Unexpectedly, the blood of the tombkeeper actually caused the stone pillars to fester and corrode.
Just one drop of blood caused half of the stone cylinder to be melted away, the size of a palm!
"Your blood is scarier than acid." Zhou Sheng couldn't help but say.
Zhou Sheng was still wondering why such a hard stone pillar began to fade away like snow melting after touching the jade.
Unexpectedly, the strange thing was not the jade, but the blood of the tombkeeper dripping on the jade and blending into it.
Unexpectedly, the tomb guard shook his head and pointed at the stone pillar he first attacked.
Zhou Sheng looked intently. Although there was no light here, with his night vision, he could still barely identify what the tombkeeper wanted him to see.
In the middle of the stone pillar, there were two less obvious blood stains. The amount of bleeding was very small, and it was still a little black sticking to the wall of the stone pillar.
This was the mark left when the tombkeeper's finger touched the stone pillar before the bleeding stopped.
But at that time, his blood did not cause corrosion or ulceration to the stone pillars, just like the blood of normal people.
"So, it wasn't your blood that changed the properties of the jade?" Zhou Sheng expressed his conclusion in confusion.
The scene in front of him was truly unexpected. He had a strange feeling but didn't know how to express it.
If these stone pillars are compared to independent computers one after another, then there seems to be a master control machine here that continuously puts real-time information into the slave machines.
For example, before encountering the jade, the master control computer judged that the blood of the tombkeeper was harmless, so these stone pillars did not react at all to the blood of the tombkeeper.
After one of the pillars was damaged by jade, this information was passed to the master control machine and each slave machine, causing them to start to think that jade and things contaminated on jade were harmful again.
The thing stained on the jade was the blood of the tomb keeper, so when it encountered the blood of the tomb keeper again, the stone pillar behaved in the same state as when it encountered jade!
If you follow this idea, these stone pillars are not only alive, but also updated in real time!
The tombkeeper nodded: "It was jade that changed the definition of my blood in this space."
It seems that the tombkeeper and Zhou Sheng had the same idea. Although it is incredible, it is indeed a reasonable explanation.
"It's just like the immune system inside the human body. Once the immune system regards a virus as a target to attack, even if it's just an inactivated virus with the same appearance, or just a certain genetic trait that is the same as the virus, it will be attacked by the immune system.
Attack." the tombkeeper said.
In front of you, the corrosion and decay of the stone pillars look like they have been attacked by the "immune system", and jade is the real virus.
As for the blood of the tombkeeper, it is just a feature attached to the virus, but it is also judged by the system as the "virus" itself, causing a similar effect.
This metaphor of the tombkeeper is more appropriate than the relationship between the computer host and the slave used by Zhou Sheng to understand and judge.
Of course Zhou Sheng also knows the characteristics of the human immune system, why inactivated vaccines can make the human body produce antibodies against viruses, and why after one eye of a person is injured, the other eye will also be attacked by the immune system until he is blind.
Zhou Sheng had naturally heard of these cases and understood the reasons.
However, due to the influence of his major, he subconsciously thought about computer network related knowledge, but forgot this more appropriate description.
But it sounds like this space is more like a living whole.
"So it seems that we are in the body of some huge creature." This is how the current situation made Zhou Sheng feel.
"Yes." The tombkeeper actually nodded, obviously having similar feelings to Zhou Sheng.
The stone pillar's forward movement never stopped, until the entire middle section of the stone pillar was corroded into ashes, leaving only a bare top hanging directly above the stone platform, like an upside-down stalactite.
Therefore, if Zhou Sheng and others had not stopped the movement of the stone pillars, their final destination would be crowded around the stone platform in the center. While squeezing each other, they would be corrupted by the jade and eventually fall apart.
It seems that from the moment the stone pillars begin to move, for them, this is a journey destined to perish.
Somehow, from these unknown stone pillars, Zhou Sheng actually felt a sense of destiny.
It's like there are some things that are destined. As long as you take the first step, you are destined to be catastrophic.
Zhou Sheng shook his head and got rid of the unrealistic thoughts in his mind.
Normally, Zhou Sheng would never be such a sentimental person. He didn't know whether it was the dark and quiet atmosphere here that aroused his thoughts, or whether his sixth sense was vaguely telling him something.
But at the moment, it is obviously more important to find the things left by the ancestors of the tombkeepers.
Zhou Sheng asked: "Are you sure now that this strange piece of jade is what you are looking for?"
The gravekeeper said calmly: "No."
Although he couldn't tell exactly what he was looking for, his intuition told the tombkeeper that it was not a highly aggressive item that would destroy other things.
"Then let's leave here first." Zhou Sheng said.
After exploring the cave so far, we have reached the end. Now that all the stone pillars have been destroyed, Zhou Sheng is always worried about whether the cave will collapse.
Since there is nothing to gain here, it is better to leave first.
After all, it was impossible for them to take away the thin columnar jade in the stone platform.
Since jade can have such a great corrosive effect on stone pillars, if Zhou Sheng and others touch it rashly, there is no guarantee that their hands will be directly corroded.
In strange places, they are responsible for their own lives by not touching or touching randomly. After all, they are not students with strong curiosity.
Zhou Sheng and the tomb keeper returned to the entrance of the cave along the same route, and the rope hanging from the cliff was still hanging in place.
The two stepped forward, tied the rope again, and climbed up.
However, before climbing a few steps, the rope above Zhou Sheng's head suddenly broke!
Zhou Sheng's body was caught off guard and fell into the dark clouds where the ground could not be seen clearly.
He drew out the Soul-Slaying Sword and tried to use the sword blade to stick into the smooth rock wall to stop himself from falling.
However, in mid-air, Zhou Sheng had nowhere to draw strength. When he wanted to thrust his sword into the rock wall, the conserved momentum would instead take his body further away from the rock wall.
In the midst of this electric light and flint, Zhou Sheng unexpectedly thought that the behavior of the cliff-falling knights he had seen in TV dramas actually violated the laws of physics.
Of course, Zhou Sheng is in such a mood and thinking wildly, which naturally means that the current situation is not urgent for him.
After all, although he was falling in mid-air, it was not like he had fallen into the sand before.