I can't explain the presence of this fog here, but I'm not overly alarmed, I've seen similar situations last time we came, but why the cave above is also filled with white mist, it caught my attention.

I thought about it carefully, this thief hole from the beginning to the end, there may be a few forks in the middle and a halfway exit. It's very likely that these exits all lead to the interior of the dungeon, pointing to different locations in it, although there must be some kind of purpose in it, but I didn't care too much, they shouldn't be the source of these white fogs, plus we originally came from the entrance of the thief cave, and we didn't find anything unusual there, so I guess these white fogs should come from the end of this thief cave, it seems that there is the key.

However, this was only my speculation, I looked up and saw that the hole we had just fallen down was still quite a part away from us, and at this time we did not have an effective tool such as steel claws in our hands, and it was extremely difficult to return to the original thief hole.

Lantern Xiao squatted down and motioned for me to step on his shoulder, "Come, I'll go up on you!" ”

I waved my hand and disagreed with the proposal, "I'm going up, what are you going to do?" Forget it," I sighed, and continued, "Let's go down there, it's not necessarily safe to go up anyway, and it's not necessarily dangerous to go down there." ”

"But," Lantern Xiao said with some embarrassment: "You also know that the current division and layout of this dungeon is mysterious, similar to the bronze coffin array, I'm afraid we won't find the direction!" ”

I was a little discouraged, and it was. I squatted down and shone a flashlight on the ground, and Lantern Xiao asked curiously, "Zhuo Ran, what are you looking for?" ”

I smiled wryly and said, "I'm looking for a scorpion!" "I looked down and saw a dark red on one of my hands, I used a flashlight to find that a piece of skin was rubbed off the back of my right hand, just now I was highly nervous, I didn't pay attention, at this time after seeing it, I felt that the wound had a numb and painful feeling, maybe it was injured when it just fell.

After Lantern Xiao saw it, he took out a bandage to help me bandage it, "I relied on those scorpions to find my way out last time, I don't know if I have such good luck this time." ”

To be honest, I don't know where the last time the starry swarm of mountain scorpions came from, or why they suddenly appeared on a large scale. I don't have the confidence to repeat the last coincidence.

Lantern Xiao and I looked around blankly, and had no confidence in the road ahead. The last resort I can think of is that one of the Lantern Festival and I will go back to the entrance along the thief hole above, and then go out for help. But those who stay here and wait will face a terrible time of solitude.

Just when I was already a little about giving up, Lantern Xiao suddenly pointed in a direction and said, "Zhuo Ran, look, is there any light in that direction?" ”

My heart was shocked, I raised my head suddenly, and looked in the direction that Lantern Xiao was pointing, and sure enough, in the depths of darkness, there was indeed a little dim light. I waved my hand at the Lantern Festival, "Let's go, go over and have a look!" ”

Lantern Xiao grabbed me, "Zhuo Ran, you are calm, can you pass so rashly?" ”

The words of the Lantern Festival made me stunned. I was suddenly stunned, not only because Lantern Festival reminded me that there might be danger ahead, but also because Lantern Festival was actually reminding me not to venture forward. It was always what I reminded him of, and now it's used against me. Thinking of this, my heart suddenly fluttered. The reason for this is not because I was reminded of this by the Lantern Festival, but because I noticed some changes in myself.

Ever since I was offering to the temple at the ruins of the 100,000 Great Mountains and the Underworld, I found it a little difficult to control my emotions. Including the mind that I was easily confused by the white fog in the cave earlier, although just like the analysis of the Lantern Festival, there may be a part of the sound, but I think it is my own reason that accounts for a greater proportion. In any case, the Lantern Festival was much less affected than me.

Growing up, I felt that I was a quiet and emotionally stable person, and I didn't understand why I had changed like this, especially after I found the light just now, and I didn't think about preparing to leave immediately, which would never have happened before. From this, I can preliminarily conclude that there is a change in my personality that I am not aware of.

Compared with the danger of my surroundings, this change in myself is the one that makes me feel the most uneasy.

