Chi Yan remembered that it usually took more than two hours to pass this rope in the past, but this time, it took a full four hours, almost half the time.
By the time Chi Yan came down from the rope, the time displayed in the taskbar had already reached 10:30 in the morning.
In front of me were circles of dreamy crystals that could only appear in a fairy tale world. The ground I was standing on was made of crystals, and the crystals stretched to a point in the distance where it was impossible to see the end. There, there were rolling diamond mountains rising from the ground, extending upwards to connect to the diamond cover above my head.
Although a hundred years had passed, Chi Yan had quickly locked onto a path.
Even though I haven't been there for a long time, the muscle memory in my body allows me to find the way naturally.
But Chi Yan didn't, he was calculating the time.
In the past, it took two hours to walk on the tightrope, and after getting off the tightrope, it took another three hours to reach the edge of Diamond Head.
Then just hit the same marked spot hard many times.
But be careful when you hit them, don't use all your strength to hit them, because they still have energy left to run.
The sun begins to set at around five in the afternoon. It takes more than half an hour from the time the sun slowly sets to the time when the sky and earth become completely dark.
We set out at 6:30 and ran for 5 hours. We finally reached the edge of Diamond Hill at around 11:30. We arrived at the survival area before 6:00 and left at 1:00 pm. We went back and forth at a fast speed.
The time available for chiseling the mountain is only an hour and a half in the middle.
But now comes the problem.
It took four hours just to walk the tightrope. If we walked the same distance and at the same speed, it would also take four hours.
If we leave now, will we really have time to reach the edge of Diamond Head
What is in the darkness is unclear, but what the darkness means is crystal clear.
It’s not like there were no players who didn’t return after dark before. On the next day, we saw players who didn’t return again on the edge of Diamond Mountain.
His body was stuck to the edge of Diamond Mountain. He didn't know what had happened, but the edge of his body had already turned into diamond.
A quarter of the body merged into the Diamond Mountain, but it did not die.
The man looked at them in horror and helplessness through the extremely hard diamond membrane. He could even open his mouth and gasp for breath like a dehydrated fish.
I tried to save the man at that time, but unfortunately, it seemed that it was only a thin layer of diamond and was still indestructible.
He could only watch helplessly as that person gradually turned into diamond day by day, and in despair he completely became a part of Diamond Mountain.
Since then, Chi Yan no longer dared to stay in the security zone, but set out at least half an hour in advance.
I don’t want to become the next diamond man.
Just as Chi Yan was thinking, a loud roar suddenly came from the distance.
This deafening sound made Chi Yan immediately regain all consciousness and suddenly looked up to see where the sound came from.
At the end of the sight, countless bright and dazzling stars dotted the sky. Looking more closely, I found that they were broken into pieces of diamonds.
What's the matter
Chi Yan's body suddenly tensed up. He was just wondering whether he could get out, but now he ran towards the place where the sound came from without thinking.
Could it be that Baili Xin encountered some trouble
How could so many broken diamonds fly into the air, and what was that loud noise
Could it be that some monster was lurking around? How powerful must this monster be to be able to shatter diamonds with its bare hands
As Chi Yan ran as hard as he could, questions kept flashing through his mind.
The journey that previously took three hours was shortened to one and a half hours because of running without reservation.
During this hour and a half, the shaking sound in front of him showed no sign of stopping, and the broken diamonds above his head became more and more. From a distance, it looked as mysterious as a section of the sky.
However, Chi Yan had no intention of appreciating such a beautiful scenery. As he got closer, the sound became louder and louder. When he arrived in front, he slowly stopped and stared blankly at the scene in front of him.
In front of the young man was a huge machine. At one end of the machine was a square iron box, from which extended a wooden stake. Oh no, it should be called a diamond stake.
The diamond piles beat rhythmically on the diamond mountain in front of him, and in the interval between each beating, the young man held the diamond saw blade in his hand and cut at one place.
One man and one machine, working together perfectly.
Every time the diamond pile is struck, countless powders fly out.
Maybe because of habit, these diamond powders were suspended in the air at a very slow speed, refracting the sun's light to form the magical sky just now.
Chi Yan stared blankly at the young man's back. The young man had already chiseled out the depth of two diamond piles with just one hand.
