Origin Chapter 93: Eight Doors
Wu Zhongyuan walked towards the stone tablet on the north side of the stone room in confusion. The stone tablet was about two meters high and one meter two wide. It was densely engraved with words. The font was the official script commonly used in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.
The official script is 70% similar to the modern traditional Chinese characters. Even Wang Xinran can understand it, and Wu Zhongyuan can understand it. The first sentence of the inscription is: 'I know you are coming, the return gift is ready, go in and get it Bar. ’
After reading this sentence, Wu Zhongyuan frowned in confusion. He was puzzled not because he didn't understand what the sentence meant, but because he couldn't understand why Zuo Ci used the word 'reciprocal gift', which usually refers to a gift given after receiving a gift from someone else. They didn't give Zuo Ci a gift. What kind of gift did Zuo Ci return?
However, this sentence itself is very colloquial, which is in line with Zuo Ci's bohemian character. Modern people have a common misunderstanding of the language habits of the ancients. They think that all the words of the ancients are just words. In fact, they are also Mandarin, which is spoken by the upper class.
Looking further down, the inscription reads, 'Beauty doesn't know who you are, but I know it. Unfortunately, my deadline is approaching. I can't wait for you to come, so I can't talk with you about the past and the present, and deduce the warp and weft. It’s really a pity, but fortunately, my mind is excellent, and I came up with a good way to talk about the theory with you apart from yin and yang. There are eight ways to go forward, each of which has its own changes. Try your aura talent, In the test of your character and virtue, you will beat me by one game, and there will be gifts. If I win a game, there will be small punishments. Uh, I almost forgot to describe my life. I am Mr. Wu Jiao, Zuo Ci, known as the Immortal Zuo. I am not a thing in the pool, but I am a person who understands the way of heaven. Anger, sadness and joy, I set foot in the world, traveled around the world in Kyushu, drank the wine kings and princes during the day, and lingered in the fragrant boudoir at night...'
The following words are all bragging by Zuo Ci. It seems imprecise to say bragging. It should be said that Wang Po sells melons, when did he drink wine with which emperor, and when did he play chess with which immortal , also said that Lu Bu once asked him to be a military advisor, that Da Qiao once winked at him, and said that Kong Ming asked him for advice on Qimen Dunjia, and Cao Cao asked him to deduce the national fortune and so on.
While Wu Zhongyuan was checking the words on the stone tablet, Wang Xinran and others were doing the same thing. After reading the words on the stone tablet, the expressions of the four were surprisingly similar, and they all frowned in embarrassment.
The four of them weren't actually embarrassed, they were embarrassing for Zuo Ci. It was so shameless to leave such words.
Wang Xinran spoke first, "Hehe, I now know why so many people want to kill him."
Wu Zhongyuan also replied with a haha, Zuo Ci likes to tease people, and the more senior he is, the more serious and unsmiling man he is, the more he likes to make the other person make a fool of himself. The more pretentious and innocent women are on weekdays, the more he likes to embarrass the other party. In today's words, this is a serious error correction obsessive-compulsive disorder. When he sees someone pretending to be coercive, he will run over and slap his face, just like that. old angry youth.
Now there is a saying that if you have money, you will be self-willed. This old angry young man is self-willed if he has the ability. Relying on his ability to do magic, he has no control, he is reckless, he can do whatever he wants, and this person is very curious and also I like to observe others very much, sometimes it is an open and honest observation, and sometimes it is a shameless peeping.
Wang Xinran tried to contact the headquarters to obtain more historical information about the person, but was in the underwater stone room and had no cell phone signal.
In the next five minutes, none of the four said a word. They may all be thinking about the same question, that is, Zuo Ci's character may cause some monsters in the following eight passes. Go first. What kind of experience will Zhao Ying and others have.
The silence was broken by Wang Xinran. Wang Xinran pointed at the stone tablet and asked Wu Zhongyuan, "Does the 'you' above refer to you?"
"If the 'beauty' on the stele refers to the female warrior, then he is referring to me," Wu Zhongyuan said.
"Why did he say Beauty doesn't know who you are, but he does?" Wang Xinran asked.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer, and the question was bothering him.
Wang Xinran asked again, "Why does he want to talk to you about the past and the present, and deduce the warp and weft? He seems to be very curious about you, and even if he dies, he wants to compete with you."
Wu Zhongyuan shook his head slowly.
"The person who came to look for you doesn't know who you are, but he knows who you are? What is the logic of this?" Wang Xinran said to himself. The reason why he said he was talking to himself instead of asking questions was because She knew very well that Wu Zhongyuan would definitely not be able to answer this question.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer.
