Chapter 255: Conformism
Liu Bang did not refute, what Xiang Yu said was right, their positions must not leave their posts without permission. Previously, he was too sensitive to the matter of the bats and selectively ignored their situation.
But Liu Bang still felt that this matter had to be resolved, he thought that there must be something behind the Mi pattern bat, and Mi Yue would not use his vitality to make such a big joke.
But as Xiang Yu said, they really couldn't go anywhere, and now, they could only continue to think about the meaning that the bat wanted to convey.
"Maybe Mi Wen Bat didn't want to convey any other meaning at all, just to warn them that Mi Yue's own situation has changed, and as the equalizer of Emperor Qin and Chu, Mi Yue's situation has changed, which means that the situation of the entire palace has changed......" Liu Bang suddenly thought of this, but he didn't say it.
Maybe something really happened in Xianyang Palace, and the situation was worse than they imagined, so that Miyue could only condense the Mi Pattern Bat and could not send any more news to it, which conveyed the symbolic meaning of the Mi Bat itself...... Something big has changed......
At this moment, an extremely terrifying idea appeared in Liu Bang's thinking...... If all this is true, then could the enemy hiding in the shadows be taking advantage of his and Xiang Yu's situation—taking advantage of their holding on to the border city and not being able to respond......
- Qin Chu, Merlin City. "Here, please, I'll take you to see Uncle Mo." A young man in his early twenties stood at the end of the square passage to greet Han Xin and Zhang Liang.
The man was the one who had spoken to Han Xin inside the city wall before, and he called himself Ah Peng, the captain of the garrison of this city wall, and he was obviously a young man. He greeted Han Xin and Zhang Liang warmly, and then led them into the city. After the two entered the city, the strange wall of the mechanism was immediately closed again.
Han Xin should be in harmony with the man's enthusiasm on the surface, but he didn't feel cold in his heart, this is not aimed at this man, but this organ city did not leave a good impression on him - obviously now in the era of integrity and peace, the country is also prosperous and developing, and the cities between the countries should be relatively open and allow free passage.
However, instead of doing so, Merlin City also put a lot of effort into the defense of the city walls, so that the entire city was in a state of strict defense. However, whoever sees this kind of city will inevitably have a cold and hard sense of estrangement in their hearts. But Han Xin didn't say anything, he just hoped that these defense facilities were built in the early years and couldn't be changed for a while.
Although Zhang Liang didn't care, he also faintly felt that the Organ City was a little weird. Although he didn't know much about the situation in the world, he also felt that the defenses of the city were a little too tight, and it seemed as if the city was in a tense state of war. But he didn't care, so he didn't say anything, just silently followed the captain of the guard.
But soon, both Han Xin and Zhang Liang's attention was attracted by the wonders in the city. First of all, the buildings, no matter how big or small the houses in the city are not traditional pillar and beam structures, there are no columns, sorghum, wooden frames, rubble, but square buildings of different sizes, which look simple and unpretentious and harmonious and beautiful.
These square-shaped houses are made of a variety of rock-processed special masonry, the masonry has grooves and protrusions, and they can be combined in a certain way to form a square house, as simple as building blocks. These square buildings of different sizes are arranged in a special way in the city, tight and scattered, and seem to follow the same city walls as the city walls, and they all follow some special layout principle and mathematical logic.
Secondly, on the roof of each square building, there is a light mirror body similar to a light prism, which absorbs the light energy of the sun and uses it for heating and lighting the lives of the residents. Then, in the center of the city, in the heart of the mountains, there is a huge mechanism fan, the fan has no energy supply, its huge blades are naturally swirling in the deep valley gale, the rotation of the fan not only adjusts the convection of the air in the city, but also collects a large amount of energy contained in the mountain wind.
"Most of the residents in the city came with Uncle Mo more than ten years ago, and so did I, but I was still a kid at that time - at that time, this was still a natural group of mountains, and there were no traces, and then Uncle Mo led everyone to build a city here." "The high peaks rose one after another, and we built walls along the steep ramparts and bricks, and surrounded the city with earth; The cold mountain stream flowed along the mountain, so we built a canal with the stream and built it as a water vein. The valley is deep and the wind is surging, and the mountains are high and the sun is scorching, so we use advanced mechanisms to collect the energy of the mountain wind and the scorching sun to maintain the operation of the city. ”
"In the end, Merlin City was built, and it is developing better and better......" The man excitedly introduced the city to the visitors, and finally did not forget to sigh sincerely, "It's all because of Uncle Mo!" ”
Han Xin and Zhang Liang listened to the man's narration, and at the same time were amazed by the otherworldly appearance of the city, but what moved them the most was that no matter how young or old they were, there were real smiles on their faces, the kind of smiles that lived in a peaceful society.
