Professor Li didn't shout to study the archways and murals along the way this time, he and the fat man broke their hands and feet, supported each other, chatted about homely things, and became a pair of New Year's friends. Shirley Yang kept her mouth shut about what had just happened, and I knew that she was afraid of arousing the fear of the team, so she stopped thinking about it and focused on hurrying on the road.

The long pitch-black Shinto seemed to have no end, stretching into the distance beyond the reach of the naked eye, and we walked for half an hour, and the seemingly endless granite under our feet was still under our feet, and everyone invariably slowed down. Wang Qingzheng stopped and went, and finally got mixed up with us directly.

"How long have we been gone? An hour? Forty minutes? ”

"It's been an hour since I came down, but I've been tossing back and forth several times in between. That's a maximum of thirty minutes. ”

"That's not a little," Wang Dashao snapped his fingers, "At least two or three kilometers down, why haven't you walked out of the Shinto Road yet?" Is there a fork in the road that we missed? ”

"There are walls on both sides, where did the fork in the road come from. Let's continue to walk, since the ancient Huashan road, to the end are afraid that there is no way? The fat man helped Professor Li sweating profusely and said, "Neither of us two wounded people is tired, what do you have to complain about?" is really a young master of capitalism, specialized and cultivated. ”

I saw that Professor Li was a lot of age and still had injuries on his body, so I couldn't bear it, so I asked him if he could persevere. The old man was very stubborn, shook his hand and stretched out five fingers and said, "Don't ask if the Long March is bitter or not, you can go another 25,000!" ”

"Okay, if you're not tired, we're not even more tired, let's keep walking." I thought I would be able to walk for another half an hour at most to enter the main hall of the tomb through the Guò Shinto, but thirty minutes passed and there was still no sign of a way out.

"Old Hu, wait, Professor Li, he's about to collapse." The fat man hurriedly hugged Professor Li, the old man's clothes were soaked, even his eyelashes were beads of sweat, and his mouth was full of muttering - the Red Army is not afraid of expeditions. Shirley Young picked up the kettle and fed him water, he drank half and vomited half and half vomited, until finally he collapsed on the ground, unable to walk half a step.

"It's a bit mysterious!" The fat man pointed to the two walls and said, "There are rock walls walking around, and the surrounding scenery has not changed much. ”

I shook my head: "I was scared of collisions in the past, I left marks along the way, and so far I haven't found any duplicate marks." ”

"But this is not scientific, we have been running for more than an hour, and this is the Forbidden City, and it is time to walk around. What's more, it's a straight line. Do you say that the tyrant Yingzheng hides a stove so deeply? Could it be that it is still like the Great Wall, extending to the outside of the customs? ”

Wang Dashao's body is much better than when he was in Peru, but now the environment is much worse than at that time, the turbid air, the surrounding darkness, the concept of time is blurred underground, and the fatigue is doubled, even I feel gradually breathless, and I can't wait to poke a piece of heaven above my head immediately.

The fat man was lying on the ground in a big zigzag shape, and I asked him to hand me the backpack, and he shook his head and said, "Just rest for a while." When we cut the queue back then, in order to go to the town to watch a play, the mountain road was a night away, what is this little road. ”

Shirley Young said, "It's the first time I've seen such a long Shinto, and I don't know if I can reach the best in the world." ”

Professor Li took out his work diary again and began to conscientiously record what he saw and heard along the way. Owen was probably the most energetic of us, and he had a good ability to recover, and he seemed to have recovered from the shock he had just received. He pulled a telescope out of his bag and took in the sight of the situation ahead. The fat man said, "What are you doing in the dark light?" Stop making a fuss. Wang Dashao said that this is the latest product of their factory, with low-light night vision, which is more advanced than infrared telescopes during the Vietnam War, and is expected to enter the mainstream market in the future. I said, "How dare you resell arms in your family?" ”

He said disdainfully: "Independent research and development, assembly line production, transportation, sales one-stop service." How much money can I make by reselling this year? Phew. ”

I said in my heart, no wonder the old Wang family is rich, and it turns out that there is such a hand behind the scenes. Then his acquaintance with Lin Fang must not be accidental, and the entanglement of interests between the two sides will not be as simple as just a tomb of King Qin.

Shirley Yang took the opportunity to take a break to check the injuries of the fat man and Professor Li, and took the opportunity to help them change the bandages and plasters.

