Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: A Strange Door

I couldn't help but smiled wryly, I thought, everyone would have to smile wryly in the situation I am in now. Where did the door, which seemed to be embedded in the rock of the crater, lead?Who installed a door here?All of this is inexplicable! However, the unexplainable thing has already appeared in front of him, so besides a wry smile, is there any other way? I watched it for about ten minutes. The sun rose higher, and the sunlight could penetrate deeper into the crater, but naturally it couldn’t reach the bottom of the crater, so when I looked down, the bottom layer was still dark and the sun was shining on it. The wider the range, the more eerie it would be in the crater!

I began to climb down carefully, and I had to be very careful.Because the rocks on the crater walls are formed by the cooling of magma under high heat. When the magma in the crater begins to cool gradually, it will shrink, so some rocks seem to be connected with the rock wall, but in fact, they have already been separated from the rock wall due to the contraction. It's just that there is a very small part that keeps the stone from falling! Under such circumstances, if I step on it without any explanation, then I will definitely fall down with people and stones. Before I searched for each stepping stone, I used my hands to grab the stones I thought were reliable and kicked hard.

I only fell five or six meters, and there were already several big rocks, which I kicked and fell straight to the bottom of the crater. I don't know how deep the crater is, but I can't hear the sound of a few big rocks falling down.I kicked down a huge rock weighing one ton, and I waited with bated breath for several minutes before I heard a sound as deep as I had reached the depths of hell. The sound was hollow and trembling. It took me half an hour before I landed in front of that door.The door was on a particularly large rock that protruded like a large platform. My body moved slowly, and when I finally came to the door, I was even more sure that it was indeed a door!And, I spotted the keyhole right away!

I also saw that there were originally two lines of writing on the door, but it had peeled off and turned into many red spots, and I couldn't see what it was. corner, took out the key with one hand, and stretched it towards the keyhole. However, I couldn't open the door, because the keyhole was full of stone chips. I took out a pocket knife and dug hard at the stone chips stuck in the hole. This is not an easy task. Work. I can only use one hand to work, my foot is on a stone, and my other hand must be used to stabilize my body, otherwise I will fall down if I try hard. When I was digging out the stone stuck in the keyhole, I discovered a very strange phenomenon.The keyhole is not very large, but the stone chips in the hole are much larger than the hole.

Therefore, I have to use the tip of a small knife to pry the stone chips into pieces before I get them out one by one. Why can a big rock go into a keyhole smaller than it?There is only one possibility, that is, when the stone goes in, it is not solid, but liquid. In other words, it was the magma that flowed in and condensed into rock in the keyhole, that's why this phenomenon happened. I discovered this, at least it gave me a little idea of ​​this incredible strange door. What I thought was: this door is in the crater, it must have been before the sudden eruption of the volcano, when the magma surged up and blocked the keyhole!

It took me a long time to remove all the stones in the keyhole, and then I slowly inserted the key in. It is indescribable how tense I felt when I inserted the key.To be honest, I still feel a fair amount of fear, and I even hope that the lock on the door has failed for a long time, so that I can't open the door! If that's the case, then I can call more people and use other methods to open the door. It's better to have more people than to face this mysterious door by myself. However, my hope did not come true. When the key was inserted, I gently turned the key embossed with two wings on the handle, only to hear a "click" sound, obviously I The door there has been successfully opened.

There is no handle on the door, I just hold the key and slowly pull it outward, and the door is gradually opened by me. When the door was pulled open, several stones fell down. Those stones were on the gap between the door and the door frame. Because the door was pulled open by me, they fell down. When the door was gradually opened, all my attention was focused on the inside of the door. At that moment, how many strange thoughts flashed through my mind unexpectedly, I thought that the inside of that door might be the fourth space, then I will disappear in the fourth space from now on, and never come back again. Not coming, like a boat floating in the vast ocean.

I also thought that there might be rare treasures inside that door, just like the door in "Open Sesame". There were so many weird thoughts in my head that when the door was opened and I could see what was inside, I was literally stunned, because there was nothing inside! When I say there is nothing in the door, I don't mean that the door is empty, or that the door is still rocks, behind the door, there is a small space, like a box, or more properly described , like a lift that can accommodate two people! The four walls, top and bottom of the "elevator" are all made of metal, which is the same metal as the door, but it is just such a small space, and there is nothing else.

I stayed for a while, and couldn't help laughing bitterly.The door Mrs. Mirren referred to in her letter was naturally this one, but the door mentioned in her letter was related to her. I thought that I could learn her mysterious identity just by opening the door she said, but now, I only see a small space. If Mrs. Mirren is joking with someone, then This joke is really serious!Before I opened the door, I had too many weird things in my mind, so I was very disappointed when I saw that there was only a small space inside the door. But it didn't take long, when my mind was quiet again, I felt that even if there was nothing behind the door, it was a very strange thing!

