ghost market

Before officially starting to explore, I stood on the broken bridge and looked at the spiral spire carefully, hoping to imprint the terrain deeply in my mind.

The height of this minaret is astonishing.I roughly counted, and the number of floors in the corridor is about fifteen floors, and there may be more above, but I can't see clearly from my current position.The corridor under my feet is the third floor from the bottom up, and the distance from the labyrinth on the lowest floor is estimated to be more than 20 meters.Calculated according to this ratio, the height of the entire minaret is at least over [-] meters, which is not inferior even compared to the high-rise buildings in modern cities.

The space inside the tower is designed with a hollow in the middle, from the bottom to the top of the tower.There are circles of corridors spiraling on the inner wall, which look like a huge conch shell.And those broken bridges hanging in the air and extending straight to the middle space are the internal partition bones of this "big snail".

I have always felt that these broken bridges should not just be broken wrecks due to disrepair.The buildings here are very solid, and the materials used are either metal or stone, and they are of a kind we have never seen before.Along the way, although the buildings we saw were covered with dust, they looked very old.But as long as you wipe off the floating dust, you can find that their bodies are still strong, with only a little wear and tear, and they only need to be cleaned carefully to be as clean as new.

The same is true for other buildings, and there is obviously no reason for the minaret, which is the central building of the entire ancient city, to use worse materials.That being the case, why are all the bridges connecting the corridors disconnected?I think these broken bridges should have a more important role.I just don't know whether it is related to the structure of the entire minaret?Or is it something to do with those suspended stone slabs that let us out of the maze?

Think of those slates.I suddenly felt a little depressed in my heart.Ever since I was inexplicably taken out of the maze by the slate, I always thought that the nature of this slate should be similar to that of an elevator in modern society.It should have the function of stopping at any floor, and of course it can also directly lead to the top floor.If this is the case, then our team rendezvous will be much simpler.However, just now I racked my brains and researched for a long time, but in the end I couldn't figure out how to control that kind of stone slab, and I couldn't even find the slightest difference from ordinary stone slabs, so I had no choice but to give up in the end. up.

"Big wood, it's time for us to go." Xiaoqian behind me suddenly called me.

I recovered from my contemplation.A casual "hmm" in response.I looked up and looked around, and found that there were no teammates on the broken bridges, so I turned around and walked back to the corridor, and started exploring with Xiaoqian.

The corridor is much bigger than imagined.I originally thought that this kind of hollow inner gallery-style minaret would not have much space. Generally speaking, the corridors on each floor of this style of minaret are basically used as passages, and the practical area is not too large.Only the top and bottom of the tower will have some significant utility space.But after this investigation, I found that the minaret under my feet was completely different from the usual one. Not only was the main body of the corridor very wide enough for four or five people to walk side by side, but there were also many doors installed on the inner wall of the corridor. Also set up quite a few rooms.It is more appropriate to say that it is a tower-shaped building than a tower. [

Xiaoqian and I walked along the corridor. After walking for a long time, we couldn't help frowning, and our hearts were suddenly filled with doubts.reason for him.Just because the design of the corridor under the feet is very strange, although the road is wide.But it's not smooth, it's ups and downs like undulating waves, as if it was deliberately designed to prevent people from walking smoothly, and I don't know what the original intention is.

We walked forward like climbing a mountain with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and it didn't take long to walk along the corridor, but we couldn't find the passage to other floors until we went back to the original starting point.This situation confuses me and Xiaoqian, and I really can't figure out why this design is.

Could it be that the people who used to live here only relied on the floating stone slabs to go up and down the floors?

I shook my head and immediately denied this conjecture.So far, we have seen three of these mysterious ancient cities.No matter which one it is, the urban design in it is very clever, even using "technology" that we can't implement today.From this point of view, this unknown civilization is obviously very advanced, and such an advanced civilization would naturally not design such a building without backup facilities at all.

Perhaps, the channel connecting other layers is not on the bright side?

I turned my head to look at the doors installed on the inner wall of the corridor, then pulled up Xiaoqian and walked towards the nearest door.When we were investigating just now, we just took a cursory look at these doors, but didn't check them carefully.On the one hand, it is because we have always focused our search on the access stairs, so we did not take other considerations into account.On the other hand, it is to avoid unnecessary danger.After all, without knowing what is inside the door, opening the door "randomly" is likely to kill people.However, the situation at this time is obviously different. The passage leading to other floors is very likely to be behind a certain door, so even if you take risks, you have to try it.

