Chapter 22: The Endless Cycle

I stood in the side room and couldn't even say a word, it was impossible, how could a monk suddenly disappear? Is there a mechanism here? But it's almost four walls, and it doesn't look like there's a mechanism. Is the mechanism underfoot? It is said that many large tombs like to set up traps at their feet, so that they can be controlled by gravity to open them, which can achieve effective damage without causing waste.

I crouched down and began to inspect the slate under my feet, and after twenty minutes of inspection, I was sure that there could be no mechanism on the slab under my feet. Is it still on the four walls? The monk did his best to get somewhere else through the mechanism on the wall?

Just as I came back to my senses, I noticed that a stone slab on one of the walls was a little uneven. I didn't notice such a big flaw after the meeting I first came into. Knocking on my head with some annoyance, I ran over and opened the stone door and headed inside.

When I walked through the stone door, I was stunned that it was another identical stone chamber, and that there was still a raised stone slab in the same place. I had a bad feeling in my mind, but I walked over anyway, pushed the slate away, and walked in slowly. When I entered, I found that it was still the same stone chamber.

I didn't know that after a few times of opening the slate, I was already starting to despair, it was impossible, there could not be such a large area here to make such a puzzle. I don't have the courage to push away the upturned slate in front of me. Sitting on the ground and stunned, I wondered if the monk was in the same situation as me, and if so, what would that guy do? Will his personality go on forever?

I decided to go back, and since this place was so weird, I simply stopped caring about the monk and took care of myself first. I slowly exited the stone chamber, then the second, then the third, and after more than an hour, I found in despair that I could no longer find the original main burial chamber.

I didn't count them, but I knew that I must have returned more than I pushed the slabs open, but every time I exited through the doorway, a new stone chamber would appear in front of me, as if there were countless stone chambers connected together, and there was no end in sight.

I crouched down, smoked a cigarette, flicked the butt into the corner of the stone chamber, and I began to tell myself not to panic. This is a basic quality of the wall, even if you encounter something weird, you must keep your mind clear and be able to look at your situation rationally, so that you can make the right judgment and save your life. My dead master once told me that it is always my own judgment that can kill me, the wrong judgment at the critical moment.

As I took a deep breath and controlled my emotions, I began to analyze my judgment. First of all, I'm in a situation where I'm stuck in an endless loop, no matter how I go forward or backward, there's no way to find my way back, and no matter how I go, I'm going to go into another space that's exactly the same.

Then, there may be several reasons for this: my first assumption was that it was an infinite space, with countless side rooms, and I was in the middle of it, and if that were the case, I would not have been able to get out of it anyway. But this is not possible, because my starting point is in the main burial chamber, and if there is such a situation where countless burial chambers are connected, how can I get in? Besides, how could anyone spend so much energy doing this?

My second speculation is based on a scene from an American movie I've seen before, which is the so-called wormhole effect. Thanks to the American movie, it made me, a guy who didn't graduate from high school, know about wormholes, and deeply understand that this wormhole is not a worm-eaten worm eye on an apple.

The two exits of this stone chamber are connected to the two ends of this wormhole, so that I would come out of this exit and walk in through the entrance on the other side. I've come up with a way to test this theory, if I put my hand out at one stone door, will my hand come through the other stone door? When I think about that scene, I can't help but get goosebumps all over my body. But when I tried to put my hand out, I didn't see my hand at the stone gate on the other side, and I realized how stupid my reasoning was.

I have failed to explain my current situation twice with science, and I regret why I didn't learn junior high school physics in the first place, although it is two words worse than the monk's quantum physics, but it should also be helpful. Since science doesn't make sense, I have to use my old profession to explain my current situation. It's much simpler, and that's what I'm expecting is a ghost hitting the wall.

I don't have to give any explanation to the monk about the ghost hitting the wall, obviously I can't do it even if I want to. I can explain my current situation according to the old story I've heard, when I first entered this side room, I was fascinated by ghosts, and at the moment everything in my eyes is my hallucination, in fact, I have been circling around this side room. Although I occasionally encounter one or two more evil things when I walk the streets, those things are only a little strange and never affect people. It's the first time I've encountered a straight hook like this one.

