"The gate of eternal life is not a door. I'm referring to what it looks like. But it's a door, and when you open it, you can enter another space. ”

"Through the door?" I have in my mind an image of a cartoon cat with a pocket on its belly.

"So to speak." Cao Mingzhe took a puff of his cigar and exhaled the cigarette. "It's weaker than I thought it was, like its companion, Black Manro. The truly powerful Black Manro will not let you cross its turf. I expect that this gate of eternal life and its companions will die out in a short time, and I already see the harbingers of its destruction. ”

I thought for a moment and said, "I think it's powerful, it's like a huge spatial labyrinth around it, and the Yankees even think that we have passed through the space barrier and entered another dimension." ”

"The Americans are not wrong. The power of the Gate of Eternal Life escaped. Strictly speaking, when you go down from the embankment, you have entered the gate of eternal life. The power that escaped from the Gate of Eternal Life distorted the space there. And this is not normal. As soon as I saw this scene, I knew that my wish had been frustrated, and I had intended to be energized through this gate of eternal life, but its power could not even restore me to my peak state. Its only function at the moment is to open the door to space at a short distance, the passage through which you and I have left it. ”

"I still don't get it. You have the key. I gestured to the hexagonal piece of iron on the table. You can open the door to eternal life. What about us? We didn't have the keys, but we came out. How to explain this. ”

"There is the Apocalypse among you."

"The Apocalypse is a god!?" Although I had been preparing for this conversation for a long time and had all kinds of mental preparations, I couldn't help but explode after hearing this word that confused me.

Cao Mingzhe didn't have the slightest mood swing because of my loss of control, and I even saw a faint sadness in his eyes.

"Nope. Of course not. Cao Mingzhe shook the cigar in his hand like shaking a signal light. I never thought you were God. What about yourself? I don't think I'm a god. ”

The cigar in Cao Mingzhe's hand is like a hypnotist's prop. Makes my consciousness a little trance-like. I closed my eyes and stabilized my emotions. At this point, the conversation naturally extends to the second question I prepared. Although the answer given to me by Cao Mingzhe in the first question did not satisfy me, I think that there will be no better answer if I continue to dwell on this question, so let's start a new question.

"What's the matter with the Apocalypse?"

"The Apocalypse is the apex Awakened, and he is the most powerful, in a way. He is the leader of all the awakened. And there is one point, the Hakka people's gate of eternal life does not have the power to awaken the apocalypse. Only the Gate of Eternal Life in Lop Nur has this power. ”

"But how did the Hakka people know about this? They say that I am the Apocalypse and that I will destroy the holy land of the Hakka people. I asked thoughtfully.

"The ancestors of the Hakka people are the remnants of Lop Nur. This information is supposed to have been passed down from their ancestors. ”

"What about you? How do you know? "I dropped a bomb that I had prepared.

Cao Mingzhe's gaze instantly dimmed, and even his facial expression became hazy.

"Xiao Guolin and I both know." Cao Mingzhe slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and the smoke in the room with poor air circulation was difficult to disperse, making it seem like a layer of smoke screen between us. And his voice came as if it had made a distance. "Lao Xiao thinks that it is difficult for you to have the opportunity to enter the underground of Lop Nur again through formal channels. He didn't even promise me to go with him. I think he knows what the outcome of this time will be. He's showing us the way. He created the conditions for me to go down with you. He told me before he left that some potentially useful information was already left for you, and he was prepared for the worst. ”

Yes. Xiao Guolin left me some strange information, and I don't think that it will help me to enter the Lop Nur underground. It's impossible for me to act on the information provided by the dream, it's too, and Xiao Guolin is a lesson from the past, he should believe that information. It didn't come back.

But Cao Mingzhe's words reminded me that Xiao Guolin did have high hopes for me. Not only did he give me some information, but he also traded an arms deal with the Vietnamese in my name. And he didn't have a chance to get this weapon and went to Lop Nur. At present, it is not that he did not have a chance to get this weapon, but that it was prepared for me.

In this way, Xiao Guolin's thinking was clear, and his purpose was to let me enter the Lop Nur underpass. Find the Gate of Eternal Life and blow it up. In the middle of the underground storage tank, the platform with grooves should not be the gate of eternal life, if so, Xiao Guolin didn't need to make so much effort.

But Xiao Guolin reminded me of one thing in his letter. said that he left something for me here with Cao Mingzhe, but Cao Mingzhe never mentioned it. What is this thing, Xiao Guolin did not say it clearly in the letter, it is estimated that it should be very important and extremely risky, otherwise he would not have handed it over to Cao Mingzhe, but directly left it at home or handed it over to Xiao Ting.

But I decided not to mention it, at least not for the time being, because I thought that at some point, Cao Mingzhe would give me this thing. He should have been waiting for that moment.

"How do you and Xiao Guolin know? Why don't I know? In the Lop Nur underground, we experienced the same thing. "I don't accept Cao Mingzhe's vague explanation and throw the question back at him.

"I have exchanged views with Lao Xiao on this matter. After leaving the Lop Nur underpass, he and I both met Song Guilong in our dreams. During the first time, my body had obvious changes, and I kept seeing Song Guilong in my dreams, and my spirit was almost broken. Lao Xiao too, for this reason he ran from JD to Xi'an and made a special trip to me to confirm the matter. ”

Through the smoke screen, Cao Mingzhe gestured with his cigar in one direction, and the red light of the cigarette butt loomed in the smoke screen.

"Lao Xiao told you about it in the letter he left for you. When Team Song appeared in our dreams, it was a vague black shadow, in the dark underground passage without a little light, every time Team Song appeared in my dream, he would be in a different place, he seemed to be looking for a way out in the dark. Know why I can see in the underground passage where there is no light, yes, I can see him, because he is darker than the darkness. ”

Speaking of which, Cao Mingzhe's words were frozen. At the same time as his words, he himself was frozen. Through the smoke screen, I saw that the cigarette butt that was still moving just now was frozen in the air, glowing a dark red.

I waved my arm to dispel the smoke screen that separated the two of us, and saw the look of horror and pain on Cao Mingzhe's face. (To be continued......)