Jiang Jinjiu woke up and found that it was not yet dawn.

He sat up to look at his watch, which had a backlit electronic watch showing the time at 1:12 p.m.

He was puzzled, and then he noticed that not only did the sky not shine, but it was even darker, and he couldn't see his fingers. And the air is muddy, and it smells like rotten vegetables only in the cellar.

"Brother Zhaoyun?"

He screamed, only to hear echoes like shouting in the bathroom.

He didn't get a response from Qin Zhaoyun, so he raised his voice and shouted again, "Mr. Gongsun?" ”

This time, he even heard a slight echo, and he felt very uneasy, and shouted "Is anyone there—" as he fumbled for his flashlight.

The lights came on, and everywhere they saw were polished and smoothed stone walls, even overhead. With no doors or windows, it is an enclosed stone room, about the size of a normal single room in a hotel. The top is about two meters high, and there is nothing in the four corners.

Jiang Jinjiu's head was in chaos: "Where am I?" How did I get here? Where have all the people gone? ”

In a panic, I touched the bone china bottle hanging around my neck, with a familiar sense of weight, and I felt a lot more relieved to know that Li Er was inside. I also found that the backpack was still full, which made me feel a lot more at ease.

Fortunately, the sleeping bag and backpack were one-piece and were brought with him, at least he didn't have to worry about starving to death.

He took out a water bottle to moisten his thirsty and smoking throat, and then held the bottle and called out to Master.

After shouting three times, Li Er appeared. He looked around and scolded, "Mother, what the hell is this place?" ”

"I don't know." Jiang Jinjiu asked, "Master, how did I get here?" ”

"Don't mention it, you've been robbed by ghosts."

"What!? Can't you, there are still ghosts who can rob me? ”

"I can't say it's a ghost, I don't know what it is, it's just a mess, the thief is fast, and I can't see anything when I arrive."

"Why did you rob me?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm bullying you, don't ask so much, find a way out first."

Jiang Jinjiu was glad to have stuffed a head-mounted searchlight into his backpack, and the two sets of lithium batteries could be used for 500 hours under low power consumption.

He got it ready, put away his backpack, and tried the walkie-talkie by the way, but there was no response as expected.

Li Er had already walked around the stone room and found that there were stone cracks on three stone walls that resembled gaps in the doorway. On the left-hand side is a rectangle with a bottom one foot above the ground, on the right-hand side is a pair of parallel lines half a meter wide, and in the middle is a seamless door at the bottom. But Li Er pushed or pulled or lifted, without the slightest sense of movement.

Li Er called Jiang Jin to try the wine, he used his strength to eat, the right hand side and the middle one did not have the slightest reaction, the middle one was even more heavy, and even the sound of beating was dull. Only the stone wall in the stone crack on the left hand side has a slight sense of shaking, maybe it can be moved, but it can't be helped.

When he couldn't push, he pried with a dagger. If you can't pry, you kick with your foot.

Li Er couldn't stand it anymore, "Stop, stop!" Stand aside and give me a light. ”

Jiang Jinjiu obediently retreated to the side, and Li Er inspected the inside of the stone crack every inch of the day, and finally found that the gaps between the upper and lower ends of the stone wall were very shallow, and the rest of the part was very deep and seemed to be endless, which meant that it was likely to be a revolving door with the center of the road as the axis.

But why can't it be pushed?

Li Er remembered that the old fox had talked about the machine bracket door, some had to push the top opening bracket at the corner, some had to push the door, and some had to find the hidden latch.

The latter two are unlikely, Li Er asked Jiang Jinjiu to try the corners.

Jiang Jinjiu also thought of the magnetic rebound, and pressed the upper right corner hard, and really felt an obvious shaking. He pushed with all his might, and with the sound of stones grinding against each other, the door was pushed open.

Li Er was really right, this is a revolving door with an axis in the center.

However, the design of this door is very peculiar, the central axis is not vertical, but slightly inclined. In the upper left corner of the door frame, there is a groove of about ten centimeters, and inside it is a stone with a thick left side and a sharp right point.

In this way, although the door looks rectangular, because the central axis is tilted, if it is pushed horizontally, the force point of the stone in the groove is on the left rough side, and the stone will be stuck. But if you push the upper right corner, the force point of the stone is on the left point, which is almost unobstructed. As the stone door moves, the stone falls back into the groove.

The two couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the ancients, and at the same time complained that one door was so complicated, and it didn't let people live.

Li Er proposed to leave a mark just in case, so Jiang Jinjiu used a dagger to draw a "1" on the wall.

Behind the door is a passage, the four walls are flat, looking straight and unbending, only a little higher than the door, and the two of them have to bend their necks after entering. It's uncomfortable, but the width allows the two to sit side by side, and it doesn't feel depressing.

But the passage was very dirty, and there were many black stickies on the stone wall, exuding the smell of pickled cabbage water, and neither of them wanted to guess what it was, so they walked forward.

After walking fifty steps, the two of them came to a stone room, which was exactly the same as the previous one!

There are still three doors in the stone room, but the difference is that the bottom side is open seamlessly, and there are no door panels.

If you look closely, it's not that there is no door panel, but that the door panel has sunk into the ground. If you look closely, you can see that it is retracted into a stone trough buried in the ground. The door panel is not stuck, if the strength is strong enough to pull the door panel up, it means that the door can be picked up.

How?

The two of them were very puzzled, and found that there was a metal turntable on the right side of the parallel vertical line, which seemed to be used to open the door.

Jiang Jinjiu stepped forward and turned, and there were all kinds of friction and collision sounds from the stone wall, and the stone door panels in the parallel vertical lines slowly rose up. At the same time, the door panel that was retracted into the ground slowly rose, and the two of them realized that the turntable controlled two doors at the same time.

