In order to avoid everyone being idle and falling into the grief of losing their teammates, I suggested that everyone look at the scientific expedition notes together, but I didn't expect that the conical tip at the top of the candle was not finished, and everyone closed their notebooks and stopped (including myself). ）。 Because the contents of the notebook are not written in the form of notes to the answers to all the mysteries in the ruins, as we imagined, but a large amount of data is recorded in detail, such as altitude, the depth of the canyon, the length and width of each cave and stone chamber, the humidity of the air, the oxygen content, the proportion of harmful gases, etc., as well as the classification of various rocks, the changes in rock formations and the information they contain, etc., etc., so we can't read it at all.

We stared at it for a while, and then Liu Changleg shoved the notebook into my hand, stood up and said, "What kind of birds, just record a petroglyph and say what happened, and measure and record every line in the painting." Don't look at it, I'll make up for it, and tell me when I find the answer. ”

Liu slapped his ass and got into the tent. Lu Dachuan yawned, "Master Chuan, why am I so sleepy, it seems that I didn't sleep well last night, and I have to make up for it." As he spoke, he threw the notebook in his hand to me and patted his ass and left.

"Liu Changjiao, Lu Dachuan, you are too selfish!" I shouted a word at their backs, and I felt that there was another copy in my hand, and I turned around to see Lin Xian'er walking towards the tent with her head down and sticking out her tongue like a thief.

I glanced at Lu Keqin with a bitter face, took the last book in her hand and said, "Don't bear it, you can also make up for sleep!" ”

I thought she would say to stay with me, but I didn't expect her to drop the sentence "Then it's hard for you!" Stand up faster than they go.

"Alas...... Careless dating! "I threw my notebook on the floor.

"Don't chirp crookedly, you kid, we have limited time, and you haven't figured out what's going on when Lao Tzu wakes up, be careful of your ass blooming!" Lu Dachuan shouted from inside the tent.

"Time is limited, and I am left alone." I muttered, waved my fist at the tent, put the five notebooks in order, and picked up the first one and looked at it bitterly......

When there was still a finger left on the two candles, I finally jumped through all the notes from beginning to end, and the answer was that I found some, but the hateful thing was that there were many new mysteries hidden behind the answers. What's even more hateful is that there is something more troublesome than these mysteries happening to us.

I put down my notebook, got a new candle, stood up, stretched, stepped over the wall, and came back to the tent and shouted, "It's all up!" ”

There was a noise in the tent, and they rushed out.

"How's the catch?" Lu Dachuan took out a cigarette and lit it.

"The whole thing is much more complicated and complicated than we thought!"

"What do you mean?"

I motioned for everyone to sit down: "Aside from the data that is of no use to us, there are still two parts left, the first part is the petroglyphs; The latter part is the text on the square outside the cave where Yang Hongqi lives.

I'll start with petroglyphs. There are 456 petroglyphs in total, which tell the story of why the ancestors of the big-headed dwarfs built this cave and what happened after the life in it was built.

According to the records of the petroglyphs, it is not known whether they came from an alien planet, or the ancestors of the big-headed dwarfs who were themselves inhabitants of the earth (for the sake of convenience, I will refer to them as the big heads below), and they were humans who appeared in the same period as the dinosaurs. They lived in peace with the dinosaurs for a long time in the beginning (this period could be millions, if not tens of millions, of years, because almost the first 100 petroglyphs depict them with the dinosaurs). Later, I don't know what happened, this peace was broken, and there was a sudden killing scene in the petroglyphs, there were big heads to kill dinosaurs, and there were dinosaurs to kill big heads, this killing scene became more and more intense, from several big heads chasing and intercepting and killing a dinosaur, several dinosaurs teamed up to eat a person to a group of dinosaurs and a group of people, and finally escalated into an existential war between humans and dinosaurs.

This large-scale war did not know how long it lasted and finally ended in a meeting of the big heads. Judging from the petroglyphs, the level of this meeting should be quite high, because there are only a dozen participants, they first sat around and discussed, and then divided into two factions to stand up and point fingers and quarrel, (there are more than a dozen pictures of the quarrel, I don't know if it was a long time in a row, or a dozen meetings were held and each time they quarreled.) ), and then sat down for a long discussion (presumably a compromise on one side).

Then the number of people on the screen changed from a dozen to more than twenty, and the people who were added later should be of a lower level (they are all standing in the rest of the picture.) ）。 I don't know what the high-level people said to the low-level people, and the low-level people disappeared from the picture. In the next picture, the middle and low level people appeared, and they didn't know what to say to the senior people, and then the whole meeting ended.

The next picture is the scene of many big heads digging caves. The first of a series of cave-digging petroglyphs is the most intriguing, and their heads are washed off when they arrive at the base of the mountain where the cave is to be excavated.

After the excavation of the cave was completed, a large number of large heads rushed down to the mouth of the cave in batches and entered the cave. When the last group entered, the whole mountain shook (judging from the dotted lines on both sides of the solid line representing the mountain range on the petroglyphs, the shaking was particularly large). Judging from the continuous multiple different shaking scenes, the shaking lasted for a particularly long time).

