Card Room - 268. Chapter 375-376

【Chapter 375, Yin Yang Mirror】

Xiao Lou’s words made the other five people feel puzzled, and they leaned over to look at this mirror.

It was also the first time that Yu Hanjiang heard the term “yin-yang mirror”. He carefully looked at the bronze mirror in Xiao Lou’s hand, and soon discovered that the appearance of himself in the mirror was distorted–because the bronze mirror transformed his appearance. Up flip.

This effect is a bit like a “haha mirror” in a park. In principle, it should be based on the refraction of light and the unevenness of the mirror surface to cause the image in the mirror to be distorted and deformed to a certain extent.

Xiao Lou explained: “In the legend, the yin and yang mirror has both yin and yang. The yin side is death and the yang side is life. There is also a saying that the yin and yang mirror can see ghosts from the underworld… However, the mirror we found seems to be different Doesn’t it have the function of seeing ghosts in the underworld in Xianxia novels? It just reverses the projected portrait.”

“Let me see.” Tang Ci stretched out his hand, and Xiao Lou handed him the bronze mirror.

Tang Ci didn’t look at his face in the mirror, but carefully studied whether there was any hidden mechanism in the mirror.

Soon, Tang Ci discovered that there was actually an interlayer in the middle of this bronze mirror, but it could not be opened if it was fixed. He frowned for a while, then looked at Xiao Lou and said, “Where is the compass?”

Xiao Lou handed him the compass he had just found in another secret room.

Tang Ci held the yin and yang mirror with one hand, flipped it to the back, and then gently placed the compass on the bronze mirror. To everyone’s surprise, the needles on the original compass did not move at all, but at the moment when the compass and the yin and yang mirror lightly touched , The pointer above suddenly began to spin quickly.

The hands continued to rotate several times before finally stabilizing. From the position of the compass, the downward direction of the steps should be east.

Lao Mo wondered: “Is this yin-yang mirror used to activate the compass?”

Tang Ci returned the mirror and the compass to Xiao Lou, saying: “The manufacturing principle of ancient compasses was based on the attraction of the earth’s magnetic field, which is the same as the compass. This yin-yang mirror has a mirror on one side, and the other side looks like ancient bronze, but the material is In fact, it is not pure copper. I found that magnets are actually mixed into this copper mirror, because there are some magnets in the materials of my wheelchair, which will react when it comes close to the mirror.”

Lu Jiuchuan thoughtfully touched his chin: “That is to say, the magnet in the bronze mirror can be used to activate the compass and restore the function of the compass. The things found in the two secret rooms are used as props for us to help us get out of the maze. ?”

Xiao Lou looked back at the two secret rooms.

Like the stone gates encountered when entering the maze, they both judge the direction of the dance of the men and women in the sacrificial totem, and turn the lantern to open the door.

They have experienced so many square secret rooms before, and the opening method of each secret room is different. But now, the opening method of the gate is exactly the same as the opening method of the stone doors in these two small secret rooms.

The only explanation is that they have not really entered the maze.

This section of the road just walked is only the entrance of the maze, the “preheating” area leading to the underground maze. The compass and the yin-yang mirror also have no direct contact with the owner of the tomb, they are just props given to them by the gatekeepers.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said: “Brother Nine is right. What we have just walked through should be just the entrance of the maze, just like the props given to the player by the boss when playing a room escape game. The compass and the Yin and Yang mirror are in the next step. It may be of great use in the passage.”

Xiao Lou handed the compass to Lao Mo, and the Yin-Yang Jing put away by himself.

Lu Jiuchuan had already started to have a headache, rubbing his temples and said, “Fucking for a long time and opening three doors, is this a fucking prelude?”

Tang Ci glanced at him, and seemed to be accustomed to swearing at him. He calmly said: “According to the statistics of the Intelligence Bureau, Fang Pian Zhou Chang is different from the Fang Pian secret room. An ordinary Fang Pian secret room can be walked out in a few hours. Fang Pian Zhouchang is notoriously time-consuming. Some teams can’t find the exit of the maze for days or nights, and starve to death in the maze.”

