Chapter 8: The Tower of Mystery

After walking for a long time, the three poker faces approached the tower. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info originally looked from afar, this tower was not big, but when I got closer, I found that this was a towering tower. From the foot of the tower, the roof is not visible at all. Because the tower body is almost completely hidden in the darkness, and it is coated with a light-absorbing substance, it is even more difficult to distinguish.

"This tower that deliberately wants to hide must not be simple." Zhuo Fan had made up his mind early in the morning, and when he approached at this moment, Lao Jiang really believed it.

"Have you noticed that the tower is not vertical, it seems to be ...... It's a bit crooked. Lao Jiang tilted his head and looked upward. Pupils dilated, trying to make out the outline of the dark tower.

"The tower is big at the top and small at the bottom, so it looks a bit slanted. According to the theory of architecture, it is difficult to build such an inverted triangle shape, because it is necessary to set up a load-bearing axis in the middle, and the weight of both sides of the load-bearing axis must be almost the same, so that the building of this inverted triangle will not collapse. This requires a very high level of skill. ”

"If it is announced, will this be more sensational than the pyramids?" Zhuo Fan couldn't help asking.

"Well, of course, this tower is an upside-down pyramid, and poker faces say that it requires a lot of skill." Lao Jiang cast an adoring gaze like a poker face, "Then you say, what is this inverted triangle built here?" Could it be to see when it will collapse? ”

Zhuo Fan was amused by Lao Jiang's whimsy, and laughed out loud, "How can it be ......?"

At some point, Pokerface had already walked to the door of the tower and somehow opened the lock. Beckoned Lao Jiang and Zhuo Fan to let them come over. In a flash, he advanced into the tower.

The three people who walked into the tower one after another noticed a violent dizziness, and then saw that they were surrounded by flames.

"What is this?" After the mistake just now, Lao Jiang is now not afraid of fire, "This fire must be fake, if it is real fire, how can I not feel pain?" Lao Jiang said playfully.

Zhuo Fan dodged left and right, and after hearing Lao Jiang's words, he immediately retorted, "Can't you feel your rough skin and thick flesh?" This fire has burned all my clothes, and you still say it's an illusion? ”

"You think it's burning you, but it's actually your hallucination."

"Does the hallucination feel painful?" Zhuo Fan was already hysterical, looking around for Poker Face, only to see that Poker Face was walking through the fire, and the passage was so smooth and unhindered, as if he couldn't see the fire at all.

Zhuo Fan wanted to catch up with Poker Face, but was blocked by the raging fire, he could only shout loudly, "Poker Face, Poker Face?!" ”

"Follow me" Poker Face turned around and said softly, Zhuo Fan recognized the shape of his mouth, and then he knew what Poker Face said. He hurriedly rushed to Lao Jiang's side, grabbed Lao Jiang and said, "Let's go." ”

Lao Jiang didn't resist, he also realized that something was wrong just now, the fire of this illusion had burned on his arm, and set the clothes on his arm on fire, burning the skin of his elbow. He bared his teeth in pain. This time Zhuo Fan pulled him, he didn't say a word, and followed Zhuo Fan obediently.

When they came to the poker face, they found that there was no fire in the outer circle of about one square meter where they were standing, but there was a small canal outside them. The water in the small canal flowed, and the sound of a gentle flow was faintly visible. Maybe Poker Face just followed the sound of the water to get here. Zhuo Fan couldn't help but think so.

"With such a big fire, how can there still be water in this canal?" Zhuo Fan couldn't help but ask.

"A long time ago, after the establishment of the burial system, the construction of the tomb developed rapidly, and every time a large tomb was built, thousands of people had to be mobilized, in order to ensure that the location and structure of the tomb were not revealed, and the owner of the tomb was not disturbed after burial, these tomb builders would be sealed in the tomb in the end. Therefore, the workers who built these tombs will leave a way for themselves to survive in the future, and if there is a mechanism in each tomb, there must be a way to crack it. This is also so that in case they are sealed in the tomb, they will not die under their own traps. The predecessors called this: there is a dead hole must have a life hole, which has gradually become an unwritten rule for tomb builders. Pokerface stood by the stream and looked at his reflection as the water washed away, "The fire here is so big, if there is no living water around, once this fire is lit, it will definitely burn this place down." ”

"So how do we get out?" Zhuo Fan looked at Lao Jiang, who was already sweating profusely beside him, and asked.

"We're not going out, we're going up." Lao Jiang wiped his sweat with his clothes, and there was a tone in his tone that he couldn't hide that he wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

"Go against the current." Poker Face put his backpack back on his back, and then went up the stream, "Since you want to go up, you have to find the source of the water." ”

"The source of the water flow, interesting." Lao Jiang said, "This reminds me of a legend. ”

"I also think of a legend." Zhuo Fan said.

"Tell me about it first." Lao Jiang came to be interested.

