Chapter 41: The Endless Infinite Loop
Chapter 41 The endless dead cycle
The faces of several people were all ashen. We looked around and the more we looked, the more we became more certain. There were still our footprints everywhere on the ground. This was indeed the tomb where we discovered Shunzi’s father just now, but the strange thing was, how did we come back?
The tomb passage is straight. When we walked, we didn't turn a corner, and four people and one corpse could prove that it was true that, we would never walk for twenty minutes and then return to the starting point. This is simply incredible, it's like a ghost hitting a wall.
The fat man was a little confused, looked at the entrance of the tomb at the time and said, "Did we go back without realizing it when we left? Damn this evil."
Pan Zi said: "No, if we go back, we will never know. I remember that we have been walking straight in our hearts. The tomb passage is not long and there is no fork. There is no reason to remember it wrong."
The fat man said, "Then the damn thing is just a ghost. Shunzi, is your father joking with us? You have to educate it, we are doing serious business."
Shunzi was so angry that he made the fat man: "Don't talk nonsense."
I stopped them. It was really not suitable for quarrel at this time. I was sweating all over, because I felt that what I didn't want to happen might have happened, but I still didn't dare to be completely sure in my heart and said, "Don't argue, you have to see if you really have gone back. There is only one way, let's go again and see."
Several people looked at each other and saw my expression, they probably felt something was wrong.
At that time, what I was thinking about was the expressions of the mummy, that kind of desperate expression. Could it be that they were trapped to death by this method? Without food, no matter how they left, they would return to their original room. This is incredible. But my intuition told me that I might have guessed correctly, and that the things that trapped them have also happened to us now.
What I have to do now is to prove my premonition, or to say that I want to deny my horrible premonition, so I couldn't wait to walk into the tomb passage. The others were busy following me.
Because I walked once, I was sure there was no trap for the mechanism, and this time we walked very fast. I almost trotted in front, and my eyes were fixed on the roads on both sides. I was sure there was no fork, and I didn't turn around for no reason.
This time, we ran the whole journey in less than ten minutes. When we felt that we were about to see the end of the tomb passage, I almost kept praying, hoping that my premonition would not be realized. But in the end, when I saw the almost identical jade door, my heart suddenly became cold, and cold sweat couldn't help but burst out.
When he walked into the gate, the fat man rushed to the mountain of gold. Then he knelt down and covered his face. I rushed up and saw that the six corpses were all arranged... We are back again.
My pre-induction was fulfilled. On the premise that we were 100% full-body infusion to confirm that there was no fork or turn around, we walked all the way and went back to the starting point.
The fat man was tired of running and gasped and said, "This is a ghost hitting the wall. This is definitely a ghost hitting the wall. No matter how we go, it will be a cycle. Both ends of the tomb passage are this tomb chamber. We are going to see Shunzi's father this time. Shunzi, tell your father, don't play with us, otherwise we will throw him here and leave by ourselves."
Shunzi was already very surprised and had no time to stumble with him. I was also panicked and kept turning around to look at the walls around, but I didn't know what I was looking at.
"Calm down! Calm down!" Pan Zi gasped, "Don't be confused, Xiaosan Master, don't you say that Wang Zanghai's things are just small tricks to create psychological pressure at best? We must not know that this is a hit. Now you must be calm. There must be something wrong."
When I told Pan Zi, I suddenly had a pelican initiation. I suddenly woke up a lot, and the feeling of despair faded. I nodded quickly and said, "You are right. This must be a mechanism. We have confirmed in the underwater tomb. There is no such thing as a wall. Wang Zanghai is good at using clever mechanisms to create a strange atmosphere. If he doesn't know the details, he will easily lead his nose. "As he said, he quickly rubs his face inside to let himself escape from the suffocation feeling.
I actually said these words to myself, and I didn't know what I said after I finished speaking.
Afterwards, I remembered this time and felt that I had already felt that things were beyond my control and wanted to use these words to hint that I should not give up.
