As one video record after another appeared in front of him, Li Liang finally realized that this seemingly ordinary cave was far weirder than he imagined.
In order to crack the mechanism of the cave, K and House tried almost every method they could think of since the morning.
After the five enhanced semi-bionic commandos and armed robots left without returning, they contacted Zero and transferred a group of researchers from the Temple Academy of Sciences.
These researchers brought complete detection equipment and immediately threw themselves into the cave upon arrival, only to find that there was nothing special about the internal space. When the armed robot triggered the "disappearance mechanism" in the cave, the equipment lost contact.
They also transferred a more powerful Ten Thousand Captain robot from the legion and replaced the rope with a stronger material, but still to no avail. Several of the researchers were unwilling to accept failure and personally carried gravity communication equipment into the cave, eventually losing contact.
Next, a group of Mexican gang members are forced to serve as "guinea pigs" and the "experiments" become more radical, some of which are downright chilling.
At first, they asked a person to stand at the entrance of the cave, with his upper body inserted into the cave and his lower body left outside. Then the armed robot triggered the "mechanism". In theory, when all matter in the cave disappeared, the person would break into pieces. Two cuts.
However, the result was unexpected, and the man retracted his upper body without any injuries.
They changed several ways, such as a person's front inside the cave, his back and butt outside the cave, and they were still safe.
Immediately afterwards, they asked one person to hold another person tightly from behind and stand at the entrance of the cave, one outside the cave and one inside the cave, triggering the "mechanism" again.
When the alloy cable welded to the core of the armed robot was completely recovered again, the person in the cave disappeared, and the man outside the cave...insisted that he had always stood alone outside the cave and had never hugged anyone.
When he saw this, Li Liang stared at the blank face in the picture, showing no signs of lying at all.
K and House obviously didn't believe this nonsense at the time.
So, they replaced a father and son. The father was in his fifties and the son was in his early twenties.
In the picture, the father with a panicked face stood outside the cave, holding tightly to his son who was only separated by a thin line but was swallowed up by the darkness.
The mechanism was triggered. The gray-haired man staggered back a few steps, looked at his hands blankly, then faced the camera and asked: "Where is my son?"
A voice sounded off-screen: "You were holding him just now."
"I know," the man suddenly became anxious, "He is only two months old and needs milk. No matter why you took him away, you must feed him!"
The picture is frozen, and there is silence both inside and outside the image.
For a moment, House silently opened another video record.
In the picture, hundreds of arrested Mexican gang members lined up in front of the cave entrance, with the latter hugging the previous one tightly, forming a "human rope"...
"That's enough," Li Liang waved his hand for House to close the video, "Let's talk about the conclusion."
K lit a cigarette and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke: "This hole is alive, and the disappearing mechanism will change according to our actions. There is no fixed pattern at all."
Allen, who remained silent, murmured: "It's really like the Emerald Dream, the nightmare realm of N'Zoth. It looks no different from other places, and no magic or Taoism can detect its existence."
Li Liang remembered that Tam once believed that the abyss and base in Zhongjing were similar to the Emerald Dream, existing in Belaya and beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Now he already knows that the abyss and the base come from another timeline, and the cave in front of him does show some time-related characteristics, such as the ropes that have been restored to like new, and the father who claims that his son is only two months old. However, from the spiritual From the perspective of perspective and experimental conclusions, the two are completely different.
Thinking of this, he turned around and walked down the ramp, returning to the entrance of the cave.
The thick darkness is like substance, and the light beams cast by the lighting equipment seem to be swallowed up when hitting it, leaving no light spots.
He slowly stretched out his hand and touched the dividing line between light and dark. He vaguely felt a stream of air coming out of the darkness, carrying vague noises. It sounded like there was a lively market in the distance, with countless people going there. Speak loudly.
Sudden.
The bracelet vibrated rapidly.
He came back to his senses and looked down to see a communication request from Mizuno.
The moment it was connected, Mizuno's voice came from the bracelet: "Via committed suicide."
"What?" Li Liang was stunned.
Cain, K and House looked at each other in confusion.
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"Via committed suicide," after saying this, Mizuno tied up her long hair, opened the door and got out of the car, waved around and pointed deep into the alleyway. Dozens of heavily armed Yakuza members rushed towards the direction she pointed. .
