Ten Days End

"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 have been 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 from 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, "If you keep digging, you'll get into trouble."

"Something bad...?" 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. 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 stared at the old man coldly, then slowly stepped back.

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

"I say, don't dig." 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 bones. Will the people in charge here kill me because of these bones?"

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

"It doesn't matter if you 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 could not be cured or dispelled, and would eventually kill him.

The old man kept muttering something with his head down. Perhaps 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 didn't have time to grab the other party, and the whole person had fallen straight down.

"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 quickly 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, making him look like a devil.

"I persuaded you." Qi Xia said, "but you refused me."

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

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

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

"Young man, do you not believe me?!" The old man held up the skull and showed it to Qi Xia, "Look! There are more underneath! It's all underneath! There are bones of people without faces everywhere, 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 the 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 reason…?” He said, “You know the answer and it’s okay… I know the answer and I will die?”

“That’s right.” Qi Xia said, “It’s time now, no trouble can happen, so I can only wrong you.”

“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 I will dig out all the secrets one day… I will find the answer here one day, how can you stop me then?”

This is what Qi Xia didn’t want to hear the most.

He said with a gloomy look: “I didn’t expect there is such a person as you here. Everyone is thinking about how to break the game, how to stay away from the city, and how to escape from here in the end. But you are curious about what’s underground. "

"Isn't that right? !" The old man raised his head and said, "Maybe if I keep digging through the ground, I will find a way to leave here that no one has ever found! Young man... Are you really not going to join me? !"

"No." Qi Xia replied, "When you really dig through the ground, you will find that what is waiting for you is an endless abyss."

"What...?" The old man was stunned, "Then where are we exactly? Why are there these bodies 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 don't have the next reincarnation."

"What? !"

Qi Xia slowly took a step back and disappeared into the darkness.

"Hey! Don't leave!" The old man shouted, "What are you talking about? ! I don't have the next reincarnation? ! Do you think you are a "god"? ! "

There was a rustling sound outside the pit, and 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.