Chapter 124: Illusion
The strange scene displayed on the screen makes everyone look at each other, the wide stone room has two kinds of virtual and real scenes, the illusory scene is a fairy cloud ethereal Qiongtai pavilion, it is a three-dimensional image, there are high mountains and floating clouds in the distance, there are bamboo forests and flowing water in the near place, the main body is a gorgeous palace with eaves and paintings, and there are side halls around, and the whole scene reveals a sacred peace.
But the real scene in the stone chamber is full of ghostly atmosphere, there is a stone staircase in the stone chamber, about three meters wide, about two meters above the ground, and at the end of the staircase there is a knotted skew, which hangs down from the horizontal copper pillar at the top of the stone chamber.
The row of hanged corpses was located on the right side of the stone chamber, and there were eight corpses, five of which were dried corpses, and the other three were mercenaries dressed in modern clothing.
The eight corpses were spaced about two meters apart from each other, and the reason why the corpses were lined up on the right side of the stone chamber was because the copper pillar at the top was inclined to the right, and those who were caught in the noose would surely struggle violently, and as they struggled, they would slide to the right, and the next skew would move to the front of the steps with their struggle, waiting for the next prey to throw itself into the net.
After the surprise, everyone's eyes were focused on Huang Hailin, he was a master of the mechanism, and only he could give a reasonable explanation for this strange scene of overlapping fiction and reality.
Huang Hailin took the display screen in Xiao Qin's hand, froze the picture, and slid to explain, "See, the end of the stairs is exactly the entrance to the Phantom Palace, this is a man-made illusion, as long as people are confused by the illusion, they will be hung by the skee, this skein should be a mixture of coarse linen and metal wire coated with animal fat, and its toughness can be maintained for many years in a dry environment." ”
Huang Hailin said here for a slight breath, and slid the screen again, "Look here, there is likely to be a trap with built-in sharp thorns at the bottom of the steps, its function is to prevent fish from slipping through the net, the size of these skeins is only suitable for the normal height of men and women of one meter six to one meter eight, if there is a very short or very tall and not trapped, it will fall into the trap below, if there are two people competing to run up the steps together, the one who is not caught will also fall in, although there are eight corpses hanging in the stone room, the actual death toll should be more than eight." ”
After Huang Hailin finished speaking, Wang Xinran said on the side, "You have overlooked an important point, illusion is an illusion of the human brain, we use a camera, and the camera cannot capture the illusion." ”
"Can your phone take a picture of the TV?" Huang Hailin asked rhetorically.
"But there's no projection in there. Wang said happily.
"It can only be said that there is no modern projection device in it," Huang Hailin zoomed in on the screen, pointing to the four stone figures in the four corners of the stone room, these four stone figures are kneeling stone figures, arms raised, holding a disc-shaped thing, "If I guessed correctly, these four discs are devices that create illusions." ”
Wang nodded happily and did not ask again.
Wu Zhongyuan asked on the side, "If people go in, can they exit again?"
"Theoretically, all the mechanisms can be cracked. Huang Hailin said.
Others didn't know why Wu Zhongyuan asked this, but Wang Xinran knew, and reached out with his right hand and secretly pinched Wu Zhongyuan's buttocks.
Wu Zhongyuan naturally knew why Wang Xinran pinched him, but everyone was around, and it was inconvenient for him to let go of Wang Xinran's hand, so he could only grin and say, "I'm afraid that my senior brother is inside." ”
Huang Hailin didn't know why, and said, "Don't worry, you guys rest for a while, and I'll try to figure out the correct route." ”
The four of them sat down against the stone walls on the left and right, and in order to save batteries, they all turned off the strong flashlights.
Wang Xinran was very heavy before, and Wu Zhongyuan, who was pinching, was a little annoyed, and when he saw her holding a cigarette like no one else, his heart became more and more unhappy, and he secretly reached out and treated him in the same way.
Wang Xinran was wearing winter jeans, which were relatively thick and couldn't pinch the meat, so he grabbed them instead.
Wang happily held a cigarette in his mouth, his face as usual.
grabbed a handful, it felt good, but at the same time it was a little embarrassing, but Wang Xinran pretended to be nothing, which was tantamount to promoting "evil" in disguise, so he began to wonder if he should feel this good feel again.
Most people have the psychology of breaking the jar and breaking it, anyway, they have already touched it, and they don't care about touching a few more, but the broken jar is an excuse, and the root cause is that he wants to touch it, so he touched it again.
As soon as I stroked it, before I could feel it carefully, a scream suddenly came from beside me, "Stinky rascal, stinky rascal......"
