"What's wrong?" the old man asked, puzzled.
"As I said before, the reason why there are lights in the stone room and no lights in the passageway is that the creator of the maze wants us to ignore the situation in the passageway," Zuo Qingcang walked in front of a long-lasting lantern and said, "I was wrong.
What they really want to hide is the things in front of us. " Looking at the long-lasting lantern in front of him, Zuo Qingcang used his dagger to pry open the lampshade outside the lantern. Looking at the scene inside, his face revealed a look of surprise.
In this position that the two of them had been ignoring, the light emitted from the long-lasting lantern's lampshade was not from fire, but a special kind of electric light, or rather … a light.
A silver liquid surrounded the long-lasting lantern. It was a liquid conductive metal that was transmitting electric current.
"Actually, if you think about it carefully, there's a big problem. What kind of fuel can keep the lantern lit and keep burning for more than 2,000 years? " Zuo Qingcang said slowly, "Before the earthquake, shouldn't this maze have been sealed up? If burning requires the consumption of air, then how did these lights continue burning until after the earthquake and until now?"
Zuo Qingcang looked at the long-lasting lantern in front of him and thought to himself, 'Is this liquid mercury? I really didn't expect this. Although I thought that there was a problem with these lanterns, I didn't expect them to be powered by electricity. The so-called fuel is actually a conductive medium … '
Just as Zuo Qingcang was thinking about this, his eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of confusion. He seemed to have neglected, or rather, forgotten the problem with the long-lasting lantern.
'Indeed, there's something strange!'
While thinking about this, Zuo Qingcang's right hand moved first. The sharp dagger was like a bolt of lightning in the night sky, creating an afterimage and cutting the lantern in front of him into two.
It was not just the lantern in front of him. After Zuo Qingcang's brain went into a daze, he almost could not remember what was wrong with the long-lasting lantern in front of him. The only thing he remembered was that he had to destroy all the lanterns in front of him.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
In the eyes of the old man, Zuo Qingcang seemed to have gone mad. He raised his dagger and destroyed the lamps one after another. The old man rushed up and grabbed his arm, trying to stop him.
"What are you doing? You will be plunged into complete darkness. "
"Get out of my way!"
Zuo Qingcang did not pay him any heed and continued to destroy all the longevity lamps one by one. When the last longevity lamp on the wall was also destroyed, the entire stone chamber once again sank into darkness. Only the Night Illumination Pearls in their arms continued to emit a faint glow.
In the darkness, the two of them crouched down with their hands on their foreheads. It was as if there was an ear-piercing scream raging in their heads. After a moment of intense pain, the two of them slowly opened their eyes.
"Illusions … Is it because of these eternal lamps?" the old man mumbled.
"Not bad." Zuo Qingcang rubbed his throbbing forehead and said slowly, "In fact, when ordinary people come to a maze and see a dark tunnel, they wouldn't want to extinguish the only light source in the stone room. This is a psychological flaw.
"But the key is that these eternal lamps possess illusory powers after they are lit. Not only do they trap us here, but they can also make us subconsciously ignore them."
This was why every time Zuo Qingcang came to the stone room and saw these lamps, he would think of something. However, he could not remember exactly what it was. He had been curious about the eternal lamps from the very beginning. However, he did not delve into it because of the obliviousness of the lamps.
It was only when he continued to think about it that his memories were stimulated. Under the old man's reminder, he relied on his astonishing willpower to get rid of the eternal lamps.
Of course, Zuo Qingcang still had some guesses, but he did not say them out loud.
'Were the Daoist priests of the Western Wei Dynasty already able to use electricity? Does this illusory technique use electricity to create a magnetic field to affect the human body's senses?
'Even in the most advanced army in my previous life, this kind of weapon was probably only on a conceptual blueprint. To think that the Daoist priests here could already use it to build mechanisms …'
Next, the two of them relied on the weak light from the luminous pearls to carefully investigate the stone room that had fallen into darkness.
However, after a round of investigation, the old man looked slightly disappointed. It was because even though the lamps had dimmed, the structure of the surrounding buildings did not change at all. They were still stone rooms of the same size, and there were still four passageways that led to different directions.
"Could it be that the illusory technique still hasn't been dispelled?"
"No." Zuo Qingcang touched the several scratches on the wall and said calmly, "The illusory technique has been dispelled. There are markings that we left behind earlier.
It seems that the effects of this illusory technique … "
Next, the two of them walked through the stone rooms while destroying the eternal lamps to dispel the illusory technique. Then, by creating markings, they started to build the structure of the entire maze. Without the interference of the illusory technique, the simple stone room maze was no longer impossible to decipher.
Through Zuo Qingcang's and the old man's investigations, they discovered that there were a total of 49 stone chambers. They were split into three levels, each with a different number of rooms. Due to the illusory technique, they had actually been going around in circles in these 49 stone rooms.
'So, the reason why the zombie monsters came to the tomb's entrance was probably because the illusory technique did not work. Is it because the human brain is different from their organs?'
'Moreover, although a maze of this level is difficult, it might not be able to trap the tomb raiders. As expected, due to the earthquake, some of the mechanisms in this maze might not be able to continue operating. '
Zuo Qingcang was right. Due to the earthquake, the circulation of spiritual power in this maze had been damaged, and many of the mechanisms could not continue operating. If they were fully operating, there would be interference from the internal Dao techniques. The stone rooms and passageways on the outside would also change, and there would be countless murderous traps.
If Zuo Qingcang and the old man were to face the maze that the tomb raiding team, which had dozens of Taoist priests, had faced, they might not even survive a day.
Just as Zuo Qingcang was thinking about some of the details of the maze, he and the old man had already arrived at the last stone room in the maze. Other than the path they had taken, there was only one passageway left in this last stone room. Clearly, this was the exit of the maze.
"We're finally out. To be honest, I was already in despair at the last moment." The old man sighed. "I thought that I would starve to death in the end, and then be eaten by the zombie monsters."
"We've just left the maze." Zuo Qingcang's expression was still as cold as ever. "We don't know what we'll encounter next. Don't relax."
With that, the two of them slowly walked into the passageway until they completely disappeared into the darkness.
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