Chapter 742 Sphinx

Chen Ke came out of the manager's office, and the office outside changed. The office that was in a mess after being shot by Chen Ke returned to what it was when Mo Yang just came in. The typewriter was placed on the table, and the white papers scattered on the floor were gone.

He ignored it and walked up the stairs, his leather shoes making a crunching sound on the steps.

The surroundings suddenly darkened, and Chen Ke noticed some changes. The concrete steps turned into wooden steps. The surroundings were so dark that even the walls on both sides could not be seen.

Chen Ke stretched out his hand and tried it. Both sides of the stairs were empty. The front and back extended infinitely, stretching into the confusing darkness. He knew that this was another trick of the Foundation.

He walked up for a while, and the stairs seemed to have no end. Chen Ke simply stopped and turned back to look downstairs. In the darkness, a dull man's face was looming.

"Huh...huh..."

The face in the darkness was breathing, and the sound sounded very heavy, like a panting fat man climbing stairs. Chen Ke walked up a little further, and the distance between the face and him did not change due to movement.

In his field of vision, a line of small words appeared, indicating that the staircase was an alienated object called the Endless Staircase.

So he simply stopped, his left eye turned red, and he used white objects' vision to observe his environment. I found that two floors of the cement staircase steps under my feet had been replaced by wood.

In the field of vision of his left eye, Chen Ke himself was standing on the steps, stepping in place on the two replaced sections of wooden steps. And in the human vision of his right eye, he was indeed climbing the stairs.

If it were anyone else, he would probably be scared to death by himself, but Chen Ke didn't care about that. He summoned the moonlight sword and thrust it hard at his feet.

In an instant, the surrounding darkness dissipated. Under the feet, the two wooden steps were deeply penetrated by the moonlight sword. No words appeared in the field of vision. This thing was just broken.

Chen Ke put away his sword and went up to the third floor, where a corridor appeared in front of him. There are two offices on the left side of the corridor, with a huge folding iron door in the middle. On the other side of the iron door, there is a control room with the words "Special Containment Observation Office" written on it.

He walked along the corridor and entered the control room. Outside the huge bulletproof glass window, there was an open indoor space. The walls and ceiling of the space were surrounded by iron-gray metal partitions. There was a ceiling in the center of the room. Round shadowless lamp.

Opposite the control room, there is also a large iron door. It seems that this space is opened in two directions.

It was obvious at a glance that the red handle on the console was used to open the door, but Chen Ke was attracted by the large pile of sand piled in the center of the room.

This pile of sand was piled in the center of the room. The pile was almost five meters high, enough to fill a 150-square-meter room. There was only one way on the third floor. Chen Ke had no choice. He pulled the red handle and opened the folding iron of the observation room. The door opens.

The heavy winch turned, the sound of metal friction was maddening, and the iron door folded and rolled into a roll.

Chen Ke walked into the observation room, and the sand on the ground crunched under his feet, and they slowly rolled towards the sand pile.

When Chen Ke walked near the pile of sand, which was about 10 meters away, the pile of sand started to move like a living thing.

The sand condensed into a ball, first converging into a pair of big cat paws, and then forming the back half of a lion. A pair of eagle wings spread out from the back, the tail flicked, and a female head appeared on the neck where the object was held.

It was sitting in front of Chen Ke, more than 5 meters tall. The human face stared at Chen Ke, its skin was golden, and the lion hair on its body was very smooth. Just looking at it made me want to stroke it.

"Hello, traveler." The thing greeted Chen Ke with a smile, and it was actually in Chinese.

"This is not a good place for tourism." Chen Ke looked at this strange creature with his hands on his waist.

"You're right, but this is not an easy place to get past." The thing's mental level seemed to be good, and it responded after Chen Ke's words.

"What are you? I mean, what were you before being poured in by the Foundation?" Chen Ke asked.

"I am the Sphinx." said the Sphinx.

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment, but he was not surprised.

"If you want to pass here, you need to answer my question. If you answer wrong, your life will end here." Sphinx said calmly.

