sin of lumen

It was difficult for Lu Ting to tell what kind of space he was in at this time.Is it a crypt?Cave?It seems that it cannot be described with such narrow words.Let’s keep it simple, let’s say it’s a big pit.A large pit below the valley, covered by a layer of stone shell.It was as if the earth had been hollowed out by a giant hand. The surface above Lu Ting was at least 50 meters away from him. Looking up, the rock layer full of holes was like a natural ceiling, presenting a net shape, quietly leaking into the night sky.

Among them, the oval stone hole at the very edge was almost the most inconspicuous of all the holes. It was the entrance that Deng Mochi had just led him to find. It looked small now, but its actual diameter was more than two meters.They drilled in from there, and then descended along the rock wall. Although the route was steep and rugged, Deng Mochi knew every possible fulcrum well, and there was no danger.

Standing on the "ground" underground at this time, Lu Ting still felt incredible.He couldn't figure out how this landform was formed, he just felt that he was in a box-shaped container covered with a beautifully carved granite lid.

And what's in the container is even more amazing.

At first glance, there will only be one impression - green leaves, green leaves all over the ground, shining brightly, trembling slightly, occupying the entire bottom of the pit.As for the large bulge in the center, what is hidden under the most lush branches and leaves... It is probably more accurate to describe it with the word "ore".But it has no stone skin and does not need to be mined. It is a complete piece, about 30 meters long and six meters wide. It is shaped like an irregular spindle, slightly thinner at both ends and slightly thicker in the middle. .

Buried so deep underground, even during the day, it is difficult for sunlight to penetrate. The life on the surface of this ore is indeed strange.Those leaves came from countless thick vines, and their last branches moved along the ground, and the leaves covered the ground inch by inch, and climbed up to the bare stone walls on both sides of the pit.Lu Ting picked off a piece of vegetation with a dagger, and was able to see the internal situation clearly - there was no floating soil at all, and the roots of the plants were all directly attached to the surface of the ore. Judging from the glossy texture, the stone looked like a piece of luminous jade, and the color was relatively bright. The best jadeite is more intense, with a few flocculent light-colored lines inside, similar to cracks in ice sheets.

The green light is not dazzling, but its penetrating power is not weak. It is emitted from here, passing through the grass blades and vine roots, passing through the netted stone layer, and blowing on the surface of the field.

"The marker stone they mentioned must have been chiseled from it." Lu Ting pulled out the pendant he had collected during the day from his collar.

"Yes." Dun Mochi explained behind him, "The edge of the radiation web is impenetrable unless you become a radiation source yourself."

"I've seen similar ones before," Lu Ting thought, "green, glowing stones that can support plants."

Deng Mochi waited for him to continue.

Lu Ting turned around with a smile in his eyes: "It's a very small piece, the size of a pebble, but it feeds a Bodhi tree, and a single tree grows into a forest to fill a room. It's in the Blood Cube."

"Have you been to the Blood Cube?"

"You took me there," Lu Ting smiled even more, "You also bought gauze and some small pendants there, made a veil and hid it for a long time, marked that day, and gave it to me."

Probably because he was addicted to it just now, he opened his eyes and waited for Deng Mochi to show a shy look, but it turns out that the green light can cover up all blush, or maybe Deng Mochi is not red at all.He asked solemnly, "What kind of veil?"

Lu Ting's face became hot: "I kept the safe, and the safe is in Aldebaran-b. How should I put it, it's very elegant and beautiful, white, with stars and moons hanging on it, but it's super hard. Wash," he paused, "we got dirty and I washed it by hand for a long time."

Dun Mochi nodded: "I can imagine."

Lu Ting turned back embarrassingly: "But you didn't take me to the Blood Cube to buy groceries. That time you got a box of pure platinum and took it back to repair the spaceship."

"Welding parts?"

"Hmm. LastShadow, is it still there?"

"exist."

Lu Ting was a little relieved, even though Deng Mochi simply said this, one word, and then there was no more content, but at least the precious spaceship can be confirmed to be safe.After floating on the sea for more than a month, repairing it together, and returning to the sky together, sometimes Lu Ting felt that LastShadow was like his and Deng Mochi's child.

