Jiang Jinjiu woke up and found that it was still dark.
He sat up and looked at his watch. The electronic watch with backlight function showed the time as 1:12 pm.
He was puzzled, and then he noticed that not only was it not bright, but it was even darker and he couldn't see his fingers. Moreover, the air was turbid and had the smell of rotten vegetables that can only be found in cellars.
"Brother Zhaoyun?"
He yelled, but heard an echo like shouting in the bathroom.
He didn't get a response from Qin Zhaoyun, so he raised his voice and called again, "Mr. Gongsun?"
This time he even heard a slight echo. He felt very uneasy and shouted "Is anyone there?" while groping for a flashlight.
When the light is turned on, everything it shines on is polished stone walls, even the top of the head. It had neither door nor window. It was a sealed stone room, about the same size as an ordinary single room in a hotel. The top is about two meters high and there is nothing around.
Jiang Jinjiu's mind was in chaos, "Where am I? How did I get here? Where have everyone gone?"
In a panic, he touched the bone china bottle hanging around his neck. It had a familiar weight. Knowing that Li Er was inside, he felt relieved. I also found that my backpack was still full, which made me feel more at ease.
Fortunately, the sleeping bag and backpack were designed as one piece and were brought together with the person. At least he didn't have to worry about starving to death.
He found a water bottle to moisten his thirsty throat, then held the bottle and called to the master.
After calling three times, Li Er appeared. He looked around and cursed, "Mother Xipi, what the hell is this place."
"I don't know." Jiang Jinjiu asked, "Master, how did I get here?"
"Don't mention it, you were robbed by a ghost."
"What!? You can't. With you here, there are still ghosts who can rob me?"
"I can't say it's a ghost. I don't know what it is. It's just a bunch of things. It ran so fast that I didn't see anything clearly when it arrived."
"But why did you rob me?"
"I didn't know. Maybe you are easy to bully. Don't ask so many questions. Find a way out first."
Jiang Jinjiu was lucky to have stuffed a head-mounted search light into his backpack. Two sets of lithium batteries can be used for 500 hours under low power consumption.
He assembled it properly, put away his backpack, and tried the intercom. As expected, there was no response.
Li Er had already walked around the stone room and found that there were stone gaps on the three stone walls similar to the gaps beside the door. On the left hand side is a rectangle with the base one foot above the ground, on the right hand side is a pair of parallel solid lines half a meter wide, and in the middle is a door shape with a seamless bottom. But Li Er pushed, pulled or lifted, without any feeling of movement.
Li Er asked Jiang Jin to try the wine. He tried his best to suck the wine, but there was no response at all on the right hand side and the middle one. The middle one had a thicker feel, and even the sound of knocking was dull. Only the stone wall in the cracks on the left hand side has a slight swaying feeling. Maybe it can be moved, but it's just not the right way.
When he couldn't push it, he used a dagger to pry it away. If he can't pry it, he kicks it with his feet.
Li Er couldn't stand it anymore. "Stop, stop, stop! Stand aside and give me a light."
Jiang Jinjiu obediently stepped aside, while Li Er looked inside the stone cracks every inch, and finally found that the cracks at the upper and lower ends of the stone wall were very shallow, and the rest of the stone wall was very deep and seemed endless, which meant that the center of the stone wall was most likely the axis. revolving door.
But why can't it be pushed?
Li Er remembered what the old fox had said about machine doors. Some had to push the door open at the corners, some had to hold the door and push it, and some had to find the hidden latch.
The latter two are unlikely, so Li Er asked Jiang Jinjiu to think about the details.
Jiang Jinjiu also thought of the magnetic rebounder, pressed hard on the upper right corner, and felt a noticeable shaking. He pushed with all his strength, and with the sound of stones grinding together, the door was pushed open.
Li Er saw it right. This was a revolving door with an axis in the center.
