Chapter 25: Puzzle solving
But Donnie was different from Stern, when he learned from the professor that the so-called "it" was not a ghost and that there was no weird sorcery. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info his whole person has become much more relaxed, he naively thinks that it is not a maze related to permutation and combination mathematics, the method is always thought of by people, how do you know if you can't do it without trying, it's a big deal to try one after another with the most primitive method, and finally you will definitely find a way out.
So he dragged Stern, who had collapsed on the ground, as if nothing had happened, and told him about every solution he had come up with in a whim, what path to the end, making arrows on the boulder, climbing the boulder to see the direction...... After speaking, he was going to be dragged to Stonehenge to practice. Stern didn't expect Downey to become so proactive all of a sudden, completely different from the professor's reaction, and he didn't think he could just sit and wait for death, so he didn't care whether these methods were useful or not, and didn't care if Professor Morrill said that any methods didn't work, so he followed Donnie to experiment.
Anne didn't follow Donnie and them to Stonehenge to test the solution, because she believed that since the professor said that this Stonemaze couldn't get out, then he definitely couldn't get out, but she had been with the professor for so many years, and she vaguely felt that the professor actually had reservations.
So she asked, "Professor, do you really think that there is no way out of this Stonehenge?" Or do you still haven't found a way to crack it? ”
The professor was studying the Linga statue at the moment, and without turning his head, he said to Anne, "For now...... There is no way. Because we don't know the real reason why the Khmers went to great lengths to build this Stonehenge, the key is that we don't have a map of Stonehenge either. And one more do you remember? From the time the sergeant's first experiment with the Stonemaze appeared behind us, I discovered three characteristics of this Stonehenge: the first is that as you all know, it is an open labyrinth, and they can be combined with each other to form an infinite number of forks, and no matter which two boulders you stand on, you can extend the geometric forks.
Second, these boulders all have a certain arrangement and angle, and this arrangement law can at least make people unable to get out of the periphery, but can only return to the original place.
The third is that all of Stonehenge's perimeter is slightly tilted towards our current center, causing us to unconsciously start to go inside rather than outside as we pass through these boulders.
So even if we really want to try to get out one by one, it is not something that can be found in a short period of time, and maybe starving to death here may not be able to get out, you can see the mountains of white bones scattered around the periphery is the best proof. ”
"Ahh What the? You're not saying these bones are... Did the followers of Shiva voluntarily die here? Anne looked at the professor in surprise, unable to believe what he was saying.
"That's a conjecture I uttered in a moment of excitement! Stern was so excited, I didn't want him to mistake him for thinking that the bones were trapped to death. And my emotions at that time were also controlled by that 'ghost', and I blurted it out in a hurry, which you should understand. ”
"Oh, by the way, there's a fourth feature - we're still under the control of that 'ghost.'" The professor added one more point.
"That's... So how did they all die? You can't starve to death here, right, and what the hell is that 'ghost'? Even the professor began to speak without a beginning or an end, and now Anne could not calm down and began to think crankily.
The professor shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows how they died, but I checked the relics of the bones here, and found no modern people, it is estimated that they are all Brahmans who came back to worship during the Angkor Kingdom, maybe they died sitting here thinking about a way out, maybe they killed each other, maybe they really starved to death as I said." ”
Anne had a hunched instinct that Professor must have made some crucial discovery, otherwise his tone wouldn't have been so calm. So she asked directly: "Professor, I see that you are quite calm about our current situation, could it be that you have studied the key clues of how to get out of this Stonehenge?" ”
Professor Morrill did not respond directly to Anne's question, but asked her rhetorically: "Do you remember the first relief we saw on the ancient city wall?" It's a long article, and then there's a Tang man sitting on an elephant in the middle? ”
"I know, but what's the connection? They went to the city of reincarnation by water. ”
"I don't mean that, we can actually think about it from a different perspective, and put aside how to get out of this Stonehenge for the time being. Now I'm trying to find out the connection between why the Tang people came here and Samsara City, and why the Khmers built a Stonehenge here, and what the connection is between this unusually magnetic Linga stone statue. ”
Anne didn't expect the professor to take a clue to Stonehenge from previous archaeological discoveries, but it was in line with his usual style. After all, from a materialist point of view, there must be a law to promote the emergence and development of all objective things, and to find this law, we must first find the connection between things that seem to be unrelated on the surface.
This reminded Anne that she felt that this was right, since Stonehenge was built by the Khmers, then they must have a reason to build it, and if the causes and consequences of the Khmer building Stonehenge could be found, then it would definitely be helpful to crack Stonehenge.
So she thought for a moment and said, "First of all, we can start with the boulder that we see on the relief, right?" ”
"Yes, that's right, because the megalith we deduced at the time may have been the role of a path that guided the Brahmans to the temple of samsara for their sacrifices. But we were later chased by the Cyclops and entered Stonehenge. I accidentally entered Stonehenge, and now I think that if I can find a clue to the ancient path, it may be more beneficial to get out of Stonehenge. ”
Anne looked at the professor in disbelief: "So you're still assuming that Stonehenge is the boulder representing the relief?" In other words, you are actually trying to find the ancient path to the city of reincarnation? ”
"That's right, because I think that's the only way to do it at the moment."
Anne thinks about it, it makes sense, since she came to the boulder from the beginning, and she also has some clues, so why not give it a try, at least leave here and find a way. Then she continued, "Then Professor, you can write down on the relief drawings we drew from the ancient city walls, the notebooks and drawings we got from the carrion of the banyan tree, and the information you already knew from Mount Kulun and the temple of Preah Vihear. We use enumeration to list all the clues we have from the beginning of what we know about Samsara City, and then we use the elimination method to eliminate the clues that are not related to Stonehenge. Let's see if we can come up with some useful information. ”
The professor listed the information, but also rejoiced in his heart that Anne had a strong and clear logical thinking ability, otherwise he would really have a headache to think about alone.
The professor spread out all the drawings on the ground and wrote as he spoke: "The clues to Mount Kulun, Preah Vihear Temple are negligible, because they only point out the existence and location of the reincarnation city, followed by the Sanskrit text on the stone lion statue, the narrative relief on the ancient city wall, and then the notebook left by the French army in World War II, and four drawings, the giant banyan tree and unheard of parasites, Stonehenge and the Linga stone statue with abnormal magnetism." Can you see the connection between them? ”
In fact, it is a very difficult task to deduce the connection between them, because each of these things contains a huge amount of information, such as the long relief of the Tang people riding an elephant, which can extract the historical and cultural background of the Tang Dynasty, the cultural exchanges with the Khmer people at that time, and even the civilization level of the Khmer people at that time. It is even more difficult to extract common ground from all this information. The professor and Anne laid out a bunch of information on the drawings, racking their brains and still not coming up with a useful clue.
Just as they were frustrated by this, Stern and Donnie appeared in their sight with a look of frustration, squeaking the dead bones towards them. Donnie sat down in a clearing not far away, dejected, muttering incessantly... Stern was no better than Donnie, his face was as dead as ashes, and his eyes were vacant as he looked at the black Linga, as if he had realized what they were in.
Kansa, who had been sitting next to him without speaking, took the kettle and handed it to Stern and Donnie, who didn't seem to know what was going on.
The professor and Anne paused their discussion to ask how the experiment was going, but they swallowed it again, the expressions on their faces that spoke for themselves. For more than a minute, no one spoke, and the air around them seemed to freeze, falling into a deathly silence......
"Professor, are we all going to die here?"