The old man nodded. He agreed with his nephew's judgment.
The circle of rocks didn't look right, and it was more and more strange that the young man's footprints disappeared here.
It couldn't be some special secret place, could it?
The old man's curiosity was aroused.
Some idle people were like this. When they saw something strange or they didn't understand, they would want to figure out what was going on.
Otherwise, his heart would feel itchy and uncomfortable.
The middle-aged man first installed the hidden camera, then picked up a stone from the ground, and used all his strength to hit the rock wall. After hitting for a long time, the stone in his hand had broken into many pieces, but the rock wall in front of him did not even have a scratch.
"It's so hard." In the end, the middle-aged man took out his phone and took a picture of the rock. "I think a friend who studies geology, let him see what this is."
The old man agreed and said, "It's getting more and more interesting. That boy must be hiding a secret."
"I think so too." The middle-aged man scratched his head. "There are also potted plants … Uncle, you said he brought a lot of potted plants here, but I don't see any."
"Could it be behind this stone door?" The old man pointed to the front of him.
The middle-aged man's eyes glittered. "That boy dug a cave here and brought a lot of potted plants in. Is it for converting oxygen? Then where does the light come from? Converting electricity? Then where does electricity come from? "
He had to admit that some people's imaginations were quite wild … and quite reasonable.
The old man shook his head. "I don't know. Maybe it's for other purposes. Now that the camera is installed, let's go."
"Okay." The middle-aged man waved his phone. "I'll send the picture to my friend and inform you when I hear anything, Uncle."
"Thank you."
"It's fine. I'm quite curious anyway."
The two of them left the place.
In the next few days, Roland was either making out with Andonara or learning etiquette in the game.
In reality, after he bought the room, he asked someone to decorate it and buy furniture.
Because this place was intended to be a teleportation point, the decoration and furniture were only used to deceive people.
It only cost him a hundred thousand to make it as simple as possible.
The simple decoration didn't take much time, but even so, it took Roland nearly twenty days.
At this moment, the old man and his nephew came to the rock formation again.
At the same time, they had one more person with them.
A bespectacled, gentle, thin, middle-aged man.
This person was the fat middle-aged man's friend, an expert in geology.
"Geology isn't used to study rocks. Studying rocks is just one of our skills. The pictures you showed me don't look like anything valuable." The middle-aged man in glasses explained very seriously, "There's nothing to study about the mountains here in our small town. Old Hou, let me tell you, whether the rock circles are strange or not, it's not up to you ordinary people to decide, because you haven't seen many strange rocks in geology, most of them are … What the hell is this?"
At this time, the bespectacled middle-aged man finally realized that something was wrong.
The stone circle in front of him was too strange.
He went up to touch it. "Hmm … It's very smooth. It doesn't look like it's weathered. It looks more like synthetic rock."
The old man next to him asked, "What is a synthetic rock slab? What is it used for?"
"It's a kind of building material. In most cases, it's used in local brick shops." Glasses kept touching the rock in front of him. "But I've never seen such a strange synthetic slate."
The middle-aged man had already retrieved his camera. He asked, "It looks like an artificial creation to me. What's the difference between a normal synthetic rock slab and this?"
"The materials are relatively fixed. There are only a few kinds of synthetic rock slabs. I can feel them with a touch." The bespectacled man said with a strange expression, "But this is completely different. I really have to take some back to study."
"I can't chisel it. It's very hard." The middle-aged fat man put away his camera and said, "Why don't you bring a hole puncher next time?"
"That's feasible!" The bespectacled man touched the rock circle, and his eyes lit up.
The old man smiled. "If you figure it out, can you tell us? Xiao Tao. "
Continuing to touch the rock, the bespectacled man sighed. Although he was curious, he didn't care too much. He just wanted to know what material this thing was made of.
The three left the mountain.
The next day, the bespectacled man brought two students with him and a drilling machine. They chiseled a rock the size of a fingernail into the rock mass. Then, after driving for three hours, they arrived at the Geology Institute in the provincial capital.
He used his connections with an acquaintance and directly had the stone the size of a fingernail sent to the laboratory.
Then, he sat and chatted with his old friend.
