Chapter 23 Part 22: The Eternal Mystery

I put the mineral back into the box, closed the lid, put on the oxygen tank, stuffed Aibo's body through the small round door, and crawled forward against him. Aibo and I have not known each other for a long time, but he has been of great help to me. Without him, I may never have found this pyramid.It pains me so much that he died like this. I believe that Ai Po must have a very serious psychological abnormal tendency, so after becoming a transparent person, his fear and anxiety are far higher than ordinary people. As for what makes Ai Po mentally abnormal, I have no idea. knew. Ai Bo was still a transparent person until his death. I couldn't make his body be discovered, so I wanted to get his body inside the pyramid, so that no one could see it.

After a while, I pushed open the second small round door and came to the stone room with the sarcophagus.I closed the door, took a breath, put Aibo's body in the sarcophagus, closed the lid, and then opened the brass box. When I opened the brass box, I saw almost nothing in front of my eyes. In that less than a second.The fear in my heart is unprecedented, because if I can't see the colorful anti-transparent light, my theory will be bankrupt, and I can't get back to the original state! But fortunately, it was only a few seconds, and then, fantastic and magnificent colors began to appear.It came out of nowhere. One second, I was still in extreme disappointment, but the next second, I felt as if I had entered a fairyland.

When my eyes were suddenly filled with lights of various colors, I couldn't help but screamed, I danced, I saw my own bones, first appeared, and then my flesh appeared, and in my heart, Suddenly I was full of confidence again, and I suddenly felt that there was nothing I could do! I let myself be fully exposed to the indescribably gorgeous translucent light, and I didn't close the lid until I was sure that every part of me was opaque. As soon as the lid of the box was closed, the inside of the stone room was suddenly dark. I held the brass box under my ribs and walked outside. However, Fang took a step and I stopped.

It should be bright outside now, how can I go out?Don't forget that I came in naked, should I just walk out like this? I couldn't help laughing out loud, and the laughter was shaking inside the pyramid.The reason why I laughed out in such a situation was, of course, that I was in a very happy mood.Because I have finally recovered and become an ordinary person! When I am an ordinary person at all, I never feel that there is any good in being an ordinary person.I have dreamed many times (especially when I was young) that I was an invisible person. In my imagination, how free and unrestrained it would be to be an invisible person!

But facts and imaginations are quite different, and often facts are just the opposite of imaginations. I have been an invisible person before, and the feeling is definitely not good. In the future, no matter what the price is, I will not be an invisible person again. Of course I can't just go out like this, I have to wait until dark, and the oxygen is not enough for me to use until dark, so I exited the stone chamber, went to the corridor outside the stone chamber, and waited at the bottom of the well. The time of that day seemed to be against me. When I finally saw the sky on the well, it was already gray, and there was still a long time before it got dark.

It was finally dark, and I climbed up, and the voices of people could still be heard in the ancient city, so I had to wait until midnight, before I climbed out of the courtyard, bent my body, and walked straight forward under the cover of the corner of the wall go. Fortunately, I didn't meet anyone along the way. I came to the entrance and exit of the corridor, flashed into the corridor, and walked forward with the lightest footwork. At the exit of the corridor, I knocked down the guard.Then in the desert, he jumped forward like a groundhog, ran, and returned to the camp. Once at the camp, the first thing to do is to quickly put on clothes.After I put on my clothes, I realized that my whole body was soaked with sweat, and the water we brought was enough for me to take a shower, but I didn't want to take off my clothes anymore.

I lay down in the tent, thinking that I couldn't wait, and before the oxygen tank arrived, I went into the pyramid to suffer Aibo's death, and I couldn't help but feel very sad. I lay down for a while, then got up and put the brass box carefully into a large leather bag.Then he tied up the big leather bag carefully.I can no longer accidentally expose minerals to the air, can I be invisible again?I'm afraid my nerves won't allow it. I abandoned all the unnecessary things in the desert, took only four camels, and started back to Cairo.It was much easier to go back, and there were no accidents on the way.And when I reappeared in that hotel, the fat waiter Shetter looked at me like he was looking at a ghost.

