Suddenly, I was shocked.
"Why didn't I realize just now that there's something completely wrong with these finger prints?"
I shook my head and immediately pressed my finger on it.
really.
One of the fingers is actually only half of it.
The little finger seemed to have been cut off by something, making it look unusually short.
One knuckle shorter than a normal person.
However, since I was looking up from below, this small abnormality was covered up by the dense palm marks, and I almost didn't notice it.
"The little finger of the person with four fingers has been injured. It seems that this is not one of us. There is probably someone else here. Or he is dead."
At the moment when I was thinking, there was a sudden crash behind me.
And I'm sure I heard it right.
This time the sound came from the stone wall behind me.
"who?"
I looked back, but there was still no sign of anyone.
The moment I turned back, the footsteps sounded again.
Or maybe the footsteps were actually coming towards where I was.
The sound is extremely clear.
Since I was above, the flashlight's irradiation range became wider, and there was clearly no human figure within my visible range.
Zhang Xu was so frightened that he shrank into a corner and shouted to me.
"That guy is looking for your life. Jump down quickly. If you continue like this, you will die."
I shook my head and stared at the wall calmly.
There are no more fingerprints on it, but the sound of footsteps is more obvious than before.
And I heard it very clearly, the voice sounded like I was walking over.
Just when the footsteps were about to come to me, I vaguely felt an echo coming from my ears.
Or instead of an echo, there are two voices.
The footsteps seemed to overlap, and there seemed to be a fainter footsteps coming from above my head?
"What the hell, why do these two footsteps sound exactly the same?"
Not only are they the same frequency, they are also almost identical in size.
I carefully put my ear against the wall and listened quietly to the sounds above.
really.
Through the heavy walls, I seemed to hear someone moving above.
The sound of footsteps came clearly through the stone wall above our heads.
Moreover, this sound echoed the sound of footsteps on the ground, almost exactly the same.
"Could it be said that these two footsteps are exactly the same?"
Thinking of this, I reached out and knocked hard on the top of my head.
With my banging.
The footsteps above suddenly stopped. It was obvious that the people above had noticed the sounds below us.
I took a breath, then put my mouth to the stone wall above my head, and shouted at it.
"anyone there?"
Immediately afterwards, I heard Cui Hao's response from under our feet.
It's just that the sound is relatively small, almost incomparable to the footsteps just now.
"Master Xiaoman, is that you?"
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Could it be that this is not a mechanism set up on the dome and underneath to scare tomb thieves, but the footsteps of real people leaving when they walk away? It seems that when I just hammered the nails, I made too much noise, and then I Cui Hao and the others were attracted."
Thinking of this, I looked up at the dome.
"But how did this place be divided into two levels? Why did they run up to the top again?"
But it was too strenuous to talk against the wall like this.
In addition, it is extremely difficult for the sound to reach our ears through the thick stone roof.
So I gave up communicating.
"Cui Hao, find a way to get Wang Wangyang to walk again. In this way, you take two steps and stop, and you take two steps and stop. With this rhythm, I will know that the footsteps belong to the two of you. "
I used all my strength to shout these words to the top of the stone, not sure whether the two of them could hear me.
But soon, I clearly heard the sound of footsteps under our ground, and there were two sounds and a pause.
"Sure enough, the sound from above could not be heard, it was transmitted directly to the floor under our feet."
If you look at it this way, then the footsteps that followed me before were not following the two of us.
Instead, Cui Hao and Wang Wangyang above our heads were walking, which made such footsteps.
If you put it this way, everything will be explained.
I simply told Cui Hao to pay attention to their safety.
Then, I grabbed the nails from above and jumped down, and then began to observe carefully on the ground.
"The ground is very clean and flat. If there is something like soundproof cotton on the stone walls on both sides and above the head, the sound from above will not be transmitted at all. But there is a solid interlayer embedded in the middle of the soundproof cotton. This mezzanine leads from top to bottom and is directly connected to our floor. This means that the sound from above cannot be transmitted directly through the air. Instead, it can be transmitted to our floor through the mezzanine in the center. So all this It’s all explained.”
