Chapter Twenty-Six: The Ghost Strikes the Wall
It can be seen that the old cat's expression was also slightly surprised when he saw us, but then his face returned to that expressionless appearance. When the old cat came back, he stopped his eyes on the metasequoia trees around him.
I immediately followed the mark left on the metasequoia and trotted forward, and Team Zhang immediately followed me and motioned for me to slow down. Team Zhang and I quickly ran back according to the marked "instructions", just like the old cat before, we walked back from the direction we left, to put it in layman's terms, we actually walked back on the same road, straight ahead!
It's also incredible, in the process of walking, we are obviously walking in a straight line, but we have walked back from this straight line! Looks like we're really stuck here.
"The problem here should be in the metasequoia tree." The old cat said as he lay on the ground and looked at the metasequoia.
He then goes on to explain to us that almost all of us have a habit of doing everything we need to do without a frame of reference. The road formed by this metasequoia forest is actually between many uneven slopes, and these artificial slopes, combined with the special undulating route here, make small changes in slope difficult to detect. And this uneven slope is tilted by the sand from both sides, so that the two reach a balance, so that walking on it, you can't feel the slope, in fact, the slope still exists, but people feel that there is no slope.
If you look along one of the metasequoias, you will see endless woods. And no matter which angle you look at, the scene of the woods is almost identical.
The old cat said as he motioned for us to lie down and look at the metasequoia. We immediately bent down as the old cat intended, crouched down next to a metasequoia, and looked around at several angles. Indeed, as the old cat said, the metasequoia here is quirky.
Lin Xihui also reminded us at this moment that the metasequoia here seems to be planted at random, but in fact, when each tree is planted, it is strictly according to the layout of the six trees, and the metasequoia is not planted vertically, and the soil at the bottom of these trees is slightly tilted. In our habits, we always think of trees as being planted vertically. The arrangement of the trees is polygonal, and each tree adjacent to it is tilted at exactly 3 angles. 75 degrees. In this way, no matter which angle you look at, you can only see the same situation, which will make it more difficult for people who strayed into it to judge the direction.
Coupled with the fact that there are countless of these metasequoia trees all around, we can't find a single horizontal reference that can be used as a benchmark. In the absence of a reference, it makes it easy for us to cause visual errors.
In this case, people will walk in what they call a "straight line", but even if they try to walk in a straight line, the trajectory they take will be a circle, which is human instinct. The reason for this circular behavior is that after the human vision errors, the automatic correction function of the eyes and the brain does not exist, or the correction signal provided to people is false and easy to confuse, when we feel that we are walking in a straight line, in fact, we are walking according to instinct, and it must be a circle when we come out.
In addition to the angle of the trees, what can lead people to go astray is the location where these trees are planted. That is, this special "polygon" that is maintained in the six ren. The interior of this "polygon" is varied, and although the trees are not moving, if they are planted in a special order of six people, the human eye will make a more serious error. The road starts with a short downhill and then slowly turns uphill, in order to draw people into the game. By planting trees in special locations, the problem of the slope of the road is covered by the trees that are brushed together. And people's "feelings" are led into a misunderstanding by vision. People mistakenly think that the movement of the trees is the movement of the road. We are in the trap of the designer, constantly going around in circles.
The old cat, who had always looked arrogant, rarely threw an admiring look at Lin Xihui, he quickly stood up, and then beckoned to us, signaling us to follow him, and we were about to go out from here.
The old cat said that it is not difficult to break this kind of Taiyi Liuren game, its general principle is already known, and it is much easier to do now. One of the main reasons we're stuck here is because the staggered trees mislead our vision. Now to get out of here, just ignore the trees here and follow the original hexanon "polygon".
So the old cat raised his head directly to look at the sun in the sky, and walked forward with us quickly, this time there was no more "lost" phenomenon, we took about ten minutes to walk out of the woods, to the gate of Tassi Village.
The most eye-catching thing at the entrance of Tasi is the town stone and the three stone statues next to it. The color of this stone seems to be different from what we saw before, I remember seeing it black at the time, but now it looks like a deep purple when I look closely.
I reached out and touched the stone, and a cold feeling came from my fingertips to my body, and my whole body immediately shivered, and I quickly took my hand away from the stone.
Strange, the temperature is obviously very hot, and this town stone is exposed to the sun all day long, how can there be a feeling of extreme cold that penetrates deep into the bone marrow? I pondered in my mind.
"This, this, this, this......" The bald head suddenly stammered to say something, but he couldn't say it, and the expression on his face was shocked.
I gave him a blank look, and said angrily, "If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have a fart, let it go." At your level, you are not as good as Brother Xiao and Miss Lin, and you asked us for compensation, and you are really embarrassed to ask for it. ”
The bald head ignored my words completely, and the whole person knelt on the ground, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the town stone, muttering in his mouth, "This, this, this...... This stone is "Dragon"?! ”(longji)