Ten Days End

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

"Hehe..." The old man laughed strangely and looked up at Qi Xia, "Isn't this a '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 here after death.

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

No matter how you think about it, this is not an incredible 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 his empty head, "After all, it's gambling, and no one can always win."

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

"Don't go, young man!" The old man happily held up the skull and picked up the kerosene lamp with his other hand, "Aren't you curious?! I dug up this skull after digging 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 madman.

Seeing that Qi Xia was kept, he hurried forward two steps, but he always held the skull tightly: "Young man! There are more below! There are a lot!"

Qi Xia looked down at the skull in his arms expressionlessly. The light was very dim, but it was obvious that there was nothing special about this skull.

"So what is the secret?" Qi Xia looked up 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 I am a madman!"

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

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

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

The old man was about to speak, but was slightly stunned, then raised the kerosene lamp and moved it a few centimeters in front of Qi Xia's face, and asked softly in doubt: "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 grinned, "Then I won't ask! I'll tell you!"

Then he lowered his head, moved the kerosene lamp closer to the skull, and said: "Young man... What do you think people are transformed from?"

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 person?" 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 be transformed from anything except humans."

"Okay...!" The old man nodded excitedly, "Hearing you say that... I can share my secret with you with confidence! Do you believe... that there is also "evolution" in this place? "

Qi Xia's eyes turned slightly cold, and he said: "You are crazier 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 feel its call." The old man reached out and patted the skull at hand.

"Call?"

"I can feel that there are incredible things buried under this city... So I started digging with the shovel I found. After so long... I finally dug it up. "

After saying that, he slowly turned the skull next to him around, facing Qi Xia with its front face, and then lowered the kerosene lamp to reveal the true appearance of the skull.

Qi Xia slowly opened his eyes wide after seeing it.

This skull is very strange.

Although it looks completely like a skull, its front face is actually smooth.

Not only does it not have eye sockets to accommodate eyeballs, it does not even have holes for nasal cartilage. The lower part of the skull is connected to the mandible, and even the position where the teeth should be is just flat. Qi Xia reached out and turned the skull over, and found that even the position of the cochlea was not sunken.

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

has no face.

"Young man... say something!" The old man was obviously excited, "Does this skull subvert all your cognition? ! Can you tell how long the owner of this skull has been dead?"

Qi Xia frowned and said nothing.

"At least ten years! ! "The old man waved his hand and said, "Do you believe that the people here are evolving...?" "Evolution theory" really exists! Ten years ago, the people here didn't even have faces.None! ! "

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

"Is this a "big secret"? !" the old man said happily, "There are more similar corpses below! 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 in a trembling voice, "Am I crazy? This skull really has no face!"

Qi Xia slowly stood up, then walked to the side of the pit and looked down carefully. His eyes were roughly able to adapt to the darkness in the alley, and he could indeed see the dark soil below revealing the white bones. Obviously, there are still many corpses waiting to be excavated.

"Isn't it amazing? "The old man came to Qi Xia with a kerosene lamp and said excitedly, "I originally wanted to dig for a while and then come up... But I didn't expect that I could always sense the call from deep underground... It was as if there was a mysterious force that made me continue to dig. Who would have thought that I couldn't come up after digging." Qi Xia picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into the deep pit. "This is the deepest pit I have ever dug. I didn't expect to really get something..." The old man continued to talk to himself, "I have to "echo" quickly and remember this location. Maybe I can find a bigger secret deeper underground! I may soon find the answer to this world!" Qi Xia, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke at this time. He sighed deeply and said, "Old man, if you say a person's face is flat, can it still be called a "person"? " "How can it not be a person?" The old man said excitedly, "Didn't you see it just now, young man? That skull is connected to the spine! It is not a work of art made by someone. Its bones show signs of oxidation. Although there are no organs on the face, there is space for the brain. It is indeed a human skull!"