Chapter 121: Demon Stone (2)
Going up to the fifth floor underground, Hong Yi looked at Bai Min and waited for the other party's explanation.
Bai Min took a deep breath, stroked the hair in front of his forehead, and then said: "Sir Hong Yi, I am an expert in archaeology and Eastern and Western mythology, there are some things, I hope you can listen to my advice, I believe this will help you, just like Wendigo, they are definitely not monsters that only arise during the great catastrophe, in the Indian tribes of the northern Americas, legends about them have a history of hundreds of years, I know their characteristics and their weaknesses, in addition, I also know through what medium they entered the Vault. ”
I have to say that Bai Min is a smart woman, otherwise she would not have become an authority in a certain field at a young age, although there is a relationship between her family, but if she herself does not have this ability, she will not be able to do it.
And now, she has obviously received Hong Yi's attention.
"Come with me to the main control room!" Hong Yi knew that this was not the place to speak, and besides, he was going to look at the surveillance video from the previous seven underground floors to see what was going on there.
Bai Min was a little excited to follow Hong Yi away at the moment, she knew that she had seized an opportunity, at least not like others, assuming that this place was broken by Wendigo below, Hong Yi and they wanted to retreat, they would inevitably take themselves first, and others might be abandoned.
She could see that if this really happened, the man in front of her would definitely do it.
Du Quan watched Bai Min follow Hong Yi away, and he also saw the cave, and understood a lot in an instant, he had just checked the time through the control panel in the shelter, and the current time was indeed 2095 AD, that is, that Hong Yi did not lie to them, they did sleep in the dormant warehouse for 74 years.
After such a long time, the situation outside must have been completely different from before, and his identity as a member of the Authority is a joke, and no one will recognize him. If he is abandoned, then he knows what the fate will be with his heels.
There is only one dead end.
Du Quan is not bold, but he is shrewd enough, and at this time he is already thinking about his own value. His knowledge was obviously not as good as Bai Min's, but he also had other advantages.
Thinking of this, Du Quanquan couldn't wait to catch up immediately, showing his value to the young man he had disdained before, and only hoped that the other party would not abandon him. Even if he wasn't abandoned, he didn't want to be at the bottom, like those who cleaned up the corpses, he didn't want to do this kind of hard work.
After all, the people who could think of this were a minority, and the vast majority of those fifteen people still didn't want to believe what was in front of them, or they were completely confused and didn't know what to do.
The main control room was obviously much cleaner, and there were originally classes among the barbarian races, and after they knew that Hong Yi could control their fate, whether it was the Council of Elders or Lao Chen. Hong Yi was truly worshiped as a god, and he arranged for several young and beautiful women from the barbarian race to serve, first of all, to prepare food and water, and wait for dispatch at any time.
This kind of 'leader' level treatment, Hong Yi is really a little unaccustomed, he asked everyone waiting here to go out, and then sat on the chair in the main control room, looking at Bai Min.
There was boiling water on the table, as well as some food found in the pantry that had been preserved in a special way, but in sealed jars. Although it doesn't look good, at least it can be eaten, and as for the food in the cold room, it has long since rotted.
Fortunately, Lao Chen picked a lot of usable berries along the way. There are also the carcasses of mutated beasts, which are the best food as long as they are roasted.
So now there is enough food and water on Hong Yi's table, even Hong Yi himself looks a little hungry, not to mention Bai Min, who has an empty stomach and has been hungry for more than 70 years.
Hong Yi took a sip of water first. Then he picked up a two-pound barbecue and gnawed it, while Bai Min stood aside a little nervously, staring at the food and water, his eyes full of eating.
"Come, sit down and eat together!" Hong Yi didn't have the habit of eating alone, and he could see that Bai Min had enough value for himself, so he naturally wouldn't treat her badly.
Hearing Hong Yi's words, Bai Min swallowed her saliva, sat on another chair and ate it, at first she took small bites of elegance, but then she didn't care about it, munching and swallowing, she was really hungry.
"If you haven't eaten for a long time, you can't eat too much at the first meal, otherwise you may die!" Hong Yi saw that it was almost there, and stopped Bai Min's gobbling, the latter looked satisfied, and the corners of his mouth were full of berry juice and barbecue scraps.
After drinking a few sips of water, Hong Yi and her began a formal conversation.
"Compared to everyone else, you are a smart woman, tell me what you know!"