"At eleven o'clock, Xiao An sent out the first news that Via invited her to drink. At eleven thirty-five, the second news came out that they were at the bar on Shanyang Road in XC District," Mizuno said wearing headphones and wearing a Wearing a golden dress, holding a submachine gun in both hands, her steps were hurried, but her voice was always calm, "Twelve thirty, the third message, Via wants to take her home, in Donggu District, fifteen minutes ago, she The fourth message was sent and Via committed suicide in front of her... OK, got it."
After hanging up the call, Mizuno tore off his earrings, stepped on the ground hard, broke the heels of his high heels, and quickened his pace.
This narrow alley is located at the junction of Donggu District and Nanjiang Port. It is the poorest place in the whole of Beijing. It is home to a bunch of homeless paupers. She had no idea that Via had a secret house here, and even more so. Unexpectedly, the deputy secretary-general of the Human Destiny Alliance and the priest of the Natural Sect would commit suicide.
After a while, she arrived at her destination, a two-story building with a courtyard.
The courtyard walls are low, and you can see that the small courtyard is empty, with debris piled up in the corners, as if it has been abandoned for a long time.
The Yakuza members who arrived first were divided into two teams. One team stayed outside to guard, while the other team had already broken into the door. The glass windows of the two-story building flashed with shaking lights.
Mizuno stood in the yard, tilting his head and listening to the reports coming from the headphones.
"There is no one in the east bedroom on the first floor."
"The west side of the first floor, safe."
"The south side of the first level is safe."
"Discover the basement."
Soon, someone hurriedly said: "Uncle, we found it. It's on the third floor underground."
"Bring it out."
A few minutes later, a girl covered in blood was picked up by two Yakuza members and dragged into the yard.
Mizuno stepped forward quickly and raised the girl's chin: "Xiao An."
"Sister," Xiao An was already in a state of confusion. Just after he uttered two words, his head tilted and he fainted.
"ばかやろう, take her back to Ex Machina," Mizuno stood up, raised his gun and climbed up the steps, walked into the first floor, joined the men who had just come down from the second floor, and came to the stairs leading to the basement.
Originally, this staircase was extremely hidden, hidden under a movable floor tile. Now the floor tile was thrown aside, and bright light came out of the hole.
The moment he climbed down, Mizuno was shocked by the sight in front of him.
Luxury is no longer enough to describe this basement. The crystal lamp in the center illuminates the entire space as bright as day, the golden floor is polished as smooth as a mirror, the walls are covered with antique oil paintings, and the display cabinets on one side are filled with diamond jewelry and gold. On the other side are the skulls of more than a dozen large animals.
Continuing downward, the second underground floor is larger and equally magnificent.
There are wine cabinets on the entire wall, artworks thrown randomly on the ground, and most obviously, in the center of the floor, bundles of brand-new banknotes form a huge bed, with scattered banknotes piled up in a hill.
She had long known that Via's hypocritical persona had a greedy face, but she didn't expect that the deputy secretary-general, who was known for his poverty and simplicity, turned out to be a sickly man.
The scene on the third underground floor was even more disgusting.
The vast hall is lined with iron cages on both sides. Some cages contain animals, including ponies, dogs, cats and goats. Some cages contain naked young girls. At this moment, these once vivid lives are all changing. into a corpse.
The air was filled with the smell of blood and the stench of feces that had been deposited for a long time. The blood of humans and animals mixed together and spread wantonly across the golden ground.
The Yakuza members, who were accustomed to seeing bloody scenes, showed disgust on their faces, and some even turned around and retched.
Mizuno stepped into the pool of blood and walked towards the depths, his eyes scanning the cages on both sides.
Two iron basins were thrown into each cage, filled with water and slimy, moldy food. Humans and animals were treated indistinguishably.
Finally, after walking around a pool stained red with blood, she came to a large bed several meters wide.
On the bed, more than a dozen corpses were entangled together, like a pile of freshly slaughtered pork that was still twitching slightly.
Blood soaked into the quilt and dripped along the corner of the quilt hanging on the edge of the bed.
The naked Wea sat in the middle leaning against the headboard of the bed, her left hand spread out on her lap, her right hand holding a short knife, her head drooped on her chest, and a large amount of blood dripped from the knife edge across her throat.
"ばかやろう," Mizuno cursed through gritted teeth, raised his bracelet, and made a voice call to Li Liang.
After the connection, before she could speak, Li Liang's deep voice came from the earphone:
"The Natural Sect is being wiped out. Mayfly's people have just rescued Tao Chong's family and the deacon named Yao Zhengping. Yao Zhengping said that the place where you are staying may be the Natural Sect's altar in Zhongjing. I have sent you a robot. Troops, support from the legion will arrive later, no matter what, hold the place for me."
