Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 6: You'll be numb if you stomp on it
Xu Xia was like a shot of adrenaline for Fang Cheng , saving him from the brink of emotional breakdown.
Fang Cheng looked at the big man who was climbing over the courtyard wall in the moonlight. His coarse hair was disheveled, his eyes were as big as copper bells, he had a rope on his shoulder, an outdoor dagger on his waist, and his trouser legs and shoes were covered with mud.
He looks exactly like a wanted criminal. If the entire campus wasn't in chaos, he would have been taken into custody by the police for further investigation.
Fang Cheng imagined the scene in the interrogation room where he explained to the police that he was dressed like this to look for aliens. This guy might be thought to have a mental problem and sent directly to a mental hospital.
"I've brought you the things. Now what do you want to do?" He said as he brushed the dirt off his body. After a few seconds, he caught a glimpse of the faint light behind Fang Cheng and saw the dark shadows stretched out by the old furnishings in the room.
"What is that light?"
"This is the alien base. Let's go down from here together."
"What the hell?"
Xu Xia stopped and was about to remove the rope. I wonder if this nerd has gone insane after being scared by the sudden appearance of the monster.
"Are you... crazy? Did aliens tell you that this is their base?"
"How did you know? They also gave me this."
Fang Cheng raised the metal cube in his palm and felt a pain. With the dim light from the hole, he saw a dark liquid dripping slowly from the back of his hand. Then he smelled blood. It turned out that he had clenched the metal cube too hard and the key had left a deep cut on his hand.
Xu Xia subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the metal cube with the same dim light as the cave entrance. The moment he touched it, he felt a warm current through his fingertips, and his intuition told him that this was probably not a creation of human beings.
Fang Cheng put away the key, took a band-aid from Xu Xia, put it on the wound on his hand, and brought him to the cave entrance. As for the wounds on other parts of his body, we will talk about it later. In fact, he didn't know how many wounds there were on his body.
They carefully observed the almost perfectly round hole. Its inner wall was very smooth, like the surface of a liquid, without any texture or scratches. The good habit of doing experiments for a long time made Fang Cheng give up the idea of touching it with his bare hands. He picked up a piece of window beam that had just been kicked off from the house and poked the inner wall of the hole gently.
The wooden beam slid directly down the cave entrance, and Fang Cheng lost his balance all of a sudden. He was grabbed by Xu Xia just before he fell.
It turned out to be the right decision to invite one more person.
"The smoothness of this surface is a bit too ideal... If we slide down directly, the acceleration will be very large, and we will most likely fall to our death when we hit the bottom."
Damn, that alien really wants me dead.
"How about...I pull the rope and slowly lower you down?"
Xu Xia hung one end of the lock on the big iron lock at the door of the bungalow, and the other end on the strap of a small vest used for mountaineering. He brought about 50 meters of rope, which should be enough.
Fang Cheng took the vest from him and put it on, holding the rope in one hand and the key in the other, he slid down the slope. Xu Xia pulled the rope from behind, and soon he felt the huge weight.
"If you want to stop, just pull the rope twice."
Because the speed was too fast after entering the slope, Fang Cheng's hand that was not holding the rope grabbed uncontrollably, and the two metal blocks in his hand came into contact with the inner wall of the pipe and were nailed to it.
Is this what the key means? Fang Cheng immediately pulled the rope twice.
"What's wrong? Did you see anything?"
"The two metal blocks can create friction on the inner wall by touching each other, and we can use them to climb down."
"Then you go down first, and when you get to the bottom, use the rope to bring them up, and I'll meet you there."
Fang Cheng slowly moved down, the hole in front of him gradually became larger from only one person wide, and now it was five or six meters wide. At the same time, the light coming from the bottom became stronger and stronger. With this beam of light, he could clearly see his own shadow reflected on the inner walls around him.
The person in the mirror had a face covered in blood and dirt, his hair was dirty and messy, and the sweater he was wearing was also covered in stains and had several holes in it, through which a faint trace of blood could be seen.