Hong Yi got straight to the point, and praised the other party, Bai Min smiled, knowing that he had made the right bet, at least he was full now, and Director Du and they were still hungry.
"When we evacuated to Vault Thirty, something was transported as a research item, and I gave it a name, the Demon Stone, and based on my analysis of ancient texts and corresponding knowledge, I can be sure that Wendigo entered the Vault through this Demon Stone."
Bai Min opened her head, and the words poured out like a surging river, because she was one of the few research experts in the shelter at that time, so she naturally knew all the information about that 'demon stone'.
What surprised Hong Yi was the origin of this demon stone.
It was actually stripped from a meteorite, and Hong Yi knew since he was a child that the catastrophe more than 70 years ago was caused by a large-scale meteorite rain.
It's just that there is no specific explanation in the textbooks of the schools in the gathering place, only that those meteorite rains brought some kind of 'prototype', just like a virus, which began to spread in the air, and the people around the meteorite fell to the ground were infected for the first time, and the infected humans became mutants, and they continued to spread the virus through bites, which eventually led to the collapse of the entire old world.
So Hong Yi knew that the meteorite was definitely not a good thing, and it was not an exaggeration to call it a 'demon stone', and now Bai Min actually told himself that in this refuge, there was a 'demon stone' that was stripped from the meteorite.
Hong Yi immediately thought of the strange black stone statue on the seventh basement floor that he saw from the surveillance video before.
Could it be that thing?
"The seventh underground floor is the secret research room, our research object from the beginning is that demon stone, first of all, the texture, although it looks like stone, but it is not any stone known to the earth, it is a completely new substance, human beings have never been in contact with, and secondly, its mass and density, it is almost the same as steel, even harder than steel, this is not the strangest, our research did not progress at the beginning, but then we found through magnetic field induction, that this stone is constantly releasing some kind of energy."
With Bai Min's explanation, Hong Yi was attracted to it, and he wanted to know what the other party had researched.
"The energy we found is very special, but we don't know anything about it, and we still haven't made any progress on this energy during the year we spent in the Vault, but another professor in the research group, he has come up with a very interesting theory."
"What theory?" Hong Yi is curiosity.
"Channel Theory!" Bai Min saw that he had aroused Hong Yi's attention, and he was a little proud in his heart, the other party was very strong, and he could see that he was very powerful, anyway, in this unknown new era, these people who had just woken up did not have any hole cards, and could only rely on others, Bai Min was not the kind of nerd who only knew how to read, her background, her status allowed her to come into contact with many people who held great power, so how to fight for power and profit, how to intrigue Bai Min Although she had not done it herself, she also knew the truth under her ears and eyes. Now, if you want to live a better life, you can only rely on the person in front of you.
"The channel theory actually involves a lot of scientific theories, including the multi-dimensional world, space, and even time, and the result of Professor Kang's research on a possibility, the Demon Stone, is likely to be a medium of channels, connecting different dimensions, space, and even time."
What Bai Min said was very exaggerated, Hong Yi couldn't even understand these things at once, and Bai Min told him that these were just theoretical speculations, and it was impossible to determine whether this was the case or not.
"After that, the power in the vault suddenly failed, and the main control room lost contact, so we had to enter the dormant chamber, which was fortunately supplied with special energy, otherwise, we would have been like the people outside, because hunger devoured our kind, and then turned into Wendigo. According to Professor Kang's channel theory, I suspect that Wendigo's evil spirits came here from a certain dimensional space through that demon stone, and they can parasitize on fallen humans, because it is taboo to devour their own kind, and those who violate the taboo are the best parasites for Wendigo. ”
Next, Bai Min told a lot of legends about Wendigo, among them, they can devour each other to increase their strength, and Wendigo is afraid of fire, likes cold environments, and even all powerful Wendigo evil spirits can change the environment, where they are, it will become as cold as the polar regions.
Hong Yi nodded, this time he was considered to have a long knowledge, and he couldn't imagine that a person who seemed to him was just a mutant race would lead to so much knowledge.
In addition, about the Demon Stone, according to Bai Min, the meteorite that fell during the catastrophe was the Demon Stone, coupled with the so-called channel theory, wouldn't there be countless passage entrances, no wonder after the catastrophe, there would be so many terrifying mutants.
Hong Yi took a deep breath, he suddenly felt that he was very lucky, lucky to enter the No. 30 Vault, lucky to meet Bai Min, an ancient person, otherwise he would not be able to figure out some things in his life. (To be continued.) )