DAY 56 is full of puzzles
The further inside the cave became, the larger and purer the crystal, and the brighter the cave became. Fortunately, unlike the secret passage outside, there is only one main passage in the whole cave, and there are no branches, which saves me a lot of time hesitating at the fork in the road, and I will soon be on the other side of the cave.
As soon as I got out of the cave, I saw a circular stone platform with a statue of an unknown uncle placed in the middle, and it was surrounded by steep rock walls on all sides, forming an independent small space. Only a small hole was made in the rock wall at the other end, which seemed to connect to the entrance of another cave, and above the entrance was a thick iron chain that was probably too much for a person to encircle. Looking up at the center point of the triangular pyramidal ceiling, I noticed that it seemed to be in the center of the island.
I cautiously poked my head out slightly and looked around to make sure that there was no danger before carefully getting out of my position, and then carefully bypassed the statue placed in the middle, and was about to drill into the small hole opposite, when suddenly a voice sounded from behind me: "Don't go in!!" It's a slide that leads straight to the bottom of the island, and you'll fall straight down the island!! β
My whole body shook - is it my uncle's voice?! Hurriedly looked back.
But there was none. Confused, I turned back to see where the sound was coming from, but as I passed by the seemingly ordinary statue, I noticed some clues.
There are two small holes in the eyes of the statue? If you don't pay attention, you can't really see it.
I observed suspiciously for a moment, then softly and tentatively called, "Uncle? β
But no one answered. I thought it was even stranger, and I couldn't help but start groping around the statue - there must be some mechanism here, and my uncle and parents must be hiding in it.
But no matter how I looked for it, I couldn't find the so-called mechanism, so I was a little anxious, and I couldn't help but start pounding the statue hard: "Uncle, you must be inside, right?" Why ignore me? Why not come out? β
After a long, long time, when I was a little desperate to think that the words I had just heard were in fact just a hallucination caused by my excessive expectations, my uncle's voice sounded from inside the statue again: "I can't go out now, I must stay here for the time being." Don't try it, you can't open it from the outside. β
"You're really in here!! Why didn't you answer me just now?? I whispered aggrievedly.
My uncle replied to me in a sincere tone: "I can't tell you the reason, but you'd better get out of here now, don't stay long, I promise you'll come to you next, okay?" β
I was very puzzled and asked, "Why can't you come out?" Are Mom and Dad with you? β
My uncle was silent for a while, and then he told me with a little heaviness: "Your parents are not with me, and we have been separated since we were upstairs. Dean Lu was by my side, but he was injured and is now in a coma. β
I was startled: "Hurt? Still unconscious? Why is this happening?! What the hell is going on?! β¦β¦ And why did you want to be separated from your mom and dad before? β
Uncle's tone began to become helpless: "Dean Lu's matter is too long, it's hard to say, let's talk about it after I go out." Your parents are because after you went in, Dean Lu happened to come up, and he said that he found something very strange underneath and wanted to take me to see it. I wanted to take your mom and dad with me, but they insisted on staying on it, saying that they were afraid that if something happened to you inside, it would be bad if there was no one outside, and I couldn't persuade them, so I told them not to run around, and I wanted to say that it should be okay to come back before their personality changes again. But who knew that he had to be stuck in such a place like this for a series of reasons. β
My face is black, how is this description so familiar?! In the future, I will never be able to entrust my parents to my uncle again......
Even though I was angry at my uncle's lack of responsibility, I still couldn't help but worry about him: "Then how long do you need to stay in there?" Is there anything I can do to help? "How the hell did they get in?
Uncle sighed: "No, no one can help me with this, it will take about half an hour, I hope that the number of people who come to the island during this time will not exceed five people...... So you hurry down, in case there are more than five people, if you fall with me, your mother will definitely come and kill me at the expense of running to the underworld. β
I hesitated for a moment, and found that I really couldn't help, and even invisibly helped, so I hurriedly waved my hand at the statue and made a "hook" action: I made an appointment to come to me next! Believing that my uncle should be able to see it, he quickened his pace and wanted to return the way he came.
At this time, I suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly turned around and walked to the statue, and whispered to my uncle with some twisting and heavy: "Uncle, I just picked up the USB flash drive that Dean Lu gave you in D City in the secret passage, but it was accidentally stolen by someone...... and it is very likely to fall into the hands of the government people next-I don't know why the second half of the sentence is choked in my throat and I can't speak."
"USB flash drive?" The uncle's deliberately suppressed voice of doubt came from the statue, "That USB flash drive is still in my bag, I didn't lose it." Then there was a rummaging voice, "yes, it's still there, did you pick up someone else's USB stick?" β
I was surprised: "Huh?! But that USB flash drive also has 'LTH' engraved on it, the initial letter of Dean Lu's name is capitalized, I remember that when I saw Dean Lu giving it to you in D City, it was engraved with such handwriting. β
Uncle's voice was also puzzled: "I also have this, and I have always carried my bag with me and never let anyone touch my bag, so I shouldn't have been dropped...... By the way, maybe it was you Dean Lu who brought another USB flash drive over and lost it, but it shouldn't be a big problem if it's not me, I'll help you ask when he wakes up. β
I breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, and the pent-up guilt in my heart suddenly eased a lot. Hurriedly waved his hands and feet again and walked back - since the investigation is over, now, go back to find Mom and Dad!
I held my chin as I walked and analyzed: According to my uncle, Mom and Dad should have chosen to leave before they became another personality. Because when I ran out after a quarrel with Xiaomo, that hour hadn't passed, and my parents were gone. Something must have happened, otherwise my parents would definitely not have left my brother and me and left without permission.
I had been here once, so I was quickly back at the entrance of the Sky Walkway, but it suddenly occurred to me that if the cave across from me was a slide, what would it ...... How do I get to another skywalk? After all, there is no road around that stone platform except for the mountain road I came from? Is it another organ??
Or is it ...... In fact, another skywalk leads to another road on the island. After all, the stone platform was right in the middle of the island, and it stands to reason that there was at least half of the space on the island that I hadn't explored, and it was probably the place where I had to go through another air walkway to get thereβif my uncle hadn't lied to me about the cave on the other side for some reason.