I only lived in Cairo for one day and then flew back.When I got off the plane, the first thing I did was talk to Lao Cai on the phone. Lao Cai told me on the phone that he had been to that deserted island two days ago, and Wang Yan and Yan Fen had begged him to go see him as soon as I came back, no matter whether it was good news or bad news. them. Naturally, I can understand Wang Yan and Yanfen's anxious mood, because I myself once became an invisible person, and I know that kind of psychological pain. So instead of going home, I just contacted Major Jack first and told him that I had brought some things back from Egypt and asked him to go through customs without inspection through a special relationship.If that piece of ore was opened in public at the inspection office of the customs, and the transparent light was shining, the chaos it would cause would be unimaginable.

Major Jack readily agreed. He is the head of the secret working group, so he naturally has the right to do so. Then, I informed an employee of my company to park a yacht at the pier at the nearest airport.and parked my car at another dock close to my house.I lingered for a while near the airport. When I got to the pier, the yacht was already there. I got on the yacht, opened the chart, and of course I would never forget the location of the deserted island, so I sailed straight to the deserted island.By the time I landed, it was already dusk. I called out the names of Wang Yan and Yan Fen, and walked towards the place where they pitched their tents.

When I walked to the front of the tent, I heard Wang Yan's voice: Mr. Wei, are you back?His voice trembled.Since I myself have become a transparent person, I can naturally understand the feelings of Wang Yan and Yan Fen. My first sentence did not say that I was back, but rather: I have found a way to bring you both back together. After a few seconds of silence in the tent, Wang Yan and Yan Fen said in unison: Really?You are not lying to us. I said: Of course not, I myself was once transparent and invisible, but now I have fully recovered, and you can also recover immediately like me.

