Chapter 294 Thousand Years of Confusion
Boom!
The ground shook, and stalactite pillars as thick as a bowl fell from the top from time to time, causing the people below to run away with their heads in their hands.
It wasn't until they hid in a solid cave that a voice came out, hoarse and gloomy.
"It seems we are in the wrong place again?"
"It can't be said that I made a mistake, I just touched the wrong place." Another hoarse voice responded to him.
Suddenly, a cold light lit up, and the light blue light illuminated the figures of two people, one tall and one short.
As for who is fat and who is thin, it is impossible to know, because both their figures and faces are shrouded under the cloak and covered tightly by the cloth.
If it weren't for the blue and white cloud patterns painted on their cloaks, the two men would have been just two dark shadows from a distance.
"But this is not our goal after all. An unformed hidden dragon cannot solve our confusion."
"This is not an easy thing. The confusion has lasted for thousands of years. Our ancestors couldn't solve it, and we may not be able to solve it. I always feel that we are just doing something to kill time."
"No, no, no, I have always believed that we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. As long as we gently stretch out our hands, we can pick that flat peach."
"Where's the peach? Where is it?"
"There are too many leaves and I can't see them for now."
well! !
Two more dull sighs.
The years they have been doing this work have been so long that they have forgotten it.
After all, the sun, stars and moon are missing all year round in this underground world, so time and date are not important here.
Only when they need to go to the ground or stay for a while will someone take out a pocket watch or borrow a newspaper.
Beyond that, people underground don't need time.
In other words, they have already formed their own set of precise and stable clocks. They feel hungry at a fixed time every day and start yawning at a fixed time.
Just like this moment, the stomachs of both of them were drumming in unison.
The tall one sat down first. He didn't care what was under his butt, whether it was mud, animal carcasses, or feces. Anyway, the underground world was always filled with an indistinguishable smell.
Then there was the short man, who sat on a stone, which was the only object that gave off light in the cave.
Under the ground, what gives off light is either moss or minerals, which are cold and lifeless.
The tall man seemed to be always one step ahead. At this time, he had already taken out a saltine cracker from his pocket.
This biscuit is square, the size of a palm, but as thick as a matchbox, with some salt sprinkled on top.
"Give me some meat, fresh meat," the tall man said.
The short man nodded, felt around in the backpack on his back, then put the piece of meat, whose color was indistinguishable and about the size of a mahjong tile, to his nose and smelled it again and again before handing it to the other party.
"Well, this piece should have only been there for five years."
"Five years?"
The tall man took the piece of meat and was not in a hurry to eat it. "how long have you been here?"
"I can't remember clearly. I just remember that when I came here, I brought two jars of meat. It wasn't good meat. I used dead cats and dogs from the street. I shaved off their bones, cut them up randomly, and cooked them in a big pot. Then pick it up.
For each layer of meat, I sprinkle a layer of salt, other spices, peppercorns, star anise and so on, until the jar is full.
At first, I lived in some of the caves above. There should be a tram line passing by there. Every time a car passed through the cave, it would shake and ash would fall down.
There must be many such trams passing by in a day, and I later formed a habit of eating a piece of meat first, shaking it twelve times, and then eating another piece.
Fragrant meat has a tangy smell, while cat meat has a sour taste.
I regard this as the standard for measuring a day, and I count it as one day passes.
Later, I couldn't tell the difference between the taste of the two kinds of meat. I just felt like I was biting into a piece of soft wood with the smell of soy sauce, but it wouldn't stuff it in my stomach and make me constipated.
By this time, the cave was almost buried by sand and dust, so I left that level and walked deeper underground. "
The short man talked a lot, but the tall man didn't listen much.
He just picked up the piece of meat in front of him and smelled it carefully before asking, "I really can't tell if this is dog meat or cat meat?"
"Don't worry, this is pork. A few years ago, a dead pig was stuck at the outlet of the river. It may have come from Yuen Long or somewhere.
Those underground pig farms are always located in very remote places, so the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department cannot detect long as the pigs don't die, they can sell , unless the pig is seriously ill and no one wants it, they will throw it away. They don't have to go far and just throw it into any ditch.
That's why I picked it up, and the pig was indeed very sick. It was black and smelly, and there were pustules bulging under the pig's skin, which was disgusting. "
When the short man said this, his body trembled unconsciously. It was obvious that this incident had left some shadow on him.
"Really disgusting."
