"You...why are there so many?! How did you get out of the shelter? And...how did you find me..."
"We have been nailed to death by those iron nails in the shelter for a long, long time... without seeing the sun and without freedom. It's not that we can't get out, but that we don't want to get out. We came here following Xuan Yi's orders. , he said that if he is no longer here, let us stay in the shelter with peace of mind, and when someone gives us the strength to break free, we will naturally be able to break the shackles. This is our promise."
"Xuan Yi?" I thought of the big spider in the outpost laboratory and the small sign with Xuan Yi's name hanging around its neck.
"He must be your previous master."
Yoyo nodded.
"Where's the one in the lab?"
A big spider crawled down from the roof of the tent and shook its head at me, "That's me."
"Oh my god, how do you communicate?" The shelter and the outpost laboratory are thousands of miles apart. How do they achieve such precise positioning...
"We don't need to communicate, our eyes are shared."
"Public? What do you mean?"
"We can all see what Yoyo sees, so as long as one of us has seen you, the others will know you."
This is a completely more advanced creature than human beings!
Public eyes... Isn't it just like us surfing the Internet, editing the things we have seen into a database on the Internet? If other people have something they don't recognize, they can just search in the database and see the relevant things. Text, pictures and videos, but obviously the database of these human-headed spiders is more advanced. They don’t need to search, it’s a completely first-person experience!
"Then...do I need to name you all?" To be honest, I can only distinguish Liu Liu's appearance now, because its face is covered with new growths.
"We are all yoyo..."
The generative organs of these spiders should only produce some modal particles. They communicate through consciousness. The vocal cords may have shrunk a little and can only produce some strange monosyllabic sounds, but this does not affect our communication.
Their appearance here is a threat to the people in the camp, to me, and to themselves, and will cause a lot of trouble.
"Liu Liu, listen to me. You go to the shelter first. We will meet there soon. You must pay attention to your concealment. Remember, don't attack people actively. Just hide and wait for me!"
Liuyou nodded slightly and disappeared into the camp like a ghost with a group of spiders.
"Come to my tent." Wen Na called to me. I looked around and saw no one around, so I lowered my head and walked quickly to Wen Na's tent.
She was already there waiting for me.
"Wen Na, do you know? Those spiders, they, they..." I was so excited that I couldn't organize my words.
Wen Na looked at me and smiled, "I know everything."
"But aren't they Xuan Yi's? Why do you want me to be their master?"
"You will understand later..."
Regarding Xuan Yi, Wen Na always talks about the future, but I am not sure at all how long it will take for the future to arrive, and whether there will be a future...
After that, we stayed in the desert camp for another two days, and Zhao Kai's condition gradually stabilized. However, during this period, the people at the shelter had no contact with us.
Of course, those new animals that escaped from the outpost laboratory seemed to have disappeared from the earth. In the past few days, several of us participated in the search and rescue operations in the desert camp, trying to see if we could find out anything about them. There are traces of these grafted animals, but all in vain.
"I hope they lost support after leaving the laboratory and died in the wilderness." After hearing the news that the search for new animals was hopeless, Zhao Kai leaned against a pillar lonely. I looked at his empty cuffs and thought for He felt a little unworthy...if it hadn't been for those things, we wouldn't have spent the night in that grotto and he wouldn't have lost an arm.
But I also felt a little guilty... After all, those spiders were mine now... They were there to find me. It's probably the fault of a son who doesn't teach his father, so I never mentioned those spiders again. I was afraid that I couldn't explain clearly. Once the relationship between the spiders and me was exposed, I thought he would hate me for the rest of his life.
"It's almost time. Thank you for taking care of us. We have other tasks to perform, so we won't bother you any more." Feng said to the person in charge of the desert camp, "If it's convenient for you, you can give us a lift." ?"
"Those are all minor problems." The people in the desert camp agreed readily.
"It's just that we also have a small favor. I hope you can help..."
"What help? If you can help us, you will definitely help." Feng said.
"Can Renren, the person you brought back the ship's coffin last time, take our people there again?"
The wind looked at me and I nodded, saying it didn't matter.
"This time we will bring more people and more complete equipment to see if we can bring all the boat coffins they mentioned to the camp. The weather in the desert is changing rapidly. Will there be a sandstorm in another week? We Our camp needs to be moved elsewhere, and I’m afraid it will be difficult to find these things after the sandstorm.”
This time, Xiwu, Chaoyang and Yudu accompanied each other, leaving Feng to continue to look after Zhao Kai. A large force was organized in the desert camp, and we followed the large force to find the place where the smoke was last seen.
There was no thick smoke, so a group of us drove forward in the general direction, but after walking for more than an hour, we still couldn't find those standing trees.
"How did this happen? We arrived in half an hour last time." The person who spoke was Ada, the person who discovered Li Mu with us last time. After getting along with him in the past two days, I felt that this person has a very good personality. If we have the chance to meet again, we will become very good friends.
This time, we searched extensively in this area and searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of those standing trees, so we could only return without success.
On the way back, I found fragments of the dune motorcycle that had been swallowed up by the gap last time in the gravel.
"We're not looking in the wrong direction, it's those standing trees that have disappeared." I said.
Although I don’t know the specific reason, I’m afraid we will never be able to find those magical standing trees and ship coffins again.
Their person in charge was still very unwilling, "How is that possible? There won't be other agencies coming here later. Let's take all those things away first!"
I thought of the beautiful female corpse, and hoped that it would not be like what he said. It would be best if these standing trees sank deeper into the ground, so that these dead souls would never be disturbed by the world again, and they would be pure.
On the way back, Ada sat next to me and spoke to me in a low voice.
"I went back and thought about what the researcher said last time for a long time, and I found a bug in it!"
"Oh? What bug?"
"These mummies are thousands of years away from us. Think about it, was this already a desert at that time? Aren't their boats and paddles only found in coastal areas? If they were already living in the desert at that time, what would they be like in the desert? Where have you seen these boats and oars?”
I felt that what he said seemed to make some sense, so I nodded and let him continue.
"Think about it from another perspective, if there used to be abundant water resources here, or if this place used to be a lake or even a boundless sea, then wouldn't the process he mentioned about the drying and sealing of cow hides to make mummies contradict themselves?"
I smiled and said, "We can only wait for them to continue their research. Maybe there will be a more accurate answer in the future..."
