After a long silence, I was sure that I had almost calmed down, and I began to re-analyze what I had thought about before.

From Jiang Chenhui and Ah Cheng's words, the information I can draw is that the Yin and Yang Old Man and the Head Lowering Master who came up with us are not really them. After that, we followed them in a daze......

The only thing I can't figure out here is when we got hit.

Was it from the beginning, or after we got into the fog? And this seems to be a staircase with a ghost hitting the wall, from which node does it start to repeat?

Yes, there must be a node here!

My eyes lit up, if we can find the node of that cycle, can we break the cycle?

I then looked down again, and suddenly found that the back of the old man in front of me and the head descending master had disappeared at some point.

I hurriedly patted Jiang Chenhui and Ah Cheng next to me: "Look, those two black shadows are gone!" ”

"Hey, it seems to be. When was it gone? Jiang Chenhui was puzzled and began to look around frantically.

"Could it be that this cycle has been broken?" I'm not sure. That's just my guess, and if the staircase cycle is just a way to scare us, then there's definitely something down there.

But that's just my judgment, and I don't know if this cycle is over.

Anyway, I proposed, "Why don't we take a look around again, I just need to look into it." ”

"Let's go for you this time, I'll wait where I am." Jiang Chenhui hugged his hand and made it clear that he wanted to stay here.

I nodded and looked at Ah Cheng. He shook his head, and without saying a word, he walked down.

I quickly followed, and walked down with him.

The further down you go, the more fog there becomes, and the temperature keeps dropping.

I shrunk and hugged my shoulders, trying to make Ah Cheng in front of me walk a little faster.

But Ah Cheng didn't seem to feel cold at all, and walked a leisurely stroll.

"What are you looking at?" I asked.

"No, just want to feel the environment. However, I hear your teeth chattering, if it's cold, you go first, I'll let you. Ah Cheng said, turning sideways slightly, leaving a passage.

I shook my head: "Forget it, come together, how can I leave you." ”

Ah Cheng let out a "huh" and turned his body back.

The air was quiet for a while......

Suddenly, Ah Cheng stopped and stood in place.

"How long have we been gone?" Ah Cheng asked suddenly.

I looked up and thought, "It's been about ten minutes." ”

"Oops." Ah Cheng took a sip and turned around suddenly, "We should have arrived, this should be the place where Jiang Chenhui stayed, and the result was ......"

Ah Cheng spread his hands: "She's not here." ”

"So, did we get out of that hellish staircase?" I became excited, and my body gradually warmed up.

But Ah Cheng poured a basin of cold water on me, which extinguished my burning heart again.

"It's also possible that we were separated from her. Let's go a little longer. Ah Cheng said, took out a cigarette, lit it and threw it on the ground.

"It's a mark."

So we went back down......

This time, I walked very carefully, kept pinching the point, and when it was ten minutes on time, I reminded Ah Cheng.

When Ah Cheng heard this, he lowered his head and looked at his feet, and I also looked at the soles of my feet.

However, we looked around, and we couldn't see the cigarette butts that Ah Cheng had dropped before.

"Isn't it, we're really going out." I was pleasantly surprised, "Then hurry up, let's go back to Jiang Chenhui." ”

For some reason, I noticed that Ah Cheng had a bitter look and confusion on his face.

I just wanted to ask, but I saw him suddenly stand up and push me up: "Go back, let's go to Jiang Chenhui." ”

I nodded, and I tried to speed myself up as fast as I could.

But, even so, the time I counted was nearly twenty minutes.

But Jiang Chenhui's figure is still not seen. Yes...... The cigarette butt that Ah Cheng dropped before appeared in front of us.

Naturally, the smoke had burned out, leaving only a pile of ashes and a cigarette butt in place.

I picked it up and handed it to Ah Cheng: "This is your cigarette." ”

Ah Cheng took it and looked at it, and said, "Yes." But...... How long have we been gone?"

Again, he asked me about the time.

"It should have been twenty minutes, what's wrong?" I was curious, and at the same time, I was also thinking about why Ah Cheng was so entangled in the question of time.

Suddenly, I thought of one thing - Ah Cheng dropped the cigarette to the place where we were about to turn back, which was about ten minutes. We only had a few seconds of delay before turning back.

It stands to reason that when I came back, I was much faster, and I saw the cigarette butt in less than ten minutes.

