"Holy crap!"
Fang Er stared, dumbfounded.
His mouth hung open, wide enough to fit a giant's treasure!
In this semi-enclosed underground world, this thing had been magnified several times!
It stretched across the lake bottom, all the way to the opposite side, where the wormhole had previously appeared.
A wormhole that could traverse interstellar space couldn't appear out of nowhere.
There had to be some trace left behind.
Fang Er meticulously searched every inch.
To ensure no potential evidence was missed, he collected all the stones within a two-kilometer radius into his warehouse.
After completing this, he returned to the starting point and pressed the pale blue crystal, which Hao Danian had found in the blue-skinned corpse, against his forehead.
His brainwaves extended, amplified by the crystal, surging like a tide, washing over every inch of the surrounding ground.
The residual electromagnetic radiation after the nuclear blast had significantly impacted his search.
Originally, with the crystal's enhancement, his brainwaves could cover a range of three hundred meters.
But now, that distance was reduced to about a hundred meters.
Even so, it was still much easier than searching with the naked eye.
Nothing…
Nothing…
Still nothing…
The empty ground, aside from shattered stones and dust, held nothing noteworthy.
He began to circle the two-kilometer area.
One lap…
Two laps…
Huh??
On his third repeated search, the image fed back by his brainwaves suddenly showed something different!
It was a pale blue crystal, identical to the one he had on his forehead!
He quickly hurried over, picked it up, and examined it in his palm.
"System Sis, what in the world is this thing!"
"I've never heard of such a mysterious crystal on Earth!"
"Heh, foolish human!"
"Your understanding of Earth doesn't even reach one ten-thousandth!"
"And you dare to speak so confidently? Liang Jingru must be incredibly busy, right?"
Fang Er: ..........
"You little hussy, you've gone too far!"
"Have you forgotten when you were begging for mercy?"
"You guess…"
"Is there a possibility that I said that to spare your dignity?"
Hmph!
He felt hurt…
Her words left Fang Er speechless.
He put away the pale blue crystal and continued his search.
But after taking only a few steps, he suddenly turned back.
A broom appeared in his hand, and he began sweeping the ground in that spot.
After the explosion, the vacuum zone at the center had pulled in dust from the periphery.
Therefore, there was a lot of shattered stone and dust on the ground!
But collecting it was too troublesome, and Fang Er was too lazy to do it.
However, now that he had made a discovery, it was a different situation.
After sweeping a couple of times, he slapped his own forehead.
Damn it!
Did I miss something…
He tossed the broom aside, piloted the gold mining ship back to the surface world, and plunged into the Pacific Ocean.
When he returned, he released an endless stream of seawater from his warehouse with a wave of his hand.
The shattered stones and dust were washed away, revealing a dazzling, glass-like ground under the searchlights.
"There really is something!"
Beneath the spot where he found the crystal, something like an altar was faintly visible!
If the ground hadn't been melted into glass by the high temperature, he wouldn't have been able to find it!
He opened a spatial-temporal channel, first going to the future to ask Huang Tagu for some radiation-proof suits, and then had Li Tai bring people to help.
Impact hammers and excavators were all put to use.
The altar was fully exposed to everyone within half a day.
The altar's volume far exceeded Fang Er's imagination; what he had seen earlier was merely the tip of the iceberg.
Rather than calling it an altar, it was more like a tower!
It stood fifteen meters tall, covering an area of about two hundred square meters, gradually narrowing from the base upwards.
The top, the part Fang Er had seen first, was merely the spire of the tower!
Li Tai pondered for a long time and reported to Fang Er with some surprise.
"Mountain Chief, this thing, it couldn't have been cast in one piece, could it?"
"We've searched for so long and haven't found a single joint."
"No!"
Fang Er shook his head upon hearing this and pointed to a spot.
"Look here!"
"There are signs of splicing here, but the precision is so high that you couldn't find it."
As he spoke, he took out a magnifying glass and handed it over.
Li Tai took it and curiously looked at the spot he indicated.
Under the magnifying glass, there was indeed a trace as fine as a strand of hair.
This shocked him, and his eyes widened: "My god!"
"You can even find such a subtle trace?"
Fang Er merely smiled slightly. His body, modified by the system, had senses far superior to ordinary people.
He had also accidentally touched that spot earlier, which led him to discover the anomaly.
To the naked eye, although this area was as smooth as a mirror,
when he touched it, he detected a slight indentation.
That was precisely the seam of the splice.
With this discovery, Li Tai dared not delay. He sent people back to fetch several boxes of magnifying glasses, one for each person.
They began a thorough re-examination of the entire tower, marking every seam they found with a pen.
"Your Highness, look here quickly!"
Suddenly, Shen Kuo's voice came from the top of the tower; he seemed to have discovered something.
Fang Er hurried over to take a look.
"Your Highness, if your humble subordinate's guess is correct, something should be missing here!"
The spot Shen Kuo pointed to had a clear indentation.
Something seemed to have been embedded there.
He took out the blue crystal and tried to fit it, but the size was slightly off.
"Everyone, mind your step!"
Fang Er reminded the people working below.
Perhaps this thing had been shaken off?
After speaking, he himself jumped down. The height of over ten meters was negligible with his current physical condition.
"Mountain Chief, are you looking for this?"
Li Tai, who had been searching below for a long time, suddenly ran over with a purple stone.
The stone had several fine cracks, it was unclear whether it was from being dropped or some other reason.
Fang Er took one look and confirmed it was the right item!
The outline of the purple stone perfectly matched the outline of the indentation!
He had everyone retreat a hundred meters away, and then, like a monkey, he scrambled to the top of the tower and placed the stone into the indentation.
Then, he waited with eager anticipation.
One second… ten seconds… ten minutes…
Everything around remained the same, with no changes.
Fang Er was a bit bewildered. Where was the wormhole?
Why didn't it appear?
He scratched the back of his head, wondering if there were other conditions.
Li Tai saw this and ran over from a distance. After watching for a while, he suddenly mumbled in a strange tone.
"Open sesame?"
"Little bunny, open the door?"
"Kai Men Hong, that red square…"
As he spoke, the guy even started singing.
"Slap…"
Fang Er slapped him across the back of the head.
"What are you doing?"
Li Tai clutched his head, looking wronged: "Uh, I remember before the wormhole appeared, the blue-skinned guy shouted something, right?"
"Could it be like Siri, requiring a voice command?"
Fang Er's eyes lit up upon hearing this.
He himself had had a similar guess before.
However, the words the blue-skinned guy shouted before dying were too obscure, like a Northeastern man trying to understand an African person cursing.
He hadn't understood them at all, let alone been able to remember them!
"@#￥……%@........"
Suddenly, the system's voice sounded in his mind.
Fang Er froze there, these syllables??
The sentence the blue-skinned guy had shouted earlier!
That's right!
"System Sis, do it again!"
ps: Wuwuwuwu… Persimmon tearfully declares again, not off track, not off track, not deviating!