Wang Yan said in a low voice: Thank God, then please come and restore us quickly.I hurriedly said, not yet. Wang Yan and Yan Fen asked anxiously: Why?What are the obstacles?I comforted them and said: There is no obstacle at all. I already know that the same mineral emits transparent light when exposed to normal air, but when exposed to vacuum, it emits anti-transparent light. Wang Yandao: That mineral is no longer in our possession. I said: It doesn't matter, I got a small piece in Egypt, you go back with me first, stay at my house temporarily, after I manage to arrange a vacuum chamber, you two go in with an oxygen cylinder, let the reaction When the transparent light illuminates your whole body, everything will pass away. Yan Fen said: Shall we go back with you now? I said: Put on your clothes and hats, and wrap a piece of cloth around your face. I will help you go. As soon as you land on the shore, there will be a car that will go directly to my house, and there is no one in my house. You are not afraid of being discovered. of. The two of them were silent for a moment, and then said: "Okay, please wait a moment."After a while, they walked out of the tent.They were all wearing clothes, but they didn't wear hats or cloths on their heads. That kind of situation seemed really weird? Trying to make myself feel indifferent, I turned away: you follow me. We walked to the place where the yacht was moored, got off the boat, and drove the speedboat back. When the speedboat docked again, it was already midnight.Wang Yan and Yan Fen were wearing hats and each wrapped their heads and faces with a scarf. I helped them onto the shore, and my car had already stopped. I took Wang Yan and Yan Fen straight into the car, drove back to my home, and arranged them in my bedroom.I myself took a comfortable bath and lay down in the easy chair in the study. In this city, it is not easy to find a vacuum chamber. I lay on the chair and thought about it carefully. Among the several large-scale factories, such a room may be produced. From the secret room, I called to entrust a reliable friend to carry out this matter. This friend was woken up by me from a good dream, but he didn't blame me, and promised to get back to me as soon as possible. I put down the phone and prepared to take a nap for a while, because everything seemed to be over soon, and I needed to relax my nervous mind.I closed my eyes, but just as I was about to fall asleep, the phone rang suddenly. I woke up immediately, and while reaching for the microphone, I wondered in my heart whether my friend was doing things quickly. I picked up the microphone, gave a hello, and said: Is there a result already? But there was no one to talk to. Immediately I felt that something was wrong, and I immediately asked: Who are you?There was still no sound from that side, I said: If you don't make any more sound, I'm going to pull the cord. There was still no sound on that side, so I closed the line. Only half a minute later, the phone rang again, and I picked up the receiver again. This time, before I could speak, the voice from the other side came over, saying: It's me, it was me just now! It was English with a German accent, and I couldn't help being annoyed and amused: Sorry, you dialed the wrong number. The voice said: No, Wesley, it's me! Are you? I hesitated for a moment, then sat up straight: Are you Bakrah? The face seemed relieved: yes, I'm Black. I looked to the window, the sky was already dawning, and I smiled sarcastically: Good morning, Mr. Black, what advice do you have? Blake was obviously panting, this murderous cold-blooded demon king has now become a poor invisible man, I recalled the situation when I became an invisible man, I really couldn't help laughing. Braque stayed for a moment: Have you ever seen Lomono when you came back from Egypt? I have absolutely no intention to restore a cold-blooded animal like Braque from being an invisible person. Even if a person like him is sentenced to death, it will be cheap for him, making him an invisible person forever, and letting him suffer from that kind of birth forever. Tormenting the fear deep in my heart is undoubtedly the best punishment. So, I didn't want to tell him about Lomono's death at all, I just said coldly: Sorry, I haven't seen him. Blake hurriedly said: I definitely don't want to trouble you, I want to ask, what is your purpose for coming to Egypt? I said loudly: I was invited by a friend to visit a water conservancy project, which is a very great project, and my friend is one of the designers of this project. Brack's voice was full of disappointment: I see, I, I I asked him on purpose: What's wrong with you? Black hesitated for a while before saying: Wesley, I want to meet you, is that okay? I laughed and said: See you?Mr. Black, is there a typo in your words?You can see me, but I may not be able to see you, right? Black's voice seemed extremely embarrassed: Don't be like this, don't you never care about people who have already admitted their failures? I said coldly: The question is: do you think you have failed? Black sighed: What possibility do I have to deny it? I said: I don't see what is the use of our meeting? Black said: I need your help. I evaded: how can I help you?I almost died at your hands several times. To be honest, you are my enemy, and now you come to ask me for help. Isn't it too shameful? I couldn't hear Black's voice for a while, and just as I was about to reel in, there was a sudden gunshot over there. I couldn't help being stunned, and shouted: Black, Black! But there was no reply from that side.Braque had committed suicide, although I didn't see it, but I could think of it. I put the phone on the phone and informed the police of my guess with another phone. I didn't say my name and let the police guess. I looked outside, it was already bright. I thought to myself, if I knew that Blake was going to kill himself, I wouldn't goad him. I thought again, when