When the light of dawn lit up slightly and the thick fog thinned, Wei Dong saw two figures appearing on the original position of the rock platform - "Ke'er! Boss!"
"Brother! Sister!—No—brother-in-law!" Luo Meng shouted excitedly, and a group of people rushed over there.
"How are you?"
"Are you all right?"
"What happened?!"
"You scared us to death!"
"My God! Good luck! You're all right! Great!"
Everyone babbled and covered their faces, but saw Ke Xun and Mu Yiran with solemn and hesitant expressions, looking at them very cautiously.
"What's the matter?" Yue Cen, who came a step late in a wheelchair, sensitively discovered that something was wrong between the two of them.
"No doubt, we are all real, not an illusion." Wei Dong tapped his chest quickly.
"Did something happen on the rock platform?" Qin Ci asked carefully.
Everyone was suddenly a little nervous, and looked at the two people in unison without making a sound.
"...Nothing happened," Ke Xun's expression was still a little hesitant, he glanced at Mu Yiran, then at the crowd, and finally licked his dry lips, "How do you say... We just climbed to the rock Get up on the stage, and you'll jump right in."
"Huh?" Several people asked in confusion.
"We just climbed onto the rock platform and were about to take a closer look at the surrounding environment when we found ourselves on a flat ground again, and then you all screamed and rushed over from there..." Ke Xun looked around in disbelief. After looking at it, "-this is- it's almost dawn?!"
"That's right... it's going to light up soon, and the night has passed." Two or three people nodded dumbly.
"—Fuck!" Ke Xun hurriedly looked at Mu Yiran.
"...Fuck." Everyone looked at each other in surprise.
"So, a night that has passed in our eyes is only a momentary thing for you?" Zhu Haowen said calmly.
"There are two possibilities," Mu Yiran spoke more calmly than him, "The first possibility is that the space at the top of the rock platform is a distorted space. After we went up, we directly traveled through time, from last night to now.
"The second possibility is that we didn't travel through time, but—the memory of last night was intercepted by some force and left no trace at all."
These words made everyone tremble together.
"This rock platform is really weird," Zhu Haowen mused, "The camera can't capture any images on it, and you have also traveled through time on it, or your memory has been erased - it seems that maybe the camera does not It's not that nothing was captured, it's likely that the images it captured were also 'traversed' or erased by some force."
"Isn't the ultimate purpose of the painting push to let us board that rock platform?" Wu You wondered, "otherwise why would you do this? If it is the former possibility, then we will return to the same place in an instant after we board. If it is the latter possibility, then we have forgotten a memory, what is the impetus for things?"
"Perhaps, the rock platform needs thirteen of us to climb up together to show its true face." Yue Cen said, "And the situation encountered by Xiaomu and Xiaoke may be a kind of confidentiality mechanism of the rock platform. , it does not allow the above situation to be disclosed in advance, and requires us to face it together with thirteen people at the same time."
"I agree with Sister Cen's statement." Ke Xun nodded, "It seems that the ultimate goal of the forces behind the scenes is to let us climb the rock platform together."
Everyone was silent for a while, only Luo Yao asked in a low voice: "Does that mean that when we board together, it will be our death?"
No one answered him, and after a moment of silence, he heard Wei Dong pretend to break the silence with ease: "This painting is too outrageous, the platform is so high, is it possible that we all learn to climb first?"
"That's right, if you can't learn it, then you won't be able to succeed?" Li Xiaochun didn't know whether to be happy or embarrassed.
"We'll consider this issue later," Shao Ling said. "Let's sort out the symbols that we took last night."
Everyone returned to the tent and still divided their work.
Mu Yiran, Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Hua Jiqiu and Yue Cen sorted out the symbols, Ke Xun, Zhu Haowen, Qin Ci and Luo Xun checked the images captured by the cameras arranged around the rock platform last night, Li Xiaochun Make breakfast with the girls.
All the cameras last night failed to capture how the rock platform appeared and disappeared. During the two periods of time when the rock platform appeared and disappeared, the cameras captured either flying sand and rocks or a dense fog.
It takes a long time to sort out the symbols. Last night, everyone cleared out a large piece of rock wall, but still not all of them. Since the higher positions were out of reach, they could not be cleaned up.
Later, all the people joined in the work of arranging the icons, and Weidong even gave a few people who were proficient in using computers a simple training in image processing.
During lunch, everyone temporarily put aside their work and rested while eating.
"How do I clean up the symbols on the higher part of the rock wall?" Gu Qingqing asked.
"I have a solution," Ke Xun said, "Tonight, Yi Ran and I are still climbing on the rock, but we don't turn over to the stone platform. Throw it to the other side of the stone platform, so that the rope can be placed on the stone platform, and the two ends hang down. We use one end of the rope to tie it to the waist, and someone on the other side is responsible for pulling it to a high place, so that it can be cleaned up Stone wall."
"This operation is very difficult and requires people with good physical strength," Mu Yiran said, "Who wants to try it?"
"I'll give it a try." Li Xiaochun said, "I have the strength, YouQi has plenty of strength, but... Can the rope hold me? Don't turn around and suddenly break in the middle of the road... "
"It's a special rope for climbing." Mu Yiran dispelled his concerns.
"I'll try it too." Luo Meng volunteered, "I'm underweight, and I've also played indoor rock climbing, although I haven't managed to climb to the top once..."