Paying attention to the strange things in the city, before they knew it, they came to the north corner of Mo Mozi's house in the north corner of the city, and his house looked quite different from the other buildings in the city. Mozi's house is not square-shaped, but an octagonal shape, and the building materials of the house are not ordinary stone bricks, but obsidian like the city walls. This huge inky black building has eight faces, like a black gossip platform standing on the ground.
Approaching the Mo family, Han Xin and Zhang Liang saw a white "Mo" character on the main entrance of this eight-sided building. "Okay, I'll send you here, Uncle Mo is inside, you can go in and find him yourself." The man pointed to the door under the white word "ink" and said to Han Xin and Zhang Liang, and then left, and reminded them inexplicably when he left, "Uncle Mo has a strange temper, don't you care too much......"
Han Xin and Zhang Liang were surprised by this, "You shout so kindly to Uncle Mo, I think Mozi should be a very good person to get along with." However, Han Xin and Zhang Liang didn't think much about it, and walked into the house. I thought that this huge octagonal room should have many compartments, but when Han Xin and Zhang Liang walked into the first compartment, they saw Mozi - as soon as they walked in the door, they felt a wave of heat blowing towards them.
Looking around, I realized that the first compartment was a smelting workshop for processing metal tools, and several large furnace shafts were burned in it, and the room temperature was adjusted by the special heat dissipation device of the compartment. But despite this, it was very hot inside.
Except for a few burning fire wells, there are a few half-formed or discarded metal materials cluttered inside. And next to the largest fire well in the middle, a shirtless middle-aged man was wearing a pair of dark blue machine gloves in both hands, holding a piece of metal that burned red, standing firmly by the fire well in the posture of the golden-red high-temperature flame Mozi, and the scorching air surrounded his sweaty iron body. The temperature in the fire well reached thousands of degrees, and the flames danced wildly in the well, and the golden-red flame shadows whistled and sprayed, sputtering sparks, smelting the red-burned metal blocks in Mozi's hands with astonishing power.
Mozi was close at hand, but he was not afraid of the flames of forged steel and molten iron, he stood motionless in front of the fire well, his resolute gaze confronted the fierce flames. What's even more bizarre is that the metal block in Mozi's hand has been almost smelted by the flames, but the machine gloves he is wearing on his hand have not moved at all in front of the high temperature flames, and it seems that they are not affected by the thousands of high temperatures at all, and still maintain their original dark blue.
"Master Mo......" Han Xin and Zhang Liang saw that Mozi was focused on his own affairs and didn't notice them, so Han Xin tentatively greeted him. There was no response, and Mozi didn't seem to hear Han Xin's voice, just focusing on the metal block in his hand. "Ink senior...... Mr. Mozi ......" Han Xin paused, continued to shout twice, and changed his title. There was no response, but Mozi still stared at the metal block forged in the flames.
"Divine Craftsman!" Han Xin suddenly raised his voice and shouted. Without Han Xin, he looked at Mozi, who was not moving, and suppressed his voice to learn the tone of the captain of the guard, and called cordially: "Uncle Mo......" still did not respond...... Han Xin looked at Zhang Liang helplessly, saying that he was really out of options, no matter how much he shouted Mozi, he didn't respond, and seemed to deliberately ignore them, but looking at his extremely focused appearance, it seemed to be ...... But he didn't find the two people who entered the house.
Zhang Liang naturally didn't have anything to do, just smiled awkwardly, but now they could see Mozi's strange temperament with their own eyes...... So the two of them had to stand at the door and wait quietly. - "Sit" - Suddenly, Mozi couldn't take his eyes off it, and he gently spit out such a word without changing his color, Mozi's words passed in an instant, like a dragonfly dotting water, but for Han Xin and Zhang Liang, that word was really a thunderclap in the silence.
