The professor said without hesitation: "No, I think from another angle, this travelogue is Zhou Daguan arrived at the then Angkor Thom at the end of the 13th century, and wrote down what he saw and heard, and the Angkor Dynasty at that time was at the end of its prosperity, and it is estimated that people at that time were relatively content with pleasure and did not want to make progress." Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info I guess this king may have believed in the seven-headed snake culture of ancient India because of his sudden interest, and it is likely that he found such a hydra in the golden pagoda in the palace somewhere, and then was misrepresented by people outside the palace as such an absurd story. As for the relevance of the king's quirky habits, could it have caused the royal family or high-ranking dignitaries in the palace to follow suit and collect and raise some strange creatures? Like the giant-eyed snake we saw under the giant banyan tree? And-"

Yes! Don't come near me, go away—ah! Help me......

Anne and the professor heard someone crying for help at about the same time, so they interrupted the discussion, and when they looked back, they found that Donnie was sleeping on the ground, writhing his hands and feet into the air, still shouting for help, as if avoiding something terrible.

Anne slowly approached Donnie, and after making sure that there was no danger, she went over to check on him: "Donnie, Donnie, how are you?" ”

"No, go away... Help me..."Donnie was still struggling

"It's okay, you're safe now, you open your eyes and see, Professor Morrill and I are here! Wake up! Anne stopped him from writhing and whispered in his ear.

Eventually, Donnie stopped writhing and slowly opened his eyes: "Where am I, am I leaving that terrifying labyrinth?" Are there any monsters here......."

Anne comforted him: "It's okay, you're fine, we're safe now, there are no monsters here." ”

Donnie sat up slowly and asked Anne next to him, "Well, Miss Anne, how long have I been asleep?" ”

At this time, Professor Morrill also walked up to Donnie, touched his head and said, "Child, are you okay, are you hungry, do you want to eat something and drink some water first?" ”

Downey really felt hungry and thirsty when he said this, so he didn't ask so much questions, and immediately took the water and dry food that the professor handed him, and nibbled on it.

The professor saw that Donnie had slowly calmed down, so he asked him, "Donnie, do you remember what you saw before you passed out?" Don't be in a hurry, you think slowly while eating. ”

Downey was still haunted by what he had seen before he fell unconscious, but he was less frightened to see the Professor and Anne next to him, as he slowly relaxed, collected his thoughts, and told the professor what had happened.

"Something isn't right in this place, we need to find our way out!"

Suddenly, a loud baritone voice came out from behind him, startling Donnie and almost choking him. With the sound of hurried footsteps, Stern and Kansa stepped out from behind the boulder.

Anne was also startled when she saw his sudden appearance: "What's wrong?" Sergeant, are those giant-eyed snakes catching up? ”

Stern said as he quickly packed the items scattered on the ground, "No, no, there's something wrong with this boulder pile!" ”

The professor asked Stern, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing was right, when I was taking Kansa around the neighborhood, Kansa was walking a little faster, crossing a few boulders before me, and I noticed in the back that he had suddenly disappeared! I didn't pay attention at the time, thinking it was just a distance ahead of me, but I sped up and walked forward, and as I walked, I found that I couldn't find him. Later, I stood still and paid attention to these boulders, and found that these boulders seemed to have a strange order but could not find a pattern, which seemed to be a kind of strange maze. The kind that can trap people and can't get out. ”

Anne listened attentively to Stern's narration, noticing the tension that naturally flowed between Stern's brows. It was obvious that Stern was talking nonsense, but she asked Stern, "And how did you find Kansa?" ”

"It was I who whistled when I found out I couldn't see Kansa, and I learned it from Kansa, in case of some kind of emergency. If he hears a whistle, it means I need help, and he blows the whistle in response. But less than a minute after I whistled, Kansa was standing behind me, and it was common sense that Kansa was in front of me, and when he heard the whistle, he walked back and met me. When I asked Kansa why he suddenly appeared behind me, he told me that he had been walking forward, and when he heard the whistle, he felt that it was in front of him, but he didn't expect to see me in front of him! ”

Anne analyzed from the sergeant's account: "That is, if Kansa had not lied to you, then he had been going straight ahead of you, and he came to you in a detour from the time you couldn't see him until you whistled, is that what you say?" ”

"Yes, and I repeatedly checked with Kansa if he deliberately made a detour as he walked forward, and he told me that he didn't, just instinctively walked through the gap between the boulders."