When Lao Mo heard this, his face became pale suddenly, and his fists were firmly clenched on his side.

Under the light of Ye Mingzhu, Lao Mo’s pale face was like a ghost. Liu Qiao was the closest to him and found that something was wrong with him. He hurriedly cared and said, “Uncle Mo, what’s wrong with you?”

Lao Mo’s voice was hoarse: “My previous team was often destroyed during Fang Pian Zhou, and I was the only one left…”

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang also thought of this incident. When teaming up with Lao Mo at the beginning, Lao Mo mentioned his previous team-his team is just an unremarkable one of many challenger teams. Everyone’s scores for clearance rooms are not high, and they don’t have that much in their hands. Multi-S card, the strength is very average, so in a square film week, a team of more than ten people died until only he was left.

In order to survive, Lao Mo started an “intermediary” business in the main city, introducing hotels, renting houses to new challengers, and joining a design company as a decoration designer for local residents.

After meeting Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang, he regained his confidence in clearing the secret room and joined Xiao Lou’s team.

Xiao Lou walked in front of Lao Mo and said, “Lao Mo, the Zhou Chang you mentioned, if you remember correctly, it is [Rotating Labyrinth]?”

Mo Xuemin nodded with a sullen face: “I was very impressed that Zhou Chang. Every time the maze would rotate 90 degrees, many challengers dazzled and couldn’t find the exit. Someone accidentally stepped on it. They were shot to death by random arrows when they arrived at the institution; some people were killed by the opponent after encountering a hunter…”

Hunter!

There has never been a hunter in the previous fixed square maze. But during the week that Lao Mo experienced, hunters did indeed appear. This is also the key reason for the heavy casualties of their team that week.

Tang Ci calmly said: “The [Rotating Maze] that Mr. Mo said was a weekly movie of more than a month ago. The challenger death rate as calculated by the Intelligence Bureau exceeded 30%. Zhou Chang’s background was a maze contest. Many challengers They are forced to compete, so there will be hunters mixing in and assassinating them in the maze.”

Lu Jiuchuan frowned: “As far as I know, it is not as easy for a hunter to enter the square film week, not as easy as the spade. The square film is a closed maze, unlike the open world like spades. This time. Zhouchang in Zhouchang is an underground tomb again. If they want to come in, they have to open the mechanism themselves.”

Tang Ci said: “We have done statistics. The probability of hunters appearing in square films is about 2%, that is, only about 2 teams of 100 teams will encounter hunters. Will we be the ones? 2% of the unlucky team?”

Lu Jiuchuan’s mouth pulled out a helpless wry smile: “My identity has been exposed, if they insist on chasing me…maybe they will track my location and follow this underground tomb.”

In other words, they played a prelude for a long time and got the Yin Yang mirror and the compass. At present, it is not clear how big this underground tomb is and how many dangerous organs are there…

What’s more frightening is that there might be hunters coming out from behind to stabbing knives at critical moments?

It seems that this week is really dangerous as never before.

Without the interference of hunters, Xiao Lou will solve various organ puzzles, Mr. Gui Lao understands history and archaeology, Tang Ci is familiar with various machinery, Lao Mo is also a maze guide with a strong sense of direction, and the strength of their team. , Is definitely one of the best among all challenger teams. This week, all teams are often ranked together, and they cannot fall to the last 20% and be eliminated at the end.

But once there are hunters, that’s not necessarily the case.

Xiao Lou’s heart couldn’t help but tense. He pressed the voice headset in his ear and asked: “Owner, how about you?”

Mr. Gui Lao’s voice soon rang in everyone’s ears: “I found two small secret rooms. The solution of the mechanism is the same as the stone door that I saw at the beginning. Inside the secret room is a compass and a mirror.”

Xiao Lou asked, “What color is the back of the mirror?”

Gui Yuanzhang said: “There are some white totem patterns painted on the bronze.”

Xiao Lou flipped the bronze mirror in his hand, and the black pattern painted on the back of the bronze.

——Yin-yang mirror, the sun side is white and the dark side is black. White is for life, black is for death.

