Wei Bo's explanation to others was clear and simple.
He had basically reached an agreement with the Yuan family.
The Yuan family did not agree to mine ore in the air near the center of the city because they knew their own technology and could not guarantee that it would not have an impact on the city.
Even if there is no impact caused by the falling of mining debris, mining ore on the dome will have a great impact on the air quality in the main urban area.
This is an underground world. Although the air is circulating, the circulation speed is very slow. Once it is polluted, it will be difficult to purify itself.
Not to mention the mining sites that have been mined for a long time, which still spread pollution from above.
"... I haven't really thought about this." Xu Ying shrugged slightly.
If her plan goes well, she will soon be able to lead the humans from the underground world back to the surface and restore the sun.
Whether this underground base is polluted or not really doesn’t matter.
On the contrary, if the ore mining site is close to the processing and utilization area, it will be more efficient in manufacturing weapons.
However, the Yuan family's idea... is normal.
"Didn't you say that we have basically reached an agreement?" Li Wenxi asked.
Wei Shishi nodded: "The other party promised that although it is not possible in this area, if they can find mining sites in other areas, they are very happy to mine. As a family in charge of resources, they actually have the strongest sense of urgency about resource shortages.
They know very well that the resources we have are becoming increasingly scarce.”
Even so, we should protect the environment first
Or perhaps, it was Wei Bai who led to this result.
Because the conveyor can be within the range where ore mining can be carried out.
If it is really mined, the transmission device will basically be exposed.
Or maybe... the Yuan family also knows about this
"So, you haven't told me the key point yet. What did Wei Bo do after he disappeared?" Xu Ying continued to ask.
"Grandpa said that after he got in the car, he fell into a drowsy state for some reason and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the car and the driver were gone, and he was lying in the wilderness."
Wei Shishi walked to the window and pointed to the north of the city: "We found him there too. It was deserted. When we found grandpa, he was the only one within a few kilometers.
No one knows how he was sent there.”
"You said that you woke up in the wild, in the suburbs not far from the city?" Li Wenxi asked again.
"yes."
"That's strange." Xu Ying looked at Wei Shishi, "You... can't even find a living person in the suburbs of the city?"
"... I think it's a bit strange." Wei Shishi pursed her lips and said.
"The Wei family has carried out a blanket search. We have equipped every military helicopter and even every person with infrared sensors that can sense the human body by heat. We are also professional search and rescue personnel. If grandpa had been in that area long ago, we would have found him long ago."
She looked at Xu Ying: "It's like, it's like, I was suddenly teleported."
"... Are you doubting me?" Xu Ying saw that she was looking at her strangely, so she pointed at her nose and asked, "Do you think I was the one who teleported him over?"
Indeed, if she used her teleportation ability, she could indeed teleport Wei Bo over and then leave herself.
"... No, you don't have to do that." Wei Shishi shook her head. "My focus is on this transmission. So, now it's my turn to ask you, have you found the transmission device on the dome?"
Xu Ying and Li Wenxi looked at each other, somewhat hesitant about how to tell her.
"You are suspecting that Wei Bo was transported there by means of a transporter, right?" Xu Ying understood what Wei Shishi meant, "You... have already suspected Wei Bo."
Wei Shishi remained silent and just looked at Xu Ying.
"You guessed it right. There is a teleportation device for alien invaders on the dome, and Wei Bo did use the teleportation device."
Xu Ying's words made Wei Shishi tremble slightly.
She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to say something, but finally closed it with some trembling.
But from her still trembling eyes, one could tell that she was shaken.
"...Are you sure?" Wei Shishi took a deep breath, calmed down, and asked.
"Of course, right sister-in-law."
"Well, Shishi, we saw your grandfather teleport with our own eyes." Li Wenxi said to Wei Shishi seriously, "He teleported up there in front of us, and then disappeared from our sight and teleported down, and..."
"And what?" Wei Shishi stared at Li Wenxi closely, paying close attention to what she would say next.
"Besides, he looks like he is several decades younger, with black hair and few wrinkles on his face." Xu Ying took over the conversation and said, "To be honest, he looks very different from the old man he is now, but I am very familiar with his appearance when he was young, and I knew it was him at first glance."
"Grandpa when he was young..." Wei Shishi murmured to herself, "Is it really like this... I was right that time..."
"Did you see it wrong?" Xu Ying immediately caught the important information in her words, "What did you see wrong? Have you also seen what Wei Bo looked like when he was young?"
