Chapter 356: The Strange Room
Strictly speaking, there is no road under Thor's feet, so naturally there should be no such thing as getting lost, but Thor doesn't think so.
After he finished eating his food just now, he deliberately left a pile of bones on the ground as a reference, and then followed the invisible wall in a single direction. After some distance he went back the way he came, but when he turned back he found that the pile of bones was gone.
So the question is, what about my bones? Thor folded his hands and fell into thought.
Dragged away by a wild dog, does it disappear by itself, or does the ring itself have some purifying effect?
It is certainly impossible to go wrong, just go straight on a single route, without any twists and turns. Unless the labyrinth in the ring is constantly in imperceptible topographical changes, if the ring itself is a labyrinth.
Well, it probably doesn't matter where that pile of bones went. Even if Thor watched it slowly disappear, it would not help his current situation except for a strange feeling.
So Thor put aside the whereabouts of the bones and tried again to find an exit, if the ring ever had an exit.
Pulling out the goblin clock and looking at it, Thor discovers another paradox.
Time in the ring is still passing, but the strange thing is that the food inside doesn't spoil.
Because from the food summoned by Thor with his spiritual power, he found that some of the food was placed in the ring before he came to the North, but it was later forgotten in the corner of his memory. Now that I turn it out, it's still fresh.
Looking at the clock in his hand, Thor couldn't help but think of the face of the little goblin Raz again.
Except for the occasional active attack on other races because of survival problems, the goblins are generally a relatively docile race. They are moderately intelligent and adaptable to human life, or they may be because they are living that way.
In addition to producing clocks and watches, the first goblins in the realm also helped improve some farming tools and hunting traps. In terms of territorial development, they have contributed, and the people of the Free City have long since embraced the existence of goblins.
For the next few days, Thor spent the next few days walking around his ring while drawing a map with pen and paper.
Later, Thor gave up on the idea of drawing a map.
Because he found that the places he had passed, sometimes when he went back every once in a while, the terrain would change and it would not match the map.
Saul sees two possibilities.
One is that you are dazzled by the unchanging blue color around you, and the other is that the terrain in the ring changes itself.
The point is that you can't see it yet, for example, when you are going straight ahead, a turning alley suddenly appears on the wall next to you. Even if you pass through the entrance of the alleyway, you may not be able to spot it with the naked eye, unless you feel it with your hands.
There is only pure blue all around.
There is no other color to form a tonal contrast, and naturally there is no sense of depth in the space.
It's been half a month since he came to the ring, and in addition to eating and sleeping, Thor has been walking, or rather groping. Many of the initial thoughts gradually cooled, the hope gradually faded, and finding an outlet was unlikely.
After repeating day after day, visual fatigue, mental fatigue, and irritability that I couldn't find an exit, or even knew if there was one, swirled in my mind. Some negativity began to pile up in the heart, tormenting people repeatedly.
Almost a month later, Thor returned to the original problem of the disappearance of bones.
For no particular reason, he just wanted to see the bones disappear with his own eyes, or to see something new in the constant repetition of the whole month, otherwise he was afraid that he would go crazy if he repeated it for so many years.
A good dinner had been prepared, and Thor had been consuming water in a planned manner, as he didn't know how long he was going to be here. Since you're going to experience something different today, it's time to treat yourself to a good meal once in a while.
Leaving the bones in the aisle, Thor walked to a short distance and sat down cross-legged.
Like a devout ascetic, he stared at the pile of bones on the ground and fell silent.
I don't know how long it was, maybe not too long.
Just staring at the pile of bones for a long time, he subconsciously had an illusion that the bones were about to disappear, or even disappear.
In the midst of this somewhat dazed and sleepy staring, the next moment Thor jumped up with a twisted and frightened face.
For a moment, Thor even thought it was a hallucination, and he saw a servant dressed as a shiitake mushroom, or a girl, suddenly turn out of the aisle out of nowhere. Then she swept the bones away with the broom and garbage shovel she was carrying, and when she was done, she left silently.
This scene is like an ordinary everyday life that happens in a certain mansion, but the problem is that this is a dead ring space. So when Saul saw the shiitake mushroom in the dress, he didn't feel any kindness or comfort in his heart, only full of horror.
How...... Is there anyone else cleaning here?
Thor rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and after watching the shiitake mushroom turn into a fork in the road, he gritted his teeth and decisively followed.
No matter what weirdness awaits you, there is nothing worse than death.
Rushing to the aisle, Thor had thought that the shiitake mushroom would suddenly disappear, or something else abnormal.
However, no, the shiitake mushroom was walking unhurriedly in the blue, leaving Thor with a slender back.