This time the yin-yang mirror of the labyrinth should be divided into two, Xiao Lou got a black yin noodle, and Mr. Gui got a white yang noodle. In other words, the side where Mr. Gui is walking is likely to be the life, and the direction Xiao Lou and the others are walking may be the death.

When Mo Xuemin heard this, he quickly reacted: “From the time of stepping down, and the props that Guilao got, this maze is likely to be a symmetrical structure. The organs and institutions we will encounter next They will be very similar. But which way leads to the exit of the labyrinth, or whether the labyrinth will rotate after opening a certain mechanism, is currently unknown.”

Although Xiao Lou is holding a copper mirror with a shadow that symbolizes the “door of death”, as Lao Mo said, after they touch a certain mechanism, will the maze rotate? Or, the life and dead ends inside the maze actually cross?

It does not necessarily lead to the exit if you get a student.

Xiao Lou thought for a moment, and then went back and said: “Senior, we will continue to move in teams. It is still impossible to judge which path is correct for life and death. You must be careful. This week, we do not rule out hunting. The possibility of the person.”

Gui Yuanzhang whispered: “Okay.”

Xiao Lou asked: “Is the compass activated? Which direction are you going down the steps?”

Gui Yuanzhang said: “It has been activated, and here is Xiangxi.”

After 24 o’clock in the morning, all card skills have been refreshed.

To be on the safe side, Xiao Lou decided to place a Peach Blossom Spring here. Once he encounters unsolvable troubles, he can at least return to Peach Blossom Spring for temporary refuge. Taohuayuan has existed for 3 hours, and the whole team will be safe for the next 3 hours.

Xiao Lou summoned Tao Yuanming.

After reading the text for 10 seconds, the entrance of Taohuayuan was set by him on the stair platform between the two small secret rooms.

Lu Jiuchuan looked at the ancient man in a long shirt in front of him, and curiously asked, “What kind of card is this? Just now, I suddenly pulled me under the peach blossom tree. Is this the skill?”

Xiao Lou said: “Well, the summoning card Tao Yuanming.”

Lu Jiuchuan gave Xiao Lou a weird look: “Can you summon the ancients?”

Yu Hanjiang said indifferently: “Xiao Lou can summon many ancient people, including Su Shi, Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao, Qin Guan, Tao Yuanming, Lu Yu and even Di Renjie who is looking for clues. However, the previous secret room clearance has been relatively smooth, and Di Renjie hasn’t even once. Came out.”

Lu Jiuchuan: “…”

After a moment of silence, he gave Xiao Lou a thumbs up: “Awesome.”

Xiao Lou curiously asked, “What is the card of Brother Nine? I haven’t seen it yet.”

Lu Jiuchuan laughed and said, “I can summon Suzaku. Although it is an ancient beast, Suzaku can’t play in this kind of maze. It needs a wide space to fly. There are also some…cheetahs, lions and other beasts. ”

Yu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows: “So, your cards are all summoned beasts?”

Lu Jiuchuan helplessly lifted his forehead: “Yes, if I need it, I can ride a lion to run.”

Everyone: “…”

Tang Ci calmly brought the topic back: “Since we got the compass, let’s move on.”

Everyone adjusted their mentality and followed Lao Mo to continue to the depths of the steps.

Since the compass was transferred to Lao Mo, this time, Lao Mo, who has the best sense of direction, took the lead, with Yu Hanjiang on the side to protect it, followed by Xiao Lou, Lu Jiuchuan, Tang Ci and Liu Qiao.

The steps extend all the way down, and there is still no change around after a period of time.

There are endless spiral staircases in front of us, and everyone feels a little uneasy.

The darkness of the passage, the endless downward spiral steps, it feels like it is guiding everyone to the depths of hell.

After walking for 5 minutes, Ye Qi finally couldn’t help it. He pressed the voice headset and spit out to all his teammates: “Why are the steps endless, walking around is the same, we shouldn’t really meet Ghost hit the wall!”

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[Chapter 376 Ghost hits the wall]

The so-called ghost hitting the wall is to walk around in a circle repeatedly.

This is a common part of ghost movies. For example, in those horror campus movies, the protagonist climbs stairs frantically at night, but no matter how long he climbs, he always stays on a certain floor and can never get out.