Seeing that he was standing in place and was stunned, Lantern Xiao patted me, "Zhuo Ran, why are you stunned, speak!" ”

I came to my senses, shook my head gently, and said, "It's nothing, I'm distracted, Lantern Festival, what do you say should I do?" ”

When Lantern Xiao heard me ask, he was slightly stunned for a moment, and then said: "If you want me to say, it's okay to go over, but we'd better mark it, so that even if it doesn't work there, we can still go back, at least we can find this exit." ”

I nodded in agreement, and the two of us carved markers along the way with our short knives as we headed in the direction where the light appeared.

For this kind of labyrinthine mechanism that exists in underground tombs or other ruins, whether it is the dungeon here or the bronze coffin array of Qilian Mountain, they themselves are not particularly complicated, and the mystery lies in the fact that in this special environment underground, there is no reference to the darkness around, so once someone is deeply trapped in it, the most fatal thing is not the route of the labyrinth, but the loss of directionality of the person himself. It's like when we were in the bronze coffin array, we kept going around in circles without knowing it, and even if we knew it, we couldn't break through.

This situation seems very mysterious, but in fact it has its own principles, and we can find similar examples in our ordinary lives, such as one of my university teachers, who was once deeply affected by it and almost died. Speaking of which, my teacher was also a veteran of hiking in the wilderness, but after a very ordinary walk up the mountain one weekend, he lost contact.

At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, and when they knew that he didn't come back to class on Monday, everyone realized that something was wrong. So I quickly called the police and contacted the rescue team to go up the mountain to find it.

Four days later, his traces were finally found. By the time they found him, he was unconscious. Thankfully, my teacher was rescued and out of danger. He himself woke up with a lot of emotion, he never imagined that he, a hiker who had once hiked through the rainforest alone, would almost collapse in a barren mountain in the western suburbs.

My teacher described the situation to us, and after his own recollection, he found that he lost his way mainly for two reasons: first, the large area where he was at that time was flat and empty, without a single tree, and surrounded by wild grass that was more than one person high. As he walked inside, he could only see the grass around him and the small sky overhead, and couldn't see anywhere else. Second, those days were all cloudy, and there were no references in the sky except for clouds. It was these two reasons that made him lose his direction and keep going around in circles, stuck in it and unable to get out.

Originally, he didn't realize this problem, but by the time he found out, it was too late, and as his energy and physical strength decreased, his brain's ability to distinguish became lower, and the possibility of getting out of trouble became smaller.

This is completely different from his traversal in the rainforest, where the situation is complicated, but the shapes of the objects that can be referred to around it are very different, and it is not easy to confuse, even if you can't discern the correct direction, you can avoid going around in circles. But the weeds are different.

We are in the same situation now, where darkness obstructs our vision, and we cannot determine a valid reference, so we can only use enough marks as our own reference standard when we are physically and mentally clear.

I was getting closer and closer to the light of the Lantern Festival, and at the same time, I noticed that the white mist began to get lighter and lighter.

Gradually, I noticed that a huge black shadow appeared not far from us, and my heart couldn't help but move. I knew very well what this black shadow was, and when we came, the tower and the gate that were half-embedded in the ground gave us a great shock.

At this time, I was also surprised to find that the lamp that had been guiding us all the time seemed to be hanging above the castle tower. Lantern Xiao also found out about this situation, so he stopped and said a little nervously: "I didn't expect that the location of the city tower over there?" Is it possible that the light was lit by your second uncle? ”

I shook my head, "I think it's possible, that is the core of this place, last time I heard Ma Jun say, the second uncle has been paying attention to the changes here, if my second uncle comes in this time, I think he will definitely go there!" ”

"Well, that makes sense." Lantern Xiao looked at me and asked, "Then let's move on?" ”

I nodded heavily, "Let's go!" ”

Nearly half an hour later, Lantern Xiao and I came to the front of the city tower. I looked up at the tower, where the dim lantern still hung at the top of the tower. In such an environment, such a scene suddenly made me feel a chill in my back.

To my surprise, in addition to the dim lantern, I saw a figure standing nearby.

I took two steps to the bottom of the tower, pointed to the figure above and said, "That seems to be my second uncle!" I was about to open my mouth to shout, but Lantern Xiao hurriedly came up and pulled me, "Hey, do you see clearly?" Is it your second uncle? Don't be a rice dumpling! ”

I waved my hand again and again, "It's impossible, something like zongzi has a stiff torso that causes the body to straighten." Look at the person above, the standing posture of the hanger, at first glance, it is my second uncle! ”