The old man was sitting on the backstage of the jeep, looking up at the cathedral in the distance.
It is a typical Western-style classical building, very similar to those religious churches.
The pointed top floor, the slender architectural style, the gorgeous carving details...
Everything and so on.
But if that's all it is, it's just an ordinary church that may have some historical value.
But the key to the problem is location.
It’s the same reason why a snack street should be opened in a tourist area.
If this was just an ordinary church in an above-ground city, then the old man probably wouldn't even look at it.
That's so ordinary, it can be seen almost everywhere above the blue.
But this "cathedral" is different.
It is located in an underground cave, with only faint lights around it, like an ancient castle in the dark.
The terrain here is really special.
Previously, due to the obstruction of the Big Dream Realm, the surrounding space was distorted based on "Chen Sanwen's own will".
But with the help of Ah Jiu, everyone drove the jeep through the imaginary sand and entered the cave beneath the ancient city of Lamba.
What was the terrain here originally like?
The old man speculated that the ruins on the sand above the crowd should be the ruins of the ancient city of Lamba.
When archaeologists surveyed the ruins of the ancient city of Lamba, they did not discover the underground cave below.
The reason may lie in "extraordinary".
There was some kind of "supernatural" power that hid this huge underground cave, which led archaeologists to make wrong judgments.
The extraordinary has its own extraordinary solution.
For some reason, the people in white discovered this underground cave and used it as a base to build a "cathedral".
Due to the initial misjudgment of archaeologists, everyone believed that only countless cold remains of the ancient city of Lamba were left, with nothing special about it.
As a result, the underground cave became a good hiding place, and even the witnesses did not notice it for a while.
This is indeed a very smart approach.
The old man raised his head and looked carefully at the cathedral in front of him.
He smacked his lips and speculated with a smile: "No, you didn't build this."
A building with this level of detail could never be built by a mysterious organization that wants to hide itself.
That would require too much manpower and material resources, and would be inconsistent with the previous actions of the man in white.
Hearing this, Ah Jiu nodded.
She was just about to respond to the old man's speculation, but then the old man spoke first.
He smiled, and the surroundings on his face came together.
"This cathedral should be the century-old cathedral that suddenly disappeared in the countryside south of Luoba Island more than 20 years ago, right?"
"Um?!"
The old man's words made Ah Jiu's pupils shrink.
He...how did he know?!
Even I, as the man in white, only have a partial understanding of this confidential information.
Could it be that the skinny old man had an inside job among the men in white?
What puzzled Ah Jiu even more was that despite such an accurate guess, the other people on the two jeeps did not show any surprise or awe.
Xu Cheng just nodded and sighed smoothly: "There are also weird stories that are man-made!"
Cheng Yi on the other side simply kept silent, as if he didn't hear anything!
Why?
Ah Jiu was even more puzzled and subconsciously asked Cheng Yi on the side: "How did you know?"
Cheng Yi was stunned.
Then, he waved his hands and said: "I'm not thinking about how to play the dungeon tomorrow night. I'm thinking about the shortcut keys for PR... No, no, I'm thinking about the live broadcast, ah, it's the research of strange creatures..."
A bunch of random words came out.
Ah Jiu: "..."
She turned her attention to Xu Cheng in the front seat of the car, hoping to find the answer from the fixed value person.
Xu admitted that he really thought about it and answered Ah Jiu:
"Because he has money."
Ah Jiu: "..."
Her originally expressionless face gave up thinking completely.
Ah Jiu was wondering, was his action too hasty? Do these people really believe in him? Why should he frame himself with a reason that even a fool would not believe?
In fact——
Facing a young man like Ah Jiu, neither Xu Cheng nor the old man bothered to lie.
That goes against both of their personalities.
Xu Cheng indeed told the truth.
The old man is too rich and has strong connections all over the country.
In the process of investigating extraordinary events, he will naturally come into contact with strange stories from various places in Azure, including a church building that disappeared overnight in Luoba Continent.
Almost everyone thinks that this is just a lie made by local officials.
But in the original interview, a child's description left a profound impact on the old man.
He said:
"The stars were beautiful that night!"
Stars - stars - starry sky.
Strangeness comes from the stars.
Combined with what is happening in the sky above the Lambalama Desert, it is not difficult for the old man to connect the two.
He is an old man, an ordinary person through and through.
As an ordinary person, if you want to have fun in the extraordinary world, you must use as many of your advantages as possible.
"Anyway, it is indeed that church."
Ah Jiu sighed softly.
After all, it is a "fixed value", and she must let the other party understand the situation at this moment.
"Our people used the 'energy replacement' technology to replace the cathedral as a stronghold."
The old man was amazed at this.
"This technology is comparable to a portal!"
Although it requires many more processes than the "portal" in science fiction movies, "energy replacement technology" can indeed achieve humankind's imagination of the "portal" in a sense.
"This technology cannot be used routinely."
Ah Jiu shook his head, killing the old man's illusion.
"It took us five years just to calculate the energy value of replacing the cathedral."
"As for the operations in Haicheng, that is, the continuous replacement around the Azure Bar, we spent one year and three months doing numerical calculations."
While talking, Ah Jiu's eyes fell on Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng understood.
It turns out that this is the reason why those people in white noticed "themselves".
The man in white spent a lot of time and energy planning Haicheng's actions, but was completely disrupted by the appearance of Xu Cheng.
The people who were transported to the Lambalama Desert were not the witnesses, but Xu Cheng.
This also made the people in white notice Xu Cheng's existence.
It’s just...what’s so special about me?
…
"go in."
Ah Jiu opened the door of the jeep, covered her shoulders and walked out.
Her body has not fully recovered yet.
"We actually don't have many people. We should all be fighting the witnesses on the ground now, so no one here will disturb us."
"We have to calm down the out-of-control yellow line as soon as possible, otherwise many people will die."
Ah Jiu was obviously a little anxious.
The old man frowned slightly and asked curiously as he got out of the car: "You said before that what you believe in is 'weird', so how can you prove your belief in 'weird'?"
This is actually a rather philosophical question.
If you are just an ordinary believer, you may even find it baffling and unable to answer.
But Ajiu is not.
Her thinking was quite clear, so she answered in the affirmative:
"Our belief in weirdness relies on mathematics."
…
Xu Cheng: [Mathematics?]
Old man: [Mathematics?]
Cheng Yi: [Well, let’s take a day off tomorrow and not edit the film. 】
