Chapter 33: The Ghost
The Snow Maiden stepped through the doorway, turned back and asked, "Are you coming?"
Ding Jun hesitated slightly, unable to answer for a while.
"Okay, I understand." There was no joy or sorrow in the Snow Maiden's voice, and a person turned his head forward without hesitation, and the white clothes were hidden in the darkness.
Ding Jun stomped his foot lightly, still unable to make up his mind.
"It's none of my business here, is it? Can I go first? I promise not to talk nonsense, not to make trouble, and to leave Thorin at once......" The One-Eyed man muttered.
"What did the stone hand promise you?" Ding Jun asked.
The one-eyed man shook his head: "We are following Aunt Ge, and we will do whatever she arranges us to do." She said that as long as she could finish the work of the Torin Temple, everyone would be able to share a few million, and then the ten heavenly eagles would disperse and go their own way. There are ten of us, four of us follow Aunt Ge and four follow Lao Jin, which is originally two groups. Aunt Ge is very familiar with Shi Miaoshou, she is willing to help Shi Miaoshou, we have no opinion, as long as we give money. ”
Ding Jun frowned, he couldn't imagine that the Ten Heavenly Eagle would have such a big infighting.
"Let me go, your enemies are Shi Miaoshou and Aunt Ge, and they have nothing to do with me. Let me go, okay?" The one-eyed man pleaded.
Ding Jun could see that the one-eyed man was quite cunning and extremely adaptable. Letting him go is tantamount to hanging a time bomb on yourself, which could detonate at any time.
"You can't leave for the time being, wait for the Snow Maiden to come back." He replied.
The one-eyed man sighed: "I'm just a pawn who listens to errands, I don't know anything, and it's useless for you to deal with me." I guess Shi Miaoshou must be in the maze, and Snow Maiden goes in alone in case something happens...... Okay, I'll stay here honestly, you can go in and help the Snow Maiden, okay?"
This sentence struck him in the heart at once.
In the event that Snow Maiden was to play against Shi Miaoshou, he had no idea which side he should be on.
"Hey, I hear the Snow Maiden calling—" the One-Eyed suddenly shouted.
Ding Jun woke up from his contemplation and stepped into the dark passage.
In an instant, the one-eyed man's body slammed forward, and as soon as his hands wrestled, the laces snapped open. His hands twitched like crazy to push the dark stone on the wall, in the opposite order of the opening.
Ding Jun shook his hand and shot, and the bullet crossed an arc like an eye, and penetrated through the right temple of the one-eyed man. The other party killed himself, and he had to kill.
The secret door quickly closed, and Ding Jun fell into darkness.
"It turned out that although I didn't move forward, I was worried about her safety. Being stirred up by the one-eyed man saved me the trouble of doing multiple-choice questions. He smiled bitterly in the darkness, calmed down, and walked slowly.
After twenty-five straight steps, the three-meter-wide and five-meter-high passage narrows to two meters wide and three meters high. Twenty steps further, the sides, the top, and the ground all become mirrors, and as soon as you step on it, there are shaking figures in front and back, left and right, and there are infinite nests between mirrors, and a person's shadow becomes infinitely many.
"Snow Maiden, Snow Maiden......" He called softly, but received no response.
After passing through the mirrored passage, he was faced with a mirrored room, and on the left, front, and right walls, there were three identical doorways. He walked into the room and looked through three doors, each of which was a series of mirrors and portals, deep and intertwined, with no end in sight.
In any labyrinth in the world, there is only one correct walking route, and the other passages are used to confuse the intruder, and no matter how you walk, you will encounter a dead end.
This kind of structure is actually based on the ancient Chinese book "Tao Te Ching" in the principle of "Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things", the two mirrors are opposite, and the process of "one, two, three, all things, endless" is completed in an instant, which is faster than lightning and stone fire, and anyone's thinking mode cannot keep up with this infinite growth rate at all, and can only become confused, swayed by the illusion in the mirror, and become the leaves in the torrent whirlpool, and the only fate ending is that the soul is scattered and died.
Ding Jun recognized the danger of this mirror labyrinth, so he did not rush forward, but stopped in the first room at the entrance of the maze, and slowly sorted out his thoughts while observing.
If there was no change in the Scripture Pavilion, Shi Miaoshou should still be in the Torin Temple at this moment, waiting for the siqin to give birth. So, what's going on with the baby's cry heard inside the pipe? Whose baby? What did you bring here for? The one-eyed man obeys the orders of Aunt Ge, and Aunt Ge obeys the orders of Shi Miaoshou, and he is the only initiator - what is he going to do?
