Chapter 311: Spiral Dead End (2)
It's hard to describe this situation in words, after all, this is a physical building structure, not a painting on a drawing paper. You know, even in the modern city where construction machinery is flying, there is no building process that can create such a passage, and it is necessary to meticulously write gold lacquer characters on the four walls of the passage.
The five-meter passage in front of it is so narrow that even adults can't get through, how to write talismans?
"Unless it's—" I remembered the magic dust cover commonly used on fully automatic camera lenses, a plastic structure made up of six uniform sheets that, when retracted, were retracted in turn, like the petals of a flower closing in the evening. Eventually, the sheets are stacked on top of each other to perfectly protect the lens.
I think that the design of the passage in front of me is similar to the dust cover, which should be hoisted and assembled by large machinery after the prefabrication is completed, and then made like this.
"What's the point of doing that?" is the most puzzling question.
Human beings are the most intelligent and advanced animals on the earth, and any kind of construction behavior is carried out with a certain purpose. Temples were built for worship, cages for thought, tall buildings for dwelling, and large pots for water...... I can cite many of the same examples, according to the principle of "existence is reasonable", every kind of building has its normal use.
When I entered the passage, I could not have imagined that at the end of the exploration, I would actually burrow into a dead-end pipe that narrowed infinitely until it closed.
In desperation, I clenched my fists and slammed three times on the right wall.
Only in this way can we vent our helpless resentment.
I held back to keep myself from swearing a barrage of swear words, which led to an emotional breakdown.
"It seems that it can only ...... Withdrawn, nothing can be done here. I whispered in frustration.
In this structure, it is easy to crawl forward, but it is very difficult to change to crawl backwards.
I had just taken three steps back, and there was an echo on the stone wall.
"Five sounds, I only punched three punches?" I couldn't help but be stunned.
Next, the "knock" sound sounded again, this time it was a dozen or so in a row.
Confused and excited, I immediately put down my flashlight and slammed my fists into the right wall.
This kind of wall-smashing communication is a communication signal between people, and the "knock" sound is the other party's response to me, so that it can prove that at this moment, there are people not far away who are in the same predicament as me.
"Tianshi, I heard someone smashing the wall, how can there be such a sound in such a deep underground? I often have auditory hallucinations in my ears now, as if I can always hear you calling me. I wish you were the one who smashed the wall, and you could break all the barriers, suddenly appear in front of me, and then hug me hard......"
I heard Tang Wan's voice again, right here - that voice should be directly ahead.
Within the field of vision, there were only four ends of the entanglement and convergence of the four runes in front of him, and there were no passages, cracks, holes, or the like at all.
According to common sense, the stone wall is isolated from everything, whether it is sound or telephone communication signals, but Tang Wan's voice really appears here.
I looked around with my eyes wide open, but I couldn't find the source of the sound.
"It must be auditory hallucinations, I'm having auditory hallucinations too......" I was desperate and frustrated, stopped smashing the wall, and lay on the ground weakly.
Rescuers have said that when people are trapped in a narrow and dark space, they are prone to visual and auditory hallucinations, which are determined by the physiological structure of human vision and hearing, just like the sound of ocean waves can be heard by holding a conch to the ear. What the trapped person sees and hears is only the feedback of his own inner world, although he feels real, but to put it bluntly, it is all an illusion.
I pulled myself together and moved forward again, to the point where my shoulder was stuck.
Because this passage is circular, the shoulder is stuck, and it is already the limit of progress.
I twisted my body desperately, and my right arm, which was holding the flashlight, reached to the point where the talismans met.
Subconsciously, I felt that it was the closing point that separated me from Tang Wan. If you tap there, Tang Wan might be able to hear it more clearly.
Of course, everything is groundless speculation, and her voice may have nothing to do with my smashing of the wall and the sound of the knock, but it just happened to be born at the same time.
I tried my best, but the range from the top of the flashlight was only less than a foot from the last time.
"God, what the hell are you going to torture me? ...... How long will I be playing?" I grunted and gave up my efforts, my arms hanging down, and my back was already sweating.
Now, I don't have anyone to trust, neither Red Sleeves nor Bing'er, and even Chengbi seems to be more and more estranged from me.
"Withdraw, withdraw. I whispered to myself.
Before retreating for the second time, I took out my phone and filmed the strange situation of the four talismans converging with the help of a flashlight beam.
It took a lot of effort for me to retreat to a position where I could stand up and bend over and walk, and then I got up exhausted and walked back slowly.
Once I got out of that complicated predicament, my mind slowly cleared.
"The construction of cities is changing with each passing day, and that is visible to the human eye. The change in the surface will also inevitably cause the settlement, uplift, extrusion, and displacement of the underground buildings, so that the passage that has just been seen gradually shrinks and is finally squeezed and closed. Jinan is located in the 'Great Earthquake Zone' predicted by national geologists, and the soil structure of the underground soil does not change all the time, so there is no need to be overly surprised that there is any strange form of deconstruction. Regardless of how it came to be, I just need to know where it leads, but no, I can follow its course and confirm what is on the opposite side of it on the map...... "Thinking about this, my mind suddenly became clear.
Actually, I don't agree with explorers brute-force breakthroughs, because that would destroy the good things left over from history.
For example, now, if the demoman under the command of the Red Sleeves is still there, he will definitely be eager to try, and he will use explosives to open the way, people block people, and Buddha blocks **, and he has been blowing up the world.
