"Oh?" Qi Xia replied calmly.
This reaction obviously made the old man in front of him very dissatisfied.
"Young man, what do you mean by this attitude?!" the old man said, "Do you think I'm crazy?!"
"I just want to ask you..." Qi Xia said, "A person who can neither see nor hear, can't even smell or eat... is this kind of thing considered a "person"?"
"Why not?!" The old man suddenly blinked after finishing speaking, "No wonder... this is what the "archaeologists" on TV have been studying! Studying how people in ancient times survived! Yes! I am now the archaeologist of "The End"...I want to stick to my research results!"
Qi Xia didn't reply, just stared coldly at the old man in front of him.
He actually called the bones from ten years ago "ancient".
The old man shook his head and said: "What a pity... I used to be able to "reverberate" just by digging in the ground, but this time it was like being possessed by an evil spirit. The deeper I dug, the less "reverberated" I got... It's weird, maybe I have to continue. dig……"
"Stop digging." Qi Xia said coldly, "If you keep digging, something will happen to you."
"Something happened...?" The old man paused for a moment, then showed a slightly nervous smile, "Young man, do you know something?!"
"I don't know." Qi Xia shook his head.
"Tell me!" the old man said excitedly, "I'm really curious! This question has been bothering me all the time. Are the "participants" who were active here ten years ago all faceless people? What a great discovery! Just like you said...are they unable to walk? Do they have their own way of obtaining information from the outside world? How do they communicate? "
Qi Xia just looked at the old man coldly, and then slowly took a step back.
The old man stood next to the pit, his eyes flashing: "Are all people like this... or only a few people have mutated? There are many skulls without faces in this pit... It is certain that they have one Clan!”
"I said, stop digging." Qi Xia said softly behind the old man, "If you can give up studying this problem, you should end up with a good end."
"How can I resist not researching?!" the old man said, "The origin of all progress in this world is curiosity! Now that I know it, I will definitely find the answer... It's just some bones. How can I be in charge of this place?" Will people come to kill me because of these bones?"
"They won't, but others may." Qi Xia said.
"It doesn't matter even if I die..." the old man said again, "I will still study even if I die."
Qi Xia stared at the old man's back in silence, feeling that "curiosity" was like a plague that could not be cured or dispelled, and would eventually kill him.
The old man had been lowering his head and muttering something. Maybe he was not crazy when Qi Xia met him, but the joy of digging out the skull made him gradually lose his mind.
He thought he had found the ultimate answer, but he didn't know that the skull was a ticket to escape reincarnation.
The old man muttered for a long time, feeling that the young man behind him had been silent for a long time. He turned around and was about to say something, but suddenly saw a hand pushing against his chest.
The hand was not very strong, and it just happened to push him into the hole behind him.
The old man did not expect that the young man behind him would suddenly reach out his hand, and he had no time to catch him, and he had already fallen straight down.
"thump"!
With a muffled sound, the old man also wailed, but the hole was not deep after all, and the soil below was soft. He quickly stood up and shouted upward: "What do you mean?! Young man! What are you going to do?" !”
He waited for a while and saw Qi Xia appearing at the edge of the pit with a kerosene lamp. The dim light shone on his gray-white eyes, making him look like a demon.
"I tried to persuade you," Qi Xia said, "but you rejected me."
"Persuade me...?" The old man understood something immediately, "You don't want me to continue investigating?! Why?!"
Qi Xia didn't answer, just looked at the old man coldly from above.
The old man felt cold all over when he saw these eyes, so he quickly lowered his head and took out another skull from the hole with both hands.
"Young man, don't you believe me?!" The old man raised the skull and showed it to Qi Xia, "Look! These bones are buried underground! Aren't you curious about what happened?"
"I'm not curious," Qi Xia said, "because I know the answer."
"What...?!" The old man blinked.
"I can't let others know this answer, so you can only die." Qi Xia said.
The old man slowly raised his head after hearing these words. It was obvious that he was not afraid of death, but regretted that he could not know the truth. The unwillingness on his face far outweighed the fear.
"What's the point...?" he said, "You will be fine if you know the answer...I will die if I know the answer?"
"That's right." Qi Xia said, "At this point, no trouble can occur, so I can only wrong you."
"You..." The old man slowly lowered his head after hearing this, "It's useless... Even if you kill me, even if I don't save my memory, I will be curious about things underground again, and one day I will dig out everything The secret... I will find the answer here one day, how will you stop me then?"
This is what Qi Xia least wants to hear.
He said with a gloomy look: "I didn't expect that there would be a person like you here. Everyone is thinking about how to break the game, how to stay away from the city, and finally how to escape from here. But you are curious about what is under the ground."
"Isn't this right?!" The old man raised his head and said, "Maybe if I keep digging through the ground, I will find a way to get out of here that no one has ever discovered! Young man... you really don't think about following me? together?!"
"Don't think about it." Qi Xia replied, "When you really dig through the ground, you will find an endless abyss waiting for you."
"What...?" The old man was stunned, "Then where are we? Why are these corpses buried underground? It doesn't matter if you don't tell me... I will definitely find the answer... one day!!"
"Don't worry." Qi Xia said, "You won't have another reincarnation."
"What?!"
Qi Xia slowly took a step back and disappeared into the darkness.
"Hey! Don't leave!" the old man shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?! I won't have another reincarnation?! Do you think you are a "god"?!"
There was rustling outside the pit, but no one spoke.
Before the old man could shout the second sentence, the skull was thrown in, followed by a large amount of soil falling from above.
