blueteamnovel Chapter 59 The Great Array
Chapter 59 The Great Array
"What environmental data?" Engineer Zhang was also a little confused.
"Have you not measured any of these, such as air ionization, geomagnetic anomaly, or nighttime illuminance?"
Professor Sun took off his glasses and wiped them.
"This thing has been buried for hundreds of years without any movement, so why has it suddenly started to glow recently?"
Either it is changing itself, or something in the outside world is stimulating it.
If you haven't tested it yet, I suggest you get tested now.
Where had Engineer Zhang ever seen anything like this before?
He quickly agreed and instructed his subordinates to prepare.
Professor Sun gestured to the woman behind him to turn on her tablet.
Retrieve a set of data:
"This is satellite remote sensing data that we obtained from the provincial government before we came here."
In the past week, Cangshi County and three surrounding counties have experienced an abnormally high level of near-ground illuminance at night.
The peak occurred between 3:00 AM and 5:00 AM.
It matches the time period you mentioned.
However, the area affected is not limited to Cangshi County; similar signals were detected at at least three points between Cangshi and Yangcheng.
He handed the tablet to Engineer Zhang, saying, "In other words, this anomaly is not a localized phenomenon caused by the destruction of a single site."
Whatever is buried underneath, it is responding to a larger change!
The stones on your side starting to glow are likely just a localized manifestation of this larger change.
……
We had professionals calculate the basic data.
Another debate ensued.
Professor Sun handed the tablet to Engineer Zhang, pointing to the three abnormal signal points on the screen:
"The signal peak at this point in Cangshi County is not at our current location."
You see, the readings on this side of the ruins are actually much lower than those to the northwest.
"About to the northwest..."
He zoomed in on the map and measured it with his finger.
"About three miles away! There's a spot with a stronger signal."
"You've been digging here for several days, have you sent anyone to check over there?"
Engineer Zhang shook his head: "We don't have enough manpower. Just guarding this pit is already a challenge."
"And the signal is stronger over there? There aren't even roads there, just wild forest."
"Then let's go now."
Professor Sun closed his briefcase, turned and walked towards the van.
"Pack the radar. Leave two people to guard the site. The rest of you, come with me."
If the signal is stronger over there than here, we might have dug in the wrong place.
This might just be the outer perimeter; the real core is in the northwest.
Bai Sheng lurked in the canopy of the pine trees.
Listen to every single word of this conversation.
After everyone had gone far away,
He manipulated his clone to silently slide down the tree.
Using the bushes as cover, they crept northwest along the hillside.
Three miles is nothing to a clone.
As the forest grew denser, the ground was covered with pebbles and dead branches.
His clone moves even faster than a car!
After walking about two miles, his senses suddenly detected an extremely subtle energy fluctuation.
"There really was something here."
After walking about a kilometer further, a small open space appeared ahead.
In the center of the open space,
There stood a withered old locust tree.
The tree trunk was so thick that it would take two people to hug it.
The bark has completely peeled off, revealing grayish-white wood.
The bare branches stretched towards the sky.
This old locust tree has been dead for who knows how many years.
Bai Sheng didn't know what was going on, so naturally he didn't dare to approach rashly.
So they found another big tree.
They hid there.
It was past noon.
Professor Sun led his men to the forest in the northwest direction.
The man carrying the metal case reassembled the ground-penetrating radar probe and walked around the edge of the open space.
"Professor Sun, the readings here are actually lower than those over at the ruins."
"The signal peak is clearly marked here, but there's nothing three meters below the surface."
"It shouldn't be a problem with the equipment."
Professor Sun said, "The signal peak is correct here, but the source of the signal is not near the ground."
What is the effective detection depth of this radar?
"Fifteen meters."
"Turn it down, to the maximum depth."
The man carrying the metal case reset the parameters on the tablet.
The radar probe's indicator light switched from green to blue.
The waveform curve on the screen begins to be redrawn.
The depth is increased layer by layer.
Five meters, eight meters, ten meters...
When it reaches twelve meters,
The curve jumped suddenly.
A dense ring of bright blue waveforms appeared on the screen, arranged in a circular pattern.
"Twelve meters deep,"
Professor Sun stared at the screen. "A ring structure, about eight meters in diameter."
Hmm, it doesn't feel like a natural cave.
The edges of naturally formed cavities are not so regular.
I suspect this is a man-made, circular underground space!
Engineer Zhang leaned over to look at the screen.
His lips moved twice, but no sound came out.
After all, the current situation is too strange.
If you really try to get him to say something, he definitely won't be able to.
He can only follow the ideas of the authorities.
He has been doing archaeology for almost twenty years.
There have been quite a few excavated tombs and ruins.
But such a well-organized artificial circular space, twelve meters underground,
This is the first time I've seen this before.
"This must be a tomb chamber..." Zhang guessed.
"It's probably not a tomb."
Professor Sun walked half a circle around the edge of the open space.
I stopped directly in front of the old locust tree, looked up at the withered old tree, and
"The tomb chamber will not be made into a standard circle."
In ancient architecture, the circle has a specific meaning.
Altar, observatory, sealing array.
Considering the situation at the ruins, I think the third possibility is the most likely, although other possibilities cannot be ruled out.
"So what do we do now?" Zhang asked.
Professor Sun took a notebook out of his briefcase.
I turned to the page with the sketches and wrote a few words on it.
He tore it off and handed it to the woman behind him.
"Sent back to the province, recommending that the emergency plan for major archaeological sites be activated immediately."
The site's classification should be raised to at least level one.
The core area is now under lockdown, with a radius of 500 meters centered on this old locust tree.
"Furthermore, the environmental monitoring station has been notified to monitor the geomagnetic changes and air ionization in this area 24 hours a day, starting tonight."
No one may dig into it before figuring out exactly what it is synchronizing.
……
Bai Sheng was on his own sofa.
My mind raced, trying to figure out what to do next.
Following the process Professor Sun described,
The provincial government will hold another meeting to discuss the allocation of equipment and the organization of manpower, which will take at least several days.
These next few days are the window of opportunity!
He wanted to get there before the blockade was set up.
Let's get to that underground circular space first and see what's inside!
The question is, how do we get down?
Bai Sheng thought for a moment.
Man-made at a depth of twelve meters underground.
According to Professor Sun,
And that old locust tree was located directly above the center of the circle.
This is no coincidence!
Bai Sheng guessed,
This tree may be part of a seal, or a marker of an entrance.
He decided to first have his clone thoroughly explore the ground around the old locust tree!
He manipulated his clone to slide down the pine tree.
Waiting for Professor Sun's convoy to leave.