Wei Bo's appearance, in front of Wei Shishi... has it ever been exposed
Li Wenxi also cared about this very much and looked at Wei Shishi, waiting for her explanation.
Wei Shishi remained silent, her eyes slightly dull, as if she was looking at something.
Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, Xu Ying stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her eyes: "Hey, don't be in a daze!"
Wei Shishi came back to her senses, raised her head and looked at the two of them, then said with a slight smile, "I have only seen him once. To be more precise, I have only seen him once, just once. That is why I have always thought that I must have been dazzled at the time."
She began to tell what happened at that time.
It was one night, when she was still young, only six years old.
At that time, her parents had just passed away less than a year ago.
Wei Bo was very depressed during that period. For a whole year, he almost ignored all affairs and had no appetite.
Wei Bai has a high reputation in the Wei family, and everyone in the Wei family respects him very much. Seeing him like this, everyone is worried.
But at first everyone thought that with the passage of time, Wei Bo should be able to walk out of the shadow, but who would have thought that this situation would become more serious in a year.
Over the course of a year, Wei Bo gradually became thinner.
Wei Shishi, who was still a little kid at the time, often saw the food being sent in and then brought out intact.
Eventually it even developed to the point where he hardly ate and wouldn't even allow people into his room.
Everyone in the Wei family was very worried about Wei Bai's situation, so someone came up with an idea and asked Wei Bai's only remaining relative, little Wei Shishi, to deliver food to Wei Bai.
During this year, Wei Bai only smiled when he saw Wei Shishi.
At that time, only Wei Shishi was allowed to enter Wei Bo's room.
Little Wei Shishi certainly hoped that her grandfather would be well. Although she was so young at the time that she couldn't even hold a plate steadily, she still proudly and bravely expressed that she could do it.
The door was not locked. She brought the food to her grandfather's room and heard a strange sound coming from inside. Then, she heard Wei Bo's uncomfortable groan.
At that time, she was worried about her grandfather's safety, so she immediately threw away the food in her hand and pushed the door open.
Then she saw Wei Bo sitting on the floor, leaning against the bed, one arm on the bed, and gasping for breath.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you!" Wei Shishi was about to run up.
"… Shishi? Don't come over here!" Wei Bo directly scolded her, "Get out!"
At that time, little Wei Shishi had never been scolded so harshly by her grandfather. When she thought that she had come to bring food to her grandfather and was scolded like that, she burst into tears and turned around and ran away.
"That's the end of the story." Wei Shishi stopped talking.
"Hey? Where's the point?" Li Wenxi blinked. "Didn't you say that you saw your grandfather's young face? Was it at this time that you saw it?"
"Yeah. I saw it at that time." Wei Shishi nodded.
"I was still young at the time and was frightened by my grandfather's words, so I turned around and ran away crying.
But thinking back on it, my grandfather’s hair, which had been all white due to my parents’ death, turned mostly black, and when he scolded me, his facial expression was a little… ferocious, but he didn’t seem to have any wrinkles on his face.”
"Did Wei Bo look...uncomfortable at that time?" Xu Ying suddenly asked.
"... I'm not sure either. I was only six years old at the time, so my memory of the time is not very clear. It seems that... he was weak and looked like he was going to vomit? I remember that after he yelled at me, he immediately started to dry heave."
After answering Xu Ying's question, Wei Shishi continued to recall: "I was crying outside at the time, and no matter how others comforted me, it was useless. About ten minutes later, my grandfather came out to comfort me. At that time, he had white hair and wrinkles on his face."
"It's back to normal?" Li Wenxi said to himself.
"Disguise?" Xu Ying also pondered for a moment.
She didn't know much about this aspect, and when she first met Wei Bai, she couldn't see any signs of disguise on Wei Bai's face.
But in the eyes of her and Li Wenxi, Wei Bai did turn from a middle-aged man back into an old man within a day.
"Is there any water?" Wei Shishi felt a little dry in the mouth, not only because she talked too much, but also because her heart was beating like crazy at this moment.
Her grandfather... is really problematic.
"Yes." Xu Ying stood up and poured her a glass of water.
Wei Shishi took a sip of water and said, “I was still very young at the time and didn’t pay much attention to the changes in grandpa’s appearance. Although I had good eyesight since I was a child and could see clearly, I thought it was an illusion.
After all... who can switch between young and old at will?"
As she spoke, Wei Shishi looked at Xu Ying.
