Chapter Twenty-Seven: Ingenuity
The day after I came out of the secret room, the demolition work of the secret room continued.
Yesterday afternoon, a total of 287 people came out of the secret room, and almost half of them still did not come out.
As a result, the excavation of the second layer has already begun before the first layer has been excavated. However, since the material of the second layer is much better than the first, the excavation work is difficult.
In addition, the ground on the second floor moves, and it's very scary to move. Sometimes, when it was a large area of ground, it suddenly separates from the middle, leaking out a bottomless hole.
In this situation, some ordinary people had to withdraw from the demolition project. They don't have enough cultivation, and once they encounter this kind of incident, they are likely to die if they are not careful.
As a result, as the demolition project continued, more and more ordinary people withdrew. In addition, the first layer has already been affected, possibly due to the destruction of the structure. Those people on the first layer also had to withdraw ordinary people.
Flame Star City is still mostly ordinary people, so the progress of the excavation work is much slower this time. However, because there are many people who are still excavating, you can't feel any change just by looking at it.
As the excavation work progressed, the actual appearance of the second layer of the maze gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes. And the way it works surprised Yueli.
This second layer really does everything that moves.
The first is its stainless steel floor, which is spliced together from one piece after another, unlike the whole piece that others think, and each piece is independent, can be moved freely, and then combined to other places. And after the reorganization, the right course became the wrong one.
Seeing this, Yueli understood why they couldn't get out of so many ways. Their approach works, but when the starting point shifts, nothing makes sense.
After seeing the starting point, everyone will think that they have come full circle, but in fact, the location of this starting point is not the same as it was at the beginning. They may not have turned back at all, but the starting point found them.
The second is the wall that goes with it, that is, when the ground is about to be moved, the surrounding wall will become an enclosed space by moving. People trapped inside will think that there is no way out, rather than thinking that the ground is moving.
This kind of design is already a dead end for ordinary people, and for people like Yueli who don't take the usual path, it's almost a dead end.
The ground moves very fast, and it is possible to change direction before the wall is broken. Let's put it this way, maybe before and after the breakdown, there are two different places across the wall.
So, when they think they are on the right path, they are actually on the wrong path.
The maze changes rapidly, and there is bound to be a lot of movement, but the people in the maze basically can't feel it, which has to mention another clever idea of the designer.
In fact, they can always feel the movement of the ground. When they entered the second floor, there was actually a slight vibration under their feet.
It's smart and clever in this place, and movement is inevitable, so just let it be there all the time.
If the vibration is not strong and does not affect normal activities, it is easy to be ignored. In addition, there are many organs in this place, so it is normal for someone to touch the mechanism and cause some movement. As for the sound of machinery turning, there are so many mechanisms, and it is not normal to have no sound.
In short, everyone is deceived by their senses. Because it has always existed, it will assume that this is a normal situation and ignore the crisis hidden behind it.
This whole labyrinth makes very good use of this.
However, if you don't have a little shock absorption, you can't fool people.
Yueli tried it on a small area of the second floor that had been demolished, and found that the vibration was much more pronounced there. In the unexcavated area, the tremor was felt much less.
After investigation, it was the wall above it that absorbs the shock of the ground. While acting as a mechanism, the wall also presses down on the ground, reducing vibration.
Moreover, if the ground also moves when the wall moves, then the person concerned will largely feel that the vibration caused by the movement of the wall can be "understood".
Now, there is another problem plaguing Yueli, that is, with the building above, the pressure on the ground on the second floor is very high. And how on earth does something so heavy move so fast?
The answer to this question has gradually become clear as the excavation work progresses.
Five days later, the middle of the second floor of the building remained, and the first floor had been dug up. So far, there are only thirty-four ordinary humans left who have not been found, the kind that has not seen people alive or dead.
In order to find them, the excavation work has not stopped. The unexcavated area is still large enough for everyone to hope for it.
Two days later, there was an accident in the excavation. A member of a construction team located in the east struck a pickaxe on the mountain in front of him, and the mountain actually cracked, which was beyond the man's common sense. An ordinary pickaxe wouldn't have such a strong force, would it?
Before he could react, the mountain in front of him began to collapse rapidly. This change is like causing a chain reaction, starting from him, the mountain collapses more and more places, and the movement is getting bigger and bigger.
When the mountain collapsed, the construction team heard the sound of "clanging", and clearly felt that the ground where they were located felt a strong tremor. Even the ground in the distance was shaking.
"Withdraw, everybody, get out!
With this sound, the people who were digging scattered in all directions. They evacuated in an orderly manner and without interference, so the evacuation was completed quickly.
At this time, the surrounding mountain that was supposed to be dug was completely gone, and the sound of the impact was gone, replaced by the unusually obvious sound of gears turning. There were also some "woo-woo" sounds, which were strange sounds that someone had heard before, which were made by some contraption that they had never seen before.
At this point, everyone saw a very strange building.
In the place of the original mountain, something resembling the top of the tower appeared. From a distance, the place also has the obvious outline of a tower, which should be a tower.
However, around it, there are a large number of arm-like buildings, connected to pieces of ground. They are movable, which is why the ground can be moved.
And the reason for the fast movement has also been found, the bottom of this layer is empty, and there are multiple "arms" in each place to pull, and the force is enough and there is no bottom friction, so it is natural to move quickly.
Now, everyone is thinking about the question: what the hell is this?