Chapter 147: Wheel/Plate at Sea (25)
"I can go and deal with a totem pole." Su Chen volunteered and raised his hand.
The young man naturally followed closely behind.
He didn't dare to go forward, because these two totem poles already had a very evil feeling. Reason told him that if he went forward, there would be only one outcome, and that was to leave no body behind.
The man in sunglasses thought for a moment and said, "Let me protect their safety."
This choice surprised Su Yue.
Based on my understanding of the man in sunglasses, I thought he would choose to take the risk with me.
The man in sunglasses grinned: "I've used up all my skills and I'm a little weak now. If I go any further, I'm afraid I'll die in there. Staying here is still a little useful."
Since that has been said, Su Yue couldn't say anything more. Moreover, although Moonlight Island looks peaceful, it is actually full of dangers. It would be a good thing if the man in sunglasses really stayed here to protect Su Chen and the young man's safety.
But before leaving, Su Yue patted Su Chen and the young man on the shoulders, as if to give them some protective divine power, because he couldn't figure out what the man in sunglasses was thinking.
If this person really turns against them, this little bit of divine power can allow Su Chen and the young man to escape for a while.
Cang Zhi naturally had to follow Su Yue no matter what. After saying goodbye to Su Chen, the young man and the man in sunglasses, they walked to the front of the temple, one in front and one behind.
The temple stood deep in the dense forest, its branches and leaves thick. There was definitely no sunlight during the day, and now it was night, and it was almost pitch black. Su Yue and Cang Zhi stood at the temple gate, waiting for the gate to open. Cang Zhi asked, "Do you trust the Crazy Rider?"
"It's just so-so." Su Yue replied, "I can only choose to trust him."
"What if..." Cangzhi didn't finish his sentence, but Suyue understood what he meant.
What if he lied to you? What if he wanted to harm Su Chen and the young man?
Su Yue was silent for a moment, "If he lied to me, I would kill him myself."
However, Su Yue felt that the man in sunglasses was still trustworthy.
When it comes to distinguishing good intentions from bad intentions, gods have some intuition. Su Yue's intuition tells him that the man in sunglasses would not lie to him.
Cang Zhi nodded.
The next moment, accompanied by a heavy "creaking" sound, the huge stone door in front of the temple slowly opened to the left and right.
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The door of the temple opened, and it was obvious that Su Chen and the young man with ponytail had already opened the totem pole.
Su Yue immediately stopped chatting with Cang Zhi, drew out his dagger, and prepared to deal with any dangerous situation.
In the darkness, the entire temple was pitch black, with only a stone capital on each side glowing, like a pair of reflective eyes, making the temple look like a ferocious beast with its mouth wide open in the darkness.
After the stone door was fully opened, Su Yue took a look inside and clicked his tongue.
He saw a rather strange trail.
This is a descending trail. The ground, the ceiling, and the rock walls on both sides are all ochre-red.
The road is obviously very wide, but the ceiling is very low, so it feels particularly oppressive. When walking on the road, you can hear very clear footsteps.
Temples are related to gods in any culture, so no matter whether they are gorgeous or simple, the interior of the temple will present a solemn attribute.
But the ochre-red color of the temple's walls is already too bright and a bit exaggerated, a bit weird, like the color of blood congealed on the wall.
"That's quite devious." Su Yue looked around and uttered a sigh, "Why is a temple repairman so popular? Is he getting married?"
Cang Zhi: “…”
The long ochre-red path had no effect on Su Yue at all. When he reached the bottom of the slope, a stone tablet appeared in front of him. On the stone tablet were twisted, reptilian characters, but because it was a game, Su Yue was able to understand the meaning of these characters.
The name of the temple is engraved on the stone tablet.
"Temple of Poseidon".
The characters were also blood red, and at first glance they seemed to be swimming.
Su Yue patted the stone tablet and said, "What do you mean, a celebrity check-in spot? I didn't bring my phone with me, what a pity."
Cang Zhi: “…”
If the stone tablet had a spirit, it would have jumped up and punched Su Yue.
Under Su Yue's violent verbal attack, this eerie red temple didn't seem so scary anymore. The two continued to move forward. Unexpectedly, just as they stepped past the stone tablet of "Temple of Poseidon", clear bird calls suddenly came from the sky. Just like before, Su Yue triggered a hidden task.
This time, the hidden mission is to "complete the sacrifice in the Temple of Poseidon."
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Now there is no way to think about what "completing the sacrifice" means, because they haven't even seen the altar. Su Yue and Cang Zhi can only keep moving forward.
