Chapter 20  Mysterious Light Energy Collector

Under the arrangement of the man in black, a total of three vehicles were dispatched, including an off-road vehicle, a supply vehicle, and a medical vehicle, and a driver who was familiar with the route was also arranged.

After getting off the plane, Li Ming and others did not stop at all, and did not even enter the city. They directly drove around the outer ring road to the area west of City Z.

After a few hours of driving, they left City Z and headed for the only road in the west. This road runs through a corner of the uninhabited area, but as they entered the area, a desolate [Yardang] landform appeared in their eyes.

Yadan, in the language of ethnic minorities, means "a small hill with steep walls". In this landform, there is no grass or tree, and there is light red soil everywhere. There is no vitality, and even a small animal cannot be seen, but various landforms are dazzling and lifelike.

These sandstone hills are strange in shape, some look like human movements, some look like some animals, and some look like buildings in the city. As they go deeper, they can already feel the whistling wind and sand.

The strong wind raged across the entire landscape, colliding with the sandstone and making all kinds of strange sounds, like the roar of demons and ghosts, which made people shudder.

The vehicle drove along the road for another hour and slowly stopped beside the road. At noon, Hu Kai and Meng Lianyi had already started eating. Even in such a place, the food treatment for the two was still unimaginable to Li Ming.

"You guys eat slowly, I'll go around, and we'll meet here before dark." Li Ming said, opened the door and got out of the car, and walked deep into the sand and gravel.

Meng Lianyi and Hu Kai were both startled and looked at each other. Isn't this guy hungry? Doesn't he need to eat?

Meng Lianyi still opened the window and shouted, "Hey, wait a minute, let's go together!"

Li Ming turned around and waved his hand, saying, "You two can go together later, I can do it alone."

Li Ming continued to walk deeper into the sandstorm. It is extremely difficult to find meteorites in such a place, because it is not like the steel plant and the urban area, where there are many video images to provide help. Even if there is no exact location, you can know a rough range.

Here, it is vast, like a desert, with strong winds all day long. Without accurate information, it becomes more difficult, but the power of the nebula is extremely important to Li Ming. Even if it is difficult, he must search with all his heart.

After Li Ming walked for a while, the vehicle behind him had disappeared. There were only sandy and rocky land and small hills formed by sandstone around. These dense and well-arranged sandstone strange shapes, looking up, are like a castle standing tall in the vast Gobi desert. These sandstones are also the mysterious symbol of this place, and there are many inexplicable phenomena.

The Gobi Desert is vast and the roads are dangerous. Few people set foot on this peculiar landform. Even the locals have heard about it but few have seen it.

However, in the eyes of Li Ming, who is a fourth-level civilization, this has become interesting. The landform information of the entire earth is in Li Ming's brain. Li Ming can look up the terrain here at any time. Walking here is like being at home. He knows where there are things with his eyes closed.

That kind of familiarity is strange, because this information appears in Li Ming's mind autonomously. The real Li Ming has never been to such a place.

Continue walking along the sandstone and sandstone area. It seems to be walking. In the eyes of ordinary people, Li Ming's walking speed is comparable to that of a car. It's like a figure flashing. It was near this sandstone one second ago, but it was already in the sandstone area in the distance the next second.

Li Ming stood in the sandstone and looked around with his eyes. He just took a step and suddenly stopped. Li Ming looked at the ground under his feet and immediately took this step back.

"Hmm?!" Li Ming showed a strange expression, and soon took two more steps. His face changed slightly, and then he stepped back.

"What's going on?!" Li Ming said to himself, and raised his head and looked at the sky.

The sun was bright and cloudless. Nothing could be seen. Only the direct sunlight could be felt. Some subtle changes that ordinary people could not perceive had been perceived by Li Ming.

Li Ming's eyes swept, and a hill a few kilometers away caught Li Ming's attention. This hill was nothing unusual. It was also formed by sandstone. The only special thing was that it was higher than other sandstones, and the appearance was very strange, like a graceful girl standing in the crowd.

If you don't look carefully, it's hard to find its specialness. Li Ming noticed its existence entirely because of the sunlight above his head.

With this towering sandstone hill as the center, a circular black curtain with a diameter of two or three kilometers radiated to the sky. This black curtain was like a layer of black gauze, and the sunlight would become weak as soon as it touched the black curtain.

If it were ordinary human eyes, it would be impossible to discover these, and even with the advanced technological equipment on Earth, it might not be possible to discover these, but Li Ming, who has a fourth-level civilization, is different. His eyes can already see things that human eyes cannot see.

This layer of black curtain is like a plate, collecting a large area of ​​sunlight. When the sunlight shines on the black curtain, it is like falling rain, sliding down the black curtain to the top of the sandstone hill in the distance.

With the development of human beings on Earth, solar panels are needed to collect solar energy, but this device in front of us seems to have some equipment on the top of the sandstone hill in the distance, and these black gauze light curtains are released from this thing and collect the sun's light energy.

This high-end light energy collection equipment is definitely a top-level equipment that humans on Earth cannot reach. How could it appear in this place? Was it left behind by alien life technology?

With this curiosity, Li Ming walked quickly towards the sandstone hill. As soon as he arrived at the hill, Li Ming immediately showed a surprised expression. The top of the hill actually gathered a lot of energy, and this energy was flowing deep into the ground through the inside of the hill.

Li Ming's perception distance was limited, and he could not know what was happening deep underground. At this moment, the top of the hill was like a big bowl, full of energy, and there seemed to be a pipe at the bottom of the bowl. The pipe was located in the center of the mountain, and energy was flowing underground along the pipe.

Li Ming looked up, narrowed his eyes slightly, stood up and jumped, and came directly to the hill of more than ten meters. The top of the hill was three or four square meters in size, with a wavy flat land.

Standing on the hill, Li Ming could see clearly that the light curtain was actually a basketball-sized stone. This stone was also sandstone, an irregular circle, and the black gauze light curtain was shot out from a protruding place on the sandstone block.

Li Ming took two steps forward and got closer to the sandstone. He looked down at the point where the black gauze light curtain was released, and then looked up at the sky. The energy in the sandstone could be clearly sensed.

Li Ming leaned over and squatted, gently placed his palm on the protruding part of the sandstone, and suddenly the powerful energy could be clearly sensed. His palm was like the surface of the energy, and as the energy fluctuated, it seemed as if water ripples were flowing through his palm.

So much energy, if it could be absorbed, would be a good thing for Li Ming.

But at this moment, the black gauze light curtain under his palm suddenly flashed and disappeared, as if Li Ming had touched some mechanism. Li Ming frowned slightly, and before he could figure out what was going on, the sandstone under his feet suddenly cracked into a two-meter-long and wide hole.

Li Ming felt that his feet were empty, and he fell down with the sandstone.

All this happened suddenly and at a very fast speed, just like a door suddenly opened on the top of a hill. Even Li Ming, who was a fourth-level civilization, had no time to react, and the door closed in an instant.

To the naked eye, it looks like an object suddenly disappears at the top of a hill.