Seven Evil Slips Chapter 12:
At nearly three o'clock in the morning, there was the sound of rushing water in the distance ahead.
It seems that it is close, and everyone, more or less, is relieved.
Coming this way, the line of sight is almost zero, they only know that it is difficult to walk, and only Luo Ren pays attention to the terrain of this way.
Needless to say climbing up and down slopes, the soil quality under your feet is different, including hard soil, semi-dry swamp, small piece of grassland, woodland, rockfall road, slippery rock road, turning more than 60 times, and the only way between the mountain walls There are two or three "lines of sky" that move sideways, and the hidden cave road in the middle of the mountain is about 15 minutes long, and there are at least five to six major roundabouts.
It is nothing more than a man-made maze that has been carefully surveyed and mapped to match the natural terrain, and the silver-eyed bat is more like a guide who has been programmed to recognize complex routes.
It is simply God's perspective, how much work is this? Zheng Mingshan said that many electronic instruments will fail when they enter the mountains, and the existing surveying and mapping technology cannot describe the details of the mountains.
He explained his doubts, and the magic stick rolled his eyes, and suddenly he said a sentence: "Brain teaser, how was the route of this maze mapped?"
The sound of the water is getting louder, there is a wind that is getting closer and closer, and it is blowing and scratching everyone's face, and because of the wind, the fog is blown away, and the viewing distance is slightly wider .
Seeing that no one paid attention to him, the magic stick announced the answer by himself: "Have you forgotten? Lu Ban, the carpenter's ancestor, once made a wooden kite that could fly into the sky for three days and three nights. Maybe he rode a wooden kite to survey and map. .”
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention——Luo Ren's heart suddenly moved, it might be true.
The river is getting wider and wider, and you can't get around it, so you can only wade. The water becomes shallower and shallower, and finally stops at the stagnant tidal flat.
The sound of the wind was blowing all around, but it seemed that he had never been blown on his body. Luo Ren felt strange, turned on the powerful flashlight to shine around, and shouted: "Look!"
There are no mountains and rocks around, and it is all milky white fog.
At this time, the fog should be the heaviest, but the wind here is very strange, like a tornado, which swirls the heavy fog in the central area to the surroundings. It is a huge fog barrier, like a movie ring screen in circles, so thick that the line of sight cannot pass through it, and the flashlight is turned upwards until the light is weak, and what is illuminated is still fog.
It stands to reason that the situation is weird, but Cao Yanhua finds it funny instead: "Brother Luo, don't we look like we are sitting in a well?"
Like, really like, the walls of the well are covered in dense fog, and looking up, isn't it just a sky as big as the mouth of a bowl.
Kiyo said: "When I first came here, it was indeed windy, but I was so nervous at the time that I didn't notice how thick the surrounding fog was."
Same as last time, the silver-eyed bat flew up with flapping wings, circled in the air, and then suddenly crashed into a depression in the bluestone at the bottom of the river.
There was a faint vibration from the soles of the feet, and the bottom of the river split to two sides, and finally the "Guansi Pailou" that everyone was thinking about appeared.
The traditional four-archway has four sides between five pillars. This building is really unheard of.
All the flashlights focused on the fourth archway, which was so bright and transparent that even Cao Jiefang held his breath and looked at it without blinking.
What Cao Yanhua saw first: "Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, little master, there are characters in seal script on the forehead of every archway."
After finishing speaking, I feel strange: "Shouldn't it belong to Oracle?"
I am used to seeing the strokes of the oracle bone inscriptions on the fierce slips, but when I look at the seal characters, I feel awkward instead.
Luo Ren said: "At first it was oracle bone inscriptions. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the bronze inscriptions were also called Zhongdingwen. After Qin Shihuang unified, they were collectively called Xiaozhuan. According to the relevant ages of Laozi, Lu Ban, Mozi and others, when setting up this institution, seal characters were used. It's reasonable."
While speaking, 13,000 had already walked around the archway, and tapped and tapped the glass-like thing with his hands: What kind of material is this? It looks like glass, but it’s not. Could it be diamond ?
My heart burst into ecstasy. If it was really a diamond, Kiyo would definitely not agree to take it all away. It would be fine to chisel a piece.
God stick has been thinking about the seven small holes on the five sides, Kiyo handed him the round wedge-shaped piece of wood found at Erma Neyin, and the **** stick tried it out, it was not too big or small , just right.
He was a little nervous: "Which one of you is better?"
"I guess, if these seven pieces of wood are stuffed in, it should be able to form a three-dimensional seven-star Big Dipper in the center of this 'glass body'. However, each wooden piece is engraved with a wooden kite, and each wooden kite has There are words on it, different words."
He aimed the flashlight at the one in his hand, and Kiyo could clearly see that it was the ancient Chinese character "Quan".
"Seven pieces of wood, seven characters, Shu, Xuan, Ji, Quan, Heng, Yang, Guang. They come after the names of the Big Dipper. That is to say, although the pieces of wood are exactly the same, they cannot be inserted randomly. It has to be matched with the star map. I am not good at geometry, and my three-dimensional sense is very poor, who are you coming?"
After finishing speaking, Yi Wan accidentally made eye contact with Yi Wan, and Yi Wan probably thought that he wanted to point out his tricks, so he said with a shocked smile: "Mr. God, don't look at me, I have never studied .”
Luo Ren said: "I'll do it."
He was not in a hurry to insert it, so he asked Kiyo to help him find seven thin wooden branches, carefully tested the length of the hole one by one, and cut off the excess in the end—the remaining seven wooden branches were different Short and long, after thinking about it for a long time, I stuffed the wooden pieces in one by one.