It seems that it looks like a big box that can accommodate two people, so who moved this box here and embedded it in the rocks of the crater?Moreover, what is the purpose of doing so? I thought about it, and I stepped into the "elevator". When I was standing in the "elevator", I found that there seemed to be some words behind the door. In order to better understand what the words were, I Pull the door closer.At this moment, something unexpected happened to me! The door is obviously magnetic, I just pulled the door closer, but accidentally, the door closed with a "bang", and my eyes immediately turned into darkness!

I couldn't help being taken aback, I was trapped here, if I couldn't get out, it would be a disaster, it would be a disaster! My first action was to push the door hard, trying to push the door open again, and at that moment, I made up my mind that as soon as I pushed the door open, I immediately climbed out of the fire. Yamaguchi, get out of Mexico, and never mind Mrs. Mirren again! However, I just pushed, and before I could push the door open, my body suddenly sank! I don't know how my body sank down, because it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. I remember that I was on a metal plate, and I also remembered where I was. It seemed like A narrow elevator, since I am sinking now, is it really a narrow elevator?The speed of my sinking was very fast, and it was sudden, so in an instant, I seemed to be flying! That was only a minute or so, and yet, what a dispiriting minute it was! I finally stopped, and that was after a "bang", my body only felt a slight vibration. After that, my body still seemed to be sinking, but in fact it was just my feeling, just like a person who has been on the boat for too long, after landing, he still has the feeling of being on the boat, in fact , I have stopped falling no more. I put my hand on my forehead and wiped it. In that short minute, I was already in a cold sweat! Then, I smiled wryly twice, and said to myself: "If that is indeed an elevator, then the elevator has stopped now, so I should be able to open the door and walk out!" As I spoke, I pushed forward vigorously. When I push forward with both hands, the hope in my heart that I can go out is no more than one percent, but things that don't place too high hopes can often become reality! With a slight push of my hand, the door has already been pushed open! At that time, a new wave of panic hit my heart again. Although the time I fell just now was not long, the speed of the fall was very fast. So, where have I been taken by this "elevator" now? here? But no matter where, I can't be trapped in the "elevator", I have to get out! So, I still opened the door. It was pitch black outside the door, and I couldn't see anything. I didn't carry a flashlight. Otherwise, it would be too easy to know what was outside the door, but now it has become an insurmountable difficulty, because on my body, Not carrying anything that can shine! I pushed the door with one hand, stretched out the other hand, and waved it around, but I couldn't touch anything.Then, I stretched out my right foot and stepped slowly outside. I was going to retract immediately when I stepped on the ground, but my foot actually landed on the ground! I have stepped on the ground, it is not a four-dimensional space, I have indeed come to a place, if there is light, I will immediately know what it is! Now that there is no light, it doesn't matter, I can judge what it is by groping and feeling. After I stepped on the ground with my right foot, I stepped out with my left foot. I stretched out my hands and groped forward. I took three steps in a row, and my hand suddenly touched something! When you touch something like that, it feels very cold. I'm sure it's metal. Then I found out that it's a metal pipe.When I stroked the metal pipe with my hands, I found that it was curved, in the shape of a chair back. When I continued to feel down, I found that it was indeed the back of a chair, because I had touched the seat of the chair and its armrests. I took a step forward and sat on the chair. down. My eyes were still pitch black, but my mind was in a strange chaos. After I sat down on that chair, I tried my best to calm down and thought about everything, and I decided not to think about the cause and effect of everything, but to summarize what happened now. So, I told myself: I used a strange key to open the door that was once on the crater, entered a small elevator, and descended here. Now, I am sitting on a chair. These things, summed up, are very simple, and can be finished in one sentence, but there are at least dozens of questions that follow, what does this chair mean?Why is there such a chair?Am I now in hell, awaiting the judgment of the devil? I found my own palms were sweating faintly. When I wanted to wipe the sweat off my palms on the armrests of the chair, I found eight protruding objects on the armrests of the chair.The armrest is all on the right. Although I can't see anything, judging from the tactile sense of my fingers, I can be sure immediately that there are eight buttons! As soon as I discovered this, I really hesitated.Friends, anyone who is in the same situation as me must have the same dilemma. I had no idea where I was, nor what the origin of that chair was. The darkness made the already extremely mysterious thing even more mysterious! And those eight buttons, of course, have their own functions. If I can know their respective functions, then I don't have to hesitate, but I don't know their functions at all! Among them, there may be one that can make me escape, or one that can cause my place to explode, and even one that can cause a sudden eruption of a volcano! Or, the chair I'm sitting on may be a "time machine". If I randomly press a button, I may go to a million years ago. I don't want to deal with dinosaurs and saber tigers! Or, if I press a button, it will really