Luo Tianlin gave up after testing the weight of the two stone balls, and then retreated to Yan Hai's side, not touching the mechanism.

Yu Xueqing asked, "Brother Tianlin, what did you find?"

Luo Tianlin whispered: "The first thing that can be determined is that these stone balls are definitely not distinguished by weight and shape, I just observed two stone balls, their size and weight are almost the same, and there is no difference in appearance." ”

"So what now?"

"Don't worry, the intelligence is insufficient now, and I can't figure out how to unlock the mechanism, so I'll wait and see for a while. Luo Tianlin glanced at the crowd around him and decided to wait and see what happened.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere became dull. Qu Mizheng suddenly said loudly: "Hey, newcomer, you are the last, we have tried all of them once before, now it's your turn!"

Luo Tianlin smiled and said, "Really, have you tried them all?"

"Of course, don't believe you ask the others present. ”

Luo Tianlin turned to Yan Hai and asked, "May I ask the girl, before we came, did all of you have already tried to unlock the mechanism?"

Yan Hai shook his head decisively and said: "No, only the Huang family brothers over there went up and tried it once, and everyone saw that they had to be absorbed after the decryption failed, so they didn't go up." ”

Qu Mizheng shouted: "You stupid woman, are you stupid, can't you let this guy try? Maybe with good luck, everyone will have a chance to escape." ”

"Who are you scolding?" Yan Hai's fingertips were flickering.

"Just scold you, you're a ...... Bastard, you're crazy!" Before Qu Mi finished speaking, a fireball fell on his head, he quickly dodged, but did not completely avoid it, and a big hole was suddenly broken in his clothes.

"No more nonsense, don't blame me for being unkind!" Yan Hai said coldly.

The shot she made just now was instructed by Luo Tianlin, and she was too calm at the moment, so she had to move.

Qin Xiaotian took two steps forward and suggested: "Since everyone has no good way, sitting here is also waiting for death, it is better to try your luck, everyone takes turns to fight, maybe if you are lucky, you will open the mechanism." ”

Qu Mizheng glanced at Yan Hai and snorted coldly: "That's a nice thing, what if the person in front has tried it, and the one in the back doesn't try?"

Qin Xiaotian is not a figure with a head and face in the Qin family, and he has naturally already made a draft in his heart, and said with a light smile: "So, let's conduct a round of voting first, if there is anyone who does not join, or who defects after joining, we will join forces to eliminate it first." If you can get the treasure, everyone will share it equally, and the brother who opens the mechanism will get an extra share, so I think this arrangement should be more reasonable, right?"

Everyone nodded, and even Luo Tianlin was impressed by him, but this approach was exactly what he wanted, and he was worried that he had no reference object.

There were a total of twenty-two people present, and at the beginning fifteen people raised their hands in agreement, and the remaining seven people also raised their hands intermittently. After all, if they don't join, they will be directly besieged by fifteen people, and it is not surprising that they make the choice to join.

Qin Xiaotian nodded and said, "Very good, since everyone agrees to this plan, then we will prepare for the first round of attempts." ”

Green Snake Ji asked with a smile, "I don't know how Elder Qin decided the order of attempts?"

Luo Tianlin suddenly said: "There is an extremely fair method in the next place. ”

"Young man, please speak. ”

"I'm willing to be the first to try, and after I'm done trying, I'll designate the object of the next attempt, and so on, I think everyone should have no opinion, right?" Luo Tianlin said. After his first attempt, he was able to have more time to absorb the meager aura in the air, and by the time he had completed a full lap, he could basically recover a lot.

His proposal was approved by the majority of the people, and only three people objected, one of whom was Qu Mizheng, who had just had an argument with him.

In accordance with the principle of the minority obeying the majority, his opposition is null and void.

Huang Gong, one of the Huang family brothers, suddenly said: "Our brothers have already tried once, and this first round should exclude us." ”

Qin Xiaotian nodded and said, "Yes, but one of you must be the first to go in the next round." ”

The plan had been decided, and Luo Tianlin took the lead in walking to the center of the Nine Palaces Diagram. This square graphic, I was often exposed to when I was a child, and I liked to play number games at that time, not only this nine-grid nine-square chart, but also five-five charts, seven-seven charts and so on. That's the mantra that I memorized, and I still remember it: one is in the center of the upward line, and don't forget to fill it diagonally in turn, put it down when the upper frame is out, put it to the left when the right is out of the box, fill in the lower box, and fill in the upper right row.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea, could it be that this mechanism is also the same as the nine-square grid number game, placed according to the principle of equal horizontal, vertical and oblique. However, if such a method is to be realized, then the nine stone balls must have nine different degrees of things that can be marked from one to nine. But he's also tried the weight, and the size is not right, so what did the people who designed the mechanism use to target?

