"Why do you say that?" I wondered, but as soon as I finished asking, I understood the meaning of the stuffy oil bottle.

In a sense, we are in the same situation as the figures in these stones, except that they have less space, and they are trapped in the stones, like those strange fish living in the stones, but it is certain that if we are found in a few years, we will definitely not be alive.

Thinking of this, I felt a little awe-inspiring in my heart, and said, "It's still a little different, at least we have such a big space for activities now, and we're still alive." There are infinite possibilities to be alive. ”

The stuffy oil bottle said lightly: "I didn't mean that. ”

I groaned, a little surprised. I've always felt like I've had a tacit understanding with them before, but here, I can't keep up with his thoughts. He seemed to think of things much faster than I did.

I asked, "Do you have any ideas?" Just say it! ”

He looked at me, "Have you ever wondered where we would be if we hadn't been dug out of a mine like this?" ”

I thought about it, and felt that my brain was a little sluggish, and I still didn't understand what he meant, but the fat man's face turned white, and he scolded: "I'm cāo!" ”

Immediately I understood, and the scalp in the back of my head exploded.

If this is not a mine, then, what would it be?

This is the rock wall, the interior of the mountain. If we had been brought here in the same way, it would have been embedded in the rock wall, exactly like those shadows.

I shuddered. What does it feel like? It would be horrible if I woke up and found myself embedded in a rock wall deep in the mountains, unable to move, and had to do this until I died.

"Thinking about this matter in reverse, perhaps, it is a complete coincidence that we are alive now. ”

I nodded silently. This strange thing may be a mysterious phenomenon in the mountains, and it may not be the first time it has happened in the mountains. Even if no one had been digging here, it would have happened, and we are in an even more unbelievable situation.

The fat man swallowed, looked at the figures, and said, "So, these are our predecessors?" Have you been a victim of the same thing before? ”

"It's just one possibility." "Still, I'd rather believe it's so." ”

I understood what he meant. If this is a strange natural phenomenon, his previous inference may have been wrong, then no matter how disadvantaged our situation is, it is safe at least for the time being.

The fat man asked, "Naive, you read a lot, you speculate and speculate, what could be going on?" If it is as the little brother said, what could be the situation? ”

I laughed and said, "It's useless to read this kind of thing no matter how much you read, you have to explain it with what you can learn from reading, which is the concept of physics, we may have fallen into the crack between two spaces and stuffed here from one place at once." However, in reality, this is impossible, and even if you do enter a naturally formed spatial rift, the place where it will reappear will be another universe, and the possibility of appearing in the same area will be infinitely close to zero. ”

There are many legends of this kind of thing in the world, and in some very special places, such as Bermuda, it is said to be this phenomenon. But I don't believe that this is the case here, the process of the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle losing consciousness at the bottom of the lake is not at all like being dealt with by a "natural phenomenon", too much like being used by someone to plot something. So, I agree with the stuffy oil bottle's previous opinion: the power that brought us here is definitely meaningful and purposeful.

The fat man disagreed, he said: "Maybe xìng is so small that it is infinitely close to zero, and it is not equal to zero." ”

I said, "There is only one explanation for science." If not, we are dealing with a different category entirely. ”

The fat man fell into deep thought, and said to himself: "Is there such a thing in the legend left by our ancestors? ”

I thought about it, I had never seen a record of a human figure in a rock in any of my notes before, of course, maybe I didn't know it wide enough.

The fat man continued: "Legend has it that in the mountains near Liu Bowen's tomb, there are people who have only walked for one day, and the place where they came out was more than a hundred kilometers away from the place where they entered the mountain, as if they were taken from one place to another in an instant. They call this phenomenon 'mountain ghost back', and they think that they are being carried by mountain ghosts, so they don't know how many miles they have walked. There are also people who call it 'walking the mountain', saying that the mountain is walking, and you say, could there be a similar phenomenon here, but in a different direction? ”

I shook my head, that doesn't hold it. They are on the surface of the mountain, and we are now in the inner part of the mountain, not what is carried and walked, but swallowed by the mountain.

Moreover, there is a little strange thing about this matter, which is particularly difficult to understand, that is, this mine is closed, and there is no collapse around it, but this mine must have had an entrance, where did it go? Even if you encounter a natural phenomenon that may be very special, such as a 'mountain-back ghost' or a 'mountain-walking', it will not even disappear from the entrance.

What's going on here is much more complicated, and there's a very strange feeling to it.

