Chapter 156

156 The Cave Is Alive

Selma Payne’s POV:

“That’s right.” Looking at the scratch marks on the rock wall, I had a strange feeling that the hard rock wall was slightly wriggling.

Everyone wanted to say something, but no one opened their mouths. They didn’t know what to say. Everyone’s brain cells were not enough to decipher this phenomenon.

“Could it be that time and space are already in chaos?” Aldrich speculated, “We always thought that time and space were in the process of distortion but is there a possibility that there is no stable space-time foundation here from the beginning, but that it was chaotic and disorderly from the moment it was formed?”

That was why the third group encountered the fourth mark. They were faster than us and met the mark we left in the future! I was enlightened.

But then, I was discouraged. Then, it was useless to calculate the time difference through marks. If time was chaotic, it was meaningless to figure out its rules.

Everyone was a little embarrassed, and their initially insufficient confidence was weakened again.

“Speaking of which, don’t you guys think that it’s a little too cold right now?” Linda sneezed. “I feel like I’m standing in a freezer naked.”

When she said that, we also felt the sudden drop in temperature.

“If the space is chaotic, then the inside and outside of the cave are not constant.” Aldrich said, “Who knows, maybe the cold outside the cave has been transferred into the cave. That’s why we’re so cold.”

However, there was no way out of the cave. We could only continue exploring the cave, hoping to find a way out before we froze.

Even the ‘next level’ would be better than freezing to death!

We didn’t give up on making marks because Master Hayley said, “We must at least make the fourth mark. Otherwise, the third team won’t encounter the fourth mark from the future and won’t be able to send the signal. This creates a time paradox, which will only worsen the situation.”

When we finished marking the fifth mark, we finally met the others.

The second group was about to send the signal according to our third mark.

“Hey, Sam!” Frank called out to the leader of the second group. “Are you guys alright? Did you encounter any problems?”

Sam was obviously shocked to meet us. We’d finally met him. “We’ve been walking for almost six hours and didn’t meet anyone. We didn’t receive any danger signals either. We were so worried!”

After Frank briefly explained the current situation to Sam’s team, Sam said in shock, “We sent the signal after we received the first signal, which means that the fastest team is Kerner’s team?”

“I’m afraid they’ll be gone for even longer,” said Frank.

At this moment, the temperature in the cave dropped even more. I even felt dizzy. Under the dim light, the rock wall seemed to hide in the dark and quietly wriggle.

With a flash of inspiration, I realized the relationship between time and temperature. “Could it be that the faster time flows, the lower the temperature?”

When I said that, everyone agreed with me.

“That’s right,” said Frank. “After meeting up with you, I did feel the temperature around me drop again. After meeting up with Sam, the temperature dropped drastically.”

We looked at the thermometer that we carried with us. It was already -20 degrees Celsius.

At the entrance of the cave, it was only -4 degrees Celsius.

The faster time flowed, the lower the temperature would be. It wouldn’t be long before we freeze to death here!

Just as we were at our wits’ end, a voice suddenly came from behind us.

“You’re all here?”

It was Kerner.

“Moon Goddess! We finally found someone. You have no idea how long we’ve been walking. It’s been twelve hours. We were suspecting if there was a hidden fork in the road that we’d missed!”

As expected, Kerner’s group had the fastest time flow, and the temperature dropped even faster as soon as he arrived.

The thermometer was displaying -25 degrees Celsius.

We quickened our pace and went deeper into the cave, but the cave seemed to lead to the earth’s core, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.

At -30 degrees, one of the team members finally couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted.

It was not because of the cold. It was because of low blood sugar. After Master Hayley inspected the items, she said, “The resources in the base are indeed useless. They can’t provide any nutrition.”

We should have thought of this earlier. How could a pile of ‘non-existent’ material provide heat and nutrients?

After dealing with the emergency, we carried the team member on our back and continued on our way.

At this moment, Dorothy suddenly said, “Is the rock wall moving?”

We carefully observed our surroundings and found that it was indeed so!

This meant that my assumption earlier was not an illusion!

However, an even stranger thing happened. Under everyone’s gazes, the mark that Frank and I had just made was slowly flowing over. It was like a leaf floating in a small stream, moving faster and faster with the water.

“It’s really strange.” Someone mumbled, “This phenomenon is like intestinal peristalsis. Could this cave be alive? ”

That was right!

I suddenly thought, ‘Why couldn’t the cave be alive?’

I thought we were in a low-quality ‘game’, but what if it wasn’t a program full of bugs but another form of life?

“Perhaps we’re its food, moving forward in this wireless roving intestine!”