Origin Chapter 106: Nine questions about the pattern

The stone door of the sixth stone chamber is also closed and can only be blasted open.

Zhang Shukai went out earlier and brought back the necessities related to the positioning and blasting. While he placed the *, Lv Jiahui knocked on the stone door with the rhythm of Morse code as usual, and tried to get in touch with Zhao Ying and others, but inside the stone room No echo.

Seeing the worried look on Wu Zhongyuan's face, Wang Xinran looked at him and comforted him, "They should have gone to the innermost layer."

"Why do you say that?" Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her.

Wang Xinran explained, "They haven't touched the stone platform copper plate in this stone room at all, which shows that they know there is no hope of breaking these traps. , they may have rushed to the next stone room before the mechanism was activated, and the person controlled by the iron worm should have run at the end of the team."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly. There was a black-haired monkey in the corner of the stone room. This monkey should be the original host of the iron nematode. Zhao Ying and others triggered the mechanism when they rushed forward. Jianli came out to attack them, and the shells in the stone chamber showed that they had shot to prevent the monkeys from approaching. As for the person who was controlled by the iron worm, the reason why he ran at the end of the team should not be because he ran slowly, but because he stayed at the end and pushed the stone gate behind him to stop the fourth stone room. The vines of the man-eating tree chased in.

Attempts to communicate were unsuccessful, Lv Jiahui turned around and walked back, shaking her head at the two of them.

"Give me another three minutes." Zhang Shukai turned his head and said to the crowd.

"Don't worry," Wang Xinran waved his hand and turned to look at Wu Zhongyuan, "What is the sixth gate?"

"Jingmen, the five elements belong to fire, and they belong to Xiaoji according to the classification of good and bad." Wu Zhongyuan replied.

"The five elements belong to fire?" Wang Xinran frowned slightly.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "Most of the organs in those stone chambers before corresponded to Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, and the organs inside were probably related to fire."

Wang Xinran didn't answer, no matter what the mechanism was, it had already been triggered by Zhao Ying and others, and Zhao Ying and others had played the role of pathfinders invisibly.

It was said to be three minutes, but Zhang Shukai may be ready in three minutes. This time he brought back the remote control*, which can be detonated from a safe distance.

Before the detonation, the four wore gas masks as usual. Due to the use of an advanced directional blasting device, the sound of the explosion was much quieter than that of a gas cylinder.

When the air wave dissipated, the four returned to the door, only to see a crack in the lower part of the stone door. Wang Xinran took the claw hammer in Lv Jiahui's hand and knocked off the part of the lower part of the stone door that was against the top door stone.

Removing the gravel, Wang Xinran took off his gas mask, tilted his head, and tried to observe the inside of the stone chamber through the gap, but the gap that had been blasted was just blocked by the top door stone protruding from the ground, so he couldn't see what was inside. .

Although I can't see what's going on in the stone chamber, I can smell the odor from the stone chamber. The sixth stone chamber must have been on fire not long ago, and the air is filled with a strong smell of burnt.

"Someone was burned to death inside." Wang Xinran tilted his head to look at Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer.

Wang Xinran made a gesture to Lv Jiahui, and the two stepped forward to push the stone gate. Zhang Shukai held guns in both hands and was on guard.

After the stone door was pushed open, the smell of burnt became stronger and stronger. The first thing that caught my eye was the stone platform. As the stone door opened wider and wider, the stone room was completely exposed to Wu Zhongyuan's vision. Someone burned to death inside. There was only one corpse, located in the northeast corner. It was a male corpse. The corpse was relatively intact. The clothes on his body were not completely burned by the fire, and even his hair was still there.

Such injuries should not be fatal. Rather than being burned to death, the person was choked to death by smoke.

Seeing that Zhao Ying was not in this stone room, Wu Zhongyuan breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the stone platform in front of him.

"Be careful." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer, he went straight to the stone platform and wiped the dust on the stone platform.

This stone platform is somewhat similar to the stone platform in the previous stone room. There are also copper plates on the stone platform, but the copper plate here is not a five-ring plate, but a one-ring plate, with only sixty-four hexagrams. elephant.

In addition, there are three copper plates on the stone platform in the previous stone chamber, but there are nine copper plates on this stone platform, and the volume is only half the size of the five-ring copper plate.

Nine bronze plates are arranged horizontally, vertically, and threely, and two characters are engraved on the top of each copper plate.

The first bronze plate is engraved with "Contempt."

The second bronze plate is engraved with "Provocation."

The third copper plate is engraved with "Suppression."

The fourth bronze plate is engraved with "Deception."

The fifth copper plate is engraved with "City Huan."

The sixth bronze plate is engraved with "Breach."

The seventh bronze plate is engraved with "betrayal."

The eighth copper plate is engraved with "Backlash."

The ninth bronze plate is engraved with "Empathy."

When Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the copper plate, Wang Xinran walked up to him, looked at the copper plate on the stone platform and asked in a low voice, "What does he want to test you?"

"He's asking me what I should do if I encounter these nine situations," Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Why did he ask such a question?" Wang Xinran was puzzled, "What's the point of asking such a question?"

"You didn't understand?" Wu Zhongyuan turned to look at her.

Wang Xinran shook his head.

Wu Zhongyuan said, "He is testing whether I have the character and pattern to achieve great things."

