Chapter Seventy-Four
The flower in the mirror, the mirror is true, the flower is the illusion, the moon in the water, the water is the mirror, the moon is the image, and the huge space is condensed in a thin layer.
In 1912, a huge meteorite fell from the sky and fell into a lake, attracting no attention because it was the second half of the night and everyone was sleeping.
In 2019, a small boat capsized on the lake, and some valuables, including an acoustic sounder, fell into the water, so search and rescue teams sent people to dive into the lake to salvage it.
The lake is not very deep, only more than 50 meters deep, and the bottom of the lake is full of debris, aquatic plants are abundant, and it is very turbid. The diver slowly swam towards the bottom of the lake, swinging his legs, spitting out a lot of bubbles and gurgling. The deep bottom of the lake needs lighting to see clearly, and divers turn on their searchlights early to illuminate the bottom of the lake, which has not been lit for thousands of years.
What the diver needs to find is two boxes and an instrument. The two boxes were obvious, and the diver had seen them, swam over and hung the hook on the rope on the box, then tugged at the rope to signal that the person on it could pull the rope. The two boxes have been successfully salvaged, and there is only one sonic detector left. According to the principle of carving the boat to seek the sword, the two boxes and the detector should be in the same area, but the diver swam around several times and did not see it, not because the light was dark and could not see clearly, nor how deep the color of the detector was, but really could not see.
Well? Why not? Is it buried underneath? If I go, do you want me to swim to the bottom of the lake and pull these disgusting things away?
The diver swam around the bottom of the lake, thought about it for a while, and decided to try it anyway. The divers came down without any tools and had to rummage with their bare hands.
The pressure at the bottom of the lake is not big, but it is not small, most of the items that have sunk at the bottom of the lake have been compressed and deformed, and the thriving aquatic plants have changed the appearance of the bottom of the lake, and some unnamed fish are wandering in the meantime. The bottom of the lake is covered with a layer of greasy sediment, and the bottom is covered with the wreckage of a small boat that sank here a few years ago, and next to it is a huge rock.
The diver was a little tired from swimming, so he stood on top of this rock.
Boom.
As soon as he stepped on it, he lifted up the dust that fell on the stone, and the stone shook slightly, and a tiny crack appeared.
Noticing something strange underfoot, the diver looked down to see that it was a rock. He felt the stone move, and wondered what kind of stone it was, after all, it was still rare to see such a round stone if it was naturally generated, especially at the bottom of a still lake. The diver gently brushed away the debris on the surface of the rock, and by the way, shaved the underneath as well. On the whole, it is a sphere with a diameter of nearly half a meter, narrow at the top and thick at the bottom, like an upright egg or a duck egg or a goose egg.
There was a boat parked on the lake, and the people on board did not see the signal from the diver below for a long time, so they contacted the diver and asked him what he was doing. The diver replied that he had found a big rock, and the people on the boat asked if it was not very common to have a stone, and the diver retorted that it was common for a spherical stone to appear at the bottom of the lake at a depth of more than 50 meters.
After searching for a long time, I finally found a detector in a pit, which was already covered with a layer of mud, and I couldn't find it at all if I didn't look closer.
After coming out of the lake, the divers kept thinking about the rock at the bottom of the lake.
A few days later, the diver drove a small boat by himself, came to the middle of the lake, put on his diving suit and oxygen tank, and planted himself in the lake. Swimming to the original place, the divers found the rock by the faint light and the markings they had made.
The stone remained as quiet at the bottom of the lake as ever, not moving.
The anxious diver swam straight to the rock, threw aside the small stones piled up on it, touched it lightly, and it felt so real, and then he covered the stone with a net he had brought with him, and then as soon as he pulled it, the diver carried the stone and swam upward.
The stone is very heavy, nearly half a ton in weight, and when it is in the water, it can still be lifted by buoyancy, and the closer it is to the lake, the heavier it feels. When there are still more than 20 meters above the surface of the lake, divers can no longer dive.
The diver didn't think it through, and he didn't expect a rock of this size to be so heavy. But at this time, neither up nor down, when in a dilemma, a click scared the diver.
When the diver looked back, he saw that the stone had cracked.
Holy, there's not going to be anything in there, is there?
Divers have also seen a lot of sci-fi horror movies, which often have images of terrifying creatures emerging from something inconspicuous.
The diver watched quietly, not letting go, not looking closer, he was ready to leave here, as soon as something suddenly came out of it.
After the stone cracked, there was no movement, but the net that covered it was tight and not completely separated.
The diver shines his lamp on the cracked stone, and through the crack in the stone he sees a flash of purple light.
Hey? What do I see?
The diver was not sure, but he was sure that there was no so-called monster in it, so he became a little bolder, and when he looked closer, he found that in the center of the stone there was something resembling amber, but it was lilac, only the size of an apple. The diver looked left and right and decided to put the stone back to the bottom of the lake, so he slowly returned to the bottom of the lake, loosened the net, and the stone parted on both sides, revealing the purple amber crystals inside. The diver carefully touched it with his hand, and it felt very hard, and then touched it again, and it felt very smooth, so he dared to gently pick it off. Holding it in his hand, it felt very light, so he put it in his pocket, looked at the two rocks at the bottom of the lake, and the diver put the stones together in order not to let others find anything, and then pressed down hard, and covered the sides with dirt. After doing the job of hiding the evidence, the divers clapped their hands and left.
