Chapter 26: The Funnel
When Tashi woke up again, he found himself on the second floor of the Great Swordsman Tower. Kebin was looking at himself with a grin. Tashi suddenly had a splitting headache. What's going on, how did I suddenly appear here. Could it be that everything that happened before was my hallucination, and suddenly Tashi's eyes went black and he passed out.
Gradually, Tashi opened his eyes again and found himself lying beside him, shouting as hard as he could, but could not hear a sound. Tashi was terrified and panicked, but he still calmed himself down, looked at himself on the ground, and asked himself if he was dead. Tashi saw Rebin calling his name, but he still couldn't hear anything. Suddenly, Tashi felt the ground shake, he couldn't stand steadily, and his ears suddenly came out of Laibin's shout, and when Tashi opened his eyes again, the guest was shaking his body.
"You finally woke up, because of the invasion of the White Devils, the coalition army and the First Legion of the White Devils fought in the Rhine Village, and the coalition forces suffered heavy casualties. Now, the leader of the Feather Emperor, Laika, needs to recruit troops to supplement the lack of troops on the front line," the guest said anxiously.
"What's the situation, how long has this been happening, we are all breaking into the Demon Tower, why is it still the battle of Rhine Village?" Tashi asked, puzzled. The guests were stunned by Tashi's sudden question.
"Go out and see for yourself, I don't know what you're talking about" the guest didn't want to explain anything
Tashi looked out the window, where the Feather Emperor's brothers were gathering and the selection officer was calling his name. It's all too familiar, the same as what I've experienced before. Tashi couldn't believe what was happening in front of him.
Suddenly, Tashi felt a chill in his back, and he thought of an incredible speculation. If this wasn't the first time, Tashi, Caitlyn, and Gami would still be in the Demon Tower, but together with themselves, they should have made it through the first five floors of the Tower several times, and the Tower was like a tape recorder, recording everything about each of them, and replaying it over and over again, but they might not have discovered it at all. I came from the second layer of the Demon Suppression Tower to the second layer of the Great Swordsman Tower, maybe the time and space of the Demon Suppression Tower and the Great Swordsman Tower are inverted, is it a time funnel. The time and space of the Demon Suppression Tower lag behind that of the Great Swordsman Tower for a long time, which means that time is lost many times faster in the Demon Suppression Tower than outside. If this is the case, Caitlyn, Gami, and Xizhou are actually wasting their lives all the time. I'm going back to save them. But how can I go back? Time and space are connected, then I am in the Great Swordsman Tower, do something, more or less, there will be information to pass on to the past.
Tashi said to the guest, "I'm sorry," and beat the guest with a hammer. At the end, Caitlyn glanced back and saw that Tashi's figure appeared on the stone plate. "Wait, it's Tashi," Caitlin called out to everyone. "Lord Ryan, let Tashi go, or don't blame me for being rude to you," Caitlin shouted to Ryan. Ryan, however, sat indifferently on the high throne. Seeing that Ryan was unresponsive, Catelyn made a stab and came to Ryan, who waved his wings and knocked Caitlyn back. In the pillar of light of the stone plate, intermittently came out, Tashi's voice. "Quick, kill ........... Yes". When Xia Xizhou and Jiami heard Tashi's voice, they immediately greeted him. The trio swooped left and right, forcing Ryan into a corner, and Caitlyn used the spur to penetrate Ryan's left and right shoulders. Gami used an engineering shovel against Ryan's left flank. Xia Xizhou avoided the right flank and struck Ryan in the heart with a sword. Ryan's afterimage vanished, as did the pillar of light on the stone plate, revealing Tashi lying on top of it.
Caitlyn hurried over and picked up Tashi. Asked with concern, "Are you okay?" Tashi smiled at Caitlyn to indicate that he was fine, and said to Xi Zhou, who came up around, "I'm more sure now, what I just said is not wrong at all" Xia Xi Zhou nodded to believe what Tashi said earlier.