That's a shameless tactic that only demolition teams can use, and if this method is rampant, all our cities will probably be in ruins and pits in a few years, and the foundation of a hundred years will be gone.
You must know that all buildings on the ground are based on the earth, foundation, and soil, and once the underground structure is loosened, then even the "tallest building in the green space" on the Communist Youth League Road will fall down in an instant, becoming a "day of shame" in the history of architecture.
The golden lacquer talisman is everywhere, always drawing my eyes.
"These large thin gold characters must be meaningful, whether for sealing or warning, they should not be destroyed until a wise man can explain their meaning. "I'm even more troubled by this, after all, now that the beggar camp is scattered, no one is qualified to do an in-depth and detailed study of this.
In the distance, Bing'er waved vigorously at me.
As I got closer, I saw that she was always standing outside the point of the spiral change, refusing to cross the line even slightly. From this point alone, she has always put the boundary between danger and safety first, which is equivalent to putting personal safety first. Even though Red Sleeves had entrusted her to me, she was not willing to put herself in danger for my sake.
"Thank goodness you're finally back!" she said, beaming with joy.
When I crossed the safety line, she reached out her hands and grabbed my arms tightly.
"There's no danger ahead, of course I have to come back. I said lightly.
"Go back, talk as you go. She breathed a sigh of relief.
On the way, we exchanged photos on our phones. When she saw the situation at the intersection of the talismans, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in surprise.
"What? what do you think?" I asked.
"The Earth's magnetic field determines that the water in the pool rotates wonderfully when it flows outward through the pipes, which is another manifestation of the change in the magnetic field and the flow of water, but the vertical flow becomes horizontal. Mr. Xia, this is very unusual, and you see, the four talismans represent a kind of flow, in addition to the gold lacquer thin gold characters we see, there may be some things that cannot be seen on the surface are moving in this direction. She replied cautiously.
At this time, we were stepping on the talisman under our feet.
As she said this, she suddenly jerked and jumped to the side, far away from the big words on the ground.
I understood what she was saying, and it was clear that before the chamber was blown up, the huge invisible suction force could have been what Bing'er was talking about.
"Well, you have a point. I nodded.
Bing'er slowly stopped and turned to look at me.
"What are you going to say?" I looked at her.
Her expression was extremely serious, like a sculpture: "Mr. Xia, we may be able to try to trace back to the roots—why are we here? Why are other people here? If the answer is to open the back door to the Mirror Room, if everyone is for a strange Western mural, then now we can stop all actions, because the mural is already in hand, and there is no way forward, and there is no way to reach the Mirror Room." All of us quit until we unlock the secret of the talisman and come back again, and that's the right choice. The environment underneath is so complex that all those who come down are lost in it, and become headless flies, flying around. Mr. Xia, I don't want to become a fly, I just want to solve the problem seriously and efficiently, what about you?"
The biggest difference between humans and animals is that they can think and make tools to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
As far as I am concerned, if I hadn't accidentally heard Tang Wan's voice, I would have already exited the underground passage at this moment.
So, I immediately nodded to Bing'er: "I agree with you, let's go back to the ground first." ”
Next, we silently walked side by side, back outside the bombed-out chamber.
From beginning to end, I didn't ask about "dripping blood to recognize relatives", and Bing'er didn't take the initiative to explain.
Now, Elder Red Sleeve Zhao and Elder Wen still stayed in place, but changed from a standing position to a cross-legged sitting position.
Seeing that the red sleeves were safe and sound, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
We walked around the corner, and Elder Wen didn't raise his head, just stared at the ground in silence.
It turned out that the two boxes were placed on the ground between the two at the moment.
I understand that the "blood confession" is not over yet, and the final result has not yet come out.
"We'll have to wait a little longer. Bing'er whispered to me.
I nodded silently and sat down five paces away from the two men.
After tossing back and forth in the passage for so long, my physical strength has dropped significantly, my legs are sore, and it is more comfortable to sit than to stand.
"Click, click" twice, and a puff of white smoke suddenly came out of the two small boxes at the same time.
Red Sleeves shuddered and leaned forward to see the changes clearly.
Elder Wen moved faster, and with a wave of his right arm, he had already copied the two boxes in his palm at the same time.
"Show me, how did it turn out?" said Redsleeves growled urgently.
Elder Wen ignored her, but immediately inserted his right hand into his arms and hid the two boxes.
"You can guess the result, so why deceive yourself?" Bing'er said lightly.
Red Sleeve slowly turned around, raised his right hand, and spread his five fingers.
It turned out that all five of her fingers had been punctured, and in addition to the wounds on her index, middle, ring, and little finger had coagulated, the small wound on her thumb was still dripping blood.
"I'm ...... Descendant of Tianzong, I am the ...... The heirs of Tianzong ......" Red Sleeves replied with difficulty.
"In the face of so much evidence, are you still stubborn? I am the descendant of Tianzong, only the descendant of Tianzong can gain a foothold in the Central Plains, and you must accept the fate of exile, otherwise you will commit suicide on the spot. Elder Wen, is that so?" Bing'er said coldly.
Elder Wen hid the two boxes, his face was solemn, and he nodded slightly.
The entanglement between the two major forces of the secret demon and the Heavenly Sect can be traced back to the ancient battle between the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhurong, for thousands of years, various legends have emerged in endlessly, and through the word of mouth to falsehood, black and white reversed, so that the two factions have no real sense of good and evil. Especially the people in the rivers and lakes outside the two factions are not qualified to make judgments, and can only watch from the wall.
(Tianjin)