Ye Yu stared straight at Zhao Qi and Chen Zhijing who were hanging above their heads, and his shock was beyond words.

They have ...... Is it dead??

In the blood-red dim light, the two of them were motionless, seemingly unconscious. A little bit of blood was blown down by the cold wind and dripped on the floor tiles of the platform under their feet, forming a mottled bloodstain, and on the surface of the blood-stained floor tiles, there seemed to be some faint carving.

"What the hell is going on?!" Ye Yu finally came back to his senses from his surprise and moved his gaze to Ming Shili on the platform.

"If you step on it, you'll be like them." Ming Shili glanced at the two hanging high and sighed softly.

Ye Yu's heart froze, and he subconsciously took two steps back, but the doubts that came one after another in his heart finally overcame the panic, he did not choose to retreat, but stubbornly looked up again, and carefully observed the two people above.

Zhao Qi and Chen Zhijing were hung alone above the edge of the platform, their heads drooping, like two puppets and did not react, but Ye Yu soon found that they were not strangled by their necks and became hanged ghosts, but were carried and hung above by two strands of iron chains.

The chains wrapped around them like pythons, pulling their arms through visible blood marks, oozing blood flowing and dripping down their arms...... However, fortunately, a slight rise and fall can be seen in the chests of the two, although the eyes are closed, but a closer look can also see a faint change between their eyebrows, so it seems that at least the two of them are still alive, but they have fallen into a state of fainting.

OK...... Life is still alive.

Ye Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but after calming down, he was still suspicious of the situation in front of him, so he asked Ming Shili again:

"How did you end up trapped here with them? You're not hurt, are you? ”

Ming Shili shook his head slowly, as if he was a little helpless. "For some reason, I had to team up with these two."

Some reasons ......? Is it the same situation as the three people on his side? Ye Yu thought to himself.

"Then how did you end up here? And why didn't you hide on the platform? Ye Yu continued to ask.

"They originally wanted to hinder other candidates, so they broke a trap valve, but unexpectedly, it caused a few of us to fall into this space; And want to leave. The only way to do this is to unlock the hidden mechanism. ”

"You mean there's a mechanism on this platform?!"

"Well, as for why I don't come down...... Ming Shili said, looking up at the top and sighing faintly.

"Because I can't go."

Ye Yu suddenly remembered something, and immediately set his eyes on the terrifying figure above the platform.

Different from Zhao Qi and Chen Zhijing who were on the edge, there was a hanging shadow densely concentrated above the central body of the platform, but these figures were not as lucky as Zhao Chen and the others, they all looked like they were all hanging by their necks, obviously the silhouette that Ye Yu and the three of them had glimpsed in the distance earlier was them.

The surrounding light is still dim and unclear. However, this time, due to the close distance, the swaying figure was finally able to emerge from the fog, but after carefully observing for a while, Ye Yu seemed to notice that something was wrong.

How do the "figures" feel a little too big? Not at all like a real person, but ......

Ye Yu narrowed his eyes, concentrated on identifying for a long time, and finally reaffirmed his judgment.

Sure enough, it's a puppet! Or rather, a gray-black humanoid sandbag.

I hadn't felt anything when I looked at it from a distance, but when I got closer, I realized that the size of the humanoid sandbag was really amazing. is more than twice as much as a normal adult. I saw that these sandbags were hung high and low, and there were dozens of them, and the neck of the sandbags was wrapped with extremely thick iron chains, so it seems that the weight of the sandbags is not light. I don't know what's in it.

"You're not able to act because of these things?" Ye Yu asked.

Ming Shili nodded silently, staring at Ye Yu with dark eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Ye Yu craned his neck and continued to observe, and suddenly found the chest of those "sandbag people". It seems that something was written in white paint.

"......?" Ye Yu stared at the words on the nearest puppet, a little confused, so he looked at several other "sandbag people".

"A...... Second...... Could this be the sandbag count? Ye Yu whispered silently. But then several sandbag men with the same words written on their bodies were found. "That's not right...... There is no pattern in the arrangement of these things, so what is the meaning of these words......? ”

Ye Yu muttered to himself and fell into deep thought, while Ming Shili on the side still quietly looked at Ye Yu's thinking and did not interject.

After observing for a long time, Ye Yu still couldn't see anything famous, and when he was about to give up, he suddenly thought that he had glimpsed some patterns on the floor tiles of the platform under the feet of Zhao Chen and the two who were hoisted.

I remember, it seemed like ......

The keen Ye Yu immediately thought of something, so he hurriedly looked down at the ground of the "isolated island" in front of him. Like the circular enclosed "square" they were in, the ground of this circular island is also neatly marked with square "tofu blocks", but the difference is that these "tofu blocks" are no longer chaotic fragments, but shallow and engraved with complete patterns.

"Tiger, rat, horse...... These carved on the floor are zodiac?? Ye Yu had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and his thoughts connected the previous clues one by one like a needle and thread, and a convinced idea gradually formed in his mind.

