Following that, Gerald got up and began feeling around the walls again…
Since the stone walls were quite uneven, it made finding mechanisms—to potentially lead to a way out—even harder than usual…
Regardless, after hearing what Gerald had to say, Rey was motivated to give it another shot. With that, favonovel.com began doing the same as Gerald, hoping to finally find a way to get out of this place…
While continuing to feel the walls, Gerald’s ears perked when a crisp ‘click’ was heard. Eyes quickly widening, Gerald could only stare as the stone slab—that his foot was currently on—began sinking in…
Lifting his foot, favonovel.com watched as the slab continued sinking deeper and deeper… And by the time it stopped, a part of the stone wall had shifted open!
Both surprised and delighted, Rey couldn’t help but turn to look at Gerald while calling out, “M-Mr. Crawford…!”
Though Gerald himself was surprised by all this, favonovel.com quickly snapped out of it and walked through the newly formed entrance…
To the duo’s dismay, they quickly realized that all the entrance led to was a flight of descending stairs that appeared almost bottomless! The fact that it was pitch dark down there certainly didn’t help…
“…Where do you think this leads to, Mr. Crawford…?” muttered Rey as favonovel.com turned to look at Gerald.
“Only one way to find out!” replied Gerald, prompting the duo to begin descending the stairs…
As they walked on, a sort of mist began appearing and the lower they went, the denser it became…
It was about half an hour later when Rey couldn’t help but cry out, “…There’s just no end to these stairs, Mr. Crawford! We’ve been walking for almost thirty minutes now yet the end is nowhere in sight!”
Gerald himself was starting to find all this weird. This place really was too mystifying…
After thinking for a while, Gerald eventually sighed before saying, “…Alright, since we don’t seem to be getting anywhere, let’s just return to where we came from!”
With that, the duo began ascending the stairs… However, another half-hour later, the two youths finally realized how serious their current dilemma was. After all, no matter how long they walked, the area where they started from was simply nowhere to be found!
“Seriously?! We should have reached the entry point by now! Where the hell is it?!” cried out the increasingly distressed Rey.
To think that even their return route would end up changing!
“It’s important to stay calm during such situations! With that said, let’s think about it first!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com began racking his brain…
Looking closer at the stairs, Gerald noticed that the steps appeared to be numbered… Were the numbers there for a reason…?
After thinking about it for a while, Gerald’s eyes suddenly widened as favonovel.com exclaimed, “I got it!”
Surprised by Gerald’s sudden shouting, Rey quickly shook his head before asking, “G-got it? You’ve figured out how we can get out of this place, Mr. Crawford?”
“Indeed! Essentially, we’ve been trapped by an Eight Diagrams puzzle ever since we set foot into this place! If my guess is correct, in order to get out of this loop, we’ll need to solve The Eight Diagrams puzzle of the stairs! If you look closer, you can see numbers on the steps, right? I’m assuming that by utilizing The Eight Diagrams chart on them, we’ll be able to finally escape!” explained Gerald.
Despite the explanation, Rey wasn’t too familiar with The Eight Diagrams, so very little of what Gerald had just said made sense to him…
Seeing that his point wasn’t getting across, Gerald decided to just try his theory out instead…
