Chapter 50: Reality and Illusion

Purifying the mouth, purifying the body, purifying the heart, purifying the heaven and earth, and golden light.

The operation is like the examination of the eight great divine mantras of Taoism, but fortunately, I am familiar with these basic spells and there is no stuck.

It seems that my physical condition has also recovered because of meditation and mantras, and even if it doesn't work in the end, at least I have a result of preserving my strength.

After casting the spell, suppressing the mood of wild jumping, I slowly opened my eyes, only a slight slit was revealed, and I did not see the yellow light of the candle.

As a good sign, my heart rate has increased by another point. I swallowed, closed my eyes again, and opened them suddenly.

The planks in front of me look familiar. I shook my head, and when I looked closely, my heart was half cold again.

Although I was no longer in the passage at this moment, I had returned to the previous dungeon, sitting in the wooden coffin that I had kicked down before, and the head of the coffin was still in front of me.

I'm a little discouraged, hoping that at this time, Zhang Lao Blind will not go around in circles here like me, but has already found a way to appear in front of me at any time.

However, this hope is hope, and as the successor of socialism, I cannot easily give up and put all the heavy responsibilities on others, which will become a speculative way to dig into the corners of socialism.

I think about it carefully, and the main places I have passed so far are the outer part of the stone house, the inside of the stone house, the inside of the wooden coffin, the underground palace and the Penrose passage.

I walked in from the outside of the stone house to the inside of the stone house by myself, and when I entered, I was trapped, which is very similar to the situation I was in from the underground palace to the inside of the Penrose passage. On the other hand, when I reached the coffin from inside the stone house and from the Penrose passage, I used a certain amount of magic. And when I was trapped in the wooden coffin, the Dao method did not work, and it was the help of the mandrill that got me out of danger.

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that in all the previous scenes, only this dungeon and the wooden coffin in the dungeon may be real, and Zhang Lao Blind and I actually walked directly to the inside of this dungeon before, but for some reason, the two of us fell into a fantasy at the same time, that is, the earliest stone house, and when we separated, they began to enter different environments. Because I used Taoism, it was like holding a key, opening the illusion, and returning to reality, and I found the dungeon.

In this way, it is very likely that Zhang Lao Blind is also near me, and may even be trapped in a coffin somewhere?

I quickly jumped out of the coffin and began to slap one by one, while shouting the name of Zhang Laoblind, for fear that after a long time, I would suffocate this grandson to death.

The dungeon echoed with the sound of the coffin lapping and my shouts, and if someone else suddenly passed by, it would have to be frightened and incontinent.

In order to prevent missing coffins, I had to try them one by one, in order. When I opened the coffin before, I just randomly rotated around, and I didn't pay attention to the number of coffins, but when I searched one by one, I found that there were at least 300 coffins here.

"Zhang Lao is blind, the mountain girl?" I still don't forget the mandrill just now, if I can't find Zhang Lao Blind, it's good to be able to hug this monster's thigh.

I don't know how long it took, this dungeon has been explored by me for most of the time, and there is still no trace of Zhang Lao's blindness, which makes me doubt my judgment again.

Since I was separated from Zhang Lao, I have made all kinds of judgments and speculations, but none of them have been substantially confirmed. If it weren't for the fact that there was no way back, and I was supported by the spirit of having to succeed, I would have collapsed by now.

My throat was so dry and aching that I had skipped the call of my name and just slapped the wooden coffin in a frustrated manner.

"Brother Dao. "I walked up to a coffin and heard it before I could knock it.

I quickly pulled myself together to confirm the source of the sound.

"Zhang Lao is blind?"

"Here, you're here, I've been shouting for two hours. "Old Zhang's blind voice came from inside the coffin, hoarse and weak, and it seemed that he had suffered more than me.

"Don't talk nonsense yet, I'll get you out. I urged, there was no time to complain to each other at this time, "You put your head on the side of the coffin lid first, and your back against the bottom, and I'll put you down first." ”

Zhang Lao replied blindly, I took a few steps back, a small run, and a big foot towards the coffin lid.

