"By the way, someone came to Lin City looking for you a while back. He found his way to our home," Father said.
"Who?" I asked.
"Goudan'er," Father said.
I froze. Wasn't Goudan'er supposed to be in the Mo Family's underground city?
He had actually come out—come out of the underground city!
"Where is he?"
"He heard you weren't here and left. He said he had something to take care of. I didn't tell him where you went because I was afraid he'd worry. I know his temper. If he knew you might be in danger, he would definitely rush off to find you without a second thought."
I nodded. Goudan'er really would do that.
But where had he gone afterward? He hadn't said, so naturally Father didn't know either.
Why had Goudan'er suddenly appeared? Had something happened in the underground city? Could the power of "the Silkworm" have infiltrated the underground city as well?
"Did he say why he was looking for me?"
"He mentioned it briefly. I suspect it had something to do with the Underground people."
The Underground people? Sanxingdui immediately came to mind.
When we had previously discussed the excavated artifacts of Sanxingdui and the Sanxingdui civilization, we had made a guess: the Sanxingdui civilization might not have belonged to humanity on Earth at all, but to an alien civilization—or, at the very least, a fusion of alien civilization and Earth civilization.
It was simply that no one knew what devastating blow had wiped out the Sanxingdui civilization.
But some people remained skeptical. They believed the Sanxingdui civilization had not truly perished, only vanished from public sight. It was highly possible that the Sanxingdui civilization had moved from the surface underground, opening up another world beneath the earth—a world of their own.
That was also why