Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Spiral Staircase
Through the marks on the drawing, it didn't take long for us to find the exit. At this time, it was dark in front of him, and he had to use a flashlight to collect the light, and the whole room was sealed.
Not far above our heads is where we came. It seems that the problem has become simpler, there must be some hidden compartment or mechanism above our heads, but it is not so easy to detect.
The drawings were useless, and the mute hunter rolled up the drawings and walked in the lead. What made me depressed was that the mute hunter seemed to be accustomed to the darkness, and there was no light ahead, but he still walked steadily.
At this moment, we are walking up the stairs step by step. The design of the stone room is very peculiar, the spiral steps lead straight to the top side, like the DNA of the double helix learned in high school biology, but the difference is that there is a single helix here, which seems to be more monotonous. The highest point is less than two meters from the roof, and a person standing on it can just touch the top with both hands.
When we got to the top, we were surprised to find that the stone wall above our heads looked very thick, and ordinary brute force could not shake it at all, and it seemed that we had to find the mechanism, otherwise we would be trapped here. The headache is that there is no clue on the body now, and the design drawings of Wuling Tianpan are not clearly marked, obviously the former Ma Yuan must be the one who will test the younger generations.
"I'm strangling, I'm really going anywhere, the threat won't leave, and my head is about to explode in the fat man" The fat man shouted, and couldn't help but complain, and the whole person sat on the steps, his eyes looking at his head blankly.
The dumb hunter, frowning, seemed to remember something, and with a twinkle in his eyes, he took out the drawings that he had rolled up earlier, and ordered, "Quickly put the light on."
When we heard this, we put the light on it, and there was no noticeable change in the drawings lying on the ground, and the mute hunter saw this, and then shouted to me, "Put the table of the Holy Spirit in front of the lamp, and let the shadow fall on the drawings."
I did as the mute hunter commanded. The reflection of the Holy Spirit Terrace on the blueprint did not change much at first, and after about a few minutes, I saw a butterfly slowly appearing on the drawing.
The butterflies began to dance with the movement of the Holy Stage, a pair of large wings across the entire drawing, and to the surprise of each wing, there was a dense mass of small characters engraved on each wing.
It is not difficult to see that where we are at the moment, eight small words suddenly appear on our wings - if we want to get out of this room, we need to find a new way.
I was very puzzled by the short eight characters, the spiral steps, like the official road in ancient times, there was no second way, if so, how to open up a new road.
Everyone looked to one side and thought quietly. The fat man, who thought he had found a way out, sat down again, and couldn't help complaining, "It's all come to this point, and the horse aid is still playing with us." Here's the second way."
As soon as the fat man's voice fell, Zhang Yu and Li Yu actually said at the same time: "There is a second way." It didn't sound very high, but it was unusually harsh at this point. The fat man was confused, and said puzzledly: "Little brother, you should talk about it."
Zhang Yu glanced at Li Yu, then walked straight forward and said, "The answer is very simple. When we came up, we came up from below, and it was the only way. Now, if we go down from above, it is also a road, but this road can be defined as a living road. There is also a dead end, and that is to jump straight down."
Yes! I couldn't help but exclaim.
I really didn't expect Zhang Yu to say this, if that's the case, it's not easy to implement, in other words, it's the same concept as not knowing. As if to beg another question, a new way has been found, but it is certain to die. I looked at Zhang Yu and Li Yu in confusion.
Li Yu, who was frowning, hit the light under the side of his foot, and then Zhang Yu's words: "This is indeed a road to death, but we can get a trace of information from it. As early as when I came up, I observed that every ten steps would unnaturally show a dead end. The illegible dead end is also very peculiar, for example, the first dead end is an inverted space, which we can understand as a vertical. Now, we just have to go up from the bottom one more time and mark the strokes corresponding to each dead end on the paper to find a way to unlock the exit."
"So that's the case" I understand a little, according to Li Yu's words, jumping from it is indeed a dead end, and it will never work. The horse aid does not let us really jump, but gives us an inspiration, when we jump, we can see the dead corners that we can't see when we walk up the steps before.
We quickly walked down the line, and when we came up again, three big characters suddenly appeared on the paper, three feet long. In addition to the words that were spliced together, we also saw a circular mark on the road, which was shown as a round word. The four words are recombined, and it is "three feet in a circle".
Zhang Yu, who saw the words, had a flash in his eyes, stood on the top, raised his head, and shouted at me: "Xiao Ke, bring the light up", after speaking, Zhang Yu opened his hands, and the two arms were connected together to be almost more than two meters long. And the so-called perfect circle of three feet, if you guess correctly, is a circle, the radius is one meter, and after the conversion of three feet, it is almost one meter.
The puzzle is gradually revealed, and everything seems to be in order. Zhang Yu's hands were spread out and pressed against the wall, constantly moving back and forth. After a while, the big hand suddenly paused, and the two fingers were together, and in an instant, they poked at the point.
The heavy stone wall had been hollowed out at this point, but the outer layer was covered with a little lime. Zhang Yu took his hand in, as if he had hooked something, and his hand began to pull down hard, only to see a round ring constantly pulling down, and at the same time, the steps under our feet began to shake continuously.
The tension of the rings still can't be relied on by Zhang Yu's strength, and there is a tendency to retreat. We who were guarding the side, how could we let go, and immediately leaned up and pulled towards the ring. With the strength of all of us, the speed of the ring's fall increased significantly, and the stone wall above our heads automatically split in two, opening a gap, and the steps under our feet continued to rise.
A blinding light shone in, followed by a howling wind. We drilled out and were surprised to find that there was a subtle change between the middle of the two "rotors".
The strong wind, which used to only go downstream, changed its direction at some point, drifting from side to side, and the wind speed was much higher than before. We who had just stood on the "rotor", under the influence of the wind speed, tried to maintain our balance.
The rising staircase did not slow down because of this, and went straight up, and when it was about to lead to the sky, it suddenly stopped. It's really a slap in the face, and it shatters the wonderful dream.
"Xiao Ke, quickly insert the Holy Spirit Platform on it" Zhang Yu pointed to the concave piece on the side of the raised steps. I fixed my eyes and saw that the gap was in line with the altar of the Holy Spirit.
I was just about to leave, my feet suddenly slammed, the whole person almost fell backwards, and after stabilizing the body, after wanting to move, the ears began to hear a dense "bang" sound, the whole foot could not be lifted. I looked down and was astonished, and somehow a large number of black beetles began to emerge from beneath our feet. The beetles had so dense tentacles that the wind could not blow them down. At this moment, some of them were wrapped around my feet, and the force was so great that I couldn't move at all. And at this time, more dangerous things are still looming at us.
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