With the help of Donnie and Kansa, Stern gathered a lot of dead wood and leaves, and surrounded the half-human-tall Linga statue. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he poured the gasoline he had been carrying on him evenly on the pile of dead branches, and was about to light the fire with flint and steel, but he heard the professor say again.

When Stern heard this, the professor probably wanted to stop him from burning Linga again, and his hands sped up the speed of scraping the flint. Finally, the orange spark from the flint and steel in his hand flew into the dry grass like a meteor, turned into a little orange flame, emitted a wisp of white smoke, and then burned out of control. The branches below burned even more violently because of the gasoline staining, making a crackling sound, and within five minutes the pile of branches around the Linga stone statue was blazing, and the bright yellow flames jumped more than a person high, covering the black Linga stone statue, and the sky was covered with thick white smoke, as if it was a huge bonfire.

Professor Morrill looked at the stone statue of Linga engulfed in flames, a look of helplessness and regret on his face.

Stern said to him a little smugly, "Professor, give up, and stop indulging in finding the so-called ancient way, while we still have a way to escape." These ancient brahmins certainly don't have just such simple obstacles, so even if you find the ancient path, there may be the next more difficult maze waiting for you to go down, and it may not be as simple as trapping you when the time comes......"

"No, I'm thinking that the direction of our thinking might be skewed, and I now think that these ancient brahmins won't put up deadly obstacles to trap themselves! This was just one way of their practice, and the Brahmins of ancient India believed that life should be divided into four phases: the Brahmanic period, the home period, the forest dwelling period, and the retreat period. I now suspect that the Brahmins who died here were probably in the wood-dwelling period: after fulfilling all their earthly responsibilities and obligations, they came to the jungle to live a secluded life, seeking only a higher understanding of life and seeking spiritual liberation from the Brahman-self. So I'm now surmising that they are meditating cross-legged towards Linga in order to reach the next state – the retreat! ”

"I don't care what they want to do! I just want to get out of this place as soon as possible! ”

After Stern finished speaking, he didn't care about what the professor said, and asked Anne to come out with the compass to see if the magnetic field was starting to weaken.

Not long after Stern said this, he suddenly felt the ground shake slightly......

"Do you feel the ground shaking?"

Anne felt it too, and at the same time she noticed that the needle of the compass in her hand began to shake from side to side: "The compass has also begun to move!" ”

The professor has a lot of experience working outdoors all year round, and his keen intuition tells him that something is unusual underground: "Could it be that there is an earthquake nearby?" ”

The flames around Linga grew stronger and stronger, and the billowing heat wave shot into the sky with a large amount of smoke, passing through the dense shade of the trees above, and there seemed to be an eerie uneasiness in the air.

"It can't be such a coincidence! Earthquake as soon as we come here? Donnie said as he added twigs to the fire.

"It stands to reason that this area is not an earthquake-prone area, so could it be that the ground is shaking due to other reasons?" Anne walked back and forth in the open space between Stonehenge and the stone platform, constantly adjusting the state of the compass to make sure it was not affected by the shaking.

After only a few minutes, the ground shook again, only this time it seemed a little stronger than the last.

Somehow, Stern felt a strong sense of unease, always feeling that something was going to happen. What would be the strange sight if it weren't for the earthquake? Doesn't the Sanskrit word for "destruction" refer to the destruction of Linga? He quickly asked Anne if the compass was back to normal now. However, Anne's expression was also dazed: "I don't know what's going on, this compass has been swinging left and right, and it can't locate the exact direction!" ”

When Stern heard this, he took the compass from Anne's hand and adjusted it himself, and the result was the same, the pointer kept swinging, neither steadily pointing to the Linga statue nor pointing in other directions. He looked at the Linga stone statue in front of him that was being burned by the fire and began to wonder: "Could it be that the Linga stone statue is really a ghost?" ”

The professor looked at the fire, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and hurriedly shouted to them, "I'll go to the outer boulder and check it first." After saying that, he took a kit and ran over there, and it took more than ten minutes. The professor staggered back at a frequency where the ground shook every ten seconds, and said breathlessly, "Not good! Sergeant, hurry up and put out the fire in the fire, we can't destroy the magnetic field of this Linga statue!" ”

"For ...... What the! Stern and Anne asked in unison, their words shaking as they shook more and more often.

"I went to the boulder and checked it, and found that the boulders on the periphery were all ferromagnetic minerals!"

"So what? Is this the reason for the shaking of the ground? Stern asked, puzzled.

"Suffice it to say, there is another more powerful magnetic field besides the magnetic field of the Linga statue! These two magnetic fields may be counterbalanced by each other! ”

"Professor, are you saying that these brahmins have created a huge natural magnetic field here?" Anne asked in surprise.

"Yes, that's right! This Linga statue is just a small part of the deliberately modified, and the real big magnetic field is underneath! We've got to put out the fire quickly......"

Before the professor could finish speaking, a huge crack suddenly cracked in the ground beneath their feet! The crack in the ground opened right at Anne's feet, and Anne stepped on the air defenselessly and fell straight down......

"Ahh

At this critical moment, Stern, who happened to be next to Anne, immediately reacted and grabbed Anne's arm tightly with one hand. However, Stern's center of gravity was unstable, and the soil at his feet was loose and there was no point of focus, so he was dragged down by the force of Annie's sudden fall, and seeing that the two were about to fall into the bottomless abyss, the professor didn't think about pulling Stern's lower back. That's when Stern barely hung on the edge of the crack.

Downey and Kansa, who were not far away, saw this critical situation and immediately rushed over to join the professor, dragging Stern and Anne together. At this time, the ground shook violently like a strong earthquake, and everyone staggered and could barely stand on their feet.

However, the shaking of the ground became more and more violent, and not far away, several bottomless cracks were cracked one after another. Without exception, these cracks cracked in all directions around the stone platform where the Linga stone statue was located, and the ground below the stone platform let out a dull low roar, which was deafening, and the brick-red soil layer was constantly arching upwards and then cracking in all directions, as if some behemoth was about to break through the ground underneath......

"It looks like it's going to collapse! Let's get away from this stone platform! ”

Seeing that the situation was critical, Stern felt that the underground seemed to be very unstable, and fearing that something would happen to him, he hurriedly beckoned everyone to evacuate with their things.

"Where are we going? Which direction to take? Donnie shouted!

"Quick! In this direction! Follow me! It was the professor who spoke, and he pointed to two of the eight boulders in the perimeter.

Everyone saw that the professor pointed in a direction, and regardless of whether they could escape from Stonehenge or not, they first avoided the ever-widening crack in the ground. So they helped each other across the bottomless cracks in the ground and went straight in the direction the professor pointed out.

After making sure everyone was stepping over the crack in the ground little by little, Stern was the last one to jump over the last crack that suddenly cracked to nearly a meter wide. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a huge black shadow suddenly sticking out of the bottomless crack in the ground below, and pounced directly on him......