Chapter 19: Falling into the Labyrinth Again
"When I woke up, I found myself in a very strange place, surrounded by instruments. My first reaction was www.biquge.info thought I had been caught as a test subject. When I saw the window open, I immediately pulled out the wires on my body and ran out. Shen smiled, "Poker Face was the first person I met. ”
Yu Yue nodded and said softly, "I thought 'poker face' was your nickname for him." Since you don't know him, why go with him? ”
"Actually, I don't know, I just noticed from the way he looked at me, he seems to know me, and I may be able to retrieve my previous memories by following him." He touched his head shyly, "At least he knows that my name is Ah Shen." ”
Yu Yue couldn't help muttering, "We grew up together, you ******** are all on archaeology, and there are only a handful of friends around you, and I have seen them all." I don't know this poker face. ”
"I used to do archaeology? It's an antique profession. Shen smiled.
The atmosphere between the two began to lighten up, "Why do you call him Poker Face?" Yu Yue finally couldn't help asking.
"You don't know who he is, I followed him all the way from Zhoushan to Xinjiang, and he didn't say a word to me on the way. No matter what I say, he has a face on his face. Shen shrugged, "I'll just call him Poker Face." ”
"I see...... But where has he been now? ”
"He must have seen that we were sleeping too hard, so he went to explore the way first. Don't look at Poker's thin face like a monkey, he's so powerful, even I can't beat him. Ah Shen remembered the touch of his hand when he grabbed the poker face, and his fingers curled slightly.
"Even you can't beat it, that's really pretty powerful." Yu Yue hesitated, "It's just that I always feel that his body is very weak, and he passed out in the water just now." Speaking of this, Yu Yue was a little worried.
"Poker face." Ah Shen crossed Yu Yue's shoulder and saw Poker Face standing behind Yu Yue with a gloomy face. Walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "Dude, you should tell us about it when you go to explore the way." ”
Poker's face flashed, avoiding Ah Shen's hand. "Let's go when you're rested." Poker Face's gaze fell on Yu Yue's face. Yu Yue's physical strength was almost recovered, and the fatigue on her face was swept away.
"Where are we now?" Yu Yue looked at the vast darkness ahead.
"Wherever you are, as long as there's no water." Ah Shen took the lead, and the poker face naturally fell behind Yu Yue. "It's really annoying to think about, we're okay, but it's a pity that those flashlights, it's so dark in here now, how long will it take to get a head."
"If you want to say that this passage is much easier to walk than the culvert, it is wide and flat." Yu Yue followed behind Ah Shen and listened to him twitter all the way.
"But I always find it strange......"
"What's so strange, it's rare to have such an easy passage underground."
"It's because it's easy to walk that I feel weird. The qanats below us are reinforced with steel bars and filled with cement because the qanats play a role in transporting water, which is of great importance. But this passage, there is nothing along the way, and this wall is ......" Yu Yue touched the wall, and the palms of his hands were all cement pouring texture. "I don't understand, what the hell is the use of this passage?"
"Hey......" Yu Yue exclaimed, "I seem to have touched something." ”
Poker Face and Ah Shen followed Yu Yue's voice and groped to Yu Yue's side, touching it carefully with their hands, "This should be a lamp." ”
"It's supposed to be an old-fashioned oil lamp." Poker Face said softly.
"I have a lamp but I can't light it, hey!" Ah Shen sighed heavily, "Let's continue to grope and walk." After speaking, Yu Yue noticed Ah Shen walking forward slowly.
"Let's go too." Yu Yue followed behind Ah Shen. I didn't go far before I heard "Rub Cha Cha", and the passage lit up.
"Poker face, were you a trickster before? I actually lit the lamp. ”
Yu Yue's glance fell on the poker face's hand, "That's flint." The flint that she and Ah Shen hadn't touched for so long just now was discovered by Pokerface, and she secretly admired Pokerface's carefulness.
"It's the same as primitive people drilling wood to make fire? Is this thing worth anything? Ah Shen took the flint in his hand and pondered it repeatedly.
"Flint is also called flint, which is a mineral stone that is not valuable."
