Tianyi and Count Beauje quickly caught up with the followers in front. They were wary of this strange passage, so they walked very slowly.
After all, human beings have an instinctive fear of mysterious things. When experiencing strange and surprising adventures, excitement and awe always coexist. Even a well-informed and open-minded person like the Count still harbors grudges every time he faces Tianyi.
Tianyi felt that this group of people was walking too slowly, so he simply came to the front of the team and led everyone to speed up their progress.
Time was forgotten by people in the dark passage and depressing atmosphere. Except for Tianyi, all kinds of weird ideas emerged in everyone's mind. Stepping into the unknown realm made the brains of this group of people become confused. Sensitive, restless, and starting to have random thoughts.
No one knew how long it had been, and no one was thinking about the actual problem. When fear and doubt were about to rise to the critical point, Tianyi's footsteps happened to stop at this moment.
"The entrance is here." His tone was calm and confident, giving people a sense of reliability and making people feel calm and stable.
The earl was following Tianyi. At this moment, he fully realized one thing, that is, as long as a reliable person speaks a word at a critical moment, the morale of the army can be stabilized immediately.
Tianyi's words are like the chef announcing that the food is served, the artist saying it is finished, the priest starting mass, and the robber preparing to divide the spoils. His tone was like an expert in a certain field talking about a commonplace thing. There was no need to question it at all, just continue to listen to his instructions.
Looking at the slope in front of him, the whole thing was a huge piece of black metal. The count didn't see any sign of a door on this thing, but since Tianyi said this was the entrance, this must be the entrance.
The count asked: "Master, how do you open this?"
Tianyi replied: "When the tunnel was completed, I had already slid down and opened the entrance. The black wall in front of you is just an illusion." He said, taking the torch from the count's hand and heading up the slope. Throw.
I saw the torch passing through the wall and falling directly. After a few seconds, there was a sound of landing.
The count looked surprised and said: "Is the temple down here as full of magic as your bookstore?"
Tian Daodao: "No, the difference is quite big. My bookstore is like a vast treasure house of knowledge, but here... it can only be regarded as a small bookshelf stuffed with a few books."
After he said this, he watched the expression change on the count's face and guessed what the other person was thinking, so he added: "You have to change your way of thinking. Many times, volume doesn't mean anything."
The earl seemed to understand a little, but overall, he was still a bit confused. After thinking about it, Tian Yi let it go. There was nothing much to explain. He turned around and said, "Is the rope ready?"
"Yes, according to your instructions yesterday, we have prepared many torches and ropes." The count replied while waving his hand to the followers beside him.
"Sir." The attendant took out the rope prepared in advance and walked to the entrance: "Do you also need to take out the long nails and hooks for fixing?"
Tianyi continued: "Of course, it needs to be fixed more firmly. Four people will get down first, and then tie the box up. The people on top will slowly hoist the box down. After all three boxes have gone down, the people on top will Then all go down to the ruins."
The count seemed to notice something and asked, "Don't you need to leave one or two people in the passage?"
Tianyi showed a weird smile that was difficult to detect and asked: "Do you think this is necessary?"
"Well... if the tools that fix the rope become loose and everyone goes down again, they will be trapped underneath." The Count replied.
"It makes sense." Tianyi actually agreed with the count's statement, turned to him and said: "Then just leave two people here." He turned around again and said to his followers: "Since the plan is to leave two people, Since you are here, I have to explain to you some of the principles of this temple down there in advance. Otherwise, the people who will be staying up there for a while may suspect that the rest of us will all disappear after we go down."
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"There are no traps in this giant room because of the existence of the hexagonal platform." The consultant was already lying on his back on the hexagonal platform: "This must be a room with some special function, and its function It must be related to these seven patterns." The consultant put his hands behind his head and said leisurely.
"Do you think you can understand it by sleeping with your back against the pattern?" Vanessa crossed her arms in front of her chest, stood next to the platform, and looked at the consultant with an unhappy face.
"Anyway, even if I don't cover it, you won't be able to understand it." The consultant said: "I think these textures that emit blue light should also have a weak temperature. Lying in such a dense place, it may be a little warmer."
"Are you cold?" Vanessa asked, "Didn't you say you can't feel the cold here?"