"There is a rope to pull, you don't need to climb, you can do it if you have the guts." Ke Xun said.
"Add me one." Wei Dong raised his hand.
"I don't need you," Ke Xun said. "Tonight, your task is to continue arranging the symbols. You don't even have to leave the tent. We can get closer to the answer by arranging it early."
"I'll come." Fang Fei answered.
"Great, Feige is better than Dongzi." Ke Xun gave a thumbs up.
Wei Dong: "...Take us as thugs?"
Ke Xun: "Brothers are like 'hands' and feet. Brother Fei is a hand, and you are a little jiojio."
Wei Dong: "I'll slap you in the face."
Ke Xun: "Who else signed up?"
Zhu Haowen: "Me."
Ke Xun: "Is it really possible?"
Zhu Haowen: "Are you sure you are asking me?"
Ke Xun: "I was wrong. Then who, Mr. Shao, don't hide by the side and think you're not there without making a sound. Would you like to try working at heights?"
Shao Ling: "..." At this time, you still can't stop your heart that wants to bully me.
Wu You: "Don't bully him, Mr. Shao's face turned pale without seeing him."
Shao Ling: "..." My face was originally white!
Ke Xun: "Okay, Mr. Shao and Lao Qin are in charge of pulling the rope below. Father Hua, Dongzi and Sister Cen continue to organize the symbols. Qingqing and Wuyou help to keep an eye on these people above us. It is inconvenient for everyone to communicate on the top. You help spread the word or something."
Everyone complied, resting for a few hours after eating, then got up and resumed work.
Turn into night.
Ke Xun's method really worked. Several ropes were thrown from the left side of the stone platform to the right side. Everyone first pulled the ropes together to drag one person up, and then the rope ends were firmly tied to the car, and then they went to drag the others in turn.
Thanks to Mu Yiran's special knot for mountaineering, pass it between the legs and wrap it around the waist again. Except for the men who feel a little bit stubborn, the overall feeling is quite comfortable, and it looks good. very safe.
Everyone has cleared the experience of cleaning the stone walls, and the speed is much faster than the previous two nights. Even so, it took another two nights to finally clear all the symbols on the four stone walls.
Everyone stood under the rock platform and looked up, shocked by the situation in front of them and unable to speak for a long time.
This stone platform that rises from the ground stands like a huge square column, and on its four sides, the huge walls are engraved with symbols of primitive style and strange shapes. And around it, with it as the center point, spreading in a circular shape to the end of the sky, there are countless corpses with their heads facing it.
This situation is as if the undead in the world are worshipping their gods.
After dawn, everyone could not take a rest, so they immediately imported the pictures they took into their laptops for processing. Several "trainee artists" and Wei Dong, who had been forced into the industry, worked in shifts and went to eat and sleep instead.
After practice makes perfect, the speed is getting faster and faster. All the pictures have been processed in a day's work, and only the stitching is left.
Everyone stopped work and went to have dinner first, and I didn't read the content for the time being.
"I didn't expect to be here and have to do my own work..." Wei Dong rubbed his tired eyes and fell on the thick carpet in the tent.
"This shows that you are a beauty contestant." Ke Xun handed him a cup of hot goat milk.
"Damn it, what a vicious curse you are, who would be willing to be a beauty artist on a horse," Wei Dong sat up to drink milk, "If it wasn't for a living, I wouldn't want to be an artist."
"Then what do you want to be?" Ke Xun asked casually.
"Being... a diver?" Wei Dong happened to see Fang Fei coming in from outside the tent.
"It's not too late to change careers now," Fang Fei said.
"How is your diver's salary? Can you support my parents, my mother, my daughter-in-law, and myself?" Wei Dong asked.
"When are you still thinking about this?" Fang Fei said.
"Whenever you have to think about home." Wei Dong sighed.
Fang Fei was slightly startled, and looked at him for a while.
Ke Xun blinked and watched the two talk, then leaned over and whispered a few words in Mu Yiran's ear, and the two of them turned to look at Wei Dong and Fang Fei together.
"My intuition has always been accurate, even more accurate than the client." Ke Xun added at last, then smiled and moved his butt to sit in front of the computer.
After seeing the weird symbols on the screen, the brief moment of relief immediately disappeared without a trace.
Ke Xun stared at the screen for a while and asked Wei Dong, "Are these symbols arranged in order now?"
"Yes, the name of the picture starts with ABCD, which represent the four sides of the rock wall, and the numbers after the letters are the order of the pictures." Wei Dongdao.
"You can drink it later," Ke Xun took away the cup Weidong had brought to his mouth, "come here first and put together all the pictures of the rock wall on side A into a whole picture, just like on the rock wall. ."
"Damn, you can't let me finish it first." Wei Dong wiped his mouth and sat in front of the computer to start the puzzle. He simply put all the pictures into one picture in order, and it didn't take much time. "The computer The screen is a bit small and there are too many pictures. If you put them all in one picture, if you want the whole picture to be displayed on the screen, you will not be able to see the specific content of each small picture.”
"It's alright, I'll just take a look." Ke Xun put the cup back into his hand, turned the screen to him, and stared at it carefully, sometimes zooming in, sometimes zooming out, sometimes simply raising the computer from the Observe from all angles.
After watching for a long time, he suddenly turned his head to Mu Yi and said, "I have made a discovery."