paradox

It is impossible to go back now, not to mention the problems of those mandrills, we are almost suffocated just by being rushed forward, not to mention swimming up the upstream, even if we abandon all the burdens, it is unrealistic.

Everyone should know the seriousness of this problem, except those who are still listening to the flute for their own entertainment.

"Wendi, did you find anything?" I shouted.

Wendi responded, put away the short knife used to cut the aquatic plants, and returned to me.

"The totem on the door is in the shape of a cat. There is no family with a cat as a totem in the current records. Moreover, the tomb is so big. According to my speculation, it should be a king with a different surname, and it is most likely not a Han nationality." Wen Di analyzed clearly. , though of no use.

"Have you found a way to get in?" I asked, I didn't even have time to be surprised, the tomb is the tomb, the house of the dead is worth the money if it can save our lives now.

"Just relying on the totem on this door? I'm not a Daluo god, and I don't know how to recognize people! How do you ask me to find it?" Wendi curled her lips and answered confidently. Since she came in, her whole aura has changed. "If the tour guide is not dead, you can ask Yumo if he has any traditions about cats."

Speaking of cats, I think of a person.Su Mohan showed me one of her necklaces before, which is a totem of a cat.

Before I knew it, I turned my gaze to her, and I was also aware of my scorching gaze, so I took the initiative to take off the necklace and put it in the palm of my hand and brought it in front of us, "This necklace is my mother's relic, I will not care about other things It is clear that my mother left me a long time ago."

Wendi took the necklace very bluntly and began to study, "Although this necklace is small, it is surprisingly consistent with the pattern on the door. The two must be related."

"Shopping around is not in line with the rules of our business." After the sound of water in the rear, a woman's voice came, and all of our energy was focused on the four people who suddenly emerged from the bottom of the water.

We still know two of the women.

"I only looked for the three of you, and I don't know these people." Another girl explained to the other side.

Isn't this Wen Yu?And the female college student she was looking for that day.

But what's the matter with this body?He was wearing a black tights and a camouflage uniform, and his hair, which was not long at first, was also put into a hat. What is such a chic look for?

"Why are you here?" I walked towards her.

Wen Yu reunited with me in this place, and she was as surprised as me and Xiao Mo, "Why are you two?" She squinted her eyes and began to examine Xiao Mo and me, "It turns out that you guys planned it long ago, but it was planned in advance. What good is it for you to come into contact with me?"

"What does it mean to contact in advance? Do you know where this is!" I was confused by her speech. Seeing that the equipment on her body should have been prepared, it is different from those of us who strayed into this place.

"It turns out that they are people of the same path, why are you pretending? If the little boss is worried about this money, I won't make any money," she folded her hands on her chest, "Little boss, how do you explain it?"

"What's the difference? We people just entered here by mistake. Don't you know if you look at the equipment gap between us?" I interrupted her, "It seems that you know this place, then you must know it." I also know how to get out. Although I don’t know the purpose of your coming here, we just want to leave and give a clear path, and we will not violate the river.”

When the two armies were confronting each other, Wen Di ran to Wen Yu's side in small steps, and looked at her back and forth like a curious baby. Wen Yu felt a chill when he saw it, "Are you T?"

"..." Suddenly, Wen Yu's expression froze on his face.

"Children, don't be sensible, children's words are wuji, children's words are wuji!" I immediately pulled Wendi away from Wen Yu's side.

"Are the people around you as obnoxious as you?" Wen Yu said with a cold face.

I've seen her force value before, once encountered, Wendi would have to lie on the ground and be beaten.

"How? Should we continue or swim back?" Wen Yu asked the woman.

"Our clan's duty is to protect the secrets here," she said in a deep voice, but she began to waver after seeing the unconscious woman and the two corpses, "but it's too late to go back now."

"Then open the door quickly! Since you have invited us here, don't set up any chastity archway. If you want to be buried with this tomb, I want to live a few more years of comfortable life! If you continue to spend so much time, I will be with the team." They brought your tomb in person." Wen Yu was indignant, and had been impatient since the beginning, perhaps it was caused by this unexpected change.

I focused all my attention on Wen Yu's "employer".Her expression had changed, and there was a hesitant light in her eyes.

"In another 5 minutes, we won't even have a chance to choose." Su Mohan said calmly. She didn't seem to have much desire to escape. Although she kept looking for an exit with this kind of person, she always felt listless. caressing the necklace around his neck.That necklace was her mother's relic, and it was inextricably related to this tomb, so it gave me a headache to think about it.

