Chapter 3055: A Mural Across a Thousand Years! Looks Like We Can't Leave!

With a personality that fears neither heaven nor earth, suddenly wearing such an expression meant the matter itself was genuinely steeped in something eerie.

Through the livestream camera, the audience also noticed the paint on Fatty's hand, and at that moment some people couldn't help rebuking Fatty in other ways.

【Isn't Fatty usually pretty bold? What's gotten into him today?】

【It's just a mural, isn't it? He got this scared just because no result came out of the discussion?】

【Could it be that there's some kind of mind-controlling mechanism or trap on the mural?】

【Can you people use your brains before you speak? Paint!】

【What paint? It's perfectly normal for a mural to have paint. Making a fuss over nothing.】

【You bunch of damn country bumpkins! How many years has it been since Eastern Xia? And the paint still hasn't dried?】

【Oh, that's all? Maybe the hot spring's steam caused the paint to evaporate.】

【You lot of idiots, the hot spring hasn't been here for just a year or two. If it could evaporate the paint, the paint would've flown off to god-knows-where long ago. But right now it's as vivid and fresh as if it were brand new.】

Once those words were spoken, even the most brainless person understood exactly where Fatty's shock and fear had come from!

Although that fear lasted only an instant, under the dread of thinking it through, once the audience figured it out, even through the livestream screen they drew a sharp breath in front of their computers.

The current situation could only point to one thing: the mural itself had been freshly made, and the timing was even much more recent than they had imagined.

This was what people called the more you think about it, the scarier it gets. Their first instinct was to hurry and ask Mr. Zhang for an answer, because apart from Mr. Zhang, no one else could possibly explain such an eerie matter.

Looking back at the First Archaeology Team, even Wu Ya immediately came over; she didn't understand why Fatty had become like this.

At the same time Fatty just stared at his own fingertips, so certain that the matter held some other eerie answer. So Wu Ya, wanting to sort out the stakes involved, hurried over, only to see this kind of thing.

Wu Ya reacted extremely quickly. Wu Tianzhen hadn't taken it seriously at first—if Fatty's fear had truly given rise to such a state, then something major must have happened.

When even a person with no fear nerves begins to feel afraid, everyone should be on guard, and face whatever comes next with the utmost caution.

But here Wu Tianzhen considered himself the person who knew Fatty best. Under that premise, he knew Fatty was always pulling pranks of every kind.

So this act was very likely Fatty doing it on purpose, just to scare everyone. He hadn't expected that after Wu Ya went over, her expression kept changing again and again—her attention was all fixed on those two fingers of Fatty's.

Wu Tianzhen knew this matter definitely wasn't what he had thought. Fatty wasn't deliberately causing trouble; he had genuinely fallen into that kind of fear.

The next moment, Fatty took a deep breath. Then Wu Tianzhen also walked over. At this point Fatty didn't waste any words and showed his fingers to Wu Tianzhen—the paint that had stuck to them from the mural.

At first they were still marveling at how vivid the paint here was, as if it had just been applied. And the reason they hadn't suspected anything was also very simple.

Because with the steam from the hot spring, the mural wouldn't gather much dust. But now it was clearly not what they had imagined—at the very least, this mural itself had changed into a different state. In fact, even Zhang Lin hadn't expected this from the start.

After all, a mural being vivid could be explained in many ways. No one had ever thought to touch the mural, because that in itself went against logic—after all, it was a historical inheritance and record.

Even if they couldn't take it away, they shouldn't recklessly damage it.

Perhaps one day, when the technology was up to it, the very spot where they stood could really be developed by the local tourism industry, creating economic value.

Even if not, its historical heritage lay hidden here, and might bring something to future generations.

But now, with Fatty's one action, everything changed!

It wasn't that Fatty was wrong. A mural, touched only by a hand—no matter a thousand or ten thousand years—as long as the mural itself showed no signs of weathering, wouldn't be completely eroded by the tiny bit of color from human sweat.

But no matter the circumstances, at the very least it shouldn't be like Fatty, directly peeling off the paint from back then. With the paint itself never evaporating, and so many years of moisture seeping in, at the very least it should have lost the appearance it was supposed to have. Yet this illogical thing had actually happened.

Fatty took a deep breath and looked at Wu Ya; the meaning was crystal clear.

He wanted Wu Ya to get in touch with Mr. Zhang and see what was actually going on.

If Mr. Zhang still didn't give a clear answer at this point, then naturally they couldn't keep going forward.

Even though at first Fatty didn't understand why the mural itself was a map, after hearing what Wu Tianzhen said afterward, Fatty also understood what his good brother was about to do.

It was nothing more than traveling through the night, then finding the next place to rest and reorganize—that was what was necessary. Otherwise, the hot spring itself hadn't presented any dangerous or eerie situation.

But Wu Tianzhen instinctively still wasn't at ease. Besides, they had already discovered the intention to head in that direction. Even camping in the snowfield would be better than spending the night in this inexplicable place.

That was the choice Wu Tianzhen least wanted to make. If the others disagreed, Wu Tianzhen would certainly stand against the majority, even joining forces with Wu Ya and Zhang Tianshi to persuade everyone to follow him.

But now even if Wu Tianzhen wanted to do that, it was impossible, because the eerie situation had just occurred. They needed to investigate it thoroughly. Even if they left now, at most they would spend tonight at the cave entrance above, and then wait until Zhang Lin went to the New Moon Restaurant and gave them an answer.

If they were to continue exploring the mural itself, then the First Archaeology Team would naturally take people back, sort out the issues, and see if there were any relevant clues inside. If there was nothing meaningful, then they were overthinking it, and it would be fine to leave directly.

But no matter which outcome, at the very least they couldn't determine it on their own right now. Only Zhang Lin up at the New Moon Restaurant could give them the corresponding answer.

Unless Wu Ya or Zhang Tianshi could now see what was off about the situation and give everyone an answer directly. But from their expressions, both Fatty and Wu Tianzhen had basically realized that wasn't realistic.

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