"Come on, come on, Brother Tashi will give you some medicine and promise to recover immediately," said Gami as he pulled out a bottle of recovery potion from his bag. Caitlin snatched it up and fed it to Tashi gently.
"Let's wait for Tashi to recover, and it just so happens that we have time to listen to Tashi and tell us what happened," Xia Xizhou said
The three of them sat intently around Tashi.
Tashi recounted his experience and came up with the concept of a time funnel. Caitlin, Gami, and Xia Xizhou also didn't understand for a while. Tashi took his finger and dipped it in the blood from the fight with the guest and drew it roughly on the ground.
"You see, this is the timeline, time is passing minute by minute, and it is an irreversible demon suppression tower, starting from the top of the tower, breaking through the level downward, the lower the mouth of this funnel, the bigger the mouth of this funnel, if you compare time to sand, then the further down the time loss, the faster it will lose;
"And the two space-time links are on the stone plate of the Demon Suppression Tower, but how to open the door of time and space, I still haven't figured it out, but there are many strange things in the Blazing Phoenix Divine Prefecture, which seem to be related to time and space," Tashi added.
"Tashi, you said that when we go out, we might get a clearer explanation by asking Laika, for now, we need to work together to get out of the Demon Suppression Tower. Downstairs, it is the last floor of the Demon Suppression Tower. It is also the key to breaking into the tower," Xia Xizhou cautiously reminded everyone.
"Then let's do it. Tashi stood up and smiled at Caitlyn and Gami
After experiencing setbacks and catastrophes, the four-person team set off with confidence.
The four-person team came to the lowest level of the Demon Suppression Tower, but surprisingly there was nothing here, nothing but the ceilings of each wall and floor were inlaid with mirror stones that could show mirror reflections. As soon as the four of them entered, all they saw were themselves, and there was nothing to hide between their gestures.
"What's going on?" said Gami, who was a little confused
"Let's take a look around, are there any clues or organs," Xi Zhou reminded everyone
The four of them scattered to look for it. "Come and see, there's a button here" Gami seems to have discovered a new continent and called for everyone to come over.
"Wait a minute..."Before Xia Xizhou could finish speaking, Gami pressed the button
I saw a mirror on the ceiling flip over, and a yellow beam of light shot down from above, and after continuous reflection.
"Ahh Caitlyn reacts quickly, but is still bruised by the yellow pillar of light. Pillars of yellow light are constantly reflected on the mirror stones of the entire floor. Gami panicked and hid in the corner.
"Caitlin, extinguish the light spot," Xia Xizhou ordered
Catelyn dodged the pillar of light with a refractive jump, flicking a thorn into the flipped mirror stone. The light source is gone, but the light-colored pillar of light drags its tail and still refracts in the mirror space. While dodging, everyone found that the speed of the pillar of light had slowed down, and Xi Zhou seemed to see some flaws.
"Tashi, stop me with a hammer," Xia Xizhou commanded
Tashi immediately crossed the hammer and used the meteorite hammer to intercept the direction of the reflection of the pillar of light, and after the pillar of light collided with the meteorite hammer, it emitted a dazzling white light, and at the same time, Tashi was also knocked back a few steps, and finally the white light disappeared. When they got closer, they noticed a yellow bead falling from the ground. Gami wanted to pick it up and find out, but as soon as he touched it, he screamed at the heat.
Xia Xizhou said: "Let you stop moving." Garmi walked to the side in a huff.
"It turned out that what we saw was not a pillar of light, but this little guy, because of the high heat and fast speed, which made us visually hallucinate," Xia Xizhou explained
"And what the hell is this?" said Tashi, holding his pierced right shoulder.
"If I guessed correctly, it should be the state that the Burning Moth has not yet hatched, according to legend, human beings have found this kind of Burning Moth in Huaxia Shenzhou, at that time as a weapon to resist the White Devil, the Burning Moth and Luoshui are the same, it has a miraculous effect on the White Devil, but the Burning Moth cannot be raised and educated, and the harm to humans is also very huge, so the entire Huaxia Shenzhou has taken a large-scale killing of the Brahma Moth, and now it has long been extinct, I don't know why it appeared here," Xia Xizhou said.
