219. Space does not rot
I slowly lowered my head, and realized that the solid stone under my feet seemed to be loose, and my feet were still sinking. Heresy was discovered, but the people behind didn't know that it did not advance further after Gu Xi drank the order, but there were still people asking: "What's wrong?" ”
When the force reaches a certain point, the vibration of the sound wave may be the cause of the butterfly effect. I only heard a rumbling sound in my ears, there was no support point under my feet, and my body fell sharply. As soon as his waist tightened, he was grabbed by Gu Xi, and he was beside me and could not be spared from falling. When he raised his head in panic, he found that Qin Zhou had a keen reaction at the last moment, and his hands were on the edge of the crack in the ground, and Tong Ying and Zhu Ke behind us also happened to be at the critical point of the collapse range.
So, sadly, Gu Xi and I fell from there.
After about a few tens of seconds, I felt that the momentum of the fall was decreasing sharply, and there was a sound of metal and stone tools rubbing in my ears, guessing that Gu Xi should have used some blade to try to insert it into the stone crack to delay the fall of the two of us.
With a clattering sound, the heavy force descended, and the arms around the waist were wrapped extremely tightly. And we stopped in mid-air, both of us supporting Gu Xi's right arm. I judged the position by the power of my ears, and reaching out to hold the position of his hand would ease his burden.
As soon as he touched the blade, he knew it was my lancet, and he had always carried it with him, which came in handy when he was in danger.
It's just that this knife is extremely thin, and I'm worried that it won't be able to support the weight of the two for too long.
In the darkness, he penetrated my thoughts, and said in his ear: "After a while, you will use the thin thread in the bracelet to go down on my hand first, judging from the sound of the rubble rolling to the bottom, it should not be a few meters high." ”
"But this thin line is very sharp, will it cut your hand too?"
"Let's go down first." Gu Xi couldn't help but say that he had grabbed the beads on my wrist and pinched it, only to feel that the filaments were tight, and I no longer hesitated to let go of his palm and immediately let go of his palms and feet on the stone wall layer by layer.
His judgment was accurate, and it was true that after falling to a height of about five meters, his foot hit the ground.
I immediately raised my voice and said, "It's already down there." When I was still thinking about how he was going to get down, I suddenly heard a clang, it was the sound of metal and stone walls sliding again, and then the strong wind above my head was approaching, I subconsciously stepped aside, and in an instant there was already a person next to me.
Frightened: "You just jumped off like this?" ”
He snorted and said arrogantly: "Is it possible to climb down like a snail at this height?" ”
I knew that his temperament had always been like this, so I didn't mind his tone, but I suddenly remembered that he still had a wound on his leg, and immediately bent down to touch it, and it turned out that his hand was wet and sticky, and there was a faint smell of blood, and it was obvious that his wound had cracked open again.
The body was pulled up by him, and he said impatiently: "Don't worry about this for now, the space here is very rotten, and I can't make any more mistakes if you follow closely." ”
I also knew that the situation was very bad, but when he held my hand, I clearly felt that it was sticky again, and immediately reacted that it was his right hand, and it was the palm that I used my lancet to fight against the stone wall during the fall, and it was obvious that his palm was also worn out in the process. It is not the first time that he has been born and died, he can almost see tricks in the underground siege of Brin Town before, but he has been repeatedly injured on this trip to Yunnan.
In the end, he is also an ordinary person, but he is a little more capable than ordinary people.
For example, at this moment, he can discern the direction by the flow of spatial breath in the dark, and not being able to see does not affect him too much. For me, he is like a blind man, and I can only rely on him and let him lead me.
When he paused, I felt that there was nothing unusual around me, and I couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”
I heard his breath sink slightly, and then said softly: "Someone." ”
I was shocked, there are still people in this place? Why can't I feel someone else in the space at all? But I heard him add another sentence: "It's a dead man." "I stiffened, a little confused, and felt my scalp tingle, and I couldn't measure whether I was going to be more vigilant when I was touching a living person or a dead person.
He let go of my hand and crouched down, and after a few moments I heard a "pop" sound, and there was a light coming out. Even if it's a small cluster, it's rare in this dark space.
I fixed my eyes, and after seeing the outline of Gu Xi clearly, I also squatted down, and found that he was holding an old-fashioned flashlight in his hand, and the light came from here. This flashlight is very old, and the skin is silver lead or something, but now the one in his hand is black. The position where he shone the beam was indeed as he had just said, there was a corpse there, dressed as one of their Mo people, similar to the corpse he had encountered on it before.
Undoubtedly, this person is probably the same person who went into the cave to explore but did not go out again, and the same green poison in his body did not decompose his body or even his clothes. I only heard Gu Xi whisper: "There must be other passages here." ”
It also occurred to me that we had fallen from there, and that piece of ground couldn't have been sealed back on its own, so no one had ever touched it. If there are other people here, it means that there must be another way in.
