Chapter Ninety-One: The Sky Is Round

It turns out that once the trial and error program is started, it can't be stopped, if there is no continuous input within a certain period of time, even if you leave it alone, when the time comes, the error program caused by you will still be triggered, and the disaster will still be unavoidable. If it weren't for the fact that we were the ones who were in trouble right now, I would really have to applaud the people who designed this mechanism!

I pinched a sweat in my heart and asked, "Then how much time do we have now?" One meter seventy-five looked down at his watch and said, "From the time when the mechanism was touched for the second time, to the first night pearl flickering just now, there was almost five hours in between. There are ten beads here, and if each bead is a timer, there is still ...... before the last bead flashes. Forty hours. ”

I felt a sigh in my heart, forty hours, less than two days! Even if we give it another week, I'm afraid we won't be able to solve this mystery...... When the program starts, we don't know what terrible things will happen, it doesn't matter if we die, if we affect other people, then we will really become sinners through the ages! Even if you go down to the ground, you don't have the face to see your ancestors and ancestors!

After all, one meter seventy-five is the big brother who has been trained in the wind and waves, as soon as I look at the faces of my junior brother and me, I know what we are thinking, and after a few drums, he cheered us up and said: "Ah Yuan Xiao Zhang, you two don't have too much pressure, although we are now short of time and heavy tasks, but fortunately, there are still forty hours, isn't it?" The way we analyzed before is still relatively correct, we are still walking according to that line of thought, everyone use their brains to think, don't be afraid to say it and be laughed at, now is the time to brainstorm, that is, to be whimsical and whimsical. If this road still doesn't work within ten hours, it's not too late for us to change the way. Ah Yuan, before you said that this is the Qin people's skilled craftsmen imitated the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to build a dormitory for the daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, I want to know what your basis is? Or rather, how did you come up with this? ”

The junior brother was very proud to be the first spokesman, got up and walked to the front of the coffin, and was about to raise his hand to point to the night pearl, but because of his previous convictions, he was immediately frightened and I jumped up with 1.75 meters to hold him left and right.

The junior brother rolled his eyes at us speechlessly and said, "Don't worry, smart people won't fall in the same place twice!" Hurry up and let go, or I won't be able to demonstrate. I looked at 1.75 meters and nodded cheering each other, deciding to believe that my junior brother was a "smart person" for the time being, and returned to his position.

The junior brother first stared at the ten beads for a while, as if he was looking for something, and then suddenly snapped his fingers, pointed to a night pearl on the right hand side and said: "Look at this word, there is a circle above, a square below, and a circle at the top. So why are these ten shapes not square, nor flat, but just round, because in ancient times, the circle represents the sky, and the night pearl is purely for decoration, if you want to install glass, gemstones, jadeite or something. Therefore, I deduced from this that these ten spheres are the dwellings of the ten gods in the sky. ”

Although there are still a lot of loopholes in his rhetoric, the word "Lu" under the night pearl is reminiscent of the ancient saying of "the sky is round and the place is round", which is indeed something that I didn't expect with 1.75 meters before. I suddenly had a feeling that this mythical story made up by my junior brother was obviously nonsense, but the "round sky" deduced from this seems to be a major breakthrough in this puzzle, as long as we continue to explore and peel off the cocoon, we will definitely find the answer soon.

I suddenly felt very confident, and a spark of hope ignited in my heart, and my head started to move. I read the words one by one, and suddenly I had a flash of inspiration, and finally found the connection between them! That's right! I resisted the urge to scream, and organized my thoughts, which had to be explained from the beginning, and asked them both to listen intently.

I said: "The ancients called the state before the heaven and the earth were opened, and the chaos before the division of yin and yang was called Taiji. Two rituals give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. Thus the yin and yang were drawn, and the heavens and the earth were divided. "Heaven" is the vast universe composed of many stars, and "earth" is the land on which people live. In the concept of the ancients, in fact, there was an understanding of the stars of the universe very early, although it is far from reaching the level of modern science's understanding and study of the universe, but it is very close in the general concept, and they have even summed up the law of the endless motion of the sun, moon and stars and other celestial bodies, as if it is a closed circle, without a beginning or end; However, the earth under our feet can remain eternal, still and stable like a square object, and thus the concept of 'the heaven is round and the place is round'. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, and then analyzed: "At the root of it, 'the heaven and the earth are round', in essence, is the interpretation of the generation and operation of heaven and earth in the yin and yang system in the Book of Changes. The Taoist ancestor Chen Tuan once deduced a 'heaven and a round place map', he divided the hexagram into two parts: the outer circle of the circle and the middle of the square, the outer circle of the hexagram represents the law of the movement of the sky, and the Chinese hexagram represents the law of the earth. Among them, heaven is the Lord, the earth is the secondary, the sky is yang, and the earth is yin, which is related to the origin of Tai Chi that we talked about earlier......

I was about to speak energetically, when my junior brother suddenly interrupted me and said, "Xiao Zhang, you are playing around, my head is too big to hear!" Just say what you want to say, don't quote scriptures here, just say your thoughts and conclusions! We are not a hundred pulpits here, and there is no idle time for you to fool around in a few periods, so you just pick up the vernacular and come directly, the more popular it is, the better! You say yes, Brother Sun? ”

One meter seventy-five pinched his chin and nodded casually. My face immediately felt as hot as fire, I didn't expect that when I was excited, I actually made the same mistake as Lao Qiao, I really should be scolded.

I reorganized my thoughts, and this time I didn't dare to fool around anymore, so I said directly: "To put it in layman's terms, I think this hint from Ah Yuan is very valuable, this character is not the Chinese character 'Lu' that we thought before, but represents the meaning of 'the sky is round and the place is round'. From this, we can follow the ...... in the I Ching Well, I mean, based on what I have said before, and from other ancient and subtle texts that have not yet been mentioned, it can be inferred that these ten balls are indeed about the ancients' understanding of the universe. They are extremely adept at using the two rituals, the four images, the five elements, the eight trigrams, and their connections to explain the world and matter as they are seen, which corresponds to the six balls printed with the words 'sun', 'gold', 'wood', 'water', 'fire', and 'earth' in front of them, plus 'the sky is round and the earth is round'...... If I'm not mistaken, the ball in the middle represents the sun, and the nine outside represent the nine planets in the universe orbiting the sun. ”