"Yes, anyway, we don't know where the astrolabe is in Shennongjia, so let's take a gamble." After listening to Xiang Yu's words, I said to everyone.
Chen Mo didn't speak, but he didn't refute either. He seemed to have silently agreed.
Only the professor was still frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Professor, do you have any other ideas?" Upon seeing this, Xiangyu walked up and asked the professor in a low voice.
"I don't have any idea, but I don't know why, but I always have a vague feeling in my heart, as if there are many dangerous factors waiting for us in the gaps of Shennongjia. Moreover, our masks were also lost on the top of the cliff.
Didn't Guyu say that these seams
The gap is the road to God. Her people have lived in Shennongjia for thousands of years, and the experience they have summarized must be correct." The professor said with a serious face, staring straight at the distance between us.
There is a dark and deep gap not far away.
I don’t know if it’s because the professor said that, so I’m a little suspicious, or if it’s something else.
Suddenly I seemed to hear a "rustling" sound coming from the gap.
The sound was like the sound of small balls hitting the cliff.
The voice was particularly gloomy, but it continued.
I saw Chen Mo's expression suddenly changed.
It seems I wasn't the only one who heard it.
The professor made a silent gesture towards us, then took steps towards the gap in the cliff.
After Xiangyu and I looked at each other, we also quietly put our things away, then stood up and quietly approached the gap.
We walked cautiously, fearing that we might make some noise and cause trouble.
Finally we stood in front of the gap in the cliff. Under the light of the xenon lamp, in the gap about half a meter wide, there were three small pottery balls rolling.
The sound we heard was the sound made by the small pottery ball hitting the cliff.
"This, this little pottery ball can move on its own?" Xiangyu was the first to express doubts.
Watching the small pottery ball rolling in the cracks of the cliff following a certain pattern, I instantly felt a chill running down my back.
I immediately thought of what the professor said to me in the ghost town in a room full of nine-headed Rakshasa masks.
He said that shaman research on ideology has reached a level that we can hardly imagine.
Moreover, my father has told me many times that in this world, anything that cannot be explained by science is either false or false. Science is actually a process of constantly discovering the unknown.
Therefore, the scene in front of me made my imagination begin to expand.
These three small balls were clearly manipulated by someone.
If my thoughts could be converted into reality, then there should be three sweaty teenagers playing with a ball in front of me now.
"Don't talk, you will disturb them." The professor immediately stopped Xiangyu as soon as she finished speaking.
Xiangyu also immediately covered his mouth with his hands.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or something, but at this moment, the three brown-red pottery balls that had just collided happily suddenly rolled towards the depth of the gap as if they were frightened.
Go in.
"Professor, the pottery ball has run away. What should we do now? Chase it?" As soon as I saw that the pottery ball was out of sight, but there were still repeated sounds of ceramic impact, I hurriedly consulted the professor.
opinions.
I'm thinking that if I was the only one at this moment, I might have chased him without any hesitation.
"Chase, but you must be careful. This pottery ball suddenly appeared here and we all saw it. It is definitely not that simple. It may be a well-planned conspiracy. We must keep a clear mind." Professor.
With that said, he was about to step into the gap first.
Who would have thought that Chen Mo, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled the professor's arm, and then said, "I'll go in first."
After Chen Mo finished speaking, before we could react, he had already stepped into the gap.
Several of us also followed Chen Mo into the gap one after another.
The gap is neither wide nor narrow, but it is still not enough to allow two people to walk together.
So the order in which we walked in the gap was: Chen Mo walked in the front, Xiang Yu and the professor walked in the middle, and I walked in the back.
The distance between me and Chen Mo was about two meters, so I didn't know what the situation was like on the road ahead, but I could still vaguely hear the sound of the pottery ball in my ears.
Chen Mo probably followed this voice and walked forward.
This gap is extremely deep, and there are no forks in the middle. Walking along one path for too long made me feel a little uneasy.
Because it was so quiet along the way, I didn't even meet an ant.
It feels like being on a pilgrimage, clean and solemn.
Suddenly, Chen Mo, who was walking at the front, stopped.
I didn't know what happened, so I just stopped.
"Chen Mo, what's wrong?"
Before I could say anything, the professor had already asked.
"I met two little things, Zhou Cang, you take the professor and Xiang Yu and retreat first, let me deal with them." This was Chen Mo's voice.
When I heard Chen Mo's words, I knew that the person blocking our way in front of us was definitely not a little thing.
It must be a big thing that can kill us anytime and anywhere.
I have already squeezed forward anxiously.
Although I was mentally prepared when I walked forward, when I stood next to Chen Mo and made eye contact with the little thing in front of me that Chen Mo was talking about, I was still quite frightened.
In front of us are two silver-gray animals, very large in size. Standing side by side, they can almost completely block the gap of more than half a meter wide.
The little thing's facial structure is particularly ferocious.
Its teeth are pointed and numerous, exposed, as if it has no lips.
The eyeballs are like two lead balls, and the scariest thing is that their tentacles actually grow directly on the eyeballs, which makes me a little confused as to which one is the real eyeball.
The body of the "little thing" looks like it is made up of sections of iron buckets. It has a mechanical shape anyway.
They are now standing opposite us, staring straight at us.
"Chen Mo, Zhou Cang, they, they are ants." Xiang Yu, who was standing behind us, suddenly shouted.
Ant?
No! What kind of ant is this? It’s so big.
Besides, do ants actually look so ferocious?
"It's really an ant. I once saw a chemical picture of an ant magnified dozens of times in Stanford's biology laboratory. This is the image. But why it grows to such a big size, I can't explain for the time being. This Shennongjia
It's not a high-oxygen zone, so under normal circumstances, it's impossible for creatures like ants to grow to such a large size," Xiangyu continued to explain.
"However, the current situation is that it is useless for us to know that they are ants. We have to think of a way to deal with them. Otherwise, they will be able to tear a few of us into pieces in less than three minutes." I said.
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"Do you feel that these two giant ants don't seem to want to attack us, they seem to be just stopping us from moving forward." Xiangyu said.
"If they are really preventing us from entering, then it proves that this path is the only way to the astrolabe, and we should go through it." The professor said.
"Zhou Cang, you see, the bodies of these giant ants are so huge. If we can fix them here, we can also get through the gap between them and the mountain. In this way, we can avoid
A fierce battle." Chen Mo said.
"But, how can we fix these two giant ants in one place?" I said.
Chen Mo glanced at me, and then took out a nylon rope from his backpack.