Why did we walk for twenty minutes before we saw it?3800

Thinking of this, I stared at Ah Cheng with wide eyes and said something I didn't really want to believe: "Are we trapped?" ”

"Maybe......" Ah Cheng nodded slowly, "Forget it, let's keep walking." ”

He put away his confused expression, stood up and pulled out another cigarette, lit it, and threw it at his feet.

"Let's go!"

He slapped me......

After another ten minutes, I counted the time and looked down at the steps below.

Unexpectedly...... No cigarette butts.

I widened my eyes and quickly scanned up and down the stairs, but I didn't even see a trace of soot.

I looked confused, and Ah Cheng, who was behind me, showed that confused expression again.

"Could it be blown away by the wind?" I whispered, and I laughed awkwardly - what kind of wind is there.

"It's a big trouble, this staircase is absolutely poisonous, Ah Hao, you hold steady. I spin up and down. ”

I could hear a little panic in Ah Cheng's words.

I didn't stop him, and let him wander up and down here at will. I sat down on the steps, thinking and looking around.

It's the same wall all around, and there's no reference.

In this case, don't say find the right direction, if it weren't for the fact that there are only two directions up and down this step.

It's possible that we're completely lost here. It's pretty much the same now, but I've come up with another idea.

What I think is that Ah Cheng and I will go up and down. Take a gamble, and if it gets blocked, we'll try to find a way out. But if the bet loses, we have a maximum of three people to cycle through the steps.

I believe that with our ability, we can completely resolve the difficulties after separation.

I then told Ah Cheng about this suggestion.

After listening to this, Ah Cheng thought patiently for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, I'll go down and you go up, you and I will pinch the time, ten minutes later, if we don't see each other, no matter what the situation is, turn around and come back directly." ”

I nodded and stood back to back with him.

With Ah Cheng's "OK", we all started to walk.

It always feels strange to climb this staircase alone. It's only been two minutes since I walked, and I felt a chill in my back.

I reassured myself that it was all a mental effect, and I finally managed to stabilize my mind, and half of the time passed.

Suddenly, there was a crisp "pop" sound from the soles of my feet. I paused, bowed my head, and slowly moved my feet away.

Two cigarette butts appeared on the soles of my feet, one of which had been burned, and the other had been extinguished by me, and half of it was not burned.

It's the two that Ah Cheng just dropped!

It's only been five minutes! Why is it so much faster this time?

I looked at the cigarette butt and couldn't decide for a moment whether I should continue down or turn back.

After thinking about it for more than ten seconds, I still chose to move on. But I chose to re-time.

When it was five minutes into the recount, I immediately turned around and was about to turn back again. Unexpectedly, there was the sound of clacking footsteps behind me.

I turned my head sharply, and saw Jiang Chenhui panting and running over: "Damn, where have you been, I haven't seen you come back for more than ten minutes!" ”

I saw Jiang Chenhui rushing directly towards me, I hurriedly took a few steps back, and said vigilantly: "You...... Where did it come from? ”

Jiang Chenhui was in a fog when I asked, and she said with a puzzled face: "Where did I come from, I ran down to find you, what kind of expression do you have?"

"Uh...... You wait, you run down, how long have you been running?"

"No, it's about ten minutes."

"More than ten minutes?" I looked Jiang Chenhui up and down, her current breath finally calmed down, she must have just experienced a long time of running.

"Running continuously?" I asked again.

"What do you mean, hey, where did Ah Cheng go? It's very well-behaved here, so it's better for us not to separate. Jiang Chenhui said, and suddenly his gaze bypassed me and looked behind me.

I was a little strange, turned my head to look, and saw Ah Cheng walking up quickly.

"Ah Hao, how did you find Jiang Chenhui, by the way, you are quite punctual, it has only been ten minutes, and you have arrived, have you just arrived?" Ah Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"No, this ......" I looked left and right, looked at Ah Cheng and Jiang Chenhui, and was speechless for a while.

I didn't know what to say, so I could only unconsciously "eh".

Ah Cheng saw that I was abnormal, and hurriedly said, "Say it slowly, don't be in a hurry." ”

I nodded, organized the word order and order, and told the two of them about the matter.

When I finally said, "Ah Cheng came directly", they both fell silent.

I looked at the two of them, "So, do you guys have anything to say?" ”

"The steps, the problem of the steps, can't go on like this anymore, it's not a dead loop, it's an infinite cycle. There must be some mechanism on this step, we don't know, otherwise the distance will not be right at all. Ah Cheng said hastily, and set his eyes on the cliff next to the steps.

"Are you going to jump?" Jiang Chenhui asked.

Ah Cheng did not speak......