Chapter 282, The Turning Labyrinth
There are no accurate statistics on how many serious natural disasters have occurred in history, especially in the dynastic period thousands of years ago, when the princes were divided, and no one can count how many bizarre things have happened.
Fang Chao continued: "This palace was named the Sleeping Palace by Wei Rampant, it seems that he originally intended to spend his old age in peace, the interesting thing is that according to the information in my hand, when the labor force was not enough when the sleeping palace was built, so Wei Rampant forcibly recruited people in his own territory to build a palace for himself, among which there were some Soul Defeat Sect people, and three years after the palace was built, it mysteriously fell into the ground, the book speculated that the reason for the fall of the palace was natural disasters such as earthquakes, but I found, The time when this sleeping palace fell underground coincided with the time when Wei rampant suppressed the Soul Defeat Sect, more than 3,000 people in the Soul Defeat Sect died two-thirds, I guess that the fall of the Sleeping Palace may have been done by the remaining people of the Soul Defeat Sect, but there is no evidence to prove this, I am still checking other information, how is the situation over there? ”
Tang Yao said: "At present, the entrance to the sleeping palace has been opened, we plan to go in, you should be careful outside." ”
The headset was quiet again, and Tang Yao looked towards the entrance, and the light that lit up was the flame lit on the wall, and there was a flame on the wall every six or seven meters away, and this flame looked like an oil lamp to guide the way.
"It has been nearly three thousand years since the Western Zhou Dynasty, why are these flames still lit?" Song Shun asked in surprise as he looked at the flames on the wall.
"Each flame is like an oil lamp, and there is a line for the oil lamp in the wall behind the flame, I think that when the door is opened just now, the flint and steel hidden in the wall should be triggered at the same time, the flint and steel ignite the fuse, and then the fuse ignites the flame, so these lights appear, and these flames are probably not left three thousand years ago, it is likely that the three brothers of the Yang family added it more than ten years ago, but the lamp oil can still be preserved after more than ten years, which is really surprising." Sanyao said the guess in his heart, and most of the reasoning was logical, but Tang Yao didn't understand this point about the lamp oil.
"Let's go in first, everyone be careful." Tang Yao said.
The three of them walked along the only road in front of them towards the depths of the sleeping palace, this road was very long, there were no patterns on the walls, Tang Yao originally wanted to find more clues about the sleeping palace to inform Fang Chao, so that Fang Chao could find more information, but now this idea has failed.
This road is much longer than expected, and Song Shun, who walked in front, said: "The museum covers a large area, but according to our footsteps, we should have already stepped out of the scope of the museum, how big is this underground sleeping palace, why haven't we reached the end yet?" ”
At this moment, Sanyu, who was walking at the end, suddenly said: "Wait a minute, have we been spinning in the same place all the time?" ”
Song Shun and Tang Yao immediately stopped, Song Shun walked to the wall next to him and left a trace, and then spoke: "If there is a trick or illusion to confuse us here, we will find out after a while." ”
The three of them continued to move forward, and this time they walked for about fifteen minutes, and Song Shun in front of them stopped and said, "It seems that you guessed half of it." ”
Tang Yao leaned over and looked down, and saw that the traces left by Song Shun were appearing on the wall, and he said, "We are really going around in circles." ”
Song Shun shook his head and said: "We are not only turning in circles in place, but also in reverse circles, do you see the mark I left, this is an arrow, when I drew this arrow just now, the direction of the arrow was aimed at the front, but now the direction of the arrow is pointing behind us, which shows that we unconsciously walked back, and also turned around and returned to this place, not only that, the three of us almost didn't notice it except for a slight feeling of scattering." ”
"Sanyu, what kind of illusion is this, have you also been deceived?" Tang Yao turned around and asked.
Sanyu thought for a while and said: "I just feel wrong, I feel like I'm spinning in place, I think the reason why the three of us will unconsciously be illusioned, it should be because the three of us lost our sense of direction at the same time, let's put it this way, when people walk on the sea or in the endless desert, unless they see the sun or stars in the sky, it is difficult to distinguish the direction, which is why some people will not be able to distinguish the southeast and northwest when they walk in the jungle that covers the sky and the sun. We've been in this place for about thirty minutes now, and all we've seen in the process are the same walls and regular flames, and our sense of direction has been paralyzed in those thirty minutes, and I suspect that there is something wrong with the ground, so we're standing still. ”
As soon as Sanyao said this, Tang Yao immediately stood with his feet together and did not move, and then Sanyao asked the three of them to look at their toes, and after about a minute, Tang Yao actually saw that his toes were slightly deflected to the left by about ten degrees, Tang Yao was surprised and said: "This ground will not turn by itself, my toes have deflected the direction." ”
Sanyu nodded: "That's why we unconsciously turn around without realizing it, in this place first our sense of direction is blocked, and then the ground turns on its own, slowly adjusting our direction at a speed that we can't detect, just like the rotation of the earth, we can't detect it, so we will keep wandering here." ”
"So how do you get out of here? Constantly adjusting the angle yourself? Song Shun asked.
After thinking about it, he said: "That's too slow, and I think the exit here must be very secret, we have to carefully control the direction we are going, and we have to look for the exit, I'm afraid that tonight may not be able to find a way out, I have two plans here, the first is to let the moon crown find the exit, the moon crown is not limited by the terrain here, it should be easy to find the exit, but the problem is that the moon crown is not in good condition, this time I summon it may not be able to let it appear." ”
"You try it first." Tang Yao said.
Sanyu nodded and began to summon the moon crown, but after waiting for a while the moon crown did not appear, Sanyuan said helplessly: "It refuses to appear, so it can only use the second method." ”
"What's the second method?" Tang Yao asked.
"The second way is to rely on you to take us out." Sanyu pointed at Tang Yao and said.
Tang Yao was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean, I can help you out?" ”
Sanyu nodded and said: "People's senses may be paralyzed, but qi will not, you close your eyes, only take qi as a guide, follow the qi, qi wanders on the wall once you find the exit you can feel, but then there is still a question, that is, whether you can skillfully use your qi, if you are skilled enough, it will be easy to find the exit, and if you are not skilled enough, it is very likely that you will spend a night and not be able to find it, so it depends on your ability." ”
Tang Yao glanced at Song Shun with some embarrassment, and the latter said to him: "Don't look at me, I have a specialization in the art industry, I'm not good at finding paths, and I'm not good at using qi, you have been practicing with Brother Jun and Master Yuanben for so long, you should always be a little proficient, right?" ”
Tang Yao frowned helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll try, but people will unconsciously rely on their own senses, so I need to use some external forces to shield my five senses, which of you have something like cotton or cloth to lend me." ”
Sanyu took a new mask from his bag and gave it to Tang Yao, so that he could use it to blindfold himself, and then Tang Yao turned off the wireless headset completely, signaling Song Shun and Sanyu not to make a sound, he took a deep breath and pressed his hand against the wall.
Qi travels in the body, wandering between the meridians, Tang Yao seems to be able to feel the qi swimming in his body in the extremely quiet environment, like the flow of rivers converging on his hands, and then released from the pores of his palms and covering the walls.
"Let's start, I'll go very slowly, don't rush me." After Tang Yao said this, he leaned against the wall and moved forward little by little.