Although it is adopted, it is also the one that can be mentioned frankly.

"So it's the radiation emitted by this big guy?" Lu Ting turned the topic back on track, "It made the surrounding ecological environment so much better."

Deng Mochi's voice came from behind his ears: "It's just described by radiation at present. In fact, it is an unknown thing whose properties are comparable to rays."

"Then is this stone a meteorite? Did it make this big hole?" Lu Ting asked again, bent down and picked a gap between the vines, and checked the edge where the green stone was in contact with the ground.Such hard igneous rock tightly wraps the root of the green stone, and even a blade cannot be inserted.

He carefully pushed aside the rattan again, even touching it for nearly a meter.

"Or... did it grow out of the ground? When it was formed, the surrounding rock was still magma, covering it? But granite is an intrusive rock," Lu Ting patted the ashes on his hands, standing suspiciously Going back to Dun Mochi, "I always feel that it doesn't look like something on the earth. Judging from the refractive index and so on, there is no substance similar to it. Lucy also thinks it is not."

Deng Mochi stopped being in a daze for a while, he had been leaning on the side wall of the pit just now, next to a few vines, not touching the green stone, just staring intently, and after a long time, his gaze drifted far away.Now it seems that he has completely returned to his soul. He turned to look at Lu Ting: "It may have been dropped here. Or, it was left behind."

"Such a big rock, even you can't name it... that is the alien relic." Lu Ting smiled.

"Maybe it's not a person." Deng Mochi said, leading Lu Ting to step over the gravel at the bottom of the pit, back to the green stone, near its tail. "It doesn't have to be a stone either."

After he finished speaking, he inserted his left hand into the vine, and as soon as he touched it, all the branches and leaves shook violently, as if echoing in response, the tree shadows and green lights intertwined, shaking this deep pit that was more than 50 meters full of waves of light everywhere, as if being in a vine. Under the clear water.

Lu Ting held his breath, thinking of the Bodhi trembling in the Blood Cube due to Deng Mochi's touch, and Deng Mochi pushed aside the soft branch pressing his hand, and pressed his palm on the surface of the green stone.

The green light suddenly became stronger, and many tender vines were illuminated, showing the texture of fibers.

Lu Ting subconsciously squinted his eyes and heard Deng Mochi say, "Look up."

He did as he did, raised his head high, and exclaimed as soon as his sight settled—besides the stone net, the moon-star-sparse night sky had suddenly become gorgeous, and green waves of light were spreading, and the canvas Of course it's not Zenith, it should be just the edge of the "membrane", but it's still captivating.In the night sky as far as the eyes can see, countless ripples run across it, deep and shallow, thick and light, and ripples flow layer by layer. It is a magnificent beauty that cannot be separated even if it can only be viewed through a hole.

As soon as Deng Mochi withdrew his hand, the green light around him dimmed a lot, the light waves in the sky also quickly disappeared, and the night sky returned to darkness and tranquility again.

Lu Ting was speechless, staring blankly at the dangling fingertips of the person beside him, and inserted his five fingers into the vines. Sure enough, those branches had no enthusiasm just now, and lazily did not respond.

He tried to touch the stone surface again, it was smooth and delicate, a little cold, but it was still the same, and there was no light wave in the distant sky because of him.

"Okay," Lu Ting exhaled, shrugged his shoulders and was about to withdraw his hand, "Boss, it knows you, not me."

But Deng Mochi held down the arm he was about to raise, and slid down his wrist to the back of his hand, pressing his hand all the way back under the vine, until it reached the surface of the green stone.Lu Ting felt the slippery cool touch again, but this time it was a little different. The other side of the cold was warm. Deng Mochi's left hand overlapped with his, five fingers stuck to five fingers, and the lines on the palm of his hand touched the back of his hand. context.

The small ring on the ring finger was attached to his empty finger base.

It was as if something invisible flowed between the skins, from Deng Mochi's body temperature to Lu Ting's blood vessels, and quickly formed some kind of incomprehensible perception in the nerve network of his whole body.

He froze slightly, then raised his head again.

