Then Chen Ziyan looked at the space he was in now, and found that it was also a natural grotto, but the wall material was obviously different from the tunnel. It was no longer the white crystal that emits weak fluorescence, but another more clear crystal. , looks like some kind of white crystal, but its transparency is much better than crystal.
However, compared to the material of the walls of this grotto, the unique structure here is more eye-catching, because all the walls here are twisted at an incredible angle. Although there are many miraculous works of nature, they are in various forms. This is the norm, but even so, the situation at hand can be regarded as an exception.
On those tiny cross-sections that appear due to the distortion of the walls, there are also eye symbols looming, which adds to the eerieness of the grotto.
Chen Ziyan temporarily suppressed his doubts and continued to patrol the grotto in front of him, and soon fell on a strange rock in the center.
This natural grotto is in the shape of an '8' as a whole, and this strange stone falls at the connection point of two circular spaces. The reason why Chen Ziyan calls it a strange stone is because this piece may be The rock shape of the granite is so weird that it is difficult to describe what shape it is.
The height of this strange rock is about one and a half meters. It looks square in some places, but looks round from another angle. There are even many places that are simply complex geometric shapes. At first glance, it is full of confusion. It's a twisted feeling.
And this kind of distortion is not simply in one direction, but more of a confusion with each other. There will be contradictory situations in many adjacent places, like a counterclockwise circle and a clockwise circle. Square, as if entangled with each other and combined together, it gives people an extremely awkward look.
Even with Chen Ziyan's concentration, he felt a little dizzy after staring at it for a while. One can imagine how distorted this strange rock is.
After shaking his head slightly to dispel the faint dizziness in his mind, Chen Ziyan turned around and said to the others: "Okay, please take off the cloth. We have walked out of that strip." Tunnel. "
The top priority now is not to study the strange rocks, but to let everyone lift the restrictions first. Since it has been determined that there is no problem here, there is no need to act with shackles.
When the others heard Chen Ziyan's words, they immediately stretched out their hands towards the blindfolded cloth.
Wang Kaixuan had long been impatient with the feeling of being restrained, so he moved the fastest at this moment. Before Chen Ziyan could finish his words, he had already pulled off the blindfold.
"WC! What the hell is this?"
The moment the cloth strip was taken off, Wang Kaixuan opened his eyes and wanted to take a closer look at what he saw, but... I didn't want to see the strange rock in the center of the grotto at first glance.
The others had just taken off the cloth strips at this time. After hearing Wang Kaixuan's exclamation, they also looked over and fell into a state of surprise.
It's not that they have little knowledge, but that the thing in front of them is really... unique!
It was so unique that they couldn't find a suitable adjective in a short time.
"This seems to be an artificially distorted space?" Shirley Yang quickly gathered her thoughts. After looking at the grotto, she said thoughtfully.
Although the grottoes exist naturally, they are full of traces of artificial modification, and these traces all give her a sense of deliberate shaping, as if... this place is twisted for the sake of twisting.
"It is indeed a bit deliberate." Chen Ziyan also had the same feeling. After thinking for a while, he said: "Maybe it is to get close to or simulate the imaginary number space?"
Apart from that, he couldn't think of any other answer. Perhaps in the minds of the evil Luohai people, the imaginary number space was such a distorted image, so they created such a space.
"It seems likely so." Shirley Yang nodded in agreement.
Although there is no basis for it, she feels that this explanation is very likely.
While talking, Shirley Yang walked towards the strange rock, intending to study the most conspicuous and only thing in the cave.
After walking near the strange rock, she discovered that there was a square circle made of black rotten wood chips around the strange rock.
After thinking for a while, Shirley Yang expressed her guess: "Looking at the distribution of these sawdust, it is likely that a wooden structure frame was built around the strange rocks."
"It's a ladder. "
Chen Ziyan also walked over. He did not stop at the sawdust. Instead, he walked to the strange rock, climbed on the top of the strange rock and looked inside, and gave the real answer.
