Chapter 24: There Are Ghosts

When Anne heard Stern say this, she suddenly remembered, "Ah...... Yes! I also found out that the professor I know has always been a relatively calm person, and even if he makes a very important discovery, he never says it right away, but only makes it public after many times of research in his head, and he has only been studying this Linga for a long time before he has said a lot of unconfirmed opinions. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The professor, who was silent next to him, also spoke: "Anne is right, I have also noticed this, especially since the sergeant has become more negative, suspicious, and extremely sensitive to danger since he entered Stonehenge, I think this is related to his years of experience on the battlefield. And I have been working on the research of this reincarnation city recorded in the inscription, so as soon as I see the relevant clues, I will think about unlocking the historical civilization of this reincarnation city. Both of us have such obvious psychological tendencies that we are likely to be taken advantage of by an invisible 'ghost'! ”

Stern heard the professor's comment on his use of a few negative words, and his heart suddenly became secretly unhappy, but then he heard his emotional activity being controlled by the professor saying that he was being controlled by a "ghost", but he couldn't help but stand on end: "What do you mean?" There are ghosts here? ”

"Professor, do you mean real ghosts by 'ghosts'?" Anne felt a little panicked when she heard the professor's analysis, and the professor, who had never believed in ghosts and gods in his daily life, suddenly came up with such a word.

"Ahh Don't tell me there's a ghost here! Before I came to Indochina, I had heard that witchcraft was the most powerful here! I heard that they are famous for raising little ghosts! And also... And they will also give people a head down......" Donnie's sudden unexplained sentence startled everyone, and the atmosphere instantly became tense, and they were all looking left and right, for fear that they would really be lowered.

Only the professor said calmly: "Don't guess, the 'ghost' I mentioned is just to describe a thing that can control us but we can't see it, and it is not really a ghost or a head-lowering thing." As soon as these words came out, Donnie was immediately frightened and retreated to lean against the base of the Linga, his eyes turning up and down, left and right, for fear that something would burrow into him again.

Anne was also suspicious of this sentence, thinking that since the "ghost" is all around us, and it is not a real ghost or a decapitation, what kind of horror is that?

"Professor! Just say what you know, don't keep it half-hidden! You're going to make us nervous! Stern was a little out of his breath, what he was most afraid of was the mysterious things that he couldn't see or touch, and the other was the strange phenomena that couldn't be explained by common sense, and this was exactly both.

"It's... Actually, I don't know how to describe it, because I'm not very sure of the existence of this 'ghost', but I'm just making a summary based on the various strange phenomena we are encountering now. But can you recall that since we entered Stonehenge, has our mental activity been more or less amplified by 'ghosts'? It was as if it was under control, and there were no other visible anomalies in this Stonehenge except for the five of us and the boulders, until we came to the vicinity of the Linga Stone, and happened to encounter a ferromagnetic object on our body and was attracted to the Linga Stone. But as far as I know, ordinary magnets don't have such a great magnetic force to attract a person with iron, unless our human body is a magnet itself, or the Linga stone statue itself has a problem......"

"Are you saying that this Linga statue may be more than just a simple magnet? It's something special about the physics that draws us here, isn't it? And then the 'ghost' that can affect our mental state has something to do with this stone statue? ”

Anne was relieved to hear that the "ghost" had finally shifted to something she could see.

"Yes, as far as I can guess, it's mostly related to this Linga statue, but I don't have strong evidence to confirm it."

"What does it matter if it's a simple magnet or not? We are neither Einstein nor Newton, and we have a lot of time to do experiments to verify its properties! We're going to find a way to get out of this place now, I can't stand it anymore! Stern felt that the two scientists in front of him were starting to lead everyone to a dead end again, instead of desperately trying to solve the problem in front of him, and he couldn't help but complain.

"yes, it's so strange here, it gives people an indescribable sense of oppression, let's find a way to get out of Stonehenge......"

Downey, who was sitting on the edge of the stone platform, also agreed with Stern's statement, and thought that he should get out of this strange place quickly.

"Sgt., as things stand, we can't go anywhere without a compass," the professor replied with a sigh......

"Why can't you go? We're here in good shape, and these Stonehenge haven't blocked the road, so we can get out as we can get in, don't we? Even if the compass doesn't work, there must be other ways to do it! ”

"Yes, Professor, why do you say we can't get out, the roads here are in all directions, as long as we take some time to try one by one, or make a mark every distance in the root maze like I did before, so that we can always find our way out of Stonehenge." Downey, like Stern, didn't believe the professor's words.

Faced with Donnie and Stern's questioning, the professor silently took out a drawing, drew it on the paper and said, "I haven't thought about this method, but you can take a look at this map first, this is the distribution map I drew according to the situation of Stonehenge." ”

After speaking, the professor showed them a picture with a circle in the middle, a black circle representing the Linga stone statue on the stone platform, and a large number of squares representing the boulder in a circle.

Stern looked at the picture and didn't quite understand: "So what? ”

The professor didn't understand what he meant, so he continued, "Well, I'll tell you a story first, we all know chess." Everyone nodded.

The professor continued: "There was a king who wanted to reward the minister who invented chess, saying that whatever the minister wished, he would grant him. Then the minister made a wish for the king to put one grain of rice in the first square of the chessboard, two in the second square, and eight in the third square...... And so on until sixty-four squares. Then all the rice on the chessboard belongs to him......"

Before the story was finished, everyone instantly understood what was going on. It turns out that the road between the boulders is like a grid on a chessboard, and each time they pass through a group, they will encounter the boulders to block the formation of two roads on the left and right, and if they choose either direction and then go again, they will derive two directions in turn. In this way, these roads are like rice on a chessboard, and there are countless of them, and if you want to find a way out, you have to grope for many times to get there. What's more, the huge number of Stonehenge boulders is more than what they see in front of them, so that the forks in the road formed can be said to grow exponentially, and if you really try to get through them one by one, even if you don't die of exhaustion halfway, your spirit will collapse.

Looking at the dense boulders in front of him, Stern sighed weakly, feeling for the first time that the wisdom of these ancients was so profound. As Downey said, these boulders looked like tombstones, mercilessly blocking them. Lying on the ground with a desperate expression, Stern once again felt himself defeated by an invisible force, the first time in the endless jungle warfare with the Viet Cong in South Vietnam......