Chapter 20: The Circular Labyrinth
"What the hell! These days, I really can't be curious, hurt others and hurt myself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info "Ah Shen sat down.
Yu Yue also did not speak in frustration, and stood still against the wall.
Poker face holding the lampstand, the light of the oil lamp illuminates the outline of his facial features, such a good-looking face, why not smile? If you laugh, it should look better, right?
Poker Face noticed that Yu Yue was staring at him, and deliberately turned his face away, hiding his entire face in the dark, "Take a break." ”
"Why did you faint there?" The three of them all felt very frustrated, and after being silent for a while, Ah Shen opened his mouth and asked Yu Yue.
"I don't know." Yu Yue recalled, "I remember that I was in the hotel in Moonlight Village the night before. When I woke up, I slept in the desert. I didn't have anything on me, I remembered what you told me before, there was water in the qanats, I searched for a long time, and finally found it, and I fainted. ”
"Seriously, you're lucky that there's no water down there, otherwise you'd be drowned.
Yu Yue smiled embarrassedly. "What do we do now?" Yu Yue looked at Ah Shen as if asking for help. Poker Face still buried his face in the darkness and took care of the wick by himself.
Ah Shen shrugged, "Although I usually look like a hanger, I know in my heart that it's hard to really sit here and not leave." That's not waiting to die! After saying that, he looked at the poker face.
Yu Yue smiled knowingly, "Since Ah Shen said so, then let's go, this maze is so strange, I don't know when I will be able to get out." ”
"Poker Face, let's go." Ah Shen and Yu Yue got up one after another, but the poker face was still fiddling with the wick.
"What's wrong?"
"This lamp oil, it's a little weird."
"What's so strange?" Yu Yue leaned over.
Poker Face leaned back, "It's nothing, let's go." With that, he lifted the menorah and walked to the front.
"Wait!" Ah Shen shouted at the end. "If we go on so aimlessly, we can't do it."
"Poker face, what Ah Shen said makes sense."
And the poker face seemed to be thinking about something, and did not stop until Yu Yue Ashen called him again. He slowly turned around in confusion, "What did you say?" ”
Yu Yue was stunned. In the dim light, she seemed to see Ah Shen standing there, because she was too focused on thinking, and often ignored the people around her.
"Are you all out of your bodies?" Ah Shen saw that Yu Yue and Poker's faces were strange, and he couldn't help but yell. Voices echoed in the hallways.
"If you have something to say, you say it first." Poker said lightly, his brows slightly locked, and he seemed to be immersed in thought.
"Ah Shen, you just said that we can't walk so aimlessly...... Do you have any ideas? ”
"Yes, as you said earlier, if we walk aimlessly, we don't know when we will go the wrong way again. We have to go with a plan, and as for what this plan is, I don't know. Shen shrugged.
Yu Yue also had no choice but to take this half-hung Ah Shen, sighed, and looked at the poker face, "Poker face, I think Ah Shen has said the key, we have to find a way not to walk around without control." ”
Poker Face looked at the inky black wall, "The wall is black, and it is smeared with a light-absorbing substance, and the oil lamp is dim, so it is certain that it will go wrong." If we walk against the wall, we can see at a glance where there are turns, where there are forks. ”
Ah Shen snapped his fingers, "Poker face, you're so smart!" That's it. We're all against the wall. ”
Poker Face nodded to Yu Yue, and Yu Yue and Ah Shen stood on the wall opposite Poker Face and leaned against the wall. "You say, we are like this, when we get to the fork in the road, how should we choose?" Yu Yue was still worried.
"Don't think about it so much, when we meet, we will naturally make a choice."
"You're at ease."
"I'm called broad-minded."
"Ah, you've got a fork in the road......"
"Poker face, Yu Yue has a fork in the road."
"Haha, lied to you."
Yu Yue and Ah Shen quarreled as they walked, which surprised Yu Yue somewhat, she and Ah Shen have always respected each other. First, because Ah Shen seems to have always maintained a state of work and study, his identity does not allow him to relax; Second, because in Yu Yue's heart, Ah Shen is the person she needs to look up to, she treats him like an idol, how dare she joke with him. The person in front of him is like the original Ah Shen, if it weren't for Yu Yue knowing that he had suffered an accident and lost his memory, he would definitely think that he was not Ah Shen at all.
"Wait." Poker Face stood still, and he shifted the lampstand in his left hand to his right hand and shone it to the right. As the poker face said, there really is a fork in the road. If it weren't for the firelight, they would have missed it.
"Then how should we go?" Yu Yue got tangled.
"Go straight!"
"I think we should take a fork in the road."
"Why, I thought I should go straight, my gut told me that we should come from the straight."
"Didn't I explain it to you just now, maybe we don't know when we will take a fork in the road, and we may not be able to return to the original path if we go straight."