Although this strange rock looks like a whole rock, it is actually the head of an inclined well. Although the bottom cannot be seen due to the angle, it can be seen that there are steps inside, which is obviously not conventional. on the well.
And in this case, there must be a step outside.
After all, this place should be very close to the altar. It would be unseemly to climb up and down directly. There must be a ladder to assist.
"Wooden steps." Shirley Yang also came over and looked inside, then walked around the stone well and added again.
At first she saw that these sawdust had only an outer ring, and thought they were wooden fences and other protective measures. But after seeing the situation inside the stone well, she realized that she had been wrong, and she looked again. Finally, she discovered that it was not that there were no sawdust in the black sawdust circle, but that the color of the sawdust inside was close to that of the ground, so she wouldn't be able to find it unless she specifically looked for it.
“The stone steps here are severely worn. This kind of wear does not appear to be natural, but more like the friction caused by long-term walking. It is really unimaginable how many lives were driven down here as sacrifices. " Seeing that Chen Ziyan acquiesced to her statement, Shirley Yang looked inside the stone well again and couldn't help but sigh.
She just took a look at the internal structure of the stone well and came up with the answer.
Even though the exit of this stone well is completely uncovered, because of the inclined angle inside, there are not many exposed parts of the stone steps, so it is definitely not caused by natural wear and tear.
"Then if we go down from here, wouldn't we also become sacrifices?" When Wang Kaixuan heard Shirley Yang say this, he didn't want to make the atmosphere depressed, so he wanted to use a joke to change the topic.
"Otherwise, who do you think we are now?" Unexpectedly, Hu Bayi suddenly added this quietly.
"Old Hu, what are you talking about? Didn't you hear that I was joking? You really don't have any humor at all. Talk to the fat man more in the future and receive good influence!" Wang Kaixuan was very dissatisfied with him. This frustrating remark was immediately refuted sternly.
Hu Bayi didn't mean to change his mind. He said seriously: "Fat man, think about it carefully. From the time we entered the tunnel to the present, does this mean that we exist in those secret places?" In my eyes, it is already a sacrifice that is about to be delivered to the altar.”
His idea was not unfounded, but was inferred from previous experiences.
The tunnel ahead is very dangerous. This is something that no one can deny. Whether it is the strange footsteps that appear when you open your eyes or the group of snakes blocking the way forward, they are all dangerous. Arrangements to kill any intruders.
The various traces in the grotto in front of you all indicate that everything here was arranged by people.
Combined with this, it can be easily analyzed that the dangers in front are measures to prevent outsiders from breaking into the altar.
But this raises another question, that is, since there are so many arrangements, why are there suggestive reliefs carved behind the stone door of the temple, and why can you pass through the tunnel safely as long as you close your eyes? Way.
Hu Ba was thinking about this when he had nothing to do along the way, but he never found the joint. Wang Kaixuan's words just reminded him, and he finally figured out that the key to the problem lay in the 'sacrifice'. The tunnels here are full of dangers to prevent people from breaking in, but they also have prompts at the entrances and there are ways to pass through them smoothly. The two seem to be contradictory, but in fact they are not in conflict.
The fundamental reason is that this is the only way to the altar.
The altar is a place where sacrificial ceremonies are held, which means that the road cannot be completely blocked, otherwise the sacrifices will not be sent in. However, as the most important place in the entire city, it cannot be left unprepared. Therefore, the Evil Luohai people set up a weird fluorescent tunnel, and adopted an entry method that is universal but cannot be easily cracked.
The term "dark under the lamp" is not new to modern times, and this principle has been around for some time. It is obvious that the Evil Luohai people developed a method of passing with eyes closed based on this.
"What kind of truth is this?" Wang Kaixuan was speechless for a moment after hearing Hu Bayi's words.
He wanted to refute, but couldn't find a place to refute.
Hu Bayi did not worry about Wang Kaixuan's reaction, but looked at Chen Ziyan: "Mr. Chen, what I'm worried about now is whether the original evil Luohai people had special ways to avoid danger. If this is the case, it will probably be useless if we close our eyes when we go back.”
