead! ”

"What is Akin's purpose?"

After listening to my conversation with Sister Ning, Yiyi asked the same puzzled question.

At first, Yiyi and I deduced that Ah Jin's purpose in leading the four of us to this cave was the mural on the wall of the space in front of us.

But after we saw the mural, our situation began to deteriorate, and even our lives were endangered without waiting for Ah Jin to rescue us.

And from Sister Ning's narrative just now, I deduced that the person who transmitted the signal to them in Lop Nur should also be Ah Jin.

All of a sudden, Ah Jin's purpose was no longer clear!

Just as I was thinking about the connection of all this, an excited voice came from the person searching in the corner:

"Sister Ning! There's looseness here! ”