"This is a mechanism that our team found in the literature when we were digging underground. It is precisely because of the opening of this direct corridor that the process of transporting cultural relics out has become smoother... I should remember it correctly.
of."
"Indeed, there was no such situation in the last reincarnation." Zhang Ke frowned and said, "Is the angle wrong? Try changing the direction."
"I've tried every direction, force or posture I can think of, but it just won't move -" Ye Suling's tone was full of self-doubt, "Did I remember it wrong and it's not this brick?"
"At least my memory cannot be wrong. In my last reincarnation, I saw with my own eyes the secret passage you opened with it. Why has there been such a huge change this time? Obviously we have not done anything unnecessary."
Zhang Ke vaguely sensed something was wrong, but was completely unable to explain the situation in front of him.
"Look for another place... Maybe it's because it's dark here and everything looks the same. Did you remember the location of the bricks wrong?" When Ye Suling said this, she was not very firm. After all, she had not been reincarnated.
memory, but based on the past archaeological experience at the Chunshen ruins, this Liuhe spiral brick is indeed a hidden compartment with a mechanism.
"It seems that I can only look around..." Although Zhang Ke was extremely sure that he would not remember so wrongly, it seemed that there was no better choice at the moment. The two of them could only rely on the dim light of the ever-burning lamp.
, in the circular corridor of the earth-shaking ruins, looking for other bricks with Liuhe threads everywhere.
"...No, there is no second identical brick here." After the two of them went around several times and met again at one place, they came to the exact same conclusion:
——The brick that cannot be pushed in or taken out is the only brick with a Liuhe whorl pattern in the entire circular corridor. If it is not a secret grid that opens the secret passage, it means that Ye Suling has remembered it from the beginning.
wrong.
"But...if I remember wrongly, how did we return to the ground in the last reincarnation?" This time, even Zhang Ke's tone was a bit doubtful. Could it be that his own memory was confused? But he obviously returned to the ground.
On the ground, everything after the sun rises is so real, not like a false dream.
"Let's look for it again. Maybe the real secret compartment is not on the wall, but on the ceiling -" Ye Suling still refused to give up. She felt that she had not found the correct mechanism, so she stepped on a raised square stone on the ground and used
The cell phone light illuminates the ceiling, preparing to carefully check whether there are bricks with special patterns above the head.
"Wait a minute - where did your stepping stone come from?" Zhang Ke suddenly asked.
"What? Ah? I stepped on this piece? It must have been there." Ye Suling said casually.
"Really? We just walked around the corridor several times, and I didn't find any raised stones on the ground." Zhang Ke said, "Besides, it is still so square and square, with edges and corners. It is obviously man-made."
Cut ashlar.”
"Uh..." Ye Suling got down from the stone, glanced at it, and said, "I didn't pay special attention to the ground before, but I also forgot whether there was this stone before... maybe it was because the surrounding ground was shaking, and
Where did it come from?"
Ye Suling bent down to pick up the square stone, only to realize that there was no gap between it and the ground, so it was impossible to pick it up - it seemed to be rooted and fixed on the floor beneath her feet.
At the same time, the two noticed the earthquake-like shaking around them, which seemed to have finally stopped for a moment.
"This stone...are you sure you haven't seen it before?" Ye Suling asked in disbelief, "It is rooted in the ground. It couldn't have been shaken just now."
"I'm pretty sure, because I've walked around this corridor at least twice as many times as you. In the last reincarnation, we didn't know where the hidden cells were, so we carefully searched and groped for them almost inch by inch. There were so many spots on the ground.
An obvious piece of square stone cannot be completely unimpressive, which is why I felt strange just now." Zhang Ke pondered and said:
"Then where did it come from now? It doesn't necessarily grow out of the ground on the spot, right? Or... someone secretly stuck it to the ground while we weren't paying attention?"
"...It sounds a bit scary. You can add an extra stone to the ground so silently, and we haven't found out whether it is a human or a ghost?" Ye Suling said, "Although I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but this
It’s too weird.”
"Rather than saying that a ghost moved the stone here, what I suspect more is..." Zhang Ke hesitated for a moment before expressing his guess, "Are we still staying in the same place? Is it the Chunshen ruins from before?
?Although the surrounding environment layout is exactly the same, the hidden bricks that cannot be pushed and the mysterious ashlar stones that are inexplicably raised on the ground are phenomena that have never happened before. "
"At least... this place is the same as the Chunshen ruins in my impression, although I can't explain what you said." Ye Suling said, "It is impossible for there to be two such highly similar Chunshen ruins. If there really are
, one of them must have been artificially constructed, but what is the purpose? Is it just to tease us?"
"...Forget it, let's keep looking. It stopped for a while, but now it continues to shake." Zhang Ke waved his hand and said, "It seems that instead of going to the ground to find the intentions and truth of those mysterious people, we are now
We must first focus on how to escape from the ruins."
The two of them were speechless for a moment, and then they started to hold on to the wall and explore carefully - the entire Chunshen ruins were not particularly large, especially the central core altar area where they could not enter and exit at will. They could only walk around in the circular corridor surrounding the altar room.
Come on, as for those cells and torture rooms, firstly, there was not enough light to see anything, and secondly, even with a flashlight, no special clues were found.
"Uh...how could this happen?"
Suddenly, Ye Suling stopped Zhang Ke and said, "Come over and have a look. Have you seen this stone before?"
"What? There's another square stone?" Zhang Ke came over after hearing this and couldn't believe his eyes.
Sure enough, a certain distance away from the previously inexplicable square stone, another stone that looked almost exactly the same suddenly appeared there without any warning.
"...There shouldn't be such a stone before, right? According to what you said before." Ye Suling said in disbelief, "It should have appeared in these few minutes, and from a height perspective, it is higher than the first square stone."