Zhuo Fan said, "Actually, I don't know where I heard the legend, according to legend, our world was born in the chaos of water and fire. At the beginning of the opening of the heavens and the earth, Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, the fire spread boundlessly, and at the same time, a lot of water poured into the loopholes of the sky, and the fire was extinguished by the water after a long time, and the whole world was slowly filled with water. ”

"Legend has it that the seed of fire has always existed and was later found by humans." Lao Jiang added. "It is precisely because of the discovery of the seeds of fire that the world is not all water, but with a part of the land, human beings have begun to live on the land."

Poker Face listened and smiled slightly, "Humans only gradually learned to use fire after they evolved on land, not to mention, what seeds does fire have?" ”

Zhuo Fan shook his head and disagreed, "Isn't there such a thing as 'tinder'?" ”

Poker Face was stunned for a moment, "Tinder? ”

"Okay, what's the problem, it doesn't matter if it's fire or water, we just need to use them." Lao Jiang raised his head, pointed to the road ahead and said, "What's that?" Why is there no way? ”

Poker Face had been thinking about the problem of tinder just now, but was interrupted by Lao Jiangyi, and then moved his gaze back to the front. I saw this huge wall in front of him, and he held up the wolf's eye flashlight and strafed down.

"There's not a single crack in the wall."

"The only gap is where the water flows in.

Poker Face calmed down for a moment, and analyzed, "We should have gone to the very edge. You see, although the wall is very thick, you can perceive that it is sloping upwards. This water should be drained from groundwater. ”

"Then we have no way out, is this room that simple?"

Poker Face thought for a moment and took the lead in sitting down by the stream, "Rest for a while." After saying that, he fell asleep.

He was fine and fell asleep again. If I don't go out again, I'll be roasted. Lao Jiang was already sweating profusely, and his coat was taken off layer by layer, and at this time, he also took off the only vest, revealing a white flesh.

"Don't laugh, I can't help it, and then I'm wearing clothes, my body can't breathe at all."

Zhuo Fan hurriedly suppressed his laughter, sat down by the stream, and drank the water in both hands.

Lao Jiang simply jumped directly into the stream and exclaimed, "It's so cool, Zhuo Fan, do you want to try it too." ”

Zhuo Fan refused with a smile and watched Lao Jiang immerse himself in the water. Close your eyes slowly and recuperate.

I don't know how long it took, Zhuo Fan almost fell asleep, in the fog, he seemed to notice that Lao Jiang's voice was gradually moving away, and when he couldn't hear it at all, he slowly opened his eyes. In the firelight, he could hardly see anything, Zhuo Fan was very tired, his eyes closed and he fell asleep.

When Zhuo Fan woke up, Poker Face also happened to wake up, he looked at his watch and immediately jumped up, "We actually slept for an hour!" ”

"Let's go. Go downstream. ”

Zhuo Fan packed his things, remembering that Lao Jiang thought his luggage was too heavy before, and wanted to ask Lao Jiang to help share it, so he searched back and forth, but there was no trace of Lao Jiang. "Poker face, have you seen Lao Jiang?"

Poker Face looked around the neighborhood, but there was no trace of Lao Jiang, and even Lao Jiang's clothes were gone. "It shouldn't go far, let's look for it."

The two walked downstream along the stream, but they didn't see any trace of Lao Jiang all the way. The road downstream is much longer than the road upstream, and the more you walk, the colder it gets.

"What's going on?" Zhuo Fan put his coat on the boat and trembled.

"There's no fire here." Pokerface reminded.

"Yes, of course it's cold when it's out of fire. We're still ...... underground," Zhuo Fan shuddered, "We seem to be going down more and more, what's going on?" ”

Pokerface was aware of the problem, but he didn't know where the stream would lead at the moment, so he could only keep walking in silence.

"Ahh Just when the hearts of the two of them were about to run out of the bottom, there was a miserable scream in the darkness ahead.

"It's Lao Jiang." Poker Face recognized the source of the sound and rushed forward with a flashlight.

"I can't see anything in front of me." Zhuo Fan held up the flashlight, and the blue-white light kept beating in the darkness. Look for the source of Lao Jiang's exclamation.

"Why is there no sound?" The endless darkness made Zhuo Fan fall into a panic, and the further down he went, the darker it became, and he could hardly see anything except direct light.

Suddenly, Zhuo Fan also let out an exclamation, Zhuo Fan noticed that the soles of his feet were empty, and his whole body fell into the cold water, and his defenseless body continued to sink.

Zhuo Fan heard a pop behind him, and his poker face also fell into the water. The light of the flashlight blurred in the water, and it was barely noticeable anything in the water.

The poker face had already begun to pull Zhuo Fan to swim to the water, but Zhuo Fan's feet had been pulled by something from just now, and he couldn't move at all.

The poker face noticed that Zhuo Fan couldn't be pulled, and gestured to ask Zhuo Fan what was going on. While Zhuo Fan kicked his legs, he turned on the flashlight and looked down, only to see a big white face staring at him.