Chapter 52: Demolition Failure, A Strange Feeling

  A loud "boom" shook the entire staircase, and the massive explosion that echoed through space made me cover my ears tightly. After exchanging a glance with Xianxian, we quickly ran down the stairs. Anyway, whether it was up or down, it was all cyclical.

  After the huge sound passed, the shock became smaller and smaller, but that dull echo still lingered in my ears. Just after turning a corner, I bumped into Wang Yi and others who were running up.

  "What's going on?" I asked hastily, the noise was not small, it seemed that the explosion must have been very intense, even such a hard black stone should be able to blast out a path.

  "Damn it, it's all collapsed! This is so freaking weird. I only used a little bit of explosives and the destructive power is just too amazing!" Wang Yi was still in shock, clearly not having expected this outcome.

  "Collapsed? So we still can't get out?" I'm a bit disappointed, but as long as no one is hurt, I believe there will be a way... somehow.

  "Let's get out of here first." Xianxian furrowed her brow and didn't comment on the failure of this explosion.

  We nodded and then walked up the stairs. Although it's all the same everywhere, we didn't want to stay with corpses, so we could only go to places where there were fewer corpses upstairs.

  "Huh." Xianxian, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped. I didn't react in time and almost bumped into him. I steadied myself and asked what he had found.

  Xian Xian turned sideways, one hand stroking his chin and the other pointing at the corpse beside him. He pondered, "This face seems a bit familiar, haven't we met somewhere before?"

  I stared blankly into the past, and when I saw that familiar face, I suddenly froze, incredulously saying: "Song Ah, how could Song Ah be here, he...". He's actually dead! Although Song Ah might have been monitoring me, after all, we've been brothers for so long, his death still fills my heart with a certain amount of sorrow.

  Because this space can suppress the corpse to a certain extent, Song Ah's face can be clearly identified. His face is bloodless and there are many bloodstains on his body. It seems that he was seriously injured and died from being trapped and bleeding...

  "Song Ah?" Xian Xian blinked her eyes and asked: "Is it one of the people who appeared with you in Hei Zhu Gou last time?"

  "Ah." Can't help but praise Xianxian's good memory, he should have only met Song Ah once, yet he can recall his face, if it were me, I would need to see someone a few times before remembering them... of course, maybe in the past, I just didn't care enough to remember.

  "You wouldn't want to take him with you, would you?" Seeing me standing still and not moving, Xian Xian perhaps thought that sympathy was overflowing and wanted to do something, asking me in surprise. I shook my head, letting out a bitter laugh: "Let's go." We were in an impossible staircase, ourselves unsure if we could even walk out, what could I do by bringing him along? Moreover, being able to be "buried" in this vast underground palace was better than dying in the wilderness, anyway.

  We walked to a place with fewer corpses and sat on the steps, resting and eating the compressed biscuits that Xian gave me. The compressed beef was already gone, now these biscuits were just supplements. I heard them say before that they could only last for three or four days at most. And as for water sources... we could only hold out for one more day...

  The atmosphere is very heavy, I can almost smell the feeling of despair. The cave won't budge, one explosion and it collapses, how are we supposed to get out?

  Another day passed, and the stored water was completely cut off. We explored many times in between, but every time we reached the collapsed place, we had to turn back. Every time I passed by Song Ah's body, my heart sank a little more.

  "It's been three days already, are we really going to die here?" someone said with a desperate look on their face.

  "What method has been tried, how can't find any weakness!" Wang Yi said irritably.

  "Isn't it possible that we are actually in a four-dimensional space?" The nearsighted person adjusted the frame of his glasses on the tip of his nose and asked faintly.

  Everyone heard it and started chattering, even I had a slight wavering in my heart, but my inner self told me that this was impossible. Because during these three days, I had also persuaded myself many times that this was a four-dimensional space, but after walking back and forth many times, I didn't find any characteristics of the four-dimensional space except for being similar to the Penrose stairs. I couldn't pass through walls or see all sides of objects, so the guess about the four-dimensional space was indeed a fantasy...

  At this time, Dr. Gao said lightly: "Although I am a medical student, from the perspective of scientific theory, it is clear that this is not four-dimensional space, but indeed three-dimensional space."

  "No! This must be a four-dimensional space, otherwise we would absolutely not be able to get out of here. Is this really a four-dimensional space?" Some people were already close to collapse.

  "Dr. Gao is right, this isn't it," Xianxian suddenly spoke up, ruthlessly striking down.

  "En." Although it was I who brought it up, I had to say: "Although such a thing can only be achieved in spaces beyond three dimensions, even with today's technology, the person who built this underground palace must have died thousands of years ago. How did he do it back then? The space we are in now is a contradictory space, but the method was thought up by humans. I don't believe that people thousands of years from now will be played around with by someone who has already been dead for thousands of years."

  "Well, if you don't want to die, then don't say pessimistic things until the last second." Xian Xian said as she stood up, dusting off her clothes, looking like she wanted to go check again.

  "I'll go with you." I stood up too, not wanting to face the rows of corpses alone or sit idly by and let my thoughts wander. Now all I could do was try to distract myself from the reality, because honestly, I didn't want to wait for death!

  I walked with Xianxian, one in front of the other, neither of us speaking. When we passed by the corpse, I also took a quick glance. Maybe when I can calmly face various corpses or become numb, I will truly become strong, but at that time, will I still be me?

  "It's still like this after all." Xianxian's tone was helpless, as if she had expected such a situation.

  I stared at the collapsing rocks in front of me, and my heart was also filled with mixed emotions. Each exploration was just making us more and more desperate...

  "Go back." Xianxian turned around and walked past me, saying softly.

  I stood there motionless, staring at the scattered stones on the ground. Suddenly, I had a strange feeling, so subtle that it was like a sixth sense. I couldn't help but ask myself in my heart: "Have you discovered something?"

  No one answered, and the surroundings were quiet too. This was my first attempt to talk to another person who might exist in my body. However, I didn't hear any echo for a long time. Was dissociative identity disorder just my imagination?

  After waiting for a long time, Xianxian urged me several times, but I didn't respond to him. I just stared at the chaotic scene in front of me, and the strange feeling in my mind never disappeared. I had a feeling that this clue was very important, and I must think it through clearly.

  "You finally want to accept me? It's not easy, huh, haha..." Suddenly, that kind of frivolous and arrogant laughter echoed in my mind...