nucmednet Chapter 62 Group Hypnosis
Chapter 62 Group Hypnosis
edge of the pit,
Everyone looked in the direction the stretcher was carried away.
They all glanced at the blood-stained bronze spearheads at the bottom of the pit, as if by unspoken agreement.
Engineer Zhang sighed, "Professor Sun, this is such a pity."
Professor Sun did not answer.
He came to the edge of the pit and looked at the broken ends of the crossbeams at the bottom of the pit.
The fracture surface is jagged, clearly indicating it wasn't cut by metal.
It looked as if it had burst open from the inside by something.
He stood up, brushed the dirt off his knees, and said to the security supervisor beside him:
"Suspend all excavation operations."
Have the ground-penetrating radar team scan the entire area.
Mark all the locations of suspected traps, leaving none out!
No one may disturb the soil before the location of the traps is determined.
The security chief was instructed to relay the order.
Bai Sheng, nestled in the pine canopy, possessed the clarity of an outsider's perspective.
The stone slab trap was triggered in exactly the same way his clone encountered it.
This time it wasn't a clone, it was a real person!
He knew that the casualties would inevitably slow down the archaeological team's excavation progress!
Even if Professor Sun was in a hurry,
We must also address the safety hazards first.
At noon the next day,
All the results from the ground-penetrating radar scans were compiled onto Professor Sun's tablet.
The result was far from satisfactory.
On the east side of the excavation site, directly below the gentle slope, around the roots of the old locust tree, and even in the transition zone between the ruins...
The entire outer perimeter of the ring structure,
Traps of varying sizes are scattered throughout!
There are an absurd number of red markers on the screen.
"Preliminary statistics show that more than sixty trap locations have been identified."
The man carrying the metal case handed the tablet to Professor Sun.
"This doesn't even include the potentially deeper, interconnected mechanisms!"
Zhang Gong stood to the side, his face ashen.
The footage of the worker being carried away on a stretcher yesterday...
It's still imprinted in his mind.
Lingering.
More than sixty places.
He repeated the number.
"How can we dig this out? If we eliminate them one by one, we still won't finish by next year."
Professor Sun did not answer immediately.
He also felt a chill run down his spine.
I took off my glasses and wiped the lenses.
Several technicians and foremen gathered around.
No one spoke.
Everyone was looking at Professor Sun.
Yesterday's casualties cast an unusually somber mood over the entire archaeological team.
This morning,
Two workers backed out at the last minute.
They rolled up their bedding and went down the mountain.
The remaining people did not leave.
However, their enthusiasm for work has clearly decreased significantly.
The silence lasted for a while.
Professor Sun picked up the tablet again.
Zoom in on the trap distribution map above the ring structure.
I drew a circle around the center with my finger.
Look!
Although there are many traps, their distribution is not random.
They are all concentrated in the upper half of the ring structure.
That is, the area from the surface to about six meters underground.
Yes, below six meters.
There isn't a single trap trigger point.
Engineer Zhang was stunned for a moment.
I leaned closer to take a closer look at the screen.
indeed,
It seems there's really nothing wrong with it.
"Look again."
"This energy shell is contracting downwards, and its current location is approximately nine meters underground."
I estimate that it will shrink below the center within three days.
At that time, the entire interior of the ring structure will be exposed.
But before that, the hard shell itself is a natural insulating layer.
Based on data from previous studies,
As it shrinks downwards, it takes the traps and mechanisms down with it.
Or rather, the trap itself is attached to the hard outer shell.
Wherever the hard shell shrinks, the trap retreats there as well.
Everyone was stunned after hearing these words.
Almost everyone present was highly educated.
Many of them are even top performers in the education system.
But at this point, no matter what...
I can't even imagine what the principle behind this trap is.
This is hard to explain using the wisdom of the ancients, isn't it?
Engineer Zhang: "You mean we don't need to dismantle the traps?"
"Will the trap retreat along with the shell as it shrinks further?"
"I tend to think that the traps will eventually converge at one point," Professor Sun said.
As soon as he said that, his assistants got busy.
After a lot of work, the data was finally calculated.
The hard shell is currently 9.2 meters deep and is contracting at a rate of 0.5 meters per hour.
At this speed,
By tomorrow morning,
The hard shell will shrink to about ten meters underground.
By then,
A gap of about half a meter will appear at the top of the outermost layer of the ring structure.
Half a meter, enough for a person to squeeze in sideways.
The head of security from the internal affairs department, wearing a black T-shirt, looked at the data on the tablet and frowned, saying:
"How can a person get through a gap of half a meter?"
Even if you squeeze in sideways, what if you get stuck?
The area was surrounded by unexploded traps, making rescue impossible.
"Don't rush."
"There is a way."
Professor Sun turned to look at the woman in the white coat who hadn't said much.
She placed the silver metal box on the table and opened the lid.
Inside is a small tracked exploration robot!
The device is only the size of a shoebox.
It is equipped with a 360-degree rotating camera and a set of miniature sensors on top.
"Use robots to scout ahead first, and then people will follow once it's confirmed to be safe."
That afternoon, the excavation resumed!
This time, there will be no large-scale stripping of soil.
The progress of crustal contraction was monitored in real time by a ground-penetrating radar team.
Workers were at a location marked as a low-density trap zone on the edge of a gentle slope.
They carefully drilled a test well with a diameter of less than one meter.
The well wall is reinforced with folded steel plates.