Thinking of this, I remembered Panma's statement, he said that there was a devil in this lake, and I actually believed it a little at this time. It seems that only the devil can do such an unthinkable thing. Even if there were no devils, I would have looked at this mountain or lake a little unusual.

The water gradually evaporated, and the shadows gradually faded, and soon I couldn't see clearly, so I used my feet to draw off the 'iron figurines' that I had carved on the ground. Then I pondered for a long time, but there was still no result.

The rock wall was restored to its original state, but our feelings changed, and knowing that there was something embedded in the rock wall after five or six punches, I had a strong sense of being watched, which made people feel unsettled. This feeling was not there just now, it was obviously a psychological effect, but it could not be dispelled.

All three of them were thinking in a muffled voice, but they didn't speak, and occasionally the fat man popped up with an idea, but I vetoed it.

I think a lot of possibilities, but they are also unreliable. Eventually, I started to think through what I had just thought about from the beginning, including all the details, to see if I could bring anything else to the table.

As the fat man said, the function of these iron figurines is to seal these shadows, so the motive of the archaeological team can be explained, what they are looking for is the remains of these shadows, but they don't know what use this thing is for them.

When the miners were mining the jade mines, they dug up these figures, and it is certain that the mining was not interrupted, and the desire for jade made them continue to dig while worshipping the Thunder King.

Then, one day, someone left a message in front of the statue of the Thunder King.

Judging by the content of the message and the figure in the stone wall, it is clear that his instructions were not carried out, and it is possible that after he left, the mining was terminated. There are many possibilities for them to stop mining, it could be war, it could be a disaster, it could be the entrance to this mine that disappeared inexplicably, and maybe even those miners were in the same situation as us - maybe there is not only one mine here, they are trapped elsewhere. There can be any possibility, the only thing that is certain is that the story of jade mining ends here.

After that, it's our story.

At first glance, it is very clear and reasonable, but when you think about it carefully, you will find that there is a contradiction that is difficult to detect. The contradiction comes from reverse thinking, what if all the activities of mining did not take place? So, what's going to happen here? If no one excavates the jade mine, there will be no pit, so will the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle also encounter things when they are underwater?

If mining doesn't happen, then where we are now, it's a solid rock wall, and if the force that brought us here is a natural phenomenon, then even if it's a rock wall, things will happen the same, because the power itself is natural, and we're just one of the victims of a strange phenomenon.

But what if it's not a natural phenomenon on the contrary? If this mine didn't exist, would this have happened?

I feel that it may not happen, because both the stuffy oil bottle and I believe that there is some kind of consciousness behind this incident, and the purpose is definitely not to kill us, and behind this act of bringing us here, there must be a purpose that is not yet known, and the premise of achieving it is to have this pit. Then we are trapped to death, which is equivalent to being killed, and it has no meaning for "it". Based on the inference, if we break things down, we can first know that the consciousness knows that there is this mine. On the other hand, the fact that the mine was not planned, and that its existence here was an accident, which proves that the mysterious purpose of the consciousness arose after the pit was built. This mine has this purpose first. Well, the matter is very far-fetched and a little unreasonable.

Suppose this force, which we call the devil, wanders around one day, and suddenly finds a pit here, and after pondering it, it finds that it can be used, and then raises up a purpose, and then uses some means to capture us and trap us here, so as to achieve the goal.........

If this is the kind of process, then his purpose, no matter how you look at it, will not be a serious matter, and this kind of behavior, starting and turning, has a board and an eye, and the purpose xìng and cāo are too strong, which is completely consistent with human thinking. I don't rule out that there may be some mysterious force in the world, but I think this power is certainly transcendent and not so utilitarian and shallow.

But if this power is not the devil, but a person, then it is different.

One man knew that there was a pit and found that it could be used, so he devised a yīn plot to somehow stun the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle at the bottom of the lake, and then brought them in a very ingenious way. in order to realize his plan. This sounds very reasonable, not only do we not think that this person is unreliable, but we will also think that he is so deliberate that he must have a greater plot in the future.

There is a philosopher who once said: When all the impossible is eliminated, it is also a fact that it is impossible again. That's why I've always found this thing weird. Being in the middle of it, I smelled a strong smell of "yīnmou".

In other words, if we don't get it right, we are in a "human" setting. It's just that this yīn plot is too ingenious to understand. I looked at the stuffy bottle, he must have realized it. So he didn't participate in our hypothesis at all, but he didn't take any further action, because it was just a feeling after all, and it couldn't be confirmed.