the police officers arrived, did they know if the guards got Black?Was Brack still an invisible corpse to the end of his life? I can't answer these questions, but I thought of Aibo. Aibo was still a transparent person until his death. So, is Brak still an invisible person until his death? I have no way of finding out what the outcome of this incident was, because afterward, the police kept this matter secret, and no one would reveal anything, and no one would even admit that they had received a call from me that morning to go to a certain place Find out about a suicidal person. Of course, there was a strange reason for the whole incident, but I couldn't figure out what the weirdness was. This matter was classified as top secret by the local police station, although I had many friends in the police station. , can't figure it out. Ai Po is dead, Brak is dead, only Wang Yan and Yan Fen are still transparent. But that's just a matter of time, I think.When the mineral emits anti-transparent light in the vacuum chamber, everything is in the past, and no one in the world will mention the invisible and transparent people anymore. At that time, I suddenly remembered the large piece of this strange mineral in Brak's hands. Did Brak destroy it or hide it? If he hid it, would someone else discover it and become an invisible person? I fell asleep amidst my messy thoughts. Although my thoughts are still chaotic, my emotions are very peaceful, because everything will pass. At that time, I never imagined that there would be an unexpected change at the end of the day. That change was so unexpected that it still haunts me to this day. I believe that in the future In time, I still can't help feeling sorry.Now, let's first describe what happened at that time.I slept until the afternoon, only to be woken up by the ringing of the phone. I sat up and saw Wang Yan and Yan Fen sitting in my study. The two of them were still dressed like mummies, with scarves wrapped around their heads.I picked up the phone and it was Major Jack.He asked me what to do with my luggage that couldn't pass through customs. I asked him to send someone to my residence, and I told him again, telling him never to open it. Major Jack agreed, and I talked to him about Black at this moment, but he seemed to have heard a myth, expressed his disbelief, and immediately hung up the phone. I turned my head and said: You don't have to do that, I'm used to it, and I don't find it scary anymore. Wang Yan let out a wry laugh, and said: It is better for us to be like this, even if you are not afraid, we are not at ease. Of course I could understand their feelings, so I began to tell them about my experience in Egypt and how I discovered that transparent light and anti-transparent light were originally emitted by the same mineral.Wang Yan and Yan Fen, after listening to my narration, seem to have lost more than half of their anxiety. At this time, I also received a call from that friend. Wesley, he said on the phone, a large-scale precision instrument manufacturing plant, has a vacuum chamber. I smiled and said: That's great, will they lend me a piece? The friend said: It is possible, but the vacuum chamber is very small, and there is a long distance from the secret chamber you requested. I hurriedly said: How small is it? The friend said: Three cubic meters.It was originally used to store precision instruments. I was overjoyed: That's enough, please prepare two oxygen tanks, wait for me in front of the factory, and take me in.The friend agreed and hung up the phone. The doorbell rang soon after, and Major Jack had sent for the copper box. I took the copper box, but of course I didn't open it to check it, because if I opened it, I would become a transparent person again. I took the copper box and got into the car with Wang Yan and Yan Fen. Twenty minutes later, we were outside the gates of that factory.And my friend, and a man who looked like an engineer, were already waiting outside the door.Wang Yan and Yan Fen hesitated to get out of the car.I told them: No one knows that you are transparent people. At most, people will look at you curiously because you covered your head. How can you not get out of the car? Wang Yan and Yan Fen sighed and got out of the car helplessly.As soon as my friend saw me, he rushed over. His approach was so fast that Wang Yan and Yan Fen were so scared that they retreated into the car again. I quickly patted him on the shoulder, is everything ready? My friend said: Ready he lowered his voice: Hey, who are the two who came with you?Is it a Saturnian?Why do you dress up so strangely? I pushed him: Don't talk nonsense, please tell the factory that we don't need any entertainment other than someone leading us to the vacuum chamber. The friend laughed: Wesley, you are about to become a Saturnian yourself.This friend is an optimist, and I myself was in a very relaxed mood at the time, so I laughed with him. Amidst our laughter, Wang Yan and Yan Fen got out of the car again. I held their arms in one hand and walked forward. The friend introduced Technician Zhang to me, and Technician Zhang took us into the factory. That friend and I agreed on a date to meet and left on their own. We passed by the workshop and arrived at a newly completed building. The elevator took us to the third floor and stood in front of a door. Technician Zhang opened the door, and inside was a very large room.In the room, there are various instruments. This is the control room.Technician Zhang introduced: I am in charge.The oxygen tank is here, may I ask which two of you want to use it? I pointed to Wang Yan and Yan Fen, and said: They are going to the vacuum chamber to complete a test. Technician Zhang glanced at the two of them, and said: Yes, the vacuum chamber can accommodate two people. He opened a door on the wall. At first glance, the door looked like a huge safe. After the door was opened, there was a small room inside, which was naturally