Chapter 22: The Gravitational Field

Stern asked as he walked, his keen instincts, honed by years of walking through the primeval jungle, sensing that something was wrong with them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"What's wrong?" Anne didn't understand Stern's sudden question, but she suddenly nervous at the question, because Stern had always been the first to sense the danger.

"Do you think these erected boulders look like giant tombstones?" Downey woke up from a coma in a boulder pile like this, after passing through the scalp-tinging maze of roots, and he had just heard about Stern fighting the dead corpses and the giant eyed snake in order to save him from the Bangen group, and it was terrifying to see everything now.

"No, I always feel like we're moving away from the edge of the boulder pile, which line up as if to lead us deeper than a labyrinth."

Although Stern had first proposed that the boulder pile was a labyrinth, he had never seen such a labyrinth. When I first entered this boulder pile, I was trying to avoid the giant eye snake, so I didn't notice the anomaly of this boulder pile. Later, during the patrol between him and Kansa, Kansa suddenly disappeared in front of him and suddenly appeared behind him, which made him suspicious. After all, this megalith looks like the masterpiece of the Khmer people during the Angkor period, and who knows what kind of mechanism they set up.

He was not relieved until he heard the professor analyze the principle of the boulder pile and tell him that if he had a compass, he could crack it. Now, as they followed the direction of the compass and kept passing between the towering boulders, it seemed to him that things were not so simple.

Alerted by Stern, Anne also sensed an involuntary loss of control as they went, but she looked at the compass and didn't notice anything wrong.

At this time, the professor spoke: "Yes, that's right, I also have the illusion of being led along, maybe our line has deviated?" Or are we entering a weak gravitational field? ”

"Gravitational field? What do you mean? Stern was as confused as he had heard this esoteric term, as if he had heard Anne say the term Devharatisa sāsābhula.

The professor did not answer Stern's question directly, but first asked Anne to determine if the compass was working properly.

Anne told the professor that from the moment she took out the compass to adjust and began to specify the direction, there had been no problems with the compass, and the needle had been oscillating steadily. Anne knew that it was because they were constantly moving left and right between the boulders as they went, so the needle would inevitably wobble, so she was careful to wait for the hand to stabilize before pointing in the right direction.

"Well, then I see, let's follow the compass if it's okay." There was a look of joy or sadness on Professor Morrill's face as he said this, but he strode to the front of the line and continued past the boulders.

On the contrary, Stern followed him with a puzzled look and asked him what the gravitational field was and what it had to do with the compass. Maybe he was too nervous, he always felt that there would be some danger, and he felt more and more that the professor was an unfathomable person. He tried his best to suppress his patience and ask the professor, but Professor Morrill kept telling him that he did not respond to his questions directly.

Anne was worried that Stern would get as emotional again as before, so she explained to the sergeant that the gravitational field was just a physical phenomenon being studied in physics......

The team continued to walk between the boulders for a few more minutes, until they finally realized that they had indeed fallen into a huge boulder maze.

Just as everyone was passing through the right side of a boulder in front of them in the direction given by the compass, an unusually shocking and terrifying scene appeared in front of them without warning—countless white human bones were piled up on the ground surrounded by multiple boulders, and in the center of the clearing was a half-man-high jet-black smooth cylindrical oval stone pillar, which stood on a square base slightly wider than it, and the base sat on a square stone platform about the height of a calf, on which there was nothing but the base of the stone pillar.

Just when everyone was still stunned by the horror in front of them, the professor suddenly said that I want to go to the stone pillar to have a look, and then walked straight out

When Stern saw the pile of bones in front of him, he was still thinking about whether to retreat, but when he heard Professor Morrill drop the sentence I want to go and see, he walked straight in the direction of the black stone pillar, and he immediately went up and wanted to grab the professor: "Don't go!" It can be dangerous! Have you forgotten what happened to the dead bodies that had been dead for decades under the trees before? ”

Anne next to her also followed him and asked, "Professor, we don't know what the situation is in front of us, how can we rush out so rashly?" ”

"There are very important religious relics in front of me, and I want to go and see them."

In this way, the professor seemed to trigger a cascade effect, and Annie, Downey, and the sergeant, who was worried about their safety, had to walk with Kansa towards the black stone pillar in the center one by one.

Stern listened to the crackling of human bones under his feet as he paid attention to his surroundings. There was a deathly silence all around, except for the sound of bones cracking under his feet. Strangely, however, Stern noticed that as he moved closer and closer to the black cylinder, he felt his body being sucked forward by an increasing attraction, and his hand holding the machete began to feel as if it was being controlled by an invisible hand.

Stern wondered if there was a ghost, so he asked the others in front of him, "Have you noticed it, we seem to be being drawn into the black cylinder in the middle by a force!" ”

Donnie was the first to speak: "yes, I feel it too! Isn't there a ghost......

As soon as he finished speaking, he was suddenly uncontrollably pulled forward by the rapidly increasing force, along with Anne and the professor who were walking in front. Everyone is struggling to get rid of this power, but to no avail.

Stern, who was walking at the end, called Kansa and thrust a machete into the pile of human bones, trying to freeze it in place and then pull Donnie and them, but they didn't expect that the white bones were old, and the surface was covered with slippery moss, and the knife was sucked to the surface of the black stone pillar.

Stern saw that the knife was suddenly attached to the surface of the black stone pillar, and immediately understood what was going on, so he untied all the iron items on his body and told the others. However, it was too late, except for Stern and Kansa, Anne, Professor, and Downey were all attached to the black stone pillar because they didn't have time to untie the item with iron.

Seeing this, Stern feared that something strange would happen, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help them take off the iron stuff on their bodies, so that they could be liberated.

This is good, the compass must not be used, the layers of boulders enclose this place into a small circular square, and they also found that the terrain of this small square is the lowest, no wonder they always feel that something is wrong when they follow the direction of the compass, it turns out that they are walking low little by little.

At this time, Donnie observed the black cylinder with iron that was sucked up all over their bodies: "So it seems that this stone in front of you is a magnet?" ”