However, the design of this door is very special. The central axis is not vertical, but slightly tilted. There is a groove of about ten centimeters in the upper left corner of the door frame, in which is placed a stone that is thick on the left and pointed on the right.
In this way, although the door looks rectangular, because the central axis is tilted, if it is pushed horizontally, the stress point of the stone in the groove is on the left rough surface, and it will be stuck by the stone. But if you push the upper right corner, the stress point of the stone is at the left tip, with almost no obstruction. As the stone door moves, the stones fall back into the grooves.
The two of them couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the ancients, and at the same time they complained about how complicated it was to make one door so difficult that it would not allow anyone to live.
Li Er suggested leaving a mark just in case, so Jiang Jinjiu used a dagger to scratch a "1" on the wall.
Behind the door is a passage with flat walls. It looks straight and unbent. It is only a little higher than the door. The two of them had to bend their necks after entering. Although it is uncomfortable, the width allows two people to walk side by side without feeling oppressive.
However, the passage was very dirty, and there were many black sticky things on the stone walls, which smelled like pickled vegetable water. Neither of them wanted to guess what they were, so they just walked forward.
After walking fifty steps, the two came to a stone room, which was exactly the same as the previous one!
There are still three doors in the stone room, but the difference is that the seamless side at the bottom is open and there is no door panel.
If you look closely, you will see that it is not that there is no door panel, but that the door panel has sunk into the ground. If you look closely, you can see that it is retracted into a stone trough buried underground. The door panel is not stuck. If you are strong enough to pull the door panel up, it means that the door can be lifted up.
How did you do it?
The two were very puzzled and found a metal turntable on the right side of the parallel vertical line, which seemed to be used to open the door.
Jiang Jinjiu stepped forward and turned, various friction and collision sounds came from the stone wall, and the stone door panels in parallel vertical lines slowly rose up. At the same time, the door panel that retracted into the ground slowly rose up. Only then did the two of them understand that the turntable controlled two doors at the same time.
How did you do it? What's the use?
The two were even more puzzled, but they could only leave the mark "2" and then entered the passage to find a way out.
This passage is exactly the same as the previous one, even the taste is not bad. After walking fifty-one steps, they encountered a stone wall.
Jiang Jinjiu knocked hard, and there was a hollow sound, indicating that this wall should be a stone door.
The two searched up and down and couldn't find the switch, so they thought of the stone door in Stone Room No. 1. Jiang Jinjiu pushed hard, but there was no response. Think of the first door that opens by pushing the upper right corner, then the opposite is done by pulling the upper left corner and pushing the lower right corner.
He tried it, and his guess was correct.
However, when they entered the stone chamber, their heads became even bigger.
Another identical stone room!
Li Er complained for a while, "What are you doing digging out so many stone eyes? You're just showing off for nothing! Damn Xipi, if I want to catch that damn thing, I won't even recognize it unless I beat it..."
Jiang Jinjiu was also helpless, but he found that the stone room was still a little different.
Set the revolving door to number one, the door parallel to the solid line to number two, and the other to number three. There is no metal turntable on the right side of Door No. 2 in this stone chamber. There is a long groove on the surface of Door No. 3 near the top.
Door No. 2 in Stone Chamber No. 1 also has no turntable, but there is nothing on the surface of Door No. 3.
The three stone chambers are similar, just like the underground maze in the novel. Fortunately, Li Er suggested leaving a mark, otherwise he would have been trapped now.
Jiang Jinjiu marked "3" and tried to open door No. 3.
The grooves on the surface of the stone door may be a point of exertion. He pulled down hard, and not only could he feel the stone door falling, but he could also feel the strong resistance under the stone door. So he took enough breath and pulled down hard, and the stone door was pulled down bit by bit.
However, the stone door only dropped one foot before it could no longer be pulled. However, he felt that every time he applied force, the stone door could drop a little, but the resistance below was greater and it bounced back.