Hearing Ye Qi’s words, Xiao Lou immediately stopped and asked Lao Mo: “Has the compass changed?”

Mo Xuemin said: “We are walking up spiral steps, and the compass needle has been circling around.”

Xiao Lou thought for a moment, then suddenly said, “Is it a circular motion?”

Everyone looked back at him, Xiao Lou explained: “Have you ever heard of an experiment? If you blindfold humans and let people walk in a straight line on a wide playground, you will find that what you walk is actually A big circle.”

He held down the voice headset to speak, so this sentence also reached the ears of the six people on the other side.

Ye Qi was stunned: “This is how ghosts hit the wall? Does it really exist in reality?”

“Yeah.” Xiao Lou nodded and said, “Biological research has found that the instinctive movement of any living thing is circular movement. The fundamental reason is that there are subtle differences in the body structure of living things. For example, the length of two human legs is actually not the same. Similarly, one leg takes a long step and the other leg has a short distance. It is like a compass with little difference in outriggers, and a circle will be drawn after a long time.”

Xiao Lou paused and added: “Because our eyes can find reference objects and our brains are constantly positioning and correcting, we can walk out of a straight line. But once we are blindfolded, we can walk by feeling. Get out of the circle. The same goes for other animals and birds. If you cover the eyes of the birds and let them fly in the sky, they will also fly out of a circle.”

Ye Qi suddenly realized: “That is to say, we are now constantly looping around the stairs. This spiral staircase seems to never end. In fact, it’s just that our eyes have hallucinations that cause our two legs to continuously move in a circle? ”

Xiao Lou said, “Yes, this should be a labyrinth illusion. Otherwise, we have been walking down, and we have walked several tens of meters. The ancients could not have dug the tomb so deep.”

Lao Mo agreed: “There must be a maze illusion, something must have affected our vision. In fact, our eyes see the downward staircase, but there is no staircase here.”

From an architectural point of view, the foundation of a modern high-rise building will not be dug so deep. When the ancients built a tomb, they would not have such a high level of technology to dig directly into the ground to a depth of 100 meters.

Old Mo picked up the compass. At this time, the needle of the compass was pointing to north.

He remembered that when the compass was activated in the secret room just now, he checked the direction, and the direction of the downward staircase was east.

Mo Xuemin took the compass and turned 90 degrees on the spot. The needle on the compass shook for a moment, and Mo Xuemin locked the “East” position.

He found that there was a wall in front of him.

The wall is no different from the surroundings, the whole wall is covered with blue-gray bricks, and there are some strange moiré decorations on it.

Mo Xuemin walked towards the wall.

He stretched out his hand to push the wall in front of him.

The next moment, everyone’s eyes widened collectively——

I saw that Old Mo’s arm passed directly through this wall!

A hint of surprise flashed in Mo Xuemin’s eyes. He continued to walk forward, his whole body seemed to be sucked in by the wall suddenly, and disappeared without a trace in an instant!

Yu Hanjiang and others immediately followed, and five people passed through the wall one after another…

Then they were shocked to find that they were actually in a wide secret room as big as a basketball court!

Xiao Lou hurriedly notified the other team with a voice headset: “Go to senior, if you remember correctly, when you found the compass in the secret room, the direction of the downward steps was to the west, right?”

Gui Yuan Zhang said: “Yes.”

Xiao Loudao: “Adjust the face and use the compass to locate the west side, and then go through the wall-these walls and steps are all phantoms.”

Hearing Xiao Lou’s words, Gui Yuanzhang immediately turned around with the compass, and after positioning to the west, he decisively led his teammates through the wall.

His low voice sounded in Xiao Lou’s ear; “It’s a secret room with a large area.”

It seems that Lao Mo’s guess is correct. The two teams encountered similar situations, but they are now facing east and the other facing west, in the opposite direction, which also confirms that this is a “symmetrical tomb”. reasoning.

Gui Yuanzhang continued: “I saw six walls, a pill furnace, and many strange charms. Are you there too?”

Xiao Lou’s eyes swept across the audience——

The tomb is about 100 square meters, spacious and empty.