bring me to the fourth dimension!Of course, the best way is that I don't press any of the eight buttons at all! But have I been sitting in this chair?I really must understand my situation and change my situation! My fingers moved back and forth on the eight buttons, but I didn't have the courage to press them. And when my fingers kept moving on the eight buttons, cold sweat kept breaking out in the palm of my hand, so that I wiped my palm under my clothes several times vigorously to wipe off the sweat. I asked myself thousands of times in my heart: what should I do?what should I do?I stayed there for about half an hour before I suddenly stood up. I decided not to touch a single button. I wanted to go up the "elevator" and climb out of the crater without thinking about the incident again. However, groping in the dark, I couldn't open the door of the "elevator", so, after ten minutes, I sat down on the chair again, just like before. I gritted my teeth, and in the darkness, I said loudly to myself: "No matter what, just click one!" Although what I heard was only my own voice, human psychology is so ridiculous. Hearing my own voice, I became more courageous and decisive. I didn't hesitate any more, and ignored my fingers. I stopped on the first few buttons and pressed them hard! As my finger sank down, a ray of light suddenly lit up on my left. The light was white, and it was very soft.But no matter how soft the light is, it is strong for a person who has been in the dark for a long time.As soon as I saw the light, I turned my head away, but the moment I turned my head away, I couldn't see anything. The period of time when I couldn't see anything was very short, and then I saw clearly that the light was emitted by a lamp with a rather long lampshade, so that the light became a path. But it is a two-foot cylinder, and under the light of that cylinder, it is a person! It was, of course, a man, standing, with his hands clasped to his body, his eyes closed, a man, and a great man at that, at first glance he seemed to be standing in midair, but after a few minutes I saw It was clear that he was inside a transparent cylinder, and the light shone down from the top of the cylinder, covering his whole body. I was so surprised that I couldn't help but stood up abruptly. My eyes were fixed on that person. Is that person dead or alive?Is it a real person, or a dummy? I can't answer these questions in an instant.But I was sure of one thing immediately!On what occasion did I meet this person before, he looks very familiar to me! Moreover, I immediately remembered that he was the man standing with Mrs. Mirren in the picture in that book! If my deduction is correct, he should be Mrs. Mirren's husband, Mr. Mirren! Immediately recalled again the words of Mrs. Millen's letter to the Reverend Johney, in which she said her husband was dead and she had kept him.Mr. Millen has been dead for at least ten years!How did Mrs. Mirren preserve his body so well? As if I had been possessed by a demon, I walked forward with my feet high and my feet low. Although I knew that every step I took was real, stepping on the ground, but I still felt as if I was stepping on clouds. In the aftermath, I can't even remember how I came to Mr. Mirren. I only remember that when I came to Mr. Mirren, when I could touch him with my hand, I I raised my hand, but I didn't hit him. My hand was blocked by a transparent thing, the transparent thing is barrel-shaped, I don't know if it is glass, but at least when my hand touches it, it feels different from touching glass, it is very slippery, slippery It is indescribable, Mr. Mirren's body is inside this barrel. Nor can I recall how long I stared blankly at Mr. Mirren before the barrel. I just noticed the expression on Mr. Mirren's face, which was very peaceful and not at all like a dead person.And the clothes he was wearing seemed to be made of metal wire, shining brightly. After standing there for a long time, I took a step back! When the lights came up, I first saw Mr. Mirren, and my whole attention was, naturally, drawn to Mr. Mirren, and I had no time to attend to anything else. It wasn't until this moment that I took two steps back that I realized that although the light was concentrated on Mr. Mirren's body, it was enough for me to see the situation in the rest of the place clearly. I can't describe where I am, but it's definitely not a cave, nor a room. I seem to be in a huge cabin. Its four sides are full of various instruments. On my left, It is a dark blue curtain. And next to the chair I just gave birth to, there is another chair, and on that chair, there is a hat. Just now I was sitting around in the dark, and I had already flattened the hat. I also saw that before the two chairs, there were two consoles with various buttons and instruments. After I saw all this clearly, I couldn't help but let out a groan, I knew where I was, and I was inside a very large spaceship. It was unmistakably a spaceship, and I also knew that it was piloted by Mr. and Mrs. Mirren.Now, I am more sure of what kind of flight Mrs. Mirren said "died in one flight" was. That's interstellar flight! Mr. Mirren and Mrs. Mirren are advanced creatures from other planets! When I thought I finally had the mystery of Mrs. Mirren's origins, I breathed a sigh of relief.Originally, I had such assumptions about Mrs. Mirren's identity and the sudden eruption of the volcano, but now that I have been proved, I am even more convinced. I paced back and forth in the space capsule, and I knew it was a spaceship. Naturally, I no longer felt afraid of those buttons, but instead I pressed a few in succession.One of them caused the blue curtain to shine brightly. The curtain was originally dark blue, but after the light was turned on, it turned into bright blue. Moreover, many golden bright spots appeared on the curtain. Some are big and some are small, some are bright and some are dark. I looked