Chapter 49: The Ladder of the Hanging Soul
"Soul Ladder!" When Lu Xiaoxi heard this strange title, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is this?" ”
Ye Yang recalled the distant memories that remained in his mind.
Before the crossing, when he was an ordinary high school student living on a technological planet, he especially liked to read a supernatural tomb robbery type novel, which once mentioned this kind of trap called the Soul Ladder, which was very similar to the situation he encountered now.
According to the book, the Soul Ladder is a deliberately designed trap that uses the principle of metaphysical simplicity. It is a complex structure of the building, in which there is only one staircase, but in fact it leads in all directions, and there will be some kind of mark on it as a trap, which is actually gradually deviating on the steps, plus these steps and stone walls, plus the darkness in the soul ladder, it is even more difficult to make out the direction. When people find these signs and think they have found a way out, they fall into a trap. Once you pay attention to these marks, it will make people make mistakes in logical judgment, thinking that they are walking in a straight line, but in fact, they will unconsciously go on a fork in the road, go around in circles on the fork in the road, and finally lose their sense of direction completely, and the difference in the steps is very small, which may be designed to give people the illusion of high and low drops.
Ye Yang truthfully told these memories.
The more Lu Xiaoxi listened, a pair of eyes showed a strange light of surprise, and said in surprise: "If this is really the soul ladder you are talking about, it means that this staircase is not a road to enter the ghost mansion at all, but just a fork in the road that confuses people." There's another way out here! ”
"Chances are!" The predicament in front of him had a faint breakthrough, and the originally heavy mood was much lighter, and Ye Yang also smiled and nodded.
"But this staircase is so long, where is the hidden way out?" Lu Xiaoxi was puzzled again.
Ye Yang recalled the bizarre escape experience of the protagonist in that novel, and said: "I think I will never find the way if I go down the steps." In this way, whether you go forward or backward, it is a dead end, so there is only one place where there is a hidden way out! ”
"Where is it?" Lu Xiaoxi asked eagerly.
"It's in the wall! The staircase is very dim, and it is estimated that there will be a hidden fork, but due to our limited vision, we will ignore the past! Ye Yang replied.
"In that case, we can just stick to the wall and grope for it!" Lu Xiaoxi was overjoyed.
"It's not going to work either!" Ye Yang shook his head, "This Soul Hanging Ladder has a complex structure, and it is basically a figure-8 circular path, if you stick to the wall, it will be easy to get involved, and there is no sense of direction." ”
"So what?" Lu Xiaoxi became anxious, staring at the young man in front of her with a pair of autumn eyes, and she actually had a feeling of dependence.
At this moment, only he could give her an answer.
A confident smile appeared at the corner of Ye Yang's mouth, "This Soul Ladder is not difficult to crack, but it uses the marked and complex terrain to confuse people's sense of space. If you want to leave, you have to get rid of these distractions. ”
"How do you get rid of it?" Lu Xiaoxi frowned, unable to think of the result.
"Senior Sister Lu Xiaoxi, do you still have the bright light charm you used to illuminate before? This spell is the key to our cracking of the Soul Ladder. Ye Yang smiled mysteriously and stepped forward to ask.
"Bright Light Charm?" Lu Xiaoxi was very puzzled, this Mingguang Charm was just a low-level spell used for lighting, how could he crack this complicated Soul Hanging Ladder.
Although she was confused in her heart, she thought about it and said truthfully: "There are only three bright light charms left on my body!" ”
"Only three?" Ye Yang said with a little distress, but Lu Xiaoxi's next sentence surprised him.
"But I brought a talisman pen, cinnabar, and yellow paper, and I can draw talismans on the spot!" Lu Xiaoxi said.
"That's great! Senior sister, we can stick to the wall and use these bright light charms to stick on the wall as lighting markers, so that we can avoid seeing the path of the entire soul ladder clearly, and we can get rid of the interference of other signs! Ye Yang said excitedly.
"Good way!" When Lu Xiaoxi heard this, her two little hands clapped and sighed sincerely.
Looking at Ye Yang's eyes full of admiration, she didn't expect that although the junior in front of her was lowly in cultivation, he could think of using this small low-level charm of the Mingguang Charm to do this kind of thing.
"I didn't expect that although Senior Brother Ye Yang's strength is low, he is still very reliable at a critical time!" She thought secretly, and a pair of eyes looked at Ye Yang flashing with a moving light.
Lu Xiaoxi reached into his pocket and had already taken out a blank bundle of rune paper.
The hand followed suit, and a talisman appeared out of thin air.
Seeing this magical scene, Ye Yang was secretly surprised.
But now is not the time to pursue this, I saw Lu Xiaoxi holding a pen and dipping it in ink, and a bundle of rune paper floating in the air out of thin air.
Brush Brush Brush!
With a stroke of the rune pen, it drew a crimson trajectory in the air.
Those cinnabar inks automatically entered the blank rune paper without wind, and in an instant, dozens of bright light spells had already taken shape.
"Volley Talisman! Senior Sister Lu Xiaoxi actually has such an amazing means! It seems that Senior Sister Lu Xiaoxi is not simple! This volley talisman is a secret method that you will never learn in Xiuzhen High School! Even if Ye Yang didn't know the goods anymore, he recognized that Lu Xiaoxi was using the advanced talisman drawing method that only the legendary rune masters could use.
And using the method of drawing talismans in the air, Lu Xiaoxi drew dozens of bright light talismans in an instant.
Ye Yang was immediately overjoyed, "Senior sister, let's go!" ”
"Hmm!" Lu Xiaoxi nodded.
In case they were separated again, they held hands and cautiously groped their way against the wall.
Feeling the soft and warm little hand in the palm of his hand, Ye Yang couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart.
And he didn't notice that in the darkness, Lu Xiaoxi's face that he couldn't see clearly was even more flushed.
As he walked, he put light charms on the walls, and those light charms lit up like a lantern from a distance, illuminating the entire staircase.
And they also saw the true face of this staircase, and it really presented a sinuous and circumferential structure, which was not the same as the straight line they thought before.
"Junior brother, look!" A voice of surprise came from the side.
Ye Yang followed the sound and saw Lu Xiaoxi pointing to a fork in the road with a black hole on the side wall.
The two of them glanced at each other and ran towards each other in unison.
"Look! There are traces of the burning spell here, and those lost classmates have indeed entered here! Lu Xiaoxi looked at the black ashes walking on the ground at the fork in the road and said happily.
But Ye Yang was not too happy, but a golden red light appeared in his eyes, his brows were tightly locked, and he said in a deep voice: "What's bad is that they are probably not the path they found!" ”
"Junior, what did you find?" When Lu Xiaoxi saw his strange appearance, she also restrained her smile.
"This fork in the road is full of ghosts!" Ye Yang said leisurely, his voice solemn.
And in his eyes, it was clearly visible that there was a dense gray and cold ghost aura in this narrow and dark passage, floating wildly in the air.
It is full of this abomination and tyranny, and the whistling sound of ghosts crying and roaring constantly comes out, which makes people tremble.