Chapter 33: The Maze of the Stone

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Near noon, Lan Xingyi and Kevin arrived at Cambridge University. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The two got out of the car and entered an idyllic complex of ancient buildings.

"Arrived?" Lan Xingyi asked in surprise.

"It's here!" Kevin replied lightly.

"This is Cambridge University?" Lan Xingyi was even more surprised.

"Yes!" Kevin's answer was still unfazed, and it seemed that he had become accustomed to such a style. Lan Xingyi couldn't help but sigh when she saw such a scene, this British anti-theft awareness is really bad: Cambridge University has no walls, no school signs, and I didn't find that "I planted this tree, I opened this mountain, if you want to cross this road, leave to buy road money!" The whole campus has a pastoral atmosphere. Not long after entering the campus, I saw a small river that ran north-south and zigzags forward, and Lan Xingyi thought, this should be the famous Kang River! I saw that the scenery on both sides of the Kang River is beautiful, the grass is desolate, and there are many bridges with exquisite design and beautiful shape erected on the river! The River Cam is shallow and crystal clear, and from time to time a canoe floats across the river, carrying a burst of laughter. The grass on the riverside has withered and yellowed, and the path between the grass is full of people of all colors roaming freely, whispering softly or talking loudly. In the vast parks and lawns, there are antique churches and buildings, mottled walls, simple and elegant, without the slightest sense of impetuousness, gazing at each wall tile is like a dialogue with history. The main road of the campus is also quiet and peaceful, and as far as the eye can see, there is no demolition team composed of large excavators, nor can you see the reinforced concrete construction site surrounded by green gauze! Wandering in such a campus, it is difficult to think of being uninspired, no wonder Xu Zhimo will reluctantly write, gently I left!

Lan Xingyi was intoxicated by the picturesque scenery of Cambridge, and suddenly remembered that the university she attended couldn't help but feel sad, it was a noisy and flashy place, and the reinforced concrete buildings on the campus could not give people a moment of tranquility, although the walls were full of third-rate calligraphers writing quiet and far-reaching, it did not work at all. The main road is crowded with well-fed young people, and there is no vigor, confidence and peace on their faces, but instead they are physically and mentally exhausted, sleepy-eyed, driven by the pursuit of fame and fortune, and lose the calmness to control their own destiny! The studies and careers they engage in have never been to obey their hobbies and give full play to their talents, but to be at the mercy of society and driven by interests, and to dedicate their lives in a dark world! How can a slave who completes the task by assault before the exam be able to compete with the meticulous understanding and talent of a people-oriented knight! In such a comparison, Lan Xingyi suddenly felt that she was a lot shorter than Kevin, thinking back to how poor she was when she first got off the plane, and she was instantly ashamed, did she have the courage and confidence to shout in Cambridge University, we have a civilization of 5,000 years, do you have it?

Kevin quickly arranged Lan Xingyi's accommodation, and then called his mentor to report the results, Lan Xingyi didn't have the heart to listen to what they said, and sorted out things in the house alone. After a while, Kevin came over and said, "Miss Lan, I have unfortunate news to tell you, due to the strike, many humanities scholars can't arrive on time, and the exchange will be postponed for two days, you won't mind, right?" ”

"No!" Lan Xingyi replied silently.

"Miss Lan, what's wrong?" Kevin saw that Lan Xingyi was not very interested, and he didn't understand the reason, he didn't expect this girl to be so sentimental, An Guangsha had the same feelings as Lan Xingyi when he came over before, but An Guangsha was old after all, and it was not easy to shake his consistent thinking pattern. Lan Xingyi is different, she is not very sure of the culture of various ethnic groups, especially when she compares a little and shows the advantages and disadvantages, she is the easiest to shake!

"Nothing!" Lan Xingyi still looked gloomy.

"You're coming to England for the first time, right?" Kevin quickly changed the topic, and suddenly remembered what happened last night, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that Lan Xingyi was too careful, isn't it just a joke casually, what's the big deal.

"Well, it's my first time!"?