The tall man nodded, put his mouth close to the meat, opened his mouth, pulled out a large part of it, and chewed it carefully.
"I can accept fragrant meat, but not cat meat. It's too dirty."
While he was eating the piece of meat, the short man also began to devour it. Besides the same piece of meat, he also had a piece of buttered rye bread in his hand.
While the two were eating, they heard a muffled sound. In the cave outside, several pieces of gravel fell down, making a thin crunching sound.
The two of them held their breath and put their ears against the rock wall. Even when the butter flowed to their chins, they didn't even think of wiping it off.
One, two, three! They exchanged looks in surprise: three people broke through the rock formations above and jumped down. Listening to the sound of landing, they were still two men and one woman! Martin boots, leather shoes, leather boots, these three people make different walking sounds. When two of them rise and fall, there is the sound of leather clothes rubbing together. Obviously, these three people's attire is not uniform.
In Wujian, the clothing of each group will be highly unified even if their status levels are different.
On the one hand, this is because the hermits in Wujian are sometimes like ants. One person's consciousness is the collective consciousness, and everyone's ideas are highly similar, so their clothes are almost exactly the same.
On the other hand, due to the constant scarcity of materials, a piece of clothing is often worn in turns. If you can wear it, others must be able to wear it. Therefore, the shape is also highly similar, just like the work clothes of a certain factory.
At this point, there isn't even a difference between men and women.
As the three people gradually approached, the fresh smell on their bodies also reminded them that they were not hermits, but people from the earth!
That fresh smell comes from meat, vegetables, and perfume, and even the free-flowing wind, which are things that almost don't exist in the world of seamlessness.
Are you here to cause trouble or to help? Since when do people on earth do others a favor? After another quick exchange with their eyes, both of them decided to hold their breath, say nothing, and do nothing, just wait for them to walk over.
Like two stone statues and two geckos, they clung to the wall, motionless.
At this time, a man's voice came from outside, it was Yin Xiu.
"It seems that Uncle Ming and the others have indeed made a good guess. The exposed part on the ground has formed a fault with the mineral veins below. There are no traces of crystals in this section we are walking. I am afraid it is in an ordinary passage."
Ma Xiaoyu nodded, "I took some mineralogy in school in Malaysia, and there is indeed such a saying. For example, those coal mines cannot be full of coal, and there must be stony caves in them."
Yin Xiu looked at her: "I thought you just learned a little German."
Ma Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, "In what age are you still learning traditional courses? My aunt said that even if you are a Taoist priest, you must keep pace with the times. You must learn a little bit of everything in physics, chemistry, and foreign languages so that you won't suffer any disadvantages."
Yin Xiu nodded, "What our aunt said does make sense."
Haruyo walked aside, feeling embarrassed. He was the resident of the underground, but in fact he knew nothing about what the two of them were talking about.
After all, he only completed some courses in the police academy, and he could graduate by knowing simple commands, kicking forward, and writing reports. As for other things, the school taught him nothing.
You can't just go and fish out a "salted fish" (corpse) in the sewer. You still have to know what's available and what's not, right?Just do it! After hesitating for a moment, he still asked: "You two, are we going to go on like this to find the source of this hidden dragon?"
"if not?"
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "There is such a big crystal mountain on the road. We have already cleared the evil spirit from the upper part, but the evil spirit from the bottom is not there yet.
If those evil spirits move up along the crystal veins, the entire Tilan Bridge will become a human battlefield. "
"But that grandma just said it, slaying the dragon's veins is detrimental to moral virtue. I don't care. I have been a patrolman, so I don't care about moral virtue and moral virtue. But you two..."
Ma Xiaoyu knew what he meant and just said calmly: "Don't worry, we are not Liu, so we won't cut off the dragon veins everywhere. I will go to the source later and add a restriction on it to lock the evil spirit.
It would be best to recover the vein. If not, you can lock the evil spirit and leave it to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department and the fire brigade to slowly clean it up. The patrols should not be short of explosives. "
Seeing that the two of them had made up their minds, Haruyo could only spread his hands, saying that he was at their mercy, and then continued to walk in front, holding the fluorite to guide them.
After a while, I was sure that the three of them had gone away.
The two people hiding in the cave seemed to have finally regained their vitality. At the same time, they both saw strange lights in each other's eyes.
"It turns out there are people on earth who can refine earth energy."
"Well, judging from the voice, it should be that girl."
"or……"
"Go back and call for help first. Two versus three. Don't fight them until you hit your head."
(End of this chapter)