Chapter 124 Illusion

The strange scene displayed on the screen made everyone look at each other. The wide stone chamber had two scenes, virtual and real. The illusory scene was a Qiongtai pavilion with fairy clouds and ethereal clouds. It was a three-dimensional image. There were mountains and floating clouds in the distance, and bamboo forests and flowing water nearby. , the main body is a gorgeous palace with cornices and painted buildings, surrounded by side halls. The whole scene exudes a sense of sacredness and peace.

But the real scene in the stone chamber has a ghostly atmosphere. There is a stone step in the stone chamber, about three meters wide and about two meters above the ground. At the end of the step, there is a knotted knot. The knot is Hanging from the horizontal copper pillars at the top of the stone chamber.

The row of hanged corpses is located on the right side of the stone chamber. There are eight corpses in total, five of which are mummies, and the other three are mercenaries wearing modern clothes.

These eight corpses are about two meters apart from each other. The reason why the corpses are hanging down on the right side of the stone chamber is because the copper pillar on the top is tilted to the right. The people caught in the noose will definitely struggle violently. As they struggle, , they will slide to the right, and the next noose will move to the front of the steps as they struggle, waiting for the next prey to fall into the trap.

After being surprised, everyone's attention was focused on Huang Hailin. He was a master of mechanisms. Only he could give a reasonable explanation for this strange overlapping of reality and reality.

Huang Hailin took the display screen in Xiao Qin's hand, froze the picture, and swiped to explain, "Did you see that the end of the steps is exactly the entrance to the Shadow Palace. This is an artificial illusion. As long as people are confused by the illusion, they will walk In the past, they would have been hung by a noose, which was a mixture of burlap and wire coated with animal fat and would remain tough for many years in a dry environment."

Huang Hailin took a breath here and swiped the screen again, "Look here again. There is probably a trap with built-in sharp thorns at the bottom of the steps. Its function is to prevent fish from slipping through the net. The size of these nooses is only It is suitable for men and women with a normal height of 1.6 to 1.8 meters. If there is a short or tall person who is not caught, he will fall into the trap below. If there are two people competing to run up the steps, the one who is not caught will Even if there are eight corpses hanging in the stone chamber, the actual death toll should be more than eight."

After Huang Hailin finished speaking, Wang Xinran said from the side, "You have overlooked an important point. Illusion is an illusion of the human brain. We use a camera, and the camera cannot capture the illusion."

"Can your mobile phone capture the picture on the TV?" Huang Hailin asked.

"But there is no projection device inside." Wang Xinran said.

"It can only be said that there is no modern projection device inside," Huang Hailin enlarged the screen and pointed at the four stone figures in the four corners of the stone chamber. These four stone figures are kneeling stone figures with their arms raised, holding a disk-shaped "If my guess is correct, these four disks are devices for creating illusions."

Wang Xinran nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Wu Zhongyuan asked from the side, "If someone goes in, can they get out again?"

"Theoretically, all mechanisms can be cracked." Huang Hailin said.

Others didn't know why Wu Zhongyuan asked this question, but Wang Xinran knew it. He reached out with his right hand and pinched Wu Zhongyuan's butt secretly.

Wu Zhongyuan naturally knew why Wang Xinran was pinching him, but with everyone around, he couldn't move Wang Xinran's hand away. He could only grin and say, "I'm afraid that my senior brother is in there."

Huang Hailin didn't know why and said, "Don't worry, you guys take a rest for a while and I'll try to find the correct route."

The four of them sat down leaning on the left and right stone walls. In order to save batteries, they all turned off their bright flashlights.

Wang Xinran had struck hard before, and Wu Zhongyuan was a little annoyed when he pinched her. When he saw her holding a cigarette in her mouth like a normal person, he felt even more unhappy, so he secretly reached out and treated her the same way.

Wang Xinran is wearing winter jeans.

It was relatively thick and the meat couldn't be pinched, so I grabbed it instead.

Wang Xinran held a cigarette in his mouth and looked as usual.

I grabbed a handful and it felt good, but at the same time I was a little embarrassed, but Wang Xinran pretended to be nonchalant, which was tantamount to encouraging "sin" in disguise, so he began to think about whether to feel this good feel again.

Most people have the mentality of breaking the pot and throwing it. After all, they have already touched it and they don’t care how many more times they touch it. However, breaking the pot and throwing it are all excuses. The fundamental reason is that they want to touch it, so they touch it again.

