The footsteps came without warning, but Stern quickly guessed who it was, for according to Anne, there was anyone but Kansa looking for an exit from the stone chambers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Is that Kansa?" Stern asked.

Downey responded, "Well, yes, he's back. ”

Within a few minutes, Kansa walked up several rotating stone steps from the outside passage into the stone room with a gloomy expression, and then saw Stern sitting on Donnie's side, his eyes instantly brightened when he changed his previous tired state, and he immediately quickened his pace. It was evident that he had gained nothing this time, but he crouched down in front of Stern and took out the water bottle he had been carrying from his waist and handed it to Stern.

Anne saw all this, and apparently Kansa did not find the exit of the stone chamber this time. Kansa obviously doesn't know that Stern can't see now, so she motions for Kansa to give her the kettle and she feeds Stern.

Stern asked him where the water came from, to which Kansa replied that he had heard water dripping from under the walls of a stone chamber and had returned with a little of it. Stern was worried that the water would not be clean, so he asked Anne to take it to the brass lamp and boil it before drinking. Then he continued to ask Kansa about the stone chamber, and after about half an hour, Stern finally remembered how long it had been since he had eaten, and there was a strong feeling of hunger in his lower abdomen, so he wanted to ask Kansa to take out the compressed food from his backpack and eat it, but Kansa told him that the backpack had long since disappeared when he was dragged to the basement by the tarantula.

"Annie, how long do you think it's been since we were dragged into the stone chamber by the tarantula until we were trapped here?"

"It's been about a whole day since Donnie and I were captured, and most of the food and supplies we had on us were gone." Anne said calmly as she tried her best to restrain her emotions.

Anne didn't say anything, but Stern could see that not only himself, but everyone must have fallen into a state of hunger and thirst right now. He sighed secretly, and there was a feeling of misery in his heart, first he strayed into the tarantula cave to fight the tarantula, and he was seriously injured and trapped, and now he has to face the dilemma of having no food to satisfy his hunger. Thinking of this, he secretly scolded the professor who led them into this strange palace and escaped by himself.

"Looks like we'll have to find a way to get out of here as soon as possible, or we'll starve to death here before we can get out."

"Alas! To put it simply, you've been unconscious for nearly eight hours, and Miss Anne and Kansa have been looking for a way out of here, but still have no clue. ”

"I've been in a coma for eight hours? All right! Stern sighed, but quickly cheered up again, for he felt that everyone in this expedition seemed to be inseparable from him, and if he did not cheer up, I am afraid that the hope of going out would be even more slim.

So he asked, "Haven't you been studying the reliefs on the stone walls here, Anne?" Didn't you get any key clues from it? ”

"No, most of the reliefs here are so bizarre that I can't read them, and there's no obvious hint about this exit, so I can't find any key clues for a while."

"Oh, so what does our stone chamber look like now? Describe it to me, and maybe you can see some clues. ”

"This is a square stone room, all built of red basalt, and then a half-person-high copper lamp is hung on the three-meter-high wall, a total of seven, the copper lamp is in the shape of the common Apsara fairy dancing style, and then holding a lotus-shaped candle lamp."

"What about the reliefs? Where is the relief engraved? ”

"There are seven of them on all four walls, all of which are carved into the bronze lamps."

"All four walls? The entrance to this room connected to the outside passage is only open on one side? ”

"Yes, this entrance is very narrow, and the passage to the stone chamber outside is connected by a spiral stone staircase, and there was originally an open stone door at this entrance, but now we can't find the mechanism to activate."

"There's a trap! Right! I think this secret room is the key to getting out! ”

"It's... How so? But there is a stone gate here that goes out of the stone chamber group, thinking that we have not seen any traces of other stone gates! Anne was also surprised to hear Stern's sudden conclusion, after all, she had been in the secret room for a long time, and if there was a mechanism, she should be able to see it.

Stern grinned slightly, and said, "No, it's because your thinking about archaeology is too rigid, let me first ask you if this stone room is unique?" ”

"Judging by all the other stone chambers we've walked through, this is true, because the other stone chambers are similar to the one in the tarantula's lair. Roughly there is a row of small stone chambers that are open in a straight line, and after entering, there is a low hole that connects to the stone chamber on the next floor, that is, the stone chamber where the Brahmins keep strange creatures, and there is a main passage outside, and the secret room we are in is almost in the middle of this main passage. ”

"That's right, don't you think it's more in line with the layout of the building?"

"It's not like I haven't thought about what you said, but we didn't find an exit in this secret room!"

"But if you think about it, this is a very dangerous creature like a female tarantula, how can you ensure the safety of people if you don't set up a few more safety measures?"

Hearing Stern's analysis, Anne also felt that what he said was very reasonable, because she had been focusing on looking at the reliefs because of her work habits, which led her to ignore the possibility of hidden mechanisms here. And in retrospect, this statement is so reasonable, this is just a laboratory with animals, who would put a clue to the exit on these reliefs, thinking of this, she secretly admired Stern's quick thinking.

Downey was also curious as to how the sergeant could have come up to this level, so he didn't think to ask, "Then sir, how did you consider that this is an exit?" ”

"It's nothing, that's how I was trained, I studied criminal psychology before. So for this kind of problem, first of all, I never think too much about the possibilities, usually I only ask the person to do something, what kind of goal he wants to achieve, what means he will use to achieve his goal, and then how he will use the most efficient method to achieve his desired effect. Generally speaking, if we can think from these aspects, we can recognize most people. ”

After Stern finished speaking, Donnie looked at him with wide eyes, as if he didn't fully understand, but a little incredulous.