Chapter 2: The Mysterious Crystal
There was no discomfort at all.
The purple crystal appeared in Lin Yu's mind, as if he could sense it with his own consciousness.
How did it get in?
Lin Yu felt that the other people around him didn't notice this scene at all.
Could it be that I am hallucinating?
He couldn't help but be surprised, trying to sense it with his consciousness, and within the edges and corners of the purple realm, there were dense reticulated fibers, like nerve tissue, extending deep into the edges and corners.
A cool and refreshing sensation spreads from the mind to the whole body, and a wonderful cool feeling is like ripples in every corner of the body.
In an instant, my scalp was numb.
It's like a stream of static electricity, an inch of numb nerves, itching, and a slight tingling.
The skin is slightly hot, and sweat oozes out involuntarily.
Then there is a piece of lightness, comfort.
I feel that my mind is clearer, my eyes are clearer, and even, it seems that my perception is more sensitive.
Maybe it's the magic of the purple hedron?
Anything else?
He suddenly blessed his heart, pressed his hand on the small stone doll on his chest, and then used his consciousness to communicate with the purple crystal.
In the haze, a vast universe appeared in his mind, countless dark nebulae, black holes like scars, no starlight flickering, but the whole universe seemed to be intertwined with invisible networks.
A purple crystal flashed, crashing into the universe like a star, and then the surrounding network lit up with thousands of threads.
He felt his mind suddenly clear, composed, and with a surging sense of security.
In the middle of the net, a small gray stone puppet appeared.
Thick, and primitive, vast.
There was a force that was captured by his consciousness, and then materialized, spreading throughout his body, but only in the palm of his right hand there was a real feeling.
But that feeling is also quickly fleeting.
Then he withdrew from his consciousness, no longer sensing the presence of the purple crystal.
It's like a dream.
He touched the small stone puppet with his hand, still with residual warmth.
It means that it was not a dream just now, but a real thing.
He tried to sense it again, but there was nothing, a blank slate, a sense of powerlessness.
Does this require serendipity?
What the hell is it?
What is this little stone puppet?
Why does it have a fever, and why does it come to mind and give him a sense of strength?
This is something that Mu Mian gave him, why does Mu Mian have such a magical thing?
He walked away and dialed Mu Mian's phone, wanting to ask Mu Mian what was going on with this little stone puppet.
But the phone kept being blind.
He was distraught and worried.
But Professor Du was shouting at him, and he was about to go down, so he couldn't think about it.
I hope everything is fine on my aunt's side.
At the foot of Sanyu Peak, there is a huge gap, like a croissant that has been gnawed off from the bottom.
The entrance to the cave has been reinforced, supported by huge steel columns, and the surrounding rocks have been cleaned up.
From Lin Yu's side, it looked like a big monster, opening its big black mouth.
After the earthquake, there was a large crater here, down ten meters, is an underground karst cave structure, the preliminary estimate is to go deep into the ground seventy or eighty meters.
The formation of karst caves is the result of long-term dissolution of groundwater in limestone areas, but there are very few limestone areas in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Yuzhou District in the western suburbs of the eastern capital.
But after the Yushan earthquake, strange caves appeared here.
After going down more than ten meters, the spotlights set up by the engineering team disappeared, and the light suddenly dimmed.
The pit gradually narrowed, allowing only an adult man to walk normally, and gradually began to show the karst cave landform, as if it had been eroded and washed, strips and belts, or hollowed, and stalagmites and mantles gradually began to appear.
There is a faint light transmitted down, and the cave presents silver and blue, which is still very beautiful.
But everyone wore protective masks and 10L oxygen cylinders hung from their waists, so they didn't have time to enjoy the scenery in the cave.
It was deep and dark, and the atmosphere was a little oppressive, except for the sound of footsteps and the friction of the body against the stone wall.
The structure of the underground karst cave is very complex, often nine curves and eighteen bends, and the stalactites also begin to show a thousand forms, some of which look extremely strange.
Logically the underground caves were created by the erosion of underground rivers, but they came down very deep and did not see any groundwater.
I don't know how long I climbed, but the space began to slowly increase.
After a corner, the eyes are finally empty, there is a space of more than 30 meters square, the stone wall faintly emits fluorescence, there is a sparkling and dark pool, the surrounding strange rocks are craggy, there is an illusion of being in a fantasy world.
Professor Du gestured, and everyone buckled their masks and opened the valve of the oxygen cylinder.
There were several forks in the road, and they were all smooth openings before, and white mist seeped out of them.
At this moment, the entrance to the cave is occupied by strange plants, like giant algae plants.
There are all etched rock formations here, and the smoothness of the cave entrance is very strange, and the scientific expedition team wanted to investigate, but who knew that a white mist suddenly seeped out.
Now the white mist is gone, but strange plants have appeared.
Lin Yu was bold and was the first to step forward to check on the huge plant.
It is indeed like algae, and the skirt-shaped leaves peeking out of the thick moss, the kelp the size of a person.
The moss on the ground was too thick, half a meter high.
There was a glittering light, and everyone walked forward, their eyes widened.
It is a large spore plant that emits light on its own and is crowded in dense algae plants.
Spore plants can grow taller than humans, which is rare.
Without the white mist, the original intention of coming down before was gone, and everyone looked at each other.
Just as everyone wanted to take a closer look, suddenly there was a loud bang in the waterhole behind them, as if something had risen from the pool.
Everyone was startled by the loud sound of water behind them.
It's too much movement.
Lin Yu quickly turned around, only to see a huge toad jumping out of the waterhole, its body was dull, with a little red spots, at least half a person tall and one person wide.