"Haitao, I heard that you're doing geological research on ancient tombs of the Ming Dynasty in a small town in the south. Did you get this thing from an ancient tomb?" The bald old friend asked with a smile.
"No, I found a very strange rock mass on the mountain," said the gentle bespectacled man, whose real name was Zhao Haitao. The gentle glasses' real name was Zhao Haitao. He said, "At that time, we brought two portable perforators up, the kind made in Germany. Logically speaking, the needles should be very hard, but the needles of the two perforators were broken. One was broken, and the other was crooked. That's why we knocked out these pieces of rock."
To be able to work in the Geology Bureau, one had to have some standards. When the bald middle-aged man heard this, he was stunned. "So hard? It can't be a special synthetic rock slab, right? "
Zhao Haitao shrugged. "Who knows! Let's see the test results. "
Then, the two chatted for a while. About two hours later, the results came out.
A researcher, with a strange expression, handed the data sheets to the two of them, one for each person.
After reading it, the two of them were also stunned.
Touching his smooth head, the middle-aged man from the institute was completely confused. "Could it be a mistake? This is a very common soil composition. How can it be compressed into a stone slab? And what's even more outrageous is that it's almost as hard as diamond. The impact toughness and fracture toughness are also high. Taken together, it's almost as hard as top-grade tungsten-chromium steel. "
"The two hole puncher needles made in Germany are made of tungsten-chromium steel. If you look at the data together, it's even harder than tungsten-chromium steel. " Zhao Haitao took a deep breath. "No, Old Huang, immediately send a few people to go with me and get that rock back. This thing may change our concept of materials."
"I understand. I'll go with you."
Then, two cars, a bus, and a truck rushed directly to the small town where Roland lived.
It was supposed to be a three-hour drive, but because of their impatience, they arrived in just two hours.
Then a group of people jumped off the bus and the truck, took tools, and went up the mountain. Under Zhao Haitao's guidance, they found the rock mass and directly dug out the two-meter-diameter, two-meter-long cylindrical object.
It was only two meters long … Because Roland used this thing to seal the door, the long passage behind it was all replaced with normal soil.
Several researchers with detectors also measured the mountain for a while, but they didn't find anything special, nor did they hear any metal echoes. There seemed to be a small cavity.
But here in Nanjiang, there were many underground cavities, and they were a hundred meters deep, which didn't affect the environment at all, so no one cared.
Nearly thirty people, surrounding this "cylindrical rock mass" that was dug out of the mountain, knocked on it, and all of them were surprised.
The group of people who were in the field of geology could be considered to be experienced and knowledgeable.
But it was the first time they had seen such a strange rock mass that was harder than special steel.
"This thing is definitely synthetic."
Zhao Haitao circled the stone pillar a few times and finally came to a conclusion. "It's hard to form such a perfect and strange thing in nature. I wonder if it was made by ancient people or modern people."
"Let's test it." Bald Old Huang patted the stone pillar. "It's so big that it probably weighs eight tons. Fortunately, we got a truck. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to transport it back. "
"Now I'm wondering how we can transport it down the mountain without tools."
"This thing is round. Should we push it down the mountain?" someone joked.
"Do you want to kill someone?" Zhao Haitao said angrily, "This thing weighs almost eight tons. If it rolls down, the potential energy will be converted into kinetic energy. With the rugged nature of this mountain, the speed can definitely exceed twenty meters per second. Not to mention hitting someone, they'll be crushed on the spot. You can even smash through a building."
The person who spoke said with an embarrassed smile, "I was just kidding."
"Researchers can't joke casually." Zhao Haitao grumbled impatiently. The other person was not his student or his subordinate, so he couldn't say much. "Go get a professional crane operator to come over and get this thing down the mountain. Then transport it back to the Geology Bureau and slowly test it."
At nearly nine o 'clock in the evening, the cylindrical stone was finally transported back to the Geology Bureau.
Then a large group of researchers carried out a variety of tests on it.
Then, more surprising data was placed in front of them.
"This thing is simply a miracle." Zhao Haitao covered his forehead. "Its composition is very common soil and minerals in our area. The composition is extremely complex. No matter how you look at it, it should be a mass of soil. But it's glued into a rock, and there seems to be a force in it that made it like this. "
Bald Old Huang brought two cups of coffee and placed one in front of Zhao Haitao. "Drink it first. I guess we'll have to pull an all-nighter today."