In the opposite mirror, there was only Ding Jun's own shadow, but after he stayed for a few minutes, another shadow appeared on the mirror. The mirrors themselves emit a faint white light, which is the only light source in the room, so the light in the maze is unusually dim.
Ding Jun took a step forward and looked intently, the shadow turned out to be a one-armed, one-horned, bloody, hideous and terrifying unkempt ghost, staring at Ding Jun with a pair of deep sunken strange eyes. At the same time, there was a ghost crying wolf howling in his ears, and the screams of "woo hey" rang out one after another, as if there was an eighteen layers of hell not far ahead, and the victims were suffering inhuman torture in the Daoshan oil pot.
"What's that? Is it a ghost in the labyrinth?" He clenched his spear and inhaled deeply, controlling his agitated mood.
There will be no shadow on the mirror for no reason, and there must be a real body if there is a shadow. The shadow is in the mirror, and the real body of the evil ghost, shouldn't it be next to him?
He slowly looked around the small mirror room, and in the mist, the mirror room was empty, only a shadow of himself. In the mirror, he held the spear horizontally, his face was sinking like water, and his eyes were cold and sharp, like the ice edge of the eaves proudly staring at the cold mountains and frozen waters in the thirty-nine heavens.
If you change the straight-line thinking of ordinary people, you will turn the spear and use the handle of the gun to smash these strange mirrors to break the illusion.
"The most direct idea is often the mistake of the other, especially in the face of a series of strange puzzles-" Ding Jun thought silently, patiently disgusted by the image of the evil ghost, and slowly approached the mirror on the right, pricking up his ears to listen. Behind the mirror, there is the rustle of poisonous insects crawling slowly, the sizzling of poisonous snakes spitting out letters, and the tuk tuk of poisonous scorpions strikingly with the tip of their tails.
He sighed, realizing that he had escaped again.
In fact, the layout person had already calculated a qiē, broke the mirror, and died even more miserably. The ubiquitous poisonous gas in the labyrinth is released by the poisonous insects hidden in the mirror interlayer.
"If necessary, then kill to kill, no matter who the other party is!" He admonished himself coldly. Since the planner is sinister and deadly, he must also make the right decision. As the king of individual soldiers, he must have the superhuman courage of "I walk alone on a thousand mountains", people block and kill, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, and with the courage of a lifetime, he can break through the desperate situation of thousands of difficulties and dangers.
The ghosts stood silently, and on the other two walls, overhead, and underfoot, there were four identical ghosts.
"There's something wrong—" Ding Jun's sixth sense warned, "Shadows can't be exactly the same, just like when I'm standing here, in the five mirrors, the shadows are different, reflecting my front, side, back, head, and feet." Why are the ghosts in the mirror exactly the same, the same angle, the same size, and the same movement? Only copies of the same original would be like that, wouldn't they?"
Slowly, the shadow of the evil ghost loomed, and after a while, it slowly disappeared.
Ding Jun's face was already covered with cold sweat, and when he relaxed his hands holding the gun, his palms were sweaty, and the handle of the gun had slipped slightly.
"Snow Maiden?" He heard footsteps coming from inside the door on the left, and judging by the sound of her feet, it was the Snow Maiden.
Sure enough, the Snow Maiden appeared from inside the door and saw Ding Jun, her eyes lit up, and a hint of surprise flashed.
"How? Have you found the right path?" Ding Jun asked.
The Snow Maiden nodded, "There's a clue - are you finally willing to come in?"
Ding Jun smiled bitterly: "The one-eyed man cheated and died." However, the entrance is sealed, and there is no way back. ”
This is bad news, but after the two of them looked at each other, they invariably smiled, as if there was a slight joy in their hearts for such an ending.
The Snow Maiden's smile is extremely beautiful, and the small lines wrinkled on both sides of the bridge of her nose are like a breeze blowing the surface of a small lake. No matter what the expression on her face was, her eyes were always shining, like pearls that would never lose their luster.
"We can work together to move forward, and the copper pipes that collect gas from the copper balls are built in these stones overhead. At a distance of more than a meter, my sixth sense is unsustainable. So, you help me, I find the way, go along the copper pipe, and you can go through the maze. Snow Maiden said.
Ding Jun suddenly smiled bitterly and looked down at his toes. His face was reflected on the ground, tired and helpless. The result of passing through the maze is to destroy Shi Miaoshou's last line of defense and force the opponent to a dead end. Next, it is the end of the fish dying and the net is broken.
Even if he lets go and doesn't help anyone, it is a huge torture for Ding Jun.
"I want to ask you, do the people who received the Guge Silver Eye Reminder have to die?" He asked.
"That's right." The Snow Maiden replied.