By evening,
The exploratory well has been dug to a depth of about eight meters.
The rate at which the hardened shell contracts increases slightly after nightfall.
The speed increased from 0.5 meters per hour to 0.6 meters per hour.
By 11 p.m., the hard shell had shrunk to below 9.5 meters underground!
A gap of less than half a meter was visible between the top of the ring structure and the hard shell!
On the ground-penetrating radar screen,
The trap markers in the crevice area converge at a single point.
Just as Professor Sun predicted!
The probe robot was tied with ropes.
It was lowered little by little from the bottom of the exploration well.
A woman in a white coat is operating a flatbed device at the wellhead.
The robot's tracks rolled over the gravel at the entrance to the crevice.
The footage transmitted back by the camera,
Displayed on the screen,
Inside the ring structure,
It presents a huge circular space.
The walls are smooth.
The dome is about three stories high above the ground.
A thick stone pillar stands at the center of the circle.
At the base of the stone pillar
Surrounded by a dark red energy halo,
A faint throbbing.
The camera feed flickered for a moment.
It's like being interfered with by some kind of signal.
Then,
The dark red halo around the base of the stone pillar lit up briefly.
The oil lamps on the dome of the circular space simultaneously ignited with eerie green flames.
The robot's signal was interrupted for less than half a second before it was restored.
The last frame transmitted by the camera was captured on a mural of a person's face!
"This is?"
Everyone present was stunned and looked at each other in bewilderment.
The scene before my eyes was truly unbelievable.
But in order to avoid affecting everyone's mood.
The woman in the white coat quickly brought the robot back.
I checked the data and recordings.
Confirm that no mechanism was triggered inside the gap.
This basically means there aren't any hidden mechanisms below.
Professor Sun immediately decided to send someone down!
Two of the thinnest Internal Affairs agents,
Fasten your seatbelt around your waist.
They were lowered one by one from the bottom of the exploration well.
He squeezed sideways into the gap that was less than half a meter wide.
Bai Sheng also craned his neck to look out from the pine canopy.
A short while after the two workers went downstairs, a voice came through the walkie-talkie:
"Safe, you can continue!"
Following that, several more technicians carrying instruments went down into the exploration well.
Only a few security personnel remained around the wellhead.
The rest of the people gathered around the well to help hoist the equipment.
Bai Sheng had already figured it out in the past few days.
Another entrance on the east side of the exploration well.
That's the one he accidentally wandered into before.
It is now a low-risk area.
He made his clone slide silently down from the pine tree canopy.
Keep a low profile and move through the bushes.
Touching the transition zone between the ruins and the old locust tree
The grayish-white stone slab that he had pried open before was still half-hidden under the soil.
Push the stone slab aside.
The crack, just wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways, was revealed.
The clone slipped inside sideways and groped its way down the narrow passage.
At the same time, he left a second clone in the tree canopy.
Perception should remain at its maximum sensitivity.
Monitor the archaeological team's movements.
Professor Sun's side,
Professor Sun was the last one to go down.
Fasten your seatbelt.
With Zhang's help, he squeezed sideways into the gap.
Stand still and look around.
Adapting to the pale green glow of the oil lamps on the dome.
The interior of the ring-shaped space was larger than he had imagined.
The center position,
That massive stone pillar was as thick as two people could hug.
The engravings on the column surface and those on the wall are integrated to form a complete circular pattern.
A dark red aura of energy pulsated around the base of the stone pillar.
"No one should touch anything."
Professor Sun gave an instruction and walked to the front of the stone pillar.
Use a flashlight to carefully examine the engravings on the surface of the pillar.
Of course,
Those under my command also need to keep up with the work; they can't be idle.
The woman in the white coat set up a portable detector next to the stone pillar.
The probe was aimed at the dark red halo around the base of the stone pillar.
Waveform curves began to appear on the instrument screen.
I tested it for a long time, but I still couldn't figure out what it was.
These technicians didn't have much equipment.
Spread out along the wall,
Each person used a flashlight to scan the carvings and murals on the wall.
While we can't guarantee we'll understand it, at least we put in the effort.
right?
The murals in the circular space are exceptionally complex in content.
Almost all of them are a series of narrative scenes.
It depicts some kind of ancient sacrificial scene.
The colors of the mural
It looked particularly eerie under the dim green glow of the oil lamp.
The human figures depicted as sacrificial offerings were enlarged to life-size.
His expression was distorted, and his limbs were stretched into unnatural positions.
"Human sacrifice?"
One of the technicians said this.
the other side,
Bai Sheng was on his own sofa.
Through the perspective of the clone in the tree canopy, he watched the movements at the wellhead.
Several security personnel began to move closer to the wellhead.
A second line of defense was set up.
Everything seemed to be progressing smoothly.
But he always felt something was off!
He could clearly see the images transmitted back by the probe robot from the treetop through the perspective of his clone.
The oil lamps on the dome of the circular space suddenly ignited with eerie green flames the moment the robot entered.
The dark red aura at the base of the stone pillar suddenly brightened.
The last frame of the camera footage focuses on a bizarre mural face...
If any normal person saw this scene,
The first reaction should be hesitation.
Professor Sun himself hesitated just now.
But now?
The decision to withdraw the robots was made to send people down.
Was there at least half a minute in between?
Tsk tsk,
Think about it carefully.
Their recent series of actions have a strangely smooth quality to them!
Could it be that something hypnotized them?