"Well - that's all we can do now, after all we can't even get out." Ye Suling said with a bitter smile.
Having made up their mind, the two of them took action separately. Although they would meet each other every time they went around half a circle, in order not to affect each other's thoughts, the two did not exchange their thoughts immediately. They just met each other and continued to focus on
on surrounding items.
During this process, the ghost-like stones were still emerging from the ground, and they completely conformed to the rules mentioned by Zhang Ke before, with the same distance between each piece.
Zhang Ke squatted on the ground for a while and looked at the square stones that seemed to have been moved by ghosts. Then he raised his head again and looked thoughtfully at the rotating central wall in front of him.
He seemed to be aware that there was some kind of connection between the two, but because he lacked an opportunity to combine the two, he was unable to go deeper and draw a useful conclusion for the time being.
Compared with Zhang Ke who pays attention to inspiration and intuition, Ye Suling on the other side has completely different styles. Perhaps it is due to the patience and meticulousness of a woman, or maybe she has been a serious case police officer for many years and has developed a careful evidence collection and carpet-based investigation.
As is her professional habit, she was taking inventory of the items in the corridor one by one.
——She counted bricks, fences, iron locks, instruments of torture and most of the more conspicuous things in detail, but unfortunately there was no object that matched the characteristics of "six".
Then she began to carefully observe the patterns on each brick, trying to find characteristics related to Liu, but she still found nothing except the Liuhe threaded brick at the beginning.
For the two people who were paying full attention, they both felt that as they continued to explore, they were only one step away from the key clue. However, this short distance seemed as far as the end of the world, and it seemed that they could never cross it.
"Well, if we can figure out how this square stone appeared, we might be able to gain something..."
Zhang Ke looked carefully at Fang Shi again for a long time. He felt that his feet were numb from squatting and stood up. However, it was probably because he stood too hard all of a sudden that blood rushed to his head, causing him to lose his balance and half fall.
Fell to the ground.
The remaining coins from the previous bus ride rolled out of my pocket and slid forward along the ground——
"It rolled really fast!"
Zhang Ke took a step forward to catch the coin. Unexpectedly, the coin rolled unexpectedly fast. It actually took a step forward and slid forward a long distance before Zhang Ke's fingers touched it.
"Strange, is the ground so smooth?" Zhang Ke couldn't catch up with the rolling coins because of his inconvenient legs and feet. He had to watch it continue to move forward, but unexpectedly found that it never stopped and rolled out.
After more than ten meters, it stopped after hitting a square stone.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ke suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly turned around and said to Ye Suling, "Do you have a ballpoint pen on you? Or any other cylindrical or round thing?"
"I have a ballpoint pen...what's wrong?" Ye Suling was a little confused, but still took out a pen from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Ke, and asked strangely, "Are you going to write? Or do you want to reason about something?"
"This pen shouldn't have any special meaning to you, right?" Zhang Ke asked, "I've agreed beforehand that I probably won't be able to give you a complete pen. If this is a token of love given to you by Yuan Qiushi,
Things like that, please don’t hit me then.”
"What are you talking about? Stop joking." Ye Suling was a little speechless, "This is the most common ballpoint pen that costs three yuan a piece. You can use it however you want."
"Okay -" After hearing this, Zhang Ke took off the ballpoint pen cap, then brought the pen tip to the tip of his nose, and carefully pulled out the small metal ball on the pen tip with the tip of his fingernail.
Once the ballpoint is removed, the ballpoint pen itself is considered useless and can hardly be used for writing. This is why Zhang Ke asked Ye Suling just now.
"What are you doing..." Ye Suling was a little curious, but mostly confused, "Does the ballpoint pen have anything to do with the number 'six'?"
"No, I just want to confirm a bold possibility. Maybe it is just a ridiculous hypothesis - you don't need to worry about me and continue working on your side." Zhang Ke waved his hand, and Ye Suling could only look helpless.
Go away.
He very carefully placed the tiny ball on the ground, keeping his fingers as vertical as possible and not exerting any force on the ball to prevent himself from accidentally pushing it out.
However, the moment Zhang Ke let go, something magical happened -
The ball, which was supposed to have received no pushing force, automatically rolled forward, faster and faster, going farther and farther without any intention of stopping.
"Sure enough..." Zhang Ke said softly, but did not draw a conclusion immediately. Instead, he placed the ballpoint pen that had just taken off its cap horizontally on the ground.
——The barrel of the ballpoint pen is also a smooth cylinder. If the conjecture just now is true, then it should also roll on its own.
Zhang Ke stared nervously at the penholder, refusing to relax his gaze. After a moment, he saw it rolling forward in a grunting manner, which made Zhang Ke couldn't help but scream in surprise!
After that, he hurriedly ran all the way to check the various square stones that had appeared in the entire corridor. Now a total of five square stones had appeared on the ground out of thin air, and Zhang Ke was standing where he calculated that the sixth square stone was most likely to appear.
Sit back and wait.
"The victory or defeat depends on this. If I am not wrong about this, then - I have basically cracked the specific structure of this underground ruins!"
As his feet turned, Zhang Ke noticed that the originally flat ground in front of him seemed to be slowly being pushed up by something. However, if he looked carefully, he could see that it was not being pushed up, but that it had been pushed up by something just now.
In an instant, something like a gate on the ground quickly opened to both sides, revealing a rectangular gap.
Then a piece of square stone that fit the gap perfectly filled the hole in the floor and slowly emerged from it. At the same time, Zhang Ke felt that the spinning around him had temporarily stopped.
But it didn't take long before the familiar tremor returned, and the square stone "grew taller and taller." To be precise, more and more parts of the square stone were exposed to the ground, until the entire square stone was complete.
Push out the hole.
For those who have not seen the whole process, they will not find that there is a hole in the floor, because it is perfectly stuck by the four sides of the square stone without any gaps.