Chapter 229: Three Views Subverted

How can I respond?

The ritual officer is supposed to bury the dead...

This tomb is so cruelly designed, it's obvious that the person inside is not easy to deal with.

But then again, many doubts are solved.

For example, why is the monarch of the country in the sea buried here? It's obviously not his wish. I don't know which of my stupid ancestors forced him here!

And the local legend that Liu Ma told us.

The legend has made it clear that the ruins in the mountains are not a paradise for a couple, but a tomb where the gods exiled them! !

This is all right.

"If you really can't, don't go in this time."

Zhang Xinya stopped joking and said to me seriously: "You are the descendant of the ceremonial officer, and the things in this tomb were buried by your ancestors. The other party now knows our whereabouts, and I am afraid they have already seen your origins. When enemies meet, they are particularly jealous. You will definitely become the target of the other party. This is not a good sign. It is extremely dangerous for you to go to the tomb."

"Is it not dangerous outside? You said that people have been eyeing me for a long time. It may be more dangerous to leave the group!"

I smiled, patted her shoulder, and said jokingly, "Okay, brother, don't worry about your buddy, I'm lucky."

Zhang Xinya was furious and kicked me hard, warning me that if I dare to say that we are close friends again, she will kill me.

After that, she got into the sleeping bag and ignored me.

Actually, what I said was all nonsense. I must follow this operation. None of the mercury tombs are simple. They are all large tombs. I have a hunch that the complexity of this tomb may exceed that of the demon tomb. If I am not there, Brother Yaozi and his men will not be able to break it open, and it will be extremely dangerous! !

It was already late at night. I got into my sleeping bag and was woken up by Lao Bai not long after I slept. It was dawn. My eyes were sore and bloodshot. I closed my eyes and rested for a long time before I recovered a little. After I got out, Brother Yaozi had already made a fire, melted the snow, and tore up the dried beef we brought with us and threw it in to cook. It became a pot of fragrant beef porridge.

I ate a little, and when my body was a little warm, I pulled Lao Bai over, took out the drawing I drew last night, drew a circle in one place, and told Lao Bai directly to hit the Luoyang shovel from this place later and get some soil to take a look!

Lao Bai responded, poured the meat porridge in two or three mouthfuls, took the tools and greeted Brother Yaozi and went to work.

The location I mentioned is actually very easy to find. It is in the east, about two or three meters away from the area contaminated by mercury!

This tomb is based on the Luoshu as a whole. This layout is too large, and the tomb design will be extremely complicated. The Luoshu contains the changes of the four seasons and the five elements, the rise and fall of all things in the world, and the geographical veins. Then the internal design of the mechanism, tomb chamber, etc. of this tomb must also conform to these and operate completely according to the changes of the Luoshu. Otherwise, if the overall layout of the tomb is like the Luoshu, it is useless. It is just an empty shell. The essence is not used at all, and naturally it cannot suppress evil spirits.

Based on all this, I guess that this tomb has eight doors, which can be entered from all directions.

However, if you go through the wrong door, you will be in a very difficult situation after entering.

For example, some mechanisms in the tomb are dormant in spring, so you should take this road in spring, which is relatively safe. If you go through the wrong road, you will be in danger of death after entering! !

This is the so-called change of the four seasons.

In addition to the seasons, there are many factors such as gender, birth date, yin and yang attributes, etc. It can be said that there are countless mechanisms inside this tomb, and the changes are endless. People of different ages, different seasons, and different birth dates will encounter completely different things after entering. However, there are too many factors, and some are difficult to avoid. You can only protect the big ones and not the small ones.

The road I chose is the most suitable for us!

This road is the Genfang Road!

The Genfang Road is a mountain road. If the tomb is in the mountains, it is relatively safe to take this road. The corresponding seasons are spring and winter. Now it is the end of the year, which is the time when winter and spring alternate. The seasons are also consistent. Among yin and yang, it belongs to yang. We are living people, so it is natural that we can't take the yang road.

There is only one thing, this road is the road that young men should take.

Lao Bai, Brother Yaozi, and Zhang Xinya do not meet this rule, so once they enter the tomb, most of the mechanisms are best solved by me to avoid any unexpected changes.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi are both old hands, and they are very neat. After Zhang Xinya and I had eaten, we had just packed our luggage when they responded. The shovel hit about three or four meters and stared at the top of the tomb. When we pulled out the shovel, we saw that it was all mixed soil.

"Stone tomb!"

Brother Yaozi said so, thought for a while, and added: "Dig the hole now?"

I thought about it, and then responded. According to my estimation, this robbery hole is actually just outside the tomb door of the underground palace. To put it bluntly, it is just to penetrate the corridor, not directly into the underground palace. Although it is a bit troublesome, it is relatively safe. At most, we can break the tomb door after going down. If we don't know the depth, we can directly hit the tomb chamber. It is easy to jump directly into the mercury sea. At that time, the gas mask can't protect our safety!

