Silent Killing

“Is it sound?” Old man eyes shined: “Those Corpse Monsters rely on sound to act. Is there any sound here, let’s listen and see.”

Zuo Qingcang nodded. At the moment, the two people no longer communicate, but they hold their breath and stare, listening to all around, trying to see if they can hear any sound.

But after the two stopped talking, in the dark channel, except for the night pearl that was still quietly emitting fluorescence, and the breathing sounds of the two in their ears, nothing could be heard.

The old man frowned: “Isn’t it here?”

Zuo Qingcang speculated: “This labyrinth is so complex that it was impossible for the original designer to not consider the issue of sound.

This sound problem is probably caused by the outside world. Just like the rat that escaped from the robber’s hole, it is likely to be a natural change similar to an earthquake. Which part of this maze leads to the outside world.

So this sound is likely to be heard only in a certain part of the maze. “

old man nodded: “In that case, we still have to run through this maze. Fortunately, the food is enough for 70 days, so it should be enough.”

Despite this judgment, whether it is old man or Zuo Qingcang, there is a bit of bottom in mind. But in the absence of other methods, the two continued to walk down the aisle in an attempt to find the sound of speculation.

While exploring in the maze, Zuo Qingcang will use the dagger to engrav the next number on the right hand side of the entrance channel before entering a stone room, and the numbers are counted from 1. Then every time they choose the channel, it is the middle channel.

The purpose of this is that if he wants them to keep going, in principle, as long as the mark is not removed, the maze is not endless, and they will always encounter a stone room where they have carved the mark. Then, according to the rules of the left-hand side of the entrance of each selected mark, the profile of this maze can be slowly calculated.

This is no way to know without knowing any maze theory. It also increased the time spent looking at the all around mark each time the two entered the stone room.

Came to a stone room again, old man and Zuo Qingcang checked each one, but no mark was found.

The old man said disheartenedly: “Is it really useful to make this mark? Shouldn’t our marks be erased?”

There was no expression on Zuo Qingcang’s face, but he said lightly: “I think about it carefully, this possibility is very small. One is because we have just tested it, we have observed it for half an hour, this mark is not Will disappear.

The second is that if it really disappears, it will disappear after we leave. If we haven’t encountered the mark so far, it is because the mark was erased before leaving the room without leaving any trace.

Then the other party must have the ability to perfectly restore the ground and walls. Secondly, it must be able to detect our movements and intelligently arrange the rooms. Arrange the rooms by means of unknown space or organs, and confirm that the marked room is removed before we can enter. . “

Zuo Qingcang said a lot, in fact, it means one thing: “Although this ancient tomb is very difficult to deal with, we can’t think too much about the ancients. The technical means I just said may have surpassed them. The technology they can reach. And if they have this technology, they do n’t have to be so troublesome. They can use that monitoring method to cooperate with the resilience manufacturing agency, and they will be killed. ”

The next time, the two kept walking in the stone rooms one after another. According to Zuo Qingcang’s own count, they spent about 14 hours, and the number of room marks had reached XNUMX. But until now, they have not encountered any marked rooms.

At this time, the two were resting in a new stone room. Compared to the old man’s frustration, Zuo Qingcang’s cross-legged ground, even breathing, the heartbeat does not seem to have changed greatly. From the beginning of his exploration, he was trying to minimize his physical exertion.

Because in this maze, or when food is limited, preserving physical strength and energy is obviously very important, not only allowing him to cope with possible emergencies at any time, but also reducing unnecessary food consumption.

The old man on the side touched his stomach and said, “Hungry, give me something to eat.” What the old man said in his mouth was naturally a dwarf.

Hearing the request of the old man, Zuo Qingcang didn’t move, but instead said: “It’s too early, you feel hungry now, just because you are too anxious, and today’s physical distribution is not reasonable. It’s far from you The limit.

We don’t know how long to stay next, but the food is limited. So the rest of the food is distributed by me. These foods are the guarantee of our survival, and there should be no waste at all. “

Although the old man didn’t want to go hungry, he also knew that Zuo Qingcang was right and had no choice but to agree.

Zuo Qingcang watched him feel uncomfortable and said, “You go to bed first, then I stay in the middle of the night, you stay in the middle of the night.”

Although this is said, in fact the two did not know whether it was night or day outside the tomb. They just sleep to replenish that’s all. Moreover, Zuo Qingcang stayed in the middle of the night for about five hours. He himself only spent about four hours in the middle of the night, adding a little energy to that’s all, and ensuring that he could wake up in any danger.

After all, he was still in the tomb, and he couldn’t sleep unconsciously anyway. However, Zuo Qingcang itself has been tried and tested. Like this, it is only four or five hours a day, and he can persist for more than a month.

It was the old man who had no worries when he was on the vigil at Zuo Qingcang and slept very dead.

During the vigil, Zuo Qingcang looked at the only light source in the stone room, that is, the long light on the wall, and once again filtered the clue of the stone room maze each and everyone in his mind, he always felt that something important seemed to have been missed.

There was nothing to say for a night. After the two had fallen asleep, they started to explore.

Just three days passed in this way, the room for two people’s exploration has been marked to 634, but they have not encountered any of the marked stone rooms. For three days, only the old man consumed a dwarf corpse, and their food seemed to be sufficient. But the actual situation is even worse.

I saw the old man walking in the channel, his eyes always moved quickly, and it seemed to be a bit difficult to concentrate. From time to time, shaking his arms or his eyes and his anxious eyes revealed that his mental state was a bit unstable. .

Zuo Qingcang on the other side still looks the same as three days ago, but his slightly accelerated breathing also shows that he is not without emotion.

This is also a helpless thing. For three consecutive days, all that I saw in the eyes were exactly the same stone room, as if there was no end. They even did some other tests with ropes, daggers, and night pearls, but they couldn’t find any patterns.

In the end, they had lost almost all their sense of direction and space, except they knew they were going to the middle passage.

‘The mental stress caused by this completely identical environment is too great, and I can probably sustain it for about a month. ‘Zuo Qingcang turned to look at the old man behind him:’ But if he goes on like this, he may lose his spirits. ‘

After thinking about it, in the next new stone room, Zuo Qingcang stopped suddenly.