Suddenly, the small ball on the ground began to vibrate and gradually cracked, and a creature in the form of a moth, revealing half of its body, and in the blink of an eye, it was a creature in the form of a moth, and broke out of the ball. Waving her wings as thin as a cicada's wings, Catelyn's hands fell, and before the Brahma moth could take off, it was split in half by Catelyn. The three of them stared at Caitlyn dumbfounded.
Caitlyn said embarrassedly, "Didn't you say there was danger, I'll just get rid of him"
The three of you look at me, I look at you, and I am helpless to make a gesture of spreading my hands.
"Wait" Xia Xizhou pointed to the Brahma moth that had been split in half on the ground, and he actually split and became two. Xia Xizhou shouted, "Gami, quick, fast condensation" Gami hurriedly rummaged in his bag and said loudly, "There is only one left".
"What are you waiting for, hurry up and throw it away," Xia Xizhou urged
With a thud, the condensation bomb landed and exploded, and the two Brahma moths were frozen into amber embedded in the ice.
Xia Xizhou wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "It's so dangerous, the reason why this thing wants Brahma Moth is that once we are touched by him, our whole body will spontaneously burn and burn until it is a scorched earth."
"This thing is so horrible, how do you hunt them?" asked Gami
"First use Luo water and soak the whole body, so that you are not afraid of them, and while they are laying eggs, you can nip them in the bud," Xia Xizhou said
"If you want to be insidious and cunning, there really is no one like you humans," Garmi said
Xia Xizhou laughed, "Then it depends on how you understand it, I think it is more appropriate for you to use pattern and wisdom." ”
"What do we do now?" asked Caitlyn
Xia Xizhou touched his chin and said, "After the scene just now, it is possible that we are in a nest of the Burning Sky Moth, but this nest is sealed by a mirror stone on the outside, and between the mirror stone and the floor, is the nest of the Brahma Moth. You see it's a staircase leading to the second floor, and we can't see the door out of the tower. That is to say, the door out of the tower is hidden in these mirror stones. But after that scene, we can't easily chisel any of the mirror stones, because there may be a nest of Brahma moth eggs underneath."
Xi Zhou touched his chin as he walked. "Why don't you say it, Xizhou, we're waiting for you," Gami urged.
"Gami, where did you just find the button?" asked Xi Zhou
"There," Gami said, pointing to a place on the left-hand side, and the four of them came to the place where Gami said the button, "Caitlin, you go to the symmetrical position on the other side and see if there is a button."
Caitlyn landed on her right-hand side with a thrust and a jump, and shook her head towards Xi Zhou.
"Tashi, you go to the symmetrical position in the back and have a look," Xia Xizhou commanded
Tashi, running to the symmetrical position behind, still shook his head towards Xi Zhou.
Tashi sat down and gestured on the ground for a long time, and Gami, you go and see where the opposite corner is. Gammy ran to the opposite corner, still shaking his head. Only the last position remains. "Caitlin, you go and see the symmetrical position above Gami," said Xi Zhou.
Caitlin used the refractive jump to glide lightly over the top corner, looking carefully, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "yes, there's a button there, too"
"Very well, now we have to fight," Xia Xizhou said
"What do you mean?" Tashi asked
"We have to press the top button and see what happens before we can speculate further," Xia Xizhou said
"I heard you right, Xizhou, if you press this time, not one flying out, but a litter, we will directly burn to ashes," Garmi said nervously
"It's possible," Xia Xizhou said seriously
"But if we don't, we're going to be trapped here," Xizhou added.
"In that case, let's have a bo," Tashi said to Xi Zhou, looking at Caitlin, who nodded in agreement.
