As soon as the time went back and forth, the mechanism spun and moved again, and I took out my phone from my body and saw that it was exactly nine o'clock in the evening. I thought to myself, this time it is a bit interesting, the six people are like elves in Lilliputian, trapped alive in an ancient clock, it sounds like a fairy tale, but it is not beautiful at all, and the surroundings are full of unknown weirdness and danger, which makes people cry and laugh.

I didn't eat at night and tossed, I couldn't use any strength, and as soon as I sat down on the ground, I suddenly felt that hope became more and more incomparably slim. "There's always a way," said the big head, who never gave up, as he looked around, "If the wheel pushed by the water stops, it can climb down the wheel into the water below, but I don't know where to escape in the direction of the current." ”

Gao Tong had been frowning, and shook his head after listening to the words of the big head, "This water pushes the wheel with great force, even if it is forced to stop, there will definitely be no place for anyone to get through if it barely climbs down." The principle of the mechanism in front of us is to bring in groundwater with a culvert as a thrust, and the water flow does not need to be large, and the size of the culvert is not designed to be as thick as a person. However, you can try to tie the rope down the water cup and hang down to the gap on the side of the runner to get water, at least to solve our drinking water problem first. ”

I'm a little depressed, it seems that Gao Tong really can't think of any good ideas, he has plans to let everyone stay here permanently. Sure enough, Gao Tong turned his head and discussed with Professor Zhang: "In this case, it may be the best idea to save your body and wait for rescue." ”

Encounter the danger of dilemma, do not blindly wait for rescue is common sense, so late we have not returned to the outside of the cliff, the people on the cliff must have begun to try to search and rescue, thinking of this I am a little relieved, as long as someone comes in from the hanging coffin cave, can only follow the route we have walked again, should find the passage of the upper stone chamber changes, and then it is possible to find the six of us trapped in the lower layer.

For the current situation, this is a helpless solution, Professor Zhang nodded impatiently, and no one else raised any objections, such a decision to sit back and wait is in line with my character. Then everyone poured water from the crack in the wheel, the water was pure, and the entrance was clear, but no one admired it, and it was unnecessary to stay in such an environment and force yourself to enjoy life.

Gao Tong asked everyone to leave only one of the miner's lamps to light up, and the rest were extinguished, and this time everyone also brought an emergency backup flashlight, so there was no need to worry about all the light sources running out of power for the time being. Now there is nothing to eat, the water can be drunk casually, and there is no need for too many admonitions from Gao Tong, anyway, everyone understands that the next step is to adopt a way to minimize the consumption of the bear hibernation, and how long can it last.

There is a pair of chats without a pair, in fact, really calm down and think about it, as long as the people above are attentive enough, the possibility of finding us is still very large, and now to try indiscriminately will make the mistake of us falling down again, in the face of the wisdom far beyond our predecessors, who knows if there is a hidden second or even third mechanism?

It was already late, and everyone simply lay down one by one, so hungry that they couldn't sleep, so they poured a few more mouthfuls of water, and as soon as I closed my eyes and my head was dangling with that strange pattern, I simply sat up and smoked a cigarette. The mechanism roared again, and we didn't feel anything in the middle, and I knew it was eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.

Sleepiness suppressed hunger, and I slowly fell asleep in a daze. In my sleep, the pattern also spun like a mechanism, and the abstract pattern gradually distorted into a sinister man's face, with no hair on his lowered head, and his eyes, mouth, and nose were blurred, and he couldn't see who it was, and he dared to reach out and touch it lightly, but in an instant it turned into a hideous and terrifying grimace, and his body flew towards me lightly, and I couldn't push it with all my strength, and I turned around and ran far away, and then turned around and the face was still behind me.

I was so frightened that I sat up all of a sudden, and in the middle of the haze there was a wit, but the face became clear, and I shook my unusually heavy head, and at that moment, I vaguely felt that the face was extremely familiar, and as soon as my eyes opened, there was darkness around me, and the residual impression in my mind began to blur again.

I took a few breaths, the nightmare just now scared me into a layer of sweat, the rumbling sound of the mechanism in my ears gradually stopped, I opened the phone and saw that it was five o'clock in the morning, with the faint light of the miner's lamp left by Gao Tong last night, I touched the water cup and drank a few sips, choked and coughed a few times, and said that this was too much mental pressure, and I didn't dare to think about anything when I lay down again, and concentrated on slowly starting to count the sheep, one, two...... Breathing and heartbeat flatten down little by little.

I didn't feel like I had slept for long, I was always half-asleep and half-awake and couldn't sleep steadily, I heard Gao Tong and Professor Zhang talking in a daze, I sat up dizzily, and I was getting more and more hungry, and I heard Gao Tong's low voice in my ears and said, "It doesn't make sense, it's already more than seven o'clock." ”

I don't know what they were discussing, I staggered up and walked to the two of them, Gao Tong glanced at me, then turned to Professor Zhang and said, "The runner powered by the flowing water has been rotating, and it is impossible for the mechanism to stop when it stops, what is going on?" ”

The voices of the two people became louder, and the people who woke up got up one after another, and came close to the front with sleepy eyes, Gao Tong pointed to the bronze gear in the middle and said to everyone in confusion: "Every two hours, that is, an hour, it should be rotated, but now it is 7:30, and this mechanism has not been activated." ”

Everyone was a little confused, since we entered the octagonal stone room, it has been nearly twenty hours now, and the starting time of each time has been very accurate, and the re-docking of the passage has become a fixed rule in a minute or two, and the huge clock has stopped inexplicably after sleeping all night.

Gao Tong circled around the mechanism alone, didn't see anything, paused, and leaned into the center of the mechanism. The five of us lit the miner's lamp and followed the crowd, pondering for a while, without speaking, and climbing the bronze chain into the hub of the mechanism.

From the outside, you can only see the neck and head exposed by the big head and Gao Tong, the two of them looked left and right as if they were losing something, the big head turned to look down for a long time, and suddenly shouted at the top of his voice: "This is fucking wrong, who turned the self-destruct device you said yesterday?" ”