Chapter 40: Five Steps
It's eight o'clock in the evening, and the monster must have been dispatched, and the sound of heavy breathing doesn't mean that the monster has followed my scent into a hole.
Now I can't retreat, but I can't see any switch at the stone door in front of me, I can't change it and I don't dare to panic, otherwise I will really die.
I quickly looked around by the light of the flashlight, and if there was really a treasure hidden in it, then the stone door would definitely be able to open.
Sure enough, I found an inconspicuous hole in the rock wall, just enough to reach into an arm, and I didn't have time to think about it to reach in and fumble for it, and it really made me touch a hard object.
I pulled hard, and an iron ring was pulled out by me, and the stone door in front of me rumbled upward, and the sound behind me became closer and closer.
I didn't wait for the stone door to be fully opened, I leaned down and went inside, I didn't have time to look at the furnishings in the cave, I just want to close the stone door now.
The stone door was still rising, I lowered my body and shone it with a flashlight, I could already see the gray limbs of the monster, I quickly got up and searched the wall, and the same hole appeared in front of me.
I repeat the old trick, sure enough, it is a switch, it doesn't matter if it can be turned on again, the important thing is to survive tonight, I pulled hard, and the stone door in front of me fell violently.
It closed surprisingly quickly, and I heard the sound of bones shattering, and I shone it with a flashlight, and it was the monster's arms pressed under the stone door.
If it had been a second at night, I would have died here in the near future.
Shocked and undecided, I sat down directly on the ground, and only slowly got up when my breathing was even, and the flashlight shone in the cave, but where there was a treasure in front of me, it was all some strange-looking stone statues.
It doesn't seem like there's much to hide here, maybe it was built by the island's natives.
The stone statues in front of me were of different shapes, but the faces looked a little similar to the monsters outside, because these stone statues had no eyes.
"This can't be a monster's lair, is it?" I thought to myself.
Thinking about this, I instantly got goosebumps, and I raised my flashlight to look around, and each stone statue actually held a torch in its hand.
I put down my flashlight, pulled out my lighter, and fiddled with it above the torch with the mindset of giving it a try.
I didn't expect this torch to be lit by me, and I saw the stone statue in front of me for some years, although this torch has an iron shell, but it is also rusty, I didn't expect it to be lit.
I didn't care so much, but the flashlight was gone, so I hurriedly turned off the flashlight, took out a torch and held it in my hand.
By the way, I lit all the torches as far as my eye could see, and now I finally saw the situation clearly, two groups of stone statues stood on both sides, and in the middle was a walkway, but it was still dark in front of me, and I couldn't see what it was.
There is darkness and unknown in front, and there are stone gates and monsters in the back, and it is impossible to retreat, but I am a little unwilling not to go forward and see.
Driven by a strong curiosity, I didn't light all the torches, but walked a few steps and clicked one, and the stone statues on both sides stretched for a long distance until the steps appeared in front of me.
I looked to the left and right, the stairs seemed to be very wide, could this be a palace?
I took a few steps to the right, and a round bronze mirror appeared in front of me, with a larger torch in front of it.
I hesitated, but stepped forward and lit it, and at the same time as the flame ignited, the light reflected in the bronze mirror, and then there was a chain reaction, a beam of light continued to reflect, and my eyes wandered with the beam, it turned out that there were more such bronze mirrors.
The light beam continued to refract until it reached a huge bronze mirror on the roof of the cave, and the line of sight in it instantly became clear, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was as bright as day.
I took a few quick steps up the stone steps, and at my height I could finally see the whole place, and I guessed that it was really a palace.
The stone statue I had just passed was the hallway, and behind it stood armor-clad warriors with long swords in their hands, all standing neatly facing the steps.
If you see me in the dark, I will be half scared, but now that my vision is so good, how can these stone people still scare me.
I went down the stairs and came to a stone soldier, and after carefully studying it for a while, I felt that the prototype of this stone soldier looked like a woman, and I looked at several more in succession, and I confirmed my idea, these stone soldier prototypes are all women.
This inevitably reminds me of the beautiful woman who rescued the captain in the captain's diary, is it one of them?
I sat on the steps and thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't understand the relationship, according to the description of the captain's diary, the beautiful woman who appeared had no armor on her body, so what was going on with these female stone soldiers in front of me?
I got up again, and to find out why, I had to look around the place, the steps went all the way, and I couldn't see the end at all, and the environment below was already clear at a glance, except for a corridor and tens of thousands of stone soldiers.
I continued to walk up the stone steps, but I didn't expect a platform to appear in front of me, the same walkway, the same stone soldiers, still I couldn't see the end, I continued to go up.
It wasn't until I passed the third platform that a magnificent palace appeared before my eyes.
On the platform in front of the palace, there are still stone soldiers, but these stone soldiers are dressed much simpler, they are still women, but the sword has been replaced by a short sword, and they are still holding bows and arrows in their hands, and they are dressed more like animal skins.
The image of the stone soldier on this platform is very close to the captain's diary, although the palace in front of him is built of huge stones, but it does not affect the visual impact it brings, the tall stone pillars, the carved door head is extremely detailed, all show the craftsmanship and wisdom of the builder.
I stepped on the stone steps leading to the palace, but suddenly I felt that my steps had become much heavier, and an invisible sense of oppression followed.
I hurriedly retracted my steps, and the feeling of oppression disappeared.
"It's amazing. I said to myself.
I stepped on my feet again, the pressure came back and curiosity drove me to keep trying, but I was already sweating profusely after walking up three flights of stairs at most.
"I don't believe in this evil. I sat on the ground and muttered to myself.
To say that my current physical fitness is absolutely good, I can escape from the mouth of the spotted wolf and run crazy in this jungle for so long, which is definitely not an ordinary person in the real society.
But the strange stone steps in front of me blocked my way, which made me very unwilling.
This stone staircase is dead, but I am alive, it will not be tired, I will be tired, I took out the food and water I brought with me and began to replenish my strength.
"That's not the way to go, if I can't get out I'll starve here." I said to myself.
After resting for a while, I began to wander around it, but I discovered that there was a smaller side hall next to the main hall.
But there are damn steps here, but fortunately there are only five steps, and if it were pure curiosity, I wouldn't go in, but I can see the green inside, which could be plants, and I can hear the sound of water.
The hope of life is in front of me, how can I not give it a try?
After all, I only brought water and food for a day when I came out this time, and it is impossible to return the same way now, and I am not sure if I can open the stone door from the inside, all this can only be confirmed by dawn.
But now I must be prepared that the stone door cannot be opened, and in that case I must enter the side hall.
I can only leave time behind for now, and I set an alarm for my electronic watch to set for seven in the morning.
Normally, I wouldn't do such an electricity-intensive thing, but I still want to wait until dawn to see if the stone door can be opened.
After resting, I continued to try to climb the steps in front of me, and no matter how many times I tried, I could still only make it to the third floor.
But it was enough to go to the third floor, because I did see that there were plants in the side hall, and it seemed to be fruit trees, and the sound of the water was more real.
"I'm going to go up anyway, even if it's climbing. I said to myself.
"yes, why can't you climb? And no one saw it. I thought to myself.
Thinking about it, I climbed down, and sure enough, the damn feeling of oppression was reduced a lot, but even then I could only climb to the fourth floor, and seeing that the last step was within reach, I couldn't do anything.
"Sleep sleep, his grandmother's. I said angrily.
After saying that, I came to sit at the feet of a stone soldier, leaned on the stone soldier's leg and closed my eyes, but I didn't expect that I fell asleep quickly, and my dream was full of these female warriors who only covered their bodies with animal skins.