Chapter 42: Dilemma escalates
The fat man suddenly said that he had thought of it, and we were all shocked, but then we were ready to hear nonsense. We were almost used to the unreliable person of Fat man. Instead of squeezing him every time, it would be better to let him talk nonsense. And sometimes his way of thinking is different from ours, so it would be okay to listen to it.
Actually, I was not very panicked at that time, because it was not yet time to really get out of ammunition and food, but with these corpses here, I couldn't help but think of something bad in my heart. In fact, people like me even feel a little lucky in the face of such intellectual challenges. This is really much easier than meeting several rice dumplings.
Pan Zi, like me, didn't take it seriously, and asked the fat man casually: "What? Don't talk nonsense, I don't have time now?"
The fat man came to us, but said to Pan Zi: "You are just discriminating against me. I was a mess once. What I thought of this time is absolutely crucial."
Pan Zi blew up and said, "Just your little brain, then what did you think of?"
The fat man was surprisingly serious this time and said seriously: "Actually it's not the key. I just moved my mind and thought about the mechanism in the underwater tomb. You think, we were also very complicated at that time, but in fact, how simple is the matter? I wonder if we were thinking too much this time, and let the mechanism in the underwater tomb do preconceived ideas. When I encounter such a thing, I think about whether the room will move. Maybe the problem here has nothing to do with this tomb. This is just an ordinary tomb."
Pan Zi grinned and said, "Nonsense, if it were ordinary, why would I not be able to get out..."
I saw that the fat man had not finished speaking and knew there was still something else. So I waved to Pan Zi and asked the fat man to continue talking.
The fat man said, "Actually, the matter is very simple. Think about it, if there is no problem with this aisle and this tomb chamber, but we still can't get out, what's the problem? It must be with us!"
Pan Zi and I were stunned for a moment, and I said, "You mean, the vicious cycle here. Is it a problem for us?"
The fat man nodded and said, "Although I don't know what the problem is, I'm sure I'm thinking, would we give the murals a hint, or would there be some hallucinogenic gas here? We're all poisoned. I knew a mushroom, and I ate the organs in the rear. I kept spinning around, but I didn't know."
The fat man told me before that when he was a child, he used this poisonous mushroom to see the trap of hunting bears in the forest. After being hit, the bear kept spinning around until he was exhausted.
I suddenly fell into deep thought, and Pan Zi stopped talking. He frowned and began to think about the fat man's words.
Is it our own problem? If so, the difficulty of things will be completely different. But after a little consideration, I felt that it was not very correct.
In fact, Fatty’s statement is very inspiring. Maybe the facts are very close to what he said, but there is a very fatal unreasonable one, which is our own feeling. Will people who are poisoned be like this? I have never been poisoned, and people who are poisoned will definitely have a strong discomfort reaction.
As for hypnosis, I have never believed in this kind of thing because it is too targeted. It is credible to say that fat people are prone to hypnosis, but it is really unlikely that Pan Zi and I.
However, if you still return to the category of strange and erotic techniques, it is indeed difficult to come up with anything. Actually, I just conceived about a dozen methods, including two or three architectural structures that can fully realize such a layout, but the requirements of these methods are too high, that is, there must be absolute premises, such as three people must act together, our walking speed must be fixed, etc. Wang Zanghai will never design such a low success rate trap.
I suddenly wondered if I was a little too frustrated? I wondered how many years ago Wang Zanghai was. Why can't we gain any advantage?
We all thought about the problem at once and were all impatient. The fat man saw that we stopped talking after hearing him and didn't know what to do, so he had to continue pretending to behave and ponder. Later, I didn't know why, but I became more and more tired as I thought about it, and then I fell asleep.
However, he only slept for three or four hours, and was in a daze and did not slept until he heard the sound of the fat man talking to Pan Zi, and woke him up again. He got up and found that they were walking through the tomb passage again. Shunzi had obviously just run back, panting. Judging from the fat man's face, it was obvious that the result was the same and there was no progress.
I rubbed my eyes and asked what they were doing. The fat man said that he had thought for a long time but had no idea. It would be better to experiment. They just asked one person to walk in front with his eyes closed and the other person watched from behind. The two of them connected with ropes to see if they would walk halfway through. The person with eyes opened would suddenly turn around.
I was shuddered when I heard this. This was a test method that would make people collapse. It was also a loss for these people to be very nervous. If I were asked to do this, I would know that the person who was pulling the other end of the rope was still the same person.
However, the result of walking was the same. Whether you were blindfolded or closed, you felt like you were walking in a straight line, but the two of you finally walked back to the tomb. Because Shunzi was the one with his eyes closed, it was particularly difficult to walk and his face was pale.
Several people sat back on their seats, all sighing. I asked others to save some effort. In fact, such blind experiments would lead to interruption of their thinking. Then things went back to my bed, and we started to discuss meaninglessly again.