In this way, we can only make a breakthrough in one go. But he was holding it in so much that his whole face turned red. He leaned up and pressed down, but he still couldn't pull it down.
It was Li Er's trick to let him hang upside down on the door, put his legs against the door frame, and use all his strength and his own weight to open the door.
Sure enough, the ginger was still spicy, and the stone door suddenly fell into the ground.
Jiang Jinjiu never expected that the stone gate would fall rapidly after passing the resistance point. He fell to the ground before he could react, causing pain in his vertebrae.
At the same time, Li Er heard two sounds.
One sound was the sound of the stone door panel hitting the earth, and the other sound was the sound of stones colliding against each other.
The sound was near or far, and the direction was unclear, but what Li Er cared about was the sound of the stone door hitting the ground.
The door is clearly in front of you, and even if the sound comes from underground, you can still tell that it is in the direction of the door. But the sound seemed to come from all directions. For this to happen, one possibility is that there is a long enough secret passage underground, or there is a large enough hole.
Li Er believed that there was a secret passage underground, which might have something to do with the mechanism door of the stone chamber and had nothing to do with the way out, so he didn't pay special attention to it.
The passage behind the door was exactly the same again. This time, after walking fifty and a half steps, I encountered another stone room that was very similar.
Door No. 1 of this stone chamber is open, there is a turntable to the right of door No. 2, and door No. 3 has a flat surface, the same as that of Stone Chamber No. 1.
But beside the doorless wall stood something wrapped in dead vines. When the two of them got closer, they were shocked to see that the thing wrapped in dead vines turned out to be a mummy!
what's the situation! ?
If you look closely, you will see that the skin and flesh on the corpse are like dried beef jerky, tightly wrapped around the bones. Vine branches of varying thicknesses penetrated from between the flesh seams, nipples, mouth, nose, eyes and ears, entangled with other branches, destroying the gender characteristics, making it impossible to tell whether it was a boy or a girl.
Taking a closer look, the two of them shuddered.
The roots of the rattan were tightly wrapped around the spine and pelvis, and even penetrated into the muscles of the thighs. The roots in the abdomen are twisted into a rope, winding and forming an S shape, with dried casings scattered on the surface. The stomach area contains a sphere made of four roots, which is hollow inside. This picture looks like this person has a set of liver, kidneys and intestines made up of roots.
When Jiang Jinjiu saw that the cane under the corpse's buttocks was relatively thick, he felt his anus tighten.
He couldn't imagine whether this person was penetrated by the cane while alive, or whether it was absorbed by the cane like fertilizer after death.
But Li Er ruthlessly pulled him into the horrific scene. He said, "This is the first time I've seen such a way of death. I'm afraid the seeds were driven into the belly and sprouted and took root for several days. Until here, the vine roots blocked it." His internal organs failed and he died."
Jiang Jinjiu's scalp and belly felt itchy and he didn't dare to talk.
Li Er curled his lips, ducked behind him and whispered, "Look at the lees, he has been standing. That is to say, the roots passed through the intestines, filled the crotch and pelvis, and then stuck to the leg bones and pierced the knees." , he kept standing without falling. No matter how fast the tree roots grow, it only takes half a finger a day, and it takes at least a month to grow into the knee. He must be alive before that, otherwise he would have fallen down long ago, you Say no!" Li Er slapped Jiang Jinjiu hard on the back, scaring him so much that he almost vomited his heart out.
He shouted, "Master! This is what happened! Stop making trouble!"
Li Er spread his hands and laughed.
Jiang Jinjiu was helpless, but he remembered the appearance of this rattan with all his heart, thinking that if he met him, he would have to stay away.
Next, Jiang Jinjiu went to turn the carousel at Door No. 2. After passing through the exact same passage, he walked fifty-two steps and came to a similar stone room.
Something is wrong!
On the stone wall, there is a "2".
who I am? where am I? What am I doing?
Jiang Jinjiu was stunned, feeling at a loss.
