"Yes, I can't agree more with you." Zoya responded.

Footsteps sounded from upstairs, and Miyankov appeared around the corner.

"Aren't we going up yet?" I asked.

Zoya shook her head, smiled slightly, and did not answer.

Miyankov walked down step by step, came to me and sat down slowly.

He went up and didn't seem to have gained anything, so he was very depressed.

"Zoya, don't play hide and seek, take us up." I say.

"Where are you going?" Miyankov asked.

I pointed upstairs, and Miyankov suddenly pounded the stairs and burst into laughter.

"He understood." Zoya said.

I was more and more confused, but didn't ask.

"I'll go up and have a look." I say.

"Don't go up, don't go up, there's nothing up there-" Miyankov looked up, his face full of tiredness and his eyes glazed over.

"The Electric Falcon isn't there?" I asked.

"No, there isn't any." Miyankov replied.

I did not waste any more time and, despite Miyankov's dissuasion, strode upward.

After the corner, the staircase does not reach the end, but leads to another corner.

I quickened my pace, and at least four or five corners were in a row, each of which had more than twenty steps, and roughly calculated that I had climbed far more than three times the height of the exterior of the small building. This is absolutely impossible, after all, the height of the building is fixed, and it is impossible to never climb the head.

After another corner, there were still stairs above, and there was no shadow of a second floor.

I looked back, and in an instant, the two flights of stairs up and down suddenly turned in front of my eyes, and the corner of the coming was high and the corner of the going was low. In other words, I was climbing up, but now I'm going down. On the contrary, the staircase I had just passed suddenly rose up and became the appearance of me coming down from above.

"What's going on?" I took a step back, leaning my back against the wall, looking back and forth at the stairs on either side.

As I described earlier, the interior of this small building is gray, and the floor and staircase are made of cement, without any wood decoration. As a result, the staircase is extremely solid, and there are no traps or hidden compartments.

"I'm lost, lost on the stairs." I understand the reality, but I can't explain the reasons for it.

The staircase is a one-way street, with no forks, and either up or down, all on top of this staircase less than two meters wide. Up, I should be able to reach the roof, down, I'll be on the first floor or basement. In short, there can be no strange thing that will never come to an end.

Next, I climbed up three more corners, but there was still no shadow of the "second floor", so I retreated the same way. Of course, when I "retreated", I also walked higher and higher, until I saw Miyankov sitting on the stairs and Zoya leaning to the side.

"There's nothing out of the ordinary, right?" Zoya asked.

I nodded calmly: "No, please lead the way, we hope to see the electric falcon sooner." ”

"Where are we going? Where can you go through this staircase? Miyankov looked up in despair.

We both walked up this strange staircase, and we couldn't find the answer, and we were equally confused. The only difference is that I have confidence in Zoya and believe that she has the sincerity of the tripartite cooperation. Therefore, when faced with the dilemma of having no way out, I can rest assured that I will hand over the control and guidance to Zoya, and continue to move forward under her arrangement.

"Listen to Zoya." I say.

"Listen to her? Who knows what she's going to do? Did you bring me to this hellish place to kill me? If I had known this, it would have been better for you to shoot me outside and save me from suffering in vain. "Miyankov grumbled, but could not solve the substantive problem.

"The Infinite Corridor of Ancient Babylon." Zoya said.

I immediately realized that this seemingly ordinary staircase actually used the metaphysical knowledge of ancient Babylonian times, and it was no wonder that the strange thing of "going upside down" could happen.

Ancient Babylon is one of the four ancient civilizations in the traditional sense of the world, and it has long been destroyed in wars and natural disasters, and even the foundations of the city-state's buildings have not been left. In the history books, the wise men of ancient Babylon created an architectural structure called the "Infinite Corridor", once you step into it, it is like entering an endless cycle of buildings, connecting the high and low corridors through a unique metaphysical layout, the head and tail, high and low, left and right can be freely reversed, and people who do not know the trick will be trapped in it 100%.

If you want to crack this feng shui layout, you must be able to concentrate and look with your heart instead of your eyes. When a person's heart can be as calm as the surface of the water in the ancient pool, he can feel the moment when the infinite corridor is reversed and changed, and it quickly adjusts and merges with it - I am the corridor, and the corridor is me.

At that point, you can move around the corridor without getting lost.

"Please lead the way, see you smile." I say.

In my hurry, I couldn't concentrate on cracking the infinite corridor, so I might as well rely on Zoya directly, so as not to lose time.

Zoya led me and Miyankov to the path we had come, and it was clear that as soon as we exited the Infinity Corridor, we would reach the first floor, and then rush out of the building, away from this mysterious little building.

Miyankov walked slowly, muttering in his mouth, venting his displeasure along the way.

I could only push and pull him hard and let him keep up with Zoya as much as possible.

In life, everyone has the experience of "getting lost", knowing that they are going east, but their eyes feel that they are going west. Eventually, when I arrived in an extremely familiar environment, this kind of "getting lost and falling" myself was instantly reversed, and my mind became extremely clear. This is a psychological problem, and it is also a chronic disease of human ideology, which cannot be easily overcome.

I have seen the psychological analysis of the "Infinite Corridor of Ancient Babylon", and the builder took advantage of this self-righteous human disease to bring together psychology, physics, metaphysics, and feng shui for his use.

Of course, the staircase does not rise or lower on its own, and when we walk on it, it becomes a strange feeling of jumping, and what remains unchanged is the always solid concrete floor.