"Huh? Why are you looking at me?" Xu Ying saw Wei Shishi looking at her and immediately waved her hands, "I can't get older or younger at will, I just look like this."
"But... you can travel through time."
Wei Shishi took another sip of water and put the cup down: "Before I met you, I never thought that people could have this ability. Especially after you told me about the introduction of the teleportation device and the hypothesis that someone was replaced in the underground world, I immediately thought of... Grandpa."
really.
At that time, Wei Shishi did blurt out that her grandfather's temperament had changed drastically.
"After that, I kept thinking about it." Wei Shishi bit her lower lip, her eyes struggling, "Then, I became more and more suspicious of some of Grandpa's actions.
Therefore, when grandpa disappeared, I directly used my power and mobilized all the armed forces of the Wei family to look for grandpa everywhere in the name of searching for the missing head of the Wei family. "
"So that's how it is." Li Wenxi suddenly realized, "... I was wondering why you guys reacted so quickly when Wei Bo disappeared, not hesitating to put the whole city on alert and panic, and even sending out a large amount of military equipment to conduct a carpet search."
“…I did it on my own initiative.”
"So, Yingying, do you have any ideas?" Li Wenxi looked at Xu Ying who was thinking slightly beside her.
"Hmm... Wei Shishi, is this the strange sound you mentioned?"
Xu Ying stomped her feet lightly, and immediately, a purple-black vortex appeared under her feet, and then it grew bigger and bigger.
As the purple-black vortex continued to expand to the size of a round table, the strange sound produced by the rotation of the purple-black vortex could gradually be clearly captured by the human ear.
"It seems so. I... I don't remember it clearly." Wei Shishi looked at the vortex under Xu Ying's feet, her eyes widened slightly, and finally shook her head. "I was only six years old at that time, and it has been more than ten years since then."
Li Wenxi knew what Xu Ying wanted to say, so he sat up straight and asked in surprise, "You mean, Wei Bai at that time... experienced teleportation?"
"Yeah." Xu Ying nodded. "Strange voice, suddenly young face, weak body, nausea. Putting these pieces of information together, it's not hard to draw a conclusion."
She touched her smooth chin and said thoughtfully, "Making an old man younger may not be possible in your opinion, but it is very easy for me. This kind of thing can be achieved by various genetic drugs that extend life span, and even blood vein mutation can achieve it."
"And the strange sound is the sound made when the teleportation array exit is condensing. Sister-in-law, you should be very clear about this. When my brother's coordinate teleportation array exit is condensing, there will be some eye-catching and unpleasant sounds."
Li Wenxi nodded: "Indeed, it is because of this sound that every time someone is teleported in, the people around can find out, so there is no possibility of someone teleporting in secretly. So we all think that having that sound is not bad, just like someone knocking on the door before entering."
“Is it unpleasant to the ear… It is indeed somewhat unpleasant to the ear.” Wei Shishi nodded, “It should be much more unpleasant than the sound you just made.”
"That's the problem with unstable low-level transmission channels. They can't transmit silently." Xu Ying explained, "Also, this transmission channel has another side effect, which is... before you get used to it, using this transmission channel to transmit will make you dizzy and vomit, just like riding a roller coaster ten times.
This symptom usually lasts about ten to twenty minutes.”
"That's right, it is!" Li Wenxi clapped his hands, "It took each of us a long time to adapt to it!"
"Well, this is consistent with Wei Bo's condition at the time. He felt weak all over and wanted to vomit, but after more than ten minutes, he acted as if nothing had happened and came out to comfort Wei Shishi." Xu Ying nodded.
"That is to say, Wei Bai at that time had already made contact with the alien invaders outside, and was very likely teleported to the ground, where he underwent genetic mutation and extended his lifespan. The time when he was caught by Wei Shishi should have been one of the first few times he was teleported?" Li Wenxi speculated.
Xu Ying looked at Wei Shishi, whose expression was somewhat gloomy: "After that, did Wei Bai gradually cheer up?"
Wei Shishi nodded slowly: "Grandpa said that I came to comfort him, he couldn't let his granddaughter worry, he had to cheer up. After that, Grandpa quickly returned to normal."
…made a deal with alien invaders.
Why
Because there is no hope of victory
Because of the death of Wei Shishi's parents, has he lost the will to resist
"So, how did your parents die? What happened to the Wei family at that time?" Xu Ying didn't hesitate and asked Wei Shishi directly.
Wei Shishi was silent for two seconds, then said: "Okay, I'll tell you. I hope you can tell me the truth."