The water surface has already occupied the highest ground, the original eight people plus four people, the space is seriously insufficient, but the water continues to rise, invading our territory.

Zhang Xinchi hugged Wang Shuya to prevent the wound from getting wet, Deng Zhixin took care of it, Xiao Mo also pulled out at this time and walked to our side with Han Lin.

"I see." Finally she made a choice.

We took the initiative to give her a way to the stone door. She walked to the door, tried to find a few positions on the totem, and pressed them in order. After a sound of gears gnashing, the stone door slowly opened.

"The living people hurry in with their things, and don't wait after the expiration date!" Wen Yu ordered.

We picked up the equipment we could use and rushed inside. The team threw a flare at the door and checked the road conditions. It was just a monotonous corridor, which reassured us a lot.

After all of us went in, the stone gate was slowly closed.

Wen Yu skillfully lit the oil lamps on both sides of the corridor, and the dim space instantly brightened up. Unlike the outside, it was barely wide enough for three people to pass side by side.

There are dense spider webs hovering above, so be careful when you come in, otherwise there will be more gray "decorations" on your head.Han Lin wrapped a trekking pole with a wet cloth and picked it up vigorously, removing the spider webs that blocked us one after another.

"The ventilation here is pretty good." Wen Yu commented, "Different from the previous tombs, there are drainage devices here. Normal tombs are sealed, and all use long-burning lights."

I have heard of the ever-burning lamp, which is to evenly spread a layer of white phosphorus with a low ignition point on the lamp oil. Once air enters, it can spontaneously ignite, giving people the illusion that the lamp has been burning until now.

But here in the ventilated place, the use of permanent lamps is only a waste of material.

As for the drainage device, it refers to something similar to a sewer that appears not far from the soles of the feet, and the sound of water flow can be faintly heard.

The surrounding area has been invaded by plants, and the stone slab is also covered in a large area by wet and soft lichen. The soft feeling of walking on it makes my back feel chills.

"I'm Wen Yu, this is the team and Maozi..."

Gathering under the lights, we began to introduce ourselves and briefly analyze the current situation.It is better to say that it is an analysis than to listen to the explanations of professionals like them unilaterally.

"I'm Jing Yan, a recent university graduate, majoring in psychology, and I'm also a descendant of the keeper of this tomb." After Jing Yan began to talk about her identity, I immediately pricked up my ears, "What I'm going to talk about next is what's happening here. Attention, please pay attention."

"This tomb is connected to the outside world through the water vein outside the stone gate. According to our calculations, the ebb time is five days later at two o'clock in the afternoon, which is about the same as the current time."

"It's best to stay here and wait for the low tide during this period. The process is very long, and there is not enough food and water, but you will definitely work together to survive these few days, and then escape successfully. To meet your relatives, this period The absurd experience will remain deep in your mind, and no one will know. This place is still deep in the mountains, and Quenching Lake is still only as big as a basketball court. All of them are as described in the guide, exciting but not surprising.”

Wen Yu and the two fighting men stood aside and waited for her to finish speaking.

The seven of us listened to her story quietly, and gradually became convinced that we had successfully escaped from the predicament. The five-day isolation was just a small test.

After speaking, Wen Yu and the others bid farewell to us and walked to the depths of the tomb. The lights disappeared little by little, and no one knew where they were going.

Our task is to wait for the arrival of the fifth day, in order to prevent running out of ammunition and food, start to allocate resources.

Wen Di was still interested in the writing on the wall, but she never left our sight, so she let her go.

Wang Shuya also regained consciousness after several hours of rest, but she was still unable to exercise vigorously because of a broken leg. Zhang Xinchi, her boyfriend, fed her some liquid food to satisfy her hunger when she was awake.

At the beginning, the eight of us would communicate to eliminate loneliness. Once the topic stopped, the whole space was surrounded by unbearable silence.It is the deadly silence that destroys our spirits and drives us all mad without a fight.

The first day of being trapped here was so safe and sound.

There was no change in the relationship between them on the surface. Zhang Xinchi was still taking care of his girlfriend meticulously. As compensation for a year of neglect, Wang Shuya's wound was still not healed, and she was sweating coldly with pain at the slightest movement.

Deng Zhixin didn't want to disturb them, so he could only talk to Han Lin. Wendi was still doing his own research, and the scope of activities was gradually expanding.Xiao Mo and Su Mohan stayed with me, talking about some interesting things, sometimes there would be a chuckle, but at the same time, they felt that it was inappropriate, so they slightly raised the corners of their mouths and then let it go.

