The four of them followed the lamps pointing the way on both sides and cautiously advanced towards the coffin at the end.
There are small impurities floating in the air, making the air here much turbid than outside.
This also makes lighting tools less effective.
Fortunately, there were more than a dozen lamps on the left and right, front and back, illuminating a path forward in the turbid darkness.
But just as he reached almost halfway, the golden coffin in front disappeared from sight, as if hidden in the darkness again.
Song Qian stood still and said:
"What happened? The coffin disappeared?"
Eggplant replied:
"I didn't see any movement just now. It's probably because the lamp near the coffin has gone out over the years."
Everyone increased their vigilance, slowed down, and continued to move along the lamps towards the place where the coffin was.
But after walking for a while, Eggplant noticed something was wrong.
"Wait! Damn, something doesn't seem right. It's not that far away. Based on the distance just now, we should have arrived at the coffin a long time ago."
Everyone also stopped, Chen Ke said doubtfully:
"No way? We have been moving in this direction, so it should be right."
Eggplant said firmly:
"There is definitely a problem. I previously visually observed that the distance between the coffin and the coffin is tens of meters, and it is at least hundreds of meters away."
As a professional sniper, Eggplant's visual assessment of distance has always been very accurate.
Although he didn't have as accurate a judgment as Eggplant, Ji Han also discovered a problem.
But after all, in the dark underground, the air is turbid and unclear, and the penetrating power of the flashlight is very poor. There are only lamps on both sides for illumination, so it is possible that the distance estimation is wrong, so I suggested:
"Next, please pay attention to the distance. Let's walk for another ten minutes to see."
But this time it was the same as before, only the lamps on both sides and the darkness at the end, and nothing else.
Eggplant sat down on the ground and cursed:
"Hou Li Crab, don't leave. There is something wrong with this place. Let's not talk about where the coffin is. This tomb is too big."
Chen Ke also put down his backpack, took a breath, and asked:
"Brother Ji, how could people of that era create such a big tomb?"
Song Qian replied:
"They don't have this strength, but don't forget that they still have the power of the Divine Pillar."
Ji Han shook his head and said:
"If it's just that the space is huge, I don't think it's a big deal. What I'm afraid of is that there will be a problem with this space, and it seems like we will never be able to get to the edge."
Everyone looked at both ends of the road. Indeed, as Ji Han said, no matter in front or behind, only the lamps on both sides lead to endless darkness.
As people walk, the lamps move backward relative to each other, and new lamps will appear in the darkness ahead.
It's like walking on a huge treadmill, and no one can feel the change in distance at all.
Ji Han thought for a while and said:
"I suggest that before we go too far, we should go back to where we started and see what went wrong."
The four men repaired their problems and started walking back.
But what worried Ji Han the most happened. After walking back for half an hour, he still didn't see the wall or the hole where he came down.
Ji Han took out a multifunctional compass, but there was nothing wrong with the compass.
They are indeed walking in the same direction. Even if magnets are buried underground to interfere with the compass, it is impossible to bury so many in such a large space.
Everyone became more and more panicked as they walked, and finally had to stop.
Chen Ke was afraid and said:
"Is this a ghost road? Why can't we finish walking?"
Eggplant cursed:
"Even the place where you came in has disappeared. This damn problem is definitely not the size of the tomb. This stupid King Zhao must have used the power of the divine pillar to create an incomprehensible space."
Song Qian looked at the sacred pillar indicator light on her waist that was still on, and nodded.
After all, there is really no other explanation for the strange situation that everyone is encountering now except the divine pillar.
Eggplant asked: "Ji Han, what do you think?"
Ji Han solved the puzzle twice before, so Eggplant wanted to ask his opinion this time.
Ji Han was fascinated by Song Qian's slim waist.
Eggplant scolded: "Damn it, Ji Han, when did this happen? You are still staring at other people's waists and acting like gangsters. Now think of a way."
When Song Qian was told this by Eggplant, she also noticed that Ji Han was looking at her.
But she knew that Ji Han was not this kind of person, so she bent down and asked:
"Brother Han, did you think of something?"
Ji Han was yelled at by Eggplant and Song Qian asked, and she calmed down.
Just now I looked at the divine pillar detector on Song Qian's waist, and I did have an idea, but then I also saw the waist by the way, so I took a second look and became distracted.
He turned around and replied:
"Song Qian, is the sacred pillar detector on your waist always on after you took it off?"
Song Qian nodded and said: "Yes, it's always on, but it's just a green light, which means it's nearby, but not close."
Ji Han nodded and said:
"That's it, we've been going around in circles."
Chen Ke said "Ah":
"No way, you've walked so far and you're still walking in circles?"
But then I understood what Brother Ji meant. If everyone was really near the divine pillar when they came down, how could they still be near the divine pillar after walking so far?
Eggplant scolded: "Then the damn road is alive. If we go forward, it will go back?"
Ji Han also couldn't understand why he felt like he was always walking in the same direction since he was always moving near the sacred pillar. The same is true for the compass.
This is really hard to figure out, but there is one thing that can be verified.
Thinking about Ji Han, he asked Chen Ke for a marker, then wrote the number "1" on the lamp on the left closest to him, and then went to the lamp in front and wrote the number "2".
Song Qian was a little confused and asked:
"Brother Ji, what are you doing?"
Ji Han replied:
"Although I don't know how the mechanism here works, one thing is clear. In that era, there were definitely not many lamps made. Please come with me for a trip. I guess it won't take long before you find something.
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This time everyone followed Ji Han and continued walking forward. Every time they came to a lamp, they wrote a number.
Just after writing the thirty-second lamp.
The four people were surprised to find that the number "1" was written on the lamp in front of them.
Song Qian was surprised: "Are we going through a cycle?"
Eggplant said with a look of disbelief:
"It shouldn't be. We have been walking in a straight line, not in circles, and the compass has always pointed in the same direction."
Ji Han breathed a sigh of relief and replied:
"It is probably the power of the divine pillar that circulates the space, but no matter what method this old boy King Zhao uses, we still need to walk along the lamp, so the key to solving the problem is simple."
Chen Ke continued: "As long as we don't follow the lamp, we can break this cycle!"
Ji Han nodded. This King Zhao must have deliberately made the air here so turbid, and then used these lamps to attract people to use them, and then fell into a certain cycle that he had arranged in advance.
It made sense, and everyone regained their morale upon hearing this. They followed Ji Han to the left, passed through the lamps, and walked towards the darkness on the side.
Although the paint and turbid air here greatly reduce the flashlight's irradiation distance, with the help of the compass, you can still move forward slowly in the darkness.
After walking for a while, I saw a bright area ahead.
Everyone ran over in a hurry, only to see tree root lamps standing there.
The number "1" is also written on the side of the lamp.