This aura is deadly

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 his 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 I found that two floors of the cement staircase steps under my feet had been replaced by wood.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 stack 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 following Chen Ke's words.

"What are you? I mean, what were you before being indoctrinated 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.

"Otherwise, 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, as if this would be more comfortable.

"Do you agree or not? Make up your mind quickly!" 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 rests, never stands still; silently moves from hill to hill; he does not walk; he neither runs nor walks; it is cool where he is not." The Sphinx uttered the first ask.

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 breathless; I am cold both in life and in death; I am never thirsty, though I drink forever." The Sphinx asked the second question.

"Hmm..." Chen Ke pinched his chin and started thinking.

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

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

"You are right, let's consider you passed." Sphinx sighed sadly.

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

"It's that damn river, my dear Sphinx. I swear the correct answer must be this." Chen Ke said with a weird voice.

"You must have cheated in some way." Sphinx refused.

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

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

"This thing devours everything, including birds, beasts, trees, flowers and plants. It gnaws through steel, grinds hard stones and eats them. It kills kings, destroys city walls, and even knocks down mountains. What is this thing?" Sphinx Chris asked one last question.

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

"Is that you?" Sphinx laughed.

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

"This is not an answer, but I tend to judge that you made a typo. 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 towards the Sphinx.

"Oh? You are really special. You are different from everyone else I have ever met." Sphinx laughed and stretched out his paw to touch Chen Ke's hand.

He touched the Sphinx's fur, and the power of stopping time passed through his palm. The Sphinx's face changed slightly, and he wanted to withdraw his claws, but the body's sensation seemed to no longer exist from the claws.

"You are..." The Sphinx was frightened. Its huge body began to collapse, and sand oozed from its fur. It wanted to retreat, but a bunch of hair on its paws was grabbed by Chen Ke. It could feel that Chen Ke was surrounded by time stopped flowing. It saw something in Chen Ke's heart, and the power of that thing far exceeded the kings of Egypt it had seen.

"Ah... the great... wanderer of the worlds... the old king who controls the yellow sand... I... apologize to you." The Sphinx lay respectfully in front of Chen Ke, with his head lowered.

"Tell me the whereabouts of the witch." Chen Ke said.

"It's at the bottom here... But if you want to get there, you have to go up. The stupid maggots have hidden all the secrets..." the Sphinx said humbly.