Chapter Ninety-Six: The Core of the Temple

The Butterfly-Faced seemed to be well adapted to the structure of the Rubik's Cube, and even though the stone chambers were constantly moving and changing, they could always find us easily, and I heard the shrill roar echoing through the stone chambers, and the queen had joined us in the hunt.

It was difficult to tell where the queen was by the sound, which had been roaming around us as the room changed, but it was getting closer and closer that we might encounter it the next time we walked through.

We didn't have much ammunition left, Ye Zhiqiu would leave marks every time he left the stone room, and it didn't take long for us to rediscover these marks, and in this constantly moving labyrinth, we were completely disoriented.

Everyone didn't dare to stop, there were butterfly-faced people around at any time like ghosts, only by constantly walking through the stone chamber to avoid their hunting, all the way to the wild everyone was exhausted, when we ran to the next stone chamber, we found that it was already surrounded by enemies, the only safe is the passage on the right.

Tian Ji and the general and I covered the others to retreat first, just raised the gun in my hand, suddenly had a headache as if it was about to crack, I felt something constantly roaring in my head, I covered my head and half-knelt on the ground, I really couldn't bear the overflowing pain.

"What's wrong?" The palace lord turned back and lifted me up from the ground.

"I felt like something was hitting me in the head." I replied with difficulty while covering my head vigorously.

"You...... You don't have eggs in your body, do you?! Ye Zhiqiu looked at me with a shocked and worried face.

Not the pain, but a sharp sound that hit my eardrums deafeningly, lingering and disturbing, this sound was not the first time I had heard it, it had been faintly heard since I stepped into the forbidden ground, but it was far less intense and clear than it was now, and it came from somewhere in the stone chamber.

And......

I always felt like the voice was calling me.

"You have the most sensitive hearing, do you hear anything?" I asked with difficulty as I pulled the palace lord.

"I can hear you." Gong Jue nodded in the affirmative. "I've been able to hear the sound of the mechanism going on all the time, but it's so subtle that you shouldn't be hearing it."

I shook my head slowly, what I heard was completely different from what Gong Jue heard, I asked the others, they also shook their heads blankly, I frowned Why this voice is only I can hear, I even wonder if I am having auditory hallucinations under high tension.

"Lift him up and back into the passage." The general stood in front of us and said anxiously.

Tian Ji and Gong Jue drove me up and retreated to the right passage where there was no butterfly-faced person.

"Wait!" I looked down the passage directly in front of the door, and I could feel the sound coming from that direction. "Go from the front."

"Ahead?!" The general looked at me with a stunned face, he should be a little unsure, after all, the two butterfly-faced people in front of him were approaching quickly, but the general did not hesitate for too long, I followed him for ten years, in addition to learning his skills, the most important thing is the trust between us in these ten years, the general didn't say a word, took out the last grenade on his body and threw it over.

In fact, even I didn't know why I chose the path ahead, I just wanted to chase the source of the sound, and I vaguely felt that the sound that only I could hear seemed to have an unusual meaning.

Going out from the passage ahead, I guided everyone forward with the direction of the sound, although these stone chambers kept moving without us knowing, but the sound seemed to be like a road sign, and gradually Ye Zhiqiu did not find the sign she left behind.

It wasn't until I walked to a stone room that I hadn't been to before that the sound in my head was so clear that it seemed to resonate with me, and I turned my eyes to the left, where the sound came from, and the stone room on the left was not the same as what we had seen before, the stone walls were decorated with bronze.

The moment we walked in, everyone stood motionless like clay sculptures, and even forgot about the butterfly-faced people behind them, and everyone looked at the things in this stone room with their mouths open.

I've never believed in ghosts and gods, but now I'm a little shaken, after all, I can be sure that it's not a masterpiece that can be done by humans.

Gong Jue is right, in this Rubik's Cube composed of stone chambers of the same size, there must be a core place where the control mechanism operates, which is what we see in front of us, which is also the only place in this Rubik's Cube that has not moved, and it is impartial and located right in the center of the Rubik's Cube.

From here, you can clearly see the stone chambers that are constantly changing positions, and the entire construction of the Rubik's Cube is connected by many intricate and delicate gears and bronze houses, and it is from here that the sound of the continuous movement that the palace lord heard before comes from.

