The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 288: You don't respect me! I don't want to work anymore! Apologize!

The colorful lights came on, and the area around Shen Le immediately became extremely noisy.

At least three operatives were shouting into the intercom while running in different directions. It was unclear who they were notifying.
Then, two people rushed over from both sides of Shen Le. One stood on tiptoe, raised his phone as high as possible, and took a picture of the picture projected on the scroll;
The other one looked around and ran away. After a while, he pulled over a camera with a two-meter-high tripod, climbed on the tripod, adjusted the lens, and aimed it at the scroll...

"You don't have to do this..."

Shen Le felt tired for them. He took two steps back to avoid the camera's radius, so that it wouldn't fall and hit him:

"It's scanning its surroundings. Once it's done scanning, it'll tell me what it finds. You can take pictures later. There's no need to be so anxious!"

"Mr. Shen, collecting the magical functions of various special objects is also one of our daily tasks." A crew-cut head popped out from behind the tripod and explained to Shen Le with a smile.

Just as he explained, the colorful light suddenly disappeared. The guy with a buzz cut got anxious:

"What happened to it? Is it broken? Or is it tired? Is the camera interfering with it?"

"Ah, he is a spirit, he has his own wisdom, he will be unhappy if you call him an 'object'." Shen Le shook his head and smiled, explained, and patted the table next to the scroll:

"Don't be angry, there are people in there waiting for us to rescue them, hurry up and work. When we're done, I'll ask him to apologize to you?"

The colorful lights slowly rose up, one strand at a time, with a rather reluctant look. The guy with a buzz cut quickly climbed down from the tripod and bowed to the table:

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you. Mr. Painting...? Can you forgive me?"

The colorful light on the scroll flashed a few times before regaining stability. The shaved-head guy breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back on the tripod, taking pictures while comparing them with the map in his memory:

"Wait, why is there an extra area on top? How did this map become two layers?"

"This is the secret area it scanned." Shen Le stood beside the scroll and explained while making requirements for the scroll:
"It said that the place inside is quite large, not just this small area, and it is also connected to the surrounding areas. It would be better to give a bigger map. 10*10 is too small--"

“100 square kilometers is too small?”

Four or five voices asked in unison. 10 kilometers multiplied by 10 kilometers may not seem like a long distance, and it only takes one step on the accelerator. But when you actually search, you will know what it feels like:
There are no drones, no robot dogs all over the mountains, and no all-terrain vehicles. We have to rely on our own two feet to search inch by inch. It would take a month to finish the search!

“Maybe it’s too small!”

In the mist, a huge monster suddenly crashed out, its breath created turbulent wind and clouds, and its footsteps shook the earth.

It ran towards Shen Le wildly, took two steps, shrank a circle, then took two steps again, and shrank a circle again.

When it ran in front of Shen Le, it had grown from a behemoth more than half a meter tall to the size of an adult Siberian tiger. It shook its body and suddenly turned into a human form:

"Shen Le, you're here! I'm so sorry to bother you!
——I was wondering why I couldn’t reach the end no matter how I ran around! Either the formation shrunk me, or it made me go around in circles, or it’s actually really big inside!”

Shen Le did not comment on the possibility of reducing the proportion of a monster of such a large size and mass.

It is possible to go around in circles, for example, by making the space structure inside into the shape of a Möbius strip. No matter how the Alloy Boss runs, he will be going around in circles.

However, Shen Le imagined that a huge alloy weighing several tons, or even dozens of tons, would run in the formation and shake the mountains and the earth. The result would be like a hamster rolling on a wheel and never reaching the end...

He turned his head silently, trying to suppress the twitching at the corners of his mouth:
"How are you? Are you doing well in there? Are you in any danger?"

"How could I be in danger? You don't even know me!" The Alloy Boss immediately raised his head and chest. He paused, then lowered his head in annoyance:
"But I can't find them... I can clearly feel where they are, but I can't rush over and find them. Shen Le, I know you are capable, can you help me?"

"...Wait a minute. He is scanning the map." Shen Le took a deep breath, stared at the virtual map that was constantly projected above the scroll, and secretly compared it with the real mountains.

The ability of the scroll was beyond his expectation. Not only could it scan out the places covered by the formation, but it could also scan out three-dimensional images layer by layer:

"Tsk, this space actually has three floors—"

A group of researchers gathered around the virtual projection and marveled at it. Some were recording the video, some were analyzing the video, and some were shouting:

"No! This kind of virtual projection, taking photos and recording videos, is subject to a lot of interference! It's better for someone to draw the picture! Draw it on the spot!"

Shen Le didn't know how they found the drawing expert, but soon someone came over, set up the drawing board, and started sketching on the spot.

