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"What method?"

When the silent crowd heard my exclamation, they all stood up and looked at me eagerly.

"Since the stone staircase is controlled by a mechanism and it might even move, it means that the fork of the road is definitely hidden in a place that we can't find. Even if we continue to walk forward, there's a high chance that we'll still be confused, but there's one thing that we definitely won't be confused about!"

The monk and Hai Yang were both confused. Only Zhu Yingqiong thought for a bit and then pointed at the rope on the ground: "You mean it?"

I nodded. "That's right, no matter how Chen Jun constructed this stone step, although it can confuse people, but you must not confuse the lifeless rope!"

Hai Yang said, "Aren't you just talking nonsense? We already used a rope before, so didn't it break?"

I laughed and said, "It just needed to be broken, so we guessed that the stone steps might have been moved, so the rope entered the hidden passageway. When the stone steps moved, the rope would break, but we couldn't sense it, which is why the monk felt the rope suddenly tighten, and then relax. We just need to pull the rope once more, no matter where we go, as long as we break in some place, we will reach the fork."

This was actually like a moving circle. At a certain point in the circle, there was another path. Both ends of the path were connected to two different points in the circle, which was called a fork in the road.

It was possible that we had accidentally entered the fork in the road, but we thought we were still on the road, so we kept going until we got out of the fork and back to the starting point, and then we would never be able to get out again.

Because the circle moved, it caused the rope to break. Previously, when I heard the footsteps of the sea and didn't see him, it was most likely because I was on the path of the circle and the sea was running along a fork in the road, so I couldn't hear anything.

Now, once we find the junction of the fork and the circle, we'll know for sure that we've entered the fork, and that we'll be able to find the exit if we search the fork carefully.

However, Zhu Yingqiong raised another question: "There is still one more problem, we need to leave one person standing at the same place to pull the rope, in order for the rope to tighten. But if the entire flight of stairs is moved, the rope that we just entered into the fork would snap, what about the other person? He alone will not be able to find the fork in the road. He will only be trapped here forever. "

If we were outside, we could have secured the rope to the starting point with a shovel or something, but now we don't have any tools in our hands to hold the rope in place, which creates the thorny problem of having to leave a man to pull the rope.

The monk immediately said, "Then let me pull the rope!"

Monk is the most loyal person to Fourth Uncle, and because of Fourth Uncle, my Crown Prince Chen was also respected by him. This is actually very uncomfortable in my heart.

The reason why the monk stayed was because the Fourth Uncle had asked him to protect me. Even if he risked his life, he had to protect me thoroughly.

Hai Yang said in disdain, "What kind of discussion is this? Bald ass, this guy is stupid. One of you grew up drinking ink while the other was a university student. "When the rope breaks, as long as the person pulling the rope doesn't pull it, the rope will be placed at the fork in the road. If you walk to the end of the rope, that would be the fork in the road. What kind of difficulty is that?"

When I heard this, I also felt that it made sense. I thought to myself that we were really fooled silly by this circular stone staircase. To think that we couldn't think of such a simple question, no wonder we were despised by the sea.

We didn't waste any more time. The sea took hold of one end of the rope, and the three of us pulled the other end down the stone steps. The monk said that the rope would stretch and relax in about seven minutes.

We walked quickly, and in the middle of it I kept looking at the stone steps, expecting to see a change at the crossroads, but I couldn't see anything. I had no idea how the circular stone steps were built.

Just like what the monk said, in about six to seven minutes, I felt the rope being stretched taut, probably reaching the limit of its length. When we looked back, we discovered that behind us was still an endless flight of stone steps, and we also did not know whether we had entered the fork in the road or not. Just as we were wondering, we walked for another ten meters, and immediately, I felt something at my waist tremble.

Could this be the fork in the road?

I was extremely confused. I raised my head and looked at the stone steps. They were all the same. Even the walls on both sides of the mountain were similar. No matter how I looked at it, I didn't seem to have entered another path.

We looked at each other, thinking that if we followed the broken rope back, we would be able to see the fork in the road. However, after we had gone back a short distance, I saw the sea pulling the rope down step by step.

