"You bitch! I can't live anymore, ah - ah -"
Jiang Jinjiu kept shouting until he ran out of energy.
As early as four hours ago, Li Er tried to find a way with Guicong, but it was useless and consumed a lot of energy, so he could only rest in a porcelain bottle.
Jiang Jinjiu walked alone in the maze-like basement for a long time, but kept wandering among the sixteen stone rooms, feeling extremely depressed.
After shouting for a while, the tightness in his chest was relieved a lot, and his mood became more relaxed, so he sat down to rest and eat something.
However, supplies were limited and he did not dare to eat more. After eating, he got into his sleeping bag and slept.
But this sleep was not peaceful. Once the stone room became quiet, even his own breathing became noise. Every time I sleep for a period of time, I will be awakened by the twitching of some part of my body. Or his jaw twitches, he bites his tongue and wakes up in pain. In short, he doesn’t sleep well.
Because of this, he felt the vibrations in the space and the faint sounds.
He looked at his watch. It was about three o'clock in the middle of the night, and it sounded like a thunderstorm, so he didn't care and continued to sleep. But the sound was very irregular and annoying. He was very upset, and then he felt the urge to urinate.
He got up and walked into the passage, venting his heart out against the wall of the passage. But when I was walking back, I stepped on urine.
Jiang Jinjiu looked down and saw urine flowing down the wall, gathering into a stream of urine and flowing towards the stone room. At first glance he didn't care, but after taking two steps he felt something was wrong.
He turned around and stared at the passage, thinking that he had walked through it countless times without even noticing the slope of the ground. Suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind. Could it be that the slope of the passage was the key to the way out? ?
In order to confirm his idea, he did not hesitate to conduct experiments with drinking water. Sure enough, the two passages in another stone chamber were uphill and downhill.
"I'm such a genius!"
Jiang Jinjiu was so excited that he packed his bags and started exploring the road.
Drinking water is limited, so naturally we can't waste it, but since we don't have anything in the shape of a ball, we can only use our brains. After thinking about it, he dug out a large plastic bag, filled it with water and tied the mouth of the bag so that when it was placed on the ground, he could see the water flowing to a lower place without wasting water.
Now he was in Stone Room No. 5. He walked through it randomly, 5, 4, 10, 2, 1, 9, 5. The gradient of the passage between stone chambers is: down, up, down, down, down, up.
To be sure, he walked again, 5, 9, 16, 8, 12, 3, 4, 10, 2, 1, 9, 5. The slope is, up, up, down, down,, up, up, up, down, down, down, up.
Jiang Jinjiu was extremely excited, and the result was exactly as he imagined. If you want to get out of here, you can only take the upward slope.
However, the ideal is very full and the reality is very skinny. No matter how you walk, you just can't connect the uphill roads together.
"Calm down, calm down... If it's so simple and I've been fooled, there must be something else that I've overlooked."
Jiang Jinjiu took a few deep breaths to let his brain get more oxygen. He looked carefully at the three doors, thinking about the differences.
The most obvious one is the carousel at Door 2. Not all Door 2s have it. Found in stone chambers 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 15. If the turntable is part of the mechanism, these eight stone chambers must be crucial.
He came to Stone Room No. 4 and groped for a long time, but found no hidden mechanism.
He was thinking in his mind that if there really were no other mechanisms, it should be a problem with the order of the doors. Although there are three doors, the actual choices are two. The choice of different doors only differs from the first few, and then goes back to the circle later. That is to say, the choice at the beginning determines the subsequent path.
Then... what will happen if door 2 is opened halfway?
As he turned the dial, he exclaimed that he was a genius. But when I was squatting on the ground and just about to crawl under the door, I suddenly looked at the dark passage and felt panicked. Thinking about what to do if the door closes by itself after entering, and you are trapped in the passage.
After thinking three times, he stood up and opened the porcelain bottle: "Master, please come out."
Li Er appeared, looking left and right, with a displeased expression on his face and said, "Stupid Liquor, why haven't you found a way out yet?"
Jiang Jinjiu smiled bitterly and said, "Come on, there's no clue as to why I'm asking you to come out."
"Tell me, what's going on now?"
Jiang Jinjiu briefly explained, and finally said, "Master, as long as we know whether the turntable has anything to do with the passage, we can find the exit."
Li Er nodded and slipped into the passage without saying a word. Jiang Jinjiu lay on the ground and illuminated Li Er, and he soon lost sight of him.
But not long after, Li Er came back, and he said, "You're right. The passage is alive. There are switches in the middle. One goes up and the other goes down."
"The channel is alive? What do you mean?"
Li Er gestured with his hands and said, "This road is divided into two halves. The one half has two openings, the upper and the lower. This half can move, and which opening leads to which road."
This surprised Jiang Jinjiu. After much thought, he never expected that the stone chamber was divided into upper and lower floors, but he also understood why he kept going in circles.
He said happily, "Great. I have always taken the upper path. This time I only need to take the lower path."
Li Er shook his head, "No."
"Why?"
"I went both ways, but the door didn't open."
Jiang Jinjiu thought to himself, "In other words, if door No. 2 is not fully opened, the door on the opposite side will not open. Who invented the ghost door? I will curse you."
He was wandering around in the stone room while thinking about it. When he came to door No. 1, he suddenly felt very suffocated and wanted to vent, so he kicked the door a few times.
Li Er advised: "Boy, what are you so anxious about? You have to stay calm and save some strength to win the final victory.
Jiang Jinjiu leaned against the door and gasped, "It's okay, it's okay, I just feel bored."
