Chapter 22 Jump

  "Quickly, everyone stand against the wall." The coffin shouted loudly.

  We hastily leaned against the wall, waiting for the arrival of that thing. I thought frantically about the plot inside, this should be the legendary Dragon Stone, it comes in two types, one is to seal the entrance, and the other is a rolling large stone ball, constantly rolling down, crushing everything in its way. Maybe when we came in through that door, we inadvertently triggered the mechanism, perhaps this was to prevent anyone from entering.

  This is the first time I've encountered a situation where life and death are so closely linked. Now, we're truly at a dead end with no way out, and there's an enemy closing in behind us. The three of us turned on our flashlights and shone them upwards, listening to the sound getting closer and closer, holding our breaths. Something appeared, but it wasn't the huge boulder I had imagined - just something about the size of a soccer ball, moving at incredible speed so that we couldn't make out what it was. It continued downwards along our line of sight, and according to the laws of gravity, without some powerful force to stop it, it wouldn't be stopping anytime soon.

  As we watched it roll by in front of us, until it disappeared at the other end of the corridor, the sound of its collision with the wall was still echoing in the hallway. We were stunned because our line of sight had never left this mysterious object, so it was right in front of us, bouncing over from above that bottomless pit, just like skipping stones on a lake surface. Logically speaking, with a 30-meter-long edge, it should have fallen directly into the hole, but in fact, it didn't.

  "Did you see it?" Peng said.

  "Yes, I can see it very clearly." The coffin also opened its mouth.

  "Why did you say that?"

  "Brother-in-law, Xiao Shenyang still has a bit of Northeastern flavor."

  The coffin walked past, with both hands supporting the wall, and one foot stretched forward. In front of it was empty space, and that foot swayed in mid-air for a long time before being withdrawn.

  "There is no fulcrum, nor any hidden passage, it's just an empty space." said the coffin.

  "But how did that thing just pass by?" Pengpeng asked again.

  I took out a coin worth one yuan and threw it into the bottomless pit. With a loud clang, the coin bounced once in mid-air before falling into the abyss.

  "Friend, use your unbeatable water-splashing skills and try splashing it over." I took out another dollar.

  Peng Peng's skills in skipping stones are not to be underestimated, his highest record is getting a stone to skip 17 times on the water surface before sinking. I watched with Coffin as Peng Peng used all his strength to toss a coin high into the air above the empty black hole, it jumped and jumped until it was about to reach the other side of the stairs, but then lost power and fell down.

  "Got it, we still need to learn how to float on water with qinggong to get across." Coffin said with a smile.

  I don't know why, but now I always inadvertently pay attention to the coffin's every move, because I find that some things he always thinks of first, but doesn't say, and instead reveals a little clue for me to figure out. Is it because I still don't understand him well, so my suspicions are growing?

  "Have you guys played 'Devil May Cry 3'?" I asked them.

  They both shook their heads at the same time.

  "It's a Japanese action single-player game, I don't recall the specifics, but there was a scene where the protagonist faced a similar chasm, and on the other side was the door to clear the level. At first, I jumped once and fell off, but after looking at a walkthrough and finding the mechanism, when I came back here, as long as I kept jumping continuously without stopping, I could reach the door on the other side and clear the level."

  So, our ancestors' wisdom is boundless. All the innovations and ideas of those little Japanese are based on learning from what we left behind. They think this concept is avant-garde, but they didn't realize that China had already used it hundreds of years ago.

  "So you're saying we have to keep jumping over like that ball and coin just now?" asked the coffin.

  "Right, just like a zombie, hopping past with both feet off the ground."