So the two of them immediately found two wooden stools in the house and sat down. Then, Han Xin tentatively greeted Mozi a few more times, but Mozi, who had spit out the word "sit", returned to a silent state of concentration and did not move at all. Helplessly, Han Xin and Zhang Liang could only continue to wait, but fortunately, they could sit and wait slowly. And that was nearly three hours...... It was still noon when Han Xin and Zhang Liang entered the city, but by the time Mozi finished his work, it was already sunrise and dusk. Mozi casually took out a towel to wipe the sweat off his body, and then walked straight to Han Xin and Zhang Liang, who had been waiting for a long time, without putting on his clothes first.
"Senior Mo, I am Han Xin, the pioneer general under the account of Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, and this is my brother-in-law Zhang Liang. The King of Chu heard that you need a crimson heart for the development of your mechanism technique, so he specially ordered me to bring it to my seniors. Seeing that Mozi, who had been waiting for a long time, finally came over, Han Xin immediately stood up and said respectfully. After speaking, he took out a small wooden box from his arms, opened the box, and a dazzling crimson light overflowed from it, only to see that a fist-sized crimson stone was presenting in the box, constantly overflowing with sultry red light.
The Crimson Heart is the crystallization of the Crimson Statue's evolution after its death and decay, and it is the same level of treasure as the Blue Heart that Mulan swallowed. "Hmm......" Mozi replied expressionlessly, and took the strange crimson heart. About three months ago, Mozi had rumored that he needed a Crimson Heart as a raw material for his research on the arts, and hoped that the person who held the Crimson Heart would lend him one, and if anyone was willing to give him this treasure, he would thank him with a lot of money!
"By the way, Senior Mo, the King of Chu said, heavy money ......" "I didn't prepare heavy money." Before Han Xin could finish speaking, Mozi said bluntly. "I didn't ...... Didn't ......" Han Xin looked very embarrassed, he was actually about to tell Mozi that the King of Chu had a word, and he didn't need to pay a lot of money, and directly gave the crimson heart to Mozi, but before he could say it, he was interrupted by Mozi......
At this point, the context becomes awkward. Moreover, Han Xin was also very puzzled, you are not prepared for heavy money? What if it was not the King of Chu who sent the crimson heart, it was someone else's words...... How do you explain this? Doesn't that trick people? "Alright, let's go eat first." Mozi said to them with a stiff face.
"Oh, no, Mo-senpai. We still have something to do, we have to leave quickly......" Han Xin said immediately. Anyway, the task was finally completed, and he now had only one thought in his heart, to quickly inform Xiang Yu of the information that there were illegal forces blocking the road in Yuanzi Mountain, and then he hurried to the Beiyi Ice Clan to know Xiang Yu with Wang Zhao, and then hurried to the Beiyi Ice Clan to reunite with Wang Zhaojun.
"Stay here for a while." Mozi suddenly said to Han Xin and Zhang Liang, his face was expressionless, and when he said this, it was not like a retention, but an order. Zhang Liang doesn't care, anyway, he is here to experience mortal dust, it is the same everywhere, and this organ city is still very peculiar. But Han Xin was obviously reluctant, but when he looked at Mozi's stiff face, he felt like he was looking at a majestic ancestor, and for a while, he didn't dare to refuse...... Then, without waiting for their reply, Mozi turned around and went into the back room...... And Han Xin and Zhang Liang could only follow in.
The valley is deep and the wind is surging, and there is always a gentle wind blowing from outside the mountains in Merlin City, which is very strong, and it can always rotate continuously with the huge mechanism fan in Merlin City during the day.
But at night, the mountain breeze is very quiet, and the gentle melody blows slowly, as if the wind is also human, at night, it also has to slow down, relax the pressure, lie down quietly, and watch the moon and stars rare.
Yes, the moonlight is thick, and the starlight has become dim, Zhang Liang straightened his head, looking at the stars flickering in the hazy night sky from afar, he was very engaged and intoxicated. For a moment, he felt that in the ethereal starlight, there was the figure of Mulan.
With a steady footstep, Mozi walked onto the wide, flat roof.
Zhang Liang turned his head when he heard the sound and saw Mozi walking slowly towards him. "Senior, the roof of your house is very suitable for moon and star gazing." Zhang Liang said with a smile.
(End of chapter)