When He Chenxue judged that it was the Night Pearl, the torture technique first nodded, and then shook his head and said: "Now let's divide the Night Pearl, both of which are two categories, one is natural and the other is artificial, but even if it is a natural Night Pearl, it is all polished with fluorite minerals, and it is impossible to form a bead form naturally, but it is just a legend that appeared in the Warring States Period, but it is just a legend, I don't know if it is true or not." Moreover, even if it is a natural night pearl, it is impossible to naturally glow without absorbing light, and the so-called fluorite, which itself has radioactive isotopes, also needs the so-called activation. ”

He Chenxue took over: "I know what you mean, the natural night pearl also has to absorb a certain light source, three years ago when I was in Inner Mongolia, I saw a herdsman in the hand of one, very small, take out the sun during the day for about ten minutes, the night pearl will continue to shine for about twelve hours, but if after twelve hours, the night pearl does not absorb the light source, it will not shine." ”

Bai Zhongzheng looked at the "lampshade" inside and asked, "The activation that the criminal boss said means that the light source must be absorbed?" ”

"Hmm." He Chenxue looked at the "lampshade" closely, "Yes, that's what it means, if there is no premise of continuous activation, the night pearl will not shine, and even if it will, the light source is not strong, it is very dim." ”

The torture technique looked around in circles inside the cylinder, trying to find a place where the "lampshade" inside could be revealed: "The night pearls on the market today, strictly divided, at least hundreds, are all made by chemicals together, but this thing is very difficult to identify manually, Miss He should be clear." ”

Bai Zhongzheng said coldly at this time: "You call your daughter-in-law Miss He?" ”

The torture technique was stunned for a moment, knowing that Bai Zhongzheng was deliberately provocative, so he didn't answer his words, but just said, "Chenxue, you said yes, right?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng deliberately said "oh" next to him, He Chenxue was stunned for a moment when he heard his previous words, and then replied calmly: "Night Pearl detection, you must use instruments, no one can see it with your eyes, even if it is me, but then again, I see that the lines on this lampshade are very strange, it should be pieced together with pieces of wood, just like building blocks." ”

"Timber-filled." The torture technique also looked at it with a magnifying glass, "It should be the use of the principle of building blocks, and the first in the world to use the principle of building blocks should be our China." ”

Bai Zhongzheng squatted on the side outside and shook his head: "I don't understand." ”

"Do you know the Antikythera machine? In 1990, Greek divers found a mysterious and complex ancient Greek bronze mechanism in a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera, with gears and dials on it, people at the time did not understand this thing at all, until the 21st century, research found that this has at least 37 independent gears, its precision is more than the 18th century clock machinery, should be used to measure the movement of celestial bodies, in 2010, people used the principle of building blocks to re-copy an Antikythera machineBut this new machine, which has given modern technology, has not played a big role, that is, the replication is not perfect, and people still have not thoroughly figured it out. After finishing speaking, he looked at Bai Zhongzheng, "The most important thing is that that machine was built in the 1st century AD, and it is the earliest computer of mankind. ”

Bai Zhongzheng was stunned: "The 1st century AD? At that time, China was still in the Western Han Dynasty. ”

"That's right." Xingshu shook his head, "The ancient civilization of mankind is very mysterious, so for a long time, people use the things that science cannot explain, they use the theory of ghosts and gods to explain, and the theory of ghosts and gods cannot be explained, they use science to explore, in recent years, this theory has given birth to a new discipline, called ancient science, this discipline is committed to the study of some unknown things in ancient times. ”

Just when the torture technique was still explaining to Bai Zhongzheng, the lampshade in the cylinder made a strange sound, and then the two heard He Chenxue say: "Unraveled!" ”

The torture technique looked at the lampshade in front of him and began to decompose and deform, and immediately retreated, He Chenxue on the opposite side also took a step back, and the three of them watched the lampshade gradually disperse, and a gap appeared between the "building blocks" of different shapes on it, and soon the gap in one of the positions became a square hole with a length and width of about twenty centimeters, and through the square hole, you could just see the huge night pearl in it!