He fell into deep thought on the field, but the onlookers were a little uncalm, Qu Mizheng jumped to his feet and said: "Hey, you don't just want to delay time like this, hurry up and move the stone ball!"

Luo Tianlin opened his eyes and smiled at him: "Brother Qu, do you know what is the biggest difference between people and dogs encountering danger? That is, people will think of solutions, while dogs will only bark." ”

"You, you, you!" Qu Mizheng's face was pale with anger, and the others were also trying hard not to laugh, Luo Tianlin's words couldn't be more clear, I was thinking, if you beep again, that's a dog, oh no, it's actually already beep.

After Luo Tianlin finished speaking, he turned around directly and began to push the first ball. There was no requirement that he not touch the other grids, so he chose to use the push with less effort.

Soon, the nine stone balls were randomly placed into the nine-square grid. After it was completed, the copper pillar in the east suddenly lit up, and a lightning bolt struck Luo Tianlin's body, Luo Tianlin wanted to defend, but the defense formed by the true qi was like a void, and the lightning directly entered the body along the meridians, consuming about one-eighth of the true qi in the sea of qi. At the same time, the stone ball rolled on its own and rolled back into place.

"Alas, it failed", the crowd sighed.

Qin Xiaotian asked, "How does the young man feel?"

"Fortunately, the True Qi is about one-eighth of the consumption. Luo Tianlin replied truthfully.

Everyone was stunned, and they all looked at the Huang brothers.

The two of them blushed and said, "We didn't lie, we did consume nearly a quarter of our true qi at that time. ”

No one refuted it, and everyone seemed to agree with their explanation, but it was hard to say what these people were thinking.

"Hey, that impatient Brother Qu, it's your turn!" Luo Tianlin shouted at Qu Mizheng.

Qu Mizheng had a gloomy face, he had long expected that the other party would choose him next, as expected.

Soon, he randomly placed nine balls into the nine-square grid. Suddenly, the copper pillar in the north shone generously, shooting out a lightning bolt that was several times larger than just now, and as soon as the lightning entered Qu Mizheng's body, he couldn't help but wail.

Soon, the lightning disappeared, and Qu Mizheng was lying on the ground, almost crushed by the returning stone ball.

"Brother Qu, your appearance is not very good, isn't it, only one-eighth of the true qi is consumed, how can you be so unmotivated. Luo Tianlin asked with a smile.

Qu Mizheng suddenly bounced up from the ground, stretched out his hand to grab the other party's neck, and shouted angrily: "Luo Tianlin, what kind of conspiracy have you used, why have I consumed half of my true qi!"

"Oh, it's only halfway, that's a shame, you should have sucked it all up, so you don't have to play again, you can rest on the sidelines. Luo Tianlin said with a smile. He basically knew the layout of this mechanism, and the biggest problem now was that he couldn't find a way to convert each ball into one to nine.

Qu Mizheng's eyes widened, but unfortunately he was not the opponent of the other party in the first place, and now that he has consumed half of his true qi, he is even less of an opponent. He pointed at Yan Hai and said angrily, "It's your turn, stupid woman." ”

Yan Hai was about to have a seizure, Luo Tianlin grabbed her shoulder, "Ignore him, he just wants to verbally provoke you to make a move, so that he can have a reason to say that he is injured, but he can escape and try to open the mechanism and retain his strength." By the way, when you go up......"

"Well, I see!" Yan Hai nodded.

She didn't even look at Qu Mizheng, and walked directly to the stone ball. This time, she and Qu Mizheng's arrangement is basically the same, except that the stone ball in the middle of the three squares facing the north is reversed, and the middle grid in the west is reversed.

This time it was the copper pillar on the west side that showed lightning, and it seemed to be a little less powerful than the previous one. Yan Hai's spiritual power was consumed by about one-fifth.

Then everyone went together, and after a round, no one was lucky enough to open the mechanism, and they consumed true qi or spiritual power to varying degrees, the worst of them was Qu Mizheng, except for him, no one consumed more than a quarter.

