Chapter 415: The malfunctioning watch
Everyone seemed to be shocked by the serious expression of the fourth girl, and they all fell into silence for a while. Seeing that no one raised any questions, we began to quickly bandage the wounds and distribute the remaining bullets.
After everything was reorganized, everyone ate the canned braised beef soup cooked by Fatty on the spot. Because there was a lot of Fatty's saliva in the soup, I didn't dare to drink too much.
After we were full of wine and food, we got into our sleeping bags directly. Because it was daytime, we didn’t pay too much attention to it. This feeling of sleeping with the world and the earth was particularly comfortable. We slept until night, listening to
I woke up from my sleep only when someone shouted that the moon was out.
Night had fallen at this time, but under the moonlight, this small pool without trees appeared to be particularly bright.
I was anxious to find the tomb, so I observed the stars in the sky and found that although the moon in the night sky was round, the legendary blue moon did not appear, which made me feel a little more worried.
The fat man saw me staring at the sky, curled his lips and said: "Don't look at it, Fatty, I have been staring at the moon since I woke up, and I have no intention of turning it blue. Grandma, the legendary blue moon will not
It’s just a scam, right?”
This situation made even me a little uneasy. I thought to myself, could it be that the fat man really said it? There is no such thing as a blue moon? The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is not on Mount Li at all.
The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, and I couldn't help but ask Uncle Ming: "Uncle Ming, is the nursery rhyme you heard about correct?"
Uncle Ming shook his head: "No, in the middle of July, there is a blue moon, the spirit ship comes out, and the First Emperor appears. I have learned this sentence after a lot of hard work, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it."
"Tons of hardships?" Seeing the certainty of Uncle Ming's words, I was instinctively stunned for a moment, and then asked without thinking: "Didn't I tell you that nursery rhyme?"
"this……"
Wang Yuanchao saw that Uncle Ming was hesitant, as if he was hiding some secret and refused to reveal it, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "Forget it, it doesn't matter whether the nursery rhyme is true or false, it has come to this point anyway, and we have done everything we should do! Continue.
The one who comes down can only tell the fourth girl, wait and see!"
Wang Yuanchao rarely expresses opinions. Most of the time, he does what everyone says.
Since he interrupted the conversation between me and Uncle Ming at this moment, he obviously discovered some little secret in Uncle Ming's belly, but the current environment is not suitable for telling me.
I stopped looking into it and looked at the time. I found that the hands of the watch were still at four o'clock in the afternoon. I cursed inwardly. Why did this broken watch not move at the critical moment?
In desperation, I had to ask the fat man: "What time is it?"
"It's almost ten o'clock." The fat man glanced at me, saw the watch on my wrist, and asked casually: "Don't you have a watch there?"
"Maybe it's broken."
"I remember that your mechanical watch seems to be imported, right? Isn't it a diving watch? It can also be broken?" The fat man raised his eyebrows and fiddled with the watch in his hand with a proud face: "It seems that I am still the one, Fatty."
This cheap electronic watch is great! It costs just a few yuan and can come in handy at critical moments. That watch of yours is just a show-off, and foreign products are unreliable!"
Unexpectedly, my conversation with the fat man caught James' attention. He also looked at the time on his watch, but then his expression changed drastically.
I immediately noticed the abnormality in James's expression, and quickly asked: "Why, your watch has stopped too?"
"Yes!" James nodded with a wry smile.
I turned my head and looked at the others. Unexpectedly, Uncle Ming and Wang Yuanchao also showed wry smiles, and the hands of their watches also stopped moving.
My heart suddenly sank. It was impossible for everyone's watches to have problems at the same time. Could it be that there was something strange in this pool? But why was the fat man's electronic watch fine?
"Yes, it's a magnetic field." I shouted with a solemn expression.
"Is there something wrong with the magnetic field?" Everyone looked at each other.
"By the way, what time does the time on your watch stay at?" I asked.
"A quarter past four."
"Mine too."
"It's always a quarter past four?" I looked at the same quarter past four on my watch, and an ominous premonition rose in my heart.
I'm not sure whether there is a problem with the magnetic field here, because according to science, if the magnetic field in an area changes drastically, it can indeed cause errors in precision equipment such as watches and compasses, but the error cannot be that big.
?
A total deviation of six hours!
Thinking of James, who has rich experience in field operations, I humbly asked for advice: "James, have you ever had this kind of watch malfunction when you were performing missions in Europe?"
"No, unless it's at the North and South Pole, but that's only a few minutes off," James replied.
As we all know, the North and South Poles have the most powerful magnetic fields on earth, which can cause many instruments to malfunction, but they are not as powerful as the water pool at our feet. What weird things are hidden under the water pool?
And the most puzzling thing is that before we got into the sleeping bag, our watches were all fine, but why did everything go wrong in the blink of an eye?
What the hell is going on?
Finally, the fat man simply glared at me: "Hey! No matter what it is, if there is no problem with the magnetic field, the fat man is not sure yet. If there is a problem, the fat man will feel that there is something in this small pool.
Maybe there really is a tomb."
The fat man's words are not unreasonable. The changes in the magnetic field may very well confirm the nursery rhyme.
But I walked out of the waterfall and checked for a long time, but I still didn't find anything strange happening near the pool. The moon in the sky was still light yellow, like a baked and crispy mooncake.
After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't find any good answer to explain everything that happened so far. So I took a peek at the fourth girl and found that he didn't pay attention to us at all. He was just leaning against the stone wall, closing his eyes and recuperating. He looked so delicate.
Her face was like that of a holy goddess. Seeing how calm the fourth girl was, I stopped thinking about it and quietly waited for the moment when the gate of hell opened at twelve o'clock.
Fortunately, Fatty's electronic watch has done a great job, and we can know the specific time at any time.
I waited silently like this for who knows how long. When I was almost falling asleep, Wang Yuanchao's exclamation suddenly woke us up.
"Wake up!"
Wang Yuanchao shouted hysterically. I quickly opened my eyes and looked in the direction of Wang Yuanchao's finger.
In the mud outside the pool, a small blue dot emerged from the wet mud. It looked like light-emitting diodes, blooming with dreamy blue light.
One o'clock, two o'clock...
Chapter completed!