Chen Zaihai didn't say anything after that, and as usual, we went to sleep once we set the order of the vigil. Because of Talia's physical condition, I once again removed her from the vigil.

Since it was uncertain whether the task force would return, we decided not to use miner's lamps for the vigil. One is to save the battery, and the other is to avoid irritating him, judging from this person's previous performance, he will definitely not be a mentally normal person.

After Chen Zaihai handed over his copper flashlight to the first class of engineers, he went to sleep by himself. I was the last one on the shift, and I quickly got into my sleeping bag.

There was no word all night, and by the time I was called up, it was six hours later. Picking up the flashlight handed to me by the previous engineer soldiers, I began the last vigil.

The light of the flashlight is still very dim, and compared with the miner's lamp, the irradiation range of this thing is small, and the brightness is also very low. The only good thing is that the battery of this thing seems to be very durable. It's been almost twelve hours, and the dim light shows no sign of attenuation.

"Any notable issues?" I asked the engineer out loud. The creep seemed sleepy, shook his head, and went back to sleep.

It's best to have no problems, and it's better to never have problems until we complete this damn task.

I shook the copper flashlight in my hand, and it was full of weight. This thing can not only be used for lighting, but it also seems to be good for self-defense. If this flashlight hits someone's head, I guarantee they'll hurt much worse than I do.

The pain of the wound on the head did not completely go away even after a night. Talia's tactics were still very clever, and there was no more bloodshed since. Now that it's wrapped in a sterilized bandage, it's three layers inside and three layers outside, so you shouldn't have to worry about tetanus infection.

It was past six o'clock in the morning and everything was normal.

Although the vigil had been excessively many times, I still couldn't get used to the suffocating boredom. Especially during this kind of time, everyone seems to be asleep, and it is very troublesome to quarrel with them.

Rest is precious, especially for those of us. The only time of the day to relax is to sleep, and there are no special circumstances, and everyone will be lined up for vigil. This is done in order to maximize the amount of rest that everyone can have.

Just in case, I used the copper flashlight in my hand to sweep around. The dim spots of light reflected the familiar scenes, the steam gushing outward, the rows of volcanic rocks, the pools of hot springs, and the unchanging railroad tracks.

After making sure there were no anomalies around, I went back to my sleeping bag and did it. I was so bored that I had to play with the stone hanging from my chest.

I still don't understand why my father desperately wanted to give me this stone before he was taken away. No matter how I look at it, I can only guess what part of it is, and the jagged sections indicate that it was knocked or broken by brute force.

Now it looks like this strange color of black and red bears a slight resemblance to the nearby volcanic rocks. Did this thing come out of this? At the end of this tunnel, there is this thing itself?

It's impossible to think about it, although my hometown is in the three eastern provinces, and I have never had any strange thunderstorms in my childhood memory. My father never traveled far on his own.

It's just a simple coincidence.

However, with this opportunity, I gradually fell into the reminiscence of my childhood, but for some reason, the appearance of this stone in my mind became clearer and clearer

"Su Zhenpeng, why are you alone here? The eyes are straight. "In a trance, I felt a voice calling me.

I had to quickly pull my consciousness back from my memory, it was eight o'clock? This time I was in a daze longer than I had ever been.

"Talya, leave him alone, old problem. When I first entered our bureau, it was even more powerful. I came several times a day, and at first we thought he was having hysteria. "This time, I can clearly hear Chen Zaihai's voice.

"What do you say about me? Isn't it just a god? Look, you're about to call me like a delicacy. "I kicked the kid in the ass.

"Yo? Lao Su, are you awake? Chen Zaihai quipped while covering his buttocks.

"What do you call waking up? Lao Tzu didn't sleep at all. "I don't have a good breath, this guy should let Talia take care of it, and he can get up and down in this case.

