Chapter Twenty-Four: Tracing the Shadow of the Wall

In the dark, this drawing drawn from the east is actually very vague, similar to my guess, because the passage here is constantly changing.

With what we have found so far, there is no way to find the law of their movement, so it is certain that these entrances and exits are changed by magnetic fields.

Although we now have Kun Tiandou and can measure the movement of the magnetic field, we are not as free to walk here as above! There are some places that we don't mean that we can get past if we think about it.

There are walls and distance constraints, and we can only explore them step by step, and this drawing based on these must be a lot of work, at least in this case, it seems tricky.

I really don't know how this place was built in the first place, and the entire underground project was carried out to such a perfect extent.

Perhaps everything is one here, from the basin above determining the extent of the magnetic field, to the ever-changing channels underground that control it all.

When I looked up again and looked at the stone wall above me, there was a missing exit in addition to the bullet hole I had just left.

They fell from there in the east just now, and after discovering me, Liu Ran said that, and prepared a bone eater, and hit the red-haired skeleton in one fell swoop at the critical moment, which saved my life.

At this time, the red caterpillars on the ground were all returning to the stone platform one after another along the vine script, and all that was left was the liquid on the ground and the skeletons soaked in the liquid.

When the Bone Eater crawled back into the skeleton, everything finally returned to its original state, and I was about to tell the East about what I had found in the previous burial chamber, but when I turned my head, I found that the passage was gone.

The magnetic field here has not changed much, we looked along the stone wall, and the pointers on the Kun Tiandou showing the heavenly and eastern positions are shifting, which means that the magnetic field is moving from the upper layer to the front.

As we walked, we groped for the stone wall, and I accidentally turned my head to one side, but suddenly noticed that the strange pattern on the stone wall was missing.

"Wait a minute!" I immediately stopped them, "Maybe the magnetic field here is changing, I feel like an exit is about to appear!" ”

Dongfang lowered his head and glanced at Kun Tiandou, and then asked me, "How do you know?" ”

I looked sideways at the stone wall, "There was a strange figure here, like a snake, but with a barb on its tail. And it doesn't appear on the stone wall as a whole, but only a part of the body, so I suspect that there is a painting painted on the stone wall that we see, but the space here only shows a part, but now it is gone, which means that the stone wall is changing. ”

After hearing my statement, Dongfang and Liu Ran glanced at each other, and they both leaned over, and the flashlight swept on the stone wall, illuminating most of the stone wall clearly.

Taking a step back, the entire stone wall was taken into view, and I saw that on the stone wall at this time, only close to the stone wall on the left, there was a strip about two feet long.

After walking cautiously, our eyes followed the strip, and I felt that it was also like part of the body of the monster on the stone wall, and even because of the change, the original part was reduced.

According to this speculation, it makes me feel that this stone wall is moving from right to left, but with a certain slope, because the picture presented now is not pushed flat.

Perhaps this guess is not accurate, because we don't see all the murals, but when Dongfang put his hand on the strip, he suddenly took it back.

"There's something up there!" As he spoke, Dongfang turned his palm over again, and we immediately looked at it, and saw this layer of lime powder attached to his finger.

Dongfang frustrated with his thumb, and those things were very thin, and after such a blow, they all fell off and were chained into a thin line.

These things have a certain stickiness and tenacity, like spider webs, but obviously it is not, because it is humid for a long time, and it is not suitable for animals like spiders, and the animals that spiders prey on are not here.

"Is it the paint that has come off?" I said a word, and then I sniffed it closer, and it didn't feel like the smell of industrial paint at all.

It may be made of plants or animal liquids, and after special processing, most of the odors are removed, but even so, I can still vaguely feel a faint fishy smell mixed with it.

"No, if these things are going to fall off, it's completely impossible to wait until now. Don't forget that before we came, there was still a group of "guests". ”

As he spoke, he glanced back at the broken corpse not far away, and put his hand back on the gap between the strip and the stone wall.

Groping for it, Dongfang continued, "I feel like something on it is like a bodily fluid secreted from some living creature! ”

"There are other living creatures here, and ...... In the mural? I was a little confused, and looked back at the strip, "This thing is alive, like in a chat?" ”

Dongfang didn't answer my words, and seemed to disagree with what I had listed, "It's a nocturnal creature!" Judging by this, Dongfang sniffed the smell on his fingers again.

"There is a fishy smell, which is initially understood as a kind of sweat, but this does not mean that it moves around a lot, on the contrary, it is stationary, like a turtle, so it has high physical characteristics and has a fairly complete metabolism!"

