Squid Who Loves Diving
Chapter 786 Seeking Anomalies
Jiang Baimian half-closed her eyes and sensed for a while using two methods simultaneously.
"There's nothing particularly special," she said very calmly.
If she could discover the abnormality of this last Buddhist holy site immediately, she would suspect there was a problem instead.
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"That's because your method is wrong."
He took off his tactical backpack and took out the "Six Senses Pearl" from it.
A faint cyan light illuminated the surroundings, bringing a sense of tranquility and peace to the area.
And combined with the afterglow of the setting sun and the dimness of the environment, this added a bit of profound and eerie flavor.
The things that flashed through Long Yuehong's mind were all kinds of ghost movies and ghost stories he had seen in old world entertainment materials.
Shang Jianyao held the "Six Senses Pearl" and walked towards the old locust tree.
But as far as the cyan light reached, there were no "abnormalities" lurking. From the tree to the ground, everything was the same as before, only dyed with the color of the "Six Senses Pearl."
This was not like when Shang Jianyao was at the Holmes Reproductive Medical Center, where the "Six Senses Pearl" directly illuminated the hidden white aura within a certain liquid nitrogen tank after being activated.
"No good." Shang Jianyao shook his head in disappointment.
He then put away the "Six Senses Pearl" and rummaged for the small jade Buddha.
This also did not bring any changes.
"Doesn't work either." Shang Jianyao said to the small jade Buddha with heartache, "As an item that bears important responsibilities in a Buddhist holy site, you can't degenerate just because you left the Steel Factory Ruins. Think about what else you accomplished later? You activated the 'storage' image in the Tieshan City Second Food Company, attracted the attention of 'Aunt Nether' in Redstone Town, and were infused with a bit of her aura. Later, when dealing with 'Doctor', you were purely scaring people with that aura!"
Shang Jianyao seemed to be in a posture of wanting to reason with the small jade Buddha and make things clear.
Unfortunately, the small jade Buddha ignored him completely and did not accept "persuasion and education."
Jiang Baimian sighed silently and tried not to let this guy get carried away:
"Forget it, forget it, it has actually done a lot of things and made many contributions. There's no need to call it small jade Buddha when it's useful and scold it as a stinky thing when it's not."
Before Shang Jianyao could respond, Jiang Baimian pondered and said:
"Moreover, didn't we guess before that the five major Buddhist holy sites are interlinked?
"You must first go to the Steel Factory Ruins and get the small jade Buddha before you can see the hidden past in the Tieshan City Second Food Company.
"Only by obtaining the cyan aura from the Tieshan City Second Food Company can you discover the abnormality in the Holmes Reproductive Medical Center and find that white aura."
Hearing this, Bai Chen, while looking to the side with high vigilance, opened his mouth and said:
"But after we arrived at Taicheng First Senior High School, that white aura didn't come in handy."
"Yeah." Long Yuehong expressed his agreement, "And we were able to obtain the cyan aura in the Tieshan City Second Food Company not because we activated the hidden image there, but because we got through the corresponding psychological shadow."
This interlinking was not tight, and had even been broken.
Jiang Baimian nodded and said her thoughts:
"If we hadn't gotten through the corresponding psychological shadow of the Tieshan City Second Food Company in advance, I think we would still be able to obtain that special cyan aura after activating that hidden image.
"That time at Taicheng First Senior High School, it was because that little bit of white aura from the Holmes Reproductive Medical Center entered Wei's 'Sea of Origins' and merged with the gap corresponding to Xiao Chong and solidified, that it didn't play its due role when we fell into 'Zhuang Sheng's' dream. Fortunately, we had the number to directly connect to 'Zhuang Sheng', otherwise we would have been wiped out there."
Her meaning was that the previous lack of interlinking was purely accidental, and the "Old Tune Group" had barely made it through with other resources and methods.
"Want to open this Buddhist holy site and let it reveal its hidden secrets, we need to use something we gained at Taicheng First Senior High School?" Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin, "But we didn't get anything at Taicheng First Senior High School. We only experienced 'Zhuang Sheng's' dream and learned that his descent body once studied at Dajiang City Yincai Junior High School, supposedly named Du Shaochong."
"If not for that, we wouldn't have come to Marsh No. 1 Ruins." Bai Chen felt that this could also be considered a kind of interlinking in a sense.
Long Yuehong muttered:
"Maybe it's because we didn't use normal methods to solve the 'Zhuang Sheng' dream at Taicheng First Senior High School, but directly made a phone call, that we didn't get the key thing that could activate the abnormality here."
