"Zoe!"

"Wu ah, wu ah!"

...

"What's wrong with Master? Is he possessed?" Fatty asked Zoe helplessly.

Zoe shook her head. She pointed to the temple not far away and said, "He was fine when we entered that temple. Then I went to look at the patterns on the wall. After a while, I heard some noises. When I turned around, I saw him waving a bone stick wildly in the air, his expression extremely distorted. No matter how I called him, he wouldn't respond... Then you guys came and dragged him out."

"He's probably hallucinating," Han Yu said after observing my distorted expression and the drool constantly flowing from the corner of my mouth.

Fatty suddenly asked Zoe, "What did he do before he waved the bone stick?"

Zoe thought for a moment and replied, "He seemed to be looking at the 'Alien' statue."

Fatty said, "We had a similar situation when we were marching before. Some soldiers mistakenly ate poisonous mushrooms and hallucinated, just like Master, talking nonsense and dancing. I guess he's probably poisoned."

Zoe asked, "We've been together the whole time, why am I fine and he's poisoned?"

"It may be related to the statue," Fatty said thoughtfully. "After a while, when the toxins in his body are metabolized, he may slowly return to normal."

...

After a while, I stopped waving the bone stick wildly and shouting, and gradually quieted down, but my expression became even more dull, and saliva continued to flow from the corner of my mouth.

Seeing me like this, Han Yu quietly poked Fatty and asked, "Is he going to be an idiot..."

Fatty smiled and replied, "He's not so excited anymore, which means the toxins in his body are having less effect. Master's behavior just now was like having a nightmare. Now the nightmare is over, but the dream hasn't ended yet."

"Don't you believe it? Just watch."

After Fatty finished speaking, he stretched out his big hand and slapped me hard on the face. My expression didn't change at all, and my eyes were still dull, but a faint palm print appeared on my face.

Fatty wiped the saliva from my face on my clothes, and then said gloatingly, "He's like this now, you can do whatever you want to him, and he won't react at all."

Zoe sneered at Fatty's dark humor, then rolled her eyes at Fatty. After her emotions stabilized a little, she asked, "What do we do now?"

Fatty looked at Han Yu. Han Yu thought for a while and said, "Let's find the center of the underground palace first, and then look for an exit."

After Han Yu finished speaking, he pointed at me and asked Fatty, "What about Master? Can he walk?"

Fatty said, "Master's brain just can't wake up temporarily, but his basic motor functions are still there."

After speaking, he pulled me forward a few steps. I was like a zombie, being pulled forward by him. Although the movements were stiff and not so convenient, fortunately I could still move.

After Fatty patrolled around the temple, he found a double-opening bronze door at the back of the temple.

Fatty then called Zoe and Han Yu over. Zoe brought me along.

The bronze door was more than four meters high and more than five meters wide. The surface of the bronze door had a pattern similar to a totem in the center, but there were no other decorations.

Fatty patted the bronze door, and the bronze door made a dull sound of metal. Rust debris and dust "swished" down from the door, choking everyone and causing them to cough.

"The bronze door may be the way to the exit," Fatty said while coughing.

Zoe and Han Yu covered their mouths and noses to block the dust, and nodded to show their agreement.

After the rust debris and dust settled, Fatty searched around the bronze door and found no mechanism, so he decided to use brute force to push it open.

The bronze door, which weighed several tons, had not been maintained for many years, and the gaps in the door shaft had long been filled with rust. Fatty pushed hard for a long time, his face flushed, but the bronze door didn't move.

Zoe said, "Why don't we try together?"

So Fatty, Zoe, and Han Yu chose one of the door leaves. Fatty stood at the door seam, and the three of them lined up in order. Under Fatty's slogan, everyone used all their strength to push towards the bronze door.

"One, two, three, push..."

"Creak... creak..."

The bronze door was pushed open a small crack.

Seeing that it was effective, everyone used their strength again to push forward.

"One, two, three, keep pushing..."

"Creak... creak... creak..."

The gap in the bronze door became larger and larger, almost opening a hole the size of a palm.

Fatty looked into the door, but could only see a small corner. The corner was full of things, but it was not clear what was piled up.

The three of them pushed again with all their strength, and the door seam expanded enough for Fatty to barely pass through. Fatty squeezed in first, and after confirming that there was no danger on the other side of the bronze door, he stuffed me over, and finally Zoe and Han Yu successfully came to the other side of the door through the door seam.

The space in front of everyone was as big as the Workers' Stadium. The top of the space was a huge luminous body. Unlike all the dark rooms they had passed through before, this luminous body illuminated the entire space very brightly, leaving no dead corners, just like daytime.

"I didn't expect that such a magnificent place could be built in the Mountains of Madness," Fatty exclaimed.

The ground was thick ridges of soil, with traces of weeds growing on the soil.

Fatty was able to carefully examine the pile of things he had seen from the door seam just now. It was a pile of farm tools, including hoes, sickles, rakes, etc. Most of them were made of stone, and the handle part was a yellow substance, which seemed to be the same material as the wall.

Fatty, Zoe, and Han Yu found many archways in this space. After entering, they found that the space on the other side of the archway was the same as the main space in layout and structure, with only thick soil and the farm tools were placed in the same position.

Fatty suddenly thought of something and said to Zoe and Han Yu, "This is a farmland, can you believe that someone is farming in the Mountains of Madness?"

Fatty explained, "When I was a child, I lived with my grandfather in the countryside for a while, and I often went to work in the fields with my grandfather. I am very familiar with these farm works."

Although it was hard to believe that someone would really farm underground, judging from the scene in front of them, Fatty was right.

The difference between the space outside the archway and the main space was that there were no other exits besides the archway.

The three of them counted and found that there were a total of eight such archways.

Fatty said, "These grandsons are really awesome. It's absolutely impossible to grow crops underground with only soil. There must also be light, water, carbon dioxide, and inorganic salts such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium."

"There is light, and they even obtained living water for irrigation from the mountain, as well as inorganic salt fertilizers such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium," Fatty added. "Underground and above ground are completely different concepts. The conditions for underground farming are extremely harsh. I don't know how long these grandsons explored before they came up with a solution."