With that speed and precision, Shen Le felt ashamed of himself. Even his mentor probably couldn't keep up. Perhaps only the legendary big guys could catch up with this level.

Once a picture is drawn, it is photographed, scanned, and passed to another group, where someone immediately begins to analyze it:
"I said the formation should be like this - this step should not be in the Mingyi position, but in the Jiji position..."

Shen Le listened for a long time and was sure that he was just a duck listening to thunder and didn't understand anything. He had no choice but to turn around and ask Hua Juan:
"The formation area has been scanned. Can you find where the trapped people are? Can you find how to get them out?" The scroll flashed, indicating "searching".

Shen Le waited patiently for a long time. Suddenly, five dots lit up on the first-level formation diagram. After a while, eight dots lit up one after another:
"Hey, come and take a look, what are these?"

A group of Taoist priests came over and Shen Le tilted his head and was almost pushed onto the table by them. The guy with a buzz cut roared:

"Don't push! Don't push! Don't hurt the scroll spirit! - Line up and everyone can see it. If the scroll spirit is hurt, no one can see it!"

Several old Taoist priests could no longer hear him. They spread out their compasses and eight trigrams, and some even took out their drawing boards and started drawing. The drawings looked like ghost paintings:
"This looks like the formation base! The five elements formation base, the eight trigrams changes, if these points are suppressed, the formation should not be troublesome anymore!"

"Given the strength of this formation, it would be difficult to find something to suppress these points...Brother Shouzhen, can the male and female swords in your hands suppress the gold position?"

"I feel like it's almost there... Fire overcomes Metal, we need to move that Bagua furnace here..."

"You are kidding! That Bagua furnace weighs at least three thousand pounds! Do you want to move it or do I have to? This formation will change with every additional person entering it!"

They were excited at one moment, embarrassed at another, happy at another, and frowned at another.

Shen Le listened in confusion for a long time, and finally saw the virtual projection of the formation slowly divided into five colors, which stimulated each other and changed all the time.

On the second level of the formation, there were a few little people running around, standing up and lying down. I didn't know if they were injured or had some other accident...

This scroll, relying on its own power, was able to scan out the first two layers of the formation's structure!

"I think I understand."

The Alloy Boss stared at the virtual projection for a long time and let out a long breath. He stood up, did some chest expansion exercises, and then "crunched" and gnawed off a few steel ingots:

"I know how to walk this way. Wait, I'll pick them up!"

He roared, rushed out of the crowd, and plunged into the white fog. The fog rolled, and the giant beast rushed left and right, and soon disappeared, leaving only the faint roar.

Shen Le waited in fear for about half an hour, and then the Alloy Boss rushed out of the white mist and collapsed to the ground:
"No... still no. I'm already very close, I can see them, but I just can't get through!"

He gasped several times, opened his mouth, and spit out a tattered leather notebook:
"This is their record for the past few days - they saw me, threw it out, and I picked it up. But people can't get through! Give me a whole box of food and drinks, I'll send it in to them, and then we'll find a way!"

Supplies arrived quickly, including food, water, medicine, and even batteries for the trapped people, as well as food for the alloy boss.

The alloy boss holds a piece of alloy steel in his left hand and a battery for electric vehicles in his right hand. In front of him stands a huge lead barrel with a lead straw attached to it.

He ate and drank until he was full, patted his belly and stood up:
"Okay! I'll go!"

"and many more!!!"

Shen Le finally squeezed out of the crowd. He put his backpack on his back, took out a special leather case for the camera, and held it in front of the Alloy Boss:
"Old Jin! Take this! This is my compass. I just asked him about it. He can sense the power of the formation and can show you the way!"

The Alloy Boss's hands trembled as he held the compass with both hands. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the Four Symbols and the Eight Trigrams were densely written on the edge of the dark compass, and a magnetic needle in the middle was spinning.

Shen Le said hurriedly:

"He said that he can't sense it by himself, but after the scroll scans out the map, he will be able to recognize the way! Just follow him, no problem!"

"...Then can he still communicate with the scroll after he enters the formation?"

Alloy Boss tried again and again, but couldn't hear the sound of the compass after a long time. To be safe, he asked Shen Le carefully:
"...Can you come in with me?"

It's impossible to get in. It's impossible to get in in this lifetime. Shen Le was confident and patted his backpack:

"Qingdeng! Can you share some of your strength and follow the compass? Can you communicate with the scroll here?"

[No problem! Leave it to me! ]

The little oil lamp responded happily. A ball of silver light rose up and landed on the compass, even drawing an eight-shaped figure:
【I can even write for him! 】

　The ghost didn't come to help the cat type on the Ghost Festival, so the cat had to type on the keyboard by itself, feeling sad...

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