"Talia, are you alright? I'm sorry yesterday, but I'm so tired and I asked you to help me deal with my wounds. Ignoring Chen Zaihai, I stood up and said to Taria.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm going to help you see it. Also, I'm just going to tell you about it, I was so tired yesterday that I accidentally spilled a small half of that bottle of alcohol on your head, it hurts, right? She looked at me with concern. Also, there were a few failures when stitching after that. Anyway, if my state were better, you wouldn't have to suffer so much. ”

Haha, haha, it turned out that it wasn't my hallucination, Talia, did you really pour alcohol on my head? And did you get the wrong stitch? So what's going on with me right now!

"Okay, Talia, you don't scare Su anymore." Chen Zaihai interjected. "Lao Su, you don't have to worry, I've been watching it. Aside from making it hurt you even more, Talia didn't do anything wrong, and the sewing was still successful in the end. ”

Forget it, what do you still resent Talia for? People do this for my sake, and a little mistake is inevitable, after all, it's that kind of physical state

However, it really hurt at the time.

"Well, that's in the past. Chen Zaihai, didn't you say yesterday that you had any thoughts on this situation? What's going on here? I asked.

Chen Zaihai heard this: "Ah, you said that." You pack your things first, and we'll talk as we go. ”

"Let's go? Where are you going? "I wondered.

"Of course, it's along the railway. I'm going to make sure that idea is correct. You take these boys to the railroad tracks first. Chen Zaihai said mysteriously.

Confused, I had no choice but to pack my bags and instruct the engineers to pack up.

"By the way, Talia, I ask you. Is there no problem with Lao Su's boss to be dealt with today? ”

"Huh? In fact, it should be no problem to deal with it today, the temperature here is very high, and it is full of sulfur smell, and it is difficult for bacteria to breed. ”

"And how are you feeling right now? Still tired? ”

"It's okay, I feel better after eating something. Why do you suddenly ask that? ”

"It's okay"

You two whispers too loudly! I've already let it go, and I thought about it, holding my head.

Although I finally heard something terrible, I still dismissed it as if it was not good. The water that spilled out the words, and if you continue to pursue it, you won't have to play.

In the end, we all returned to the section of the railway where we met the task force yesterday, and Chen Zaihai asked for a flashlight and crouched down to carefully check something.

"What kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd? If you have any ideas, speak up quickly. Talia said.

"Don't worry, I'm not entirely sure." Chen Zaihai pondered. "Let's take a look first, and I'll tell you if I'm right."

As a result, we had to go down the railroad as Chen Zaihai said, but nothing changed, and it didn't take long for us to come back again.

"The result is still the same, do you kid really think about anything else?" I asked helplessly.

"It feels like it's going to be fast, go again." I felt that Chen Zaihai's tone was a little higher than just now.

So we went down the tracks again, and as we expected, we finally walked back.

"Go again!" Chen Zaihai said.

As a result, we went on and over again, and each time we returned to square one without question. It seems to me that we've been going around in circles in the same place all morning!

"Chen Zaihai! Are you kidding us? It's been a long morning, but what else have you found besides going back to the origin? "Even Talia couldn't help it this time, and it didn't make any sense to do it except waste her physical strength.

"Let me ask you a question, do you pay attention to the time it takes to go back each time?" Chen Zaihai asked suddenly.

This sentence stunned us, time? Who has nothing to do to check the time! The fact that we're going around in circles in the same place all the time is terrifying, almost out of my mind.

At that time, we hadn't read any tomb robbery or ghost novels, and if we did, we would realize that we had encountered the so-called ghost wall.

Ghost hitting the wall, also known as ghost wall, ghost retaining wall, is traditionally a folk saying that you get lost on the road alone at night or in the suburbs and cemeteries.

Since I was a child, I have been running around with various troops, Chen Zaihai has always stayed in the safe rear, and then he went to the Soviet Union, not to mention that Talia is a foreigner, and our people's understanding of folklore is very limited.

