Chapter 25 The possibility of escape

Tianyi and Count Boer soon caught up with the followers ahead. They were alert to this strange passage, so they walked quite slowly.

After all, human beings have an instinctive fear of mysterious things. When experiencing strange and surprising adventures, excitement and awe will always coexist. Even people like the Count who are knowledgeable and enlightened, they still have grudges when facing Tianyi every time.

Tianyi thought these people were walking too slowly, so he simply came to the front of the team and led everyone to speed up their progress.

Time is forgotten by people in the dark passages and depressing atmosphere. Except for Tianyi, all kinds of weird ideas emerge in everyone's mind. Stepping into unknown fields makes the brains of this group of people sensitive, uneasy, and start to think randomly.

No one knows how long it has passed, no one is thinking about actual problems. When the emotions of fear and doubt are about to rise to the critical point, Tianyi's steps happened to stop at this moment.

"The entrance is here." His tone was very calm and confident, giving people a sense of reliability, making people calm and stable.

The Count followed Tianyi. At this moment, he fully realized one thing, that is, as long as a reliable person speaks a sentence at a critical moment, he can immediately stabilize the morale of the army.

Tianyi's words were like the chef announced the serving, the artist said that the work was completed, the priest began to perform mass, and the robbers were ready to divide the spoils. His tone was like an expert in a certain field saying a common little thing, and there was no need to question it at all, just continue to listen to his instructions.

Looking at the slope in front of me, the whole was a huge piece of ferrous metal. The Earl saw no sign of it like a door from this thing, but since Tianyi said that this was the entrance, it must be the entrance.

The count asked, "Master, how do you open this?"

Tian Yi replied: "When the tunnel was completed, I had already slid down and opened the entrance. The black wall in front of you was just an illusory image." He said, taking the torch from the count's hand and throwing it on the slope.

I saw the torch passing through the wall and falling directly. After a few seconds, the sound of falling to the ground came.

The Count said in surprise: "Is the temple below full of magic like your bookstore?"

Tian Yi said: "No, the difference is quite big. My bookstore is like a vast treasure house of knowledge, and here... can only be regarded as a small bookshelves with only a few books."

After saying this, he looked at the change of expression on the count's face and guessed what the other party was thinking, so he added: "You have to change your way of thinking. Many times, volume does not mean anything."

The Count seemed to understand a little, but overall, he was still a little confused. Tianyi thought about it and had no explanation. He turned around and said, "Is the rope ready?"

"Yes, as you ordered yesterday, there were a lot of torches and ropes." The Count replied, waving his hand to signal the followers beside him to come over.

"Sir." The entourage took out the rope prepared in advance and walked to the entrance: "Do you need to take out the fixed nails and hook claws?"

Tianyi continued: "Of course, you must be more secure. First, four people go down, then tie the box, and the people on it slowly hang the box down. When all three boxes are down, all the people on it will go down to the ruins."

The Count seemed to have noticed something and asked, "Don't you have to leave one or two people in the passage?"

Tianyi showed a strange smile that was not easy to detect and asked, "Do you think it's necessary?"

"Well...if the tool for fixing the rope loosens and everyone goes down again, you will be trapped underneath." The Count replied.

"It's reasonable." Tianyi actually agreed with the count's statement and turned to him and said, "Then let's leave two people here." He turned around and said to his followers, "Since I plan to keep two people here, I have to explain to you some of the principles of the temple below. Otherwise, those who stay above may suspect that the rest of us will disappear after going down."

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"There is no trap in this huge room because of the existence of the hexagonal platform." The consultant was lying on his back on the hexagonal platform: "This must be a room with some special functions, and its function must be related to these seven patterns." The consultant said leisurely with his hands behind his head.

"You think you can understand it by sleeping on the pattern, right?" Winesa crossed her hands in front of her chest, stood beside the platform, looking at the consultant with an unhappy look.

"Anyway, even if I don't cover it, you won't understand it." The consultant said: "I think these textures that emit green light should also have a faint temperature. Lying in such a dense place, it may be a little warmer."

"Are you cold?" asked Venisa. "Didn't you say you can't feel cold here?"