It's a lot easier that way, and I'm just going to follow the methods I've heard about when I'm obsessed with ghosts. I've heard too many stories like this, and I guess if I listed them all, I could publish a condensed version of the story.

The most popular way is to ignore it and just find a place to wait until dawn, and as soon as the day dawns, all the obstructions are gone. But this method does not work at all, because there is no sunlight here.

There was also the idea of passing my head under the crotch to see the way, and then walking backwards backwards to be able to get out, I tried it and it didn't make any difference at all. The door was still there, and I still didn't go out. After that, I tried several more methods, but I couldn't find a way out.

In desperation, I tried a few more feasible and reliable methods, but they basically didn't work. It seems that the supernatural stories on the Internet are all made up, and they have no guiding role at all in actual combat. I'm a little flustered, even if I've dealt with a few more evil ancient things, I've encountered a few more incomprehensible things, but this time I have no clue about this matter, and my previous experience is completely useless.

The greatest fear in the world is not the unsolvable problem or the despair of having no way out, but the confusion of having no clue. Fear comes from ignorance! When you encounter something that completely subverts your previous experience and cognition, you will have a deep fear of the world again.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that a friend of mine had told me that child's urine is the heavier yang energy in this world, and it can dispel some of the more yin and evil things. As a thirty-six-year-old virgin, I could have given it a try, but I also didn't have any hope for the solution, and the experiment had already concluded that all the exorcism techniques promoted on the Internet were paper tigers, and it would have no effect at all when encountering real supernatural events.

Walking to the stone gate, I unbuckled my belt and pointed at the gate with a burst of machine-gun fire. Maybe it's because of the fever that I've been getting hot lately, and the heavy smell of urine almost didn't smoke me. Swallowing the smell of urine, I fastened my belt and withdrew through the stone door. Sure enough, no, this is still a stone room.

For no reason, an uncontrollable anger began to appear in my heart, and this anger came for no reason at all, and I don't know what I was angry about, but it was anger, very angry. My mind began to be stripped away, and it was like I was detached from my body, knowing that I shouldn't be so angry, but I couldn't control myself at all. The other part is completely angry, as if someone has injected it into the body out of thin air.

I began to find myself shuttling in and out of the stone chamber, shaking my hands and shouting meaningless syllables, and I saw a completely crazy version of myself. At this point, I was really in a panic, even though I had been shuttling through this endless stone chamber before, I was just scared, but now I suddenly lost control of my body and mind, and I almost broke down as I watched myself go crazy.

I tried to control myself to regain my composure, saying to myself that everything was an illusion, that I was just temporarily driven crazy by this strange environment, the oppressive environment, at least I still have a rational mind, I just need to control myself again with my rational mind.

After I don't know how many laps I walked around the stone chamber, my anger seemed to have decreased a lot, at least I was able to control myself now. I exhaled deeply, the situation just now was so unbelievable that I had gone crazy while retaining my consciousness! It was as if suddenly a violent soul had squeezed my soul out and then took control of my body and mind.

I don't know how long I stayed leaning against the stone door, I suddenly smelled a familiar smell, it was my masterpiece that was slightly hot these days, but I didn't know how many stone chambers I had run out, why could I still smell this smell here? Have I been trapped in this stone chamber all along? It's just that I don't know what the reason is for me to shuttle back and forth between these two stone gates?

Suddenly, I thought of something and ran frantically into the corner. Sure enough, the cigarette butt was still there. Trembling with the cigarette butt in hand, I ran to another stone chamber, and when I found another cigarette butt in the corner, I was really desperate. I didn't watch this version of the movie less, but I always thought it was, and I never thought about it in this direction.

It's a parallel space, and while I don't know what forces connect all the stone chambers in the parallel universe, I'm sure I won't be able to get out. Because it is said that parallel universes have no end to the door, and each universe will have an identical stone chamber, and I am in these stone chambers, and I can't escape. If the monk were here, I guess he would have told me a lot of theories using his foreign quantum physics, but even if I didn't need him to explain, I had seen such a plot in the movie, and all in all, I was really trapped here and couldn't get out.