Thor didn't shout out to stop the other party, the incident itself was too weird.
And did she find out? Or did she find out but pretended not to?
Thor thought for a moment and pulled out the sword he was carrying. This is not hostility, but Thor's vigilance, after all, seeing a strange figure in this strange environment, if you are not prepared to be stabbed to death by the other party with a broom, it will be very sad.
Along the way, Thor stopped and stopped, not far and not close to the back of the dress, he wanted to see where the other party was going.
The shiitake mushroom didn't go very fast, and seemed to maintain some strange and identical speed, stopping occasionally to sweep twice.
Thor didn't know what she was sweeping.
Obviously, there is not even dust on the ground, is it a trick to lure the enemy? Thor does not know.
Follow Shiitake mushrooms around the aisle, and finally the back suddenly stops, and then does something that Thor can't understand. She stood somewhere in the aisle and raised her hand, then seemed to touch something, and then made a gesture as if to open the door.
How can there be a door here?
Thor couldn't understand this, and after her movement of opening the door, a door actually opened on the wall. Then the mushroom pushed the door in, and the door closed again.
At the moment when the invisible door on the wall was opened, a faint golden light shone through the crack of the door, which made Thor's heart become extremely hot. A door, a different light is on, does that mean that you have the possibility of returning?
Thor quickly pounced, but when he approached the door panel, he suddenly slowed down his movements, so as not to alarm anyone with the movement.
He didn't know what was waiting for him behind the door, was it danger or life?
I first tilted my ears and gently leaned close to the door panel to listen carefully, but there was silence behind the door panel, or the material of the door panel itself had a strong sound insulation effect, who knows?
Then Thor raised his hand and groped for it, and sure enough, he felt a doorknob at about the same height.
The doorknob still feels strange to the touch, it can feel hard and contoured, but it doesn't carry any warmth.
Except for the touch coming back from the hand, the whole blue doorknob seemed to be very abrupt, as if it appeared on the wall without warning. If it weren't for the maid Shiitake to lead the way, the ghost would have noticed such a gadget on the wall.
Thor's right hand holding the doorknob was replaced by his left, and he held the sword in his right hand, then took a deep breath and held the doorknob with his left hand and twisted it down. I didn't hear any cylinder beating, but Thor felt the door open when he was only halfway through the handle.
Instead of slamming it open, Thor just slowly pushed the crack in the door wider.
If something comes at you, the door panel might also act as a makeshift shield.
The view widened as the door widened until Thor pushed the door to the bottom, and the door was fully open.
Then, Saul saw a very strange scene.
Inside the door was a very ordinary room, and even made Thor feel absurd for a moment as if he had broken into a certain house.
The weird thing is that there are beds, cabinets and bookcases in the whole space, which seems to be a living area.
There are also walls and floors made of earthy yellow bricks and stones, which at first glance still have a sense of desolation brought by the years, but the presence and appearance of these bricks and stones themselves are obviously incompatible with the whole pure blue world outside the door.
What's even more bizarre is that there are two people in the room at the moment, or strictly speaking, only one.
The girl who swept away Thor's bones before didn't disappear as soon as Saul guessed when she entered the door. She was now sweeping something in the corner with her back to Thor, and Thor could even hear the faint 'brush' of a broom brushing the floor.
As for the other person in the room, he slept in a large wooden bed with a bright oil lamp emitting a golden glow on the wall next to the bed. It's just that he must have been dead for many years, and he has long since rotted into a skeleton in his bed.
After taking a general view of the room, Thor cautiously entered the room with his sword in hand.
The skeleton on the bed was ignored for a moment, at least until he showed any obvious anomalies and aggression.
When Thor entered the room, the first thing he faced with his sword was the girl in the skirt in the corner, because she could move, and she was obviously a living person.
"Ahem...... , hello, take the liberty of interrupting. Thor coughed lightly, avoiding his sudden voice from startling the other party.
However, the girl in the corner did not respond, but just swept around the corner with her back to Thor.
Thor took a slight step to the side, trying to see her face.
Unfortunately, her face was obscured by her long blond hair, and Thor couldn't find any angle to peep into.
Thor stepped forward cautiously and placed his hand on her elbow, feeling the slight power of her elbow as he swung the broomstick, and strangely she seemed unaware of Thor's touch.
Thor let go of his hand and took a step back, instinctively feeling that something was wrong.
There was no response, and Thor thought she was a deaf patient.
But there is no response to the touch, she will not even have no sense of touch, and all five senses will be lost, right? This girl is a little weird!
However, in Thor's thoughts, she suddenly turned around.
Thor's breath suffocated suddenly, because he could see clearly at that moment, under the long golden hair...... No face!