After a few steps, we came to the door.As soon as I stood still, I quickly drew out the short knife and held it in my hand, then I winked at Xiaoqian and reached out to the door.The door didn't move at all, it seemed to be locked.Seeing this, I had to use my arm to clean up the dust first, so that I could take a closer look.

After some cleaning, the door in front of me revealed its true face.The size of the door is not very large, with a height of about [-] meters and a width of nearly one meter.The material of the door leaf should be some kind of metal, slightly brownish red in color, hard in texture, and cold to the touch.The door leaf is in the shape of a flat plate, without any decorative patterns, and there is no ventilation or anything like that. There is not even a handle for opening and closing the door. There is only a small square frame [-] centimeters square in the center of the door leaf.

When we saw this box, Xiaoqian and I were overjoyed for a moment, but we immediately felt worried again.I am delighted because although this box is smaller in size, it is the same thing as the boxes we have seen before, and we are familiar with it.Of course, it is precisely because of familiarity that we worry.This kind of thing like a "combined lock" is very difficult to solve, and no one knows whether the fluke success in the fish scale channel can be staged again.

Xiaoqian took out a flashlight to shine a light on the box, and found that the inside of the box was indeed engraved with tiny runes, but the engravings were very shallow, and it was not easy to see if the light was too dark.Since there was a rune, Xiaoqian stretched out her finger to press the rune without hesitation, intending to try it first before talking about anything else.However, this attempt failed at the very beginning.Although the runes in the small box were touched by Xiaoqian, there was no response, and they did not glow red like the runes in the big box.

Unwillingly, Xiaoqian tried several runes in a row, but there was still no response.In desperation, we had no choice but to give up this door and walk towards the next door.Now that we know the location of this kind of box, we don't need to clean up the whole door anymore, we just need to brush off the dust in the middle.We wiped it casually with our hands, and the second small box really appeared in front of our eyes, and Xiaoqian immediately started experimenting.However, the results of the experiment were dismal.The situation of this box is the same as the previous one, no matter how Xiaoqian touches it, there is no reaction at all.

In the following period of time, we kept trying one door after another, but what we got was disappointment again and again.Every door is tightly locked, even if I try my best to move it, it will be useless.Xiaoqian's attempts have also all failed. None of the small square frames carved on the door have reacted, as if this small square frame is just an ordinary decorative carving and has no magical function at all.

Although every attempt was fruitless, we still did not give up and tried one door after another in order.It is also true that as far as the current situation is concerned, we really have no better way than this mechanical attempt.

After a long while, we have already walked more than half of the corridor, and we are about to return to the starting point again.There are not many doors left that haven't been checked, only four or five.Xiaoqian and I mechanically walked to a door and mechanically wiped off the dust in the middle of the door.Afterwards, Xiaoqian mechanically touched the rune, but seeing that there was no response, I mechanically stepped forward and pressed hard, intending to go to the next door after feeling no effect.However, this time there was an unexpected change.

As soon as I exerted force on my palm, I suddenly felt something was wrong.The feeling returned from the palm is not as solid as before, but suddenly becomes empty after a slight pause, without force.I immediately realized the problem and quickly withdrew my strength, but it was too late.Driven by the initial force, the door in front of him slid open inward with no sound, quickly revealing a wide door opening. [

The sudden change made my heart tense.In order to prevent any danger, I hurriedly dragged Xiaoqian to the door, and got out of the way facing the door opening.After waiting quietly by the door for a while, seeing that there was nothing unusual, I carefully poked my head out and looked inside the door.The first thing that caught my eyes was a dark red light, not bright, but enough for me to see the environment clearly.Illuminated by the red light is a room without a household, which is roughly rectangular in shape, and the space is not very large, no more than seventy square meters.The room is very empty, without any furniture, and there are no weird mechanical equipment, but there is a staircase in the inner corner, which seems to be connected to other floors.

The moment I saw the stairs, I couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately pulled Xiaoqian into the door.At this moment, a black shadow suddenly flashed out of the corner of my eye, and then, a bright silver light jumped straight towards my throat like a poisonous snake. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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