The team was not walking fast, the big head was in front of me, silently following behind, and the two men kept looking left and right for a moment as they walked, making me mutter. More than a hundred meters from the entrance of the passage when the big head suddenly shouted: "It's here, stop!" ”

I was so startled by him that I almost cursed my swear words, but silently but with joy on my face, I walked to the big head, pointed to the top of the arched passage along the left and right stone walls, and through an inconspicuous gap at my feet, and said, "Yes, this must be the place where the two passages meet." ”

I finally suddenly realized that this time I was anxious, and I didn't think deeply about the change of the rotation guide road of the mechanism, which means that each passage of the stone chamber must have an outward hinge point, but the big head and the silence thought of it at the same time, which also means that no matter where the end of the road in front of us leads, we will wait at the hinge point near the side of the stone chamber, and at a fixed time, we will see that the outer passage will disappear in the rotation, and the other passage will be docked in.

This truth is not difficult, but in the panic of just thinking about running away quickly, it is indeed a relatively high emotional intelligence to be able to remember this. Professor Zhang looked straight at the gap and sighed: "This process is really meticulous. The disc, which is more than 200 meters in diameter, is almost perfectly docked. ”

Gao Tong scratched his head a little embarrassed, everyone knew what he thought, although he chose the birth gate in the direction, but if he continued to walk down this road, no one could say what would appear in front of him, and the chance of escaping was not great, but staying here and waiting was not a way after all. The silent speaker on the side reminded: "It's not sure whether the mechanism has changed according to our imagination, and it is too late to think of a way after seeing the law of rotation clearly." ”

The others didn't have a better idea, and if the previous conjecture of the mechanism's activity was confirmed, the stone chamber in the center and the eight surrounding paths should rotate once in the next hour, docking on the other passage, and only one of them would lead to the outside world. In this way, the path we took when we came in would theoretically appear again in twenty-four hours as long as we waited here.

In ancient China, there was no concept of 24 hours, the hour is to evenly divide the day into 12 equal parts, roughly to measure the projection of the sun to calculate, the special tool for measuring the shadow of the sun, such as the sundial has appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the node of each hour may have a second error, but the next hour will be corrected according to the shadow, the time of the whole day will not change, thousands of years of look, that is a natural clock that will not make mistakes.

Every hour is two hours, and in a few dozen minutes it will be five o'clock in the afternoon, which is the intersection of Shen time and unitary time, everyone is waiting anxiously on the inside of the articulation point, time is tense and difficult, in the last few minutes, Gao Tong's eyes stared at his watch without blinking, and he muttered in his mouth counting down the seconds, and his voice trembled slightly, "The hour has come." ”

The heart hung in an instant, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out, and there was no sound around him. After a few seconds, he silently pointed to the crack in the stone wall and exclaimed softly, "Look, it's really starting to move." ”

Several pairs of eyes stared at the same time, and a slight "squeak" sound came, seeing the road in front of me slowly move to the left and stagger away, although I knew that it was the mechanism of the mechanism, but the shock and shock still made my legs and feet weak. As the speed increased, my feet began to tremble slightly, and I knew that this was the outermost edge of the circular trajectory, and the speed of movement was relatively fastest, which I would not have felt if I had been in the stone room.

Gao Tong said in a low voice: "It's in a clockwise direction, and this rotation speed will complete the docking within a minute." ”

The crowd stopped talking, and saw the passage in front of them disappear and turn into a stone wall, and the stone wall moved to the left, and an identical passage slowly revealed itself on the right hand side. At the threshold of concentration, a soft "click" was heard in his ears, but his feet suddenly sank downward, and there was no focus point, and the six people fell to the ground in an almost simultaneous exclamation.

Then there is the feeling of hitting the slide, the angle is very steep, I just feel that the sky is spinning, people lying on the ground and rushing straight down at a fast speed, only a dozen seconds of effort, the body seems to be spinning in the spinning top successively made a few turns, and then fell flat from a high place to the ground, the bones of the body fell almost apart, the head also knocked hard, the helmet wearing a miner's lamp was thrown out and hung on the neck, although the miner's lamp was on, but the dizziness of the seven meat and eight elements still made me blurry and unable to see the surroundings, No matter how hard you struggle, you can't get up.

He simply closed his eyes and endured the pain in his body motionlessly, and gradually noticed that the wheezing of different lengths next to him was mixed with a few coughs, and he felt a little relieved. After a while, I opened my eyes, only to feel that the light was a little dazzling, slowly got up and sat firmly, fumbled to put on the helmet hanging around my neck, and heard the voice of the big head behind me asking, "There are no accidents, right?" ”

I hurriedly agreed, stood up and turned my head to look around, there were six people, but one fell worse than the other, Chen Xu probably broke his nose, and he couldn't care about wiping the blood on his face, he stood up and looked around, puzzled, and muttered to himself: "What is this place?" ”

It is a blessing in misfortune that people are okay for the time being, I saw that my silent pale face was a little distressed, and I hurriedly took two steps forward to pull her up, and then I looked around. Although the light of the miner's lamp is not far away, it can be seen that the front is empty, like a huge palace-like structure, and the thick stone pillars that a few people can hold over are densely packed in between, and the bronze chains are enough to be the thickness of the thighs, and they are wound around the top of the high head, which looks delicate and complex, but behind it is a polished and smooth stone wall. The person next to me silently helped me to stand up straight, looked up, and said breathlessly: "The flap that knocked us off has been reset, and the layout here is not good, it is the secret room of the mechanism." ”

Gao Tong pointed forward, "Let's go over and take a look, the mechanism hub may be in the center of the front, and it is facing the stone chamber." ”

Everyone moved their hands and feet, and it seemed that there was no big problem, Chen Xu was about to support Professor Zhang, but Professor Zhang waved his hand and said: "I have nothing to do, let's go, I have found the law of the mechanism, and it is not difficult to solve the dilemma in front of me." ”

I said in my heart that it may not be that simple, even if I completely understand this complex mechanism, it is easy to fall from it and want to climb back again, but it will be difficult, I secretly feel that there is little hope, and I can't help but start to think of the worst place, this is going to be trapped here, even a woman has not been seriously touched too wrong, if everyone has to die, I must pull silently, it is considered to be a dark marriage for myself.