What is even more valuable is that this depth is not a simple point, but a passage that can accommodate one person.
"Is this the depth of your two fists?" Chi Yan opened his mouth, but found that his voice was trembling uncontrollably due to shock.
Baili Xin paused for a moment and quickly glanced at Chi Yan, "You're here, pretty quick."
Chi Yan's expression was very subtle, "Two diamond pile fists, also called two fists?"
Baili Xin pressed two buttons on the machine beside him, and the diamond pile that was punching randomly just now immediately shut down and stopped there obediently.
Chi Yan forgot to even breathe. He saw Baili Xin stand up and knock on the front with the diamond block at his feet. He didn't know what his intention was.
Chi Yan: "What are you doing? Are you checking to see if the diamond is loose?"
After asking this question, his eyes fell on the magical machine again, "How did you make this machine? And these materials, why don't I remember that there is metal in Diamond Mountain?"
Baili Xin withdrew his hand and turned to look at Chi Yan, who was like a miracle baby.
He frowned slightly, his brows forming the shape of the Chinese character "川", as if he was struggling over which question of Chi Yan to answer first.
After a few seconds, Baili Xin spoke, "I assembled the machine myself. I put some parts in my backpack and just assembled it into this simple pile driver."
“Although the accuracy is not enough, it is enough.”
"Use your own spear to attack your shield. The only thing that can cut diamonds is diamonds."
"I first use a diamond saw blade to loosen the diamond gap, and then use the pile driver to vibrate the gap open, which greatly improves efficiency."
When Baili Xin was here, it was also a mixture of truth and falsehood.
No matter how much foresight one has, he wouldn't have prepared so many things in his backpack. He actually used the power of the crystal ball.
However, it may be that the suppression power of this copy is too strong, and the ability of the crystal ball is greatly reduced. Baili Xin can directly construct a large diamond gas cutting machine in his mind, but they can't come out.
The only thing that can be constructed is the original parts one by one.
And every time the materials were constructed, the crystal ball would enter a three-day CD time. In this way, it took a long time to assemble this pile driver.
After that, I found a suitable pile driver diamond from the scattered feet. The diamond saw blade was more troublesome. I tried to grind it directly, but it didn’t work, so I used the construction method in the end and assembled the diamond saw blade after construction.
"Oh, you asked about the depth." Baili Xin pinched his chin and began to answer Chi Yan's next question, "Yes, it is two fists deep of the machine. Oh, I don't think I understood it clearly."
Chi Yan: “…”
You don't understand at all!
"What else did you ask?" Baili Xin rubbed his ears and raised his voice a few decibels higher than usual. "It's too noisy. My ears are buzzing. Speak louder. I didn't hear you clearly just now."
Chi Yan raised his voice when he heard this: "I'm asking you, why did you knock on the wall just now?"
Baili Xin finally heard it this time. Hearing this, he leaned on the wall with one hand and tapped it twice. "I'm listening. It's getting closer. Sit down. I'll perform a magic trick for you now."
After saying this, he turned on the machine again and started working with both hands.
Seeing that he really couldn't help in any way, Chi Yan obediently found a diamond stone and walked down, staring at the young man thoughtfully.
During this period, we also took the time to observe the surroundings. This place is very close to the section we had dug before, but even if we chose the right path, it would be impossible to dig such a deep hole.
The people before them accumulated resources day after day, but they had only managed to carve out a "cave" as deep as an adult man's head.
Looking further away, there was a branch that had grown out of the Diamond Mountain. It hung on the steep cliff of the Diamond Mountain, and on it were fruits that Prisin often brought to them.
When he saw the tree, Chi Yan was stunned for a moment.
It turns out that this fruit grows in this dangerous place, and it will really fall from the tree if you are not careful.
If young people really want to bring fruits, it is actually unnecessary.
Because all of them here don't need to rely on food to fill their stomachs. They don't feel hungry, nor do they have desires for river water.
Chi Yan looked at Baili Xin with some confusion, but suddenly he heard an unusual "cracking" sound.
Looking over in surprise, I discovered that the diamond wall of the tunnel, which just looked a little scratched, was now covered with dense spider-web-like cracks.