"Take a proper rest and leave, people will rust after a long rest." Professor Li meticulously wrote the last few words and put the cap of the pen back, "The overall altitude of Niangniang Mountain is no more than two thousand meters, how big is the tomb?" No matter how long Shinto is, can it reach heaven? My old man is not afraid, what else do you young people have to worry about? ”

Owen scouted the situation ahead and came back and said, "I haven't found it yet. "We rehydrated and continued our journey. This time, Professor Li walked ahead with high spirits, saying that he wanted to set an example for us, but soon, his pace slowed down. Eventually, everyone had lost the strength to speak, and the whole team was surprisingly quiet, and if it weren't for the occasional glance or two, I could barely feel the presence of the others. This situation lasted for a long time, and my consciousness gradually became blurred, and I walked mechanically and repeatedly. I screamed in my heart countless times - stop and rest, stop and rest - but my body didn't listen to me at all. I even began to wonder if I had fallen for it.

The long silence was finally broken by the shouts of Shirley Young. She grabbed me, raised her arm and pointed to the watch on her wrist and said, "I haven't walked since just now." ”

I didn't understand what she meant, so she said, "When I was helping Professor Li to bandage his wound, I looked at the time by the way, it was five o'clock in the morning, and you can look at the time indicated by the current pointer." ”

The hour hand stopped at five o'clock.

"Did you fall?" The previous fight was very fierce, maybe it was broken at that time.

Shirley Yang shook her head, she turned around and asked Professor Li, who was following behind, what time it was, the old man didn't know what was going on, he looked down very happily and said, "It's only five o'clock, everyone is working hard, victory is just around the corner." ”

The fat man was puzzled: "Why is it only five o'clock?" I remember it was dawn when we came down. The watch is broken, right? ”

"Nonsense, my watch is a prize for the champion of the National Labor Skills Competition. I tune the time to the radio every day, and I can responsibly say that I can't miss a second. ”

"What do you mean, we've been underground all day? It's five o'clock in the afternoon. ”

"This, this ...... - Professor Li himself thought it was unlikely, he wondered, "No matter how long the Shinto Dao is, it can't take more than ten hours......-

"Even if there really was such a long Shinto, we wouldn't be able to go all the way to this point." Shirley Young put down his backpack and said, "Under normal walking conditions, the human limit is five hours. More than ten hours of travel, not to mention you, even we can't bear it. ”

After she finished speaking, everyone was silent, probably holding back their energy and thinking about why. The atmosphere of fear gradually rose and permeated the team, and when I saw that the development of the situation was wrong, I hurriedly coughed and enlightened everyone: "Starting from the theory of dialectical materialism, time will never stop, and the me in this second and me in the next second, it is completely different from me......-

As soon as I finished speaking, everyone stared at me in unison, as if waiting for the next step. I had to search my stomach for knowledge related to it, and finally came up with a set of arguments that I didn't even believe: "First of all, the watch is just an electronic device after all, and it is not accurate. As a timekeeping tool, it is not at all representative of time itself. We can even assume that something in the burial chamber is interfering with the proper functioning of electronic devices, which we have not encountered before. As for the Shinto that can't be walked out, it is likely that it is a trap carefully arranged by the designers of the tomb. Since ancient times, there have been many anti-theft methods, but there are no more than two kinds of subdivisions. Either play hard, arrange traps such as bows, halberds, flowing fire, yellow sand and stones in the tomb, and destroy the tomb robbers from the **; Either play yin, draw talismans and engrave spells, or even do not hesitate to raise ghosts and hide monsters, destroying the enemy on a spiritual level. ”

"And what are we?"

"Do you want to believe that time can stop, or do you want to believe that the length of this Shinto path is beyond the realm of common sense?"

Wang Qingzheng took the lead in speaking: "It must be the latter, the former has no scientific basis, and there is no eternal time in the world." ”

Shirley Young said, "If we have to say which is more likely, we can only assume that the problem lies with Shinto itself." I guess we've been here for more than two hours, but of course, it's not clear whether these two hours are real time or an illusion of the human body itself. We can go back now, or keep going to find out. The worst-case scenario is that the way back is also blocked, and you will be trapped here forever. The best case scenario is to find the end of the Shinto path and follow the lì to the main hall in tomb 2. ”

Professor Li took out his work diary, dipped it in a mouthful of spit, and opened it carefully to explain it for us: "You see, this is the pattern I recorded and extracted from the walls along the way, and so far, there has not been a single paragraph that has been repeated. This is good news, at least it shows that we are not going back, and we are not trapped in the same range. ”