"Well, you can go out and have fun, where do you want to go? I'll go with you! Kevin tried to raise Lan Xingyi's interest.

"Don't you have to go to class?"

"Yes, but the task of these few days is to accompany you!" Kevin replied very dryly. "My teachers are all running around for the exchange meeting, who has time to teach me!"

"Oh, that's it!" Lan Xingyi said lightly.

"Say, where are you going?" Kevin asked again.

"This..."Lan Xingyi hesitated for a moment, and suddenly thought of her task, so she rolled her eyes and asked Kevin, "Can you go anywhere?" ”

"Of course, Britain isn't that big in all!"

"Yes! Ha ha! Lan Xingyi smiled. But this place I'm going to is a little bit special! ”

"Oh? Particularly? That's okay too! ”

"I'm interested in crop circles in the UK, can you get me to visit them?" Lan Xingyi said cautiously.

"I'm afraid this is more troublesome!" Kevin frowned a little embarrassed.

"Why?" Lan Xingyi asked puzzled.

"Crop circles usually occur from April to September, which is the growing season of crops, but now it's winter, and it's impossible to see crop circles!" Kevin explained earnestly.

"Oh," Lan Xingyi frowned in disappointment.

"But that's okay, I can find a way to contact the crop circle research society and see if they have any solutions?" Kevin reassured.

"Okay!" Lan Xingyi said very happily. Soon Kevin contacted the Rye Circle Research Association, Lan Xingyi tidied up a little, and the two of them set off straight for Salisbury Plains, southwest of London.

Wiltshire is just over 100 kilometres from London, and is home to the Rye Circle, where the Rye Circle Institute is located. Kevin soon found Kerry Wilson, the president of the Rye Circle Institute, who was not tall, silver-haired, glasses-wearing, unscrupulous, very talkative, very active, and even a little crazy.

"Hello Kerry, I'm Kevin Bryan, a graduate student in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and we've been in touch before!" Kevin greeted him warmly.

"Hello, Kevin!" Kerry held out his hand in welcome.

"This is my Chinese friend, Miss Lan Xingyi!" Kevin introduced.

"Hello, Miss Lan Xingyi!" Kerry held out his hand enthusiastically.

"Hello, Kerry!" Lan Xingyi greeted Kerry like Kevin.

"This Miss Lan Xingyi is very interested in the crop circle, but unfortunately there is no ready-made one to visit now, so I brought her to you!" Kevin starts talking to Kerry.

"That's right, crop circles usually occur from April to September, which coincides with the growing season of crops, and the creation time is at night, so it's hard to see it live!" Kerry complained.

"Haha," Lan Xingyi said with a smile. "I didn't plan to watch it live, and I didn't think about revealing the secrets of the crop circle, but I was very interested and wanted to see it with my own eyes!"

"Haha," Kerry laughed too. "I've collected most of the crop circles here, some of them I took myself, some of them I collected from others, so you can take a look at them first! If you feel the need, I can take you to the site where you discovered the crop circle before! ”

"Okay!" Lan Xingyi became very excited.

"Come with me!" After saying that, Kerry took Lan Xingyi and Kevin to the office of the Rye Circle Research Association, in fact, the office is very simple, only a desk and a few chairs, the area is not large, and the walls are covered with all kinds of pictures of crop circles, large or small, even people who have not been here will see at a glance what this office is for.

"Just sit down!" Kerry gestured.

"Okay, thank you!" Although Lan Xingyi said this, she didn't mean to sit at all, her eyes scanned the pictures on the wall, and she moved her steps from time to time. Kevin was also attracted by the pictures on the wall, so he didn't sit down, and followed Lan Xingyi around the wall. Kerry didn't bother either, and when they finished reading it, he gave in again: "Sit casually!" ”

"Well, okay, thank you!" Lan Xingyi found a chair to sit on, and Kevin also sat down next to him.

"How? I've got a pretty good collection, right? Kerry smiled confidently, clearly showing off.

"Well, yes!" Lan Xingyi nodded very seriously.

"I have a lot of them on my computer!" As he spoke, Kerry turned on the desktop on his desk.

