Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 95 Dead End

After hesitating for a moment, Ke Lan turned around and walked back... Rushing into an unfamiliar labyrinth without any information, this kind of behavior can only be done by a fool who is too naive.

He plans to search the camp again, maybe there are some clues that he missed...

"Any time you encounter a fork in the process of exploration, unless there are special circumstances, you must leave a marker at the fork that is easy to identify and not easy to erase..."

This is the content in the "Relic Hunter Beginner's Guide". It is a compulsory course for every hunter. Although these people are not hunters, since they are field teams, their training will only be more systematic and stricter than that of hunters. .

Even the entrance of the cave is marked with steel nails, and there is no reason for these four forks to leave no marks.

Ke Lan thought so... But when he pointed the flashlight directly in front of him, the whole person was stunned.

On the way back, there were actually four forks!
"Grass!"

A horrific feeling surged up, Ke Lan slowly bent down, picked up a small stone from the ground, and threw it towards the fork in the road—

The stone hit the wall of the cave, making a crisp sound of "dong", and then, it was bounced to the ground again.

These four forks are real, not something like optical camouflage...

"This is the legendary 'Ghost Beating the Wall'? It actually hit me?" Ke Lan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, "Could it be... an hallucination or something? "

If it's a hallucination, when did it start?Where did it start?

After leaving the camp by yourself?
Or... a little earlier?
Ke Lan swept the light of the flashlight on the four forks in turn. Fortunately, these four forks were not the same as the four that I encountered just now... Although things are still very strange, at least they have not reached the point of outrageous...

Ke Lan calculated the distance by counting the number of steps. The first time he encountered the fork in the road was 762 steps away from the camp. If one step was about half a meter, that would be 381 meters... and he took another 240 steps after choosing to turn back. , which is 120 meters, at this position, the original one-way street has become a five-fork...

This passage is straight, and there are no branches along the way, just like the ice road under the glacier ruins, so Ke Lan will never, and absolutely cannot go the wrong way... These four forks, Life and life appeared on the only path leading to the camp.

If the old dog was here, he would definitely say several "evil sects" in a row.

Ke Lan thought for a moment, turned his head again, and walked towards the beginning.

It was another 240 steps, and he returned to the five-fork intersection that he encountered for the first time... Fortunately, there was no change in this place.

Then, he turned around, closed his eyes, and walked back while counting his steps.

This is a very stupid method... but it is widely circulated among hunters, and there are often old hunters who say to the rookie who is in the ruins for the first time: When you find that you may fall into an illusion, don't Trust whatever your eyes see, close your eyes, cover your ears, and go ahead—

Many hunters who did this fell into the trap with their eyes closed... However, there are also a considerable number of hunters who really got out of the maze with this method.

Some hallucinations disturb the five senses of human beings, but when people completely abandon the five senses, these hallucinations are useless at all.

"230 eight...230 nine...two hundred and four."

He opened his eyes, and what appeared in his field of vision was still the five-forked intersection that had become somewhat familiar. The four holes seemed to have four creepy and twisted smiling faces, mocking his stupid attempt...

"Grass, you, mom." Ke Lan said word by word, and fiercely compared his middle finger to the four holes.

He suddenly thought of the memoirs of a well-known hunter he had seen before, in which he seemed to have written this sentence:

"The real danger never waits for you to decide whether to face it, but when you decide, it swallows you whole."

Ke Lan felt that he was swallowed by this underground labyrinth... I am afraid that after he left the camp, he had already stepped into this labyrinth.

The old hunter had also encountered the underground labyrinth, and he only left six words on how to deal with this situation: "Don't look back, go forward."

"Don't look back, go forward..." Ke Lan repeated softly, "Okay... Just be stupid... I didn't expect that the silly hat was me..."

He turned back for the fourth time and walked towards the four forks he found at the beginning.

What the old hunter said is actually right. In this case, the more you analyze it, the more chaotic you will be. If you are reckless, you might be able to break this "pretending to be mysterious" puzzle.

"It's all four choices. I just turned back four times, so I chose the fourth fork in the road." Ke Lan looked for the hole on the far right and plunged in.

After walking about 500 meters, another four forks appeared ahead.

Ke Lan stopped and checked the four holes carefully again. There was no abnormality, nor did he find any valuable findings.

"I still choose four, and one way goes dark."

……

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Nearly five hours had passed, but Ke Lan felt as if he had been trekking in this dark underground cave for a year—from the first fork in the camp when he left the camp, he had a total of five hours. He encountered nineteen fork in the road, each time there were four options, and each time, he chose the fourth one.

Finally, what appeared in front of him this time was no longer a fork in the road.

is a dead end.

"Huh...huh..."

"I thought I would keep choosing..." Ke Lan was already a little numb, "It's just like those horror movies that loop indefinitely..."

In this cul-de-sac, there is a statue.

To be precise, a part of the statue... The statue was supposed to be a huge stone pillar, but now only the top is exposed.The exposed part of the stone pillar is engraved with a lifelike giant eye, and a piece of ore is embedded in the pupil of the giant eye, which is exuding a faint dark green fluorescence.

Ke Lan sighed and spit out two words with no expression: "My day."

(End of this chapter)