Silent Killing

The old man facial expression grave said, “What’s going on? Isn’t this room the room we previously arrived in?”

“Not sure yet.” With that said, Zuo Qingcang had pulled out the dagger with a light face again, and began engraving a mark on the ground: “Let’s wait here to see if this mark will disappear.”

old man nodded, he immediately understood what Zuo Qingcang wanted to confirm. And once the mark hasn’t disappeared, it means that they may have been trapped in this maze of stone rooms.

Staring closely at the ground in front of him, Zuo Qingcang asked the old man aside: “After you entered the stone chamber, did you feel the existence of artificial spirit strength flow? Is it possible that we have a Taoism?”

“No, if there is, I can definitely see it.” Old man shook the head: “It may be Taoism, or it may be an institution. Because many Taoism does not require the operation of Spirit Strength, it is like a big The star map at the door is the use of Taoism in the construction process. As long as it is built, even if there is no spiritual strength to provide energy, his existence can make people crazy. “

The next two people discussed several possibilities. Zuo Qingcang counted time while talking. Until half an hour later, the mark in front of the scene was still there without any change.

The old man’s face was gloomy, Zuo Qingcang nodded: “The mark will not disappear, indicating that we entered a different room when we were going backwards.” With that said, he had once again entered the middle passage and walked towards the stone room he had just visited.

But the two looked at the room. Before Zuo Qingcang returned to mark the place, it was already empty. This mark also disappeared.

The next two people experimented a few more times, and the old man’s face became more and more ugly. Regardless of forward, backward, any three channels left, middle, and right, as long as one round trip, the mark will disappear.

“Every time we walk through the passage, we will come to a new stone room?” The old man looked at the three passages in front of him and the one behind him in wonder, and said with some anxiety, “What is going on? Is there anything? Follow us and erase the marks we made? “

“It’s unlikely.” Zuo Qingcang shook the head: “The average time we pass through the channel now is about 30 seconds, and 60 seconds back and forth to restore these scratches …”

“Always try it!” The old man stood up. “Anyway, we return all the way. If we can’t return it the same way, it means that there is really a problem in this place. Someone didn’t erase the scratches.”

Zuo Qingcang has no objection. In the case where there is no clue, one after another tests every possibility, and there is no way.

So the two returned along the original route. Because each time they walk through the middle passage, logically speaking, they can return the same way.

But now they have returned the same way, but they have a strange feeling.

The stone room is square, and there is a passage in the stone room. When Zuo Qingcang and old man determined that the passage behind them was the way back, the entire Shishi had only three ways for them to move forward.

But now, they are not sure that they are going back. So after walking through the stone room continuously, a strange feeling enveloped them, because in terms of appearance, they were no different from the previous process of advancing in the stone room.

A feeling of confusion around the front, back, left, and direction was shrouded in their hearts. Although they were told in their minds that they are now going back, the visual information made them feel no different from their previous progress.

The two could only silently count the number of stones passing through the room. But the more he counted this way, the more agitated the old man’s face was, and the quicker his steps were.

Finally, when the two walked into another stone room, and the stone room counted by the two people had reached the 30th, the old man said anxiously, “When the 30th came, we definitely did not pass through so many stone rooms. And these stone rooms Inside, we didn’t find a mark, which means we didn’t pass any of the rooms where the mark was made before. “

Zuo Qingcang put one hand on his shoulder and said coldly, “Don’t worry, keep calm at this time.”

The old man was barely nodded, deeply put out a breath, and seemed to want to spit out the pain in his chest.

Zuo Qingcang looked at the stone room in front of him and judged: “This situation in front of us is either a change in space or some kind of hallucination in us. And unless there is a form of Taoism in the building, there is a space transfer type. Whether it’s hallucinations or spatial changes, it’s nothing more than deceiving our eyes through vision, structure, and so on. “

The old man surely shook the head: “There is absolutely no space-shifting Taoism to be launched here. Even this kind of Taoism has been lost to the Western Wei Dynasty. Only the remains left by Ancient Era exist, and any one requires a huge spirit strength. In order to be motivated, it can never be this Taoism. “

“Then, let’s see if there is a problem with the structure here.” Zuo Qingcang looked towards Shishi’s all around and thought: “First of all, we must determine whether there is any problem in front of us.”

I saw that Zuo Qingcang took out the rope tied around his waist, handed one end to the old man, and the other end took it by himself. Then they stood along the wall of the stone room.

“What are you doing?”

“I first see if there is any problem with this stone room.” Zuo Qingcang said while measuring whether the entire stone room was really square as seen, and whether the distance between the four passages was as seen, yes the same.

“No problem.” After the measurement, the structure of this stone chamber was the same as it was seen. Then he looked towards the old man: “Have you heard the trick?”

“trick?”

“Yes, I used to learn a trick with a guy named David Copperfield. He said a word to me. The most important thing to deceive the audience on the stage is to attract the audience’s attention. Their attention is drawn to irrelevant places. This is called imaginary reality, and the audience will never discover the mystery of the trick because they never really see it. “

The old man asked, “David Copperfield? Is a Westerner?”

Zuo Qingcang knows from Liu Zhicheng’s memory that after crossing the new continent and then going westward, it is a country composed of Westerners, whose culture and ethnicity are similar to those of Europe and the United States in the previous world.

Zuo Qingcang said, “Well, very interesting Westerners.”

The old man followed Zuo Qingcang’s gaze and looked towards the all around channel. Compared with the brightly lit stone room, the passage without light is extremely dark.

Apparently, the stone room illuminated by the light attracted their attention, and the passage covered by darkness was relatively easy to ignore.

The old man said thoughtfully: “What do you mean, the problem is in the passage?”

“If the rooms we enter each time are different, then the access to these rooms is obviously the key.”

Zuo Qingcang left one end of the rope in Shishi, and he and the old man held the other end of the rope, then carved a cross mark, and finally picked a channel on the left and walked in.

“According to our previous experience, after entering the passage, every time there is a new stone room, what if we have a rope on our body?”

“When we return the same way, will the rope disappear? Or will it still exist?”

“What about the marks we make?”