The consultant said: "Based on the rate of temperature reduction and the uninterrupted countdown in my awake state, the temperature is almost between one degree and three degrees Celsius." He tilted his head and looked at Winesa: "Your posture at this moment is a sign of cold body. People will close their bodies as much as possible in the cold... First, they crossed their hands like this, then squatted down, tightened their necks, and finally curled up in a ball."

Winesa replied, "It's scary, but can you really be warmer than if you are lying there?"

"I don't know, there is no feeling of being uncomfortable in the cold, and it cannot be compared." The consultant said, and breathed in front of him, and the breath quickly turned into a fog of white mist: "The air that came out is visible to the naked eye." He sat up: "According to the normal plan, we should have found the treasure now and are ready to escape the ruins."

"So, what are you still lying there? Don't you look for handprints quickly?" Winesa's tone was obviously a little anxious.

"What are you anxious about? Logically speaking, you should have one more piece of cold-proof clothing than me." The consultant replied weakly.

"I don't know why, I can't even raise my interest in coming and beating you." Winesa said at him.

Unexpectedly, the consultant suddenly slapped himself in both mouths.

"What are you doing?" Venisa asked with a smile.

"Let yourself wake up. At present, my thinking is slowing down, my eyelids are very heavy. Although I don't feel tired, my body is very honest." The consultant said: "We are wearing summer clothes and staying in the winter environment. Even those who are capable can hardly last for too long." He walked down from the platform: "But we should continue to wait in place, waiting for the dark water to come to save us." He actually started hot physical exercises and said while doing it: "After reaching the room at the core of the ruins, they can grasp our whereabouts. After taking the treasure, they will definitely come to us. Now, they are very likely to leave the core and come to us halfway. Once we find a handprint to teleport away, they will lose our whereabouts.

Next, we have to move around in this ruin that can only be found by luck, and they have no time to return to the core to confirm our ever-changing position. At that time, Dark Water will make the most correct decision, which is to give up on us and leave here with the other two and the treasure.

And we, either die in traps or in the cold.”

After hearing this, Venisa became more and more uneasy. Even though the ruins could basically lose all kinds of sense of crisis, she still began to be afraid: "So there is nothing we can do but wait?"

The consultant continued to do warm-up exercises: "If it goes well, they will find us before the temperature is below minus five degrees, and then the five of us will speed up and try our best to escape."

"What if it doesn't go well?" asked Vinisa.

"In another fifteen to twenty minutes, if they have not appeared yet, then we will only face two situations in the future.

The first one is that after the dark water reaches the core of the ruins, we confirm our location, and after calculation, we decide to give up on us. Of course, your flag-holder Suyside will firmly oppose it, and our gunsmith may also oppose it. There may be a dispute next, or it may... In order to prevent the dispute from happening, Dark Water will not express its opinions at all. He will kill Suyside quietly, knock out the gunsmith, save time in the dispute, and escape from the ruins with the gunsmith, minimize the losses.

The second type is even worse, that is, they found us twenty-eight minutes or even longer. At that time, the temperature had dropped to the point where no one could survive. The four of us humans would die here. Only Dark Water had the chance to escape, provided that he could completely freeze his body's movements at the temperature to complete all the teleportation. If you are lucky, when he escaped from the ruins, our four ice sculptures would also be teleported to the room guarded by a mechanical giant bee at the entrance of the ruins. But I think that possibility is very slim. Don't forget that there are traps along the way, and Dark Water could no longer protect our corpses that looked like popsicles."

"Stop talking!" Venisa's face turned red: "From the beginning of entering this ruin, you will try your best to scare me."

The consultant smiled and said, "From what you look like now, you're really scared." He spread his hands helplessly: "It's a pity that I really didn't mean to scare you, I just said the most reasonable development after reasoning."

Winesa snorted, ignoring him, but turned around and sat on the ground with her knees in her mouth, without saying a word.

"I'm sorry," the consultant said, and at the same time another voice in his head was muttering to himself: "Why should I apologize? Well... it must be the disorganization caused by the low temperature."

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