"Have you reported it?"
"Yes … Our boss (meaning leader) called the higher-ups and told them the data. The higher-ups were all confused and asked if we had taken the wrong data for special steel." Speaking of this, Old Huang laughed. "After the boss repeatedly assured that this was true, they said that they would immediately fly over overnight and would probably arrive in the early hours of the morning."
"Anyone who looks at this data will be confused." Zhao Haitao took off his glasses and took a sip of coffee. "I was just curious at first. I didn't expect to catch a big fish."
"How did you find this thing?"
Old Huang was a little envious, regardless of whether the subsequent research had anything to do with Zhao Haitao.
"An acquaintance said that there was a strange thing for me to see …"
Zhao Haitao suddenly remembered something and took advantage of this opportunity to call his friend. "Old Huang, are you asleep? Didn't you tell me before that there was a young man acting strangely? Do you remember what that young man looked like? "
"I haven't seen him, but my uncle has. He was just curious, afraid that the young man would do something bad over there."
Zhao Haitao continued to ask, "I remember that you set up a hidden camera. Did it not capture him? "
"No, it seems that after talking to my uncle that day, he didn't go to the mountain again."
"Is that so? Then you can't find him?"
"But I remember my uncle saying that the young man seemed to have bought a penthouse in a residential area near the park. You can ask my uncle to take you there. Maybe you'll run into him. "
"Okay, thank you."
After hanging up, Zhao Haitao was slightly confused. "I wonder if the young man has anything to do with this rock."
However, he soon put this matter behind him and continued to study the stone.
Researchers were inexplicably fanatical about this new discovery.
They felt uncomfortable if they didn't figure out what was going on.
For this reason, they were willing to eat less and sleep less, as long as they had enough calories to think and didn't die.
But Zhao Haitao didn't study the rock for long … Then, it was secretly sent to the capital's Bureau of Geology, which had better conditions.
Zhao Haitao, who had nothing to study, was quite disappointed. Then, he found his friend Tai Moumou and contacted the nosy and curious old man through him.
The two then squatted in the residential area for three days and finally stopped Roland.
At this time, Roland was carrying some food to his new house, and then he was stopped by the two in front of the building.
As soon as Roland saw the old man, he began to frown, thinking that this man was really annoying. He didn't even go to the mountain, but he came after him.
Seeing Roland's unhappy look, the old man smiled and said, "Young man, it's not me looking for you, it's this professor looking for you."
Zhao Haitao did have the title of professor.
As the old man spoke, Zhao Haitao looked at Roland, a little surprised.
He had taught several graduate students and had a certain understanding of young people.
He always had a feeling that the young man in front of him seemed to have a very unique temperament that made people feel fascinated, but didn't dare to get too close.
Roland looked at Zhao Haitao, his face full of confusion.
"Sorry, let me introduce myself. I'm Zhao Haitao from this city's Bureau of Geology. I heard from Mr. Tai before that you seem to have something to do with a strange rock?"
"What rock?" Roland looked confused.
His mental power was very strong now, and it was too easy for him to control his emotions.
"This." Zhao Haitao took out his phone, opened the picture, and handed it over.
"Oh, this thing." Roland nodded. "I've seen it several times when I was playing on the mountain. Isn't this the decoration of the attractions made by the workers who contracted the construction of the park?"
Zhao Haitao had been staring at Roland's eyes. When he spoke, his tone was balanced, and his eyes were focused and unwavering, so he felt that he should be telling the truth.
"Sorry to bother you." Zhao Haitao put away his phone.
Then he turned and left. The old man felt a little reluctant, but he also followed.
Roland turned and went into the building.
On the way back, Zhao Haitao received a call from Old Huang. "Haitao, something big happened. The higher-ups have tested the results. The strength of that rock mass can replace deck steel!"
"What!" Zhao Haitao, who was driving, slammed on the brakes, then immediately stopped the car on the side of the road and shouted into the phone, "Is there a mistake?"
"There's no mistake. The higher-ups have ordered us to search that mountain with all our strength and see if we can find a second rock mass like that."
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