What was in this well?
Shen Le clung to the wellhead and looked down. The ancient well was not deep. Earlier, Shen Le's junior brothers and sisters had measured it with a plumb bob and a scanner, and both had yielded the same answer:
From the ground to the bottom of the well, it was a total of four meters; from the wellhead to the bottom, only four and a half meters. Coral Tree City lay by the sea and had abundant groundwater, so there had never been any need to dig particularly deep wells—
As for the well walls, ever since Shen Le's junior brothers and sisters had vanished at the bottom of the well, the local Police Station had gone down and felt around them once. After Junior Brother Ma returned, Shen Le had also gone down with an ultrasound device and scanned them himself.
The answer was that there were no abnormal spaces anywhere, whether at the bottom or along the walls of the well—at least, no spaces large enough to hold a person.
The gaps between those stones could not even fit a baby, let alone an adult!
With only his eyes, Shen Le truly could not spot anything unusual. After thinking for a moment, he wheeled out a newly arrived piece of equipment, jumped onto the eaves, and set it up.
It was an infrared thermal imager. Once it was set up, the entire courtyard looked completely different on the screen:
Most areas appeared cyan-blue. Only a few places—such as several floor tiles Shen Le had restored not long ago, as well as the pillars that were charred black in the meditation world—were faintly reddish.
The curling lotus patterns on the floor tiles also showed up as pale blue designs beneath the thermal imager.
Clearly,