Chapter 203: The Labyrinth
In the blink of an eye, Qiao Yuan and Qu Yunwei wandered around the time of a stick of incense in this passage, and the two of them met more than ten crossroads at the time of this incense, Qiao Yuan chose the direction at random every time, and made some marks along the way, all of this was as expected by the two, this place is a labyrinth.
"It's a big labyrinth, and if you don't have a map, you're afraid it's hard to find the exit. ”
Qu Yunwei stood at the entrance of a crossroads, frowned slightly, looked at Qiao Yuan and said.
Qiao Yuan was standing on the edge of a stone wall at this moment, carefully observing an arrow mark on the stone wall, his expression showed a headache, and he said softly.
"Before, we came from the opposite direction, and now we are walking here from the right passage, this maze is very complicated, and it should be blessed by the formation. ”
Qiao Yuan has a certain amount of research on trapping, and after a little thought at this moment, he can see that there should be an extremely large trapped formation here, this kind of formation is not something that Qiao Yuan can crack, even if he wants to get out, it is extremely difficult, because he doesn't know what kind of trapped formation this kind of trapped formation is.
"In that case, then we've been here for a long time, why haven't we seen anyone else?"
Qu Yunwei didn't know much about the formation, she swept around, and asked again.
"This is the power of the formation here, if I guess correctly, this formation should be subdivided into a number of sub-arrays, at the first cross-section, straight forward, left and right three directions each entered three different sub-formations, the formations are isolated from each other, not communicating with each other, and the sub-array we enter may not be entered by others. ”
Qiao Yuan's eyes showed a look of deference, and he said slowly.
He judged the matter by the footprints on the ground, except for the first crossing, where he saw a large number of stray footprints, the second at the entrance, and the third with no footprints.
In addition, when Qiao Yuan and Qu Yunwei discovered the abnormality, they also returned along the same path, but at the same crossroads, the footprints disappeared, which showed that they had been isolated by the formation.
Of course, these are just Qiao Yuan's guesses, no one knows what the specific reason is, no one knows where Ling Wanchen and Bai Lizhen went, no one knows, maybe they were also in the labyrinth, maybe the two have found the inheritance.
"So what should we do now? Is there a way to break this formation?"
Qu Yunwei's expression revealed a hint of anxiety and asked.
"I can't crack this complicated formation, unless I can find the formation diagram of this formation. However, we can go through all the passages in this labyrinth and mark them, and I will see if we can draw a map of this labyrinth. ”
Qiao Yuan shook his head and said with a wry smile on his face.
"You can't sit still anyway, let's give it a try. ”
Qu Yunwei nodded, with a wry smile on her face, and said softly.
With that, the two of them remarked here and headed towards a passage on the left that they had not yet walked.
The speed of the two of them was extremely fast, and after a while, a cross-passage appeared in front of them, and they also made a mark, and walked towards a passage that they had not walked before.
Time flickered, it was an hour, and the two of them continued to move forward, almost passing through every passage here three times.
"Almost, wait for me to take a closer look at the picture. ”
At the entrance of a passage, the bodies of the two suddenly stopped, Qiao Yuan held a jade slip in his hand, looked at Qu Yunwei and said softly.
Along the way, Qiao Yuan recorded each passage with jade slips, and drew a map according to the direction he walked each time, and there were a total of eighteen passages on this map, which were intertwined with each other to form this extremely complex labyrinth.
After saying that, he sat cross-legged on the ground, completely sinking his mind into the jade slip, and there was a flash of deduction and calculation in his eyes, after a cup of tea, Qiao Yuan slowly opened his eyes, frowned slightly, and whispered to himself.
"Impossible, how can this be?"
"What can't be? Qiao Yuan, can you find an exit?"
Qu Yunwei heard Qiao Yuan's muttering, and hurriedly asked.
"I suspect that the formation here is in a state of complete sealing, and there is no way to survive at all, but it shouldn't be like this, this is the land of inheritance, if everyone is trapped here, then who can get the inheritance?"
Qiao Yuan shook his head and said softly, but in the end, he showed an extremely puzzled look.
"It's really impossible, even if it's a test, it should leave a way to live, and it won't be completely sealed, otherwise this inheritance land won't be a trap for your own disciples. ”
Qu Yunwei heard Qiao Yuan's explanation, and hurriedly nodded and said.
Qiao Yuan agreed with Qu Yunwei's words very much, but he really didn't deduce a way to live in this jade map.
After thinking for a moment, Qiao Yuan closed his eyes again and sank his mind into the jade slip, this time he sank for an extremely long time, two hours, and in these two hours, Qiao Yuan successfully entered the realm of sinking his heart.
In the state of contemplation, Qiao Yuan went to deduce and calculate this maze passage diagram again, this time, he finally found a difference, he found that the combination of these eighteen passage openings is indeed closed, but if there is a nineteenth passage entrance, this maze will have a way to live.