Wang Xinran definitely won't shout, it's very dark around, Yang Yi and Xiao Qin can't see it, Huang Hailin is scrutinizing the mechanism without distraction, and it's the starling who is shouting, this guy can see things clearly in the dark, and he sees the movements of Wu Zhongyuan's hands.
Wang Xinran was embarrassed, Wu Zhongyuan was embarrassed, Xiao Qin and the others clearly guessed what was going on but pretended not to know, and they were also embarrassed, only the little was not embarrassed, and he was still calling vigorously.
"Shut up. Xiao Qin scolded.
The little nigga shut up.
The passage is quiet, but the silence at this time is full of embarrassment, and not explaining is tantamount to acquiescing, and the explanation is to cover up.
Just when Wu Zhongyuan was mentally prepared and ready to face and bear this embarrassment, Wang Xinran leaned next to Wu Zhongyuan very generously.
Wang Xinran's action is not only to save the scene but also to relieve the siege, but also to declare and confess without hesitation, Wu Zhongyuan is not only moved is praise and admiration, dare to act, this guy is really a man.
But soon the good mood turned into a bad mood, such a good woman can't have it, and when she thinks that she will be gone after half a year, the good mood is gone in an instant, and only frustration and chagrin are left.
Huang Hailin's inference is based on the details of the passage captured by the camera, and he needs to deduce a series of changes in the three passages after the mechanism is activated.
Wu Zhongyuan thought that such a cumbersome inference would not be possible for Huang Hailin to complete in a short time, but it only took Huang Hailin ten minutes to deduce the result.
"Let's go. Huang Hailin beckoned everyone to set off.
Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised, but only he was surprised, Wang Xinran and the others knew Huang Hailin's attainments in the organs, and after listening to him, they all stood up and prepared to leave.
After packing up, Huang Hailin walked first, taking the road in the middle, "The safe distance is two meters, try to be close together." ”
After walking six meters, Huang Hailin stopped, and everyone also stopped.
Soon, the mechanism activated, and the sound of vibration and friction lasted for more than ten seconds, and the path forward was still unobstructed without any change.
When the sound stopped, Huang Hailin walked forward another two meters, stopped again, and the mechanism was activated again, and there may have been unknown movements and changes in other areas, but the path ahead remained unchanged.
After the sound of friction disappeared, Huang Hailin walked forward another eight meters.
"Pi?" Wang happily discovered the pattern.
"Yes," Huang Hailin nodded, "this organ is infinitely changing, and the person who designed this organ borrowed the law of pi, and this organ is certainly not designed by the Chinese." ”
"Why do you say that?" Xiao Qin asked.
Huang Hailin was walking forward at this time, and did not answer, Wu Zhongyuan replied on his behalf, "Because we have not accurately calculated pi during the existence of the Sanxingdui civilization, in fact, ancient Greece, ancient Babylon and ancient India, the estimation of pi is earlier than ours." ”
Xiao Qin pouted, everyone is Chinese, they all hope that China is the most awesome, but in fact, the four ancient civilizations, China's civilization development is the lagging behind, this objective fact everyone is not willing to accept, but thinking that the other three major civilizations have been killed by the Aryans, our history and culture have continued to this day, my heart is much more comfortable.
Everyone walked a few steps and stopped, and after walking a few dozen meters, they saw the end of the passage.
Continuing to move forward, as the operation of the mechanism changed, the ashlar blocking the passage moved to the right, and the passage was temporarily restored.
At this point, it was almost certain that Huang Hailin's inference was correct, and everyone relaxed a little and began to talk casually.
Huang Hailin spoke first, "Follow the current route of travel, and you will eventually reach the stone chamber where the hanged man was hanged." ”
"Isn't there a slaughterhouse and a garbage dump?" Xiao Qin said casually.
"Yes," Huang Hailin nodded, "but it is also the final level of this passage, even if someone successfully passes this passage, if they don't understand the final level, they will be tricked there." They designed it this way, most likely to prevent someone from coercing someone who knew the route into entering the altar. ”
"What the hell is in the altar, the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York don't have such a high level of security. Yang Yi smiled.
