Things began to take a turn for me that I hadn't expected, first as soon as I arrived in Genkai I was swept away by mysterious monsters, and then I inexplicably entered the underwater complex. I saw the neurotic old man, and now Professor Shen Liangye is also crazy, and I am trapped under this water and can't get out.

"That's them, that's them, don't you know?"

He unconsciously waved his arms in front of me, and spoke in a tone that sounded like a child. I asked several times, but the professor repeated the words, and I had to look for clues on my own. There are a lot of things scattered on the ground around, the shelf life of compressed biscuits is still very long, and there are a lot of them, I estimated that so many compressed biscuits should be enough for the rations of more than 20 people, and one person should be able to eat for a year and a half. In addition to this, there are some weapons and household items.

There must have been people living here, and Professor Shen couldn't have moved these things by himself, but the others, huh? According to Professor Shen, they are all dead, but why is Professor Shen the only one alive?

I walked around the cave and started to walk outside, but just as I was about to step out of the cave, Professor Shen suddenly ran up from behind, grabbed me and shouted, "Don't go out, don't go out!" ”

I was stunned and asked strangely, "Why can't you go out?" What's up there? ”

"Don't go out, don't go out......"

He didn't say why, but there was tension in his words, even very nervous.

"What the hell is going on out there?"

I felt more and more that something was wrong, and at this moment, all the light in the passage had dimmed, and I felt that something was wrong, as if an unusual qi was drifting in, and I hurriedly retreated, pulling the professor back into the cave. The professor looked nervously ahead, and the hand holding me was trembling slightly, looking very nervous.

Is he afraid of what's out there? I looked intently, but I couldn't see what was floating in, I didn't have any tools on me, and I didn't know where the Tushan knife had fallen. Not to mention something like a demon hunting crossbow, you can only hold a bone spur and wait solemnly. Something as thin as a light mist of turquoise drifted in the darkness and slowly passed in front of my eyes, neither I nor the professor made a sound, and even the crazy professor seemed too afraid to move out of fear. As the turquoise mist drifted past me, I could hear a low voice from the turquoise mist, like breathing, hurried like a hungry beast. Although I didn't know the details of the other party, I instinctively sensed that the things in the turquoise mist in front of me were not to be messed with, and it was best not to let it discover my presence. I didn't dare to move, it didn't seem to notice me, and after wandering around the cave and then floated out, I turned my head to look and remembered the direction it flew out.

When the blue-green mist flew out, the faint light in the cave reappeared, and Professor Shen Liangye was obviously relieved, but at that moment, I saw his expression, but it seemed a little strange.

Because at that moment, the expression on his face didn't seem to be crazy.

When the light returned, he changed back to his original state, and walked up and down the cave without knowing what to do, and I squatted aside to take a closer look, but I seemed to gradually see some doorways.

At first glance, he seems to be walking back and forth in the cave irregularly, running back and forth as if he had gone crazy. But in fact, he was making some arrangements, and some of the similar stones and bones scattered on the cave floor seemed to have been deliberately put down. After I looked at it for a while, he suddenly walked up to me quickly, took out the kettle and handed it to me, as if he meant to let me drink water.

"Uh-huh......"

He handed me the kettle and patted me on the back at the same time.

I took the kettle, took a sip, and said, "Professor, you're pretending to be crazy." ”

He turned his back to me, but obviously his body was slightly stunned, and he was stunned for a moment, but he didn't take my fork, and continued to slap the ground, I tightened the lid of the kettle, and then shouted: "Professor, I know you are pretending to be crazy, I am not a bad person, you don't have to act." ”

But he still ignored me, I stood up abruptly and walked over and began to kick the bones and stones that he had deliberately picked up from outside the cave, which angered Professor Shen Liangye, and immediately stood up and shouted at me, I took out the bone spurs and shouted: "I can see that you are pretending to be crazy, don't pretend to me, I don't mean to hate you." ”

His excited expression finally changed, slowed down a little, and then shouted, "How do you see that?" ”

"You don't pretend to look like that."

I said with a smile.

He completely gave up his disguise, sat down and said, "I'm really not a good actor." ”

"Why are you pretending to be crazy? What happened to you? And what was that turquoise mist just now? ”

I asked, puzzled.

He looked at me and said, "Do you want to smoke?" I still have a pack here. But without fire, I can't make fire. ”

While speaking, Professor Shen Liangye took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, which was an unopened Marlboro, and it is said that many experts engaged in research at that time liked to smoke outside cigarettes, because they heard that outside cigarettes could better concentrate. I flipped my palm slightly, and the flame burned in my hand, Professor Shen Liangye was startled, but after a while, his face softened, he took out one and leaned over to light it, took a deep breath and said, "Thank you, I haven't smoked for many days, it's comfortable." ”

I also lit one for myself, but I couldn't get used to smoking outside cigarettes, and the smell was too strong, and even though I didn't know much about cigarettes, I still felt very choked. At this time, he spoke: "Those comrades who came with me, and a few students I brought with me died, we were attacked by a waterspout when we first arrived in Xuanhai, and several people died at that time, and the rest of the people protected me to retreat, but I was still swept into the lake by the water, and there were many people around me after I woke up, but I was attacked by monsters, and I was the only one who survived in the end." ”

It looks like they were in the same situation as us, and if I hadn't stopped the waterspout at the time, maybe one or two of our group would have died.

"Can you be specific?"

I asked.

"Then I'll tell you from the beginning, I've been studying the demon race all these years, although this is not recognized by many orthodox historians, and biologists also laugh at our school, thinking that we are just grandstanders, but in my opinion, it is these people who are really useless. Even though you don't understand anything, you want to deny the existence of possibility. Two thousand years ago, people didn't know that the earth was round, and a thousand years ago, people didn't believe in the existence of airplanes and televisions. The world is inherently changing, and the so-called truth of the past will become a piece of shit in a few hundred years, and only by constantly proving it can we ensure that what we see and say is right. ”

At this point, I still agree with Professor Shen Liangye's words, as an expert, especially a research scholar, if you always rest on your laurels, you will eventually be eliminated, and it is ridiculous to act as an authoritative image without studying or studying.

"They don't believe in the existence of demons, so I want to prove it to them, I have brought the corpse of the demon to them in the past, and they say that it is a monster that has been exposed to nuclear radiation. I took pictures to show them, and they said that the movies are all out of the air, so what's so hard about getting a monster out? I'm just not convinced, if I can prove the existence of the Xuanhai, and determine the topography of the Xuanhai and the route in and out of the Xuanhai, then I will take them to take a look, and let them see for themselves that there are still creatures in this world that they don't know about! ”

Professor Shen Liangye's stubbornness is really admirable, and if the world thinks I'm wrong, then I'm going to prove me right.

"I heard you received an anonymous envelope with a map of Genkai inside?"

I asked.

"Yes, it was with this map that I entered the Xuanhai."

"Can you show me?"

After I made this request, Professor Shen Liangye immediately handed over the map, it seems that he really attaches importance to this map, it is all close to him, I took it and looked at it and felt that something was wrong, this map is not newly drawn, the bottom is cowhide, it is painted in great detail, and even marked the route in and out, but there is no topographic map under the Xuanhai Sea.

"Where's the envelope?"

I asked again.

"That's gone, only the map is there."

He shook his head.