"You mean... we can't move forward anymore? Because there are ancient gods in that gap in the abyss?" Jiang Cheng asked.
"I don't know!" Xu Dingjia scratched his head hard and said: "If we continue to move forward, if we face the gap in the abyss... As a descendant of the Supreme Being, I can still bear it, but if the will of the ancient god appears. In an instant... even if it is only Just a moment! I’m afraid I may not be able to escape!”
"So, do you mean that the ancient god may not appear?" Jiang Cheng sensed a glimmer of hope and asked quickly.
"It may not appear?" Xu Dingjia became more awake and began to think seriously, "Yes, if the ancient god had appeared in the abyss gap, everything should have ended long ago! The entire orphanage is under the influence of the abyss gap, we can't It can still survive for so long. By the way! Ten years ago this place was just an ordinary place, which means... the abyss gap has not yet taken shape? That must be the case!"
Xu Dingjia came to the conclusion that the previous pressure had dissipated invisible, and said to Jiang Cheng: "Yes, the ancient god will not appear! Maybe it will appear in the future, but it will never be now."
Jiang Cheng found it difficult to understand Xu Dingjia's fear of the so-called "ancient god", but he also knew that the other party had regained confidence, and now they could indeed move forward. Just as he was about to step onto the stairs, Jiang Cheng found that Xu Dingjia had turned out the measuring ruler again. But this time, Xu Dingjia handed the measuring ruler into Jiang Cheng's hands.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Cheng looked at Xu Dingjia puzzled.
"Take it." Xu Dingjia didn't explain much, but just said: "I can't use this thing now anyway, so you can keep it for me first."
Jiang Cheng received the Heavenly Ruler and felt that the other party had ulterior motives, but now was not the time to delve into it.
"Are you ready? What we will face next is the ultimate mystery about this universe." Xu Dingjia looked nervous, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
"Compared with this, I am more concerned about what kind of secrets Chu Yan left here." Li Feng said lightly.
"Perhaps, the secret is related to the gap in the abyss." Jiang Cheng guessed: "Otherwise, she would not store such an important secret in such a dangerous place."
Xu Dingjia said: "Anyway, just go up and take a look and you will know."
The three of them stopped talking nonsense and stepped onto the long and narrow stairs together, heading to a higher floor.
For the next period of time, everything was quiet, but this calm was a different feeling. Every time he entered a new floor, Jiang Cheng felt like he was separated from the previous world. He felt that his consciousness had entered a mysterious state, and his thoughts were very peaceful but not lifeless. He could clearly feel that every thought in his mind was active, like a school of fish in the deep sea, swimming freely but silently.
silence
Jiang Cheng realized that although his thoughts were active, he didn't know what they were. This feeling is probably difficult for ordinary people to understand. Jiang Cheng himself experienced this strange feeling for the first time. He clearly felt that he was thinking, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
Recalling his previous conversation with Xu Dingjia, he had a bizarre guess. Could it be that these thoughts represented some kind of high-dimensional thinking that could not be described in mortal language, and he could not explain it with his shallow knowledge. parse it out.
Or maybe the content of these thoughts is not difficult to understand, but some kind of existence, such as a gap in the abyss, blocks the communication between thoughts and consciousness
In any case, these two speculations made Jiang Cheng very uneasy. He wanted to change his focus, and then he realized that the three of them had walked through an unknown number of floors.
"Wait!" Jiang Cheng wanted to call Xu Dingjia and Li Feng, but the two people walking in front showed no response.
Not only was there no response, Jiang Cheng looked around and suddenly found that the surroundings were completely white, with no end in sight up and down the long and narrow stairs, and they were no longer on a certain floor.
"Xu Dingjia! Li Feng!" Jiang Cheng shouted louder, but the two figures in front of him remained unmoved.
Although he didn't know what happened, Jiang Cheng clearly felt that something was wrong. When he was in doubt, he noticed that the measuring ruler in his hand was shaking violently. The trembling feeling had a strange rhythm, as if it were some kind of signal transmitted to the brain through the nerves in the arm. Jiang Cheng immediately felt a chill in his head, and the obscure thoughts finally became clear.
Jiang Cheng seemed to have some realization in his heart, but he saw the two people in front of him were getting further and further away, but it was clear that their pace was still as slow as before. The vision ahead gradually blurred, as if in a heavy fog, and the two figures were gradually swallowed up by the white fog.
"Wait a minute! Where are you going!" Jiang Cheng still shouted loudly, but he could only hear echoes in his ears.
"What exactly happened here? Could it be that this is the gap in the abyss?" After his consciousness returned to normal, Jiang Cheng's originally blank mind suddenly became complicated and unspeakable. Feelings of surprise, panic, confusion, helplessness, etc. were intertwined, and the originally agile thinking seemed to become stagnant again.
The measuring ruler is still trembling, as if only this legendary magic weapon is real. Jiang Cheng felt a little relieved, and at the same time he vaguely realized that the source of the trembling was not from the ruler itself, but from his own hand. Just like Xu Dingjia said, the measuring ruler itself has no special power, it just amplifies the subtle reactions in the user's body.
"But, I am just an ordinary person, why can I make this measuring ruler react?" Jiang Cheng was still very confused, "Didn't Xu Dingjia say that only real people or great people can produce this kind of reaction?"
"Could it be..." Jiang Cheng recalled the way Xu Dingjia looked at him, and gradually understood the reason why the other party handed this magical weapon to him.
"If this is really the case, what's the next step?" Jiang Cheng murmured to himself, his eyes falling on the magic weapon in his hand.
Strangely enough, as soon as this question was uttered, the measuring ruler stopped vibrating, but a new change occurred the next moment. The pointed end suddenly rotated, and this time Jiang Cheng clearly saw that it was indeed not the magic weapon itself that was moving, but the hand holding the measuring ruler that was shaking slightly.
Finally, the pointed tip trembled and pointed somewhere in the void.
"Xu Dingjia has used this ruler to point to the road before. Could it be that the pointed tip is pointing in the direction of escaping from this strange place?"
Although there is still some hesitation, there is no other way to think about it. Jiang Cheng can only take it one step at a time. But then the problem came again. The point pointed at was diagonally above the stairs. In other words, if he walked in this direction, Jiang Cheng would fall down the stairs.