Tian Gang Chapter 169: Cult (4)
An off-road vehicle from the laboratory took us out of the city in a hurry. The driver was a calm middle-aged man who didn't like to talk. Only Liao Xian'er smiled and nodded when she greeted him.
Mr. Liao’s laboratory is located in the suburbs of Nanjing.
The place is surrounded by mountains and water, and the environment is very good.
The laboratory was not as spectacular as I had imagined, because it was buried deep underground. There were only two residential buildings on the surface, and farmland next to them. An old farmer, smoking a pipe, which is rare nowadays, squatted beside the farmland and watched us walk by.
Don't underestimate him, he is an internationally famous physicist, Liao Xianer whispered to me.
Are you conducting an experiment or underground party activities?
It's not us, it's my grandpa and his friends. Liao Xianer corrected my mistake and said: Many of my grandpa and his friends' experiments are dangerous. And they often come into contact with practitioners, so it's not wrong to be secretive.
The passage to the basement was not inside the house, but in another farmland behind the house. The driver took out a remote control-like device from his pocket and pressed a button. An area of about one meter square in the farmland slowly rose up, revealing a staircase leading to the underground.
The driver got off first, followed by Liao Xianer, then the Taoist priest and me.
The underground stairs were lit, and the passage smelled of a strange mixture of metal and soil. After we all entered, the top closed again.
The stairs were very long, roughly estimated to be at least three stories high. Then we stepped onto the flat ground.
This place is supported by concrete and various metal columns, so it is quite safe.
The echo of footsteps echoed in the empty passage. In this slightly dark place, the presence of people was somewhat creepy. I felt that I had walked into an ancient tomb instead of a scientific laboratory.
In fact, this is a renovated ancient tomb. My grandfather bought this land from a big shot many years ago. In order to conceal his identity, he also opened another tomb and moved many things here. Liao Xianer seemed to know what I was thinking and took the initiative to speak.
Oh? Whose tomb is this? I asked curiously.
Changchun Zhenren’s, Liao Xianer said.
Changchun Zhenren? I haven't heard of it . Is it famous? I was a little disappointed. I thought it was the tomb of some emperor.
Changchun Zhenren Ti Xuanzi inherited the Tianshi Dao and founded Changchun School in the Ming Dynasty, becoming the leader of the sect. However, he mostly knew side branches, so it was only passed down for a few hundred years before gradually disappearing. The old Taoist suddenly spoke to him: He once came to my Five Elements Meridian, intending to ask for the Wood Spirit Pill.
You gave it to me? I was a little surprised.
No. The old Taoist shook his head: If you enter into the worldly struggle, you will become an ordinary person. He is on a different path from us and we cannot make plans together.
The old Taoist's words were a little vague, but I could tell that he didn't respect Changchun Zhenren very much. I couldn't help but curl my lips. It seemed that the man wasn't very powerful. Although he was passed down from the Tianshi Dao, there were countless Taoist sects related to the Tianshi Dao. Not to mention the small sects that gradually disappeared after a few hundred years, even the big sects like the Five Elements and Eight Ropes are not well-known now.
Of course, according to practitioners, this is also related to being suppressed. Most of the things that can be widely spread outside are controlled, and there is no great way to practice.
Have you ever dug up anything good here? I asked again. In recent years, tomb-robbing novels have been very popular, and I am also interested in them. After all, the dark tombs are likely to contain the wisdom of the ancients and unknown mysteries.
Good stuff... There are some medical books and alchemy books and talismans. The former are still somewhat useful, but the latter are basically ineffective. Liao Xianer said.
No wonder the old Taoist doesn't respect him very much. If you ask me, a real big shot should at least have some golden jade clothes, moonlight treasure box, golden hoop stick, etc...
As I was talking and thinking, the driver suddenly moved aside: We're here.
Liao Xianer hummed and walked over first. A door in front of her was now open, and through the crack in the door, she could see many people, young and old, busy coming and going.
When we walked in, only a few people looked up and then immediately continued with their work.
You are coming very fast. Mr. Liao's voice came from the left. I saw that he was still wearing the same clothes as when he left, and was walking towards us quickly.
The machine is almost assembled. This is a major breakthrough in the academic community, enough to lead the world by more than ten years. Mr. Liao said happily, and then he stretched out his hand to invite: Come this way, I will show you the machine.
I followed him, looking around curiously.
This place is very big, covering thousands of square meters, and filled with all kinds of instruments. I can't tell what they are used for, the only thing I can understand is that there are a lot of people here...
Moreover, there were no countless armed security guards in the laboratory like in the movies. Everyone was busy and no one was standing there in a daze.
