End of ten days

"Is this the "big secret" you said?" Qi Xia asked coldly.

"Hehe..." The old man laughed strangely and raised his head to look at Qi Xia, "Isn't this the "big secret"?"

Qi Xia heard the old man's laughter and looked down at the skull again. Although he could only see the back of the skull, judging from the dry cracks on the skull and the amount of sand on it, it was nothing more than someone being buried after death. Got here.

Maybe he died decades ago, or maybe he died a few years ago.

No matter how you think about it, this is not an unbelievable thing, let alone a "secret".

No one can tell how many people have died in this city in the past seven years, and how many corpses have been produced.

"It seems that I made a wrong bet." Qi Xia looked up at the empty top of his head, "After all, it is gambling, and no one can always win."

After Qi Xia finished speaking, he was about to leave, but the old man called out to stop him.

"Don't go, young man!" The old man happily held the skull and picked up the kerosene lamp with the other hand. "Aren't you curious?! I dug the skull for so long, how can you not be curious? "

Qi Xia stopped helplessly and turned around slowly. In his eyes, this old man was no different from an ordinary lunatic.

Seeing that Qi Xia had been retained, he hurriedly took two steps forward, but he kept holding his skull tightly: "Young man! There are more down there! There are many!"

Qi Xia looked down at the skull in his arms expressionlessly. The light was very dim, but he could clearly feel that there was nothing special about the skull.

"So what's the secret?" Qi Xia raised her head and asked.

"Young man...you must believe me...as long as you believe what I say, I will tell you everything!" The old man said with a strange expression, "But you must not think that I am a madman!"

"Okay." Qi Xia sighed after hearing this, "I'll give you a chance, you say it, I'll listen."

"Okay, okay!" The old man held the skull happily, and then sat down on the ground.

Qi Xia also squatted down, and the two of them were surrounded by a small group of lights in the dark alley, staring at the skull in front of them.

The old man was about to speak, but was stunned for a moment. Then he raised the kerosene lamp and moved it a few centimeters in front of Qi Xia's face. He asked softly and doubtfully: "Young man... why are your eyes like this? Are you sick?"

"Are you going to miss this opportunity?" Qi Xia asked.

"Look how anxious you are!" The old man bared his teeth and smiled, "Then I won't ask anymore! I'll tell you!"

Then he lowered his head, put the kerosene lamp close to his skull, and said, "Young man...what do you think changed people?"

Qi Xia frowned slightly when he heard this question and asked, "What do you mean?"

"I mean... what was a person before he became a human?" the old man asked again.

"Are you discussing the theory of evolution with me?" Qi Xia felt a little tired. "As long as you are willing to believe, people can become anything except people."

"Okay...!" The old man nodded excitedly, "Hearing what you said... I can safely share my secret with you! Do you believe... that there is also a "theory of evolution" in this place?"

Qi Xia's eyes turned slightly cold and said: "You are more crazy than I thought. As long as "echo" exists, theoretically people can become anything overnight, and there is no need for "evolution" at all. "

"Yes... what you said makes sense, but I felt its call." The old man reached out and patted the skull beside his hand.

"call?"

"I could feel that something incredible was buried under this city... So I started digging with the shovel I found. After so long... I finally dug it."

After saying this, he slowly turned the skull next to him and faced Qi Xia head-on. Then he lowered the kerosene lamp and revealed the true face of the skull.

Qi Xia slowly opened her eyes after seeing it.

This skull is very strange.

Although it looks like a skull on the outside, its front is actually smooth.

Not only is there no eye socket to accommodate the eyeballs, there is not even a hole for the nasal cartilage. The entire lower part of the skull is connected to the mandible bone, and even the positions where the teeth should have been are just flat. Qi Xia reached out and turned the skull over, and found that even the cochlea was not depressed.

In other words, the owner of this skull...

No face.

"Young man... speak up!" The old man was obviously excited. "Does this skull overturn all your knowledge?! Can you tell how long the owner of this skull has been dead?"

Qi Xia had a sullen face and said nothing.

"At least ten years!!" The old man waved his hand and said, "Do you believe that the people here are evolving...? The "theory of evolution" really exists! Ten years ago, the people here didn't even have faces!!"

Qi Xia reached out and gently touched the skull. It had just emerged from the soil and felt warm to the touch.

"Is this a 'big secret'?!" the old man said happily, "There are similar bones underneath! There are definitely more than one or two!"

After the old man finished speaking, he stared at Qi Xia for a long time, but found that the young man in front of him remained silent.

"Why don't you speak?" the old man said with a trembling voice, "Am I crazy? This skull really has no face!"

Qi Xia slowly stood up, then walked to the pothole and looked down carefully. His eyes were generally used to the darkness in the alley, and he could indeed see the dark soil below exposing the bones. Obviously there were many corpses waiting. Digging.

"Isn't it amazing?" The old man came to Qi Xia with a kerosene lamp and said excitedly, "Originally I wanted to dig up for a while...but I didn't expect that I could always sense the call from deep underground...It seemed like there was a wave of The mysterious power made me keep digging. Who would have thought that I wouldn’t be able to get up after digging.”

After hearing this, Qi Xia picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into the deep pit.

"This is the deepest hole I have ever dug. I didn't expect to gain anything..." the old man continued to mutter to himself, "I have to "resound" quickly and remember this position. Maybe I can dig deeper. A bigger secret is discovered beneath the ground! I may be about to find the answer to this world!”

Qi Xia, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. He sighed deeply and said, "Old man, do you think a person with a flat face can still be called a "human"?"

"Why isn't that a human being?" the old man said excitedly, "Young man, didn't you see just now? That skull is connected by a spine! It is not a work of art made by someone. There are traces of oxidation on its bones, although there are no traces on the face. Organs, but with room for a brain, it is indeed a human skull!”