But I don't know that it saved us, at least it won't lead us in the direction of playing ghosts. From the beginning to the end, we thought we were simply lost.

After confirming that none of us cared about the time, Chen Zaihai said: "I pay attention, this is very important. I'm going to do a rough calculation of how much time we're going to spend in a single cycle this morning. ”

"We cycled fifteen times, and none of them were the same. Do you know what that means? He asked.

"Assuming that our speed doesn't change much, it means that we travel a different distance every time we cycle," Talia said.

As soon as I heard it, I thought something was wrong, "This can't be! We walk along a railroad track every time, even if the track is a circle, we don't need to take time, it's all different, right? "Could it be that the space is distorted?

"It's good that you notice that. What does it mean that the time is different every time, and we start from one place each time and return to the same place? Chen Zaihai continued to induce us, "Don't think about strange things, what is the most direct and simple possibility? ”

"That means we're not on the same railroad every time!" I suddenly realized what he was trying to say, and the explanation was simple.

This is the real world, and we believe strongly in materialism. There must be a reason for what happened, and even if it is bizarre and absurd, there must be some kind of explanation behind it.

At the same speed, at different times, people who know the basic common sense know that the journey must be different. And we are faced with such a situation, there is only one possibility that can explain this phenomenon, we walk a different path every time!

"That's right, I think there are a lot of railways here, we were unknowingly led in, and finally they were inexplicably released, and finally came back in a circle." Chen Zaihai concluded.

"But we didn't realize that there were other railroad tracks here, so how could we not detect such an obvious problem?" Talia was skeptical.

"You don't have to doubt it, I've confirmed all of these fifteen times. Each time I compare the degree of corrosion of the starting and intermediate rails, almost all of them differ in some degree. Chen Zaihai said firmly. If you don't believe me, we can try again. After half an hour of each start, measure it with a hygrometer, and I promise you'll get a different value every time. ”

"Are there really several railroads here? But why didn't we notice? I asked.

"I guess that's the problem, right?" Talia looked tentatively at Chen Zaihai.

"Yes, I thought the stones were a bit strange at first. Not to mention that there are many abnormalities in this area, what is even more strange is that every time you go to a place that resembles a bend, they will become more and more intense, and some of them are even bigger. "Chan Zaikaido.

I felt like I had a trick up my sleeve, "You're saying these weird rocks and these rails are going around us all?" ”

"Yes, although I don't know if it's natural, or if the little devil is deliberately posing like this. But it does give us the feeling that we're always cycling on one railroad track. Chen Zaihai said. We thought we had been following one path, but in fact we had already been led to other paths. ”

"Even if what you say is correct, then our problem is completely unsolved?" Talia pointed to the railroad tracks beneath our feet and said, "If the intention here is to mislead us about our sense of direction, we can't do anything about it!" Do you want to walk blindfolded? ”

"Here you have to think about the task force you met, you still chased them away, right?" Chen Zaihai asked.

We nodded. According to Taria, they had been shuttling through the stone formation, and when they were almost able to catch the man, he flashed when he ran over a rock, and when Talia and the others caught up, they found that he seemed to be running along a railway track.

They didn't hesitate to chase after them, but in the end they came around and hit us.

"From here, it can be seen that the guy is very familiar with the environment here, and can shuttle through this chaotic stone henge without lighting." "He deliberately guided you up the train track. ”

"And the most important thing is that this guy ran along the railroad tracks but didn't come back, otherwise we would have found him a long time ago." Chen Zaihai continued to explain, "Also, when you chased Taria, did you originally follow the railroad tracks? ”

"No, it feels like he changed direction when he felt like he was going to be overtaken." Talia said.

"Then it's easy." Chen Zaihai slapped his face.

I asked, confused, "What do you think of again?" ”

"If the rails and stones here give us the illusion. The best way to avoid it is the same way that guy ran away in the first place! Chen Zaihai proudly announced, "Don't take the railroad tracks!" ”

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