As soon as I touched it, before I could feel it carefully, a scream suddenly came from beside me, "Smelly rascal, stinky rascal"

Wang Xinran definitely wouldn't shout. It was very dark around and Yang Yi and Xiao Qin couldn't see. Huang Hailin was concentrating on the mechanism. The one who was yelling was the mynah. This guy could see things clearly in the dark and saw Wu Zhongyuan. Hand movements.

Wang Xinran was embarrassed, Wu Zhongyuan was embarrassed, Xiao Qin and others had clearly guessed what happened but they still pretended not to know, which was also embarrassing. Only the little nigger was not embarrassed and kept shouting.

"Shut up." Xiao Qin scolded.

Little nigga shut up.

The passage fell silent, but the silence at this time was full of embarrassment. Failure to explain was tantamount to acquiescence, and explanation was a cover-up.

Just when Wu Zhongyuan was mentally prepared to face and bear this embarrassment, Wang Xinran leaned towards Wu Zhongyuan generously.

Wang Xinran's action was both a rescue and a rescue, and it was also an unabashed declaration and confession. Wu Zhongyuan was not only moved but also praised and admired. He dared to take action. This guy is really a man.

However, the good mood soon turned into a bad mood. Such a good woman cannot have it. When I think about leaving in half a year, the good mood disappears in an instant, leaving only frustration and annoyance.

Huang Hailin's inference was based on the details of the passages captured by the camera. Based on these details, he needed to infer a series of changes in the three passages after the mechanism was activated.

Wu Zhongyuan originally thought that Huang Hailin could not complete such a tedious inference in a short time, but Huang Hailin only took ten minutes to infer the result.

"Let's go." Huang Hailin called for everyone to set off.

Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised, but he was the only one who was surprised. Wang Xinran and others knew Huang Hailin's accomplishments in the agency field. After listening to his words, they all stood up and prepared to go.

After packing up, Huang Hailin walked first, taking the middle road. "The safe distance is two meters. Try to be as close as possible."

After walking six meters, Huang Hailin stopped, and everyone stopped as well.

Soon, the mechanism started, and the sound of vibration and friction lasted for more than ten seconds. The path forward was still open and there was no change.

When the sound stopped, Huang Hailin walked two meters forward, stopped again, and started the mechanism again. Unknown movements and changes may have occurred in other areas, but the path forward remained unchanged.

After the friction sound disappeared, Huang Hailin walked forward another eight meters.

"Pi?" Wang Xinran discovered the pattern.

"Yes," Huang Hailin nodded, "This mechanism is infinitely changeable. The person who designed this mechanism learned from the law of pi. This mechanism was definitely not designed by the Chinese."

"Why do you say that?" Xiao Qin asked.

Huang Hailin was walking forward at this time and did not answer the call. Wu Zhongyuan answered on his behalf, "Because we have not accurately calculated pi during the period when the Sanxingdui civilization existed. In fact, ancient Greece, Babylonia and ancient India calculated pi earlier than us. .”

Xiao Qin pouted. Everyone is Chinese and they all hope that China is the most awesome. However, in fact, among the four ancient civilizations, China's civilization development is the lagging behind. This objective fact is not something that everyone is willing to accept, but when they think of it, The other three major civilizations were all wiped out by the Aryans. As long as our history and culture continue to this day, I feel much more comfortable.

Everyone walked a few steps and paused. After walking a few dozen meters, they saw the end of the passage.

Continuing to move forward, as the operation of the mechanism changes, the stone blocking the passage is moved to the right, and the passage is temporarily unobstructed.

By this time, it was almost certain that Huang Hailin's inference was correct. Everyone relaxed a little and began to chat casually.

Huang Hailin spoke first, "If we keep going along the current route, we will eventually reach the stone chamber where people were hanged."

"Isn't that a slaughterhouse and a garbage dump?" Xiao Qin said casually.

"Yes," Huang Hailin nodded, "but it is also the last checkpoint of this passage. Even if someone successfully passes this passage, if they don't understand the last checkpoint, they will get tricked there. They designed it like this, it's very Probably to prevent someone from coercing someone who knew the route into the altar.”

"What's in the altar? I'm afraid the New York Fed Bank's vault doesn't have such a high security level." Yang Yi said with a smile.

Huang Hailin continued, "It's hard to say what is in the altar, but it must be very important to them, and may even affect their life and death."

