Celestial Masters Alliance

"Tung oil wax corpse!" Shan Yu said softly.

"What?" Xiaoba asked doubtfully.

"An ancient method of making guardian warriors. In order to preserve the survival of the spiritual will, the living person is filled with wax, and then soaked in tung oil to embalm the body." Shan Yu said, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, She leaned against me and I could totally feel her fear about this.

"You mean they are not idols, but were once living people?" Xiaoba coughed and asked.

"It's the giants! I think this is the territory they guard. Because there are their bones in the passage of the tree hole." Shan Yu shrank and replied.

"How do you know this?" I asked with difficulty, turning my face to look at her pale body through the light of the small flashlight, feeling a little sad. It turned out that I didn't understand Shan Yu at all.

She shook her head, her eyes fell on the corpses of the men in black around the base of the tower and said: "The tung oil wax corpses have retreated into the base. They have no resistance and will attack again soon. Let's go quickly!"

I sighed silently and put the arrow in my hand back to my waist, looked at the wood and asked, "How are you doing?"

Mu Mu wiped the blood on the tip of his nose with the back of his hand, stood up from the ground, and asked me, "How are you?"

I coughed a few times, which made my chest hurt. Xiaoba took my backpack and put it on his back, then pulled me up from the ground and asked, "Can you walk?"

I nodded and looked at Shan Yu, a little disgusted with my own weakness. Shan Yu stood up holding on to the wall, pursed his lips and smiled: "The medicine has worked, I will be careful not to let the wound burst!"

Mu Mu helped retrieve the flashlight, hesitated for a moment as he looked at the gun dropped by the man in black on the ground, then turned and walked towards the passage to guide us.

The walls of the passage were smooth and even somewhat reflective, and I began to wonder if they were actually adobe walls. Shan Yu followed Mu Mu, his steps staggering, his hair soaked with sweat.

Xiaoba dragged me to the end, and within a few steps he started panting like an ox. I realized that I had forgotten to care about whether Xiaoba was injured, so I quickly asked: "Where are you injured?"

Xiaoba shook his head and said: "I guess those people will soon find out that the danger is over."

He must have concealed the extent of his injury by answering the question incorrectly. I glanced at Mu Mu, who was walking at the front. His steps were a bit suspended, not as firm as usual, and I became even more uneasy. Now our team can be broken through effortlessly. It's easy to catch me. Killing wood is as easy as trampling ants.

Where does this passage lead to? Can it really take us back to the ground? I became doubtful, frustrated, and confused.

Not long after walking, the passage has reached the end, and an upward staircase in the darkness seems to guide us in the direction of progress. Mu Mu stopped and stood beside the stairs, lost in thought. Shan Yu looked at the dark passage behind us, anxious and confused.

"Why don't you leave?" Xiaoba walked over the wood and walked up the stairs.

I quickly pulled him down, and he looked at me in surprise. I turned the light of my flashlight upwards and crossed it with the wooden flashlight, illuminating the outline of the stairs on the ground floor.

The staircase spiraled upward to form a square space. However, the staircase did not spiral upward all the time. Instead, it extended out to meet another square staircase that appeared out of thin air above. Then it met with another square staircase to form a square space. There are four stairs in total that do not overlap.

I was surprised by such a building. This kind of staircase has no load-bearing support at all. Even if it is on the ground and there is no load-bearing support on the ground, there should be steel wires hanging from the ceiling to disperse the downward gravity of the stairs.

But this is underground, and it's so high that the dome can't be seen at all, and there are no steel wire and iron pillars to support it. Are these stairs suspended in the air? impossible! I was sure we were standing on the ground, and I felt the pain of gravity all the time.

Mumu frowned and looked at me and said, "Penrose Stairs?"

"What? Is it that maze with four corners connected and endless corridors?" Xiaoda opened his eyes in disbelief and raised his head and said: "But that kind of thing cannot exist in the three-dimensional world. It only appears when depicting three-dimensional objects. A trompe l'oeil phenomenon on a two-dimensional plane!"

I raised my eyebrows and said, "Isn't the invisible bridge also a real thing that uses the phenomenon of optical illusion?"

"What should we do now! There is no exit on the stairs, so this is a dead end!" Xiaoba was a little discouraged and rubbed his hair vigorously to vent his anger.

"Is it just a labyrinth that tests people?" Shan Yu looked up, leaning against the stairs and stretching his neck, as if that way he could see the answer. "We are underground, and it is impossible to get out without going up. .”

My thoughts were not focused on their conversation, because grandma's dark blue figure appeared in the darkness again, and her pale face was like a weak incandescent light bulb. It was difficult not to notice. She kept talking and pointed at the bottom of the stairs. When I looked there, it was just a wall with nothing, not even a crack. What on earth did she want to tell me?

"Maybe this place is like the Invisible Bridge. It looks like a trap, but walking up it is another way to survive. Why don't we go up and try?" Xiaobao was very anxious, and his voice was close to a desperate roar.

I grabbed his wrist and said, "Wait!" After that, I walked towards the place pointed by grandma.

There is nothing unusual about the wall under the stairs. Grandma has already pointed the way for us once, so I believe that grandma is also giving me directions this time. I took out the shovel and knocked hard on the wall under the stairs with the handle of the shovel. No! The sound coming from gravity told me it was solid and had no way out. I looked at my grandma. She shook her head and pointed to the stairs. I didn’t understand what grandma meant, so I had to grin and knock on the bottom of the stairs.

Wood suddenly grabbed me, hissed slightly, took the shovel from my hand and knocked it on the back of the stairs. The shovel actually hit the air and made a hollow echo. sky! This place obviously looks empty. Even if the wolf-eye flashlight is shining on it, nothing strange can be seen. It's just another trick of optical illusion.

Mu Mu handed me the shovel and groped the invisible wall with his hands, as if doing a mirror dance. Xiaoda slapped me on the back. I hissed in pain and gasped, cursing: "Are you trying to slap me to death?"

Xiaoba immediately noticed his gaffe and immediately rubbed my back and said, "You are so amazing! Brother! How did you know there was a door here?"

I glanced back at the corner, and grandma's figure disappeared again. Thinking of the weird looks in their eyes after they said that grandma was guiding me in the pit, I could only mutter randomly: "You're blind!"

The wood hissed again, pressed his face against the invisible wall, fumbled with his fingers, and with a "bang", the invisible wall disappeared, and a narrow black hole appeared in front of him, and a cold wind instantly swept it away. My hair blew up, carrying a dry, sweet earthy smell.

"There is a way out!" Xiaoba's arm strangled my neck hard. The expression was like seeing a rainbow after the dark clouds cleared.

I winked at Xiaoba and said, "I'll take the back seat!"

Mu Mu glanced at me, then glanced at the corner of his mouth: "I'll explore the path first."

Xiaobao was very sensible. He supported Shan Yu and said, "Do you want me to carry you?"

Shan Yu shook his head and Xiaoda said, "Then I'll support you." He winked at me as he entered the doorway.