Stern continued: "I looked at it and thought it was strange that this was not the labyrinth we commonly know, that there was room for a person to pass through between each boulder. But one thing is that each boulder is not arranged in a straight line, they are all staggered between them, just blocking the view from the front. ”

Saying that, in order to verify his discovery for himself, Stern went straight between the two boulders in front of him, and then the next section was blocked by the boulders, so he had to choose to go to both sides, and it didn't take long for him to disappear in front of everyone's eyes. Ten minutes later, Stern was behind them. Anne and the professor, including Donnie who had just woken up, were a little surprised, because they had been trying to run for their lives and had not noticed the strangeness of the boulders. However, I immediately understood what this was about, and it was probably just a matter of tearing down the walls of an ordinary loop-type maze one by one and turning it into a complex maze with multi-directional combinations.

The professor pondered over Stern's description, and then he casually asked, "And how did you find your way back?" ”

"Actually, we are not too far from the location of the boulder where you are, Kansa found it by hearing your voices, he grew up in the forest since he was a child, and he has a strong ability to distinguish sounds. Now is not the time to talk about this, we need to find a way to get out of here, I don't want to be trapped in this place and encounter any more monsters. ”

As Stern answered the professor's question, the professor listened as he pulled out drawings and pencils and drawn.

Anne walked out between several nearby boulders, and used a tape measure to roughly measure their distance and size, she was surprised to find that the size between these gray boulders was equal, the height was six meters, the width was about 3.7 meters, and the shape was close to a rectangle.

She wondered if the Khmers at that time already had such a high level of attainment in mathematics. She found several more sets of boulders and measured the distance between the two boulders, and found that there were some differences between each set of boulders, but they could allow one person to easily pass through, and she did not find any pattern other than that.

As Anne was measuring the boulder, the professor then asked Stern, "Are you sure Kansa found us through the source of the sound?" ”

Stern asked Kansa again, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he nodded and said sure, Kansa wouldn't lie.

The professor continued, "If this is the case, then there is no obvious dead end in a labyrinth like this, and it is not difficult to find a way out. It was like Kansa's way of finding Stern and our location. ”

"But there's no fixed direction of sound outside the boulders, and Cansa can't take us out, Professor."

The professor didn't respond, but showed him the drawings he had drawn, and then continued: "I know, I'm drawing this now, and our location is now at a certain point in the boulder pile, and you can recall that when we came in, we noticed that there is no boundary between the boulder pile and the root maze, so no matter how big the boulder is, then there will always be a boundary......

Before Anne could finish listening to the professor's analysis, she continued: "I see, that means that as long as we can have a definite direction, such as going all the way south, then no matter how these boulders obscure our view and disturb our direction, we will eventually reach a border, which may be a maze of tree roots, or the location close to the roots of the roots, or of course some other unknown area. ”

The professor nodded and said, "That's pretty much it, so there's no need to panic at all, and we have a compass in our hands, with which we can definitely point the way." ”

Stern said that it suddenly dawned on him, it seems that he was too anxious for a moment, thinking that he had encountered these strange obstacles set up by the ancient Khmers, but he also said that he was fortunate to have a compass.

Donnie, who had been listening quietly beside him, suddenly spoke: "According to what Annie said, then if we follow the compass, wouldn't it be possible to return to that root maze again, or the Bangen group that was chased by the giant-eyed monster snake?" I don't want to go back to that place, it's terrible! ”

Stern said impatiently: "It's not too early now, take one step at a time, if you return to the root group, go back and change the direction, if you go to the root maze, speed up and rush out, in short, you can't stay where you are and wait for death." ”

Both the professor and Anne thought it would be good to act immediately, so they packed up and took out their compasses and walked through the boulders step by step in the direction of the compass......

"Miss Anne, do you feel anything is wrong?"