The original structure of the secret room was probably an irregular round hall supported by steel columns. Because there is some exposed rock mass on the wall, it is speculated that it was originally a naturally formed underground cave that was transformed into a hidden room under the building.
However, with its current appearance, it is difficult to guess the full picture of the past. The inner side of the space covered by "magic soil" completely collapsed, covering all facilities under the soil. If the foundation of the building rested on this cave, it would probably be a catastrophic construction accident.
"This is……"
"Let's just make some changes during the invasion. This will give us another fulcrum."
Zhou Yu stepped onto the blood-red ground, looked down at his feet, and suddenly smiled.
"This is really the irony of that earthworm."
Chen Wei, who followed in, looked at him questioningly.
"Look, isn't a scene like this the 'red dust' in the literal sense?"
"I have to say, classmate Zhou, you are so good at making cold jokes after you became a long sword murderer. I don't know how to answer... By the way, is your sword made of ceramic? I thought Ceramic knives are only sized for cutting fruit.”
Zhou Yu ignored him and still stood there scanning the surroundings. There are not many furnishings in the secret room. The most eye-catching thing is the huge screen hanging on the wall on the 7th side. Although it has been mostly buried by the collapsed red soil, it can still be seen that it is some kind of large computer equipment.
"A secret base. It feels like a science fiction movie now."
Chen Wei, a guy who claims to respect social order, stepped forward and studied the screen in front of him without any psychological burden. However, presumably because the console was buried under the ground, he couldn't activate the screen no matter how hard he tried.
Seeing his appearance, Zhou Yu tilted his head.
"It's better that you stay away from there."
"What? Do you think this computer is equipped with a self-destruct device?"
"I don't know what's going on with the computer, but as long as the red soil above your head touches a little bit of the breath of living people, the original structure will immediately collapse and fall. I think that's how the collapsed part over there came from."
After hearing his words, Chen Wei immediately retreated to the center of the room and tried to press the mud under his feet with his hands. Just like Zhou Yu said, the land that is still solid when you set foot on it becomes as soft and greasy as wet mud when it touches people's skin.
"It's true. Classmate Zhou, although I'm not studying geology, this shouldn't be some natural mineral that's 'too cute', right? It's too dangerous for this kind of material to appear in a subway tunnel. If someone accidentally touches the top, it will It turned into a very serious accident.”
"In that case, just go to the police. I have no objection."
"Then the people in the rental house..."
Chen Wei's words stopped abruptly. He raised his head and stared at the ceiling above him.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, there seems to be a wire on it, right?"
"Well, the exposed one is one, but there are more buried in the cement. It's a metal mesh that covers the entire top."
Zhou Yu said indifferently. In his field of vision, what was hidden in the red soil had long been exposed. Just because I didn't understand its function, I chose to ignore it.
After hearing these words, Chen Wei rarely questioned his clairvoyance ability. Instead, he looked up and stared at the exposed wire more thoughtfully.
"This, could it be a lightning protection wire?"
"What?"
"It may be more appropriate to say lightning wire. It means to use metal wires to guide lightning to the ground to eliminate the impact. This is the basic distance of lightning rods. But the situation in Lunxing is different. When we encountered a lightning strike last year, the lightning protection device was intact , no problem was found. The wire network here cannot be a component of the lightning protection system."
He stretched out his arms, as if he wanted to grab the hanging skein, but soon gave up helplessly - the skein as thick as the head rope was buried deep in the red-glow cement. If the entire load-bearing structure collapsed, they would all Buried alive in a hole.
Seeing his performance, Zhou Yu raised the corners of his mouth slightly mockingly.
"If you want to take it, just take it. As long as you don't touch anything related to the ground, it won't collapse even if you tear off the twisted wire."
"Forget it, I don't want to touch the wires. Let's record it first and go back to find out more before taking action."
As he said this, Chen Wei took out his mobile phone, as if preparing to take pictures. However, when he raised the camera, he stood still in place.
"What? Did you find it?"
Zhou Yu turned his head slightly and looked at him.
"The red light in the soil can't be captured by the camera, right?"
"Indeed. I've only heard before that cameras can capture things that the human eye can't see. I didn't expect to encounter the opposite situation. It's really enlightening."
While talking like this casually, Chen Wei started typing on his mobile phone again. Zhou Yu glanced at him and said, "Are you writing a distress message?"
"No, I told the dwarf not to come down yet. This kind of place is not suitable for children to visit."
"In that case, how about you go back too?"
"That won't work. After all, I was the one who brought you in, and I have the responsibility to supervise your behavior. And classmate Zhou, this secret room shouldn't be the place you're looking for, right? In a place like this, it's absolutely impossible to record people outside the building. The sound of a roller coaster. The place you are looking for can only be above the thirteenth floor."
"That's your judgment based on ordinary people's thinking. The owner here is different. Look, she must have designed it like this a long time ago."
Zhou Yu pressed his hand on the wall and slowly inserted it into the soil. The sight of him gradually sinking deeper into the red mud felt like he was digging the entrails of a giant beast, and also like he was being gradually swallowed by the red swamp.
Only after he reached more than half a meter deep in the mud belly did he grab what he wanted.
"Look, this stuff is all over the walls of the building."
He withdrew his arm and pulled out dozens of tangled crimson pipes from the depths of the red mud. Unlike the wires of computer equipment, the thickness of the pipe is similar to that of a general-purpose portable earphone.
Densely packed lines, totaling at least twenty meters, were pulled out bit by bit from the depths of the mud wall by Zhou Yu. The sight of the red earth swelling and dimpling as a result is like drawing blood vessels from the muscles of a living person.
Also pulled out by the pipeline was a small black square box. The square box does not have any buttons or labels, and its surface is only covered with holes as small as gravel.
The moment he saw the square box, Chen Wei mouthed "oh" as if he understood.
"...It's a bug."
"They're all in the whole building. But they're all hidden in the walls. Thanks to the special environment here, we can pull out the nearest one."
"So, are you a clairvoyant?"
Chen Wei put his hands in his pockets and looked over with bright eyes. It's probably true what this person said. He has seen many strange events, so he can't even express his surprise.
If he had seen his flesh and blood turned into stone, he would probably not have such an understatement.
Zhou Yu, who was thinking so naturally, finally closed his eyes.
"It's a little different from perspective. I can't see what the objects look like, I just know there's something inside. It's like the objects themselves emit some kind of wave, letting me know their approximate shape."
"Like an ultrasound?"
"It's a similar feeling, but I see it with my eyes."
"It's quite interesting. Is this a superpower? I've only heard about it in the news before, such as being able to bend iron spoons with my thoughts, and having strong electric currents in my hands. I didn't expect that we can actually see people with physiological abnormalities like this with our own eyes. . But having said that, how far can you see through, Mr. Zhou? I won’t be naked in your eyes, right?"
"...I told you it's not clairvoyance."
Although the brain presents it as a line and plane, it cannot be interpreted using spatial logic at all. Therefore, it is not the "consciousness" that understands the structure, but the "body". As for the visual pictures that appear in the mind, they are just neurons randomly interpreting unknown information into visual signals. It is a transcendent landscape that words can never explain.
Only now did he understand Hongye's troubled mood when she faced him. To explain this vision to outsiders is like talking to a summer insect.
