"Professor Chu, when did you enter Huangquan City?" Zhou Wen asked directly.
If this Chuhe is really Professor Chuhe from Imperial College, then the professor Chuhe who went to Zhuolu is probably a fake.
But the counterfeit has not been discovered for so long, which means that Professor Chuhe should have come to the desert very early, so no one saw him again, otherwise the counterfeit should have been discovered long ago.
According to this inference, Professor Chuhe should have entered Huangquan City very early, otherwise he would definitely contact the outside world, and someone from the outside world should know that he was in the Great Desert instead of going to Zhuolu.
The fact is, no one knew about this situation at all, even Chuhe's family thought he was in Zhuolu, which was very wrong.
If someone hadn't deliberately cut off Professor Chuhe's connection with the outside world, it would have been that he entered Huangquan City very early, so no one knew he was here.
But with the existence of the three iron laws of Huangquan City, how did Professor Chuhe survive
"What time?" Professor Chuhe looked at him strangely and said, "It's today, didn't you encounter a big sandstorm today?"
"Today? Didn't you contact your family before you came in?" Zhou Wen asked in disbelief.
"There is no signal in the desert. How can I contact my family? About half a month ago, I went to a city outside and contacted my family once. At that time, I was very excited and told them that I had made a major discovery, and soon I will go back to reunite with them, I didn't expect..." Chu He's face was full of sadness.
Zhou Wen was completely dumbfounded at this moment. Chuhe had contacted his family half a month ago, so why didn't his family mention this matter? His family never mentioned the fact that Chuhe came to Taklamakan.
Now Zhou Wen wished he could go back immediately and ask Chuhe's family to find out what was going on.
From Zhou Wen's point of view, this was no accident. There were two professors of Chuhe who appeared in different places. Someone must be manipulating everything behind the scenes.
"Who is doing these things? If the Chu River of the Zhuolu Expedition Team is fake, then what exactly is the fake Chu River trying to do by infiltrating the expedition team? Could the disappearance of the old principal be related to him?" Zhou Wen thought of this, thinking Instead, he became active.
If someone really captured the old headmaster, then the old headmaster might still be alive.
Liu Yun was a little anxious. Zhou Wen asked for a long time, but he didn't ask any serious questions, so he had to ask himself: "Professor Chu, you came here earlier than us. Do you know what's going on here? You just appeared on it What exactly is that dimensional creature?"
"That's the Lord of Huangquan City. The bronze bell on it will ring every hour, just like the clock at home. When the clock rings seven times a day, he will appear, throw the dice, and take a life..." Chu He said tremblingly.
"Wait, when you said that the bell rings seven times a day, that means you have been here for more than one day, right?" Zhou Wen discovered the problem in Chuhe's words.
Chuhe said with a wry smile: "I also heard from others. Just now you also saw that the Lord of Huangquan City really appeared and took away people's lives. Maybe it will be my turn tomorrow. But my worries are superfluous." , I don’t know if I can survive today, and I am worried about what I will do tomorrow.”
Liuyun was immediately disappointed. He thought he could find someone who understood and found out some news about Huangquan City, but who knew that Chuhe actually entered Huangquan City on the same day as them, just a little earlier than them.
Looking carefully at Chuhe's feet, he found that he still had 132 steps left, which was less than Zhou Wen's steps.
"Professor Chu, have you heard anything about Huangquan City and the Lord of Huangquan City?" Liu Yun continued to ask unwillingly.
To Liuyun's surprise, Chuhe knew a lot more than he imagined.
According to the news that Chuhe heard, the three iron laws of Huangquan City must not be violated, otherwise he would die immediately.
And the distance of a stone slab is a number, whether it is forward and backward, or left and right repeatedly, it will be counted.
Once the number returns to zero, it means death.
Chuhe saw with his own eyes a person who blew himself up to death because his number was zero, exactly the same as the middle-aged man who died just now.
It is said that there is only one way to leave Huangquan City alive, and that is to walk to the end of the long street, step on the stone steps, reach the seat of the Netherworld God, and ring the bronze bell on it to leave Huangquancheng.
"This is impossible. From here to the stone steps, there are at least two or three thousand stone slabs. With such a small number of steps, we can't even reach the stone steps, let alone walk up the stone steps and ring the bronze bell. "Liu Yun said with a frown.
"It's not impossible to increase the number of steps. Just wait until the next hour, the gates on both sides of the long street will open, and then there will be a chance to get the number of steps." Chu He pointed to the closed gates next to him said the building.
"Do those shops sell steps? What should we buy? Is it money or dimensional crystals?" Liu Yun looked at the shops on both sides of the long street and asked.
"No, those are not shops, but torture rooms. You can be tortured in the torture room in exchange for the number of steps. The punishment in each torture room is different. If you receive different punishments, you can get a different number of steps..." Chu He When he spoke, there was fear in his eyes.
Both Zhou Wen and Liu Yun were dumbfounded. According to Chu He, there were various punishments such as burning, burning, and knife in those torture rooms.
Being branded on the chest with a piece of red-hot iron, scorching the skin and flesh, this punishment can be exchanged for five steps.
There are also ten fingers that can be exchanged for ten steps with acupuncture; scraping a piece of meat with a knife can get one step.
Although the various punishments do not require human life, they are frightening to hear.
"So, as long as we can endure the pain, we can get enough steps to walk up the stone steps?" Liu Yun said.
"It's not entirely like this. Every penalty has a step reward only when it is punished for the first time." Chuhe said.
Zhou Wen immediately went to count how many torture rooms there were on both sides of the street. According to the information Chuhe inquired, one torture room can only get about ten steps.
"There are two hundred and thirty-nine torture chambers. If we calculate that each torture chamber can obtain ten steps, then we can obtain more than two thousand steps. With such a large number of steps, can we walk up the stone steps?" Zhou Wen estimated in his heart, feeling It should be about the same, but this is only an estimate and may not be accurate.
"Junior Brother, we seem to have made a mistake..." Liu Yun's face was a little ugly, and he also thought of the same problem as Zhou Wen.
The number of steps is very tight. I am afraid that I have to go to all the torture chambers before I can reach the throne of the underworld.
But they walked all the way, and they have already missed a lot of torture chambers, and now they will waste a lot of steps by walking back and forth, making the number of steps that are not many even less.