The reason why I think it's a toad is because after the monster jumped on the rocks on the shore, it croaked and scared everyone into death.
The larvae are called fathead fish or stick fish, which are commonly found near streams in limestone caves and can live in the dark tens of meters underground. It's just that it's too big!"
Several experts came down together, and they were somewhat insightful.
The red-spotted toothed toad was indeed too big, its eyes were like bull's eyes, gray and fat, and it looked at everyone fixedly, and opened its huge mouth, like a beast that chose to devour people.
This guy doesn't have a big belly, has he swallowed some big beast alive?
Lin Yu stood in front of Mu Mian, looking at the huge red-spotted toothed toad with a dry mouth.
"Wow!"
The red-spotted toothed toad suddenly spat out a large puddle of black putrid fluid, which looked slimy, and there was a fish-like wreckage in it.
"This is a salamander, there are salamanders in the underground cave, they have grown so big, they have actually been swallowed by this monster!" said an expert's voice.
The remains of the salamander that spit out were as thick as an adult's arm, and they were swallowed by the red-spotted tooth toad and spit it out again.
I saw that the huge red-spotted toothed toad's stomach suddenly bulged, and it swelled like a balloon.
"It's not going to blow up!" said someone in surprise.
"This, is this toad poisonous?"
"Can our protective clothing prevent it?"
Everyone was gossiping and a little panicked.
Lin Yu stared at the red-spotted toothed toad carefully, feeling that the monster's eyes were lifeless, as if it was dying.
"Wow!"
The red-spotted toothed toad suddenly squirted a stream of black liquid from its mouth, and black liquid also flowed from its eyes.
Lin Yu's heart suddenly moved, it was oil!
A familiar smell.
Others guessed it, and suddenly lost their voices, "It's oil!"
"Poof!"
The red-spotted toothed toad's belly burst open, gushing out a large puddle of black liquid, and died on all fours.
Looking at the red-spotted toothed toad silently, everyone looked at each other.
Lin Yu had the courage to come over.
By the glow of the glow, a layer of oil floated on the surface of the pool.
Moreover, there are quite a few strange corpses floating on it.
The chubby head and long tail resemble tadpoles, but the whole body is transparent, and various organs and the white spine can be clearly seen, and the reason why it can be seen so clearly is because there are streams of black liquid flowing inside.
"This is the tadpole form of the red-spotted toothed toad. ”。
Lin Yu was dumbfounded, this tadpole was also a little bigger, the size of a human palm.
The crowd gradually calmed down from their panic and began to lean over to take a closer look.
"It's all oil!"
Someone shouted excitedly.
"Could it be that these red-spotted toads have also inhaled white mist?"
Lin Yu turned around and looked at those huge over-the-top cave plants, and suddenly took out a knife and slashed at the thick and wide algae plants, and suddenly streams of black liquid flowed out.
"Oil, it's oil!"
"Look! Inside this spore plant, every grain of black should be cinder!"
And the radioactivity detection equipment also began to warn that the spore plant contained excessive radioactive material.
Everyone is not alarmed, even if there is 0.5 kilograms of uranium ore on the body, it will not have any effect on the body, and if you want to become a nuclear raw material, uranium ore needs to be purified by countless processes.
Now everyone basically understands that the white mist should be a primordial substance, which can be converted into primordial substances such as coal, oil, and uranium ore. It's just not clear how this transformation happens, and whether it has to go through the living body.
Lin Yu felt strange, obviously in the first dream, he was like a primitive person, he could swallow white mist, it seemed that he could refine it, and then strengthen his body, just like cultivating immortals and refining qi in fantasy novels.
Could it be that these white mist need to be refined, and if they cannot be refined, they will be transformed into primordial substances such as coal and oil?
This thought lingered in Lin Yu's head.
But what was the purple crystal that flew out of the corpse before?
Will it still appear?
He was already convinced that he was the only one who had those strange dreams, and of course he was the most vigilant against these white mist, as if he had been given a special mission, his nerves were always tense, and his brain was always running at high speed.
"If these white fogs are endless, then there will be a continuous flow of coal and oil in the future, and our country may be able to transform from an oil-poor country to an oil-producing country!"
Someone was excited.
In short, under the beautiful vision, what is dangerous and strange can be ignored.
"Most of the pool is water, only on the surface is a layer of oil, which seems to have come from the body of a dead toad. Let's move on!"
Professor Du motioned for everyone to clear the hole and continue to explore.
Lin Yu was strong, carrying a sapper shovel to chop the messy plants, oil was constantly flowing out, and he took the lead in cleaning the hole.
Suddenly, his chest was hot, and he subconsciously pressed his hand to his chest.
It's a small stone man.
The little stone man is actually heating up again.
"Huh?"
The little stone man seems to be beating a little, is it a hallucination?
He subconsciously sensed the purple crystal in his mind, and sure enough, the starry sky as vast as the universe reappeared, and the purple crystal flashed in it.
The little stone man seems to convey an idea, that is, to continue to explore, there is something with the same root and origin.
He didn't pay attention to his feet, and accidentally slipped, and the whole person fell on his back.
Bang.
He instinctively tried to prop it up with his right hand, but there was a loud bang.
For a moment, he felt as if his right palm had turned into a stone palm, directly supporting his body without any damage.
His eyes were clear and he saw that his palm had been wrapped in a layer of gray fluorescence, as if it was covered with a layer of stone armor.
But by the time he sat on the ground, his palms quickly returned to normal.
No matter how he sensed it, the magical scene just now never happened again.
Could it be that he has been given a miraculous ability?
Does this ability need to be triggered by chance?