"Sure enough, it's the pearl of the night." Xingshu shook his head and said, "It must be polished by natural fluorite, but how can the light source be explained?" ”

He Chenxue pointed to the bronze mirrors that were close to the inside of the "building blocks" and had a diameter of no more than five centimeters in the lampshade and said, "It should be the spotlight of the bronze mirror, you can look at it again." ”

Xingshu and Bai Zhongzheng followed He Chenxue's hand and looked over, on top of the Night Pearl, several bronze mirrors were hung at various angles, these bronze mirrors extended to the top, and the light rays hit one of the copper mirrors from the top, and then refracted and refracted continuously, and finally refracted onto the bronze mirror above the Night Pearl, and the bronze mirror scattered the light and dispersed it to the other small copper mirrors around, and these small copper mirrors evenly illuminated the light on the Night Pearl, allowing the Night Pearl to absorb the light source.

After seeing it clearly, he speculated: "I know, the world-discarding plate we saw above has two functions, one is to form the true and false organs according to the vein of Qimen Dunjia; Second, the cracks produced by the continuous blowing out of the veins and holes on the board have two functions, the first is to absorb the light source, and the second is to allow the marquee to refract through the gap. I think that the special ice layer outside is also an important part of the formation of this spectacle, but I still don't understand how that ice layer is formed by hanging in the air. ”

Bai Zhongzheng squatted there and said: "The machinery inside will open the lampshade at a specific time, and then open the cylinder shrouded outside the lampshade, once the cylinder is opened, the light of the night pearl is scattered out, refracted on the cylinder, and then projected onto the outer layer of the lantern, which produces the marquee, which is amazing, it seems that this person should be a more famous craftsman in the Tang Dynasty." ”

"In ancient times, many famous craftsmen did not leave their names in the classics, but on the contrary, they were those officials who supervised the creation, which is the saddest place, and even most of the stories our children listened to were that a certain person endured hardships and stood hard work, studied hard, and finally became a certain official for the benefit of the people." ”

"It seems that in order to figure out what this lantern is about, we must move on, and the key is where the exit is to go down." Bai Zhongzheng looked around, "I rarely see this kind of mechanism, it's very sophisticated, it's very weird, it belongs to the kind of person who kills people without seeing blood." ”

Xingshu stood up and went over to support He Chenxue, but He Chenxue looked at him and didn't know what he was going to do.

The torture technique helped him to the side and said: "You should rest, you were frightened before, but now you are calm, you should be very tired, you sleep for an hour or two, Bai Zhongzheng and I will renovate and think about the following things." ”

He Chenxue nodded, and just as the torture technique turned around to leave, He Chenxue stopped him and said, "You be careful, if you find the entrance, don't take too much risk." ”

The torture technique nodded, and Bai Zhongzheng, who was not far away, looked at the two of them, and when the torture technique came, he immediately looked away.

Xingshu stood on Bai Zhongzheng's side, looked around and said, "Women rest, men work, no opinion, right?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng just shook his head silently, and said again: "Now we have two clues, first, the first batch of people must have left here, but they didn't take a detour like us, but they will definitely leave some traces; Second, this place has something to do with machinery, and maybe the entrance and exit are also related to machinery, so we both have to be careful and look for places related to machinery. ”

Bai Zhongzheng asked, "Do you think the entrance and exit are below or above?" ”

"I don't know, what else is up and down in this place? The passage we had walked in before felt like it was facing down, then upward, and I couldn't even figure out where I was now. "All I know is that we are in a huge mechanical lantern that looks like a lighthouse standing in a deep well from a certain angle. ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded, and began to look around, paying attention to the traces left by the first batch of people, and the torture technique judged that the entrance and exit should be somewhere on the floor, so he began to lie down, and began to look for it step by step along the gap in the floor, the floor is also made of that kind of alchemy stone, and the main components of this lantern are all that kind of alchemy stone, a special chemical synthetic material.

He Chenxue fell asleep in a daze, she couldn't sleep well in this environment, but she herself knew that her body was very tired, after all, she was a woman, and she had never experienced such a thing before.

After ten minutes or so, the torture technique finally found a mark that had been pried into a gap somewhere in the floor, and then he beckoned Bai Zhongzheng to come over, and the two of them clamped the floor tile with daggers, and then slowly took it out, and after taking it out, they found that there was a huge iron chain in it.

"Chains?" Bai Zhongzheng grabbed the iron chain and pulled it down, finding that it was a little tight, the torture technique nodded at him, and the two of them began to pull the iron chain together, and after pulling the iron chain out completely, they heard the sound of machinery turning, but there was no change around.

