The telephone bucket was the second mysterious object obtained by humanity.
Compared to the cataclysmic terror of the flipping gears, the telephone bucket did not seem to pose much danger, yet the hidden perils it concealed were even more terrifying.
It was a wooden bucket with a diameter of about fifty centimeters.
From the outside, it measured fifty centimeters in diameter and seventy centimeters in height, a black wooden cylindrical barrel with a top and a bottom, an opening, and naturally a base—nothing extraordinary about that.
However, looking down from the opening, one could see an endless pitch-black abyss. With all of humanity's current exploratory methods, it was impossible to gauge its bottom. Indeed, there was no need to talk about the bottom, as any form of electromagnetic, gravitational waves, or even the most intense laser probing, would dissipate without a trace after about a hundred meters downwards.
