Chapter Twenty-Six: The Only Way to Survive
Stern suddenly broke the brief silence and said something that made everyone's hearts tremble. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The professor's question was also very abrupt, and the atmosphere was silent for a moment, and it was easy for him to answer this answer normally, just a simple yes or no more. But to answer such a question about life and death, these two words can bring a different psychological impact to everyone!
At present, Stern is like a king who is about to fight against the enemy in a country where kingship is prevalent in ancient India, and the professor is a brahmin who uses the power of God to rule over the spirit of the king and the whole country!
If he says yes, then the country will lose its support and fall apart. If he says no, then what will he do to continue to give the king spiritual strength? God doesn't really come!
With that, the professor pondered for a moment, and said to Stern, "Sergeant, what if I told you that the answer to this question was in your hands?" ā
Stern's dark blue pupils suddenly glowed again when he heard this, focusing on the professor from a distance, meaning to ask him what he meant.
"In fact, this Stonehenge can't trap everyone, as long as we can find the law of this Stonehenge, it is possible to find a way out." In fact, the professor didn't have any confidence when he said this, because he didn't have a clue at the moment.
"How do you find it? I just used every method we could think of with Donnie to get as far away from this Stonehenge as possible, and you know what the result was? As a result, every time we can unconsciously return to the original point, Downey uses his markers and blind walks to walk as far as he feels, and finally finds that after walking for a while, he returns to the Ringa Statue......" Stern returned to that desperate expression.
"yes, we almost didn't climb up the boulder to see what kind of magical place it was, but unfortunately the boulders were too high and straight up, and we didn't have the tools to climb up." Donnie on the side also interjected with a dejected face.
"I've already discussed this with Anne, and the usual solution to the maze is completely useless here. But I think there's a final solution, it's just that I need your help. ā
"What's the solution?" Stern and Donnie asked in unison
The professor brought all the relief drawings and the clues they had written about Reincarnation City to Stern, and said little by little, "Remember the ancient path to Reincarnation City that I said before I entered the giant banyan tree?" I guess this Stonehenge is a sign to enter this ancient road, and as long as we can find the connection between it and the ancient road, we may be able to leave the ancient road. But Anne and I thought about it for a long time and didn't have a clue. ā
It would have been an hour ago, and Stern would have broken down and scolded the professor for being mad, and in this desperate situation, he was still obsessed with finding the ancient path to Samsara City and disregarding everyone's lives. But now that they are on the verge of death, they will almost fall to the same fate as the pile of bones, and now they can only grasp the last straw that saves their lives according to the professor.
"That's right! Professor, have you ever observed the time of death of the bones scattered on the ground? Suddenly, Stern had a flash in his mind, as if he had caught something crucial.
"I have seen their relics, and most of them are dressed in more expensive gold and silver ornaments. So I guess they were all rich brahmins in the Angkor period, and they died early and late, not like they died at the same time, but I can be sure that the latest ones are not modern times, and according to my judgment, they should have been dead for hundreds of years. ā
"Have you ever thought about the exact cause of their death?" Stern seemed to be holding on to the death of the bones.
The professor wanted Stern to solve the puzzle because he and Anne were caught up in the analysis of the information one by one, and looked at many of the key questions too complicated. So he needed someone who could simplify these problems, and Stern was that person.
The professor took a deep breath and replied, "I didn't think about how to tell you this question before, but since you ask about it now, I'll tell you about it." First of all, they don't show any signs of being parasitized by living things, and they are completely rotten. Secondly, when I looked at the bones, I found that their posture before death was surprisingly consistent, all of them sitting cross-legged before they died, facing the Linga stone statue at a distance of three meters. ā
"Just like me," the professor said, sitting cross-legged on the spot.
Stern looked at the professor's strange cross-legged posture and asked him suspiciously, "Does this have any special significance?" ā
This is a cross-legged posture that has been passed down for a long time in meditation by various sects of ancient India, called double cross-legged. That's the position they held when they died. ā
Stern went on to ask, "Why do you think they kept their cross-legged positions before they died?" ā
"I guess they were thinking about how to crack Stonehenge. Because meditation helps to concentrate on thinking. ā
Stern sensed that he had caught something, but he couldn't remember it, and he felt that he was close to solving the mystery with a crucial connection. He began to fidget, not knowing how to organize the clues, so he went through the drawings one by one. While he was meditating, he inadvertently noticed the sword and other iron objects that had been sucked into the Linga stone statue. Suddenly, he suddenly opened his mouth and shouted excitedly: "I know! I know! ā
The others looked at him in dismay, stunned by Stern's sudden yell, and the professor asked him what he knew.
Stern himself was excited for a while, suppressed his suddenly excited nerves, gathered his thoughts, and then began to tell everyone what he had found.
"Do you know how these Brahmins who have been dead for hundreds of years are any different from us?"
Everyone didn't know what he was selling, and they all asked what it was.
"They didn't come in this Stonehenge with any iron! Look at this Linga statue is proof of that! ā
"So what? I've seen this too, is there any connection? The professor didn't understand why Stern suddenly mentioned this.
"You told me that this ancient path was for later followers to enter the temple of reincarnation to worship, right? Then I was thinking that if these Brahmans had to cross the jungle to this place hundreds of years ago, how could they have crossed the jungle without knives and iron tools? Unless they already knew that there were magnets in this Stonehenge, or that they knew that iron objects such as knives were not allowed in Stonehenge! In other words, this Stonehenge is not only a sign of entering the ancient road itself, but even Stonehenge itself is part of the ancient road! ā
Anne listened quietly to Stern's analysis, and felt that what he said was indeed right, that no one here had ever seen what the legendary ancient path looked like, where it began, and that everything was a revelation that she and the professor had learned from the Sanskrit language of the stone lion statue.
But Anne then added, "If the ancient path is inside Stonehenge, then why did these cultists die here in the end?" I heard the professor mention that the Linga stone statue is a key at the beginning, but he can't study the strangeness of this stone statue for a while, after all, this must be detected by professional identification instruments. ā
"That's right, according to you, why would these cultists meditate in a cross-legged posture facing the Linga statue motionlessly and then die? They should have more clues about the ancient path than we do, and they should have been able to reach Samsara City without any problems! That means there must be a problem here that they can't solve! With that, Stern pointed to the Linga stone statue.
"You're saying the Linga statue is the 'ghost'?" Downey had always thought that the "ghost" was their unresolved question, so he suddenly interjected.
"You can say the same, but 'ghosts' were first proposed by professors. However, he also said that there was not enough evidence to prove that this 'ghost' was a Linga stone statue. But now the bones of these cultists tell me that this 'ghost' comes from the Linga statue. ā
"What do you mean? What does a white bone that has been dead for hundreds of years tell you? Can they still speak? Don't be scary! ā