There are usually no mechanisms on the corridor. It's just a job of stealing holes. Brother Yaozi is the best at it. He and Lao Bai, one digs a hole and the other transports soil. Soon, a square robbery hole appeared in front of us. Brother Yaozi fiddled with it with a crowbar for a while. With a "boom", a piece of bluestone on the robbery hole was lifted up, and he immediately jumped down.

After a while, I heard Brother Yaozi's shout from below, indicating that we were absolutely safe below.

The robbery hole was not deep, only a few meters at most, and we got in easily.

As I expected, below was indeed the tomb door to the underground palace. This was a relatively empty small tomb room, with two stone tomb doors blocking the front. I went up and knocked on it with my hand. It was very solid. The thickness and weight of the tomb door must be amazing. I looked at the upper and lower ends and found that the tomb door was embedded in the ground. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be a push-pull mechanism door!

I just checked it roughly, and I knew that this tomb door could not be destroyed by violence or manpower. I had to find the mechanism to control it. After looking around, my eyes quickly fell on the stone sculpture in front of the tomb door.

This is a statue of a man wearing a high crown, very heroic, with eyes closed, kneeling on the ground, holding a stone book in one hand and a green square plate in the other hand. There is a stone tube beside him, which is filled with small sticks about 13 or 14 centimeters long. They should be ancient abacus sticks, but these abacus sticks are made of iron.

At first glance, the man's posture seems to be reading a book and calculating at the same time, but how can he read a book with his eyes closed? This is the weird part.

I went up to check the green square plate in the other's arms, and it felt like a magnet...

Behind the man, there is a towering stone tablet, on which is engraved the bell and drum text, which is the inscription of the Yin and Zhou dynasties, now also called bronze text, which is considered the earliest text and belongs to a kind of seal script. It is not difficult to identify.

I stood in front of the stone tablet with my hands behind my back to observe the contents recorded on it, and was soon shocked.

The stone tablet records that the statue kneeling in front of me is the famous musician Shi Kuang in the Spring and Autumn Period. No wonder his eyes are closed. It is said that Shi Kuang was blind. It says that before his death, Shi Kuang left a difficult problem of numerology. Whoever can solve it will open the door!

Instantly, I understand the key to this mechanism.

As long as you solve this difficult problem, and then put the answer on the green plate with counting sticks, the counting sticks are iron, and the green plate is female. When the two touch, they will touch the mechanism under the stone plate and make the mechanism work. If the answer is correct and there is no problem with the placement of the counting sticks, the mechanism will work in the correct way and the tomb door will open naturally! !

The design of this mechanism is not ingenious. This is the first time I have heard that according to the stone tablet, this mechanism was completely designed by Shi Kuang. He himself is one of the designers of this tomb. This is a bit subverting my cognition.

According to legend, the relationship between the tomb owner and him is not very close? If he participated in the design of this tomb, it means that he personally suppressed the tomb owner. Is this a good relationship?

Moreover, is my guess wrong? This tomb has nothing to do with us ritual officials?

These questions came up, but they were destined to have no answers for the time being. I also suppressed the shock and confusion in my heart and went to observe the eternal numerology problem left by Shi Kuang. I was really a little nervous. This is my buddy's weakness. It's all thanks to my father. I didn't know that tomb robbers also need to be cultured? Now it's impossible to go back to the furnace and re-educate. I can only bite the bullet. Shi Kuang is a famous numerology master with high attainments. The eternal problem he left behind makes people worry just thinking about it...

This problem is recorded on the stone book in the statue's hand. There are words on it, or bronze inscriptions. The carving is very small. It is indeed a math problem. Unfortunately, there were no Arabic numerals at that time. They were all written by our ancestors. It was very difficult to read. It took me a long time to change this problem into Arabic numerals and write it on the ground.

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100=?

That's all about this question!!

After I finished reading it, I coughed lightly and looked at Lao Bai. Lao Bai turned his head away, looking absent-minded. I looked at Brother Yaozi again. Brother Yaozi blinked at me and grinned. His teeth were very white and he looked honest and kind.

These two illiterates!!

I despised them from head to toe in my heart. I had to lower my face and smiled at Zhang Xinya: "Sister, do you know how to solve this problem?"

Zhang Xinya rarely looked down on me, a ceremonial officer, as a country bumpkin. She frowned and looked at the numbers I wrote on the ground. Her expression was very exciting and rich, with shock, surprise, and more... disbelief!!

There's a way!

As soon as I saw her expression, I knew that she definitely knew the question. I asked her several times in a row, but she didn't respond, so I pushed her with my hand.

Zhang Xinya shuddered all over, came back to her senses, looked at the numbers on the ground, and struggled. After a while, she said with some difficulty: "Are you sure this is the problem left by Shi Kuang, a person who lived in 500 BC and left a difficult problem of numerology? Are you sure?!"

I nodded: "That's what the bell and drum inscriptions on it say."

"Then my world view is really overturned."

Zhang Xinya spread her hands: "I have read it many times, and no matter how I look at it, it seems to be one of the world's famous mathematical problems - Goldbach's conjecture!!"