Different from the dark environment outside, the tomb is brightly lit. The shape of the whole room looks like a hexagon. There are six permanent lamps hanging at six corners. At this time, all six lamps are on, so everyone can see clearly. The scene in the tomb.

In the middle of the tomb was a bronze medicine room more than one meter high, and a strange green smoke emerged from it.

Everyone immediately covered their mouths and noses vigilantly.

Yu Hanjiang frowned: “Is it poisonous?”

Xiao Lou analyzed: “It should be non-toxic, otherwise, most of the challenger teams who can’t think of the principle of ghosts hit the wall will be poisoned by the smoke while they continue to descend the stairs. Moreover, we walked the stairs for 5 minutes, and the body It’s not uncomfortable.”

Yu Hanjiang thinks about it, he said: “It seems that this smoke is the culprit that caused us to have hallucinations.”

Just now, they walked into this tomb after going down a flight of steps.

However, due to the influence of the green smoke, they have a visual illusion.

Actually, they were walking in circles around this secret room, which is why the compass needle kept turning in circles. But what they saw with their eyes was a spiral staircase leading to the dark hell.

Fortunately, everyone quickly realized that this was the illusion of a ghost hitting the wall, relying on the correct position of the compass pointer to get rid of the obscurity.

Tang Ci released the mechanical ants to explore the way, and walked quickly around the house.

The ground is okay, the mechanical ants have not encountered traps that fall into pits, nor have they triggered sword-like organs.

Everyone walked to the medicine room with confidence and observed carefully.

Six charms were pasted on the bronze medicine room, and the surrounding six walls were also covered with charms. There were so many charms that almost the entire materials were filled up, looking strangely infiltrating.

Xiao Lou didn’t understand the meaning of these spells, so he asked the old man with a voice headset.

Gui Yuanzhang’s response was also: “I don’t understand.”

It’s almost like a ghost drawing symbol.

The medicinal house is the most common hexagonal shape, with a charm of a different color attached to each side.

The structure of this secret room is exactly a hexagon. The six walls are covered with strange ghost symbols, and the roof is also covered with colorful masks. The whole room, just like a place where religious believers do things, makes people feel uncomfortable.

However, such a layout easily reminds Xiao Lou of the opening method of the agency.

Xiao Loudao: “Look at first whether there are hidden organs on the six walls. If there is no hidden grid on the wall, then the organ should be the medicine room in the middle. I guess, rotate the medicine room so that the charms and six sides of the medicine room can be rotated. Corresponding to the spells on the wall, you can open this secret room.”

After all, the medicine room has six sides, and the secret room also happens to have six walls.

There are spells on both the medicine room and the walls. The rotating medicine room corresponds to the spells on the wall. This is the most reasonable organization association.

Everyone walked separately; in front of the six walls, gently tapping and pressing the bricks with their hands…

Soon, everyone reported the result: “No hidden organs were found.”

It seems that Yaolu is the answer.

Everyone cast their eyes to the medicine room in the middle.

Liu Qiao carefully checked the six charms on the medicine house, and compared the charms on the wall, saying: “The charms on the wall are not like the charms on the medicine house, and the charms on the medicine house have different colors. , What do these spells mean?”

Xiao Lou walked to the wall in the upper left corner.

He found that the strange patterns on the charms on this wall resembled some animals, such as pigs, cows, horses, and sheep. Because of the blood-red strokes drawn on yellow paper, the patterns were a little distorted and densely covered. The wall, he didn’t distinguish it for a while.

It was confirmed after a closer look that this wall was indeed a variety of animals.

On the second wall, many evil spirits with teeth and claws are painted.

On the third wall, there are some strange scenes, and many spells also have a door painted on it.

The spells on the fourth wall are painted in the shapes of men and women. Women and men are dancing. The dance moves are very similar to those seen on the stone gate, just like a dance that the ancients danced during sacrifice.

The fifth and sixth walls are full of ghost symbols.

Xiao Lou felt his chin thoughtfully.

Six walls, a hexagonal pill furnace, a spell covering the walls…

What exactly do these mean?

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This should be the most detailed and exciting square maze! You can also guess the meaning of these spells:)