Seeing Wang Xinran is still unclear, Wu Zhongyuan explained in detail, "These nine behaviors are actually arranged according to a person's status, from low to high, contempt means others look down on me, if my status is very high It's impossible for them to look down on me. Then they provoke me. If my status is higher, they may suppress me. If my status continues to rise, I may be deceived. It is arranged in this order. He wants to know that I meet What will happen to these nine situations in the future?"

Wang Xinran nodded and asked, "Is it difficult?"

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head and said, "It cannot be described as difficult or easy. This test is not about my IQ and knowledge, but my character and pattern."

"The rewards here are definitely better than those in the previous level, you must be careful." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded and reached out to turn the first copper plate.

"Have you made up your mind?" Wang Xinran did not expect Wu Zhongyuan to act immediately.

"The more you think about these issues, the easier it is to shake your original intention." Wu Zhongyuan pointed one of the hexagrams at "contempt."

"What does this figure mean?" Wang Xinran asked, pointing to the hexagram.

"It's none of my business." Wu Zhongyuan said casually.

"Isn't there a graphic of shame and courage?" Wang Xinran asked.

"Yes, but I don't like it," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "If others look down on me, I have to make them look down on me. Why should I live for them? If they laugh at me for my fart, do I have to live every day? Practicing stinky farts hard?"

While Wang Xinran pouted, Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his hand to the second copper plate, and it moved when pushed. If he was able to push the plate, it means that the first question was answered correctly.

The second question is "Provocation." Wang Xinran couldn't understand the hexagram, so he could only ask "What does this figure mean?"

"It's a smashing hexagram of Shangli and Xiaquan," Wu Zhongyuan explained, "it means lightning flashes and thunders, and beats him directly."

Hearing Wu Zhongyuan's explanation, Wang Xinran clicked her tongue and shook her head, "You see clearly, the other party is just provocation, not attack."

"Provocation is a precursor to an attack," Wu Zhongyuan said, "My senior brother once said that if a person wants to bully you, it's all a test. If you scold you today, if you laugh it off, he will dare to kick you tomorrow. Feet, if you don't respond again, he will dare to go to your house to **** things the day after tomorrow, and if you still bear it, he will dare to sleep with your wife the day after tomorrow. It's the most stupid thing to bear no more, no need to bear it any longer. Wife, do you kill him again and go to jail? When he scolds you at first, he scolds you directly to ensure that there will not be so many **** in the future, and the hidden dangers will be eliminated in the bud, and the losses will be small for both parties."

Wang Xinran didn't answer because Wu Zhongyuan had already started to turn the third disc. If the third disc could turn, it meant that he answered the second question correctly.

It moved, the third copper plate was turned, and the third question was "pressing."

Wang Xinran no longer dared to question Wu Zhongyuan's opinion, "What does this figure mean?"

"It means to make it public and make things bigger," Wu Zhongyuan said. "Suppression is for the superiors to put on the shoes of the inferiors. If the superiors oppress me, I will not violate the yin and yang, nor will I disagree with him. He will directly make the matter bigger and let everyone know that we are not on good terms. In this way, he would not dare to put on my small shoes, because everyone knows that I have quarreled with him. Well, it's just a public revenge."

As soon as Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, there was a slight vibration and creaking noise from the stone room. The friction sound came from the right stone wall and gradually moved towards the left stone wall.

Hearing the sound of friction, the two did not panic, because the sound of friction was very slow. If it was an offensive mechanism, the speed would not be so slow.

When the friction stopped, Wu Zhongyuan tried to push the fourth copper plate again, "Deception."

Knowing that Wang Xinran would definitely ask, Wu Zhongyuan took the initiative to explain, "This is a hexagram of yang life and yin death. If I don't have hope for this person who deceived me, I will pretend not to know. If I still have hope in him, I'll pierce him and remind him not to stray from me."

Wu Zhongyuan didn't stop. He pushed the fifth copper plate directly, and he could also push it. The question corresponding to this disk was "shihuan." Shihuan is an ancient term, which is rarely used now. It roughly means to please others.

"What does this hexagram mean?" Wang Xinran was very curious.

"Be kind." Wu Zhongyuan said casually. Seeing Wang Xinran frowning, he explained, "Good medicine is not necessarily bitter, and bitter is not necessarily good medicine. Confidence is not necessarily bad, and bad words are not necessarily good advice. You are the one who tries to make you happy. If you are not kind, you treat those who scold you every day? Crazy.”

Wang Xinran didn't answer the question. According to the current moral standards, Wu Zhongyuan's explanation would definitely fail, at least not as lofty, but thinking about it carefully, his answer was more candid and more in line with human nature.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan successfully pushed the sixth copper plate, Wang Xinran breathed a sigh of relief.

The sixth platter is "Breach."

This time, Wang Xinran did not ask what the hexagram means, because this hexagram Wu Zhongyuan used before, it is a hexagram of yang life and yin death, and this hexagram does not even need to be explained. If disobedience is sincere advice, then Just accept it humbly. If disobedience is a disrespectful offense, it is severely punished.

The sixth copper plate was in the right position, and the stone room vibrated slightly again. Seeing that there was something slowly rising from the ground ahead, Wu Zhongyuan hurriedly turned around, "Hurry up and cover it, don't let me know what it is... …”