When the shaking picture ended, the picture outside the cave never appeared again, and the two or three hundred petroglyphs recorded all the scenes of their life in the cave. Six of the images are distinctly different from the others: the first is of a big head dead, and all of them are panicked and helpless; The second was a large head, and after a stone dish was placed on the corpse, they all quieted down and returned to their normal state; The third is a picture of billowing black smoke; the fourth is a scene of cheering around a serpent with horns on top of its head; the fifth is a scene of sacrifice to an artifact; The sixth (and the last of all the petroglyphs) shows the dozen or so heads holding a meeting. ”

After saying so much in one breath, my mouth was dry and I stood up to find water to drink.

Lu Dachuan said: "Finished? ”

"That's it for the mural." I found a kettle with water and didn't dare to take a big sip, so I took a sip.

Lu Dachuan lowered his head and patted his head and said, "Let me mess around, how do I feel so messy." ”

Liu Changleg said: "It's chaotic, it's just messy, I heard a lot of 'I don't know'." ”

"Your strength is long legs, so it's not surprising to hear 'I don't know'."

"If the dog's day doesn't hurt me now, I can't live, right!" Liu sat on his long legs and didn't move, and his foot flew on my ass.

I was a big step away from him, and I was defenseless, and the kettle in my hand almost flew, and I couldn't help but marvel at the length of the legs.

After a long while, Lu Dachuan said: "What is revealed is far less hidden, and this rock painting is too damn bad!" ”

"You've finally straightened up. Even more cheats are yet to come! "I put down the kettle and came back and sat down," those words are a continuation of the petroglyphs, and from the literal meaning of the words, in the last meeting of the petroglyphs, they were forced to make a decision for some unknown reason: to carry out a particularly difficult task. ”

"Why is it literal?"

"Because those words are just the names and oaths that each of them carved before they set out, and they don't say a word about what they are going to do."

"In other words, we worked desperately for nothing!" Lu Dachuan shouted.

"It's not all white. The expedition team carefully examined every word and came to the conclusion that they were divided into 13 teams, each with 70 to 100 members, and that all of them returned safely. Strangely, their task does not seem to have been completed, or it has not been completed as expected. Because the names and oaths of these 13 groups have appeared again after the previous one, and the number of people in each group has risen from dozens to hundreds, or even thousands. In other words, the words we see in the square outside the cave where Yang Hongqi lives are actually written in two parts, and according to the expedition team, the interval between these two times is between ten and fifteen years. ”

"Isn't that for nothing?"

"Don't worry. What I just said is just a factual scientific record of the scientific expedition team. There is also a part of the notebook that is their various speculations and arguments about all these clues, in addition to the ones that Yang Hongqi told us, and some of them are particularly useful. ”

"What?"

"The black smoke is not smoke, and the purple light is not light. They are all microorganisms, which are very small, very small seeds. The black bugs resemble polyps, and when they die, their corpses can quickly turn to stone. Their life cycle is so short that it can be counted in seconds, so they reproduce surprisingly fast, and the purple bugs are their nemesis. ”

"Oh, that is to say, those crazy growing stones in the cave are the mountains of corpses that we killed the python, destroyed the purple light, and let these insects reproduce uncontrollably after losing their natural enemies."

"Right! The houses we saw were like big rocks, petroglyphs with walls covered in skin, and their corpses were piled up, and after losing their natural predators, they frantically filled the entire cavern. ”

Liu Changleg interjected: "So those two stone people are not real stone people. ”

"Well, it should be Wilson Jr. and Matthew, or Yang Hongqi and one of them."

"Alas...... Lao Liu died unjustly......"

Hearing Lu Dachuan mention Liu Fashan who fell into a stone and couldn't pull it out, we were silent for a moment.

After a while, I said, "I remember what I told you about my dad in his message, he saw two stone saucers flying, and he thought he was dazzled." Now it looks like a bug is flying out of the stone saucer...... In other words, the culprits who caused several generations of our family, as well as Zawang's uncle, Boba's father, Yang Hongqi, and Hu Xiaoming to become like that, are likely to be these bugs. ”

"Why are we all okay?"

"Maybe it's not time yet!"

"What do you mean?"

I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at them: "There is an inference in the note: the black bug is likely to be latent in human cells like the hepatitis B virus after entering the human body, and it will attack when the conditions are ripe......"

They all gasped.

Liu Changleg shouted: "So, now we have all become carriers of the 'hepatitis B virus'!" ”

"It's even scarier than that!" My voice was so low that I could barely hear it, "They also speculate that the big heads, their perverted sex cults, are probably due to carrying this bug, which has caused the race to be unsustainable......"

They were all stupid.

"I think their speculation may not be correct, because my family was the first to be like that was my grandfather, then my grandfather, and then my father, if it is correct, even if my grandfather was born after my grandfather came into contact with those two stone butterflies, it is impossible to have my father, let alone my ......."

"It's useless to say anything now, you must find out everything!" Lu Dachuan snuffed out the cigarette butt.

Liu Changleg cried with a sad face: "I don't know if I can get out alive, how to check?" ”

"There will be a way...... Lu Dachuan let out a long breath, stood up and said, "Don't sit still, hurry up and pack up your things and find a way." ”

Just as we were packing up our things, we suddenly heard the sound of a cow being stabbed in the distance......

"What is it called?"

We all stopped what we were doing and looked around in horror.

When the second roar came again, Lu Dachuan said in surprise: "It's the whistle, there is a boat on the river!" ”

"Boss, you're confused! This is hundreds of kilometers underground, how can there be a ship?! ”

As soon as I spoke, everyone's faces suddenly turned to ashes.