I kicked down the coffin with a "bang", and there was also a shout from inside like a pig killing a pig: "Why do you call this a down? I almost scared my grandfather to death." ”

"Less nonsense, big fart, I don't do this, can I put it down, be ready to kick the lid through the gap on this side," I patted the side of the coffin with my hand, to show him the way, and at the same time I also lay down next to the coffin, with my back against the floor, ready to push up the outer edge of the coffin lid together, "Listen to my command, work together, this coffin is not easy to open." ”

"Three, two, one, kick!" I mustered all my strength, blushed, grabbed the edge with both hands and pushed up, and at the same time kicked up on my feet, but the coffin board seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and there was no reaction under the combined force of the two of us.

Seeing that I was about to lose my breath, I quickly retracted my strength, patted the wooden board next to me, and said: "What the hell are you haunting, if this thing can't be opened, you can imagine if there are any last words, I can see a lot of suffocation." ”

Zhang Lao's blind voice came from inside the wooden coffin: "This time we go out, we can't just cultivate the Dao and the mind, this body also has to put some effort." ”

"Don't push it, let's do it again. I said, praying in my heart that the coffin would just be nailed to one side and that it would be better to go in a different direction.

It's a pity that my mouth is a good thing that doesn't work, and a bad thing must be hit, after Zhang Lao Blind and I tried five or six times, the coffin lid didn't open even a hair-thin gap.

I was tired and panting, and I could still hear the panting sound of the old man in the coffin, like an old lady who was cheating on the corpse.

"Brother Dao, you just said that you have seen people who are suffocating, what is the matter?" Zhang Lao blindly didn't know what to think.

"Outside here is an underground palace, with a lot of coffins, and the overall form is a bit like the stone house array we saw before. I've tried to open a few coffins, and found that all of them were corpses, the age is unknown, but it shouldn't be too long. "I told me about the previous incident, and also told me about the rescue of the mandrill and the tomb of the Yelang King.

"Mandrill, one-legged ghost?" said Zhang Lao blindly.

"Yes, this guy doesn't know why, he can open the lid of the coffin, probably with a lot of strength. What is your situation?" I asked Zhang Laoblind, originally thinking of opening the coffin first and then communicating with each other, but now I can only wronged Zhang Laoblind first.

"I saw that after you went in, it was gone in an instant, and I knew that there was a ghost in this thing, so I started to walk around the woods, but no matter how I walked, I would return to the vicinity of the stone house, and then I pinched my fingers and walked into a stone house, but it was dark and sloppy inside, and I couldn't touch the edge, I used a little Taoism, and then I got here. I guess I was trapped here for about two hours, and I was in the woods for about two hours. ”

The experience that Mr. Zhang said was nothing special, no different from mine, but I was a little surprised by this time clue.

Zhang Lao said that he was trapped in the coffin for two hours, and during this time he had been calling for help intermittently, although this underground palace was big, it was very quiet, and it was impossible for me not to hear it. Unless I was not in the dungeon at the time, but it stands to reason that I entered the dungeon before Zhang Laoblind, then when he called for help, it could only be the time when I was on the Penrose Stairs, but the time before and after my Penrose Stairs should add up to dozens of minutes, absolutely less than an hour, and the time on both sides is not the same.

"Old blind, according to my estimate, the stone house may also be an illusion, and we were in this underground palace or in a coffin from the beginning. "I have recounted my previous speculation, and the time clues provided by Zhang Laoblind are different from my perception, which can be used as evidence that the Penrose Ladder is an illusion. In a false space, people can feel the passage of time wrongly.

"Cast a spell to break the illusion and return to the real world, Brother Dao, you are right to say so, but how can we suddenly get into the closed wooden coffin, could it be that we made people stunned and carried in?"

"If I know what I said or not, it's over, and if I know everything, do we still need to suffer here?"

Zhang Lao blindly heard my tone, and hurriedly followed: "Brother Dao, don't worry, I didn't say that it was unreasonable, but I think it's okay, the role of this Dao technique is not just a simple way to break the barrier, this effect can be known to fools, but more importantly, Dao is also a necessary condition for us to change positions, in other words, we came here because of the Dao technique, not in this coffin or underground palace." ”

This thing seemed to be deliberately suppressing the sound in the coffin, wanting to show its wit, but due to the closure of the wooden coffin, the sound coming from inside was muffled and did not have the effect of bluffing. I could also imagine his obscene and complacent appearance at the moment through the coffin board, and I couldn't help but roll my eyes.