The consultant said: "Based on the rate at which the temperature decreases and the uninterrupted countdown while I am conscious, the current temperature is approximately between one and three degrees Celsius." He tilted his head and looked at Vanessa: "What are you doing at the moment?" Posture is an expression of the coldness of the body. People in the severe cold will close their bodies as much as possible... First they cross their arms and hug their chests like this, then they squat down, tighten their necks, and finally curl up into a ball."
Vanessa replied: "That sounds scary, but can you really feel warmer when you lie there than when I stand here?"
"I don't know. I can't compare without the uncomfortable feeling of freezing." The consultant said, and breathed in front of him. His breath soon turned into a burst of white mist: "The breath coming out is already visible to the naked eye." He sat up. : "According to the normal plan, we should have found the treasure by now and are ready to escape from the ruins."
"So, what are you doing lying there? Why don't you look for fingerprints quickly?" Vanessa's tone was obviously anxious.
"Why are you in a hurry? Logically speaking, you should have one more piece of clothing to keep out the cold than me." The consultant replied weakly.
"I don't know why, but I don't even have the interest to come over and beat you up." Vanessa glared at him.
Unexpectedly, the consultant suddenly slapped both of his mouths.
"What are you doing?" Vanessa asked with a half-smile.
"Sober yourself up. Currently my thinking is slowing down and my eyelids are heavy. Although I don't feel tired, my body is very honest." The consultant said: "We are wearing summer clothes and staying in a winter environment. Even if People with abilities can hardly hold on for too long." He walked down from the platform: "But we should continue to wait where we are, waiting for Anshui and the others to rescue us." He actually started doing warm-up exercises, and said while doing it: " After arriving at the room at the core of the ruins, they will be able to track our whereabouts. After taking the treasure, they will definitely come to us. But now, they are most likely to come to us on the way out of the core. Once we find someone casually, If the handprints are sent away, they will lose our whereabouts.
Next, we have to move randomly in this ruins where only dark water can find patterns purely by luck, and they have no time to return to the core to confirm our changing position. At that time, Dark Water will make the most correct decision, which is to abandon the two of us and leave here with the other two people and the treasure.
And we will either die from the trap or the cold. "
After hearing this, Vanessa became more and more uneasy. Even though this ruins can basically make people lose all sense of crisis, she still started to be afraid: "So now we have no other choice but to wait?"
The consultant continued to do warm-up exercises: "If everything goes well, they will find us before the temperature drops below minus five degrees. Then the five of us will speed up and try our best to escape."
"What if it doesn't go well?" Vanessa asked.
"In about fifteen to twenty minutes, if they haven't appeared yet, then there are only two scenarios we face in the future.
The first one is that after dark water reaches the core of the ruins, it confirms our position, and after calculation, decides to abandon us. Of course, your flag-bearer Suisside will firmly object, and our gunsmith may also object. There may be a dispute next, or maybe... In order to prevent the dispute from happening, Anshui will not express his point of view at all. He will quietly swoop in to kill Suiside, knock out the gunsmith, save the time of the dispute, and lead The gunsmith escaped from the ruins and minimized the losses.
The second is even worse, that is, it took them twenty-eight minutes or more to find us. At that time, the temperature had dropped to the point where it was absolutely impossible for anyone to survive. The four of us humans would die here. Only Anshui had a chance to escape. The prerequisite was that he could completely freeze the movement of his body at the temperature. All transfers have been completed previously. With any luck, when he escapes from the ruins, the four ice sculptures of us will also be teleported to the room guarded by the giant mechanical bee at the entrance of the ruins. But I think that possibility is very slim. Don't forget that there are traps along the way, and it is impossible for the dark water to protect our corpses that are as tall as popsicles. "
"Stop talking!" Vanessa's face turned red: "From the moment you entered this ruins, you tried your best to scare me."
The consultant smiled and said: "From the way you look now, you are really scared." He spread his hands helplessly: "Unfortunately, I really didn't mean to scare you, I just stated the most reasonable development after reasoning. "
Vanessa snorted and ignored him. She just turned around, hugged her knees and sat on the ground without saying a word.
"I'm sorry," the consultant said, and at the same time, another voice in his head said to himself: "Why should I apologize? Well... it must be delirium caused by hypothermia."