The diamond pile driver hammered a few times, and the next second, the diamond mountain that was so hard just now was now like a piece of tofu, falling into powder.
With a loud "boom", the wall opened.
On the other side of the wall, there was a long passage!
Baili Xin was right, there really was a passage at the other end of the cave!
"Baili Xin," Chi Yan praised sincerely, "You are so fucking awesome."
Baili Xin just smiled politely, but his eyes fell on the Diamond Mountain Passage.
Unlike the self-dug passage that could accommodate one person, this passage was obviously much larger.
On the ground of the passage are countless diamond skeletons.
The bodies of these skeletons are not those of humans, but those of some kind of birds.
These densely packed diamond corpses only differ in the degree of diamondification but not in their morphology.
In other words, they are all the same species of bird.
They were huge; their bodies curled up in the corner were three meters long, not to mention their wings spread out.
After Chi Yan broke free from his excitement, he finally noticed the diamonds of these birds. Each of them was crawling there, silently telling its own tragic story.
Chi Yan felt a little sad for a moment.
Although no one knows why this species of bird kept pecking at Diamond Mountain like woodpeckers, and ended up here one after another, no one knows why.
Chi Yan sighed deeply, "These tragic birds, although we don't know why they peck at the mountain, but thanks to them, we have a chance to leave this damn place."
Baili Xin had a deep look in his eyes. He responded to Chi Yan perfunctorily and walked with heavy steps to the front of the bird that had turned into a diamond bird.
Half squatting, his fingers gently stroked the cold and crystal diamond surface, his mouth opened and closed silently, his expression pious and serious, as if he was chanting some prayer for the salvation of souls.
Then he came to the second diamond bird.
It's still a repeat of the previous time.
This was repeated several times one after another until Chi Yan's time was up and he stopped and stood up.
Baili Xin: "Let's go first."
Chi Yantou looked at those rather tragic bird diamonds, quickly followed Baili Xin's pace, and asked, "Are you okay?"
The two walked out of the Diamond Cave. After Baili Xin put the machine into his backpack, they began to run towards the rope.
While running, Baili Xin said calmly, "Every time, every year, they are chiseling the mountain with their lives."
"You once warned me not to leave the safe zone at night. Wherever darkness finds it, it will become an abyss. The person you know turned into a diamond, and these birds also turned into diamonds. Do you know what this means?"
Chi Yan thought for a moment, and his confused eyes gradually turned into surprise: "You mean, when these birds flew over to chisel the mountain, they didn't choose to leave before dark, but stayed to continue chiseling the mountain?"
Baili Xin nodded, "Yes. Because we always leave early, we never know that they are still digging the diamond mountain after we leave."
"I just observed the degree of diamondization of these birds. Each one is different, but there are scratches on the soles of the feet of each one from thorns."
"It is very likely that these birds have spent a year and gone through numerous hardships to reach Diamond Mountain. Digging the mountain is their mission. They came to Diamond Mountain despite all the difficulties just to face a tragic end to their lives."
Chi Yan was immediately filled with awe and thought for a moment, "They kept chiseling the mountain one after another. When they came in, they must have seen the bodies of their companions and knew what their fate would be."
Baili Xin sighed, "Yes, I am very surprised. These birds are digging the mountain with the intention of dying."
"When I listened before I left yesterday, the sound was still some distance away from me, but when I got there today, I found that the diamond wall had already reached the edge."
Chi Yan sighed for a while, and the expression on his face soon became very complicated: "It's time for us to leave here."
"But I think that tunnel looks very long. Can we really pass through it before dark?"
Baili Xin: "Yes, because the birds flew across from us and pecked the mountain."
Chi Yan was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood what Baili Xin meant.
Yes, since birds can be turned into diamonds, it means that these birds are also punished by the dark rules. But they can fly in and dig holes, which means that the distance is not infinite.
And... Chi Yan's eyes suddenly lit up. If these birds could fly in from outside, then as long as they left this tunnel, they wouldn't have to be afraid of the dark! Or, there was no night in the rules outside.
Berry Sin: "I first heard it pecking the mountain yesterday at 11 a.m."
"It flew for three and a half hours from daybreak."