Wang Xinran looked at Wu Zhongyuan suspiciously, "Who are you?"
"I don't know," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "I'll never know who I am if I don't go back."
Can't figure out why, Wang Xinran can only give up, put the diving equipment aside, take out the pistol to check*, "Do you understand Qimen Dunjia?"
"I heard from Master, I know a little bit, but I'm not proficient." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"What kind of magic is Qimen Dunjia?" Wang Xinran asked.
Wu Zhongyuan recalled for a moment, and then said, "Qimen Dunjia is not a spell, but a method of divination and prediction. Qi means three odds, that is, Bingyiding three days, and door means life and death resting, etc. The door corresponds to the eight directions of southeast, northwest, northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest. Dunjia means to push the shadow of the six Jias and hide. To put it bluntly, it is to achieve the purpose of seeking good luck and avoiding evil by predicting the future.”
Although Wu Zhongyuan tried to be straightforward, Wang Xinran still seemed to understand. But Wu Zhongyuan didn't explain it any further. What he just said was the most straightforward and simple. In fact, Qimen Dunjia is very complicated, even more difficult to understand than calculus.
Wang Xinran didn't ask any more questions. He walked around the stone tablet and came to the left side of the half-opened stone gate, and looked in.
Zhang Shukai and Lv Jiahui also walked over. They were separated on the left and right sides of Shimen. They both had pistols in their hands. Although Lv Jiahui's specialty is underwater archaeology, since she works in the 18th Bureau, she naturally also uses guns.
Through the gap in the stone gate, you can see that there is a stone room that is the same as the stone room where the four people are.
On the floor of the stone chamber, there seem to be some metal objects scattered about, with strange shapes, not weapons or living utensils, but rather like fragments of armor.
There is also a stone door to the north of the stone room, but at this time the stone door is closed.
"Are they inside?" Wu Zhongyuan asked casually.
"Should be," Wang Xinran reloaded, "cover your ears."
"What do you want?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"Tell her, I'm here." Wang Xinran fired a shot after speaking.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't expect that she would shoot when she said she would shoot. He didn't have time to cover his ears. The stone chamber was relatively airtight, and the echoes shook his head.
After the shooting, Wang Xinran pushed the stone door into the stone room inside, looked around, and determined that no one was there. There was nothing in the stone room except for the fragments of armor scattered on the ground.
Wu Zhongyuan was the second to enter. After entering, he bent down and picked up a piece of metal. This thing did look like a part of armor. It should be copper in color.
The main body of the armor is scattered in the lower right corner of the stone room. If you look closely, you will find that it is not a set of armor, but a humanoid object covered with armor. Since the armor on the surface has partially fallen off, you can vaguely see that there are many inside. metal parts.
"Robot?!" This was the first thing Wu Zhongyuan thought of.
I walked over and took a closer look with my doubts. It turned out to be a robot. There are many metal parts in it. However, compared with modern precision parts, these parts are very crude and have only their appearance, and there are no complicated circuits inside. , there are only a lot of gears of different sizes, this thing should work similar to a clock, and it is likely to be wound.
Seeing the internal structure of the robot, Wu Zhongyuan is not surprised. This robot is not a robot in the true sense, but a mechanical tool similar to a wooden cow and a horse.
While Wu Zhongyuan inspected the crude robot, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai picked up some shell casings from the floor of the stone room. There were more than 20 shell casings, all of the same model.
These twenty or so shots are the reason for the robot to fall apart. Judging from the robot's internal structure and the details that no weapons were found on the ground, this robot does not seem to have the ability to attack.
"Have you seen anything similar before?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at Lv Jiahui.
Lv Jiahui was examining the bottom of the stone gate at this time to determine if there was any dark stone at the top gate. Hearing Wu Zhongyuan's question, he raised his head and said, "Similar things are not uncommon in archaeological excavations, but such a kind made of metal is still not uncommon. There has never been an excavation record."
"Can you determine the purpose of this thing?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"I'll try my best." Lv Jiahui came over and squatted down to examine it carefully.
At this time, Wang Xinran was trying to push open the second stone gate. The stone gate was heavy, but could barely be pushed.
"Don't rush forward, find out what's going on here first," Wu Zhongyuan said.
"The place has been destroyed by them, is there any need to stay here?" Wang Xinran said.
"Yes," Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "this stone room should be the first of the eight gates, Shengmen, the five elements of Shengmen belong to metal, and here happens to be a bronze doll, I want to find out this bronze The real use of the puppet..."