The residence of the military department was in the northeast corner of Jinling City, and by the time we arrived, it was already dawn.

The military department Shangshu knelt at the gate, his whole body was paralyzed, and his expression was sad. There were also more than a dozen kneeling people around, and it was estimated that they were the family members of the military department.

I walked over and helped the military department Shangshu up and asked him, "Master Du, what's going on?" ”

The secretary of the military department is called Du Zhicheng, and he looks nearly fifty years old, and my understanding of him is limited to the name Du Zhicheng.

He looked extremely sad when he applied, as if he hadn't heard what I was asking, and his eyes were still glazed over.

I shook him twice, and Shangshu of the military department looked like he had just woken up from a big dream, grabbed my hand tightly, and said very excitedly: "Nan Gongzi, Nan Gongzi...... You must save the little girl. ”

I frowned slightly and asked, "Master Du, what happened?" ”

"You'll see with me." The secretary of the military department dragged my arm and went into the house, looking very urgent.

He dragged me all the way to a courtyard, pointed to the courtyard wall and said, "The little girl's maid prepared hot water for her in the morning, and when she knocked on the door, she found that there was no one in the room. Please, the ninth prince must save the little girl. ”

I looked at the text written on the wall and fell into deep thought.

What is written on the wall is, "Du Zhicheng, the secretary of the military department, is corrupt and perverts the law, and the common people should be beheaded according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty." My Buddha is merciful, and he has done more good deeds in recent years, and the death penalty can be avoided, and the living sin cannot be escaped.

Catch its daughter, detain in the plum blossom array of Bao'en Temple, if there is a master to rescue before noon, the past is not to blame. At noon, if no one wants to save it, it will definitely wash the Du Mansion in blood. ”

Niu Meng frowned and scolded, "Damn, what kind of person, what a big breath!" ”

I sighed softly and asked the military department Shangshu, "Have you sent someone to Bao'en Temple to see it?" ”

"Not yet...... I...... I don't dare to go, I'm afraid that the little girl will ......" Before the military department finished speaking, he wiped his tears.

This incident is a headache for me, if I guess correctly, the gang that kidnapped the daughter of the military department Shangshu is the same gang that kidnapped Yuen Long.

According to the previous experience, it is speculated that the plum blossom array they are talking about should be a long-lost formation, which evolved from the plum blossom number.

And the plum blossom is easy to count from the Zhou Yi Bagua branched out.

Even I have only heard of the plum blossom array, saying that it is trapped in the plum blossom array, and there is no possibility of coming out of the formation. I don't know what kind of formation the plum blossom array is.

"Chase the wind, take people to Bao'en Temple, and let people go over with firecrackers by the way. In addition, go and call the Hunter to come over, and let him personally lead people to guard the Shangshu Mansion of the Military Department! "After I gave the order to chase the wind, I appeased the military department Shangshu.

Only then did he ride a horse with Niu Meng towards Bao'en Temple.

On the way, Niu Meng asked me, "Brother Jiu, don't you look right?" ”

I frowned, and replied to him, "This group of people is the same group as the one who kidnapped Yuen Long, last time I barely unlocked the lock of Wuhou, and this time there is a lost plum blossom array, I have never even seen this kind of formation." But what is certain is that it is definitely much more difficult than unlocking the lock of Wuhou, I am afraid that I really can't save Miss Du, but will harm her life. ”

"Hey, what do you want to do so much, just go over and take a look. In such a small place as Bao'en Temple, what kind of bird formation can be arranged, it will be destroyed directly. ”

I nodded, "I hope you're telling the truth." ”

Niu Meng and I were the first to arrive at Bao'en Temple, and when the temple door opened, we saw from a distance that all the monks inside were gathered together.

Niu Meng and I hurriedly rushed over, pushed through the crowd, and saw a huge mechanism in the temple square.

The whole mechanism is made of iron, and it looks like a cage in the shape of a bagua, and each direction is cleverly connected.

The cage has eight entrances, with a complex structure in the middle and dense hidden weapons. Miss Du was tied to the iron pillar in the middle, and her mouth was also stuffed with cloth.

The entire cage revolves around the iron pillar in the middle.

Next to the cage was something that looked like a bucket, and an iron pipe protruded from the bucket, and the iron pipe just reached into the large vat next to it.

