Chapter 44: Cracking the Mystery of the Poem
Chen Sanshui's thinking is very clear now, he calmly climbed the stone pillar stairs, carefully climbed upward, and there was no abnormal situation from beginning to end, which shows that his inferences are normal!
Chen Sanshui stood on the eighth tallest stone pillar, standing up straight and reaching the top stone brick very easily, there were three stone bricks with runes around him, but only one stone brick had runes on it that looked a bit like a horse, so he tried to push this stone brick due south.
Chen Sanshui originally thought that it would take a lot of effort, after all, each stone brick here weighs at least one or twenty catties, and it must be very laborious to move the stone bricks!
But what Chen Sanshui didn't expect was that this stone brick moved with a slight push! And even a whole row of stone bricks moved due south, making a series of clattering sounds!
At the same time, two three-foot-long carp stone carvings were revealed behind the stone bricks, biting an egg-sized gilt bead like a double dragon playing with pearls!
"Pisces sinking in the sand sea? You can't just take these two fish down, right? But where is the sea of sand? ”
Chen Sanshui frowned, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure out the meaning of this sentence, but in his experience, the beads swallowed in the mouths of the two fish should be a mechanism!
So Chen Sanshui carefully knocked on this gilt bead and found that it was actually hollow! So nine times out of ten, the mechanism has something to do with this thing!
But at this time, the stone pillar at Chen Sanshui's feet suddenly sank! He hesitated and didn't stand firm, so he subconsciously grabbed one of the fishtails to keep his balance!
However, this stonefish was not strong, and it was dragged off by Chen Sanshui in an instant! Fell into the water with a pop!
Seeing that the stone pillar was falling lower and lower, Chen Sanshui didn't have time to think about anything, so he immediately dragged the remaining fish down!
And after the gilt bead was missing the card slot that the two fish were biting, it instantly retracted into the stone bricks!
At the same time, a rumbling sound came, which sounded like opening the sluice gate and releasing water, and a large amount of water vapor rose, so that Chen Sanshui couldn't see what was happening below at all!
"Brother Shui! How are you! Zhang Ergou stood below and shouted loudly, but Chen Sanshui couldn't hear it at all, so there was no response.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that the mist completely dissipated and Chen Sanshui could see the surrounding scenery clearly!
The pool of water in the original tomb disappeared at this moment! What was revealed was a pile of golden sand! It is in response to the poem Pisces sinking in the sand sea!
At this time, the eight stone pillars also descended to the same height as the stone bricks on the ground, and Chen Sanshui hurriedly stepped on the stone pillars and returned to the ground.
"Oops, I'll go! Isn't that spectacular? So much sand! If these sands are shipped out, I'm afraid we won't be able to spend them all in a few lifetimes! Zhang Ergou wanted to cry excitedly at the moment, he had never seen so much gold in his life!
"The premise is that it must be able to be transported out, so let's look for other clues to get out." Chen Sanshui was very calm about this, because he had seen more gold before!
"Brother Shui, aren't you tempted at all? Why don't we go down and load some sands first! Zhang Ergou said excitedly.
"Gold is the least valuable thing in the cemetery, and the most valuable thing is always your own life! Don't waste any time and look for other clues. Chen Sanshui said expressionlessly.
"Brother Shui, don't be embarrassed for me, I'm full of muddy now, I just want to hold those golden sands and be quiet!" Zhang Ergou looked at the pile of golden sand in the pit like a nymphomaniac, if it weren't for his timidity, he would definitely have jumped down by now!
Chen Sanshui shook his head helplessly, now he can only rely on himself to figure out a way!
Just now he only opened the mechanism of the first three verses, but the rune bricks corresponding to the next few verses disappeared because of the appearance of the mechanism, so he has no idea where to start now!
"Master Chen, does this poem have a lot to do with cracking the mechanism?" Chiba Sakura on the side heard Chen Sanshui keep muttering the poem she had just recited, so she asked curiously.
"Yes, this poem has a hidden mystery, I just cracked the mechanism of the first three verses, but by the time of the fourth verse, those rune bricks have disappeared! I really don't know what to do next? Chen Sanshui said very embarrassed.
"The fourth sentence is the return of the seven geese to the northern cold, and I don't know what this means, but I remember that my grandfather once said that this is a poem related to ancient Chinese wars." Chiba Sakura thought for a moment and said.
"Huh? Something to do with ancient Chinese warfare? Is it the Seven Heroes of the Warring States? Qi Chuyan, Han Zhao, Wei Qin? Or did Qin Shi Huang unify the six kingdoms? Which seven geese are the seven geese? What does it mean to return to the North Han? Chen Sanshui frowned and meditated.
"Brother Shui, aren't the shapes of those special rune bricks arranged before very similar to wild geese?" Zhang Ergou reminded on the side.
"Now we're looking for seven geese, not one! Besides, the ancients' painting methods of wild geese must be very different from the current painting methods, and it is impossible to use those rune bricks to arrange the shape of a wild goose for you, at most it can only be regarded as a coincidence! ”
Chen Sanshui smiled helplessly, looked up at the neat stone bricks on the top of the tomb, and couldn't see anything unusual at all, as if those few rune stone bricks had never appeared, he couldn't help but admire the craftsmen who built this cemetery, such an exquisite mechanism, I'm afraid it would be difficult to create it even with current technology!
"Master Chen, I can draw a few stone brick runes from my memory, I don't know if you need it?" Although Chiba Sakura is not a genius who can never forget, her memory is much better than that of ordinary people, so she thought of helping Chen Sanshui draw the runes on a few stone bricks, maybe she could help a little.
"I've cracked the traps on three rune stone bricks before, so if you can draw the remaining seven runes, maybe ......"
Speaking of this, Chen Sanshui's words suddenly came to an abrupt end, and a flash of light flashed in his mind, because he only needed to find the remaining seven rune stone bricks to crack the mechanism of this tomb! And don't these seven disappeared rune stone bricks just correspond to the poem Seven Geese Return to the Northern Cold?
"Master Chen, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Chen Sanshui suddenly didn't speak, Chiba Sakura couldn't help but ask the other party.
"I thought of a possibility! The seven rune stone bricks that disappeared correspond to the poem Seven Geese Return to the Northern Cold! So the next thing we need to crack should be the mystery of the verses in the back! What is the poem behind the return of the seven geese to the North Cold? Chen Sanshui asked very excitedly at this time.
Chiba Sakura was a little confused when she heard this, and she didn't understand what Chen Sanshui meant by these words, but she still immediately said: "The next sentence is the four monkeys capturing the sun and the moon." ”