Ai Bishui can't see this.
Thinking of this, he subconsciously wanted to tidy up his hair, and his hands holding the inner wall suddenly loosened, and the hands holding the rope above did not tighten it, which made Fang Cheng's body fly down uncontrollably.
After the sole of my foot hit a flat surface heavily, I felt a piercing pain and numbness in my heel.
"Are you okay?" The voice from above was already very weak, but the cave was very quiet and even the smallest voice could be clearly heard.
"It's okay! I'm at the bottom!" Fang Cheng shouted with all his might. The funnel-shaped inner wall of the cave formed a resonance chamber, which continuously bounced his voice back. The buzzing echo made him a little dizzy.
"My foot is a little numb from the collision! But I don't think any bones are broken!"
You'll feel numb if you stomp on it.
Fang Cheng realized that he was standing on a dome, which completely covered the lower opening of the funnel, and the edge of the inner wall of the funnel was naturally tangent to the sphere. If the entire arc surface was a perfect sphere, the diameter of the entire structure would be at least more than ten meters based on the curvature.
Like a giant egg.
"Should I go down now?" Xu Xia shouted at the cave entrance from above.
"Sure! I'll hand you the key!"
Fang Cheng took off his mountaineering vest and tried to put the cube in his hand into its pocket, but his hand slipped and he couldn't hold it.
He caught one quickly, but the other hit the ball directly under his feet.
Only a faint "pop" was heard, and the hard surface that seemed to be made of the same metal material as the inner wall shattered instantly, just like a balloon being punctured.
Fang Cheng's feet were hanging in the air, and he fell freely. In the instant before the collision, he saw clearly that there seemed to be a liquid surface below.
As someone who grew up by the sea, this level of diving was not difficult for him, but this time he was caught off guard. He entered the liquid with a heavy impact, and his eyes and ears hurt the moment he entered the water. Years of swimming experience made him relax his body reflexively, wanting to get his head out of the liquid first.
This liquid was not water. When it floated up, he clearly felt that its buoyancy was much greater than that of water, and its slippery touch made him think that it might be some kind of organic solvent.
What’s even more amazing is that as soon as his head emerged from the water, the liquid on it evaporated immediately.
With such a fast speed...won't all the liquid evaporate in a short while if it's left open?
Thinking of this, he looked up at the broken sphere and found that the dome had completely healed. He seemed to be trapped in this giant egg.
Normally, an ordinary person would be extremely , but Fang Cheng is very calm now, because he has experienced too many emotional roller coasters in the past few hours tonight and he no longer has the energy to despair.
Tired, destroy it.
"Earthling? Have you come in already?"
Fang Cheng couldn't find the source of this sentence. It seemed more like it was coming from the vibration of the entire eggshell.
"Is that you, Keats?" he shouted into the air.
"Yes, I'm on my way back to the sun now."
"What should I do now? Please tell me!"
Fang Cheng felt that breathing was a little difficult, and the oxygen in the cavity was decreasing.
"Do you still have your two keys?"
"There's one left... I just dropped one on the dome and I fell off."
"Then the other one should also be inside, look for it."
Fang Cheng looked around and found that the inner wall of the egg was almost a perfect sphere, with liquid accounting for about four-fifths of its volume. The liquid surface inside the cavity was very smooth, and the waves generated by the floating body could not be transmitted far before they decayed.
He saw the fluorescent light on the inner wall, which was the light source that led him here. The milky white light filled the air, and the reflections on the water waves looked like tiny bits of silver.
The small square block was floating not far away, and Fang Cheng swam over with difficulty and picked it up.
The resistance of this liquid is much greater than that of hydrogen and oxygen solution.
"What's the next step? I'm having trouble breathing."
He asked the question again into the air.
"Go into the liquid. You can breathe in it."
Fang Cheng hesitated for a few seconds and then dived down.