Huang Hailin continued, "It's hard to say what exactly is in the altar at the moment, but that thing is definitely very important to them, and even related to their life and death. ”
After Huang Hailin finished speaking, Wang Xinran took over the conversation, "Those people who came out to look for Wu Zhongyuan from ancient times were all warriors of their tribe, all of them were people with extraordinary abilities, and the purpose of their coming here was probably to kill the monster in the altar, at present, foreign forces have more clues than us, they should know what is inside, they suspect that the warrior and the things in the altar have died together, and the spirit stone he carried has also been left here, this is the purpose and motive for them to come here." ”
After Wang Xinran finished speaking, everyone nodded, and Wu Zhongyuan said, "No matter what the things are inside, the shape should not be very large." ”
For Wu Zhongyuan's statement, everyone also agrees, this passage has about four square meters of space for standing, and the hollow copper pillar outside will begin to rotate after sensing the weight of four people, which shows that there will not be many people entering the altar, if it is a behemoth inside, the people who sacrifice will not be able to bring enough food to feed.
This passage is more than 100 meters long, accompanied by a dull friction sound, the last block of the passage of the ashlar stone sinks into the ground, the scene in front of the sudden change, a magnificent palace appears in front of everyone, the mountains and rivers in the distance, the birds and flowers in the near distance, like a fairyland on earth.
"How can you hear a sound?" Xiao Qin looked at Huang Hailin suspiciously, "You can still smell the fragrance of flowers?"
Huang Hailin explains, "Not only sight, but all sensations are a response of our brain. ”
Xiao Qin took out the leftover mineral water he drank before, drank the remaining water in it, and threw the empty bottle out casually, and the bottle fell to the grass on the side, and also overwhelmed a few young grasses.
"How did they do it?" Xiao Qin was both puzzled and curious, if it wasn't for the real scene he saw through the camera before, no one would think that what he saw was all an illusion.
Wang happily crouched down and touched the steps in front of her with her hand, and the feeling of her hands was exactly what she saw, but according to the footage captured by the camera, the place she touched should be the floor of the stone chamber, not yet the steps leading to the noose.
"How can we dispel the illusion?" Wang happily looked at Huang Hailin.
Huang Hailin said, "The disc held by the stone man at the four corners should be the key to creating the illusion. ”
Wang nodded happily, pulled out his pistol and looked back at everyone, and when everyone was mentally prepared, he shot at the right side with his memory.
After the gunshots, the illusion remained, but the sounds of birds and running water were gone.
Wang Xinran fired another shot to the left, and this time the illusion was gone, but the smell of flowers and grass remained.
After the illusion disappeared, the stone chamber revealed its true face, and the fairyland of the Yaotai Pavilion became a ghost realm where the corpses were hung, but the fragrance of flowers was still there, and everyone felt very strange in it.
Seeing that Wang Xinran was about to shoot again, Huang Hailin hurriedly raised his hand to stop it, "Don't destroy the other two places first, I'll go over and see what the principle of the mechanism is." ”
Wang nodded happily and put away his pistol.
Huang Hailin walked into the stone room, but stopped after taking a few steps, "No, the touch is still there, destroy one more place." ”
"Top left or top right?" Wang happily drew his gun in his hand.
"It should be the upper left. Huang Hailin said.
Wang Xinran estimated the location of the target with the help of memory, and fired a shot at the upper left corner.
"Okay, come in," Huang Hailin said, walked a few steps and saw that everyone didn't follow, turned around and said, "There are no other organs here, you can also look around."
Everyone walked into the stone room at this time, but everyone did not scatter to observe, but kept following Huang Hailin, and it was safer to follow him in this situation.
Huang Hailin first went to the back of the steps to check whether there were any traps there, as he expected, there was a trap more than ten meters deep behind the steps, slipping around without leaving a hand, and the bottom of the pit was densely covered with bronze sharp thorns.
There were no intact corpses underneath the trap, only a few scattered bones.
"The bones were messy, and it was obvious that someone had moved, and they probably went down. Huang Hailin said.
Wang nodded happily, "They're looking for spirit stones." ”
Huang Hailin didn't stay around the trap for too long, and walked to the upper right corner, the stone man was holding something similar to a compass, which was self-contained, with metal on the periphery, and a walnut-sized ball in the middle, gray in color, with a jade luster illuminated by light.
"Is it jade?" asked Wang Xinran.
"No, it should be the nasal bone of a mirage," Huang Hailin said, "This animal has long been extinct, my ancestors have seen mechanisms arranged with mirage bones, but it is not so complicated." ”
After Huang Hailin finished speaking, he reached out and picked up the copper plate, and the illusion of smell disappeared, and the fragrance was replaced by a dirty and dry breath.
Everyone was looking at the copper plates in Huang Hailin's hands, only Wu Zhongyuan found the problem, "They didn't destroy these copper plates, but where did the remaining five people go......