Chapter 12: The Great Pipe
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Baoyue seemed to be getting more and more nervous, clinging to Dekang's back: "Second brother." What if, what if there is no way out? β
"There must be a way out. Human beings themselves have to go in and out, otherwise why do they engage in up and down ramps, and they also fence the railing, aren't they afraid of accidentally falling down. Dekang replied pretending to be confident.
Baoyue nodded: "Then let's look for it further." β
But the further he went, the more bottomless his psychology became, and Dekang could almost hear his heartbeat: 'If you really can't find a way, starve to death here, it's terrible... It's unimaginableγγγγγγ β
Looking at the last wall, Dekang moved more and more slowly from running to walking and then to step by step. I've been halfway there, and I still can't see a single clue.
Afraid that Baoyue would see his desperate expression, he didn't dare to look ahead anymore, and moved forward step by step with his head down, his nose almost touching the ground, pretending to be engrossed in the search.
After walking for a while, Dekang felt that his feet were as heavy as lead, and he could hardly move; And his heart gradually sank into the depths of the sea.
Dekang stopped and took a deep breath: "We must hold on, the moon god will bless us!" β
Baoyue suddenly jumped up on her back: "Second brother." Look at it. β
Dekang looked up mechanically and looked ahead, but he didn't see anything in a daze, and it was still dark in front of him. He shook his head vigorously, blinked a few times, and then stared ahead: there was a small slope on the ground where the two walls met.
Dekang screamed wildly and ran forward.
A fan-shaped slope appeared impressively at the junction of two huge walls, almost one body high, because it was also black, it was not easy to find if it was not close to it.
If you had run to the left just now, you would have noticed that you wouldn't have to be scared all the way.
Dekang pressed his beating heart and put down Baoyue to search carefully.
The junction between the slope and the ground is still the same, and the slope and the last wall meet in a circular arc from top to bottom, until the ground, there is still no gap.
The ramp and the first wall have a straight junction, slightly longer than the width of the revolving ramp that comes down from the platform, and then the top-down arc of the wall to the ground.
He ran up the slope, and the first thing he saw was on the opposite wall near the joint, and there was a U-shaped pole about the same as the bottom of the long chain, but smaller than that one.
There is also a strange thing on the wall in the middle of the pole, a pole sticking straight into the wall, and at the top of it there is a shorter pole in the shape of a cross like a U-shaped pole.
Dekang straightened up and stood on tiptoe to take a closer look, and found that there was a gap in the joint between the straight rod and the wall, but there was no gap in the two joints of the shaped rod.
Then I lay down and looked at the junction between the wall and the slope, and a clear gap appeared in front of me, the length of which was the straight connection, and at the beginning of the arc, the gap turned straight up, but the gap was slightly larger.
Dekang's eyes moved up along the gap, and then turned his head parallel to the ground at the place where he was more than four tall people, until he was close to the intersection of the two walls, and turned his head down again, and finally met with the gap in the ground, and the whole was a rectangle.
He leaned close to the cracks in the ground, closed his eyes and felt with his nose: a subtle flow of air weaving through the cracks.
Now Dekang is sure: this should be the door to enter and exit the dark space.
At this time, Baoyue ran behind her and asked, "Second brother." Is this the way out? β
Dekang nodded vigorously: "There is a gap here, the door is here, the second brother has to find a way to open it." β
Baoyue looked at him and slowly smiled on her face.
I heard Da and Grandma talk about the door of the sheepfold on the grassland: some herdsmen stuck a stick at the door frame, some herdsmen tied it with a horse's tail or a rope made of yaks, and the most cunning thing was to use a wooden stick to get stuck and then tied with a rope, and it was very difficult to open the thing.
But Dekang had never heard of such a door, which was integrated with the wall, and nothing could be seen inside or outside.
No matter what, try to hit the top first.
Dekang squatted down in the corner of the wall, the top of his head on the edge of the gap, his limbs stiffened, the bones on the top of his head felt a pain, and the door did not move.
He got up and ran to the other side, this time leaning his left shoulder against the wall, his hind limbs pushing hard, his eyes almost bursting out, and the door did not move the slightest bit.
Dekang took a few steps back and looked at the door again, and after examining it, he stared at the U-shaped pole and thought: those lazy humans are not going to die like themselves, they just want to move lightly and the door opens.
The key to opening the door may lie in this pole.
Dekang turned back to Baoyue and said, "Baoyue." You take a few steps back. After saying that, he took two steps forward and jumped lightly, his front paws firmly hooked to the pole, and his body shook in the air a few times, and then his lower limbs stood on another wall on the side.
Dekang crossed his forelimbs and hooked the pole on his back, arched his hind limbs and kicked hard, and the gate still did not move.
His body shook in the air, his spine straightened, his forelimbs turned his body up, his limbs turned into oblique lying on the pole, and his hind limbs kicked hard, and then kicked, but the gate still did not respond.
