Hanging Soul Ladder, in the thick darkness.

Ruan Qixue looked at the portrait of the Grim Reaper on the left, the black robe, the terrifying blood-red skeleton, Bai Sensen's hand bones, and the bloody sickle, and couldn't help but think of it......

Since the ancient war in the Shenzhou Continent, human beings have seen all kinds of strange things in the world around them, lightning and thunder, violent storms and rains, natural disasters and man-made disasters, countless casualties, and grief all over the wilderness, which is definitely beyond the power of man. Then I thought that above the nine heavens, there were all kinds of gods, and under the nine shadows, it was also the place where the ghosts returned, the hall of Yama.

"Is there no end to this ladder......? Is there a netherworld, is it hell?" Ruan Qixue's face turned pale and spit out word by word from her mouth.

Ling Zihuan was startled at first, then stabilized his mind, and his face changed slightly.

"The Soul Ladder? Hmph, it's just a mechanism. ”

After speaking, Ling Zihuan raised the "Long Yuan", condensed a sword ray, and slashed towards the portrait of the Grim Reaper on the left.

Bang!

Suddenly, the brilliance was swaying, and the stone powder was splashed indiscriminately.

The place where it was slashed by the Long Yuan Sword just landed on the blood-red skeleton of the Grim Reaper, and a shallow pit appeared, and the bloody and blurred face of the Grim Reaper appeared in front of them, adding a bit of horror.

Other than that, the stone walls, stone steps do not react at all.

"We keep walking, and we don't believe that there is no way out. Ling Zihuan said, and continued to walk forward.

"Wait!" He had only taken a few steps before he suddenly remembered something, and continued, "We've been walking along the stone wall on the left, so what's on the right?"

"Since it's a stone staircase, the right side should also be a stone wall!" Ruan Qixue said.

After they entered the stone gate, the light emitted by the Long Yuan Sword caused the portrait of the Grim Reaper on the stone wall on the left side to glow, and then left the left side. Because the stone steps were too long and wide, and the light of both the magic weapon and the glow-in-the-dark powder were extremely weak on the Soul Ladder, they didn't put their minds elsewhere at all.

They thought that if they went down the wall on the left, they would be able to get out.

So, Ling Zihuan and the others walked to the right and found that the right side was still a stone wall, but the stone wall on the right side did not have a portrait of the Grim Reaper painted by luminous powder, nor was it as smooth as the stone wall on the left, but uneven, with many hard stone protrusions.

"Why is it that the stone wall on the left side is so uniform that even the portrait is exactly the same, while the one on the right is rough and uneven?"

Ruan Qixue thought for a while and touched her chin, "The more it catches our attention, the more suspicious it may be!"

The fat man sighed and said lightly: "You are saying that those portraits of the Grim Reaper are deliberately shown to us, so what is the purpose?"

Ling Zihuan sighed and said, "If we know the purpose, we may be able to find the flaw in the Soul Ladder." ”

The Long Yuan Spirit Sword emitted a hazy faint halo, and the dark aura gradually thickened, filling the surroundings and becoming more and more depressing.

However, what exactly is underneath this stone staircase?

After a long silence, Ling Zihuan licked his lips and said helplessly: "Why don't we go like this, let's make a mark on the stone wall while walking, and see what happens?"

The fat man asked suspiciously, "Make a mark?" Do you mean that we walked for a long time, and we were actually going around in circles in the same place?"

Ling Zihuan nodded and said, "This is just speculation, because we were in the Misty Dense Forest before, and it was also like this, so ......"

"Don't be funny, the stone steps we walked on have been going down all the time, how can we go around in circles?" The fat man still didn't understand what Ling Zihuan meant, so he had to ask clearly.

Actually, Ling Zihuan couldn't figure it out, but he just remembered the situation in the treacherous mist dense forest in his mind, so he thought about giving it a try.

"Wait!" Ruan Qixue moved and whispered, "Although we have always gone down the steps, there are corners to the right from time to time, and the angles are the same. ”

"What does this have to do with the angle?" the fat man shrugged his shoulders and looked at Ling Zihuan and Ruan Qixue with surprised eyes, "This can only mean that we are walking down the spiral steps." ”

"Rotary?" Ling Zihuan whispered, thinking to himself.

"I agree with the silly boy and make marks as he goes. Ruan Qixue said firmly.

"Well, we can only try!" said the fat man, tilting his head.

So, Ling Zihuan marked a "1" on the portrait of the Grim Reaper who had been dug a small pit by "Long Yuan".

With each step of the stone steps, they carved a mark on the stone wall on the left, starting with "1" and increasing it in turn, so that the stone wall on the left side of each stone step corresponded to an identical portrait of the Grim Reaper.

Finally, when Ling Zihuan counted to "23", he happened to encounter a number "1" that he had written, and on the portrait of the Grim Reaper engraved with "1", there was a small pit that was chiseled by Long Yuan's sword.

After the three of them saw this number, they all laughed, that is to say, Ling Zihuan's guess was right, they finally turned back again, and then the three of them walked forward again, and found that the steps in front of them were "2", "3", and "4" in order......

"This ...... It's incredible, why did we turn back when we were going down?" the fat man laughed out loud, scratching his head.

At this moment, Ling Zihuan and Ruan Qixue were also thinking about this question, that is, what is the structure of this twenty-third-order Soul Suspension Ladder?

It's obviously going down, why did you turn around and return to your original position?

