Chapter 259: The Beginning, the Origin
There was no pause at the gate of the place of repentance, and the two of them hurried into it, for the door was wide open, unlike the previous time they had arrived.
Is it a sign that the man or creature has just left, and the gate has not yet had time to recover, or is it still in the middle of the world and has not had time to leave?
The two of them had a clear division of labor to control the door on the left and right, and then they both carefully scanned the main hall, trying to see if there was any change between the front and back, and after going up and down three times, the two shook their heads at the same time and found nothing, because this place was too clean, and there were no traces left or perhaps the traces left had been erased.
Dugu Wuji looked at Wuxin, no movement or words, just eye contact. But the latter had read what he meant, asking if he was going to go separately or to go together, or if he was left alone, as he had not seen any back doors.
The unintentional approach to this is also simple, and in an instant, the divine consciousness is activated, although it cannot cover the entire building, but it can also cover most of it, so as to prevent possible people or creatures from escaping.
Under his signal, Dugu Wuji continued to move forward, from the first room to the last room, the study, the side hall, the martial arts arena, the kitchen, and the wing room...... All of them looked closely, but until now they have not found any traces of existence.
Both of them were silent, both wondering if their judgment had been wrong, recalling if there was any omission in everything they had seen since they entered the room this time.
Especially Wuxin, he opened up his divine consciousness and it was a specific route, and the blind spot of divine consciousness should be small and negligible, so it was impossible to escape from it, so he was recalling every fragment and thus analyzing.
As a result, I still couldn't think of anything missing, and then I looked at Ke Dugu Wuji to see if he had thought of anything, and what I saw was his very serious face, and he was also thinking about the possibility.
After a while, Dugu Wuji moved, and actually walked back step by step, and he didn't interrupt him unintentionally, just followed the way, he believed that this descendant of the Ji family could have a harvest.
Finally he approached the main hall, and walked directly to the back of the main seat, facing this empty wall, what was in it?
And Dugu Wuji was motionless at the moment, as if he was enchanted. There are usually certain things hanging in this place, and there are different things that are hung or painted according to customs, some are genealogies, some are gods, maybe just a poem.
This place is the ancient cage of the Ji family, so it can't be inferred by common sense, and it is normal to have no hanging objects, and now he has noticed that there is something abnormal in this place?
After a long time, Dugu Wuji moved again, stretched out his hand and touched the wall, thinking that he would find something, but he didn't think that he was also exploring, all the way up from the bottom, it was completely a blind piano look, but at this moment I had no other way but to watch him try.
Dugu Wuji is indeed just groping at the moment, but it is not an aimless exploration, he has finally discovered the secret of this ancient cage - everything will return to the original point.
I found this because of two things.
The unripe bunch of crops that was unintentionally broken was discarded when the two left in a hurry, and at that moment Dugu Wuji seemed to have caught it, and the crops were restored. Then a chair that was accidentally touched in the seventh place was restored to its original state just as it was about to leave.
After understanding all this, he decided to start from the end of everything, which is the starting point, which is the place of repentance, and the place of repentance makes him suspect only two places, one is the blank wall behind the main seat of the main hall, and the other is the study.
From finding nothing to a little warmth in his hands, Dugu Wuji knew that his thoughts were right, and there was definitely something on top of this wall. Now it's much simpler, just keep groping along the warmth, just like a chain of mechanisms, just need to activate the first mechanism, everything is easy to say.
Seeing that the movements in Dugu Wuji's hands were getting faster and faster, he had no intention of knowing what he had really discovered. Nearly an hour passed, Dugu Wuji stopped moving, and the moment he let go, all the places he had clicked on before were shining, like stars in the sky, this turned out to be a picture!
The two of them looked at it for a moment and couldn't see what it was, because there were hundreds of bright spots, and if it was a line, I don't know how many ways there were, so it was impossible to know what kind of shape it was, or a text that had not yet been fully formed.
Wuxin looked at Dugu Wuji and expected him to take further action, but Dugu Wuji shook his head, because the feeling disappeared as if all the mechanisms had been triggered, this was what it was.
And at this moment, all the bright spots shot out of the light, and they were connected to the sky, why is that?