Gu Xi rummaged through the man's belongings again, and pulled me to my feet after there was nothing worth taking. With the flashlight light, at least it won't be so passive anymore. There is not a lot of space underneath, and there are a lot of scattered rolling stones on the ground, so it should be a natural cave from the concave and convex surfaces of the surrounding stone walls.
Presumably, "life and death" is said to be this trap, if it wasn't for Gu Xi's strong resistance to the fall just now, the two of them would have died if they fell from a height of more than 20 meters. This is the so-called death calamity in the door of life, but fortunately, the two of us fell, and the rest of us are still on it. Qin Zhou can be regarded as having passed this level and gone over there, and the rest of the people who stayed behind should not be able to pass any further, so they should retreat to their original place.
Turning in his mind, he walked with Gu Xi for nearly half an hour and suddenly found that something was wrong, hadn't the location of the corpse been walked over just now, why did it come back again? Nudged his elbow, "Look at that." ”
He replied in a low voice: "I see, this space has been set up in formation. ”
"Is it blinding us? That would either put out the light. I thought it was a maze like "ghosts hitting the wall", but Gu Xi shook his head, looked around with a halo, and said slowly: "These gravels seem to be placed randomly, but in fact, they are arranged according to the Tiangang Illusion Formation, which has nothing to do with the human eye, and you can't get out of this formation even if you close your eyes if you don't unlock this array." ”
The owner of the cave undoubtedly had a deep understanding of Qimen techniques, but he had left them wherever he went. Thinking about it, since this place is used as the door of death in his life, how can he let people out easily.
I saw that Gu Xi's face was solemn, and I knew that this formation was not easy to break. But he sat down, looked at the corpse for a moment, and then asked me, "Why do you think he is here?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, didn't he already figure this out just now? "There should be another passage leading here."
"But the pattern of the Tiangang Phantom Array is that if you come in, don't want to go out, and if you're outside, don't want to come in."
His heart moved, "You mean the passage is in the middle of this?" ”
Gu Xi curled the corners of his lips, "Xiao Yuan, you still don't understand what I mean." Once this array is working, those who come in don't want to go out again. I frowned, feeling uneasy: "Are you saying we can't get out?" You can't solve this formation? ”
"It's not that it can't be solved, it's that it can't be solved." Gu Xi calmly said, "Strictly speaking, its formation is not set here, but outside the space we are in, which is equivalent to us now standing in a giant balloon, and the formation is this balloon. However, there is a disadvantage of this array, that is, it must be activated artificially to operate, otherwise it is equivalent to nothing. ”
I understood what he meant, and I stared at the corpse. This person must have come here by mistake in the first place, and since he was able to come in, it means that the formation was not running at that time, but now it is already in operation. In other words, someone activated the formation here! This inference alone is shocking.
immediately thought of Xie Ze and the others, and hurriedly asked, "Could it be that Xie Ze and Aunt Mei opened it?" ”
It can be seen that Gu Xi still shook his head, pointed to the corpse again and asked me, "Do you know how this person died?" ”
I was stunned, and subconsciously replied: "Didn't you die of Qing Yan poison?" ”
Gu Xi chuckled: "He wasn't poisoned, he starved to death." ”
This time I was completely stunned, and I thought about many possibilities, but I didn't think it would be like this. I couldn't help but look at the man carefully, because the corpse was not decomposed, so the face could still be seen clearly. I saw that this person's face was slightly pale, emaciated to the point of skinny and bones, and even the exposed hands were skinny, as if he was extremely hungry.
But I couldn't figure it out: "Didn't he get into the middle of the blue?" ”
"I got it, but I solved it again. The reason why his body does not rot is not the green rays, but this space. ”
"What do you mean?" The green stool has been thoroughly analyzed before, and this poison will definitely die if it is touched, how can it be cracked by itself? And why does this space keep people's bodies from rotting?
Hearing this, Gu Xi replied: "Naturally, because what he eats can relieve this toxicity, the most common in this kind of place are snakes, insects, rats and ants, and people have to eat even the most disgusting things when they are hungry." And this kind of thing is drilled everywhere, and the water that must be drunk must be the same as the river. So in fact, this person could have followed the trail of this kind of animal to leave here, but this array began to operate, not to mention that the animal could not enter again, and he could not get out, and the only way waiting for him was death. As for the corpse not decomposing, it is because once this formation is running, time will stop, and even if more than ten years have passed, people outside the formation will still stay at this moment in this formation. ”
I was so shocked that I was almost speechless, and it took a long time to slowly discern the meaning of his words: "Are you saying that this array was started more than ten years ago, not just now?" And the formation that can stop time? ”
Gu Xi smiled lightly, his eyes were clear, "For a formation to run and mature, it takes time and space to glue together, if it is the first time it opens, I am sure that I can find an opportunity to crack it from the inside." The formation does not stop time, but allows those who are in the formation to live or die in the present forever. Or do you think that kind of ape-man really lived so long? Now I'm curious, who is this person? Unexpectedly, the mystery of the hanging coffin has been solved first, and the formation here can be manipulated. ”
Feather! It's the only person I can think of.