"The earliest tricks can be traced back to the Mo family, and the master said that Mozi was good at craftsmanship and production, and his attainments in mechanism technology reached the pinnacle, and it is said that he could cut three inches of wood into a bearing that could carry 300 kilograms in an instant." Gong Jue looked at the moving mechanisms and bearings in front of him in amazement. "But compared to the design of this Rubik's Cube, the Mojia Trick is like a child's play, I can't believe that as early as before the Spring and Autumn Period, someone could make such a precise mechanism, this giant Rubik's Cube is incredible even now, don't say that it is made, even if it is copied, it is difficult to learn the essence."

"You say...... This...... Isn't there really a god in this temple?! Tian Ji looked stunned and squirmed his Adam's apple. Even if I don't know any tricks, who would build something like this except a god. ”

I accidentally glanced at Wen Ru, his eyes did not have our shock, but there was inexplicable ecstasy and fanaticism, as if he saw something that he had been looking forward to, the more I felt that this person was unfathomable, compared to the dangerous monsters in this temple, Wen Ru next to me seemed to make me more worried.

"How did you find here?" Ye Zhiqiu asked excitedly and curiously.

I shook my head, in fact I wanted to know the answer to this question more than anyone else, I originally just wanted to trace the source of the sound, but I didn't expect to find it in the fickle Rubik's Cube, the palace lord said that the possibility of finding the core chamber by this kind of blind encounter is almost zero.

But what I heard was not the sound of the bearings running, it was mixed at first, but gradually I could vaguely feel that it was whispering in my ear, but I could never make out what was being said, and what puzzled me the most was that even here, the voice that had been lingering in my head did not stop.

"This is the core of the entire temple, but also the weakest place, these organs support the operation of the entire temple, whether we can get out or not, we have to destroy this temple." The palace lord turned his head to us very firmly.

"I think I'm accumulating virtue, even if I die here, I can't let those bugs and butterfly-faced people out." Tian Ji nodded and took out the explosives from his backpack.

"You said before that there should be a way out of this Rubik's Cube mechanism." I held Tian Ji's hand and looked at Gong Jue. "If we stop the Rubik's Cube first, maybe we can find a way out of the stone chamber without changing and moving."

"If it weren't for the butterfly-faced people and those bugs chasing after them, maybe it would still be possible." The palace lord sighed heavily and shook his head. "Even if we stop the Rubik's Cube mechanism, we won't have the time and ability to deal with the Butterfly Face."

"No, I don't." I rubbed my temples on both sides, the headache was not alleviated by this, and the lingering sound kept coming. "I can find this place with a voice you can't hear, and that voice seems to be guiding me somewhere, and as long as the Rubik's Cube doesn't turn anymore, maybe we still have a chance to live."

"What did you hear?" Wen Ru tried his best to look calm, but when he looked at his eyes, he saw that there was an irrepressible excitement shining in them.

"yes, I didn't hear anything but the sound of these rotating bearings." Tian Ji also asked blankly.

"Like ...... It was like someone was talking to me. "It's hard for me to describe the sound in words, it just feels like a calling.

The general asked the palace lord and me to give him the gun without bullets, and he tied the two guns together with the gun belt, and the general said as he did it, even if these mechanisms were precise, they were still interlocked, and if one of the bearings was destroyed, the whole mechanism would stop.

"There's a timer in the bag, and it's loaded with explosives to set the time." The general stood up and said to Tian Ji. "If you can go out, we will do our best to obey the destiny of heaven, and if we can escape, it is creation, if we can't get out, we will die with this temple."

"How long?" Tian Ji took out the timer and hesitated.

Everyone looked at me, and even the general couldn't make a decision, after all, it was a matter of everyone's life, and the time it said was the countdown to our lives.

"Three hours!" I took a deep breath and cut the iron, although I couldn't hear what it was, I could sense that it wasn't far away from us, three hours was enough, after all, the only thing I was sure of was that the rest of us would not be able to last three hours in this stone chamber in the face of the Butterfly-Faced Man and the Queen in this stone chamber with all the ammunition and food.

Tian Ji did not hesitate to dial the timer pointer, and skillfully installed on the explosives, the general next to him accurately inserted the tied gun into the bearing closest to us, the powerful force instantly broke the gun shaft, but the bearing was also stuck, constantly hitting the gun barrel can not rotate, the entire changing Rubik's Cube stone room slowly stopped moving and changing in an instant.

We each took the time-set explosives, and under the instructions of the palace lord, installed them separately in the places where the mechanism was connected, and when I returned, I glanced at the hands of the timer on the explosives, which were probably the last three hours of our lives......