The second round officially began, and Huang Shan was about to be the first to play, when Luo Tianlin suddenly stopped him: "Brother Huang, I already know the secret of the organ, let me come!"

Huangshan was overjoyed, hurriedly stepped back, and gave up his position to Luo Tianlin.

Yu Xueqing leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Brother Tianlin, are you really sure?"

"Don't worry, when did Brother Tianlin lie to you. "Wait and see.

Luo Tianlin put his hand on the first ball, his eyes closed, as if he was sensing something. In fact, he was invoking the power of Haotian Tower, and the power extended towards the center of the stone ball, and it was about to reach the limit that Luo Tianlin could exert.

"Found you! It was so deeply hidden, no wonder I didn't find anything at first. Luo Tianlin smiled secretly in his heart, withdrew his thoughts, and began to walk towards the second stone ball, also standing next to him to explore.

In the eyes of others, his behavior was a little inexplicable, standing by the stone ball in a daze, leaving, and the next one.

Qu Mizheng felt uncomfortable when he saw him at this time, and when he saw the other party grinding, he couldn't help but shout: "Hey, can you hurry up, what kind of mystery is playing!"

"Shut up!" two loud shouts rang out. A voice came from Yu Xueqing, she would have been displeased with this guy for a long time, if Luo Tianlin hadn't asked her not to act rashly, she would have gone up to teach him a lesson.

As for the other person, it was the Green Snake Ji, the other party was so cautious, indicating that he might indeed have found the location of the mechanism, and to disturb at this time was to interrupt everyone's hope of escape, so naturally there was no good look for him.

Qu Mizheng didn't dare to speak at all, these two women alone couldn't handle it, if they were angry, they would be out of the game by waiting for the vote.

Half an hour passed, and Luo Tianlin finally finished detecting all the stone balls, he straightened his waist and moved his muscles. After using the power of the artifact for such a long time, he felt that the consumption of true qi was secondary, and the spiritual power was even greater. However, he vaguely felt that his connection with Haotian Tower was deeper, and it seemed that focusing on using the power of the artifact could improve the fit with the artifact.

"Xue Qing, come here to help. Luo Tianlin shouted, he needed to recover his physical and mental strength.

Yu Xueqing followed his instructions and began to slowly push the stone balls into their respective areas, but when the last stone ball returned to its place, the eight bronze pillars were lit up with golden light, and the golden light shone on the nine-square grid, and the ground began to split in two, revealing a downward stone staircase.

Green Snake Ji walked up to Luo Tianlin and said with a smile: "Little brother is very powerful, tell my sister how you did it?"

Luo Tianlin smiled and said, "Young girl, if I say it's Meng, do you believe it?"

Green Snake Ji nodded: "I believe it." ”

"Huh?" This time it was Luo Tianlin's turn to be surprised, he was obviously talking nonsense, and he actually believed it, and looking at her expression, it didn't look like a joke.

Green Snake Ji quickly explained: "It was once said in the ancient book that heroes were born in troubled times, and now the Demon Sect is raging, it is the beginning of troubled times, and Luo Shaoxia should be one of the heroes in this troubled times, so it is understandable to have atmospheric luck, the little woman has a request, I don't know if Luo Shaoxia will agree." ”

"Oh, what request? Luo Tianlin did not reply immediately.

"When Luo Shaoxia introduced himself before, he said that he was the deputy master of the Earth Group, and I wanted to join the Earth Group, I wonder if the Lord of the Earth Group would like to accept it?"

Luo Tianlin was stunned and said: "To tell you honestly, our Earth Group currently doesn't even have fifty people, and it has just been established, it has no territory of its own, and there are no books or disciples, so you also want to join such a sect?"

Green Snake Ji nodded and said: "This kind of sect is the most suitable for me, if it sits and enjoys its success, it is better to create it together." ”

"Hehe, what you said almost makes me suspect that you are from my hometown. Luo Tianlin said with a smile.

"Where is your hometown?" asked Green Snake Hime.

Luo Tianlin shook his head: "It's far, far away, I'm afraid it's difficult to go back." Okay, don't talk about me, since the young girl is willing to join, my Earth Group naturally welcomes it. But I have a word in advance, as long as you enter the door, it is a family, you can put forward opinions, but you must not do anything to betray or hurt the doorman. ”

Green Snake Ji nodded and said, "I understand." ”