Because when I walked through the tomb passage just now, I felt so real that I could not imagine how to achieve this phenomenon with a mechanism. The first place in my mind was the movement of the tomb chamber or the tomb passage, but this was impossible. I immediately denied it. We were not walking slowly. If the tomb chamber could move, how fast would it need to be? The tomb passage would be even more impossible. As long as there was a little vibration, we could definitely know. But if it wasn't for the tomb passage and the tomb chamber to move, then this would be impossible.
Although I kept telling myself that this was a mechanism, I actually knew that something was wrong in my heart, and it could not be explained by the mechanism. But speaking it like this is still beneficial to other people, at least it can reduce panic.
But I underestimated the psychological endurance of the fat man and the others. Pan Zi was much calmer than me. After wiping his sweat, he asked me: "Whether it is a ghost to hit a wall or a mechanism, it must be solved. What should I do now? Should I go again?"
I gritted my teeth and said, "Let's go again! Damn this time, let's walk slowly and feel the movements under my feet or around me. I don't believe there is no flaw."
So we walked into the tomb passage again. This time we walked for forty minutes, and before we could walk to the end, we knew that we had failed, because the tomb door was exactly the same and we felt nothing along the way.
After that, we walked in several more times, and all ended in failure. I gradually felt the despair of the corpses, and the faces of several people became worse and worse.
I felt that it was not a solution to continue to torture like this. After returning to the tomb, I told them not to leave. Since they have left so many times, we have eliminated everything in several books. This mechanism must have been set up using a method we could not think of at all.
The fat man was so tired that he was almost exhausted, but he still insisted on continuing to walk. His idea was that maybe at some point, the previous tomb passage would come back, and then we could get out.
After hearing what he said, Pan Zi said: "You will die of this heart, that tomb passage will definitely not be back."
As he said that, he looked at the mummies on the side. The meaning was very obvious. The mummies walked into the tomb passage more times than us, but they were still trapped to death, so it was useless to walk the tomb passage, and it would be useless to walk ten thousand times. We don’t have to consider such luck.
The fat man immediately stopped and sat down, saying, "What do you say, aren't we dead? These people here must have tried everything. It's useless for us to do it again."
Pan Zi said: "Don't think about this. Just think about it like this now. Then you might as well just hit and kill yourself. When we do what we can do, we will think of something desperate. Now, while we still have the strength, we might as well think of a solution."
I remembered the food in the corpse and asked, "Do you want to limit the amount of food now? We must be prepared for long-term combat. The longer we can live, the greater the chance we will have."
Pan Zi sighed and shook his head: "My third master, I'm going to tell you, we are actually not as good as them. We don't have much food anymore. I can only eat two meals at most. No matter how full I think I don't need to limit the amount. I eat whatever I should eat and keep my energy full. I guess if we can't get out within two days, I guess we'll have no choice but to use explosives. If explosives are useless, then wait for someone else to collect my body."
For two days, my heart trembled. How long have these mummies been here? Can we go out within two days? This is really no guarantee.
The fat man's stomach was already screaming, so he asked Pan Zi: "Comrade Cook, can we start dinner early? I will solve the distraction of my attention first. Only then can I have the strength to think about other things."
When the fat man said that we were all hungry, Pan Zi had no choice but to order the stove to cook. Our food was actually only left with noodles. It was okay when we first ate it, but it couldn't last long. The fat man complained that there was no meat. I said there were quick frozen ribs, and you had to eat them. If Shunzi didn't mind, we didn't mind.
After eating, my whole body was warm and my mind was full of energy. A few people began to think about this thing. I recalled the whole process of going to the underground palace, which was extremely thrilling. I didn’t expect that I would still be uneasy after going to the underground palace. Wang Zanghai must have a design theme for this underground palace. What is it?
The underground palaces are all in the shape of Hui characters. The sacred hall is in the middle and is the place with the strictest standards. Wang Zanghai will definitely not dare to do anything. In other places, the underground palace of Hui characters are burial pits, burial pits, drainage systems, and complex corridors and tomb passages. So we are still in the extension of the center of the underground palace.
I tried to estimate the vertical and horizontal distances we came down, and judged our position based on my estimate of the size of the underground palace, but this seemed very difficult. We were already confused in the underwater channel and didn't know the direction. I knew where the hole we came out was heading.
Chapter completed!