Ah Shen hurriedly handed the flint to Yu Yue and went to fetch the oil lamp on the wall.
"Wait." Pokerface stops him. Under the inexplicable gaze of Yu Yue and Ah Shen, Poker Face took a step back, "Look. ”
Looking in the direction of the poker face's fingers, the stone cave wall with the lights fainted was mottled and uneven.
"What is this?"
The poker face took two steps forward, took off the oil lamp, and carefully observed and pondered on the stone wall. "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a mural." Pokerface didn't look back, "This mural is old, but this passage is newly renovated. ”
Yu Yue looked at the back of the poker face in a daze, and felt that this back was very familiar.
"What does this mural depict? What's the value of being so badly damaged? ”
"Academically speaking......" Poker Face turned around, touched Yu Yue's eyes, and was stunned, he turned his head, "The damage is so bad, it takes an expert to know what is on it." Let's keep going. After saying that, Wu Zi walked to the front, Ah Shen raised his chin, and followed the poker face with Yu Yue.
Poker Face walked slowly in the dark passage, the area illuminated by the oil lamp was very limited, and under the hazy light, the black seemed to be viscous and could not be dissolved.
"After walking for so long, how come there is no difference at all?" Ah Shen spoke first, "Could it be that this time I really encountered a ghost hitting the wall, right?" ”
"No...... There are no ghosts in this world. Poker Face walked for a while before stopping. Remember that maze we encountered earlier? ”
"You mean, we're in the labyrinth again?"
"It's not certain yet, but we've been walking for so long, and nothing seems to have changed in this passage. This is the simplest maze background layout. ”
"However, this passage has been walking for so long, and we have not encountered a dead end, how can we say that this is a labyrinth?"
"Look." Poker face holds up oil lamp. Shen: "! With a word, he threw himself on the wall in front of him, the wall blocked their way, Yu Yue knew that the poker face was right, this might really be a maze.
"Damn, the wall is so blocked that there's not even a crack." Ah Shen came back with a scolding and sat on the ground, "Lao Tzu has been walking for so long, his back hurts and he has menstruation, and he is still a dead end, so he won't go!" ”
"Ah Shen ......" Yu Yue just wanted to persuade, poker face walked to the wall and looked carefully, "We are just the beginning, if we don't go, it will be a real dead end." The poker face was soft, but in this cave it was strong.
"We can't go back!" Poker Face got up and patted the dirt on his buttocks, "I don't believe it, I'll just wait there, wait for the water level to go down, we can always go out, just drink water, people can always last for five days." With that, he strode back.
Yu Yue cast a worried look at the poker face, and quickly ran over to grab Ah Shen. "If poker face is true, then we can't get out."
Shen stood up suddenly, "When I'm a three-year-old child, let's just walk down this road and go back." "After that, I want to start again.
"Ah Shen, listen to me. Even with the oil lamp, the range of the light in the stone path was limited, so we didn't know when we came to a fork in the road. ”
"How can I not know that there is only one way to go all the way."
Poker Face held the lampstand and walked to the wall, "Can you tell I'm standing by the wall?" "It was dark around Poker Face, and the lights didn't shine through the stone walls at all.
"What's going on?" Ah Shen didn't care about getting angry, but vaguely felt that Poker Face and Yu Yue understood the truth, but he didn't understand anything.
"Look." Poker Face raised the light and took a step to the side, and the place that Ah Shen originally thought was a wall was passed by Poker Face. He hurried forward, trembling, and said, "What the hell is going on here?" ”
Actually, it's easy to say, "I don't know if you have noticed the characteristics in the stone wall here." They are all painted with black, black is the most light-absorbing color, no matter how many table lamps you hold, you can't see clearly beyond the light, of course, it will make people think that along the way, there is no fork in the road. After Yu Yue finished speaking, Pokerface added, "That's why none of us found that there was a fork in the road here." ”
Ah Shen didn't know why.
"What poker face means is that we don't know how many forks in the road we've missed, and when we go back, we're likely to go wrong and not realize it."
"You're saying we're stuck in a labyrinth?!"