End of ten days

"Oh?" Qi Xia replied indifferently.

This reaction obviously made the old man in front of him very dissatisfied.

"What do you mean by this attitude, young man?!" 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, and even can't smell or eat... is this thing considered a "person"? "

"Why not?!" The old man suddenly blinked after he finished speaking, "No wonder... this is what the "archaeologists" on TV are always studying! Studying how people in ancient times survived! Yes! I am now an archaeologist in the "End of the World"... I want to stick to my research results!"

Qi Xia did not reply, but just stared at the old man in front of him coldly.

He actually called the bones of ten years ago "ancient times".

The old man shook his head and said, "What a pity... Originally, I could "echo" as long as I dug the ground, but this time it was like I was possessed by a demon. The deeper I dug, the less "echo" I got... Strange, maybe I have to keep digging..."

"Stop digging." Qi Xia said coldly, "You'll get into trouble if you keep digging."

"Something's wrong..." The old man paused for a moment, then smiled a little nervously, "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. Were the "participants" who were active here ten years ago all faceless people?! What a great discovery! Just like you said... Can't they even walk? Do they have their own way to get information from the outside world? How do they communicate?"

Qi Xia just looked at the old man coldly, then slowly stepped back.

The old man stood beside the pit, his eyes flickering: "Are all people like this... or are only a few people mutated? There are still many skulls without faces in this pit... It is certain that they have a tribe!"

"I say, don't dig anymore." Qi Xia whispered behind the old man, "If you can give up studying this problem, you should have a good ending."

"How can I resist not studying?!" 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 corpses. Will the people in charge here kill me because of these corpses?"

"They won't, but others may." Qi Xia said.

"It doesn't matter if I die..." the old man said again, "I will study even if I die."

Qi Xia stared at the old man's back in silence, feeling that "curiosity" was like a plague growing on him, which would eventually kill him if he couldn't cure it or dispel it.

The old man kept muttering something with his head down. Maybe he was really not crazy when Qi Xia met him, but the joy of digging out this skull made him gradually lose his mind.

He thought he had found the ultimate answer, but he didn't know that this skull was a ticket to escape reincarnation.

The old man muttered for a long time, and felt that the young man behind him had not moved for a long time. He turned around and was about to say something, but suddenly saw a hand pushing his chest.

The hand was neither too strong nor too weak, just pushing him into the pit behind him.

The old man didn't expect the young man behind him to suddenly reach out, and he had no time to catch him, and the whole person had fallen headfirst.

"Plop"!

With a muffled sound, the old man also wailed, but the pit was not deep after all, and the soil below was soft. He hurriedly stood up and shouted to the top: "What do you mean?! Young man! What are you doing?!"

He waited for a while and saw Qi Xia appear at the edge of the pit with a kerosene lamp. The dim light shone on his gray eyes, reflecting him like a demon.

"I have advised you." Qi Xia said, "but you refused me."

"Advise me...?" The old man suddenly understood something, "You don't want me to continue investigating?! Why?!"

Qi Xia did not answer, but looked at the old man coldly from above.

The old man was looked at by these eyes and felt cold all over, so he lowered his head and took out another skull from the pit with both hands.

"Young man, do you not believe me?!" The old man raised the skull and showed it to Qi Xia, "Look! There are more below! There are all below! There are corpses of faceless people everywhere, and these corpses 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 this. Obviously, he was not afraid of death, but regretted that he could not know the truth. The unwillingness on his face was far more than fear.

"What's the logic here..." he said, "If you know the answer, it's fine... If I know the answer, I'll die?" "That's right." Qi Xia said, "It's time to get to this point, and we can't let any trouble happen, so I have to let you down."

"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 the 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 dig through the ground, I will find a way out of here that no one has ever discovered! Young man... you really don't think about following With me?”

"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.