When he returned home, the diver did not tell his wife, nor his friends, nor his colleagues. This thing is what he discovered, it is his thing, it is his wealth, it is his secret.
The purple amber had been exposed to the air for a long time, and the color was getting darker and darker, and the divers noticed it, thinking that the amber had deteriorated and might break down over time, so he went to a decoration shop and asked to seal the purple amber with glass.
Upon returning home, the divers found that several uninvited guests had arrived at the house, who were members of the National Security Agency.
It turned out that the diver secretly brought out of the lake by himself was caught by the surveillance camera near the lake, and at the same time, someone found a cracked stone at the bottom of the lake with an empty groove inside. The diver, as one of the suspects, was suddenly approached by the sixth merchant, and the first five were searched and found nothing.
The NSA man in a black suit looked at the diver seriously, asked a few questions, and the diver answered truthfully. However, the purple amber he left on the car did not tell them, and the NSA people rummaged through a few places, left a business card and left.
As soon as the NSA people left, the divers quickly ran back into the car, held the glass-sealed amber in their arms, and then ran into the house and put it in the safe. His wife stood in the doorway, watching the diver close the safe, trying to ask something, but did not ask, waiting for the diver to confess himself.
The diver stood up and turned to see his wife standing in the doorway, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, his head down and fiddling with his fingers.
I can tell you this, but you can't tell anyone, okay?
Well, you name it, I'm not going to tell anyone.
Suddenly, because he was worried, because he was afraid that things would be exposed, he was worried all day long, and now that he had the opportunity to vomit, he told his wife everything from beginning to end, and after he finished speaking, he exhaled heavily, it was not easy to hold a secret in his heart.
That's it?
His wife thought it was a big deal, and she thought he had gotten millions from somewhere, and she couldn't believe it.
Well, yes, that's it, you can't tell anyone about it!
Haha, don't worry, it's a big deal!
What the two of them didn't know was that what they said was heard by the NSA people clearly.
Early the next morning, before the two got up, to be precise, they hadn't woken up yet, and the house was broken in by several heavily armed soldiers, hula and mess around, smashing windows, throwing smoke bombs, tear gas, the whole thing was like a movie, the divers didn't know what was wrong, they were grabbed and dragged up, pulled to the living room, and saw several people with their faces pointed at themselves with special rifles.
A soldier came from the diver's bedroom with a safe and threw it on the ground with a thud.
Open it!
One of them pointed to the safe and looked at the diver.
The diver entered the code with a shudder, opened the safe with a click, and was dragged by the person behind him. A man walked over and poured the safe on the floor, and the money, banknotes, gold jewelry, secret documents, and a positive glass block fell out of the safe. The man didn't bother with the banknotes and gold jewelry, but picked up the glass block with purple amber in it and shook it in front of the diver.
Take!
As soon as one of the men who was supposed to be the leader of these soldiers waved his hand, two men came up to arrest the divers.
Slow down, slow down! My wife has nothing to do with this, I did everything, please let her go!
The diver saw several tall men setting himself up, and he was about to arrest his wife, so he hurriedly waved his hand.
The man who was the leader looked back at the diver's wife, tilted his head, and motioned for the diver's wife to be released.
The diver's wife ran to the door and watched her husband being taken away and could do nothing but crouch on the ground and cry.
Your surname is Qin, right? I'll just call you Xiao Qin, do you know what this is?
This leader sat next to the diver Xiao Qin, playing with the amber in his hand, and looked at Xiao Qin.
Diver Xiao Qin glanced at the purple amber in the hand of the person sitting next to him, and did not speak.
Oh, silence is golden?
This leader has seen too many of these situations where he thinks he can get through it by keeping his mouth shut and not speaking, and he smiled.
When they came to the NSA, two scientists ran quickly, one was bald, the other had thick hair and black-rimmed glasses, and the bald one snatched the amber from the man's hand and ran away without saying a word. The two scientists fixed the purple amber to the table and intended to cut through the glass with a laser.
Whoop whoop.
The glass wrapped in amber split in two, opened in the middle, and with a thud, the amber fell on the table.
Oh, and it's good that they didn't glue it, otherwise it wouldn't have worked.
Take a look at what's inside!
Okay, okay, don't worry.
Put the amber in the electron microscope and look at the computer screen, and the true face of the purple amber will be displayed in front of the two scientists.
Suddenly, there was a power outage in the laboratory, and the emergency lights on the wall were on.
Oh no, why is there a power outage at this time?
You...... How low do you think the NSA power outage is?
Another scientist whispered, a little frightened.
Oh, that's what you said, oh yes, look at that amber.