At times like these, it's important to stay on the right track, otherwise you'll repeatedly doubt the path you're taking, leading to dilemmas, mental exhaustion, and eventual death.

"Actually, I know that your understanding is biased, or even completely wrong." Zoya looked back and looked at me with a little disappointment.

"I know some knowledge of the infinite cloisters of ancient Babylon, but it is all recorded in the classics, and the recorder used Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages in the world, and it is inevitable that there will be errors in transcription, translation, circulation, and printing, and perhaps some reading errors. If you can, please correct me. I said humbly.

According to my own understanding, the infinite corridor is a kind of architectural structure, just like the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu wrote in "A Fang Gong Fu", which represents the advanced civilization of the ancient Babylonian Dynasty.

Now, from Zoya's disappointed eyes, I clearly feel that my understanding is very different and wrong.

"It is not a flashy thing created by skilled craftsmen, but has a unique role, just like the ancient Chinese invented the 'nine-link Luban lock', the biggest use is the 'lock', not in its own structure. Future generations have gone to great lengths to study the changes, but have neglected their central role. For another example, the 'wooden ox flowing horse' made by Zhuge Kongming, the great sage of the Three Kingdoms period in China, was used for transportation, not for being interesting or good-looking. In modern times, someone found the detailed decomposition drawings of the 'wooden ox and flowing horse' from the tomb of the Shu King of the Three Kingdoms, and prepared to copy it on a large scale, using it to replace the current wheelbarrow, two-wheeled car, tricycle and the like, isn't it putting the cart before the horse? It doesn't make sense for you to be interested in this staircase, but think about where it will take you. Zoya said.

She gave examples of "Luban Lock" and "Wooden Ox Flowing Horse", which opened my mind at once.

"This staircase is a tool? Is the Infinite Corridor a tool? A tool that takes us into another dimension? The place can only be accessed by this staircase, which is the only entrance, and no other way is possible? I understand, the Wandering Ghost Country first established the Temple of the Devil and this small building, and then there was the Cheka Town, where the common people lived. The people thought that this small building was also an ordinary house, but its role was ...... But it was a bridgehead of the passage...... "I almost exhausted my intellect before I understood what Zoya meant.

In fact, this problem can be simplified, and the staircase can be used as a "gateway to the four-dimensional space". In this way, it is easier for modern people to understand.

Of course, no one can refute whether it leads to the "fourth dimension" or the "fifth dimension", because the current physical knowledge of the earthlings has too many limitations, and there is no way to break through the "three-dimensional" world.

"Exactly." Zoya nodded.

The stairs don't look out of the ordinary, and with my eyes, if there's a hidden trap in them, I should be able to see them clearly.

From "three-dimensional" to "four-dimensional", human physics is no longer able to explain its external form and internal structure. Not to mention me, even if an advanced physicist arrives here, he may not be able to explain what happened along the way.

We walked for about thirty minutes, and after at least thirteen or fourteen turns, a space suddenly appeared in front of us.

"Finally reached the second floor." I say.

My words are puns on the fact that I refer to both the real second floor and the second floor from "three-dimensional" to "four-dimensional".

To my surprise, the space turned out to be the real "second floor", and from the window, I could see the snow-covered Cheka town houses close at hand.

"Here...... This is what you call the world after the Infinite Corridor? I blurted out.

Zoya nodded, "Yes." ”

This time, I couldn't make a reasonable explanation that allowed me to understand Zoya's words.

We walked a long staircase for a total of forty or fifty minutes before we reached another floor. According to Zoya's hint, she is going to take us into the fourth dimension. As a result, we arrived at the real "second floor", from which we could see not only the houses, the streets, but also the Caucasus Mountains and the Ya Temple in the distance. Of course, looking out the back window, the helicopter carrying us across the clouds was there.

"I don't need to explain, I want to see your superiors." I waved my hand to stop Zoya from speaking.

I took the approach of "treating others the way they would be", and I didn't need to explain the difference between the second floor, the staircase, and the first floor, but went straight to the point, met with her boss, and talked about the tripartite cooperation.

"Please wait." Zoya walked to the right and pushed open a gray wooden door that looked very ordinary.

"You have been deceived by the people of the Wandering Ghost Country, they are ghosts, all kinds of ghosts, and they will never cooperate with people. If you believe them, you're digging your own grave, and you're not far from death. Miyankov said through gritted teeth.

I walked to the window, pressed my hand on the windowsill, and looked into the distance.

With the help of communication satellites, Madame Ice and Gapov must have been able to see me and Zoya in action, and they could also see that we had re-entered the small building. If we go missing here, Madame Ice will definitely search and tear this small building apart, and lift every brick and tile to see.

"Should I trust Zoya? Should I trust the people of the Wandering Ghost Country? What else can you do if you don't believe her? "I asked myself three questions from the bottom of my mind.

"Jingle bell", the phone in my pocket suddenly rang and I received a text message.

I took out my phone and saw that the text message was sent by Joyna - "Mr. Long, I am in the small building, upstairs and downstairs searching, why can't I find you?" Where did you go with Miyankov? I believe in you, Mrs. Ice believes in you, please don't let us down. ”

The wording of this short message is polite, but it has a lot of meaning and has already sent a warning to me.

Joyna was a loyal warrior and would never neglect the interests of her country because of her friends' personal friendships. She said this because she was afraid that I, under the temptation of others, would take Miyankov hostage and take him away, so that he would follow in the footsteps of the electric falcon.