"Yinhu, Zi Mouse, Wu Ma...... That's right, the 12 zodiac signs correspond to the 12 earthly branches. Ye Yu analyzed excitedly while looking at the "sandbag man" above again. "In this way, the 'A', 'B', and 'C' hanging on them do not represent the count, but represent ......."

"Heavenly stem."

Ming Shili finally opened her mouth, and after regaining her composure, she put on that expressionless face again, but the feeling of this face seemed to be no longer as cold as before.

"That's right, it's the 'Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branch', it seems that the scenes constructed here are in the same vein as the mechanisms I encountered before, and they all belong to the category of 'Qimen Dunjia'." Ye Yu nodded and continued.

"In addition, from the position of the human-shaped sandbag and the square floor tiles on the ground are one-to-one, if you look at the way of 'stem and branch integration', each floor tile represents a group of stem and branch combinations, such as 'Jiazi', 'Yichou' and so on...... In this way, it is obvious that this is also a Karakuri maze that uses the 'Qimen Dunjia', but it is just ......"

Ye Yu sighed and shook his head helplessly. "It's just that I don't know 'Qimen Dunjia', I don't know what these combinations mean, and my only concept of 'Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches' is limited to 'Stem Branch Chronology'."

"You can find this, it's already a lot better than those two idiots." Ming Shili looked at the two embarrassed figures hanging on the edge of the platform and said lightly. "However, those combinations of cadres and branches do not represent the 'Chronicle', but correspond to the 'Five Elements Shengke'."

"Five Elements Shengke? I don't understand......"

"Whether it is a heavenly stem or an earthly branch, in the theory of 'Qimen Dunjia', each stem branch has the attributes of yin and yang of the five elements, and after the stem branches of different attributes are combined with each other, their 'fierce luck' will also change accordingly, and many feng shui calculations are carried out through the 'fierce luck' of the combination of the stem and branches." Ming Shili explained.

"That is to say, every floor tile here represents the attribute of 'bad luck' because of the corresponding combination of 'dry branches', so you can't step on it indiscriminately?" Ye Yu noticed that Ming Shili was standing on a floor tile from beginning to end, and he didn't dare to move it at will, so he understood most of it in his heart.

"Yes, the combination of cadres and branches here only has two types of attributes: 'auspicious' and 'fierce', if you step on 'auspicious', it doesn't matter, if you don't step on 'fierce', I'm afraid the consequences will be unimaginable."

"So, those two people stepped on the 'fierce' attribute floor tiles to become this virtue?" Ye Yu pointed to Zhao Chen who was hanging above and asked.

"No, it's not ......" Ming Shili lowered his head, and there seemed to be a hint of confusion on his pale and immature face.

"We have already discovered the law of bad luck here, and we also chose the 'auspicious attribute' floor tiles to step on. According to my original assumption, as long as you step on the 'Ji attribute' part separately, you should be able to trigger the escape mechanism, but what I didn't expect was to trigger ......"

Ming Shili paused slightly. "I was the first to step onto the platform, and the two of them followed me when they saw that I was okay, only to trigger the mechanism the moment they stood on the platform...... It ended up like that. ”

"They did it themselves." Ye Yu glanced at the two people above him with disdain. "It's despicable to let a girl try the mechanism."

“…… However, since they still changed after stepping on the 'Ji Attribute' floor tiles, it was obvious that my previous inference was problematic, although there was nothing unusual in my current location, but there was no guarantee of what would happen after stepping out of this floor tile, so ......" Ming Shili lowered his eyes.

"So you can only curl up on this floor tile all the time......" Ye Yu, who understood what was going on, muttered softly, feeling the trickiness of the matter.

Obviously, this maze is not simple, if you are not careful, you will not only repeat the mistakes of Zhao Chen and the others, but if you don't break the formation, you will be imprisoned in this "blood-red hell" until the end of the exam.

Fierce cold winds kept blowing from under the chain bridge, making the bridge sway even more violently.

Tsk, it's not a way to stand here stupidly...... I had to go back to the shore first and discuss countermeasures with the other two.

Ye Yu thought about it, trying to stabilize his body and shouted to Ming Shili:

"I have two companions here who know a little about the 'Qimen Dunjia', maybe there is a way to solve the maze, you wait for me first, don't move!"

"Oops, that's when I remembered us~"

A familiar sweet voice came from behind, Ye Yu hurriedly looked back, and was shocked to realize that Yang Yunyi and Xiao Lu had followed the chain bridge at some point.

"Seeing that you have been stunned for so long, Young Master Yang insisted on coming over to have a look, but I didn't expect to hear an interesting conversation." Shinoru smiled, and looked thoughtfully at the platform and the dangling figure in front of her.

"There is a way to solve the formation~ There is a way, but if you don't do it, you will die, do you want to try?" (To be continued.) )