Indescribably magical impression, the seven pieces of wood are almost suspended and returned to their respective positions, forming an inverted Big Dipper soon.
Kiyo was a little scared: "The setting of this mechanism is extremely cautious, and it is still reversed. If it is plugged wrong..."
The magic stick suddenly became nervous: "Look!"
The Big Dipper is slowly moving its position, and with the change of the Big Dipper, the tilted and suspended box also starts to move very slowly, and the Yin-Yang Bagua Pisces plate at the bottom gradually floats out of the water .
Luo Ren predicted that the Big Dipper should turn positive - just like the "Double Handle South Pointer" they drew on the map, and according to the visual speed, it will take a while to reach this goal.
He called 13,000 and they helped him set up a tent. They brought a big tent with two rooms. If someone gets tired, they can go in and have a rest. If you want to stay here for a day and night, there is always a place to rest. It is good.
Considering that the river would swell during the day, he walked to the side and high places, and squatted down* from time to time to test the humidity of the soil. After choosing a location, he took out the parts of the tent. Assemble the movable poles, pave the floor with flaming red sand, and after a while, Kiyo came over, followed by Cao Jiefang, who followed him step by step. As soon as Kiyo left, only the magic stick was left at the Guansi archway, and it was absolutely unwilling Alone with the stick.
Kiyo helped Luo Ren nail the ground, fix the corner ropes, and lay moisture-proof mats. After a lot of work, the tent looked like it was set up.
Several people went in to sit and rest, and when they shouted the magic stick, he refused to move a step, took a small tape measure to measure, and muttered that he needed to record the data.
Let him go.
It was indeed a bit cold in the middle of the night, Luo Ren took out the blanket and everyone closed the cover, several people huddled together, looking at the busy magic stick not far away, I don’t know who yawned, this tiredness suddenly spread out.
In the dead of night, a lot of suppressed emotions will come out to play tricks, Yan Hongsha murmured: "It's good that we are like this now, but in the future, we don't know where we are."
Cao Yanhua is very optimistic: "Where can I still be, Lijiang."
Yan Hongsha glanced at him: "What do you think, ten thousand three is just working in a bar, you can stay for a year or two, will you stay for a long time? You are the same, don't forget, you are from Chongqing I ran to avoid the limelight, as for me, my hometown is Kunming, and Lijiang is just a place to stay... and Luo Ren, maybe he moved to after marrying Muyo..."
Suddenly, I feel very sad, and feel that the name "gathering and parting according to fate" is very sad: if there is a destiny to get together, why do you want to break up?
There was a wind blowing over, and it was chilly all over, Yan Hongsha easily closed the zipper door of the tent.
The small space, with five people, is surprisingly warm, and this warmth swells up like a fermented drowsiness.
Nuggeting in Luo Ren's arms, Muyo was dozing half asleep, when suddenly he heard the magic stick yelling: "Come out, come out and see!"
He was just outside the tent, jumping around, Kiyo opened his eyes, subconsciously startled - there was a flowing light outside, like a projection.
She tore off the zipper, crawled out with both hands and feet, and took a breath when she saw it.
Everyone came out, but no one spoke. They raised their heads and looked around helplessly.
Looking at the center of the fourth archway, the light is shining brightly. It is the Big Dipper with the handle of the "Southern Finger" that has finally been reset. People who are so bright can't open their eyes. For a moment, Kiyo really doubts that it is the Big Dipper in the sky. The starlight was borrowed by the world.
I don't know what the light penetrated, and on the surrounding fog screen, I typed a column after column of words, huge, solemn, trembling with the fog, as if alive, life is on the back of the words Ready to come out.
That's column after column of names, a set of five, five names of people.
Arranged in sequence, like the natural evolution of Chinese characters, there are seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, and running script, all of which are ancient styles, from the primitive and blunt in the early stage to the smooth and rounded in the later stage.
Kiyo's eyes fell on the last column, the first name.
Plum Blossom One Zhao.
——Master, why are you called Meihua Jiuniang? Do you do nine at home?
——No, because I am the ninth generation from the first generation of Shimen. Successors of all generations will automatically continue this number, add their own characters, surnames or first names, and be a bit lazy, like me, directly called Meihua Jiuniang.
——Who is the originator of the mountain?
——It is called Meihua Yizhao, which dates back to the Ming Dynasty.
It is said that the founder of Shimen is called Meihua Yizhao. There will be changes, spring is narcissus, camellia, viburnum, summer is lily, hibiscus, gentian, autumn is chrysanthemum, osmanthus, spearmint, and in winter...
In winter, only one kind is sold: plum blossom, plum blossom, plum blossom.
When selling flowers, he never yells, and no matter what season the flowers are sold in, when customers ask him for recommendations, he will always only recommend plum blossoms.
Just think about it, in the summer sun, which is in full bloom and tans people, he waved his fan and followed up with recommendations: "Plum blossoms are good, if you want to plant them, you can plant plum blossoms. When winter comes, I will bring you some plum blossoms." Branch to..."
Kiyo murmured in a low voice: "Cheetah."
Luo Ren thought he heard it wrong: "What?"
"You mentioned to me before how the ancestor of the cheetah was captured and how he escaped from the ancestral hall and went to Nanyang."
That's right, the ancestor of the cheetah lived in the small town of Shibanqiao. One year, seven people drowned in the pond of the small town one after another. Then, suddenly one day, four or five foreigners came to the town.
The information obtained by Wan Fenghuo said that he "speaks with a northern accent and pretends to be a flower seller entering the town".
Muyo stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointing to the countless names: "These are the people who subdued the evil Jian in the past. Last time, the leader was the first generation of my teacher, Plum Blossom Yizhao."