Chapter 41: The Crystal Dragon Palace
But if Magellan had seen visions that were hard to distinguish between truth and falsehood, the "sun" would not have been able to protect him, because it would not involve the soul or spirit. If Magellan's eyes see something different from what he receives in his brain, the "sun" can work, but if the two are the same, but what the eyes see is false, then the "sun" can't do anything.www.biquge.info
If you think about it, the crisis that made Magellan ring the bell twice, all because he saw something. He had never touched anything since he first entered the water, not even the schools of fish that always slipped past him, the glowing orbs that he hadn't had time to touch, and it seemed to make sense if it was all an illusion and there was no entity that could be touched.
When a person has a preconceived opinion, he unconsciously ignores the evidence that does not conform to this view, and becomes sensitive to favorable evidence, as is the case with Magellan today.
He still remembers very clearly the impressive four-colored fish in the light, and even in the water, the bone texture can be clearly distinguished. Fish that live in the water have a very smooth surface of their scales, and that's not all, the skin of the fish always secretes a kind of mucus, and at all times, the surface of the fish is always smooth and shiny. And if the skin of a fish is an exoskeleton of the texture that Magellan saw, it will have difficulty moving due to friction and will fall into the mouth of the predator.
Magellan didn't dwell too much on whether this guess was correct, he took it as an established fact that everything underwater was an illusion, so the next question was, what did the mage lord who designed this illusion want to do?
The presence of the key may mean that the Mage Lord wants the vault to be opened, but it could also be the opposite.
The trouble is that Magellan knew very little about mage lords.
He thought about it, and finally decided to try the countess's train of thought first.
There's a space connected to it, maybe that's where the Mage Lord built the vault.
Magellan continued on his way, and after a long time, he finally felt a current. It shouldn't be an illusion, at least Magellan didn't know anything that could create a false sense of touch.
He continued on his way and finally reached the border.
As if sinking from the surface of the water to the bottom, Magellan passed through a barrier hidden in the darkness and saw a gate behind it.
It was a magnificent building, with a round hole in the middle, and other than that, there was only a red door, and there were no postposts and lintel thresholds, only a large rectangular door.
Magellan looked around at the bright surroundings, but could not find the light source, and he went up to touch the door, only to find his hand through the panel—there was nothing.
He wasn't so surprised, but still surprised.
This gate is a very obvious clue, whether it is a trap or not.
Magellan thought about it and had a guess that everything under the water was divided into four colors, and maybe such a gate would also have four.
He turned to leave, thought for a moment, and spat out the key in his mouth.
However, the fiery little fish was suspended in the water, just looking at Magellan with the eyes of a dead fish, and nothing happened.
Magellan took great difficulty to get the fish back into his mouth, for which he drank a lot of water.
With the glowing ball as the center, Magellan headed for the next gate.
It was a particularly difficult time - Magellan spent a while in a place where there was light, and the darkness became unbearable.
But eventually, he saw the next door.
It was a huge building on a par with the red gate just now, with a yellow door panel, and a round hole in the center, with three notches at the edges, dividing the circle into three equal parts, one notched at the top and two below.
The key still didn't react to the door, but confirming his guess, Magellan was not disappointed, and he went straight to the next door.
In front of the third gate, Magellan felt that he had found something very important.
In the green gate, there is a hole, which is a fusiform, and under the fusiform, there is an additional notch.
Magellan finally figured out what the round holes in the front two gates were, and he spat out the small fiery red fish, watched it swing its tail nimbly, and swam towards the gate.
From the back, the cross-section of the fish is exactly the shape of the hole in the gate. The cross-section of this small fish at its widest point is a standard fusiform, with no dorsal fin, but a fin sticking out of its abdomen, which looks very unique, just in the shape of the notch.
The little fish happily scurried into the gate, and then the gate fell apart in silence, leaving a small yellow fish on the collapsed green ruins.
The little fish circled around Magellan twice and swam outside, and Magellan hastened to follow.
The little fish swam in front and Magellan chased after him, and he never lost it, because the little fish can glow in the dark, like a signal light.
It didn't take long for Magellan to see the fourth gate, which he hadn't yet gone to find.
This time, the hole in the gate was different, it was an upright oval, and a gap in the top was thin and long.
Unsurprisingly, that's exactly the cross-section of a small fish. The scene just now reappeared, this time it was a small green fish, thin and long, not as lively as the last small fish, it looked very leisurely, but the speed of swimming was not bad at all.
I walked through the four gates one by one, and eventually, a small white fish with only a tail fin swam into the hole in the red gate, and then something happened.
Magellan heard a strange sound, like the sound of the water being blocked by a dam and slowing down, and like a carriage going away, and the sound of horses' hooves gradually dissipating.
Then Magellan saw that among the ruins of the red gate, a splendid structure of complete transparency appeared.
It was as if the water had frozen into ice, and although it was transparent, it could be distinguished, and in the light that came from nowhere, a palace made of ice gradually emerged.
It was an Araffian-style building with four minarets and an ornate dome, like a temple or palace, with the gates open to Magellan, and inside were two rows of strange creatures, like elaborate ice sculptures, dazzling.
Magellan saw the small white fish swimming into the palace and quickly followed.
He walked through the ornate vestibule, up the transparent steps, and finally stopped at the top of a minaret.
This is the one behind the left of the four minarets in the four corners of the palace, from which you can overlook the whole palace, and a statue on the ornate spire is clearly visible not far away, with exquisite lines and transparent texture, beautiful.