at it again and again, and then I was stunned. It was a map of the starry sky. I could immediately point out that the particularly bright point in the lower right corner was the sun, because there were several large planets orbiting it, and one of them, There is a ring, which is naturally Saturn. Of course the earth is also in it, and when I recognized the earth, I was even more puzzled, because I saw a very thin red line, starting from the earth, extending outward, on that red line, there is a symbol The forward arrow-shaped symbol, the red line has been across the solar system, and then stretched forward, I can clearly identify that red line, bypassing several large constellations. Those big constellations are the Pleiades, Taurus, and Centipede.Then, that red line goes straight through the Orion Nebula, and the Cape Athen Nebula.No one can say how big the Cape Affen Nebula is. Scientists have estimated that if it travels at the speed of light, it may not be able to pass through it in 10 million years, but the red line passes through it! Moreover, the red line continued to move forward, passing through a lot of nebula that I can't name, and then turned back. If that red line represents the route, then its "homeward journey" is very simple. Its "homeward journey" does not have any twists and turns, it is almost a straight line, from the distant sky, back to the red line of the earth, marked on such a huge starry sky map, and there is an arrow symbol, I say it It is the route, so there is no need to add the word "if". However, I still have to add these two words, because in fact, there is no such route at all.It will take tens of millions of years to complete such a route at the speed of light.And we now know that traveling at the speed of light is impossible.So, how could this red line be a route? In particular, the starting point and ending point of this red line are both the earth, which makes it even more impossible. I stared blankly for a long while before I approached, and I found that large dark blue screen, like a fluorescent screen we are used to, I don't know what it is, but I found that it was right next to the screen , with a series of control buttons, so I pressed one of them at random. As if we had pressed the button of a slide projector, there was a slight sound, and suddenly, the image on the screen changed. It was a very huge photo, and I had to take a few steps back to see it clearly. And when I took a few steps back, I couldn't help being stunned. In that gigantic "photograph," I saw a plain stretching as far as the eye could see, and standing close by were Mr. and Mrs. Mirren.Both of them were wearing strange clothes, and a transparent cover was put on their heads, and there was a tube leading to the back from the cover. On that huge plain, there is a huge halo, and that halo is a strange silver-gray. In the lower right corner, there are several lines of text, obviously explaining where it is, but I can't read the words.But I don't have to understand the words, I can also know that this is Saturn! Only Saturn has such a big ring!In that case, the Mirrens, at least, have been to Saturn! The question is whether he has been to Saturn. Judging from that huge spaceship, the two of them have been to Saturn, which is not an unacceptable fact. The question is: where did the two of them set off to go to Saturn.Is it from the earth?That's ridiculous. My mind was very confused. The reason why I thought they would set off from the earth was not just because the beginning and end of the red line were on the earth.And all the more because I had talked to Mrs. Mirren when I was on the submarine with her. During the conversation, Mrs. Millen asked me a very strange question. She asked me if the big glowing sphere we call is called the sun, and then she asked me that the planet is our earth, She said again that she had indeed come back to Earth. Judging from those words, she did indeed set off from the earth—but if she set off from the earth, then either she is crazy or I am crazy, one must be the other. I shook my head vigorously, trying to clear myself up, but I was just as confused and couldn't make a clue.I kept pressing that button, and every time I pressed that button, the picture changed.I saw the Mirren couple constantly taking "photographs" on various strangely shaped planets. There are also "photographs" of no one, just strangely shaped planets and nebulae. It seems that their journey is indeed so far away that some "photographs" can't be seen at all after seeing them. It produced an extremely strange feeling. I kept clicking, and there were more than two hundred "photos" in total, but when I reached the last one, it made me dazed. In that photo, there are many, many people, most of them are blond, there are men and women, it is a huge square, and a silver-gray spaceship is parked in the square. That spaceship is no stranger to me. I have seen it stop on weird planets at least sixty or seventy times. I know that it is the spaceship of the Mirrens. In other words, I am now in this spaceship! In that "photo", the spaceship is parked on a launch pad in an open space. The launch pad is very large, and it looks a bit like a huge altar.And beside the launch pad, it was full of people. Among those people, one of them was raising his arms and making a speech, and the others seemed to be listening to him.It was a very magnificent scene. I think this is probably the photo left by the spaceship before it took off. What shocked me inexplicably was that the "photo" was taken at dusk, and in the upper right corner of the "photo", there was a circular luminous body. The round luminous body is silvery-white with a darker gray shade, and at first glance, it looks like a tree. A silvery-white round luminous body with gray shadows in it, the shape of the shadow is like a tree, everyone, what is that? That's the moon!It is the only satellite of the earth!