After Huang Hailin finished speaking, Wang Xinran took over, "Those people who came out to look for Wu Zhongyuan from ancient times were all warriors of their tribes and people with extraordinary abilities. Their purpose of coming here was probably to kill the altar. The monster inside, the foreign forces currently have more clues than us. They should know what is inside. They suspect that the warrior died together with the things in the altar, and the spiritual stones he carried were also left here. This That’s their purpose and motivation for coming here.”

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, everyone nodded, and Wu Zhongyuan added, "No matter what the thing inside is, it shouldn't be very big."

Everyone agreed with Wu Zhongyuan's statement. This passage has about four square meters of space for standing, and the hollow copper pillars outside will start to rotate after sensing the weight of four people. This shows that people entering the altar will not There are many, and if there is a huge thing inside, the person offering sacrifices will not be able to bring enough food to feed it.

This passage was more than a hundred meters long. With a dull friction sound, the last square stone blocking the passage sank into the ground. The scenery in front changed suddenly. A magnificent palace appeared in front of everyone, with mountains and flowing water in the distance, and the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers nearby. , like a fairyland on earth.

"How can you hear the sound?" Xiao Qin looked at Huang Hailin in confusion, "Can you still smell the fragrance of flowers?"

Huang Hailin explained, “Not only vision, but all feelings are reactions of our brains.”

Xiao Qin took out the remaining mineral water, drank the rest of the water, and threw the empty bottle out. The bottle fell on the grass beside it, crushing a few young grasses.

"How did they do it?" Xiao Qin was confused and curious. If he hadn't seen the real scene here through the camera before, no one would think that what he saw was all an illusion.

Wang Xinran squatted down and touched the steps in front of her with her hands. The feeling was exactly what she saw. However, according to the footage captured by the camera, the place she touched should be the floor of the stone chamber, not the steps leading to the noose.

"How can we break the illusion?" Wang Xinran looked at Huang Hailin.

Huang Hailin said, "The disks held by the stone figures at the four corners should be the key to creating the illusion."

Wang Xinran nodded, pulled out his pistol and looked at everyone. When everyone was mentally prepared, he fired to the right based on his memory.

After the gunshot, the vision remained, but the chirping of birds and the sound of running water disappeared.

Wang Xinran fired another shot to the left. This time the illusion disappeared, but the scent of flowers and grass was still there.

After the illusion disappeared, the stone chamber revealed its true colors, and the fairyland of the Yaotai Pavilion turned into a ghostland where corpses were hung. However, the fragrance of flowers was still there, and everyone felt very strange being inside.

Seeing that Wang Xinran was about to shoot again, Huang Hailin hurriedly raised his hand to stop him, "Don't destroy the other two places yet. I'll go over and see what the mechanism works."

After Wang Xinran nodded, he put away his pistol.

Huang Hailin stepped into the stone chamber, but stopped after taking a few steps, "No, the touch is still there, let's destroy another place."

"Upper left or upper right?" Wang Xinran drew his gun.

"It should be the upper left." Huang Hailin said.

Wang Xinran estimated the target's location based on his memory and fired a shot in the upper left corner.

"Okay, come in," Huang Hailin said. After walking a few steps and seeing that no one was following, he said, "There are no other agencies here, you can also look around.

Everyone then entered the stone room, but they did not scatter to observe, but followed Huang Hailin closely. In this case, it was safer to follow him.

Huang Hailin first went to the back of the steps to check if there were any traps there. As he expected, there was a trap more than ten meters deep behind the steps. The surroundings were slippery and the bottom of the pit was densely covered with sharp bronze thorns.

There were no complete bodies under the trap, only some scattered bones.

"The bones are messy and have obviously been moved. They may have gone down there." Huang Hailin said.

Wang Xinran nodded, "They are looking for spiritual stones."

Huang Hailin did not stay around the trap for too long, and walked towards the upper right corner. The stone man was holding something similar to a compass. It was self-contained, with a metal periphery and a walnut-sized ball in the middle. Grayish white, with jade luster when illuminated by light.

"Is it jade?" Wang Xinran asked.

"No, it should be the nose bone of a mirage," Huang Hailin said. "This animal has long been extinct. My ancestors once saw mechanisms arranged with mirage bones, but they were not so complicated."

After Huang Hailin finished speaking, he reached out and picked up the copper plate. The illusion of smell also disappeared, and the fragrance was replaced by dirty and dry breath.

Everyone was looking at the copper plates in Huang Hailin's hand. Only Wu Zhongyuan discovered the problem, "They did not destroy these copper plates, but where were the remaining five people?"