Chapter Ninety-Four: The Gossip Ring
At this moment, the ten night pearls suddenly flickered together, and I secretly screamed in my heart, could it be that there is a problem with our deduction? Or is it ...... Was my theory of the nine planets of the solar system wrong in the first place? It's me who has caused everyone......
Thinking about it, my palms were already covered in a dense layer of cold sweat, and my junior brother also hurriedly said, "Damn, it's wrong again?" Why don't we run?! One meter seventy-five pinched our palms and said, "Don't worry, you haven't heard this clever sound yet, it should be that the startup procedure is more complicated and takes a certain amount of time." I think we've cleared the customs this time, otherwise where would we have time to react and escape here? ”
I think about it, one meter seventy-five is not unreasonable, since ancient times, all kinds of martial arts in the world, mechanical and clever have paid attention to a "only fast and not broken", if we really triggered the wrong program just now, I am afraid that what is flashing in front of us now is not the night pearl.
At this time, I only heard a "pop" sound, like the head of the sickle hanging on the iron hook, I was about to ask how long I had to wait for 1.75 meters, when I saw that the ten night pearls darkened together, and then a crack was opened in the middle of the coffin lid. The three of us hurriedly flashed back to make room for the coffin lid that was turned open to both sides, and when we stood still to look, we saw that the third layer of the coffin had been revealed, except for a faint fragrance, the shape of the figure on the coffin lid was very familiar.
I can't mistake it just by looking at it, it's so fucking familiar to me, I can draw an identical one with my eyes closed. It is two octagonal collars nested in one large and one small, with a groove of equal ring width in the middle, which is also octagonal. The two rings were cut into two hundred and sixteen pieces, eight large rings in the outer ring and eight small rings in the inner ring, a typical two gossip arrays! If I'm not mistaken, the eight small collars inside can still be changed by moving the grooves on them.
The junior brother also saw it and shouted, "Isn't this a fucking gossip array!" ”
One meter seventy-five has always liked to study these, and he didn't dare to touch it rashly if he wanted to touch it, for fear of accidentally touching any mechanism again, so he could only tremble excitedly with his wrinkled old hand, and touched it around the outer ring ring in the air. The eight quadrilaterals on the top are carved with eight black and purple small seal fonts, due north is "Kan", due south is "Li", due west is "Dui", due east is "Zhen", northwest is "Qian", southwest is "Kun", northeast is "Gen", southeast is "Xun".
After touching it, he pressed 1.75 meters to endure the surging in his heart and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”
I looked at my junior brother and smiled, this is not a gossip map! Could it be that "Xiao Zhang" and "Ah Yuan" are usually too unlearned and unskilled, leaving a very deep and stubborn impression on 1.75 meters? But I think about it again, no matter how ignorant they are, after all, they have been traveling from south to north for so many years, so they don't even know a gossip map, right?
Seeing that we didn't speak, I thought that we really didn't know, and I didn't dare to touch it, so I felt very uncomfortable, so I simply put my hand behind my back, only took off my chin and pointed to the hexagram and said: "You two stinky boys have been with me for so many years, and you haven't even learned this little bit of eyesight, it's really rotten wood that can't be carved!" This...... This is the finest rosewood! ”
I'm stunned, damn, I've been emotionally troubled for a long time, we're talking about chickens and ducks!
The junior brother smiled and said, "Isn't this a preconceived idea, junior brother, I haven't seen this good material." But Brother Sun, no matter how precious this rosewood is, it is not as valuable as the ten night pearls just now, and it is not convenient to carry, I think we are still ......" The junior brother raised his eyebrows at one meter seventy-five as he spoke, thinking that he was hinting to him about which one to carry when he went out for a while. can be so angry that he snorted at the junior brother for not being successful, insulting this hundred-year-old sacred tree of sandalwood.
In fact, I have heard a little about rosewood, so I can understand the reason why a wood idiot like 1.75 meters is so angry. Rosewood is a subtropical evergreen tree, five or six zhang high, the leaves are compound leaf flowers butterfly-shaped, as a result, the wood is hard, mostly dark purple, generally only survive in the tropics. It has many aliases, such as palmetto, palmetto, rose, etc., among which the most well-known is in addition to rosewood, which may be Qinglongmu, but in fact, it is this kind of thing.