After waiting for a moment, the two of them did not wait for a change, and so did the sky and the wall.
"I don't think it's a complete mechanism, there is another place or several!"
The well-informed Wuxin spoke, and woke up the person in the dream with a word, and a hazy painting suddenly formed in Dugu Wuji's mind.
"I think I know those places!"
Then the two of them rushed to the seventh building, and the moment they pushed the door open, there was a lot of sand flying in the sky, so the conjecture of Dugu Wuji was confirmed, and there was a thick layer underground.
The same empty space behind the main hall, the same click along the feeling, this time there are not as many highlights as before, but there are also three or four hundred, until all the clicks are lit up, the same is connected to the sky, but the sky and the surrounding area are still not any changes, so it is not enough!
Then under the leadership of Dugu Wuji, the two came directly to the farmland, Dugu Wuji directly entered it, and after a move, the lush crops turned out to be lit up with many bright spots, there are also three or four hundred, which are also connected to the sky, but this is still not enough!
The problem is that Dugu Wuji doesn't know where the next place is at the moment, obviously more than these three.
Construct a blueprint in your mind, and then let these three places be embedded in them, trying to find the relevant connections, but you can't see the specific outline, so there are not only one or two places at all, but also many mechanisms or components.
"Let's go, look around, these three boundaries are not far apart, I think the other components must be around here, if it weren't for us going to look for it room by room, time would stand still here anyway. ”
Feeling that Dugu Wuji had fallen into a predicament, he had no intention of speaking. The latter is a smart and wise person, and the point at this moment also made him pause, yes, the time here has not been walked since he entered the place, and the golden crow in the sky is still in that position.
So the two of them started to investigate the second building one by one, which was obviously a time-consuming and laborious job, but fortunately, the peculiarity of this place was completely different to worry about these two points.
As Wu Xin said, some of the walls in the same position will have mechanisms and some will not, for example, the second and fourth rooms will not have them, and the third and fifth rooms will have them. But after Dugu Wuji tried to find the singular number, he found that it was not this law at all, so he could only find it step by step.
The two of them kept an eye on their surroundings as they tried, and they never felt anything special since the farmland, as if the people or creatures that were hidden in the shadows had completely left.
But is this really the case, and now the two of them have also realized that the abnormal movement is not a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain at all, but deliberately guiding the two of them forward, as if they are helping Dugu Wuji, which makes him wonder if the secret is the same person of the same clan who stopped him and gave him this path before, after all, he has really seen others.
He didn't say where he was now, wasn't he in the middle of it?
Although the time in this place has not moved, the two of them know how long it has been, and the biological clock that has not been completely disrupted let them know that two days have passed, and this is the third day of entering this place.
It is not clear whether it will really return to the original point, but it is certain that this place is really very vast, and looking at the place of repentance from where it is standing now is not clear at all, some of it is just a mess, and looking ahead is also a mess, so the current position is just not forward, and it may not be enough to be in the center.
There are already more than 100 buildings that have been investigated, which means that there are at least 100 buildings ahead, and it will take at least two days to theoretically complete this place.
Another two days passed, and the two of them were completely speechless, because they had already checked two hundred and fifty-nine buildings, of which there were only seven in total, and most of them were useless, so these were actually just obstacles?
Puzzled, the two continued on their way, because there were still many buildings behind them, and the so-called midpoint where they had stayed earlier had already become part of the smoke.
Another two days passed, and when I first entered the five hundredth room, there was a change, and the surrounding scene was distorted at first, and finally I couldn't distinguish anything at all, and my vision was cut off, what was going on?
When everything was restored, the two of them were surprised to find that they had come to the place of repentance, and behind them was the same whirlpool that they had come to for the first time, but at this moment it had completely fallen into darkness.
Is it really where everything came to be?
After the two looked at each other, they were still led by Dugu Wuji into the first place of repentance, and when they entered the house, they saw the flickering unknown figure behind the main seat, it seems that not everything has returned to the starting point, at least this unknown figure is not.
After looking around for a while, the two of them left the place of repentance, obviously nothing had changed here, whether it was the mechanism or the trigger point, it was not here.
So a new question arises, and where is the rest? The vegetable garden has no reaction, so it can't be that place.
Everything seems to be back to square one.