Chapter 24: Out of the Maze
Jingxiu and Xiang Ji both looked at me suspiciously, wondering what I was doing with the lighter. But I ignored them, and drew the little dagger from my waist, motioned for them all to come, and then I drew six circles on the ground, one at the top, two in the middle, and three at the bottom.
"Look at this circle." I pointed my dagger at the center of the top circle, slashed it upward, and said, "If we are here, go forward, then we will get out of this circle." ”
"yes, then why can't we get out?" Jingxiu didn't know what the hell I was doing, but she still raised the question in her heart.
I smiled mysteriously and said, "If this circle doesn't move, then we can naturally get out, but if this circle is rotating, whether it is forward or backward, we can't go out, because we will unconsciously go to another disc, if we use some small means, then we can't get out in this life." ”
"Small means?" Xiang Ji asked, "What other small means can we have, according to what you say, we don't have a chance to go out at all." ”
"Who said no," Jingxiu retorted, pointing to the top circle and comparing it to the other circles. "If we were fast enough to get out of this arc and other circles, we wouldn't be stuck in a loop."
I glanced at Jingxiu in surprise, but I didn't expect that I had been thinking about the plan for a long time, but she could see it at a glance. Jingxiu's words are not wrong at all, if the speed is fast enough, he will go out, but this involves the small means I just mentioned, as long as there is that small means, it is estimated that he will not be able to get out.
"Okay, listen to me, the small means I talked about are the key to this mechanism, as the unlucky girl said, you can get out if you are fast enough, but if there is a treadmill-like mechanism around the periphery of the circle, then how can we get out?"
After I finished speaking, Jingxiu and Xiang Ji had no words, indeed, if there is really that kind of device there, when we step on it, then it is impossible to go out in this life, and when the two circles approach, it will stop running, thus sending us to another circle, and we will achieve an endless loop.
After a long time, Xiang Ji asked, "Then what is your solution?" ”
"It's very simple," I said, holding up the lighter in my hand, "as long as we can measure the diameter of this circle, locate the center of the circle and find the intersection of the two circles, then we can find the connection between the whole mechanism and the outside through this method, and find the weak connection and naturally go out." ”
"Ensanmu has a point, so how do we calculate this diameter and locate the center of the circle." Jingxiu is worthy of being a scholar, she understands all my explanation, but Xiang Ji is silent.
I ignored him, and directly drew a horizontal line in the center of a circle with a dagger and said: "In any case, the necessary condition for this mechanism to operate is that the person inside must walk in a straight line, so we only need to use the light of the lighter as a guide to calculate the diameter." One person is in front, one person is behind, and when the person in front suddenly disappears, then it is to the edge. And the person who disappeared in front of him found that there was no light behind him, so he stopped and looked at the back, and when he saw the light again, he ran over, and basically the mechanism was cracked. ”
"En" Xiang Ji nodded straightly, seemed to understand very well, and took over the task happily. "Okay, I'll explore the way in front, and you guys will be behind."
Then we got to work, lighting a lighter where we stopped and putting it there, this is a kerosene lighter so you don't have to keep the gas valve on it. Then we moved on, putting lighters every twenty meters or so.
When I put down the fifth lighter, I pulled the front Xiang Ji and reminded: "I guess it's almost there, you smaller, don't let this fire go out, let's turn on the portable light to the maximum brightness, you have to pay attention, don't miss the opportunity." ”
"Haha, you're kidding." Xiang Ji laughed heartily and continued walking, but we stopped. Looking at the dark passage, the faint light of the fire swayed with Xiang Ji's footsteps, and I really suspected that it would suddenly disappear in the next second.
As soon as the thought in my heart turned here, Xiang Ji in front of me really disappeared, very suddenly, and Jingxiu and I were taken aback. I knew the critical time had come, so I turned on the brightness of the portable lamp to the maximum, and I walked a few meters ahead just to be on the safe side.
Time passed slowly, and Jing Xiu and I were silent, a little worried about that guy. I don't know how long it took, in this dark environment, it seemed that all time had stopped, maybe half an hour, or maybe an hour or so, and our emotions slowly became irritable.
I kept pacing there, and the sound of footsteps came out one after another, and just when I was about to say something to Jingxiu, suddenly a little fire appeared in front of us, slowly getting closer, getting closer and closer, we were all nervous, staring at the firelight, we didn't dare to blink, for fear that something would be missed.
When it finally got closer, I was relieved to find out that it was Xiang Ji. "It seems that my guess is correct, the principle of this mechanism is really what I imagined, then there is a way to get out now."
The next thing was simple, we tried the same way again, quickly calculated the diameter of the circle, located the center of the circle, and found the junction of the two circles, and through one by one we eliminated and filtered, we successfully got out of the mechanism.
But just as we came out, we heard a scream coming from the burial chamber in front of us. You don't have to think about it to know that it is the group of people who have been separated, and now they are probably in danger.
"What should I do?" Jingxiu asked nervously, very anxious. "Shall we go over and have a look?"
In the past, this was inevitable, there were so many dangers on the way, and now that we have advanced to the core of the real tomb, we are about to approach the main tomb, how can we give up. I don't know how this group got in, but they moved much faster than we did.
"Hehe, do you need to say it?" Xiang Ji glanced at Jing Xiu strangely, and said funny, "Naturally, the praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches in Houla, we don't care what their purpose is, let's just wait and see a good show." ”
Jingxiu closed her mouth and didn't speak, her expression was very entangled, seeing her like this, I comforted: "Don't think about them, it's not clear whether they are friends or foes, listen to the camera, let's take a look at the situation later." ”
Then we all entered the burial chamber, but as soon as we got closer, a wave of heat came in, and the slightest smell of burnt paste came out along with the smell of charcoal.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the three of us retreated a little farther away, intending to wait for the fire inside to be extinguished. I wondered what was going on inside that caused such a big heat wave, and what was the reason for that screaming so badly.