Our eyes all turned to the bald head, and Lin Xihui even said to the bald head: "Now is the critical moment, don't be joking." ”

The bald head said to Lin Xihui with righteous words: "I'm really not fooling around this time. To tell you the truth, you and my little brother explained so much to the ghost ladder just now, and I basically didn't understand it. But there is one thing that I probably understand, that is, the ghost ladder is not straight up, but there are subtle 'forks' in some places, which make us go the wrong way. It's just that these 'forks' are well hidden, so we can barely see them with the naked eye. That's pretty much it, right? ”

Lin Xihui nodded silently, thought for a while and replied, "That's pretty much what it means." ”

"Then that's easy, we just need to avoid those 'forks', okay? Since there is an angle of inclination at the fork, which is not straight, then we use ropes to connect several of us together, and the ropes are separated by a certain distance between each two people, and the ropes are straightened as much as possible, so that our formation presents a '1' shape. Then tie the short knife to the length of rope between the first and second people. In this way, if the first person 'goes astray', then the next three people should also be able to detect the wrong route according to the deflection of the rope on their bodies, even if the people behind fail to detect it, the short knife tied between the first person and the second person will also be tilted and shaken to the other side under the action of the first manpower, and we can also quickly perceive the change of route. This is equivalent to a double insurance. The bald head explained to everyone.

After hearing these words of the bald head, not only Lin Xihui and the old cat, but even me and Team Zhang were all surprised, surprised that such a complicated thing was very simple to be said by the bald head in a few words, and we all felt that the bald head method was very feasible.

Lin Xihui and Lao Mao only analyzed the ghost ladder from a very professional point of view at first, which made them feel that things were too complicated and forgot some easier methods. In fact, many things are like this, and the more you think about it, the more you are constrained, so it's better to let it go.

Because when I came out of the dragon gate before, I used a lot of ropes, and now there are not many ropes in the backpacks of a few of us, but it is still enough for a few of us to try it according to the bald head. We quickly tied the rope to our bodies, and Lin Xihui tied the short knife to the rope between her and the old cat.

We followed the previous formation, with the old cat at the front, me and Yuba Hui in the middle, Team Zhang following behind us, and the bald head at the end. We got ready and quickly walked up.

The ghost ladder here seems to be much more complicated than we expected, and the old cat walking in front of it almost every few steps upwards will inadvertently turn into another "fork", and the number of steps separated by each fork is completely different, so that people have no rules to follow.

Some of the "forks" even connected to several "forks" in different directions, and the old cat took us through them, as if they were spinning in place, and the ropes were all rolled up.

Even the old cat began to think that the steps here were probably not the ghost ladders they were talking about, but a kind of ladder that was more ancient and complicated than the ghost ladders. This kind of ladder does not have a fixed number of steps, it is completely arbitrarily arranged in the number of layers, and there are so many "forks" on the ladder that it can be described as dazzling.

However, fortunately, although the bald method is more primitive, it also takes more time. But this method is still effective, when encountering continuous forks, there will still be some confusion about the direction, fortunately, the person behind can still distinguish the correct direction of upward progress according to the direction of the rope and the swing of the short knife.

We walked up in this way, up one flight of stairs after another, and looked down to see that we had already walked a long way. I don't know how long we've been walking, but I just feel like my legs are filled with lead, and every step is extremely difficult now.

So I motioned to the old cat if he could stop and rest. The old cat told me to hold on a little longer, because we no longer felt the "fork" on the stairs, and it seemed that we had already walked out of that staircase, but the old cat, for the sake of insurance, still let us keep the rope tied, and then go up a few steps, and we will rest for a while.

The stairs gradually became easier to walk, and it seemed that the "ghost ladder" had disappeared. That's when the old cat let us rest in place for a while.

I sat on the stairs and looked up, and saw that above our heads, there was still no end to the golden ladder, and the stairs below were getting smaller and smaller.

I wondered, where do the stairs lead here? We've been on our way up for a long time, but we still don't see the end in sight.

Maybe he was impatient, and asked the old cat dejectedly, "Little brother, does this broken building have a roof?" We don't have any rations here, and the water is limited, so if we can't get to the top, we will die sooner or later on this "ghost ladder", and now we are all dead horizontally and vertically. ”

The old cat looked up and replied simply, "I can guarantee you that you will get out of here alive." ”

With that, the old cat beckoned and signaled that we should start our journey. If you don't want to die, you have to hurry.

Our ropes were still untied, and we continued to walk upwards as before. We are now going up again, and we have not encountered the "ghost ladder", and Team Zhang also suggested that the rope be untied, so that we will not encounter emergencies on this staircase and be difficult to deal with.

But the old cat still insisted on using ropes to connect everyone, after all, we are still on the stairs, maybe the person who built this staircase is also trying to figure out the minds of others, in order to paralyze the people in the staircase and deliberately set a trap......

Before the old cat finished speaking, Lin Xihui suddenly made a silent gesture at him, and the old cat immediately stopped talking and looked around vigilantly.

Lin Xihui motioned for us to approach the outside of the golden ladder and asked us to squat down as much as possible, so that we could hide behind the golden ladder, as if we were avoiding something.

She looked down suspiciously, and the expression on her face gradually became very strange. I'm still wondering, I didn't hear any sound here, why did Lin Xihui suddenly silence everyone?

I tried to stick my neck out to see what was going on down there.

Coincidentally, I looked down and saw that on the golden ladder not far below us, something was squirming and looking huge and climbing upward!