a vacuum chamber. I brought up two sets of oxygen tanks, one for Wang Yan and the other for Yan Fen. I whispered to Wang Yan and Yan Fen: Once you enter, put on your oxygen mask, and when the warehouse becomes a vacuum, I knock on the door and you open the brass box.After your body has recovered, you knock on the door, and I will ask Technician Zhang to inject air. At that time, you must remember to close the box, and I will destroy that mineral, so that it will not harm others again! The two listened attentively and nodded. I handed the brass box to Yan Fen, and Yan Fen took it. I could see that her body was shaking slightly, which was of course caused by excessive joy.I whispered again: Don't worry, there will never be any accidents again. Wang Yan and Yan Fen, as if they had a premonition of misfortune, said: I hope so! I could hear that they were not confident at the time, and I wanted to persuade them a few words, but I thought that they would be able to recover once they entered the vacuum chamber, so I didn't bother to speak again. The two of them entered the vacuum chamber one after another. Technician Zhang closed the door and went to the front of the instrument to operate it. He pointed to a watch and said to me: When the pointer points to zero, the chamber is in a vacuum state. I watched the meter, the pointer was moving slowly, for about five minutes, the pointer was fixed on zero and did not move.I slammed on the copper door of the vacuum chamber and knocked seven or eight times. I believe they will be able to hear my knocking. After I knocked on the door, I waited by the door, waiting for Wang Yan and Yan Fen to knock on the door, indicating that they had returned to their original state. I was smoking, but my spirit was still very relaxed. But when I smoked my third cigarette and still hadn't heard the two of them knock on the door, I was not so optimistic. I looked towards Technician Zhang, who also had a very strange expression on his face: their oxygen was almost used up.Could something happen to them? My voice was trembling involuntarily, and I said: "Accident, what kind of accident will there be?" Technician Zhang said: I don't know either, what exactly are the two of them going into the vacuum chamber for? I couldn't help being asked by Technician Zhang.What are Wang Yan and Yan Fen doing in the vacuum chamber? Is this something that I can explain clearly in a short while?I hurriedly said: If their oxygen is almost used up, then quickly try to open the door. Technician Zhang was in front of the instrument again and began to operate it. After a few minutes, he said: You can open the door now, turn to the left, and pull the door forcefully after turning it all the way.I went to the door. Just then, I heard a chisel on the door. Technician Zhang and I both breathed a sigh of relief. It turns out that nothing happened to them, right?They're knocking on the door.I turned the door handle on the door, which looked like a car steering wheel, and then I pulled the door hard. I said loudly: two, long time no see. I stepped back with the opened door, so I couldn't see what was going on in the vacuum chamber.But I could see Technician Zhang turning his head and looking towards the vacuum chamber. The expression on his face was as shocked as if he had been shot in an instant! I knew immediately that something was wrong. I hurriedly asked: What's the matter? Technician Zhang stretched out his hand and pointed to the vacuum chamber, but he opened his mouth wide, unable to speak a word. Knowing that I couldn't hesitate any longer, I immediately turned around the door and looked into the vacuum chamber. After a glance, I couldn't help but stay. In the vacuum chamber, there were the clothes of Wang Yan and Yan Fen, the opened brass box, and a piece of off-white mineral, like a piece of tin, without any light emitting from it. Wang Yan and Yan Fen were gone. The clothes of the two of them were neatly piled up on the ground. At that moment, I just didn't know what to do, because I had no idea what was going on. Technician Zhang screamed strangely and rushed out of the door. I quickly called out: Technician Zhang, please come back. Technician Zhang may have been too nervous, so as soon as he went out, he fell heavily at the door. He stood up in a daze and looked back at me with an extremely pale face. At that time, I suddenly remembered something, and said quickly: close the door, close the door! The stunned look on Technician Zhang's face made me know that he didn't understand what I was talking about!I hurried to the door and slammed the door shut. But I immediately felt that my behavior was too abnormal, I quickly opened the door again, and Technician Zhang was still standing at the door. I quickly asked: Mr. Zhang, do you feel someone passing by your side?Technician Zhang looked like he was about to cry. He didn't answer my question, but just repeated my question. I sighed, pulled him into the room, and closed the door, Technician Zhang screamed suddenly. I slapped him heavily on the face and shouted: Don't bark! Technician Zhang gasped, and I confronted him: something unusual happened here, didn't it? Panting, he said: Madam is unusual. I said: What is unusual, can you tell it? Technician Zhang glanced at the vacuum chamber, his face even more terrifying.The door of the vacuum chamber was still open, except for two sets of oxygen tanks, two sets of clothes for a man and a woman, the box, and a piece of gray mineral in the box, there was nothing else. Technician Zhang put his hands on his chest and said intermittently: The two people who came with you walked into the vacuum chamber and they disappeared. I said again: You lent me the vacuum chamber, but did you go through the factory? Technician Zhang lost his mind and said: no. I hurriedly said: Then you must not like this matter, have you been publicized? Technician Zhang hurriedly said: Of course not, of course