After analyzing the above, he figured out the loophole in this method of entry and exit, that is, if we close our eyes, we can do it. Passing means that even slaves who enter can leave in the same way.
But when he thought about it carefully, he knew that the Evil Luohai people would definitely not let this happen. With their emphasis on sacrificial rituals, how could they allow something that would cause the sacrificial ritual to fail to happen?
So Hu Bayi guessed that either this tunnel could only be entered but not exited, or that the way in and out was different.
After hearing Hu Bayi's worries, Chen Ziyan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Old Hu, don't think too much now. The only thing we need to worry about right now is down here. Whether there is an altar that you are looking for and whether there is a way to break the ghost eye curse, you can put the rest aside for the time being and wait until everything is settled before considering it.”
He knew Hu Ba. This is for the good of the team, and at the same time, we also know that this is Hu Bayi's old problem. When this guy encounters something, his first reaction is often not fear, but uncontrollable thoughts.
Of course this is not a bad thing, even many crises in the original plot were solved by Hu Bayi in this way, but it does not apply to their current situation, and they cannot be distracted now Think about this.
What's more, there are still three caves in the cunning rabbit. No one dares to say that there is no other way out here. And given the industry they are engaged in, in fact, many times the way they came in is not the first choice when leaving.
Although Hu Bayi was still a little worried, seeing how confident Chen Ziyan was, he couldn't say anything more: "I understand."
"Let's go down and have a look. Success or failure depends on this one." Come on!" Seeing this, Chen Ziyan looked at Ishii and said.
This is the only road left in front of them. Regardless of whether they can find anything below, they have to go down there.
"What do you think that is?"
Just when everyone was about to go down to the stone well to find out, Huo Ling suddenly pointed to the top of her head and reminded.
Chen Ziyan suddenly looked up and saw a dark shadow appearing on the translucent crystal on the cave wall above their heads.
In order to prevent the flashlight beam from disturbing the other party, Chen Ziyan and the others did not rashly shine it with flashlights, but chose to keep it as it was.
But this does not mean that they cannot clearly see what the black shadow above is.
After Chen Ziyan glanced at the blurry shadow, he asked softly to the black glasses: "Old Hei, can you see clearly?"
Does he know clearly that this guy with black glasses is here? For a place like this, his eyesight is surprisingly good. He can definitely see clearly things that others cannot see clearly.
Black Glasses took a closer look and said, "That looks like a hand?"
Then he added: "It looks like it's almost two feet long."
Hand? Two feet?
Chen Ziyan looked at him in surprise, a little unbelievable.
You must know that two feet is equal to more than sixty centimeters. With a hand of this size, it is simply difficult to imagine what the owner of this hand looks like.
"According to the normal proportions of the human body, if this is really a hand, the height of the creatures on it will be at least six meters." Shirley Yang has sufficient knowledge reserves in this area, so she quickly made an inference.
The reason why it is calculated based on human body proportions is because the word hand is not used casually. Most of the creatures that can be used with this word are human-shaped.
Six meters!
Even if it is only this high, it is equivalent to the height of two floors. You can imagine what kind of behemoth is above!
"Look, there is another black shadow next to it." Just when they were guessing what the creature outside was, Hu Bayi, who had been paying attention to the situation above, reminded him again.
Everyone quickly looked up and saw another black shadow of similar size not far from the original black shadow.
From the similar outline, it is very likely that this is also a hand.
Soon, Black Glasses gave a positive answer.
"This is also a hand."
"Let's go into the stone well!" Chen Ziyan stared at the two black figures and then decided to go down to the stone well.
He was not sure whether the walls of the grotto could resist the creatures outside, but he didn't want to gamble on this possibility. They were going down anyway, so they might as well go down now.
One thing that is certain now is that with the size of the creature outside the cave wall, even if it can enter the grotto, it will definitely not be able to chase it into the stone well.
Chen Ziyan then asked Huahu to enter the stone well without waiting for anyone else to react. He was the best pathfinder in this kind of terrain.
After confirming that there was no danger below, Chen Ziyan let others go down one after another, while he himself stayed at the end to catch up.