There are many forks in the road ahead, and there is no pattern to these forks. They are like tree branches, one on the left, one on the right, and sometimes two suddenly appear on the left.
Su Yue ignored the first fork in the road, but when he reached the second fork, he stopped and looked.
When he reached the third fork in the road, he sighed and started walking back.
There were so many forks in the road, indicating that there was a way out. He couldn't just go straight ahead anymore, so he had to stop and study.
Returning to the first fork in the road, Su Yue turned inside. He was prepared to see all kinds of disgusting things or monsters, but to his surprise, the stone chamber at the end of the fork in the road was empty, with only a stone pillar in the middle of the room.
Su Yue: "..."
Waste of feelings?
He walked up to the stone pillar and found that it could rotate, but he didn't dare move it, because if you tamper with this mechanism without knowing what it does, the consequences will often be very tragic.
Su Yue witnessed with his own eyes a player being stabbed like a porcupine in front of him.
The second stone chamber was the same, empty, with a stone pillar.
The third, the fourth... until Su Yue walked through the entire temple, he found that all the rooms in the temple were empty, with only a stone pillar in the middle of the house.
It seems that the key to the problem lies in these stone pillars. He should twist a few of them, and maybe in order. The problem is that there are no hints here, and Su Yue can't just twist them randomly.
"This can't be just luck, right?" Su Yue murmured. "If this were luck, there would be tens of thousands of possible combinations. Let alone eight days, even eighty days might not be enough to calculate it."
He knocked on the stone pillars in every room, as well as the ground and walls next to the stone pillars. Cang Zhi also helped. They wanted to determine if there was any secret room that had been overlooked due to carelessness, but it turned out that there was not.
They had reached the final level of the game, but seemed to be trapped in a secret room in the temple.
Just as Su Yue lowered his head and knocked on the floor tiles one by one, he suddenly felt a strange vibration coming from the ground and walls.
Su Yue's expression suddenly changed, and he stood up suddenly: "Oh no! There's water!"
The sudden flow of water in a closed stone chamber is certainly not a good thing, and basically means "catastrophe".
The two men quickly left the stone chamber and walked back along the path they came from. Soon, they saw the water flow that caused the vibration.
The torrent swept across the trail and was slowly flowing down along the cobblestone road. The color of the wall was reflected in the water, giving the water a blood-like texture. Because the slope was very small, the water flow rate was not fast, and it even had a sticky texture.
But no matter how slow the flow is, it will fill the entire temple sooner or later. By then, Su Yue and Cang Zhi will be submerged in the temple.
It is not very dangerous now, so Su Yue and Cang Zhi are both very patient. In fact, even if the danger is already in front of them, Su Yue can still remain calm.
He was carefully observing the rolling torrent, and then he really discovered something.
Su Yue frowned: "Azhi, do you feel that this water seems to have a strange sour taste?"
"Sour?" Cang Zhi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said, "I understand."
"What do you understand?" Now it was Su Yue's turn to be stunned.
"If you imagine water as digestive juice and this trail as the esophagus," Cangzhi pointed backwards. "This is the heart, and this is the liver. If you think carefully about the arrangement of those branches, they're very similar to the distribution of human organs. In other words, we're actually in the 'belly' of this temple."
"That makes sense." Su Yue thought for a moment and agreed with Cang Zhi's statement. "Ever since we entered this game, the theme has been about 'eating'. If you don't eat, you'll die. Seafarers will eat people. If you're bewitched, you'll also be unable to control your gluttony. It's very likely that the key to the final game will also be 'eating'."
Su Yue asked: "So according to this logic, where should we go?"
Cang Zhi replied: "Stomach."
"I thought so too." Su Yue clapped his hands, "Then let's go to that room."
Cang Zhi nodded. Although the water flow coming from the trail was not fast, it did not allow them to delay. The two of them quickly followed the trail towards the room representing the "stomach".
There is also a stone pillar in the room representing the "stomach", and Su Yue walked over.
The stone pillar was stuck in one direction and could only be rotated to the other side. So Su Yue rotated it to the other side three times, and it just reached the end. The stone pillar could not be turned anymore.
A heavy "cracking" sound came from the ground, and soon, three huge stone slabs retreated to the three sides, revealing a staircase leading downwards.
"Amazing." Su Yue said, "Azhi, you've become so smart now."
After saying this, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that Cang Zhi was now so smart that he didn't even look like a puppet.
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