In solids, sound travels relatively quickly.
At least the volume lost is much less than in gas.
If there are really soundproofing devices on the sides and overhead, and they transmit the sound to the soles of our feet through some special solid layer.
So there is a high probability that this effect can be achieved.
I couldn't help but take a breath.
"What kind of capable person and skillful general can set up such a mechanism?"
But what happens to the organization now has nothing to do with us.
The most important thing now is how we should escape from this place.
And if the footsteps above were left by Cui Hao and Wang Wangyang, then the finger marks on the ceiling could never be those of them.
It also proves that there is a third party here.
Zhang Xu saw that I was stagnant against the wall for a long time, and he came to my side worriedly.
"How are you? Did you find something?"
I briefly told him my speculation and finally told him not to worry.
"If my reasoning is correct, it means that the two of us are safe now, and this footsteps are not a threat to us."
I pointed to the ceiling above my head and then stated what I had just been feeling.
"I think it's the handprints on the ceiling and the prying eyes that I consciously or unconsciously sensed that are more dangerous."
Zhang Xu was relieved when he heard that Cui Hao and the others were probably above our heads.
"If that's the case, then we're safe."
I nodded and was about to speak.
But suddenly, I heard a knocking sound from below, followed by the faint voice of Cui Hao shouting.
"Come up quickly, I have something to do with you."
I nodded and climbed back to the top of the wall, continuing to try to shout to them.
What the two of them said made me stiff with fear.
"There is a child here, about 1.5 meters tall. We have seen this shadow before, and it flashed in front of us and disappeared. Anyway, I would like to remind you, be careful."
It takes too much effort to talk like this.
I briefly exchanged the information on our side and immediately jumped off the wall.
My legs were shaking.
Even if you step on the soul-suppressing nail, the position you are in is too high after all, and you have to keep talking against the top of the wall, which is an extremely physically demanding thing.
According to the information exchange we just exchanged, they also seemed to be trapped in a passage.
The passage is straight forward without any forks.
However, both sides of the passage were blocked by stone walls, and there was no way to get out.
Zhang Xu became even more nervous after hearing the news.
"Then what should we do? Are we going to be trapped underground and sealed like this forever?"
I think it is divided into two levels, upper and lower, which definitely has its own reason.
And judging from the mechanisms and sophistication set up here, we may be able to figure out why it is divided into two floors, and we can find a way to escape from here.
I sat on the ground and thought carefully.
Time passed by, but I didn't come up with an answer.
The passages are all roughly the same, but I can't clearly see the conditions above, so I can't make a corresponding comparison.
Thinking of this, I simply lay down on the top of the wall again and shouted my plan to the two people above.
"In this way, you two continue to walk forward until you reach the end of the passage, and I will follow in your footsteps. I want to see if our passages completely overlap."
If our upper and lower passages have different structures, then there may be clues and information we can find at the intersection.
The two agreed to my request, and immediately I heard footsteps under my feet and walked forward.
I followed closely behind.
But suddenly, I found that when the footsteps reached a certain wall, they walked directly behind the wall.
Instead of turning to the right like we did, he kept walking straight forward.
"Don't go, stop."
My voice couldn't be heard and I couldn't communicate with them. I could only stand there and worry.
I carefully groped the wall and carefully examined every texture of the stone on it.
"What's going on? Why did the two of them disappear after walking here?"
As I was groping for the wall, I suddenly felt as if the wall in front of me had suddenly disappeared.
Before I had time to react, the man fell forward.
"what?"
I immediately drew out Shang Fang's sword and slashed around quickly, fearing that I would be attacked by something hidden in the dark.
With a bang, I fell to the ground.
Only then did I realize that I had not been attacked by anything. Instead, I entered another passage, which was completely different from the one just now.
"What's going on? How did I get here?"