How? What's the use?

The two of them were even more puzzled, but they could only leave the mark "2", and then entered the passage to find a way out.

This passage is exactly the same as the previous one, and even the taste is not bad. After walking straight for fifty-one steps, the two came across the stone wall.

Jiang Jinjiu knocked hard, and there was an empty sound, indicating that this wall should be a stone door.

The two searched up and down, left and right, but did not find the switch, and then thought of the stone door of the No. 1 stone room. Jiang Jinjiu pushed hard, but there was no response. If you think that the first door opens only when you push the upper right corner, then the reverse is to pull the upper left corner and push the lower right corner.

He tried, and sure enough, his guess was correct.

However, when they entered the stone chamber, their heads were larger.

It's an identical stone room again!

Li Er complained for a while: "What are you doing digging so many stone eyes?" Don't pretend to fart anything! Mother Xipi Lao Tzu wants to catch that, and he won't recognize it until he beats it......"

Jiang Jinjiu was also helpless, but he found that the stone room was still a little different.

Set the revolving door to number one, the door with parallel lines to number two, and the other to number three. There is no metal turntable on the right side of the second door of this stone chamber, and there is a long groove on the surface of the third door near the top.

And the second door of the No. 1 stone chamber also has no turntable, but the surface of the third door is nothing.

The three stone chambers are much the same, like an underground labyrinth in a novel. Fortunately, Li Er proposed to leave a mark, otherwise he would be blindfolded at this time.

Jiang Jinjiu marked "3" and tried to open the third door.

The groove on the surface of the stone gate may be a force point, and he pulled it down hard, not only feeling the stone gate descending, but also feeling the strong resistance under the stone gate. So he held his breath and pulled down violently, and the stone gate pulled down little by little.

However, the stone gate only fell one foot and couldn't pull it, but he felt that the stone gate could drop a little bit every time he was repressed, but the resistance below was greater, and it bounced back.

In this way, we can only make a breakthrough in one go. But his whole face was swollen and red, and the whole person leaned up and pressed down, but he still couldn't pull it down.

It was Li Er's trick to let him hang upside down on the door, press his legs against the door frame, and use all his strength and his own weight to open the door.

Sure enough, the ginger was still old and spicy, and the stone gate fell into the ground.

Jiang Jinjiu thought that Shimen would fall rapidly after passing the resistance point, and he couldn't react and fell to the ground, causing pain in his vertebrae.

At the same time, Li Er heard two sounds.

One was the sound of stone doors hitting the ground, and the other was the sound of stones colliding.

The sound was near or far, and he couldn't tell the direction, but what Li Er cared about was the sound of the stone door panel hitting the ground.

Even if the sound came from underground, it could be discerned in the direction of the door. But this sound seems to come from all directions, and one possibility is that there is a long enough underground passage, or a large enough cavity.

Li Er thought that there was a secret passage underground, which might have something to do with the door of the stone chamber and had nothing to do with the way out, so he didn't pay special attention to it.

The passage behind the door was exactly the same, and this time I walked straight for fifty and a half steps, and I came across a stone room that was much the same.

The first door of this stone chamber is open, the second door has a turntable to the right, and the third door has a flat surface, the same as the first stone chamber.

But there was a thing wrapped in withered vines standing next to the doorless wall, and the two of them gasped when they got closer, and the withered vines were actually wrapped around a dried corpse!

What's the situation!?

On closer inspection, the flesh and skin on the corpse's body resembled air-dried beef jerky, tightly wrapped around the bones. Vine branches of varying thickness emerge from the slits of flesh, nipples, mouth, nose, eyes, and ears, and become entangled with other branches, destroying the gender identity so that it is impossible to tell whether it is male or female.

Looking more closely, the two shuddered.

The roots of the rattan wrap tightly around the vertebrae and pelvis, and even burrow into the muscles of the thighs. The roots of the abdomen are twisted into a rope and twisted in an S-shape, and the surface is sporadically adhered to the dry casing. The stomach region has a spheroid body made of four root tendrils, which is hollow inside. This is like the man with a set of roots, kidneys, and intestines.

Seeing that the rattan under the buttocks of the corpse was relatively thick, Jiang Jinjiu felt the chrysanthemums tighten.

He couldn't imagine whether this person had been pierced by rattan while he was alive, or if he had been absorbed by rattan as fertilizer after death.

But Li Er ruthlessly pulled him into a terrifying situation, he said, "This kind of death is really the first time I have seen it, I am afraid that the seed was beaten into the belly, sprouted and took root for several days, and it was not until here that the vine root blocked the internal organs that he failed and died." ”

Jiang Jinjiu heard that his scalp and belly were itchy, and he didn't dare to talk.

The corners of Li Er's mouth twitched, and he flashed behind him and whispered, "Look, you see, he has been standing, that is, the roots of the tree have passed through the intestines, filled the crotch and pelvis, and then stuck to the leg bones to the knees, so that he has been standing and will not fall." No matter how fast the roots of the tree grow, it will only be half a finger a day, and it will grow to the knees for a month. He must have been alive before that, or he would have fallen long ago, you say no! Li Er slapped Jiang Jinjiu on the back heavily, making him so frightened that he was about to vomit.

He shouted, "Master! That's it! Don't make a fuss! ”

Li Er spread his hands and laughed.

Jiang Jinjiu was very helpless, but he remembered the appearance of this rattan with his heart, and thought that if he met it, he must stay away.

Next, Jiang Jinjiu went to turn the turntable of the second door, passed through the same passage, walked straight for fifty-two steps, and came to a stone room that was much the same.

Not right!

On the stone wall, there is a "2".

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

Jiang Jinjiu was stunned, and his heart was at a loss.