At this time, Ling Zihuan's afterglow inadvertently saw the phantom of the blade of the Long Yuan Sword flickering under the luminous powder, like ripples on the surface of the water, fleeting, and like clouds and mist, hazy and uncertain.

Why is it so dim and dim?

In Ling Zihuan's mind, he recalled several suspicious points he had seen in the Soul Hanging Ladder, the long gray stone steps with a wide and small slope, the luminous powder, the portrait of the Grim Reaper that leaned down slightly, the hazy halo emitted by the Longyuan Spirit Sword, and the corners of the steps.

Then he crouched down, touched the gray stone steps under his feet with his fingers, and sniffed it before he reached his nose.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through Ling Zihuan's brain, and when he saw that he was overjoyed, he almost jumped up.

"I understand, I understand, hahaha!"

Ruan Qixue and the fat man saw Ling Zihuan's reaction, and asked together, "Ah, what's going on?"

Ling Zihuan nodded, the corners of his mouth hooked up a graceful arc, and began to speak: "Actually, the so-called Soul Hanging Ladder is just to create all kinds of illusions for us. ”

"We always thought we were going down the stairs, but in fact there was only a slight fluctuation in the height of the steps in this lap. You see, the slope of the stone steps is very small, and the length is long enough and the width is very large, which makes the uphill and downhill feel less distinct. ”

"In order to make us think that we have been walking down the stairs all along, and thus lose our original judgment and sense of direction, leading to the blind stumbling of entrants, and finally dying of exhaustion here, we use marks on this ladder to create an illusion for us. ”

"First of all, the portrait of the Grim Reaper on each stone step is a trap, the portrait is actually gradually deviating on the steps, and these gray stone steps under our feet may be smeared with a kind of paint that absorbs light from ancient secret recipes, and the light emitted by the luminous powder constitutes a hazy feeling, which is even more difficult to identify. ”

"Once you pay attention to this information, you will make a mistake in logical judgment, thinking that you are walking down the stairs, but in fact you are taking a flat road, so you blindly go around in circles, and the terrifying atmosphere created by the portrait of the Grim Reaper makes people even more frightened, and in the end they completely lose their judgment. ”

"The difference in the steps is very small, probably designed to give people the illusion of a difference between height and height. ”

The fat man listened to Ling Zihuan's analysis, but he still didn't understand, and asked sneeringly: "You said that we are basically on a flat road, so how is this structure designed?"

Ling Zihuan paused, and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, I have to admire the wisdom of the ancients in Jiling City!"

"Actually, it's not accurate enough to say that we are walking on a flat road, because each step we walk still has a fluctuating in height, and these changes are a set of accurate numerical calculations. ”

"Although I don't know the specific calculation process, I can probably guess that the key to designing the ups and downs of this kind of soul ladder lies in those corners!"

"Around the corner?"

"Just now I counted from '1' to '23', and I also counted how many times we turned around, exactly four times in one lap!"

"I turned four times in total, and finally returned to the original point, and the angle of each turn was the same, which shows that this is a four-sided soul ladder. ”

"Each staircase has a drop, we put the next staircase at the starting point slightly up the level, such a small change is not visible in the dark, and then use the corner of the bend to rise or fall without being noticed. ”

"I understand!" Ruan Qixue's solemn face suddenly relaxed, and a shallow smile appeared, "The ancients of Jiling City did have great wisdom, using human intuitive illusions and complex numerical calculations to create such a mechanism, it is really powerful!"

The fat man thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't understand what was going on with this Soul Hanging Ladder, and he was a little anxious, and when he wanted to ask again, he heard Ruan Qixue say solemnly: "Where is the exit of the Soul Hanging Ladder?"

"Exit?" Ling Zihuan touched his chin and thought, "I haven't thought of the exit yet, but there is one thing that is very suspicious. ”

"What?"

"Since the Soul Ladder is circulating in all directions, the fork in the road we took when we entered this space must be a corner of the Soul Ladder. ”

Ruan Qixue frowned and said, "However, when we entered here, the stone gate was immediately closed, and there was not a single crack left. Now, we don't know how many times we have walked around here, and where we will know which corner is a fork in the road. ”

The fat man said, "Even if we know, what does this have to do with the exit we are looking for?"

Ling Zihuan directly ignored the fat man's question, and continued to analyze with Ruan Qixue: "There is something, don't you think it's very strange? When we enter the Soul Hanging Ladder, we are lured by the glow of luminous powder on the left wall, and walk along the stone wall on the left, but isn't there a stone staircase in the right direction?"

"You mean, the portrait on the left wall released the light after absorbing the light of the Dragon Yuan Sword for a moment, and the stone steps on the right also have a luminous powder portrait, why didn't the light be released?"

"Yes, that's what it means!" Ling Zihuan replied excitedly.

"Either there is a difference between the two positions and the fork in the road, so that the light absorbed from the Longyuan Sword is more or less, or every portrait of the Grim Reaper is the same, and the only one is special!"

Saying that, Ruan Qixue and Ling Zihuan looked at each other and smiled, as if they wanted to go together.

When the fat man saw this, he felt that he was being ignored, and he immediately became unhappy, pursed his lips, and shouted angrily: "Hey, why don't I understand what you're talking about, can't you tell me about it carefully?"

"What are you pretending to be with such a big head?" Ling Zihuan joked.

"Cut, you're smart!" the fat man gave him a blank look.

Ruan Qixue smiled, then touched the fat man's fleshy head, and said with a smile: "Little fat girl, I'll tell you when we go out!"

Then, she turned to Ling Zihuan again, "Let's go, go around every corner!"

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