The torturer loosened the chain, looked around, and said, "There must be something else, you also heard the sound of the gears turning, more than this place, look carefully." ”

In the next half hour, Bai Zhongzheng and Xingshu found three other floor tiles that could be pried up, and after prying them all open, they found that there was an iron chain under each of the four floor tiles in the east, west, north, and south directions.

Bai Zhongzheng looked at one of them and said, "It's troublesome now." ”

"yes, if we have to pull four chains at the same time to turn it on, there's nothing we can do." Xingshu shook his head, "Pulling one of them, an adult man is a little difficult, not to mention He Chenxue and a woman, so, we can only count two people here at best, the first batch of people is exactly four people, no, no, no, I guess that the killer knows all these mechanisms, so he just got four people." ”

"No, they are five people, have you forgotten Kuiye's words? The killer also has a stand-in. Bai Zhongzheng raised five fingers, "That killer, plus his stand-in, and three treasure hunting experts, a total of five people, that person said that the stand-in did not follow Yan Gang and Tian Lianfeng again, so, last night, there were a total of five people who came down." ”

Xingshu recalled: "But Kui Ye said that there were only four people who went down at that time. ”

"You forgot, then Kui Ye came back to look for the stand-in in order to protect us, but he didn't find it, which means that the stand-in went down later." Bai Zhongzheng pondered, "I have a feeling that the person who will attack you that night should be the stand-in, not the killer himself, that is, the person who talks to Kui Ye. ”

Torture frowned: "You finish speaking." ”

Bai Zhongzheng said again: "The person who talked to Kui Ye should be the mastermind of this time, that is, the mastermind behind the scenes, this person is related to the cult tragedy back then, but it is not necessarily the person back then, because the age is not compatible." This mastermind knows everything about the underground treasure, and he also knows how to unravel the mechanism, he found the killer, I think the purpose is to deal with you, to play a delaying role, but he miscalculated, he didn't expect me and Kui Ye and Shi Ji to appear, so he temporarily messed up, in addition, I think the killer also has selfish intentions, and he doesn't really obey the command of his employer. ”

Xingshu thought for a moment and said: "You mean, last night, the black hand gave the order to let the killer keep an eye on us outside, and he came down with three treasure hunting experts, but when the killer turned around to look for him, he took it upon himself to follow, right?" ”

"Yes." Bai Zhongzheng nodded, "And it is closely followed, after following closely, he must have appeared in front of the black hand, the reason is very simple, if he didn't follow the black hand closely, then the underground gate would have been sealed a long time ago, don't forget, the passage below can only enter two groups of people." Besides, this killer is very smart, he knows very well that if there is no black hand to lead the way, he can't open the following series of mechanisms, in addition, for that black hand, the killer follows down, and it is impossible to return, just like us, once you go down, there is no turning back, and it has become an established fact that the killer follows the black hand, and the black hand can only accept it, so now there are five people walking in front of us. ”

"And there are many contradictions in their ranks." Xingshu nodded in agreement with Bai Zhongzheng's analysis, "There is an employment relationship between the black hand and the killer and the three treasure hunting experts, just pure interests, from the killer's disobedience to his orders, it can be seen that the killer is not a good employee, he has selfish intentions, and of course the treasure hunting experts also have selfish intentions, so, to a certain extent, the three of us are stronger than them." ”

Bai Zhongzheng smiled when he heard this: "Aren't you afraid that I will temporarily turn against the water?" ”

"Don't worry." Xingshu looked at him and smiled, "In addition to seeing things, I can also look at people, you are not a cold-blooded person, and you are not greedy for money, a person who is not cold-blooded and not greedy for money is by my side, I will not worry." ”

Bai Zhongzheng grabbed the chain: "Boss Criminal, if one day, you find out that your speculation is wrong, it will be too late to regret it then." ”

Torture nodded: "Everyone has regrets and fears. ”

"Boss Xing, I think you don't seem to be afraid of anything." Bai Zhongzheng stared into the eyes of the torture technique.

