Chapter 146: The Labyrinth of the Stone Chamber (1)

"Anyway, let's go down first, I always feel like it's not safe to stay here." He thought to himself, and then got up and walked to the next room.

As the stone door opened, he was greeted by the room below, still a crystalline color inside. He was just about to step in, when suddenly the ghost's heart moved, and he suddenly turned around, grabbed the corpse on the ground, and threw it into the room.

As the body was thrown into the room, there was a sudden click...... Without warning, the walls on both sides suddenly burst into countless blue spikes, filling the entire room in an instant. The corpse that had entered the house first was drowned in the sea of thorns in the blink of an eye.

This scene made Jing Guantian feel a slight chill in his heart...... Although 'he was very confident in the defense of his bone armor', 'the spikes that shimmered with a blue luster and did not look like a human weapon' somehow made him feel a little frightened in his heart, and his intuition told him that 'his bone armor' would probably not be able to defend against these spikes.

After hesitating for a while, he decided to take a different route, but in order to prevent himself from getting lost, he planned to return to the original point, which was the room he had entered first, and then pick a direction to continue...... Some people may think that Jing Guantian is too troublesome to go like this, so can't he change the route directly? In fact, Jing Guantian did this with a deeper meaning, that is, he was drawing a map. Yes, you read that right, he's mentally mapping 'this whole labyrinth of stone chambers', so he'll have to go back to square one just to prevent it from getting messed up.

Without further ado, as Jing Guantian opened the stone door when he came, he was suddenly stunned...... But he saw that 'the stone chamber where he came' was empty. If he's not mistaken, before he came to 'this house full of bloodstones,' there should have been a statue of a monster from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. But at this time, there are no statues in this room, not even a pillar.

"What's going on...... Am I going in the wrong direction? Impossible? How far has this gone? How could I be mistaken? Jing Guantian was a little shocked for a while, no wonder he was like this, anyone who encountered this strange situation would be confused.

"Calm down, I want to be calm......" As he thought so, he subconsciously grabbed 'an object next to him' and threw it into the room.

What he threw into it was a small piece of the guard's limb that had been bitten off. Pity this guard, even after his death the body had to be stoned twice to ask for directions.

"Judging by the touch of 'this limb' and the smell of touching it, everything is very real, which means that nothing here is an illusion. Since it's not an illusion, there's only one possibility...... These chambers are actually moving, they are not fixed. ”

I have to say that Jing Guantian's psychological quality is really strong, and he can analyze so many things in such a strange situation.

Just when he was secretly thinking about the cause and effect, he didn't want to fall into the house with that part of the limb, and the sudden change would occur...... But there was a sudden sound of bubbling water in this empty stone room, and before Jing Guantian could react to what was going on, a black, smoke-like viscous substance suddenly rolled out and overflowed, quickly covering the entire ground at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then spread rapidly towards the stone room where he was.

"Shetβ€”β€”! Jing Guantian scolded in his heart, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to press the mechanism of the stone gate.

With a sound of huo, the stone door slowly closed...... But a lot of the sticky stuff has spilled over the threshold and flowed in. Jing Guantian hurriedly tiptoed to the ground, climbed the 'bloodstone on the wall next to him' and attached himself to the wall.

The black substance quickly overflowed the floor of the stone chamber where he was, and it could be seen that some debris on the floor of the stone chamber quickly dissolved the moment it touched the black substance; Jing Guantian saw with his own eyes a knife weapon left on the ground by the guard, and the moment it touched the black substance, it didn't even produce a bubble, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye like a plastic sheet touching magma.

Seeing this scene, the shock in Jing Guantian's heart was really incomprehensible. Fortunately, he closed the stone door in time, so the black substance only covered the ground and stopped rising.

He calmed his mind a little, and his eyes began to wander around, and he began to calculate the distance he could climb the bloodstones to see if he could get into the next room.

He was looking around, not wanting another accident to happen. I saw that 'this black viscous substance' seemed to have an inexplicable connection with 'this entire stone chamber labyrinth', and as the 'debris on the whole ground' dissolved, it slowly plunged into the ground and disappeared. And with the dissipation of the black substance, the entire stone chamber floor seemed to have been washed, revealing a clear and smooth stone surface. It was as if the black substance was the 'garbage scavenger' in the labyrinth of stone chambers.

Seeing such a magical scene, it is impossible to describe the shock in Jing Guantian's heart at this moment. Halfway through the startling, he suddenly moved in front of his eyes...... As mentioned earlier, the floor of the stone chamber was washed cleanly; It had not been obvious when it was dirty before, but when it was clean, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be a mark engraved on the smooth ground in the middle of the stone chamber, and he couldn't help but let out a 'huh', and immediately jumped off the wall and walked towards the mark.

As he approached, he saw 'those lines of knife-like carvings' on the smooth ground, and the writing was ancient, a bit like seal script.

As a mercenary, he once knew an archaeologist and learned something about it from him, but he didn't learn it very thoroughly, and could only vaguely recognize a few Xingdian characters, as if they were written...... Up and down, left and right...... Something.

"What is this? I Ching? Formation hexagram? Wait a minute...... Could it be that what is recorded above is the operation of this stone chamber labyrinth? His heart moved slightly, and he thought of a possibility, and immediately began to read carefully.

But the more he read, the more anxious he became, for no other reason, and he couldn't understand many words. After reading for most of the day, he could only understand a small part of the meaning, which was generally ...... The situation is fraught with danger and is constantly changing. Every quarter of an hour, the formation will move once, which means that the hexagram will change once.

For example, the stone house just now, when he came in, it seemed to be a hexagram in the Eight Trigrams of the Earthquake Palace, and it was an auspicious hexagram, so there was no danger. But when he turned around to go back, it happened to be just in time for the hexagram to change, so the house that represented the auspicious hexagram moved to another place...... Replaced with another hexagram in the Kangong Bagua (belonging to water), which is a fierce hexagram, for the ditch to blaspheme, for the hidden, so the inexplicable black water came out......

From these simple words, you can know that this stone chamber labyrinth is very complicated, with Jing Guantian's half-baked level of I Ching knowledge, it is simply a fool's dream to push back the operation rules in it, so it is no wonder that he is so irritable.

(End of chapter)