Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Under the dim green candlelight, the originally straight passageway became eerily curved, and shrouded in darkness, it seemed to appear even larger than when illuminated by the flashlight!

When Chen Yibai turned the flashlight back on, the passageway instantly became straight again!

Chen Yibai suddenly realized: "I'm blinded by a ghost!"

In folk legends, "being blinded by ghosts" refers to a spirit deliberately blocking a person's vision, preventing them from seeing obvious danger, and thus leading them step by step into deadly peril.

In fact, 'being blinded by ghosts' and 'being trapped in a maze' are similar.

The phenomenon of being "lost in a maze" has a scientific explanation: it is a motion illusion.

"Ghostly vision" is a visual illusion phenomenon. The principle is that in a confined space, due to the special spatial structure, when the light shining on it is too bright, the nerve vision will be affected and deviated.

Chen Yibai had encountered a similar situation before. When searching for the main burial chamber in the passageway of an ancient tomb, the path ahead seemed flat, but he suddenly fell into a trap set in the passageway without any warning.

Chen Yibai finally realized that he had been keeping his mind "clear" to avoid being "lost in a maze".

However, they completely overlooked the possibility of being "blinded by ghosts".

If I hadn't turned the incense sticks used as markers into candles and then turned off the flashlight, I probably would have been 'blinded by ghosts' forever, unable to find my way out of these two passageways, even if I died.

Surprisingly, the ancient people of the Xia and Shang dynasties, four thousand years ago, had already mastered the principle of creating visual differences using light.

Actually, this was a little trick the ancients used when building tombs.

In the underground world, one naturally feels safer the brighter the light.

However, in such specially constructed tunnels, the brighter the light, the more it affects the optic nerve, and the greater the deviation in the perceived scene.

"Gan!"

If I had realized this sooner, I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble.

Chen Yibai put the flashlight into the side pocket of his backpack, took out a corpse-suppressing nail and held it in his hand for self-defense, and carefully groped forward in the darkness of the tunnel.

Although it was described as dark, the niches were actually very close together, and the burning candles were not far apart either. In addition, the passageway was only two meters high, so to be precise, the entire passageway was shrouded and filled with a somber green light.

Although the surroundings were very blurry under the gloomy green light, at least they were all real.

Also because the surrounding visibility was particularly blurry, Chen Yibai widened his eyes, remained calm and composed, and focused all his attention on finding the 'intersection' hidden between the two interconnected passageways.

Furthermore, as Chen Yibai walked forward, he silently counted his steps in his mind to calculate the distance.

One step is about one meter!

After Chen Yibai walked forward for about fifty meters, a dark crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the dark green tunnel, about fifty or sixty centimeters wide, as if the tunnel space had been torn open from the middle!

"found it!"

Chen Yibai looked at the dark crack in front of him and was overjoyed. He immediately strode over, took out the flashlight again, and turned it on.

The flashlight's white LED light once again pushed away the darkness.

The scene before Chen Yibai's eyes also changed. He was now facing the mountain wall of the passageway at an angle. If he took one more step forward, he would crash into it.

However, when Chen Yibai tentatively reached out, his hand ended up diagonally embedded in the mountain wall in front of him.

Do not!

To be precise, there is a slanted crack in the mountain wall at this location of the passageway! However, because the light is too bright, and the visual illusion created by the clever use of light during the excavation has affected the visual nerves.

As long as the light is bright enough, the visual nerves will deceive the brain, and no matter how wide you open your eyes, you won't be able to see that there is a slanted crack in the mountain wall!

Only when the lights are turned off and the faint light cannot shine into this slanted slit will the pitch-black opening that Chen Yibai just saw appear, as if it had been torn open out of thin air!

Without a doubt, Yan Wanlei and his group had stumbled into this place without knowing what had happened.

Time is of the essence; we must find them as soon as possible.

Every minute they are delayed could mean an extra minute of danger for them.

Chen Yibai took a deep breath and charged straight in. It seemed like he crashed into the wall of the passageway, but in reality, he entered another passageway.

I turned the flashlight back on, and the white beam instantly pushed away the darkness.

This is also a man-made cave passage, but it is slightly wider than the previous one. The straight passage appears to be only thirty or forty meters long to the naked eye, and at the end is a right-angle turn leading to both sides.

It seems that this was a maze passage specially designed to trap tomb raiders.

Chen Yibai took out the Bagua compass again and looked at it; the magnetic needle in Tianchi was still stuck.

It seems the compass was truly useless in this Kangwang Tomb!

The Bagua compass was useless, especially in this maze-like underground tunnel, where it was impossible to determine the direction. It was like being a headless fly, which gave Chen Yibai a big headache.

Chen Yibai rubbed his throat, preparing to shout to test the sound transmission here and see if Yan Wanlei and the others could hear him.

"Da Mao... Da Mao..."

Before Chen Yibai could even shout it out, a strange voice suddenly came from the passageway ahead.

Who is Da Mao?

Whose voice is this?

Chen Yibai was suddenly alarmed and quickly turned off his flashlight. The voice coming from the passageway ahead was neither that of the archaeological experts nor that of the special operations team.

"How come there are other people in this ancient tomb?!"

At this moment, Chen Yibai also recalled the 'perfume' that a fat man named Sun Dachang in the archaeological expert group sprayed on himself when they first entered the ancient tomb.

Chen Yibai immediately recognized it as 'corpse fragrance,' a spice extracted from an extremely special type of corpse, but he didn't reveal it.

In hindsight, it seems there was a traitor within the archaeological team who secretly brought a spy in!

"Da Mao! Da Mao! Damn it, if you're alive, hurry up and answer me..."

Another shout of cursing came from the front of the passageway.

Judging from the cursing and swearing, it's clear they're trapped here and their mental state is starting to break down...

Chen Yibai quickly jogged to the corner of the passageway, taking out the Corpse-Suppressing Nail as a self-defense weapon and holding it in his hand.

As the shouts rang out, a beam of light appeared around the corner of the passageway, accompanied by a series of footsteps and a conversation between several people.

"Brother Chicken, the light ahead is out again!"

"Brother Chicken, could it be one of those people from the archaeological team?"

The two people's voices trembled slightly.

"Damn it, absolutely impossible! The archaeological team is behind us, but they're going in the opposite direction!"

Chicken Bro gritted his teeth, his angry curses tinged with certainty.