"I'm afraid of ghosts. ”

Bai Zhongzheng smiled: "How do you know that there are ghosts in this world? ”

The torture technique also pulled up the chain: "I'm afraid that there are ghosts in people's hearts!" Who doesn't have a ghost in their heart? ”

Bai Zhongzheng smiled, dragged the iron chain and said: "I pull this iron chain outward, drag it to the head, and after fixing the body, you go and pull out the iron chain in the west and give it to me, and then you go to the east to pull out the iron chain and give it to me, I will drag the three iron chains alone, and you go to pull the iron chain in the south, so that you can open the mechanism." ”

Torture frowned: "How strong do you have?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng shook his head: "How do you know if you don't try?" ”

The torture technique then dragged out the iron chains from the west and east according to what Bai Zhongzheng said, and handed them over to Bai Zhongzheng, who was standing in the north, and waited for him to grasp it before slowly letting go, and then asked, "Can it work?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng was already sweating heavily at this time, and he didn't speak, but nodded vigorously, and motioned with his eyes to pull the one in the south, and the torture knew that Bai Zhongzheng didn't speak completely because he didn't dare to speak, and once he opened his mouth, the chain would slide back, so he immediately ran to the south and pulled the chain out, and when he felt that he was about to pull out of the intersection of the gears, the torture technique nodded to Bai Zhongzheng and said, "I'll count one, two, three, and then pull hard together!" ”

Bai Zhongzheng's whole body was trembling, the green tendons on his face burst out, and the muscles on his arms were completely bulging.

"One! Two! Three! Walk! The torture technique dragged the iron chain in his hand, and Bai Zhongzheng pulled it at the same time, Bai Zhongzheng roared, and pulled the three iron chains back sharply, after pulling, Bai Zhongzheng and the torture technique both maintained their posture and dragged hard and did not dare to let go, and then they heard the sound of gears turning from under the floor, followed by the sound of the water flowing.

Bai Zhongzheng's roar and the sound of the mechanism turning woke up He Chenxue, who had fallen asleep, she opened her eyes and saw this scene, she didn't know what was going on, she hurried over to help Bai Zhongzheng, and when she saw this, she immediately said: "You stand aside, don't help, you help him now, on the contrary, it will make him unable to catch it!" ”

He Chenxue nodded, retreated to the previous position, and at the same time saw that the cylinder in the center began to move upward, the lampshade at the center and the platform where the Night Pearl was placed in it, along with the bronze mirror and other things inside, all rose upward, and after ascending, a square hole appeared under the original Night Pearl stone platform.

When the objects at the center point were able to move two meters above, there was another sound of overlapping from the machinery below, and then the sound of water began to weaken, and finally disappeared.

The torture technique nodded at Bai Zhongzheng, the two of them exhaled slowly, put down the iron chain in their hands, and just put it down, they heard the gears start to turn, and the objects at the center point began to slowly decline.

"Hurry up!" The torture technique turned around and grabbed something, and at this time, Bai Zhongzheng's hands were almost unable to lift up, and the torture technique stepped forward and carried Bai Zhongzheng's backpack in front of him, and his backpack behind his back, "Hurry up, hurry up!" It's almost closed! ”

When the three of them arrived at the entrance of the cave and looked down, they found that there was a hole similar to a slide, with no stairs, and it seemed that it belonged to the kind of place where they could only go down and could not climb back.

The three of them glanced at each other, looked up at the slowly descending Night Pearl Terrace, and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go first, then He Chenxue, Bai Zhongzheng, you last!" ”

As she spoke, the torture technique jumped down directly, and when He Chenxue was hesitating, Bai Zhongzheng helped her - directly pushed her down, and then jumped down himself.

The moment he jumped down, he took out a glow stick, stuffed it into the buckle of his backpack in front of him, and then spun and slid rapidly down in the slide of the cylinder, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and the area around the cylinder was very slippery, and there was no way to fix his body.

However, in the process of sliding down, the torture technique vaguely found that the cylinder slide was transparent through the light of the light stick, and through the wall of the slide hole, you could see the gears that were slowly turning, although he couldn't see how many, but he also knew that the number of those gears was very large, and it was very precise!

Finally, the torture technique slid out of the cylinder slide, and the moment he slid out, because he couldn't stop, he rushed out directly, and then fell heavily on a pile of unknown things, making his whole body tingle, just as he struggled to get up, he was pressed to the ground by He Chenxue, who rushed out with a scream, and then Bai Zhongzheng also rushed down, and the three of them lay there like stacked arhats.

And at this time, after opening his eyes, with the light of the glow stick, he clearly saw the skull of Bai Sensen in front of him!