Due to the exertion, the forelimb slid forward, and the left forelimb hit the small pole that was in the shape of a cross with the U-shaped bar, and the small pole suddenly turned half a circle and became parallel to the U-shaped bar.
Dekang heard a crisp click from inside the door, and he kicked the door open.
It is strange that such a huge door, Dekang did not feel its heavy weight at all.
Dekang retracted his forelimbs to the innermost end of the U-shaped pole, grabbed the pole and kicked it again, and the door was kicked open again until his body was straight.
The larger object, the one that doesn't have to move with much effort, but this door, which doesn't seem to feel its presence, is a bit like holding a flat stone in the water, obviously in your hands, but it has almost no weight.
Unable to guess the strangeness inside, Dekang was a little stunned for a while.
"Second brother. The doors are open! Bao Yue shouted there.
Dekang jumped off the pole, rushed forward and hugged the jumping Baoyue for a few turns, and kissed the little face fiercely before putting it down, Baoyue was already smiling.
Dekang pointed to the gate and said, "Baoyue." This one is a little strange, you go push and push. β
Baoyue looked at the second brother suspiciously: "With such a big door, how can Baoyue push it?" β
Dekang patted her little head: "Go ahead." Try it and you'll know that you can't push it. β
Baoyue looked at Dekang and then at the door, hesitated for a moment and walked forward slowly, her whole body leaned against the door, not knowing where to exert force, Baoyue pouted and looked at Dekang reluctantly: "I can't push it." Second brother. β
Dekang smiled at her: "Let's push together." β
They put their heads and shoulders on the gate, and pushed forward on all fours, and the gate moved forward in response to their footsteps; After pushing a few steps, Dekang secretly stopped, but Baoyue was unaware and pushed alone with her head down.
"Baoyue." Dekang called out to her.
Baoyue looked up and was stunned for a moment, she found herself pushing the door alone, and her eyes widened for a while, and she forgot to push again.
Dekang found that the moment Baoyue stopped, the gate immediately stopped moving, and did not slide forward even a little distance. He stepped forward against the gate and exerted a fierce force, and the gate that moved forward stopped the moment it disengaged from his body.
Baoyue saw Dekang's intention just now, stared at the door and said, "Second brother." It's a strange gate, right? β
Dekang nodded.
You know, with all his might, he can push smaller rocks down the hillside; But the door, which can be pushed without much effort, did not slide forward a little bit.
Dekang thought to himself: Human beings are really getting more and more powerful. Such a door is Da Da and Grandma, they have never heard of it.
Baoyue jumped into his arms: "Second brother." Let's go, Baoyue is going home. β
"Okay." Dekang picked up Baoyue and walked to the door to look out, gasped at a glance, his whole body instantly petrified, and Baoyue shrank in his arms and trembled.
Outside the door is an even larger space, a huge promenade to be exact.
The width of the corridor is more than ten times that of the slope under the giant column, and it is so tall and long that dozens of figures can hardly see the end at a glance----- but when you look closely, this corridor is a little curved, stretching into the cold darkness in a huge circular shape, full of mystery.
The walls and floors on all four sides are still black.
Dekang muttered to himself: Brother walking in this corridor must be more depressing than the dark space.
"Second brother. Where is the way out? Baoyue cried.
Dekang hugged her tightly and squeezed out a little smile: "Don't be afraid, it's okay." If there is a door, there will be a way out, and if there is a road, there will be a door, and we will definitely be able to get out. β
He put Baoyue on his back and ran back to the high platform with her on his back to pick up the rock sheepskin.
Running up the slope to the high platform, Dekang put Baoyue aside, looked up at the star in the sky and sorted out his thoughts: "This is the top of the mountain, come down from such a high top, if you want to go out, you must climb to a similar height, and you can only go out if you go back to the top." β
'Is there a passage to the top?' β
After thinking for a moment, he picked up the rock sheepskin, ran out of the gate on the slope of Baoyue on his back again, and was about to explore the way again, when he stepped out of the gate, Dekang glanced back and found that there was a long circle of silver-gray door frames clinging to the black wall, which was particularly eye-catching.
Quickly turned around to inspect it, and the silver-gray door frame and the wall were on the same plane, and the interface was seamless.
"It turns out that the gate is marked, so why isn't it inside?" Baoyue muttered to herself on her back.
'Why is there no door frame in it?' Brother also wanted to know why. β
Dekang turned to Baoyue and said, "If there were door frames here, it would be much easier to find the way." β
Baoyue's mood also relaxed, and she shook her body on Dekang's back: "We can go out... We can get out ... β
After running two or three hundred steps along the promenade, an identical gate appeared on the black wall.
They looked at each other and smiled: Good sign.
