Chapter 49: The Endless Staircase

I exhaled a sullen breath, and the dungeon in front of me was still in front of me, and it seemed that the trick of entering the coffin would not work.

I came to the approximate center of the underground palace according to the density of the wooden coffin, but there was still no gain, there was only a small open space in the center, there was no stone tablet, no text, and the ordinary could not be more ordinary.

It seems that you can only go to the side, if the underground palace in front of you is real, then it can't be completely sealed, since there is no passage in the center, then it must be around.

At this moment, I couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, so I had to walk to the outer circle, go around and take a look.

There is a circle of candlesticks in the outer circle of the entire underground palace, about four or five feet away from the natural stone wall, and there are no traces of artificial chiseling, which makes me wonder. How did King Yelang find this strange place in Shennongjia, thousands of miles away, and trapped his descendants nearby.

I moved slowly along the rock wall with my hand, for fear that I would miss something and have to look for it again.

As I walked back to the area where I was trapped in the coffin, I suddenly noticed a human-wide passage in the rock wall. The reason why it is said to be a passage is because it is artificially close to the mouth of the passage is very close and obvious, and the four walls of the passage mouth are chiseled very smoothly, and it is almost a door. There are also decorative lines on both sides.

I was standing at the entrance of the passageway, and I could still feel a slight breeze coming from me.

Could it be that this door was opened after I came? I don't believe that there really is any wax oil that has been immortalized for thousands of years by the mermaids of the South China Sea, and the candlesticks here look very ordinary, and can even be said to be shoddy.

So if you want to talk about the reason for the burning of the candles in this underground palace, there are only two speculations that are reliable. One is that someone ignited it one by one, and although this idea is intuitive, it is obviously unlikely in this environment. The other is that these candles were lit when the dungeon was built, and then the dungeon was closed and the oxygen was insufficient, which caused the candles to be temporarily extinguished, but the burning conditions were also ensured, and when I came in, some mechanism was triggered, causing oxygen to flow in, which made the candles rekindle. This statement may work in physics, but as a scumbag of physics, I only hate myself for not working hard back then.

If the reasoning is true, then this passage should lead to the outside.

I poked my head into the area and could see a stone staircase extending up to the left. There is no candlestick lighting in the passage, and the visible area is very limited.

I picked up two candles from the side, one temporarily extinguished and put it in my pocket as a backup. I don't know how deep this passage is, and I still need to keep a hand, so as not to suddenly blow the lamp and touch the dark.

Holding the candle in my right hand, I began to walk slowly into the passage. The passage is flanked on both sides by rock walls, which is about the width of the escalator. I don't know which grandson designed this stone step, the plane length and height are short, which causes me to be uncomfortable to step one and two and pull off.

Because I was holding a candle in my hand, I didn't dare to walk too fast, and I was afraid of mixing garlic under my feet, so I walked carefully and slowly at every step.

After walking for about two minutes, the stone steps turned 90 degrees and continued upwards.

Is it going up around the edge of the dungeon? I thought to myself, and I didn't stop under my feet, and continued to walk up.

After another two minutes or so, I came to a ninety-degree corner, and the same upward spiral.

At this moment, I suddenly had a sense of foreboding in my heart, and at the same time, I quickened my pace a little, and wanted to deny my own thoughts.

Sure enough, two minutes later, another corner and the stairs continued upward.

I had a rough guess in my mind, so I threw my coat around the corner as a marker, and began to trot without shaking the candle.

After another four laps of the staircase, I saw the jacket around the corner.

"Awesome. "I couldn't help but let out a sound.

This Penrose ladder is a kind of thing that cannot be realized in three-dimensional space, in short, it is a ladder that is always up or down but cannot go to the end, the ladder itself becomes a closed loop, and it cannot find the highest or lowest point, which is a kind of paradox of geometry.

This three-digit geometric paradox is also often cited as a scientific explanation for ghost hitting the wall. Although this thing does not exist in our three-dimensional world, it can achieve a similar effect through small means such as blindfolding.

The stone staircase was not very visible, and I had been walking by the light of the candles, so it was likely that I had taken a fork in the road without noticing my surroundings. The design of the stone steps that I complained about before may also be deliberately done in order to achieve the effect of confusing. The imperceptible height difference in the entire stone staircase, coupled with the limited vision of the individual, makes people feel that they have been walking upward, but in fact they are indeed going up and down for a while, going in circles in place, never reaching the end.

I stepped over the stone stairs with my jacket and began to slow down, groping my way through the rock walls on either side of the stairs to discover hidden clues to break through this bewildering design.

After two staggering laps, not only did I get back to where I was, but I couldn't even find the entrance I had before.

It's really a wave of unevenness.

I was very careful in my search along the way, and I couldn't wait to pick out all the stone walls with my fingers, could it be that there was no mechanism on this stone step, but a simple ghost hitting the wall?

This ghost hitting the wall, like the ghost press and the like, is often caused by different reasons. In addition to being familiar with ghostism, both subjective and external objective causes can cause this phenomenon.

Take the ghost press bed as an example, the current scientific statement explains the phenomenon of ghost press as sleep paralysis, which usually occurs in the case of individual physical weakness and mental disorder, and the symptom is that the person's consciousness is awake, but the body has not yet woken up, so it will be unable to move, as if trapped in the body. In this case, the mind will be influenced by the subconscious and past experiences, and begin to feel that there are gods and ghosts at work.

Originally, as a graduate student of Banla Medical College, I should have unconditionally supported this statement, but years of experience in ghost presses made me think differently. Some ghost presses are indeed caused by physical reasons, but this inference is really far-fetched to explain the phenomenon of everyone seeing ghosts in the case of ghost pressing, and it will fall into a cycle of chicken or egg. So I've always thought that some of the ghost press is due to physical reasons, and some of it is really because of seeing a ghost.

I walked around the passage a few times and didn't find any mechanism, which is enough to temporarily show that the strangeness of this stone step is not objective, then we have to consider subjectivity and ghosts.

Putting on the jacket on the ground, I placed the candle next to me, sat cross-legged on the floor, and began to meditate, ready to try to break the subjective obstacle and ghost wall.