Suddenly he felt that he had overlooked something, and then the cold touch on his palm caught his eye, "Yes! Yes! That's it!" Jiang Jinjiu shouted in his heart, "Why does door No. 1 have to be rotated in a specific way?" , because it is also an element of the mechanism. I have never closed the No. 1 door of all the stone chambers, but some doors will close by themselves after turning around. Among them, none of the No. 1 doors of the turntable stone chamber have ever closed by themselves. What does this mean!? The switch of Door 1 controls whether Door 2 goes up or down, I am such a genius!"
Jiang Jinjiu couldn't wait to close door 1, then opened door 2, and happily ran into the passage and entered the next stone room...No. 10.
"what's the situation!?"
Jiang Jinjiu felt a little frustrated and silently returned to Stone Room No. 4 and closed Door No. 2, thinking that what Door No. 1 might have changed was the passage behind Door No. 3.
He turned the turntable thoughtfully and didn't even notice that door No. 2 closed, but he still kept moving. However, before the turntable could not rotate counterclockwise after the door was closed, now it can!
When he reacted, door No. 2 was slowly opening.
He excitedly ran into the passage again and entered the next stone room... No. 13.
"So that's it, I'm such a genius!" He was so excited that he told Li Er about this discovery.
Li Er smiled and said, "What a good boy. If you don't practice well, you still have the brains to deal with it. It's all in vain."
Next, the two of them kept trying together, and actually opened the fourth door in Stone Room No. 7!
This door is not on the wall, but on the ground. A door-shaped floor was pulled away to reveal a staircase leading underground.
The stairs are slightly narrow, less than one meter wide, but the passage after going down is the same as other passages. After walking fifty-four steps, Jiang Jinjiu suddenly saw a bright light. He felt like he had walked to the second-floor bleachers of an indoor basketball court. He was facing an absurdly large stone room.
There was only a three-meter-wide staircase in front of me, four or five meters above the ground, and both sides were empty. There is a walking trail connected under the stairs. The color is different from the one next to it, and it looks like it is paved with a carpet.
There are many bronze figures standing on both sides of the trail, arranged irregularly, and some of their bodies are crooked.
"Master... are we going the wrong way? This doesn't look like the way out."
"I can't say whether it looks like the ground or not. I think the wind in the cave is stronger than the stone stuff inside. Let's explore it first. If there is a treasure, it won't be a loss."
"But, it feels quite dangerous down there."
"I'm very afraid. The soldiers will come to block it, and the water will come and the earth will cover it."
With that said, Li Er stepped forward and Jiang Jinjiu had no choice but to follow behind.
After landing on the ground, Jiang Jinjiu became more and more uneasy.
The bronze figure is simple to make. The head is a ball and the hands are either fists or outstretched palms. The limbs are thick and round like lotus roots, and the soles of the feet are just a square. These bronze figures looked like they were made on an assembly line. They were all the same and had no characteristics. The surface was oxidized to brick red, making it look like a wooden figure. It was easily reminiscent of the Wooden Figure Alley in Shaolin Temple. Jiang Jinjiu didn't even have the courage to touch the bronze figure. What's more, before meeting the Bronze Man, I passed through a series of stone chambers with mechanisms. Would anyone believe that these Bronze Man were just decorations?
Suddenly Li Er stretched out his hand and knocked on the bronze man's chest. Jiang Jin was so shocked that he didn't dare to express his anger and quickly backed away. However, the bronze man didn't react at all. Then Li Er fiddled with the bronze man's arm, but there was still no response.
This made Jiang Jinjiu so nervous that he broke into a cold sweat. As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat, he was really afraid that Li Er would trigger the mechanism and stage a tragic death of the bronze man.
But he was too preoccupied. No matter what Li Er did, the bronze man showed no reaction at all, and even made a hissing sound as the machine lacked lubrication, indicating that the bronze man had not moved for a long time.
Jiang Jinjiu thought to himself, "Is it possible that these mechanisms cannot be activated due to age?"
With more contact, he became more reassured and determined that these copper figures were scrapped.
As we walked, the trail came to a crossroads.
The situation in the three directions was almost the same, so he intuitively turned left. Walking along the trail to the wall, I suddenly felt that my head had doubled in size. There were actually five passage openings on one wall!
Not only that, there are also five on the opposite wall, and there are five passages on the other wall. When strong light enters, you can't see the end. The passage is two meters wide and high, and the floor is paved with stone bricks. It is very flat, but the two walls are full of pits, which makes it disturbing to look at.
Jiang Jinjiu said in anguish, "Master, I was wrong when I said that. As soon as I came out of a pit, there was another pit in the blink of an eye. This must be an underground maze designed to trap people to death!"
Li Er said, "What are you afraid of? The purpose of our visit is to find the treasure. It seems that this handiwork has not escaped, so we will go down to find the treasure."
"Just the two of us!?" Jiang Jinjiu said, "Don't find the baby, so hang it here first."
Li Er scolded, "You kid, don't you dare to take action if you leave the organization! Hurry up and move quickly. If you can't do it, say no, and retreat before you break in. This is not my style."
Jiang Jinjiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Master, tell me how we should go now. There are so many ways."
Li Er observed for a moment and said, "I remember Gongsun Zhi said that there is a snake locked up here. If this is really the place, it should be locked up at the very back. The path in the middle seems to go down, and the two sides seem to be places for treasures. These five The doorway... we men are upright and should take the right path, this is the middle one."
After saying that, he strode towards the middle passage on the left side of the stone room. Jiang Jinjiu sighed and followed him.