"Kerry," Lan Xingyi called out politely. "Why did you wash out some of the pictures?"

"Ahh "These pictures on the wall are the most classic and elusive! It is easy for me to study and show to my peers! ”

"Oh, that's right!" Lan Xingyi nodded calmly.

"Come, come and see!" At this time, the desktop on Kerry's desk had been turned on, and he warmly beckoned Lan Xingyi to come over and take a look. Lan Xingyi was not polite, moved the chair and passed, and Kevin followed.

"Look at this..."Kerry explained while playing, and the pictures he saved, each crop circle took a lot of photos, some from the ground, some from high altitudes, and Kerry has preserved the original version, which shows that this guy still took a lot of painstaking work. If you read too much of the same thing, you will get tired, and after a while Kevin will lose interest, and he straightens up and paces around the room. Lan Xingyi was tired after looking at it for a while, she also straightened her waist, and her eyes scanned the pictures on the surrounding walls. Suddenly, her eyes focused on a small picture on the wall, this photo was not particularly clear, and she didn't pay much attention when she looked at it just now, but only after careful identification could she find that this crop circle was very complex, and there seemed to be the shape of half a person next to the circular outline. Lan Xingyi hurriedly walked over with her waist straight, and Kevin followed curiously when he saw her like this. Lan Xingyi took a closer look and understood everything at that time, she immediately turned around and asked Kerry: "Kerry, do you have this picture on your computer?" ”

"Yes!" Kerry carefully identified the direction of Lan Xingyi's finger and replied in the affirmative.

"Then you" Lan Xingyi hesitated for a moment, and then said earnestly: "Then can you copy this photo to me?" ”

"Yes!" Kerry replied without pressure, he sat down at his desk, and quickly flipped to the photo. "No, right here, do you have a removable storage device? I'll torture you! ”

"Yes!" Lan Xingyi replied and walked to the computer to check, she dragged the mouse to enlarge the picture a little, but the pixels of the picture are not large, and it will be blurred if it is slightly enlarged, Lan Xingyi couldn't help asking: "Why is this picture so blurry?" ”

"Oh, this picture is provided by a hobbyist, it has been a long time since this crop circle was discovered, and that enthusiast took a picture with his mobile phone casually, and when we reacted and rushed over, it was pointless to take pictures!" Kerry had a look of regret on his face.

"Well, it's okay, copy it to me!" Lan Xingyi immediately handed over the USB flash drive, obviously she came prepared. Kerry simply copied Lan Xingyi without the slightest hesitation, and in order to show his enthusiasm, he also copied a few pictures that he thought were good.

"Quite discerning, little girl!" After copying it, Kerry handed the USB flash drive to Lan Xingyi and praised with a smile.

"Huh?" Lan Xingyi was a little puzzled by what he said, and her face showed surprise.

"Ahh ”

"What?" Kevin asked as he walked over with an exaggerated expression. "Self-portrait of an alien? This expert's brain is crazy, isn't it? ”

"How do you know it's not?" Kerry immediately retorted.

"Then you say, what are aliens doing in the wheat field painting their own heads?" Kevin showed no signs of weakness.

"How do I know what the aliens think?" Kerry is not showing weakness either.

"Then you can't just put anything on the alien's head, right?"

"yes, so the discussion comes and goes, and there is no conclusive conclusion, so why don't experts be allowed to have a vision of aliens?"

"Oh, yes! Kerry, didn't you say you'd take us to see some crop circle ruins, really? Lan Xingyi saw that the two of them were arguing, and quickly diverted the topic.

"Well, that's where the photo was taken, and then the wheat in the farmland there didn't grow well, so it was abandoned!" Kerry reverted to his image of a well-mannered English gentleman.

"Where this photo was taken?" Lan Xingyi was overjoyed. "And when are we going?"

"The site is right next to the town, a short drive away! If you want, you can go now! Kerry said lightly.

