The weather seemed to be getting colder, and a thin layer of fog appeared inexplicably in the military camp. With nothing to do, the knights and retinues sat on the ground and closed their eyes to rest, while Amy leaned on the pile of rocks and watched boredly. But they waited for a long time, and still no follow-up search team came here.
Amy suddenly screamed "Ah". The knight and his followers quickly opened their eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
"My clothes accidentally got caught on the rocks." Amy raised the sleeve of her left hand unhappily. The clothes that looked very expensive were now torn in a large piece. There was also a piece of floating cloth hanging.
"This piece of clothing is equivalent to one pound of clothes I bought before. I originally wanted to put it in the closet for viewing, but Your Majesty insisted that I wear it out. Now it's fine. It's torn. I have to go back and mend it."
"Make up?" The knight and his followers were stunned. They have never seen anyone wearing such expensive clothes go back to mend their clothes. The knight also felt something was wrong. But the servants didn't dare to ask, and the knight felt it was inconvenient to ask, so no one mentioned it.
"Speaking of which, these piles of rocks look like they have been placed randomly, but upon closer inspection they are quite particular."
"Essential?" The knight tilted his head and stared at the pile of rocks in front of Amy for a long time, unable to figure it out.
So Amy waved him to where she was standing, pointed in a direction and said, "Look in that direction."
The knight tilted his head again and looked carefully for a long time. The stone was still a stone, and the pile of stones was still a pile of stones. Other than that, he found nothing unusual.
"Come here again." Amy pulled the knight to the other side and asked him to turn and look in the opposite direction. "Do you see anything now?"
The knight narrowed his eyes. This time, it didn't take long for him to react: "It's almost the same thing as what he saw from the perspective just now?"
"Yes, it's the same! The things seen from the other two directions are all the same! Isn't it amazing?"
"How could this happen?" The knight blinked stupidly and asked, "Then which direction is east and which direction is west now?"
"Huh? We came from the east, that is, this direction, right?" Amy pointed to the side without thinking, but soon, a hesitant expression appeared on her face, "It seems to be this way? No. , this side?”
The knight had no choice but to ask the four retinues: "Do you remember which direction we came in from?"
The four subordinates all stretched out their fingers without thinking, but they pointed to four different directions.
An ominous premonition arose in the hearts of everyone present. Amy said half-jokingly: "We're not going to get lost in the military camp, right?"
"We can't stay here any longer." The knight said, "Any direction is good, let's get out of this weird place first!"
Amy nodded. So they packed up their bags, picked a random direction and hurried over.
There were strange calls of birds in the sky, and a thin layer of fog floated on the ground. This made Amy look more and more panicked. But she still comforted everyone: "It doesn't matter, we are not children, how can we get lost in a military camp? I think the rest of the people have finished searching and are waiting for us outside the military camp.
"You're right." The knight nodded calmly, "We just saw this military camp in the highlands. It extends in all directions. It's not a maze. Just go out in one direction."
"It doesn't matter if it's a maze. The legendary Cretan maze is much bigger than this!" Amy agreed, "That maze is as big as a city, and there are bull-headed monsters in it that eat people! In the end, it's not It was cracked by a prince who made marks with a yarn ball!"
"What is that?" the followers asked curiously. They haven't heard the story.
"Hey, I don't know. It's a legend from the Empire of the Seven Hills, about the hero Theseus. A long time ago, the king of Crete built a labyrinth and raised a monster in it, forcing everyone to Send twelve people into the maze to feed the monsters..."
As soon as the legend was mentioned, Amy's interest rose. She told the knight and the knight's retinue the story of Theseus' cracking of the labyrinth in a clear and logical manner. When it came to Theseus versus Minotaur, she played Theseus for a while and Minotaur for a while, dancing and dancing. At the climax, she even threw a small fireball on a rock.
"That's it, Minotaus was defeated by the Hero King Theseus! Congratulations, congratulations!"
The front suddenly opened up, and a large camp appeared in front of Amy. The camp was surrounded by rocks, and on one of the rocks was the cloth that had just been torn off Amy's sleeves.
"Really lost???" Amy panicked, "I, I will tear my clothes into silk threads to mark them now. You guys cover your eyes with cloth and don't peek..."
The knight stretched out his hand to stop Amy. With a stern look on his face, he took out a money bag from his waist, handed the pile of gold coins to a subordinate, and ordered: "Take these as a mark and throw one at every intersection."
Normally, someone would definitely ask, "Really do this?" But everyone has realized the seriousness of the situation, and no one has complained about this extravagant plan. Although there was no trace of the enemy, they still held the sword in their hands and carefully checked the surrounding situation with every step.
The further they walked, the more frightened they became. I didn't notice it when I first entered the formation. Now I was in a panic. The rocks looked more and more like human beings. The towering spiers were like spears standing upright in the military formation, and there seemed to be eyes out of nowhere in the pile of rocks, watching their every move all the time.
A sudden strong wind blew up sand and rocks. The sound of birds is sharp, like mourning or crying. There was a faint sound of waves in the distance. When they realized that this was not the beach, the sound suddenly sounded like the sound of swords and drums.
Dusk is getting darker. Amy and others relied on the marks of the gold coins and groped forward cautiously. My eyes finally became bright again. They cheered and rushed over, but what greeted them was the same camp and the same rocks. Amy's sleeves were floating on the rocks, like a woman waving a handkerchief and crying in the wind.
"Come back again? Where's the gold coin mark we made?"
"It's gone!" The guard who threw the gold coin shouted in horror, "Who picked it up!"
"Oops, someone is ambushing inside!" The knight turned to look at Amy in a panic, "What should we do now?"
Amy saw the dead rat again. The scattered small gravels around it now made Amy tremble with fear. She tremblingly reached out her hand and looked at the mouse carefully. The mouse didn't have any wounds on its body, and it didn't look like it was poisoned. It only had a flat belly——
It starved to death in the small circle of gravel around it.