"The answer is people. Please let me pass." Chen Ke has long known the trick of the Sphinx. Not to mention its allusions, everyone knows it, but it also falls within the category of common sense. The questions raised are nothing more than four questions in the morning. The one with two legs at noon.

The Sphinx's smile was a little weird. It looked at Chen Ke, as if it had known that he would say this.

"What? Do you have any new tricks?" Chen Ke asked.

"You, like them, think you know me well enough, but many things in this world are not static." Sphinx said.

"What will happen if I don't want to answer?" Chen Ke asked.

"Your life will come to an end," said the Sphinx.

"The stakes and rewards you provided are not equivalent. If I answer correctly, I will just be able to walk past you." Chen Ke shrugged.

"Interesting. You're the first to say that." Sphinx said.

"How about this, if I get the answer right, how about you tell me what I want to know?" Chen Ke asked.

The Sphinx lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked at Chen Ke and asked, "What do you want to know?"

"There are three witches here, I want to know where they are." Chen Ke said.

The Sphinx changed its position, lying on its side, it seemed that it would be very comfortable.

"Do you agree or not? Make up your mind!" Chen Ke urged.

"That's it, I'm going to ask the first question, get ready." Sphinx said.

Chen Ke made a gesture of invitation.

"Never rest, and never stand still; silently move from hill to hill; he doesn't walk; he doesn't run or walk fast; it's cool where he doesn't exist." Sphinx asked the first question.

Chen Ke smiled and said: "The sun."

Sphinx nodded and said: "This is just a warm-up, the next step is the challenge."

"I am alive but have no breath; I am cold whether I am alive or dead; I am never thirsty, although I always drink." Sphinx asked the second question.

"Hmm..." Chen Ke pinched his chin and thought.

"Can't answer it?" Sphinx said proudly, greed in his eyes.

"No, the answer to this question is too wide. All aquatic cold-blooded animals belong to this category." Chen Ke said.

"You are right. I will assume you have passed." Sphinx sighed regretfully.

"What can run but never walk; has a mouth but never speaks; has a head but never sheds tears; has a bed but never sleeps." Sphinx asked the third question.

"It is that damn river, my dear Sphinx. I swear the correct answer must be this." Chen Ke said with his hands on his waist.

"You must have cheated in some way." Sphinx was dissatisfied.

"I didn't." Chen Ke shook his head.

"Whatever you say, the fourth question will definitely stump you." Sphinx said.

"This thing devours everything, birds, beasts, trees, flowers and plants. It chews steel and grinds hard stones to eat. It kills kings, destroys city walls, and can knock down mountains. What is this thing?" Sphinx asked the last question.

"It's me..." Chen Ke said.

"It's you?" Sphinx laughed.

"Yes, it's me." Chen Ke nodded.

"This is not an answer, but I tend to judge that you typed it wrong. The correct answer is time." Sphinx smiled.

"Touch my fingertips and you will know what I mean." Chen Ke said as he stretched out his hand to Sphinx.

"Oh? You are really special, different from other people I have seen." Sphinx laughed, stretched out his claws, and touched Chen Ke's hand.

He touched the fur of Sphinx, and the power of time stopping was transmitted from his palm. Sphinx's face changed slightly, and he wanted to pull his claws back, but the perception of his body seemed to no longer exist from the claws.

"You are..." Sphinx was frightened, and its huge body began to collapse, and sand seeped out of its fur. It wanted to retreat, but a tuft of hair on its claws was grabbed by Chen Ke. It could feel that the time around Chen Ke stopped flowing. It saw what was in Chen Ke's heart, and the power of that thing was far beyond the Egyptian kings it had seen.

"Ah... great... Wanderer of all realms... old king who rules the yellow sand... I apologize to you." Sphinx bowed respectfully in front of Chen Ke with his head lowered.

"Tell me where the witch is." Chen Ke said.

"At the bottom of here... but to get there, you have to go up. The stupid maggots have hidden all the secrets..." Sphinx said humbly.