This time it was much easier to open the gate than the first time, Dekang jumped directly on the U-shaped pole and hung his body with his left forelimb hooking the pole, and his right forelimb stretched up to pull the longitudinal small pole, and after pulling parallelly, he jumped down and gently pushed the handle, and the door opened a gap.
He lightly probed in to inspect, it was also a dark space without humans, and nodded back to Baoyue.
Baoyue excitedly ran forward and pushed the gate with her head and shoulders, and with Baoyue's steps, the gate slowly opened.
It's also a huge space.
Immediately into the eye was a large semicircular yellow tube that emerged from the ground, about four or five people tall, stretching along the ground to both sides until it disappeared into the black wall in the distance.
Behind them stood two huge black pillars in a row, one row every hundred paces, a total of seven or eight rows; The pillars were about the same thickness as the previous one, except that they were only a dozen feet tall, and at the top of the pillar was an arc-shaped upturned bracket with a huge tube on it.
The two pillars hold two different tubes, green and red, and turn their heads to look at the ends, and the large pipes lead along the base of the pillars into the black walls on both sides.
"Second brother. Why are these big tubes different colors? β
Dekang glanced left and right a few times: "Brother doesn't know what these humans are doing!" β
Carrying Baoyue straight through the big pipe, there was a black ground in front of him, a black wall in the distance, and nothing else.
There is no door here, Dekang sighed, and could only return the same way, go out of the gate and walk along the corridor.
Thousands of steps had passed, and just as he was a little anxious, an empty, huge door appeared on the wall.
The height of the door was close to the top of the corridor, at least fifty paces wide, and the door frame was still a striking silver-gray mark, but this time it was also on the ground, nearly a figure wide, extending along the outer extension of the door to the sides of the door to merge with the markings on the wall.
The two of them stared at the gate in a daze, completely stunned by its grandeur, and forgot to move for a moment.
After a long time, Baoyue slowly spoke: "Second brother." What kind of gigantic human beings use such gates? β
Dekang came back to his senses and patted her forelimbs to comfort: "Such a big door is definitely not used by humans to enter and exit by themselves." The herdsmen were a little longer and taller than the second brother, and this gate was enough for them to place ten felt bags. β
After thinking about it, he said, "Maybe there is some special use for the humans here, let's go in and find out." β
This is a large space that is several times larger than the first one.
In the center of the space stands a huge black cylinder like a hill, topped by a beautiful silver-gray arced roof, almost close to the ceiling above, and stands out against the black walls and floor.
Three tubes of the same size, red, yellow, and blue, protrude from the cylinder, the red tube is at the top of the arc, the yellow tube is half-exposed to the ground at the bottom, and the blue tube seems to lead to the back of the cylinder. All three pipes stretched out to the right, along the ground and the plinth to the distant wall.
Dekang is sure that these three pipes should be what you see in the space in front of you. Other than that, in his line of sight, the entire space was empty, empty.
Dekang ran towards the left side of the cylinder with Baoyue on his back, wanting to go around to see if there was anything else behind him.
After running for a while, he came to the left front of the cylinder, and vaguely saw a yellow thing on the black wall directly to the left of the cylinder, and he rushed over with a quick pace.
In front of him was a yellow gate about the size of the first two gates, with a silver-gray wheel-like object mounted on the U-shaped pole.
Dekang stepped forward to take a closer look.
In the middle of the wheel is a cylinder embedded directly in the yellow gate, and five small poles and a ring extend diagonally around the top of the cylinder, connecting to form an object similar to the steering wheel of a car.
Although there was no visible gap between the cylinder and the yellow door, he felt that they were two separate entities, which was completely different from what he had seen when he looked at the U-shaped pole from earlier.
At this time, Baoyue jumped down from Dekang and stared blankly at the three body-sized rectangular frames lined up on the side of the gate: "Second brother." Come and see what this thing is? β
Dekang stared at the three frames at the same height as the wheels, feeling a little strange.
The frame is because the three rectangular objects are surrounded by a circle of silver-gray markings, and although they also look black, they are definitely not walls.
This thing is much brighter than the wall, and it is pure black, unlike the wall, which seems to have something mixed in with the black. And when you look in front of them, you feel as if something is shaking inside, but you stare at it and you can't see anything.
Dekang stared at the frame tightly and jumped over, and when his head was in line with the frame, he saw a shadow shaking in the black frame; At the moment when he reached the top of the frame, he paused and clearly saw that the shadow in the frame was himself, but not as clear as the reflection in the water.
He stretched out his front paws and grabbed the frame hard, only to hear two squeaks, and the two claws slid down the frame as his body fell, and he couldn't penetrate a single bit; Dekang pushed his forelimbs hard, and his body jumped down slightly to the side to prevent his mouth from hitting the wall.
"What is this, it's as hard as a wall." Dekang is a little confused about the current situation.
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