Jiang Baimian "hmmed" once:
"There's no use saying these things now, what's important is to try all of our gains at Taicheng First Senior High School in sequence and see the effect."
"How to try?" The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao immediately asked.
He then showed an excited expression and shouted at the old locust tree:
"Du Shaochong!
"Du Shaochong!
"Xiao Chong!
"Xiao Chong!"
No one answered, no abnormalities.
Shang Jianyao thought for a while and spoke again:
"We are teachers from Yincai Junior High School, here for a home visit!"
How ruthless... Long Yuehong shuddered when he heard this.
Inside "Pangu Biology", each floor has a corresponding compulsory education stage school. There are not many students, only one class per grade, with a dozen or twenty people in each class. Teachers and parents are therefore very familiar with each other, some are even neighbors, or can be related in a roundabout way. Therefore, home visits are contained in every detail of life and have become memories that students do not want to recall.
At this time, the branches of the old locust tree moved gently with the wind, without change.
"Useless." Shang Jianyao spread his hands to Jiang Baimian.
Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully:
"Not done trying yet.
"Didn't we just get a incomplete skeleton yesterday, belonging to Du Shaochong?"
"That's right!" Shang Jianyao slammed his right fist into his left palm.
Bai Chen's expression changed slightly:
"The person behind the scenes had someone bury that skeleton in the laboratory ruins, just so that someone would dig it up in the future, identify its identity, and bring it here?"
Bring it to this last Buddhist holy site.
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"Be bolder, might as well say it was just so we could dig it up and bring it under the old locust tree."
"Is this making up for the missing link? What exactly does that person want to do?" Long Yuehong was both puzzled and worried.
Jiang Baimian slowly exhaled:
"We'll know after we try it.
"Take out all the bones."
The four members of the "Old Tune Group" each took out the bones placed in their tactical backpacks and successively brought them under the old locust tree.
During this process, they always maintained a posture of one person close and three people far away, to prevent accidents.
However, after the headless incomplete skeleton and the nameplate marking the identity were piled up under the old locust tree, casting shadows of branches in the afterglow of the setting sun, the initial Buddhist holy site still had not changed.
Jiang Baimian pondered for a while and said:
"While it's not dark yet, let's search this area."
This refers to the area around the old locust tree, excluding Linhe Village itself, because the light is getting dimmer and dimmer, and there is definitely not enough time.
After a careful and serious separate search, the four members of the "Old Tune Group" confirmed that the old locust tree itself was nothing unusual, and neither was its surroundings.
"What to do..." Shang Jianyao muttered to himself.
Suddenly, he took a few steps forward and sat cross-legged under the old locust tree.
"What are you doing?" Long Yuehong asked in astonishment.
Shang Jianyao answered seriously:
"Simulating the situation back then.
"Maybe 'Zhuang Sheng' sat here to preach or enter Nirvana."
Immediately afterwards, he chanted Buddhist names:
"Namo araladasha, samyak-sambodhi..."
As the sound echoed, the sky became even darker.
Other than that, everything was as usual.
Jiang Baimian looked at this scene, countless thoughts surged in her mind, and then slowly settled.
After a while, Bai Chen said to her:
"Team leader, it's getting dark, shouldn't we find a place to camp?"
Jiang Baimian came back to her senses and said, "Uh":
"Don't rush, try again."
"Try what?" Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao said in unison.
Jiang Baimian looked at the old locust tree and said in a slightly slow tone:
"I remember that the name for this Buddhist holy site is 'Under the Old Locust Tree at the Entrance of Linhe Village, Dajiang City', not 'Old Locust Tree at the Entrance of Linhe Village, Dajiang City'.
"That is to say, the real Buddhist holy site is not this tree, but the place under the tree."
"But we already searched just now and didn't find anything," Long Yuehong said.
Jiang Baimian suddenly laughed once:
"Did we really search everywhere?
"Not necessarily, at least we haven't dug up the soil under the tree to see if there's anything buried."
Shang Jianyao, who was sitting cross-legged, jumped up:
"Where's my entrenching tool? Where's my entrenching tool?"
He ran to the Jeep in a hurry, took out two entrenching tools from the trunk, and threw one to Long Yuehong.
The two of them busied themselves, while Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen watched out for accidents.
After digging in the soil for a while, Shang Jianyao suddenly laughed:
"As expected, there's something!"
He flicked with his shovel and brought something out of the soil.
That thing rolled to the root of the tree and stopped there.
It was a white human skull with dark eye sockets.