"Are there any exceptions? Do you know what is good or evil?" Ding Jun asked again.
"You think Shi Miaoshou is a good man?" The Snow Maiden asked rhetorically.
Ding Jun shook his head: "I don't want to judge him and Siqin, but the baby in the belly of a pregnant woman is innocent." He was born in this world, he has no choice, he is harmless to others, should he also die?"
The Snow Maiden replied: "Guge never kills indiscriminately, and those who must die must have a way to die."
Ding Jun shook his head again: "Snow girl, the baby is innocent, do you agree to this?"
The Snow Maiden raised her chin slightly, and shook her head slightly: "I don't agree, because some babies are born with sin, or rather, they are born for some evil purpose, such as the child in Siqin's womb."
Ding Jun bit his lip until a trace of blood oozed from the tip of his tongue: "You don't even let go of that baby?"
The Snow Maiden sighed slightly: "You don't understand, why bother to stir up the situation?"
Ding Jun smiled bitterly again: "Am I stirring up the situation?" In fact, I've taken a lot of steps back, just to keep the baby alive. Even if Shi Miaoshou and Siqin are dead, I can still ask someone to raise the baby and let him be a good person. ”
This is the only thing he can do, if Shi Miaoshou has done something shady and shady, he will suffer death if he deserves it, and he will never deliberately protect it.
"I don't have the right to promise you, I can only take one step at a time. Are you satisfied with such an answer?" Snow Maiden asked.
Ding Jun thought about it, slowly stepped down from the horse, patted his right knee, and expressed his agreement to cooperate with his actions.
The Snow Maiden stepped on Ding Jun's knees, her head close to the roof, listened quietly for a while, and then landed on the ground and took the lead to the right. After going straight for three rooms, they repeated the same motion, this time going straight instead. After more than twenty stops, the two finally entered a large empty room.
Ten meters in length and width, the top is deeply recessed, forming an inverted hemisphere with a diameter of ten meters. On the gray inner wall of the sphere, there are hundreds of silver spotlights, all pointing to a stone platform in the center of the room.
At the first glance of the platform, Ding Jun felt that it was an "altar".
The platform is square, two meters long and one meter wide, similar to what a single bed looks like. At one end of the platform, there is a stone monument two meters high and one meter wide, which happens to be the headboard of the "single bed".
Since it is a stone tablet, there must be words on it, but after Ding Jun approached, he didn't even know any of the hundred and ten characters.
On the platform lay a swaddling swaddle, and the baby inside had a stone tablet on top of its head, motionless, as if it had fallen asleep.
"That's where the baby crying we hear from the brass pipes?" Ding Jun muttered to himself.
Babies can't walk, they have to be carried here by others. In other words, someone must be lurking on the left.
"Anyway, taking this baby out is a lifesaver." He said again.
The Snow Maiden sniffed and circled around the stone platform, the expression on her face becoming more and more solemn.
Ding Jun stretched out his hand to hug the swaddling clothes, but was suddenly stopped by the Snow Maiden: "Stop, don't move!"
At the same time, Ding Jun heard a piercing chirping sound, which actually came from under swaddling clothes. This sound means that countless hard-shelled poisonous insects are gnawing at each other, and the victors will make such a sound when they chew on the bones of the vanquished.
Judging from the source of the sound, the poisonous insect is inside the stone platform.
Deep in the maze on the other side, there was a click, as if someone was loading a bullet.
"Shi Miaoshou, come out, you lost." The Snow Maiden let out a low cry.
No one answered, only the baby was awakened, and he cried again.
"This is a sacrificial ritual, and it is light not to destroy its existing form, so as not to provoke fire and become the object of curse of the sacrificer. To untie the bell, you must tie the bell, and you must first find the stone hand. Snow Maiden said.
The two of them stood on both sides of the stone platform, not daring to make any rash moves.
Ding Jun lowered his head and suddenly found that the struggling baby had a red birthmark in the middle of his forehead, which was slightly higher in the middle of his eyebrows. The birthmark is vertical, a clear approximate diamond shape, three centimeters long and one centimeter wide -- "That birthmark is like an eye, don't you see it?" He lowered his voice and shouted.
The Snow Maiden also saw it, and gasped: "One eye? It's really the Three-Eyed Demon Clan in the Tibetan Border...... Don't move, let me come! ”
Ding Jun couldn't describe his mood at the moment, the legend of the Three-Eyed Demon Clan in Tibet had been passed down for hundreds of years, but if it wasn't something he had seen with his own eyes, he would never believe it. Now, he can only remind himself with a wry smile: "It should be a birthmark, not a third eye......"
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