"Okay, then everyone listen to my orders, after a while, if after pressing the button, there is still only one moth egg, then it is still the same method as just now, Tashi intercepts it, and then uses the electric shock effect of the meteoric hammer to slow down the movement of the Brahma moth, so that even if we don't have a condensation bomb, we can still predict the trajectory of the Brahma moth, if it is a nest of moth eggs that comes out, then, Gami will immediately detonate the earth rock*, maybe we still have a chance to survive" Xia Xizhou looked at everyone.
The trio nodded in agreement.
"Let's begin, Caitlin," said Chassi
Catelyn once again performed a refractive jump, the moment she jumped over the top corner, she pressed the button on the top corner, only to see a mirror stone on the floor flip over, everyone's hearts were in their throats, and Gammy put his hand in his backpack, if it was a nest of shots, then he would detonate it immediately without hesitation. A yellow pillar of light shot out again, but the four of them breathed a sigh of relief, Caitlin once again used the thorn to cut off the light source for the first time, Tashi cut off the flight trajectory of the ball according to the routine just now, and at the moment when the Brahma moth broke its shell, it was shocked, and the electric Brahma moth fluttered its wings twice and fell to the ground, unable to fly.
The four of them gasped, as if they had experienced the test of life and death. Xia Xizhou looked at the mirror stone that had been flipped twice, his face was happy, and he said breathlessly: "Look, what is this?"
"What? two holes," Garmi said without thinking
"No, come and see, these two holes are also symmetrical, but they are symmetrical, and the two buttons that start the mirror stone flip are also symmetrical, just like this" Xi Zhou said as he gestured on the ground.
"This is a cross shape of space, can you see it?" asked Xi Zhou
"I can see it," Gami said, and Tashi and Caitlyn nodded their heads to indicate that they saw it.
"I have a more daring speculation that the location we are in is not only a nest of Brahma moths, but also a place to worship Brahma moths, and the moth eggs that have just been shot from the ceiling and the floor are actually a paintbrush, and the movement tracks they reflect on the mirror stone are lines, they are depicting the torso and wings of the Brahma moth, and the main skeleton of the Brahma moth is the connection between the two buttons and the two flipped mirror stones, and their intersection point is the exit we are looking for. Xia Xizhou said with bright eyes.
"Why do you say it's a place of worship?" asked Gami, puzzled
"Brahma Moth, at that time, recruited humans to hunt and kill, at the beginning of the period, the leader of the Yuhuang was opposed, because he felt that all living beings were equal, and every flower and grass in the Haotian Continent was the reason for its natural existence, but seeing that human life was often wantonly destroyed by Brahma Moth, and people and animals were uneasy, he finally agreed to the human approach. But I guess that his approval is still reserved, and he should send someone to Huaxia Shenzhou to bring back some samples and raise them somewhere in the Blazing Phoenix Shenzhou. Later, Laika wanted to introduce it into the Demon Suppression Tower and use him to guard the Demon Breaking Axe, and Laika imprisoned the Brahma Moth, probably feeling guilty, so he designed such a place for sacrifice and commemoration."
Xi Zhou was stunned when he saw everyone hearing this speculation, so he continued: "Next, we have to play again, we have to lift the mirror stone directly below the intersection, it may be the exit, but it may still be a nest of moth eggs." ”
"Anyway, it's death. Come on," said Garmi, broken jar
Xia Xizhou gave Tashi a look, Tashi picked up the meteor hammer and smashed it at the mirror stone that was closely linked to their life and death, and with a bang, a hole was smashed in the floor, and a stone ladder was below, and Gami excitedly shouted: "It's really the way out." At the same time, many mirror stones flipped at the same time, shooting out many moth eggs, Xia Xizhou hurriedly beckoned everyone, entered the floor, Xi Zhou was the last to enter, looked back at the floor full of mirror stones, and found that as he expected, the trajectory of the moth eggs depicted the appearance of a Brahma moth, but what he didn't expect was that this turned out to be a dynamic Brahma moth, it waved its wings, as if it was about to break out of the building.