The old man nodded, agreeing with his nephew's judgment.
This circle of rocks doesn't look right at first sight, and the young man's footprints disappeared here, which is becoming more and more strange.
It can't be some... special secret location.
The old man's old curiosity aroused more and more.
Some idle people are like this. When they see something strange or unclear, they want to find out what it is.
Otherwise, I will always feel itchy and uncomfortable.
The middle-aged man installed the hidden camera first, then picked up a stone on the ground, and banged it hard on the rock wall for a long time. The stone in his hand was broken into pieces, and a lot of debris came out, but the rock mass in front of him didn't even have a scratch. nothing.
"It's so hard." Finally, the middle-aged man took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the rock mass: "I asked a friend who studies geology to let him see what this is."
The old man agreed and said: "It's getting more and more interesting. That kid must have a secret."
"I think so too." The middle-aged man scratched his head: "There are also potted plants...Uncle, you said he brought a lot of potted plants over, but he didn't see any of them."
"Is it behind this stone door?" Lao Cong pointed in front of him.
The middle-aged man's eyes were bright: "The boy dug a cave here and brought many potted plants in. Is it used to convert oxygen? So how does light come? Is it converted into electrical energy? So how does electricity come from?"
I have to say that some people's minds are just big... and their bigness is quite reasonable.
The old man shook his head: "I don't know, maybe it has other uses. Now that the camera is installed, let's go."
"Sure." The middle-aged man shook his cell phone: "I'll send the picture to my friend, and I'll let you know when I have any news."
"sorry to bother you."
"It's okay, I'm quite curious anyway."
The two left this place.
In the next few days, during the game, Roland was either making out with Andonara or learning etiquette.
In reality, after buying the room, you hire someone to decorate it and buy furniture.
Because this place is intended to be used as a teleportation point, the decoration and furniture are only used to conceal the place.
Just keep it as simple as possible, it only cost him around 100,000 yuan.
Simple decoration does not take much time, but even so, it took Roland nearly twenty days.
At this time, the old man and his nephew came to the rock formation again.
At the same time, they have one more companion here.
A gentle and thin middle-aged man wearing glasses.
This man is the middle-aged fat man’s friend, an expert in geology.
"Geology is not for studying stones. Studying stones is just one of our abilities. The pictures you showed me don't look like valuable things." The middle-aged man with glasses explained seriously: "Like the mountains here in our small town , there is nothing to study anymore, Lao Tai, let me tell you, it is not up to you ordinary people to decide whether the lithosphere is strange or not, because you have not seen many strange rocks in geology, most of them are … What the hell is this.”
At this time, the middle-aged man with glasses finally realized something was wrong.
The stone circle in front of me is so strange.
He went up and touched it: "Hmm... It's very smooth. It doesn't look like it has been weathered, but more like a synthetic rock slab."
The old man asked from the side: "What is the synthetic slate and what is it used for?"
"A kind of building material. In most cases, it is used as local brick paving." Glasses kept touching the rock mass in front of him: "It's just that I have never seen such a strange synthetic slate."
The middle-aged man had already retrieved his camera. Hearing this, he asked: "It looks like an artificial creation to me. What's the difference between a normal synthetic rock slab and this one?"
"The materials are relatively fixed. There are only a few materials that come and go in synthetic slate. I can feel them by touching them." The man with glasses said with a strange expression: "But this one is completely different. I really want to take some back to study."
"It can't be drilled, it's very hard." The middle-aged fat man put away his camera and said, "How about bringing a punch machine next time."
"This works!" The man with glasses touched the rock circle, and there was some light in his eyes.
The old man smiled and said, "If you understand something through research, can you tell us about it? Xiao Tao."
Continuing to touch the rock mass, the man with glasses sighed. Although he was curious, he didn't pay much attention. He just wanted to know what materials this thing was made of.
The three people left from the mountain.
On the second day, the bespectacled man took two students with him and a drilling machine to drill a piece of rock as big as a fingernail into the rock mass. Then he drove for three hours to the provincial capital. Institute of Geology.
Because of his acquaintance, he directly asked the stone fragments as big as fingernails to be sent to the examination room.
Then I sat and chatted with an old friend.
