We thought that the spawning tentacles of this too-year-old mother were mop-shaped, and we could find the mop gang by following the strips.
Whoever thinks that its tentacles are network-like, like a fishing net, each spawning tentacles has tentacles of the same thickness, and it is impossible to tell which one is the main branch and which one is the branch.
Each tentacles extends into another cave, like a natural gas pipeline.
Bai Ye sighed, "Well, this thing is afraid that we will recognize the main branch. Each tentacles are connected together, and the thickness and color are exactly the same. How can we find this. Let alone we can't find it, it is when the eggs are laid. All have to get lost in his mother's belly."
Combining the experience of encountering the strange tree in Sichuan, I guessed: "This may be an instinctive nature of creatures seeking advantages and avoiding harm. In order to protect the body from harm, the shape and thickness of the tentacles are exactly the same. It is easy to distinguish the main branch. Even the squirming of the young eggs in the spawning tentacles is random, making it impossible to start."
I don't know if this thing is a plant or an animal. Say it is a plant, but it will lay eggs, and the son it will give birth is something like Tai Sui. Let’s say it’s an animal. The reproductive system is similar to the roots of plants, but it’s more complicated and immobile. The spawning tentacles are distributed in a grid-like cave maze. Although it is safe, it also limits the mother’s body. Can stay in the center of the grid and cannot move.
We walked through the cave for a while without thinking, and the cold air rushed into the cave, and sometimes there was a faint air current surging in the darkness, which made people feel like passing by.
The caves are very complicated. The layout of each cave is irregular and messy. The traces of erosion by running water are obvious. Obviously, this underground labyrinth was not dug by manpower, but can only be attributed to the extraordinary craftsmanship of nature.
We don't know how far we go, we have been very quiet. In such a dark and cold environment that is prone to echoes, it is easy for people to become silent unconsciously. It may be that they are in awe of this unknown and mysterious aura.
When I was wandering into the world, Gu Tang suddenly whispered: "Did you hear the footsteps?"
Footsteps
I looked back, and there was pitch darkness behind my back, and there was no sound.
I also pressed my throat and said, "Are you suspicious? The sound of footsteps here may be the echo of our own footsteps."
Gu Tang shook his head and nodded his ears: "I'm doing blasting." This means that his hearing is better than ours.
"The bomber, how can you have anything to do with the blaster?" Bai Ye said in a low voice: "Should the blaster's ears be deaf?"
Gu Tang ignored Bai Ye’s non-cooperation and explained to me: “I often explode before blasting, or judge the internal structure of some blasting objects by percussive sound, so I need to be able to capture the sound in a very sensitive manner. Abnormal factors."
He paused and then said: "I heard other footsteps in our footsteps, and when we walked, he also walked, we stopped, and he stopped too."
"Is it really the sound of human footsteps? Could it be caused by something else?" Bai Ye asked again.
Gu Tang said while looking at the road: "Judging by the rhythm and texture of the sound, it is no different from the sound of human footsteps."
"Does the sound still have a texture?"
"The position of the human center of gravity, the average human height and weight, and the direction of human walking force are all related factors to the sound texture of footsteps."
"Hey." Seeing that Gu Tang was quite confident and seemed to be professional, and he showed a high degree of reliability when he walked along the way, Bai Ye stopped tearing down the stage, but looked back sneakily. Look: "Could it be the person who disconnected the phone line?"
I was a little excited when I heard this. From previous speculations, this person disconnected the phone line first, and didn't want us to find what Ning Hanqing left behind. Now he is sneaking up here again, and I asked Gu Tang. : "Can you hear the footsteps of how many people?"
Gu Tang affirmed: "There is only one person."
"One person, hahaha." Bai Ye held back a smile, "The five of us, then he is over."
I also have a little understanding of Bai Ye's current feelings. Walking along this road, no matter where I go, I am frightened. All kinds of demons and monsters went into battle, and there was only one running when they encountered everything, and they had already held back their grievances.
Suddenly someone sneaked up behind him and used a line to describe his current mood: Our family can't deal with foreigners, and can't it deal with you as a dog slave
I made a small gesture to signal everyone to move forward.
"What is he going to do with us?" I asked.
"I don't know, but..." Gu Tang hesitated: "He seems to be familiar with the route here."
"How to say?"
"He was far away from us and didn't know the route we chose immediately, so he kept lingering around us. Whenever he was about to approach us, he would change direction, but he was always around us."
The lingering spirits. I think of a word.
Who is this person, and why would they cut the phone line to follow us, and is very familiar with the route? "I don't think we should be held back by this person. Five-to-one he dare not act rashly. And as long as he finds the other end of the phone line as soon as possible, he can be forced to show up."
"That's the truth." Gu Tang agreed: "And I've been thinking about a question just now."
He pointed to the spawning tentacles on the ground and said: "The spawning tentacles are connected to each other to form a grid-like reproductive system, and the cave is also grid-like. Each spawning tentacles walks through a cave. The network of tentacles and burrows. Network coincides... ”
Having said so much, I quickly understood what he wanted to say: "Do you want to ask, is there a tentacle network or a cave network first?"
"Yes." Gu Tang looked at everyone.
"The answer to this question is obvious." Bai Ye said: "Only when this cave network is naturally formed, can the tentacles network be able to get in."
"How did it fit in?" I asked: "The tentacles system is like a fishing net. Each tentacles is closed. How can it be nested in the same closed cave?"
We glanced at each other and thought of the crux of the problem: if the spawning tentacles were closed and grid-like at the beginning, it would not fit into the cave so perfectly. So they may initially be distributed like tree branches. After gradually entering the cave, the ends of the "branches" and the branches grow together to form a closed grid system.
Since it grew together the day after tomorrow, it may leave traces on the interface. We can use these interface traces to find the mother body. (End of this chapter)