Sure enough, the light wave came back, even brighter than last time, covering the sky with radiance, and the lotus-shaped stone shell above the two of them screened psychedelic and bizarre, filling the underground cavity like a thick fog, and surrounded by green The light of the stone meets.The branches around the two of them trembled just like before, and the leaves fell off and flew in the air. The fragrance of the plant syrup and the moisture of the water vapor were all refreshing together. It was really a scene only in a dream.

Lu Ting suddenly laughed, very happy, and he said loudly: "Like the aurora! More beautiful than the aurora!"

"Hush," Deng Mochi said softly, "close your eyes."

Lu Ting was a little dazed, he turned aside the night sky and went to see Deng Mochi.I saw that person's face was covered with light, and the edges, corners and shadows were clearly carved. This kind of high-saturation green is a gorgeous color that does not match people, but it illuminates him refined, unlike ordinary things in the world.He also focused on Lu Ting, the color in his eyes was probably the purest in the world, "Close your eyes." He repeated.

"En." Lu Ting responded, closing his eyelids forcefully.

"What do you see?"

"I saw..." Lu Ting tried to grab something from the darkness in front of him, and exclaimed, "It's dark, but there seems to be a fire... There is really a fire!"

"I saw it too."

"What is that? Where is it really on fire?" Lu Ting's fingers jumped subconsciously, "It's a bit too blurry, boss, I can't see clearly."

Dun Mochi pressed his joints tightly, and asked back: "Do you feel it? This thing is not a stone."

"Then it's alive? Is it beating? Follow the rhythm of the ripples in the sky."

"Telling."

"tell?"

Deng Mochi inserted his five fingers into Lu Ting's, and carried him, pulling him out of the vines together.The sky and the branches and leaves returned to calm instantly, and he let go of Lu Ting's hand: "You can open your eyes."

Lu Ting rolled his eyes all of a sudden, and looked at him with some water in his eyes.

"The firelight is its memory, it may be the lava it has experienced, it may be other things," Deng Mochi said patiently, "it is not a living creature in the traditional sense, it may not necessarily have life, but it has a recording function and can be passed on. "

Lu Ting looked at his palms, the remaining warmth was still there, he seemed to have warmed up the slippery and cool surface, and it seemed that there was a faint heat transfer from it.When he closed his eyes just now, those flickering flames seemed to have heat, burning his senses so truly.

"Boss, do you remember something?" Lu Ting thought about it, "There were a few fires around you for no reason."

"For example, R180 died last time."

Lu Ting was at a loss for words for a while, it turned out that Deng Mochi hadn't forgotten this matter, and he really shouldn't have forgotten it... He quickly gathered his mind and said: "So this 'stone' has a lot to do with you? It will Responding to you, there is also fire in your 'memory'. Is it that kind of spiritual induction?"

"More than that." Dun Mochi said, and suddenly went around behind Lu Ting, lifted his robe, and pulled out the short dagger from behind his waist.He held the handle of the knife with his left hand, and spread out his right hand which was supported by the splint. Before Lu Ting could react, he directly held the blade and gave it a strong grip.

Without frowning, he held the dagger firmly, and then he returned the dagger to the stunned Lu Ting, and as if nothing had happened, he tore off a few vines and squeezed blood onto the protruding corner of the green stone.

The fire ignited bang, it was a real flame, suspended and swaying, but it didn't burn the vines to black, on the contrary, they sprouted new shoots at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when they were too luxuriant, they suppressed the flame.

"Maybe that's why they've been looking for me." Deng Mochi looked at Lu Ting burningly.

But Lu Ting ignored him at all, his favorite taupe-colored shirt had been ripped off, and he grabbed Deng Mochi's injured right hand, and bandaged him without saying a word.Perhaps it was because his dark face was too obvious, Deng Mochi suddenly felt a little nervous, and explained: "This injury will heal tomorrow morning."

"They, yes, the prophet, did you have your blood drained during this time?"

"Once, verify my identity."

"What identity?"

"Rinpoche."

