Ren Heming didn't speak, he blocked the door, as if he was guarding something, his eyes swept across the huge man-made stone room, and a touch of despair sank into his eyes.
The low voice of resonance sounded in Dong Zheng's ears and was clearly captured by the inner core.
not good!
Dong Zheng's forehead jumped, and he wanted to bypass Ren Heming and rush out of the Shimen for the first time, but the door slammed shut in front of him, and the smoke and dust stirred up.
Ren Heming was staggered by Dong Zheng, and seeing that Dong Zheng was looking for a way to reopen the door or other exits, he sighed and said to Dong Zheng, who was touching every inch of the stone wall: "Don't waste your time, the stone chamber door is closed. It's completely closed after that, you can't get out from here, I've tried it countless times."
Dong Zheng turned around slowly, he stared at Ren Heming, and said, "Give me an explanation."
"I'm Ren Heming." The man in the flying fish suit with a scar on his face walked towards the center of the stone room and sat on the stone bench beside the pillar. His movements were skilled like an old man who played mahjong downstairs every day. , "And another unlucky bastard who wants to spend countless days here with you unlucky bastard."
"… What's the meaning?"
"Haven't you already guessed it?" Ren Heming threw off the embroidered spring knife from his waist and threw it on the stone table, "I am a pilgrim like you, or in other words, a brain developer selected by the library like you. Or, I worked for the country as a cryptographer before entering the pure white world."
Dong Zheng: "That is to say, this place is also a test for you by the library?"
Ren Heming corrected him: "It's a test for many people. Before you came in, it was me who existed as the 'Old Seven', and my senior brother was someone else. After you came in, I was replaced by you as a senior senior brother. The one who left here voluntarily."
Dong Zheng: "You can't find a way to complete the test?"
Ren Heming gave a short laugh: "If I could find me, I wouldn't be here talking nonsense with you, and according to my previous senior brother, he was also the 'old seventh' when he first entered, and his senior brother also has other Its people, this kind of inheritance, may have carried on unimaginable generations."
"All of us have tried our best to find our way out of here. It's like this is a box with no exit, a test with no solution."
"Impossible." Dong Zheng immediately rejected, "Since it is a selection, the library cannot be set up like this, there must be clues that we haven't been able to find, or that I made a wrong choice at a certain node. "
"Wrong choice." Ren Heming gave a brief smile, looking at Dong Zheng with a firm and serious face, his eyes pierced through time, as if he saw the old self when he first entered here.
At that time, I was also firmly convinced that something must have gone wrong.
"Well, since you think so, I can give you some help." Ren Heming stood up, he pointed to the altar at the end of the stone room, and said, "You still have that statue with you, put it in the gap, You can change the decision you made earlier."
Dong Zheng looked in the direction he was pointing, the entire stone room was open underground, nearly 100 square meters in size, and the top was five or six meters high from the ground paved with blue slate, supported by a few stone pillars hugged by two people, quite underground. The feeling of a palace.
And at the end of the altar, he took out the stone statue—after getting this thing, although he didn't know what it would do, he thought it would definitely be a key prop, so he kept it with him.
The statue's hands are folded and the face is blurred, as if praying silently.
Dong Zheng walked towards the altar, and Ren Heming also stood up and followed behind him. Dong Zheng stood in front of the protruding square platform, Ren Heming sighed and said, "Let's walk with you again, some things have to be experienced before you can believe them."
Dong Zheng still didn't understand the meaning behind his words. He raised his hand and stroked the long gap on the stage below. Dong Zheng finally looked around the stone room for a week and pressed the statue into the slot.
The stone statue is completely integrated with the square platform.
White light flowed out of it, shining brightly in front of Dong Zheng's eyes. He raised his hand to block the dazzling light. He only felt that there was a mysterious energy contained in the light, wrapping himself and Ren Heming together.
My ears are filled with incomprehensible wonderful syllables.
When the voice gradually quieted down and the light disappeared, Dong Zheng opened his eyes with difficulty, and before he could fully open it, cool water poured his head onto his face.
The man with the scar across his left eye laughed, removed the kettle from his face, and said, "Awake?"
The man wore a long red cloth strip on his head, dressed in a black flying fish suit, and wore an embroidered spring knife on his waist. He looked like he was in his thirties or forties.
It was Ren Heming.
The two horses were tied by the river to eat grass and drink water. Dong Zheng propped himself up. Ren Heming didn't talk nonsense.
start over? Dong Zheng recognized that this was the scene he experienced when he first entered.
Back in time? No, at this time, Ren Heming no longer introduced himself to him. It should be the same Ren Heming who accompanied him.
The stone statue gave him the opportunity to make a new choice.
Dong Zheng cheered up. He must have been trapped in the stone room because he didn't make the right choice last time. This time, he must be more careful.
He responded, got up from the ground, and led the horse behind Ren Heming. As before, they walked through the forest for about an hour. The vision in front was slightly opened, and they found the hole made of stones.
The steps are sloping down step by step. The sunlight in the forest can only illuminate a short section of the road. I have no idea what is going on below. The tunnel passage is pitch-black. Inexplicable chill.
Dong Zheng decided:
□ Go down and see → skip to chapter 231
△ Observing outside → skip to chapter 232
○If you feel bad, walk away → skip to chapter 233