"But we have to understand that its speed is twice as fast as ours. If it takes three and a half hours, it will take us about seven hours."
Chi Yan was stunned again, and looked at Baili Xin in surprise: "How do you know that their speed is twice as fast as ours?"
Baili Xin: "Their body size, weight, shape, wing structure, muscle strength, plus the humidity and wind speed in this cave, can roughly estimate their flying speed, which is not very accurate but can be used as a reference."
"Its flying speed should be very fast, but because the cave space is still a bit narrow, it has reduced its speed."
Chi Yan was completely stunned after hearing this.
I laughed the first time I heard that Baili Xin was going to cut the carbon atoms holding hands, and I was shocked the first time I saw the diamond pile driver.
This is the third time, I’m kneeling.
Boss! I understand every word you say, but I don't understand you when you put them together!
Are you a scientific master? ! You must be a scientific master!
Please accept my greeting!
"However, it is only a rough estimate after all," Baili Xin added, "there may be an error of a few tenths of a meter per second."
“It’s almost negligible.”
Chi Yan: “…”
I have to say that Boss Baili Xin is really strong. He actually thinks that people will really understand after he explains it.
When the sun in the sky was very hot, neither of them dared to relax and rest.
In order to conserve their energy, they stopped talking. After running for three hours, they came to the rope.
Chi Yan supported his knees with his hands, bent over and panted heavily, saying: "Boss, you go first, I'll cover you."
Baili Xin glanced at the time in the taskbar and nodded, "Take a break and catch up quickly."
Chi Yan hadn't exercised for many years. He suddenly did such intense exercise. It felt like a fire was burning in his throat. He gasped for air. "I know. I'll catch up soon. Victory is in sight. How can I die now?"
Baili Xin no longer hesitated, and jumped nimbly and walked onto the rope.
Under the clouds, the visibility on the rope was only about ten meters, and Baili Xin soon disappeared.
Chi Yan rested for a while before finally finding his rhythm and getting on the rope.
This time I was braver than the first time. Without any hesitation, I jumped up and ran forward.
After walking for a while, there was suddenly thick fog all around.
Not only was the abyss beneath his feet covered in thick fog, but even the ropes beneath his feet could not be seen clearly.
To be safe, Chi Yan had to be forced to slow down.
"Chi Yan?" Just as Chi Yan squinted his eyes and carefully identified the rope under his feet, a vague call suddenly came from the front, "Are you here?"
Chi Yan: "Baili Xin?"
The man's voice was heard again from within the cloud. "It's me. Every afternoon at this time, there will be heavy fog at this location."
Chi Yan looked towards the vast whiteness ahead, but could not see anything. "Are you waiting for me?"
"Yes, don't be afraid, just follow my voice."
The man's voice suddenly began to move, moving a few inches to the side at a thirty-degree angle.
"Can you hear my voice? Or the sound of the bells? Come to me, be careful."
Chi Yan was now in a pitch-dark situation, and he shouted towards the source of the sound, "I'll be right over there."
Then, he took a step forward without hesitation.
The next second, the feeling of weightlessness came suddenly.
The leg missed.
With that leg as the center of gravity, the body began to fall uncontrollably.
Chi Yan didn't react to what happened, he just realized that he might have been deceived by something.
When his body was about to fall, Chi Yan quickly reached out to grab the rope above his head.
But it was still too late.
My fingertips touched the rough hemp rope and the cold bell, but I was powerless to grab them.
If your fingers grab nothing, it means that the last glimmer of hope is gone.
When he was on the verge of death, Chi Yan originally thought that countless thoughts and images would flash through his mind like a kaleidoscope, but in fact this was not the case.
At the moment of falling, there was only one thought in my mind.
Whoever can save him this time will be his ancestor for eight generations from now on!
The moment the wish was made, a strong force suddenly grabbed Chi Yan's shaky body.
Chi Yan raised his head in shock, and saw Baili Xin's helpless and somewhat worried face, "You guys, right? There are hallucinogens in this fog. I forgot to remind you just now."
Chi Yan exclaimed, "It's okay, ancestor!"
Baili Xin: “???”
Did this kid become stupid
What ancestor? Call him grandpa.