Of course, this nineteenth passage was not imagined by him out of thin air, but through a series of deductions, he found that at a specific time, this nineteenth passage will indeed appear.
However, at this time, Qiao Yuan can't be sure, he can only rely on luck to find it, if he is lucky, maybe this nineteenth passage will appear directly beside the two of them, if he is unlucky, I am afraid that he will miss it no matter how he finds it.
With a decision, Qiao Yuan immediately withdrew from the Sinking Heart Realm, his eyes opened suddenly, looked at Qu Yunwei and whispered.
"I guess there should be a hidden crossway here, it will only appear at a certain time, now let's split up to see if we can find this crossway, if you find it first, let the colored bird find me, if I find it first, let the white moon find you. ”
When Qu Yunwei heard this, her expression moved, and she nodded, although this method is a bit stupid, and the probability of a blind cat hitting a mouse is about the same, but it can be regarded as having hope, it is better than not knowing anything and waiting to die here.
The two of them did not hesitate, and went directly in two directions, because no one knew when the nineteenth cross passage would appear, so they were not in a hurry, but walked slowly towards the front.
In the blink of an eye, it was another hour, and this hour, Qiao Yuan and Qu Yunwei met three times in the passage, but neither of them found anything.
Time passed slowly, the second hour, the third hour, until the sixth hour, Qiao Yuan was walking but heard a crisp birdsong not far away, his face showed joy, knowing that this was the call of Qu Yunwei's colorful birds.
He hurriedly followed the call to find the past, and after a while, he saw a colorful bird flying towards him in the passage, and the colorful bird saw Qiao Yuan, chirped twice, and then turned around and flew quickly, Qiao Yuan naturally understood what it meant, and hurriedly followed.
Not long after, Qiao Yuan came to Qu Yunwei with the colored bird, and the place where the two of them stood was still a crossroads, but there was no mark near this crossroads, and the ground was covered with thick dust, and it was obvious that no one had walked from here for a long time.
"Qiao Yuan, should we go over there now?"
Qu Yunwei showed a look of joy on her face and hurriedly asked.
They have been trapped here for almost a day, and I don't know if they are the only ones trapped, if so, I am afraid that someone has already obtained the inheritance.
"Wait for me to check it out. ”
Qiao Yuan swept the three passages on the left and right in front of him, and he couldn't see the end at a glance, and then he spoke, and after speaking, he turned around and walked towards the rear.
Qiao Yuan's body was extremely fast, and he didn't know when the nineteenth crossroads would disappear, so he had to figure out the direction of this place as soon as possible.
After a short time, he came to the nearest crosswalk, inspected the markings there, Qiao Yuan found the location of this place on the map jade slip, and then he turned around and walked towards where Qu Yunwei was.
But this time, Qiao Yuan couldn't find out where the passage where Qu Yunwei was, as if the passage had disappeared out of thin air.
"Is it time has passed?"
Qiao Yuan stood in place, with a wry smile on his face, and whispered to himself.
In desperation, Qiao Yuan walked around here, time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, it was two hours, Qiao Yuan walked, and suddenly found that ten zhang in front of him, the last breath was still a closed passage, but the next breath was a horizontal passage.
With a happy look on his face, he hurried over, glanced left and right, and went straight to the right, for he saw a series of footprints on the ground of the passage on the right, which had evidently been passed by not long ago.
Not long after, Qiao Yuan saw Qu Yunwei standing quietly at the crossroads, his face showed joy, and he hurriedly walked over.
"Why have you been around for so long?"
Qu Yunwei saw Qiao Yuan coming back, with a puzzled look on her face, and asked softly.
"The passage had just disappeared, and I had been wandering around the neighborhood for two hours before it reappeared. ”
Qiao Yuan said slowly with a wry smile on his face.
"No wonder I asked it to look for you, but it didn't find it, by the way, how do we go now?"
Qu Yunwei touched the forehead of the colorful bird and said with a chuckle.
"Go straight. ”
Qiao Yuan said directly without thinking, he was already very clear about the location of this place, and in the past two hours, he also confirmed the location of this place several times, and made some deduction calculations, so he said so confidently at this moment.
Qu Yunwei believed in Qiao Yuan very much, so she naturally would not object at this moment, and the two of them took a step forward and walked quickly towards the front together.
This walk is a thousand zhang, the two gradually found some differences, Qu Yunwei was delicate, turned her head to look at Qiao Yuan, and said softly.
"Qiao Yuan, we have already walked nearly a thousand zhang, and we have not yet encountered a cross passage, in the past, we would encounter a cross passage for about a hundred zhang. ”
Qiao Yuan's expression moved, with a relaxed smile on the corner of his mouth, he looked at Qu Yunwei and said slowly.
"This means that we have come out of the labyrinth, but we don't know where the inheritance is?"