"Haitao, I heard that you are doing geological research on ancient tombs of the Ming Dynasty in a small town in the south. Did you get this thing from an ancient tomb?" the bald old friend asked with a smile.
"No, we found a very strange rock mass on the mountain." Sven Glasses, whose real name is Zhao Haitao, said: "We brought two portable punching machines up there, the ones made in Germany. The needles are said to be very hard. That's right, but the needles of the two punching machines were broken, one was broken and the other was crooked, and this bit of rock fragment was knocked out."
Being able to work in the Geological Bureau means that you are pretty good at it. When the balding middle-aged man heard this, he was stunned: "So hard? It can't be a special synthetic slate, right?"
Zhao Haitao shrugged: "Who knows! Let's look at the test results."
The two then chatted for a while, and about two hours later, the results came out.
A certain researcher handed the data sheets to the two of them with a strange look on their face, one for each person.
After reading it, the two people's expressions were also shocked.
Touching the smooth top of his head, the middle-aged man at the research institute was completely confused: "Could I have made a mistake? These are very common soil components. How can they be compressed into stone slabs? What's even more outrageous is that this The hardness is almost as good as diamond, and the impact toughness and fracture toughness are also very high. Taken together, this is almost as good as special tungsten chromium steel.”
"The two punching machine needles made in Germany are made of tungsten-chromium steel. If the data is combined, it is harder than tungsten-chromium steel." Zhao Haitao took a deep breath: "No, Old Huang, you Immediately mobilize a few people to go with me and get that rock back. This thing may change our concept of materials."
"I understand, I'll go with you."
Afterwards, two cars, a bus and a truck drove directly to the small town where Roland lived.
It originally took three hours to drive, but because I was impatient, I drove there in two hours.
Then a group of people jumped off the bus and truck, holding tools, and went up the mountain. Under the guidance of Zhao Haitao, they found the rock mass and directly cut the two-meter-diameter, two-meter-long cylinder dug it out.
It's only two meters long... Because Roland used this thing to seal the door, the long passage behind it was all replaced by normal soil.
Several researchers with detectors measured the mountain for a while, but found nothing special and no metal echo. It just seemed like there was a small cavity.
But here in southern Xinjiang, there are many underground cavities, and they are one hundred meters deep underground. They have no impact on the environment at all, so no one cares.
Nearly thirty people were beating around this 'cylindrical rock mass' cut out of the mountain, and they were all astonished.
These people who work in geology are considered well-informed.
But this was the first time I saw such a strange rock mass, harder than special steel.
"This thing is definitely synthetic."
Zhao Haitao walked around the stone pillar several times and finally came to the conclusion: "It is difficult for nature to form such a perfect shape and such a strange thing. I just don't know whether it was made by ancient people or modern people."
"Let's test it." The bald old man patted the stone pillar and said, "It's such a big piece, it probably weighs eight tons. Fortunately, we got a truck over. Otherwise, we really wouldn't be able to transport it back."
"Now I'm just thinking, how are we guys going to transport it down the mountain if we don't have the tools."
"This thing is round. Push it and roll it down the hill?" someone joked.
"Do you want to kill people?" Zhao Haitao said angrily: "This thing weighs nearly eight tons. When it rolls down, the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. With the ruggedness of this mountain, the speed can definitely exceed 20 meters per second, let alone hit people. , the person will be broken on the spot, even a building will be smashed through by you."
The person who spoke said with a smile: "I was just joking."
"Researchers can't just make jokes." Zhao Haitao complained angrily. The other person was not his student or his subordinate, so he couldn't say anything more: "Go and ask a professional hook machine operator to come over and get the things down the mountain. Transport it back to the Geological Bureau and slowly test it."
At nearly nine o'clock in the evening, the cylindrical stone was finally transported back to the Geological Bureau.
Then a large group of researchers conducted various tests on it.
Then more surprising data was placed in front of them.
"This thing is simply a miracle." Zhao Haitao covered his forehead: "Its ingredients are soil and minerals that are very common in our area. The ingredients are extremely mixed. No matter how you look at it, it should be just a ball of soil. But it is It became a piece of rock, and there seemed to be a force in it that made it look like this."
