Chapter Seventy-Six: The Endless Loop

(Two more tomorrow, thank you for the support of my brother and my brother who is happy with milk, thank you.) ）

I followed Ali in the graveyard for a long time, and I almost got my legs together, and then I saw her stop.

"Sure enough." Ali turned her back to me, looked ahead, and muttered to herself.

"What's this?" I walked up against the wall and found that Ali's face had turned white. At first, I thought it was caused by running for too long and not getting enough oxygen to my brain. But when I saw the scene in front of me, I was stunned.

This is where we just set off.

"How so?" I rubbed my eyes, but the waterhole in front of me was still there. It was Ali who had brought me up from this waterhole when I was unconscious.

Ali's face quickly changed back. Then I saw her frowning and without saying a word, she began to inspect the walls around her. I thought she was checking the surroundings for any of the marks we had just left. If not, it means we haven't gone back to where we were. It's just a place to think about the waterhole just now. But we didn't leave any traces in the same place just now, and we can't find them even if we look for them now.

I shook my head, just about to remind Ali of this I had come to mind. Unexpectedly, Ali shook her head after taking a closer look at the walls on both sides, and said, "It's not a mechanism." ”

"Organs?" I was stunned for a moment, and then I reacted. It seems that I didn't think the same as hers. But speaking of the mechanism, it reminds me of the grave road that fell into a dead loop in the Thousand Coffins Plank Road. It's just that the fat man and I were in a circular graveyard at the time, and Ali and I were now in a straight line.

"Is it possible that the mechanism is on the floor tiles or on the top of the graveyard?" I asked Ali.

Ali shook her head: "I don't see a design like this on the blueprint. ”

"That"

Ali's brow furrowed even deeper. I saw her turn around and look at me: "Brother, let's go again." ”

"Again?" I couldn't react a bit, I didn't understand what she meant.

"This graveyard is straight, and there is no reason why we can walk and walk back without turning. It must have been a mechanism designed in that part of the tomb that lured us back before we knew it. ”

I thought about setting up a mechanism in a straight line so that it could operate without the person walking noticing, and asked her, "Is this possible?" ”

"Nothing is impossible." Ali said, "The designer of this mausoleum is not an ordinary person - of course, brother, you just started in the industry and don't know, I will explain it to you when I have the opportunity later." Now you just need to know that this designer was definitely a genius in terms of mechanics at that time. ”

"Ghosts? What the hell is it? ”

Ali stomped her foot: "Just like now." After speaking, without waiting for me to ask again, he said, "Let's go, let's run again." As she spoke, I saw her remove the attack head from the flashlight and press it against the wall. Draw a line along the wall, and if you can't see the line, it's still moving forward. ”

Yes, the little girl is very smart. How I didn't think of that.

Then I followed Ali and started running again. But given that we've already run once, this time she and I jogged almost all the way through. It can be seen that Ali's physical strength has also consumed a lot of the wild run just now.

Almost an hour later, we saw scratches on the wall.

Ali was the first to discover. Almost as soon as I found out, I saw her standing still.

"How so?" Ali crouched down and scrutinized the scratches on the wall.

At this time, I also realized that the matter was a bit serious, and my heart began to get nervous. I consoled myself that this situation was unscientific and could not have existed. But another voice sounded in his head: dead people can be deceived into rice dumplings, what is impossible?

"Brother, let's go again." Ali got up from the ground, took a few deep breaths, and said to me.

"Still leaving?"

"Yes, let's go."

"We've all walked twice, why don't you rest for a while?" I proposed.

Ali shook her head: "If we can't find a way out of this tomb, we will have time to rest." ”

I looked at Ali's expressionless face and knew that she was on the verge of collapse. So while sighing that the little girl just can't withstand the blow of setback, he nodded.

This time we didn't have to run. I thought it was Ali who couldn't run anymore, but later I realized from her movements that she was checking all the places in the tomb that might have a mechanism little by little.

This time it took us nearly three times as long as Ali checked almost every part of the graveyard where there might be hidden traps.

When we reappeared in place, Ali finally couldn't hold back this suppressed emotion and sat down on the ground with a scream.

That's when I started to panic too. It's just that I didn't show it because of the man's face.

I sat down against the wall, and suddenly my mind was the scene of the fat man mixing explosives under the Merriam-Webster ancestral hall. The heart said that it would be nice if the fat man was here. This guy is a slut, and I'm starting to miss the fat man's dynamite.

Ali didn't bring explosives. This time is not like last time, this time we are diving down, and there are restrictions on what we can bring with us, so we can't bring too many things. Something like explosives wasn't essential, so I didn't take it with me except for one time when I blasted the escape.

I saw Ali half-leaning against the wall, staring blankly at the ground in front of her, as if she had gone to comfort her. But after thinking about it, what can I comfort her now? Did you tell her sister, don't be afraid, there is a brother. And then take her out through the wall? I shook my head, shook off the nonsensical thoughts in my head, got up and took the wind lamp out of my bag and lit it.

The battery of the flashlight can save a little is a little.

As the wind lanterns slowly lit up, our surroundings were once again filled with bright light.

"Here, get something to eat." I handed the compressed dry food to Ali, "When you're full, you have the strength to find a way out." ”

Ali took it with a blank face, mechanically tore open the bag, and mechanically brought it to her mouth. The whole time I was staring blankly at the ground.

"Oops," I crouched down in front of Ali and held her face, "I said, you're too fragile too, aren't you?" How did the fat man come up with the idea of asking you to help me? - Hey, what are you looking at, did you listen to me? I picked up Ali's amount and forced my eyes to look at her, only to find that she had changed her mindless appearance and stared at me diagonally behind me with wide eyes. That kind of extremely focused look made my back chill, and my heart said that there should be something behind it, right? Thinking about it, I jerked my head behind me.

"What are you looking at?" I turned back to look at Ali again. I knew that our shadow was cast on the ground.

Wait, shadows? I was stunned, when will our shadow come back?

I was still thinking about it, only to find that Ali was still staring intently at my diagonal back. That highly focused gaze has turned into horror.

What the hell is Ali looking at? I frowned and looked back again. I was stunned when I looked at it.

I didn't notice it just now, but when I looked at it a second time, I realized that not only did the shadows of me and Ali come out, but there was also an extra shadow on the ground at some point.