Hai Yang saw us and immediately asked, "Hey, didn't you guys come to the fork in the road?"

We shook our heads blankly and looked at the rope on the ground again. It was the same as the last time, extremely flat, as if it had been cut off by a sharp weapon. It didn't look like it had been broken by stone steps or by some mechanism.

Hai Yang immediately said dejectedly, "Crap, I knew it wouldn't be that simple. It seems there's no other way. The stone steps are circular. We're overthinking it."

Zhu Yingqiong shook her head: "But why didn't the two of you run in the opposite direction earlier? I think there must be another intersection, it just doesn't have anything to do with the rope breaking."

The monk frowned and asked, "How did the rope break?"

No one was able to answer me. Our excited mood quickly sank into depression again. I was getting more and more confused as to what exactly was going on with these stone steps. Why is there a situation where neither I nor the sea can meet, but we can walk back to where we started?

Just as I was lost in my thoughts, I suddenly heard the monk's surprised exclamation. I turned around and saw that he was squatting in front of two broken ropes. However, he had raised his head to look at the mountain wall before him.

"What's wrong?"

We hastily went over to ask. The monk pointed at the mountain wall and used his flashlight to shake it. "Have you seen this before?"

I raised my head to look at the mountain wall, and realized that what the monk was referring to was probably a fresco that was carved on top of it, but it was very blurry, and I could barely make out the shape. Just by looking at it, my heart skipped a beat, this picture is actually the strange stone statue that Zhu Yingqiong and I saw in the White Kingdom Sacrifice Temple.

No matter how you look at it, it seemed like a werewolf. Zhu Yingqiong had said that this could be the totem of the People of White Kingdom, because we saw the carvings earlier, and there was even a human head and snake body beneath the totem, which was the symbol of the nation of Nanzhao, meaning that the People of White Kingdom had stepped on the man with Nanzhao beneath his feet.

Why did a mural suddenly appear here? We didn't see it before?

Curious, I groped with my hand for the mural, but as soon as my fingers touched it, small chunks of gravel and earth began to fall, like dry paint, and then the whole body of the mural was exposed.

Zhu Yingqiong picked up a layer of dirt and looked at it before saying in shock, "Something's not right, this is not a stone from Wild Mountain. There's still some paint on it.

Someone painted it on purpose? Was he trying to hide something?

I suddenly shouted in shock, "Quickly take the dagger and dig through the surface layer to see what these murals are."

Hearing my cry of surprise, everyone moved together and a layer of the mountain wall was opened up. The dry and cracked paint quickly fell off and the original appearance of the mountain wall was revealed. It was actually a mountain rock, but what is horrifying is that these rocks were filled with all kinds of people.

There were the totems we had seen before, and there were also a lot of stooped figures, and each of their faces was painted very vividly, with a hideous and frightened expression, as if it had been imprinted with a human face.

The soil layer was more than ten meters away from us, and it wasn't finished yet, it was filled with people's figures that were drawn, it was extremely horrifying, I immediately understood, the layer of rock that looked like stone paint on the surface of these rocks was probably made by Sakyamuni Army back then, to cover up these murals!

But why would they do that?

What was the connection between these murals and the mountain of the dead?

"Damn, this isn't a mural!"

I turned my head and saw him touching a rock with his palm and exclaiming, "These murals seem to be filled with people. Look, there are even people wearing military uniforms and lances on them. Did the People of White Kingdom have guns and modern military uniforms? And it's all f * cking Japanese! "

My expression changed drastically as I looked at the mountain wall again. I discovered that there were many people wearing military uniforms with guns on them. From their ferocious faces, they looked exactly the same as real people.

These murals were painted by the People of White Kingdom back in the day. It was impossible for them to paint the Japanese on top of the murals, and there was no need for the Japanese to take the time to paint the walls black.

Were they hiding something?

The sea said these were real people, could it be?

An unbelievable thought suddenly popped into my mind as I hastily shouted, "Don't touch it, quickly leave the stone wall!"

However, just as I finished my sentence, Hai Yang's terrified voice sounded. "Quickly, save me!"