Bald old Huang brought two cups of coffee and placed one cup in front of Zhao Haitao: "Drink first, I guess we will have to stay up all night today."
"Has it been reported?"
"Reported... Our boss (meaning the leader) called the superiors and told the data. The people above were all confused and asked whether we got the wrong data on special steel." At this point, Lao Huang laughed to himself He said: "After the boss repeatedly assured me that this was true, they said they would immediately fly over all night and expect to arrive in the early morning."
"Everyone who looks at this data will be confused." Zhao Haitao took off his glasses and took a sip of coffee: "I was just curious at first, but I didn't expect that I actually caught a big fish."
"How did you discover this thing?"
Lao Huang was a little envious, regardless of whether the subsequent research had anything to do with Zhao Haitao.
"An acquaintance said he had something strange for me to see..."
Zhao Haitao suddenly remembered something, and took this opportunity to call his friend: "Old Tai, are you sleeping? You told me before, didn't you say that there was a young man who acted strangely? Do you remember that Does he look like a young man?"
"I haven't seen it, but my uncle has. He is just curious and afraid that the young man will do something bad over there."
Zhao Haitao continued to ask: "I remember you set up a hidden camera. Didn't it take a picture?"
"No, it seems that after talking to my uncle that day, he didn't go to the mountain again."
"Really? Then we can't find him?"
"But I remember my uncle said that the young man seems to have bought a house with a penthouse in a community near the park. Then you can ask your uncle to take you to look for it, maybe you can meet him."
"OK, thanks."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Haitao was a little puzzled: "I don't know if that young man has anything to do with this rock."
But he soon put this matter behind him and continued to study the stone.
Scientific researchers are inexplicably enthusiastic about this new discovery.
I don't know what's going on, but I always feel uncomfortable.
For this reason, they are willing to eat less and sleep less, as long as they have enough calories for thinking and no one will die.
But this stone was not allowed to be studied by Zhao Haitao for long... and then it was secretly sent to the General Bureau of Geology in Beijing where conditions were better.
Zhao Haitao felt very lost without anything to study. Then he found his friend Tai Moumou and used his relationship to contact the nosy and curious old man.
Then the two of them stayed in the community for three days and finally blocked Roland.
At this time, Roland was walking towards his new house carrying some food, and was blocked by two people in front of the building.
As soon as Roland saw the old man, he started to frown, thinking that this man was so annoying that he didn't even go to the mountain and chased after him.
Seeing Roland's unhappy look, the old man smiled and said, "Young man, I'm not looking for you, this professor is looking for you."
Zhao Haitao does have the title of professor.
While the old man was talking, Zhao Haitao looked at Roland with surprise.
He has led several graduate students and has a certain understanding of young people.
He always had a feeling that the young man in front of him seemed to have a very unique temperament, which made people feel fascinated, but they did not dare to get too close.
Roland turned his attention to Zhao Haitao with confusion on his face.
"Sorry, let me introduce myself. I am Zhao Haitao from the Geological Survey Bureau of this city. I heard Mr. Tai say before that you seem to be related to a strange kind of rock?"
"What rock?" Roland looked confused.
He is very mentally strong now and it is too easy to control his emotions.
"This." Zhao Haitao took out his mobile phone, opened the picture, and handed it over.
"Oh, this thing." Roland nodded: "I saw it several times when I was playing in the mountains. Isn't this the attraction decoration made by the workers who contracted the construction of the park?"
Zhao Haitao kept staring at Roland's eyes. Seeing that when the latter spoke, his tone was balanced and his eyes were steady without flickering, he felt that what he said must be the truth.
"Sorry to bother you." Zhao Haitao put away his phone.
Then he turned around and left. The old man felt a little unwilling, but he followed him.
Roland turned and entered the building.
On the way back, Zhao Haitao received a call from Lao Huang: "Haitao, something big has happened. The above test results have come out. The strength of the rock mass can replace deck steel!"
"What!" Zhao Haitao, who was driving, suddenly stopped, parked the car on the side of the road, and shouted into his mobile phone: "Isn't that wrong?"
"That's right, orders have been issued from above. Let's search that mountain with all our strength to see if we can find a second rock mass like that."