The machine that Mr. Liao mentioned was located in the middle of the laboratory. There were some traces of movement on the ground there, and it was probably where something else was placed before.
This machine is huge, bigger than you can imagine.
I took one look and was stunned.
This is not a detection machine, it's a human cannon!
The overall shape of the machine is like a cannon, with a long metal tube sticking out. It is incredibly thick and has a diameter of at least half a meter.
This machine took all the energy of the laboratory, and many people have not closed their eyes for several days. Standing next to the machine, Mr. Liao sighed and said: But its successful production is worth it even if everyone dies of exhaustion.
Hearing this, the old Taoist frowned slightly, but said nothing. He looked at the huge machine in front of him and asked: When can we find the machine?
Mr. Liao looked at his watch and said: We will start the first experiment in about ten minutes. If everything goes well, the machine will take a month to complete the detection of the entire Chinese region. By then, we will have a complete...
So long. The old Taoist frowned again.
Mr. Liao was somewhat helpless and said: There is no way, the energy of the stone beast cannot be analyzed. It is like the hardest substance in the world, and we can't find a way to unlock it.
How can this machine detect it then? I asked in confusion.
Hehe... Mr. Liao smiled with some pride. He adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: Although the energy cannot be analyzed, it is precisely because of this that we have found a pulse signal that can bounce off this energy. Within a certain frequency range, the signal will be blocked by the energy of the stone beast. This principle is somewhat similar to the ultrasonic wave of a bat, but it is much more complicated than that. Because we need to release it with some radioactive substances...
Mr. Liao talked incessantly, but I was confused and had no idea what he was talking about.
Physicists are indeed not something that ordinary people can get in touch with. I only understood one thing, that is, the cannon in front of me can be used as a bat.
If you think about it this way, it is not easy to complete the exploration of the entire Chinese region within one month.
The main reason is that the time is too short and the machine has not been adjusted too finely. Mr. Liao said: In addition, there are too few test subjects, and we don’t know whether this signal will be blocked by other stone beasts. Therefore, the feedback results may not be completely accurate.
Why didn't you tell me? The old Taoist frowned and asked: I can find other stone beasts for you.
Mr. Liao was a little embarrassed by the question and said: It’s not that you are in a hurry. As long as the stone beast can be detected, we can use more precise single-body detection to screen it.
The Taoist priest said nothing and continued to look at the machine. There was no expression on his face, neither joy nor disappointment.
I was sweating as I listened to him. The old Taoist was too rude. I subconsciously glanced at Liao Xianer and the little beauty next to me. They didn't seem to have any special feelings about this. Perhaps they were already used to the old Taoist's weirdness. Only I was still struggling because of my special identity...
Asking a river shrimp to become a great white shark would be really confusing!
The experimenters kept adjusting the machine's values, and the various small machines connected to it were also starting up. Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
With a "hum", the machine started.
I have never been involved in a large-scale scientific research project. This is the first time in my life and I am very excited.
The old Taoist was very indifferent, Liao Xianer was very calm, but the little beauty was already starting to feel bored...her face was hurting.
Asking a girl like her who likes to go crazy to participate in scientific research is more painful than dragging a bear out of bed in the middle of winter.
Mr. Liao couldn't be with us because he was the main person in charge of this project. He was in charge of many numerical matters.
The stone beasts are not cookies, but something beyond human imagination.
There can be no mistakes in the experiments related to it.
I didn't know what a pulse signal was, nor did I understand how the machine sent out signals. I only knew that after ten minutes, a machine began to count down. One minute after the zero was heard, the only sounds in the entire laboratory were the running sounds of the machines and the reports of a small number of operators.
Miracles often happen in a moment, and that moment represents countless opportunities.
At the fifteenth minute, someone suddenly shouted in a trembling voice: Found it! Found one!
I subconsciously looked at the old Taoist priest. He stood straight, like a pine tree. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment. The loud shouting of the operator did not make him look strange.
A few minutes later, Mr. Liao came running over with a piece of paper. He was so excited that he held up the paper in his hand and shouted from a distance: Found one! Found one!
Seeing him so excited, my mood also became inexplicably high.
Mr. Liao ran over to us, habitually adjusted his glasses that were about to fall off his nose, and then excitedly spread out the paper. I saw that there were some characters and numbers written on it, mostly in English.
109.11 East longitude, 31.03 North latitude, this is... Mr. Liao took out a mobile phone from his pocket. After a few seconds, he slapped his thigh excitedly: It's in Wushan, yes, it's there!
Wushan. The Taoist priest repeated, and then he pulled my sleeve.
He can't wait!