"Can't you take a gamble?"
……
Yu Yue and Ah Shen argued, and walked through the fork in the road as if no one was around, and then walked for a while. Until Yu Yue noticed that the light was getting farther away, and wanted to catch up, and saw the poker face slowly turn back.
Ah Shen and Yu Yue were puzzled by Pokerface's action, "Pokerface, what are you doing?" ”
Poker Face went around the fork in the road and lifted the lampstand, "Go this way." ”
Before Ah Shen could refute, Yu Yue had already walked over to the poker face. Ah Shen had no choice but to follow reluctantly, and when he groped behind Yu Yue, he didn't forget to tease, "Just follow the poker face with your fart." ”
Yu Yue was unrelenting and lowered her voice, "Aren't you following me now?" ”
Ah Shen pretended not to hear Yu Yue's words and raised his head, "Poker face, why are we going to take a fork in the road?" ”
"I don't know." Pokerface's answer came from across from them.
"What did you say?" Ah Shen was not convinced, but Yu Yue smiled, "Poker face is the sixth sense of believing in women." ”
Ah Shen pointed at Yu Yue, from his head to his chest, and stopped, "You...... Can it be considered a woman? ”
Under the dim light, Ah Shen still saw Yu Yue's flushed face, she immediately turned around and left, no matter what Ah Shen said, she didn't care anymore.
"Ahh Yu Yue whispered and looked at Poker Face, "Poker Face, here." ”
Poker Face walked over with a candlestick, "You guys wait." After saying that, he walked into the fork in the road and groped along the cave wall, then walked out and said, "Let's go straight along the road." ”
Yu Yue was still surprised, but after all, she couldn't help but ask, and walked forward with her poker face.
After encountering a few forks in the road one after another, the poker face did not go to the fork in the road to explore, and all went straight forward. Yu Yue and Ah Shen looked puzzled, until Poker Face said, "Let's go back." ”
"What do you say? We're going to be gone for an hour, and now you say you're going to turn around and tease us?! "Ah Shen is on fire. He himself noticed that since entering the underground culvert, Ah Shen had become more and more unable to control his temper. It is as if emotions are free from the organs, and once they enter the underground passage, they reach the cerebral cortex, and then express themselves through words and actions.
"Don't worry, poker face must have his own reason." Yu Yue's heart was also uncertain, but she still stared at Poker Face with anticipation, until Poker Face said lightly, "I'm just trying one by one." ”
"At this time, do you still have the heart to try them one by one?"
"Ah Shen, calm down." Yu Yue said, "You used to like mazes very much, you have played maze games, every time you play you will tell me that you have to be patient to walk the maze one road after another, and after trying, you will naturally find the key to breakthrough." You have amnesia, I don't blame you. But I have to say that the poker face method is the right one. ”
Poker looked at Yu Yue quietly, and the emotions in his eyes were complicated and difficult to discern.
Ah Shen muttered, "Then listen to the poker face." ”
Without saying a word, Poker Face turned around and walked through the original passages, and it wasn't until the seventh that he stopped, "Go this way." He helped Shen light up the passage as he checked the passage.
"Pokerface, can I ask you a question?"
Yu Yue walked in front of the poker face and stopped following Ah Shen.
"Say it." Poker replied lightly.
"You just walked into the passage and took a few looks. I don't understand why. ”
"Because, I want to confirm one thing." Poker Face said calmly.
"Is that confirmed?"
"Hmm."
"Now tell us, what the hell is going on?"
Pokerface looked at the darkness ahead, "Pretty much sure, it's a circular maze." ”
"Circular labyrinth? Overall, it is circular, and to the center of the circle is to the exit. That's why you just insisted on going straight because that's the direction to the center of the circle. ”
"How can you tell?"
"Walking against the wall, you will find that there is a certain curvature of the wall, just now I explored two horizontal passages, the arc is very uniform, and the arc of the second passage is greater than the first one."
"Circular labyrinth...... A labyrinth used to imprison the Minotaur in Greek mythology. ”
"What Minotaur, what are you talking about?" Ah Shen had been listening to Yu Yue and Poker Face since just now, and finally couldn't help but interject.
Yu Yue explained, "The Minotaur was a half-man, half-cow monster in Greek mythology, and in mythology, he was imprisoned in such a labyrinth. ”
"It's a myth after all, and it doesn't prove anything."
"Now the world's largest plant labyrinth, the Henaander Labyrinth, is such a circular labyrinth, such a maze has a single layout, and everywhere you go there are arc-shaped passages and straight paths, but it is very easy for people to lose sight of the direction." Yu Yue stroked the high wall and wondered, "Who built such a big labyrinth under this ground?" Labyrinth Center, what's there? ”