When the two of them took out the amber, they were surprised, it turned out that the amber was glowing with purple fluorescence, to be precise, the fluorescence emitted by a small card similar to a playing card.
Hey, look at this, inside!
What's wrong?
Wow, don't you look like a mini card?
The two scientists saw that it was a small card two centimeters long and one centimeter wide, and when viewed from the side, they only saw an extremely thin fluorescent line, and whether there was a pattern on it could not be seen clearly under the cover of fluorescence.
Bite!
The lab lights are on again, and a call is coming. At this point, the fluorescence in the amber also disappeared.
The bald scientist placed the amber under a magnifying glass and looked closely at the small card.
You come and look, it seems to be painted on it, you look at what it is.
The bald scientist waved his hand behind him.
You can't see clearly?
The bespectacled scientist walked over and, through a magnifying glass, also looked closely.
Hiss, kind of like an eye, it feels like it's not going in the right direction, and you turn forty-seven degrees in a counterclockwise direction.
Four...... Forty-seven degrees? All right.
Okay, okay, stop, well, it's an eye, you can come and take a look.
Oh, what an eye.
As soon as the two scientists said a word, they saw the pattern on the small card. It was an eye with closed eyes, a silhouette clearly visible, and a few sparse eyelashes.
I'd also like to see that fluorescence in the dark.
Me too, I went and turned off the lights.
The bespectacled scientist turns off the light, and the bald scientist prepares to see how the amber fluoresces the moment the light is turned off.
Pop, the lights in the lab went out again, and with a bang, the amber glowed again.
Oh!
The bald scientist was suddenly frightened, took a cold breath, took two or three steps back, and almost sat on the ground, being hugged by the bespectacled scientist who came from behind.
What's wrong?
The bespectacled scientist helped him to sit on a chair, walked up to him, and was stunned.
The bald scientist's eyes also glow with purple fluorescence, which is terrifying. The bespectacled scientist looked left and right, quickly ran over and turned on the light, and the amber fluorescence disappeared at the same time, and the bald scientist's eyes returned to normal.
The bespectacled scientist slowly walked up to the bald scientist.
I...... What happened to me just now?
The bald scientist looked down at his hands, and then up at the bespectacled scientist.
You...... You don't know? Do you know that you scared me out of the way, your eyes glowed like a light bulb!
The bespectacled scientist bent over and looked closer, revealing nothing unusual in his eyes.
You mean...... You mean, my eyes were fluorescent, too?
Yes, yes, how do you feel now?
Feel? Feel? Really, I feel like I'm a little sleepy and want to sleep.
The bald scientist slowly stood up, walked back and forth, leaned on the table, and rubbed his forehead.
One more thing I want to tell you is that the fluorescence of your eyes is the same color as the fluorescence of the amber over there.
The bespectacled scientist didn't want to mention it, for fear that he would have some bad thoughts, but after thinking twice, he decided to tell him anyway.
What the? It's true?
The bald scientist looked up at him suddenly.
Okay, why don't you turn off the lights again.
The bald scientist was adventurous, thought about it, looked at the bespectacled one.
No, no, no, I don't want to see you scared anymore, it's horrible.
The bespectacled one quickly waved his hand to refuse.
Well, if that's not the case, I'll turn off the lights, and you can take a look, and by the way, let's take a look at the fluorescent eyes.
The bald man said and walked over to turn off the lights.
Are you sure? It's not impossible, but you must turn on the lights!
The glasses were also curious about what it was like to have glowing eyes, so they were ready to give it a try.
He helped his eyes, and looked at the small card under the magnifying glass with his glasses.
Smack, the lights went out. Wow, the card lit up.
I saw that the pattern on the card with closed eyes suddenly opened, and a dazzling light shot out of my eyes. In the eyes of the glasses, it was like a headlight shining through, he was just about to close his eyes, he saw that the light disappeared, and he came to a starry cosmic starry sky, and he was like an insignificant star, he felt insignificant, the starry sky around him seemed to be a big cover changed towards him, and those starlights turned into rays of light and wrapped around him, and countless rays of light seemed to wrap him around as if they were wrapping around a ball of thread.
Bang, the lights are on, and the glasses are back to normal.
Hey, how are you feeling?
The bald scientist walked over and looked at the bespectacled one, but the bespectacled eyes were staring ahead and did not speak. The bald scientist took a closer look and looked into his glassed eyes, which were filled with stars, like a condensed galaxy swirling inside.
A few days later, the bespectacled scientist was taken to the emergency room, where he had not moved for three or four days, like a vegetative state.
The bald scientist told the others about the fluorescent amber when the lights were turned off, and the others were also very curious, so they came to the laboratory to do experiments. It doesn't matter, what matters is that several vegetative people with galaxies in their eyes appear all at once. Even bald scientists have not been spared.
The cards in the amber have changed from two centimeters long and one centimeter wide to six centimeters long and three centimeters wide, and the thickness is still thinner than the wings of cicadas.
People's curiosity has always been an indelible trace in people's hearts.
A few years later, a card ten meters long and five meters wide floated through space. Because people finally realized that it was hoodoo.
Finish.