"Let's go now, what do you say, Kevin?" Lan Xingyi turned to Kevin for advice. Kevin finally saw that Lan Xingyi was rejuvenated, and he didn't want to spoil the scenery, so he smiled and nodded, and Kerry drove Lan Xingyi and Kevin out of Wiltshire. The car sped over the Salisbury Plains, the sky was blue, the lawns on both sides of the road had turned yellow, and only the grass roots were still green. The car drove for a while, and a huge stone pile appeared on the flat grassland, and Lan Xingyi curiously pressed her head to the window. Kevin saw Lan Xingyi's doubts, and he enthusiastically introduced: "That's Stonehenge!" ”

"What? Stonehenge? Lan Xingyi turned to Kevin in surprise.

"Hmm," Kevin smiled and nodded. "Are you going to see it?"

"Is that okay?" Lan Xingyi shyly turned to Kerry.

"Absolutely!" Kerry, who was driving, replied affirmatively. "The crop circle is not far from here, and it's okay to delay here for a while!"

"Good," Lan Xingyi said happily. Kerry was calm, he calmly parked the car on the road near Stonehenge, and the three of them got out of the car and walked towards the huge stone pile. I saw dozens of huge stone piles standing on the flat earth, lined up in three rows inside and out, forming a complete concentric circle! The stone pile is seven or eight meters high, fifty or sixty tons in weight, and there is a huge stone horizontally on top of the two vertical stone piles, although the ground where the stone piles are erected is not particularly flat, but the horizontal stones are horizontal!

"This is Stonehenge!" Kerry introduced. Some experts speculate that this Stonehenge is directly related to the crop circle, and its construction process is to pile stones directly around the crop circle, and the geometry of Stonehenge is circular, but there is a slight deviation, and the crop circle has the same similar deviation. The location, size and shape of the crop circle are closely related to Stonehenge! Such a huge stone is not something ordinary people can make, some people suspect that this is the masterpiece of an alien visitor, an alien base, and these huge circles are for flying saucers to park! Salisbury is home to the most UFO sightings in the UK, including crop circles and numerous UFO sightings! ”

"Kerry, don't blame the aliens for everything!" Kevin interrupted impatiently.

"And what do you say is going on?" Kerry asked rhetorically.

"Our scientists have studied this for a long time, and according to carbon 14 isotope determinations, Stonehenge was built in 2300 BC, 4300 years ago, and was built by the prehistoric Blue Rock people living in Wales!"

"That's all a family story!" Kerry argued.

"In 2300 B.C., so Britain has 4300 years of civilization?" Lan Xingyi asked.

"No, our civilization has not been passed down all the time, that is, our current civilization has nothing to do with these prehistoric civilizations!" Kevin said modestly.

"Well, your statement is quite objective!" Lan Xingyi praised it. At this time, Kerry walked a little faster, and Kevin approached Lan Xingyi and whispered: "This brain-dead actually believes that there are aliens in the world!" ”

"Do you think so?" Lan Xingyi smiled mysteriously.

"Definitely not, we've all detected tens of billions of light-years of space, haven't we found nothing?" Kevin said in a very firm tone.

"Haha, yes!" Lan Xingyi smiled indifferently, and the three of them turned around in Stonehenge for dozens of minutes before continuing to return to the car and hurry, the car swept past the pyramid of Mount Sylblly and came to a vast farmland. Kerry led the way in front, Lan Xingyi and Kevin followed closely behind, and after walking dozens of meters, Kerry pointed to a deserted wheat field in front of him and said, "This is it!" ”

"This is it?" Lan Xingyi couldn't believe her eyes, except for the wheat that didn't grow well, there was no trace of the wheat field circle on the deserted wheat field.

"Yes, after the wheat circle happened, the farmer planted it again, and the wheat didn't grow well and it was abandoned!" Kerry explained, stepping into the deserted wheat field, followed by Lan Xingyi and Kevin. It didn't take long for Lan Xingyi to vaguely feel that something was wrong under his feet, as if someone was talking to him, and turned to look at Kevin, he was already staggering and unstable, Lan Xingyi hurriedly called him, Kevin looked over here, and his eyes rolled and he fainted to the ground.