According to legend, the red sandalwood can not be grown into timber for a hundred years, a red sandalwood tree can only be put into use after hundreds of years, and ten sandalwood and nine empty, and finally the wood that can be used by people is extremely trace and precious, so there is a red sandalwood "inch sandalwood inch gold" said. According to historical records, during the Ming Dynasty in China, rosewood was overexploited because it was reused by the royal family, and the local mining was confiscated, so it went to the Nanyang Islands (that is, the Malay Archipelago), where rosewood is abundant. Rosewood is such a precious wood, the growth and development is extremely slow, in hundreds of years, it simply can't keep up with the speed of people's over-logging, the result can be imagined, soon the world's concentration of rosewood - the red sandalwood of the Nanyang Islands is also felled. As a result, the green and yellow are not connected, the source is exhausted, and the red sandalwood is even more precious.
Maybe one meter seventy-five never dreamed that such a rare and precious wood still has relics here, for a person like him who loves wood, it is really a priceless treasure, and the gold can't even be exchanged for the city! The junior brother compared it with the mutilated and demonic night pearl, how could he not be angry when he was called one meter seventy-five?
At that time, my thoughts were all flashing, and I also understood in my heart that it would not work if I didn't spread my anger, and besides, the stinky boy of my junior brother should really have a long experience, so I let him preach to my junior brother from the morphological characteristics of red sandalwood, species classification to status and value.
However, this red sandalwood is red sandalwood, gossip is gossip, let's get down to business, it doesn't matter what material it is made of here, what matters is how to clear the customs.
The small seal on the big ring of the outer ring is one meter seven or five and can even guess what it means, but the ghost drawing talisman in the small ring of the inner circle is just a puff in his eyes, and he can't understand anything. To be honest, if it weren't for the Bagua Dungeon, the Bronze Armory, and the eight giant bronze chain altars before, I wouldn't have been able to understand these abstract ghost paintings, and the Xuanniao with the most strokes in each group of patterns was no more than four strokes, and the simplicity of the strokes was like a joke.
The experience of the junior brother and mine is basically the same, although he has not been to the bronze armory in the middle, but I have already told him in detail before, and this does not affect his understanding of these eight exotic beasts, because the most critical part has been analyzed by the cold bench when we were in the underground palace, and we have seen these animal images in their entirety when we climbed the bronze chain later. So this third coffin is just a handy for me and my junior brother.
How could the junior brother miss this opportunity to show off, not to mention that he had just received a lecture on "It's terrible to be uneducated", and now is the time for him to treat others in his own way.
The junior brother hugged his two arms to his chest, the expression on his face was obviously very proud, but he pretended to speak in a humble tone, and asked one meter seventy-five: "Brother Sun, you have a lot of knowledge, tell us quickly, what is the circle drawn here?" ”
If you haven't seen these animal figures, you naturally have to be asked, even if you are good at this way, it is in vain. I guessed this and that for a long time, but I was all rejected by my junior brother without much effort, and let my junior brother give him a guide, the more I guessed, the more outrageous it became, and finally even the night pot of the Jade Emperor Lao'er was guessed.
I see that 1.75 meters is really pitiful to be played by my junior brother, so it's better to clear the customs quickly, and this matter can be regarded as a turning page. I looked at the graphics on the inner ring, due north is the ghost monkey, clockwise down are the ground head green, water snake, red blind man, fire unicorn (due south), devil frog, black bird, dragon king whale. According to the cold bench's previous analysis of a rare beast corresponding to a hexagram palace (the principle of each is not repeated), I quickly calculated in my heart, due north Kan Palace, Kan is water, should correspond to the "Dragon King Whale"; The Northeast Gen Palace, Gen is the mountain, which should correspond to the "ghost monkey"; Due east earthquake palace, the earthquake is thunder, corresponding to the "red blind man"; The southeast Xun Palace, Xun is the wind, corresponding to the "devil frog"; Due south of the palace, away from the fire, corresponding to the "fire unicorn"; Southwest Kun Palace, Kun is the ground, corresponding to the "land head green"; Due west to the palace, to the Ze, corresponding to the "water snake"; Northwest Qiangong, dry for the sky, corresponding to the "Xuanniao". It seems that at present, only the "fire unicorn" in the south of the palace is placed in the right direction.
Straighten out the train of thought, it is not difficult to change the direction by hand, three times five divided by two, I will move the nest for all the rare beasts, when the last piece of rosewood settled, the clucking mechanical sound sounded again.