Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

The stone slab is like a hammer that is about to stop, shaking regularly from side to side with a small range.Xue Yelai let go of one hand, timed the time with the stopwatch on his wrist, and accurately calculated the advance amount.He must take off when the slab reaches the most stable position.If the timing is not good, the shift of the center of gravity generated during take-off may make him slide down.

There is no extra rope that can be used as a safety belt for him, and once the action is started, there is no time to hesitate, it must be done in one go.It's like going through a hoop of fire, and any pause in the middle will lead to danger.

When the stone slab reached the lowest point again, Xue Yelai jumped up suddenly.His advance calculation was just right, not only maintaining his own balance, but also relying on the upward swing of the slate.The moment he flew into the air, his hand grabbed the edge of the rocky platform at the exit, and he used his arms to lift his body to a height where he could lift his legs.As I stepped onto the platform, my knee hit a rocky corner hard.Xue Yelai ignored the pain, curled up and rolled to the inside of the platform, and lay down on the hard ground.

After a second, Xue Yelai was sure that he had indeed come up.The exit was not far from him, like a trap.

Taking a short breath, Xue Yelai turned over and sat up to check whether the surrounding environment was safe.This place looks like a cave, but there are several big lights around it, as bright as the day on the ground.The walls of the cave have been artificially repaired with decorative stone bricks. Although the brick surface is rough and uneven, at least it gives the cave an atmosphere of human activities, like a simple hall made of stone.

But the hall was empty, and as far as the eye could see, there was no one.On the cave wall on the other side, there is a row of round arches carved with various patterns, leading to unknown places.

Xue Yelai began to think about how to pull Bai Yang up next.But the problem was solved at once: he saw a heavy stone pier with a thick metal ring embedded in the top.A metal chain is locked on the ring, and there are short horizontal bars at intervals.Obviously, this is for people to climb.

Xue Yelai lay down on the edge of the exit and looked down.Bai Yang had lowered the stone slab back to its original position, and was waiting with his face up.Xue Yelai immediately picked up the chain and tugged hard. The ring and the stone are very firm.He dropped the chain.After a sound of gold and stone hitting, the chain fell to the bottom, and the length was just right.

While waiting for Bai Yang to climb up, Xue Yelai circled the exit again.From this point of view, this exit seems to be closer to a one-way passage.It is relatively easy to get to the tunnel below from here, but it is quite difficult to get here from the tunnel unless someone responds.

The chain hanging in front of the stone wall trembled slightly, making a slight clicking sound.Bai Yang climbed onto the rock platform, looked around, and squatted down to check the ground.

"There is no one here now, and there is no one nearby. However, some people have been here before. There are footprints here." He pointed to a ground covered with thin soil, then raised his head, and looked at the large stones embedded around the cave wall. lamp.His demeanor is calm, like a gardener climbing up to the garden on the roof of his house in warm spring weather, squatting down to trim flowers and plants while watching the sun.

Warm spring, roof, sunshine, garden.It is very exciting to imagine these things in the cold underground.

"I said, when we live together in the future, how about building a garden on the roof?" Xue Yelai told Bai Yang of this idea, and also passed the picture in his mind to him, "It doesn't need to be very big, plant some Begonias and roses. Begonias in spring and roses in summer.”

"What about autumn and winter?"

"Look at the sweet-scented osmanthus in autumn. I want to plant a osmanthus tree under the window. I sleep with the window open in autumn. It's very fragrant. In winter... who wants to go out when it's so cold, of course I have to do what I love in the room. "

Bai Yang smiled.

While talking, the two walked to the row of round arches.There was also a light inside the door, but it was much dimmer, like a torch in a cave, illuminating a long set of stone steps.At the end of the stone steps, I turned a corner and couldn't see the scene on the other side.

Xue Yelai looked at the pattern on each door.From a closer look, it is not so much a pattern as a symbol.Judging from the arrangement, it looks like some kind of text.

Xue Ye came to observe and found a rule: each group of symbols is four, and the last one is the same.He got down on his stomach and put his ear to the ground.At first I couldn't hear anything, but after a while, there was a rumbling vibration coming from a distance, and it gradually disappeared from near to far.

"There are tracks and vehicles nearby. I think this is a transfer station, a place similar to a subway station hall. If so, it can explain why this place has been kept ventilated and illuminated, but no one is inhabited. These circles The arch should be an entrance to different directions, and the symbols on it may mean something like 'so-and-so line'. As for the road we came up just now, I feel like it is a back door, or an emergency passage." Xue Ye came to analyze.

"Then shall we go in? Which one?"

Xue Yelai thought about it, and chose the round arch in the middle, "If these doors are arranged according to the direction of the route, then the middle one should lead to the center. And the rock under this door is the smoothest, I think it's because that's where the most people pass. Let's go down and see."

The two walked down the steps.The steps are carved out of the rock, narrow and steep, with different heights, one step deep and the other shallow.But compared with the dark rocky tunnel and the wobbly slate lift before, walking here is very easy.Every few meters, there is a wall lamp like a kerosene lamp on the wall, arranged in two faint yellow straight lines on both sides of the passage.

Turning a corner, the cool wind with the smell of rust rushes towards you.The light was still dim, but the sight suddenly opened up.A steel rail extends in the underground space with no end in sight.

There was another rumbling sound in the distance.A light appeared at one end of the rail, approaching quickly with the sound of machinery.Xue Ye saw clearly that it was a tram.But it is really too simple, like connecting several flatbed trucks, and then put a few handrails and guardrails on them, without even seats and doors.A searchlight hung on the front of the car, illuminating the empty carriages, making it look like a ghost train.

The speed of the car was not fast, but it did not slow down after entering the station.It doesn't seem to stop at the station, but keeps a constant speed. If you want to get on the car, you can only jump on it.

"Get in the car." Xue Yelai didn't hesitate, "Where it goes, let's talk about it when we go."