Lu Ting choked for a moment, tied up the temporary bandage, raised his eyes and said angrily: "I don't care what you do, if you put it on once, there may be a second time, your blood is so important to them, isn't it?" Is it possible to let it go one day? You are not allowed to let it go in the future. If you refuse them, you will turn your face, which means that you can’t cooperate! Let’s just leave, and it’s not that there is no place to go, doesn’t it mean that the prophet can’t stop you? "

"... Oh." A smile suddenly appeared in the corner of Deng Mochi's eyes.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Ting straightened him with a splint again, and said angrily, "You keep moving around like this, tossing and tossing, your dislocation will become a chronic disease."

"I didn't expect you to react like this."

"That's how I react. I hate that kind of person the most. They are respectful on the surface, but they are more scheming behind the scenes than anyone else." After cleaning the wound, Lu Ting wrapped his robe tightly, "That Xingzi, and the prophet they said , I guess they are all the same. It’s not my conspiracy theory, this place is very closed, very evil, and there are many secrets, we don’t have the advantage.”

"It's about taking advantage of each other." Deng Mochi patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, "The other party wants something from me and is also afraid of me, so I won't be passive."

"Really?" Lu Ting glared at him.

"I'm sleepy." Dun Mochi said, walking towards the steep slope where he came, apparently he was going to return the same way.

"Boss, hey, Deng Mochi!" Lu Ting thought, are you playing tricks on me, but there was no way, and hurriedly caught up, "I'll carry you, you are a wounded person."

"Get the flashlight."

"It's fine if I hang it on my waist. My chassis is very stable and won't tip over."

Deng Mochi didn't look back, and started to climb up directly. Lu Ting was so angry that he chased after him. Deng Mochi obviously didn't want him to catch him, and he climbed very neatly.The two returned even faster than they had gone downhill before.

"When we go back, it will be dawn." After returning to the ground, Lu Ting opened the wristband to check the time, panting a little.

Although he claims to be physically strong, this is after all a plateau with an altitude of nearly [-].

"Boss, you're so sleepy, can you walk? Are you sure you don't want me to carry it, or go back down and squat for a while?" He approached Dun Mochi's ear maliciously, and asked with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Lucy couldn't wait to pop up: "Mr. Cosmos Powerful Monster, it's already [-]:[-] in the morning, and you are still exercising outdoors. Is it such a big blow to human beings to be broken up? Will it halve people's IQ? "

Since there is no headset, this is still an external speaker.

"You don't need to go." Deng Mochi said, and before Lu Ting could close his wristband angrily, or turn on the flashlight in a panic, he dragged his master to walk along the ravine, walked around a few hundred meters, and came to the hillside the other side of

Under the moonlight, a triangular spaceship was parked on a flat rocky beach.

"Little Shadow," Lu Ting called out, "Why did it stop here!"

Dun Mochi glanced at him, as if to say, didn't I tell you it's still there?

"Long time no see, I'm a little excited." Lu Ting blinked.

"The reactor is about to expire. I replaced it a few days ago and stopped here." Deng Mochi took Lu Ting aboard the spaceship and set the route with ease. Lu Ting simply relaxed and sat comfortably in the co-pilot On the boat, he took a last look at the deep ditch of the streamer, and as soon as the boat moved away, he began to think wildly.

A journey of several hours on two legs takes a few minutes on a spaceship.This is destined to be a short trip, and there are many light words that are floating on my lips at this time, such as how Deng Mochi made him kneel on the table in front of this operating table, and how did he get him from behind? I got confused and cried and hummed to pick up the things that flowed in front of me, so as not to tick those expensive buttons.Another example is that the mummy sitting on this chair in the past, with military uniform and boots as an officer's certificate, seems to have a lot of origin.

However, he didn't say a word after all.Lu Ting saw the white rose in the groove under the windshield.The edges of the tape are curled up, and it has oxidized to a yellowish state, but most of the data displayed on the glass screen are in red letters, the destination is a red dot, and the indicator light is also emitting a red light.

They are reflected together on the petals.

So rose red.

Lu Ting asked Deng Mochi: "How can I rate my performance today, positive or negative?"

"just."

"How many points is that?" Lu Ting raised his chin, unable to move his eyes away from the profile of the man's profile, "I guess it's only five points."

"Twenty points, you react quickly, you have a good understanding ability, and you care about me." Deng Mochi answered responsibly.

Then Lu Ting's face also turned red.