not, but how is that possible?Two people disappeared, my God, where did they go? Where did they go? This is exactly what I desperately asked myself in my heart. Of course, I can't have an answer. But I can know that I made a mistake that couldn't be bigger! I mistakenly thought that there was a vacuum in the pyramid, and by analogy, I thought that the strange mineral would emit translucent light in the vacuum.But now it turns out I was wrong. The inside of the pyramid may be close to a vacuum, but it must be different from a vacuum.That mineral is extremely changeable. In ordinary air, it emits transparent light. In the air of the pyramid, it emits translucent light. In a vacuum state, what does it emit? I have no way of knowing, because in the vacuum chamber, there are only Wang Yan and Yan Fen, and I am not in it. Now, Wang Yan and Yan Fen have gone to nowhere, but the mineral seems to have changed, because after the vacuum chamber was opened, it was exposed to the ordinary air, but it was no longer there. No transparent light comes out. My mind was in such a state of confusion that it was impossible for me to make any guesses. I just said to Technician Zhang: As long as you don't tell me, and I don't tell you, then no one will know what happened here. Technician Zhang nodded, and I walked towards the vacuum chamber. When I walked to the door of the vacuum chamber, he suddenly said: Mr. Wei, can I ask you something? I stopped and turned around: what's the matter? Technician Zhang's voice trembled: Where did they go? I smiled wryly: I don't know, I don't know. I walked into the vacuum chamber and leaned over to look at the mineral. The mineral looked like a piece of tin. When I looked closely, I suddenly felt a burst of heat coming from above. I was taken aback, and took a step back quickly, but there was no abnormality. I picked up an iron rod to push the mineral, but unexpectedly, when I touched it, the mineral scattered and became a pool. Ash. I was taken aback again, quickly closed the lid of the box, rolled up the clothes of Wang Yan and Yan Fen, put them together under my ribs, and walked out of the vacuum chamber. I said to Technician Zhang: Goodbye, although the help you gave me had unexpected results, I still thank you. Technician Zhang stood dumbfounded. He was obviously confused by what happened in the vacuum chamber, and couldn't make a sound. I walked out by myself, and when I got outside the factory, I put the clothes of Wang Yan and Yan Fen in the car, and I also sat in the driver's seat, but I didn't drive. Because at this time, my thoughts are too messy, if I don't sort out a clue, I will definitely have an accident. I sat with my hands on the steering wheel, and it took me a while to come up with two possibilities. The first possibility is: that mineral will emit a high degree of heat energy in a vacuum state (light energy and heat energy are twin brothers), and that kind of heat energy is particularly sensitive to the effect on the body of an animal (I leaned over in the vacuum chamber) When I got down, I felt a burning sensation, but the brass box was cold). If that's the case, Wang Yan and Yan Fen are no longer alive. They may have been vaporized under that kind of heat energy, and their entire bodies have turned into gas.So when the vacuum chamber was opened, only the oxygen cylinder and their clothes were left inside. As for the knock on the door I heard, after the vacuum chamber door was opened, there was an oxygen cylinder next to the door, that may be the oxygen cylinder rolled into it The knocking sound of the door.Technician Zhang felt someone rushing out, or it might be a gust of air. Whether the mineral emits light or heat, it has an effect on the body of the animal. Transparent light cannot make clothes transparent, but can only make the human body transparent. This is an example.When I thought that this might be the case, I couldn't help but sweat all over my body! Because if this inference is true, then Wang Yan and Yan Fen were almost killed by me. I quickly put aside such thoughts, and then thought that the mineral emitted strong transparent light in a vacuum state, making Wang Yan and Yan Fen become invisible in an instant. They came back to their original state full of hope, but they suddenly became invisible. The fear and hesitation in their hearts can be imagined.So they took off their clothes and knocked on the door after a long delay (it is also possible that what I heard was really the knock on the door, not the sound of the oxygen tank hitting the door).And when the door opened, they rushed out. They had undergone tremendous changes, and of course they had no trust in me anymore, so they rushed out while Technician Zhang opened the door. I'd rather the second conjecture be true fact. As for which conjecture is the truth, I have not yet been able to determine.I have been waiting for Wang Yan and Yan Fen to call me, then we can look for the mineral that fell into the hands of Blake, and bring Wang Yan and Yan Fen inside the pyramid to restore them.But they didn't call me. I have been paying attention to whether there is news of strange things happening. If there is, I can know that it is the work of the two of them. But, no. The burden in my heart has not been relieved until now, because I don't know whether Wang Yan and Yan Fen do not exist in this world at all, or they have become invisible people, and they regard me as untrustworthy , a despicable liar, and refuses to contact me again. As for the pile of ashes, I sent them for testing afterwards, and the results of the testing said: It is not the material that should exist on the earth, and it may come from other planets. Incidentally, it is the laboratory of one of the most famous polytechnic institutes in the world who made this conclusion. I believe in this conclusion very much, and I sincerely hope that the large mineral hidden by Braque will never appear again! (End of the book)