After Dongfang said this, the first thought that came to my mind was to laugh, feeling that he was pure nonsense, and he could make up stories better than Pu Songling.

Just by the little thing found on the stone wall, it can be said that the mural is a living thing?? Taking 10,000 steps back, it is impossible to confirm his inference that there is some kind of living creature hidden here.

On the stone wall, in addition to the paint falling off, there are many possibilities, such as dust, and lime that shook down from the surroundings because of the gunfire just now.

"Maybe you don't believe what I found, so why don't you take a look here!" As he spoke, Dongfang pointed to the crack in the edge of the strip on the stone wall.

I followed his gaze, and the touch under my hand was indeed a little strange, as the speed of the finger movement, it seemed that the strip was also slowly stretching outward.

The shadow of the arm was left on the stone wall by the light, and the black shadow finally moved to the crack that separated the stone wall from the strip.

It didn't feel anything special there, it was the same as the lines carved elsewhere, but just as I was about to turn around and ask Dongfang what the hell he was doing, my body suddenly stopped.

Although the touch on my fingers was not obvious, I still noticed that something fleeting, like an electric current, spread all the veins in my body in an instant from the place where my fingers touched.

"If you feel it carefully, it's better to close your eyes!" Dongfang instructed on the side.

Although I was a little scared, I also knew that when I closed my eyes, my body's sense of touch would become more sensitive, and it would be easier to capture the sensation I just felt.

In this way, I slowly closed my eyes, and my fingers touched down little by little, and finally on the cold stone wall, the faint temperature I had just found gradually appeared.

This is definitely a bold guess, that is, there is definitely a living creature in this strip, but its signs of life are very weak, like the pulse of a dying person, and it takes a lot of effort to detect its existence.

Even so, I still had a hard time accepting the possibility, but when I touched the surrounding stone walls again, I could clearly feel that the slight heat was gone.

The stone walls, especially those that have been soaked in rain all year round, should be all cold, and even if you pour a basin of boiling water on them, you may not be able to maintain its temperature for even a few minutes.

But now, I actually feel the temperature on this stone wall, this ...... I just don't know what to say?

"This ...... How can it be! Being embedded in the stone wall, you can still survive, this vitality is too against the sky! ”

Looking at my expression of disbelief, Liu Ran waved his finger and pointed to the stone platforms on the side, "At first, we didn't believe that there would be living creatures in these stones, but it turned out that all this was possible." ”

"However, there should be space under those stone platforms that allow them to move around and even connect to the outside, but here ......" I was about to say anything more, but I saw that Dongfang had already rummaged through his backpack for something that could confirm those suspicions, and in a few moments, he took out a stone hammer from his backpack.

He carefully tapped on the stone wall a few times, testing the sound from above, and when I heard this, sure enough, the stone wall was hollow.

Looking at all this, I simply didn't know how to convince myself, how to make sense of everything here, the intricate mechanisms, the red caterpillars sealed in the stone platform, the bone-eating worms that suppressed the dead, and now the living creatures we found in the stone walls.

How far ahead of the world was civilization? The understanding and use of matter is beyond my comprehension.

Perhaps those stone platforms were coffins used to hold the "souls" of the deceased

While I was thinking about it, Dongfang had already knocked around the edge of the strip, and listening to the sound of the stone hammer, the thickness of the stone wall should be about three or four centimeters.

After mentally estimating these data, Dongfang put away the stone hammer and used a white skirmish knife to slowly cut into the crack in the stone wall.

Calculating the distance, Dongfang inserted the blade into the stone wall for a certain distance, and then began to slide down the strip forcefully.

Because the hardness of the stone wall is very high, although the edge of this knife is first-class, but after all, it is also difficult to cut the stone, and Dongfang eats all his strength on the handle of the knife, and can only slowly draw a short distance.

It seems that the things in this stone wall are old, and the cracks have been close to the stone wall, almost becoming one with the stone wall.

Seeing that Dongfang is very hard, we want to help, but the handle of the knife is so long, he himself doesn't seem to be enough, and there is still our land there.

Little by little, I didn't dare to leave my eyes for a moment, for fear of missing something.

Now, Dongfang has used his hands, so we help him turn on the flashlight, and when the snow-white light shines into the crack that Dongfang has cut open, the light quickly penetrates the darkness inside.

But just as we were intently watching the knife cut through the crack little by little, we suddenly felt something fly past us with a brush.

The eyes of the three of us were all stunned, because the thing flew by our light, and it was so fast that no one could see what it was, but it was undeniable that it was real.