On the second day of being trapped, the situation was similar to the first day. Like the antelopes living in groups, we tried not to break away from the group as much as possible.As if a person enters the darkness, he will be swallowed by the darkness.

Although the food is evenly distributed, it can still be maintained, but the drinking water has bottomed out.

Han Lin came up with an idea to tie the kettle to the kettle with a nylon rope and throw it into the sewer to get water.After several attempts, I finally succeeded. Although the water looks clear on the surface, we simply distill it for safety.

On the morning of the third day of being trapped, only canned food was left. Due to insufficient fuel, the water brought up from the sewer also skipped the step of distillation and drank it directly.Cold, lethargy, and diarrhea followed. Compared with death, these are still within the tolerable range.

In this situation, try to get together as much as possible, but people have three urgencies, so the privacy issue should be resolved as far away as possible. I am now facing this dilemma.

In order to escape the suffocating atmosphere, this time I walked farther than before. There were fewer lichens on the road than before, but there were more and more ivy-like vines growing on the walls.

During the period, I saw the entrance of a room, about one meter high, which was covered with soil on purpose before, and there were traces of new excavation and piles of wood chips and soil beside it, probably written by Wen Yu and the others.

A rare encounter, I bent down to enter the interior from this narrow entrance.It was different from what I thought. I thought there were some coffins or funeral objects, but I only saw plants climbing on the wall, which were the same as the outside, only more vigorous.

In the corner, there are a few burial bowls and dishes scattered here and there. Since Wen Yu has plundered them, there is nothing left. I am not interested in the things used by the dead.

Those slightly green vines stretched deeper. I stood in the middle and observed, and vaguely found that those vines had turned into words, but I couldn't understand that kind of words. It would be great if Wendi was there.

I was lost by this strange discovery, and I even had the desire to touch it. I couldn't stop the sudden impulse.

I moved closer, mentally drawing the lines, although I didn't understand what they meant.Wouldn't it be even more amazing if this was really a language?

So I walked closer and concentrated on recording these lines. To ordinary people, it seems to be just a bunch of scattered plants, but there is always a voice in my subconscious, which tells me that there is important information here.

The vines growing from the wall still smelled of earth, mixed with the smell of decay in the whole tomb. I reached out to touch it, but was scratched by the sharp thorns hidden in the dark, and a blood drop appeared on the wound.

I put it in my mouth to disinfect it, and gave up the idea of ​​touching it again.

"Anyway, we can leave in three days. There is no need to unlock all the secrets here."

I stepped back a few steps and returned to the original position, and a strange sense of disobedience appeared.Why am I so sure I will be saved after five days of isolation?

There are only a few cans of food left, whether it can survive tomorrow is a question.Even if he was lucky enough to last for five days, who would have the strength to swim so far back then?Who will open that damned stone door for us?

"Why didn't anyone find the problem?" I muttered, recalling what Jingyan said that day again.

"You will definitely work together to get through these few days, and then escape successfully."

"This absurd experience will remain in the back of your mind, and no one will know."

Such an obvious logical error, why has no one noticed it?

We all overlooked a problem. Jing Yan is a psychology major. If I remember correctly, hypnosis is also a part of psychology, and what she said to us before leaving is an obvious hint.

None of us were spared, and all of us were tricked, and so far, I am afraid that I am the only one who escaped from her hypnosis by accident.

Xiao Xiao told me before that hypnosis is like a conditioned reflex, and it needs to be practiced many times to strengthen it. Unless Jing Yan is a genius, how could she exert such a strong hypnosis on all of us in such a short period of time? hint?

If I didn't wake up this time, would I wait silently behind Shimen, full of hope, to die like everyone else?

It is only now that the problem is discovered, and it is too late. No matter how many people are reduced, there is no guarantee that the remaining people will remain energetic until the last day.If it was discovered two days ago, there may be a glimmer of hope in reducing the distribution of food and focusing on the few people with the highest possibility of escape.

Diarrhea caused by spoiled food and parasites in the water made me miserable, but fortunately these pains were only temporary and disturbed my thinking from time to time.

I calmed down and thought about it, but this hypnosis also brought us some benefits. The previous inferences are easy to draw. Although I am sorry for my partners who are in the same situation as me, there is still that possibility. If there are people with evil intentions, If he also discovered the food problem, we wouldn't be able to live without incident until now.

So should I still thank her?