During the discussion, people always fell asleep, but fortunately, they slept alone, and several others could continue to think. In this way, we thought about it and proposed it, and then rejected it. At first, there were still many words, but later, the few people talked less and less. Six or seven hours passed without realizing it, and our stomachs started to scream again.
Finally, the fat man lit a cigarette, thought about it, and said to us: "No, it's a waste of time to think of a solution in such a scattered way. We might as well write down all the possibilities. Then summarize it into a few, and then directly verify this one, isn't it enough."
I nodded. In fact, at the end, we were discussing many questions repeatedly, and several people were in a state of chaos.
He sorted out a stone surface on the lake on the ground covered with goldware, and then wrote down a few numbers, 1, 2. 3, 4. He said: "Let's think about how many assumptions we have now. You can recall them, don't be specific, just take the approximate direction."
Pan Zi said: "The most likely thing is to have an organ."
The fat man wrote the mechanism in a place, and then Shunzi said: "Your thoughts may have something affecting our feelings, such as psychological hints or hypnosis. Let us walk back unknowingly."
The fat man said to him: "No need to say that it is so detailed." Then he wrote an illusion behind 2. Then he looked at me.
I said: "In theory, it may also be space folding."
"Your cannot be, it's too mysterious." Pan Zi said.
The fat man said, "No matter, there is a one-ten thousand possibility, we will admit it. We just made a memorandum." As he said, he wrote it on it, and wrote the space folding behind 3. Then he said, "It may be that there are ghosts." As he said, he wrote 4, there are ghosts.
"What's the point of writing it like this?" Pan Zi asked in confusion.
The fat man said, "You have read a lot of books but don't understand. I read less, and everything must be written in a pen, but this has an advantage. For example, there are a few things you can do together, and you can know it in advance, which can save a lot of time. Don't we only have two days? We still have to save some. By the way, are there 5? Who has five?"
I looked at these four points and it really included all four major subjects including quantum mechanics, metaphysics, and psychology, engineering. I really couldn't think of the fifth point in a while. The discussion we just discussed just now was actually just discussing one and two, while three and four were simply impossible.
Seeing that we didn't respond, the fat man said, "Okay. Let's verify the first and second points first. These two points can be handled together."
"What method do you use to verify?" I said strangely.
In fact, most of the experiments we can do have been done, but because of the long tomb passage, many experiments are actually useless.
The fat man suddenly smiled: "Actually, I just thought of a good idea. It is probably impossible to prove whether one or two affect us, but if you want to prove that there is no other way, you should be optimistic."
I saw the fat man full and confident feeling, and I suddenly felt something was wrong. Did this guy have any plans? He picked up the rifle on the ground and said to us: "This tomb passage is about 1,000m to 2,000m, and the full range of Type 56 killing is 400m, but the bullet can hit 3,000m. I will fire a shot here to see what the result will be."
When I heard this, I was immediately enlightened and yelled in my heart: This genius!
If it is because of our own feelings, the bullet will not feel it. The tomb passage can affect us, but it cannot affect the bullet. If the situation here can be explained by common sense, then the bullet will inevitably disappear at the end of the tomb passage and will not come back.
The perfect part of this experiment is the speed of the bullet. With such a short tomb passage, the bullet can be completely completed within 2 or 3 seconds. There is no mechanism trap, and it can work in such a short time.
But if the situation here really goes beyond the scope of explanation that common sense can be explained and enters the scope of metaphysics, then the bullet will transcend space and turn 180 degrees like us in the straight tomb passage.
Simple and beautiful, very in line with the scientific spirit. I am really a little ashamed that why I, a college student, cannot think of such a way.
But when I think about it, only people like him can think of this trick. This is the simplest logical thinking.
To determine whether there is an illusion, you have to find something that will not be affected by an illusion. If you want to find something, you have to find it nearby. After considering the three-stage formula, this method will come out immediately, which is not complicated. I suddenly felt that Wang Zanghai might have encountered an opponent. People as deliberate as him may be afraid that any trick of a fat man will be the simplest.
The fat man did it as soon as he said, and we followed him. He walked into the tomb passage, pulled the bolt, and wanted to shoot at the tomb passage.
I hurriedly shouted: "Wait!"
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Don't do this." I said, "If, I mean, if, here is so evil, then if you shoot out, you will be shot in almost an instant."
The fat man's face changed. Obviously, he thought that the first and second points were actually very likely, and he did not consider whether the third and fourth points were true at all. However, as soon as he told me, he nodded and moved the gun to the side. The bullet was parabola. If the bullet was shot back, it should fall to the ground.
We all stomped to the door. Before we were mentally prepared, the fat man suddenly shot, and a loud bang exploded in the tomb passage, followed by a series of echoes, but almost at the same time, we saw the tomb door tremble violently and a series of dust exploded.
Chapter completed!