The iron pipe is flowing slowly.

It seemed like a complicated mechanism, but I could see the truth at a glance.

The water in the bucket will be completely drained at noon, and if Miss Du is not rescued, the mechanism in the cage will be triggered, and all those hidden weapons will hit Miss Du.

If you want to save Miss Du, you must study this plum blossom array thoroughly, enter the cage in a certain order, reach Miss Du, and rescue her.

If you choose the wrong route to walk, or if you accidentally touch something you shouldn't touch, it will trigger a trap that will cause the hidden weapon to fire.

Not to mention the act of forcibly destroying the mechanism, it will inevitably lead to the death of Miss Du.

The surrounding monks were also talking about it, and they didn't know what it was, but after I asked them, I realized that they woke up in the morning and found this mechanism.

But because there were people tied inside, no one dared to act rashly, so they went directly to notify the government.

I took out my token and called the presiding officer of Bao'en Temple and asked him if there were any patrols in the temple at night. The host said that there was originally a monk who was on duty, but because of the snow, there was no shift.

What's even more strange is that the host is meditating and resting, commonly known as meditation. After entering meditation, you can be awakened at the slightest disturbance.

But he didn't even notice that something so big was happening outside.

Let's not talk about whether tying up a girl will make a sound, such a huge mechanism is placed in the temple, and it doesn't make a sound at all, which is indeed a strange thing.

I looked at the sky, and there was no sun, so I couldn't tell the exact time, but based on the time I got up, it was still two and a half hours before noon.

In just two and a half hours, cracking a mechanism formation that I have never seen before, I really have no bottom in my heart.

I asked the onlookers to disperse and stay away from this mechanism, and then asked the host to fetch me pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and began to study this formation carefully.

It didn't take long for them to come with someone after chasing the wind, and they heard the sound of the military department shouting from afar, which made people upset.

Fortunately, he stopped crying after a while, and came and dragged me, begging me to save his daughter no matter what. He also said that he was willing to bear the sins he committed in the early years by himself and could not harm his family.

This kind of person really doesn't know what to say about him, so why bother with it today?

Good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, and it is not that the time has not yet come.

I can't promise anything to the military department, I just said that I will try my best to save Miss Du, as for the sentence "kill Du Mansion Manmen", most of them are to scare the military department Shangshu.

I don't believe it, if I really didn't rescue Miss Du, they would really have come out and kill all the people in Du Mansion? Wouldn't that be self-defeating?

I asked Chasing Wind to temporarily get the military department book away, so as not to interfere with me, and continued to study this plum blossom array mechanism.

Although the whole mechanism is made of iron, it is interlocking, and no part of it is independent.

I watched for a long time, but I haven't even determined the eight directions of Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun.

This gossip cage is constantly rotating, and I have observed some patterns, first eight times forward, then eight times upside down, and so on.

Nor did each of the cages clearly indicate the direction of the gossip.

I was overwhelmed.

After more than half an hour, Miss Tang and the others all came.

Yao Weimei and Mu Qingchen walked over to me, and Miss Tang and Qin Yuetong took Xiaoqing Xiaoyu and Niu Meng to stand together and did not come over.

I scribbled back and forth on the paper without a clue.

After Yao came over, he stared at the plum blossom array for a while and asked me, "Can you crack this plum blossom array?" ”

I shook my head slightly, "I'll do my best, although it's a plum blossom array, it's still gossip in essence." As long as you can find the entry point, the other problems can be solved. ”

Yao Yimei put her hand on my shoulder, "I'm with you, don't force it if you can't crack it, we are the ones who guard the Du Mansion." ”

I nodded, relieved, and continued to stare at the spinning cage.

At this time, Mu Qingchen suddenly whispered softly beside him, "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than loss, so the void is better than the truth, and the lack is more than enough." Its meaning, its mystery, its interest is profound. The image of heaven and earth, the Hou Lie of yin and yang, the cause of change, and the sign of death and life. ”

I frowned and asked, "Miss Mu, what did you just read?" ”

Mu Qingchen replied: "This is a text in the Taoist collection, gossip originated from Zhou Yi, Taiji gave birth to two yi, two yi gave birth to four elephants, four elephants gave birth to gossip, gossip gave birth to all things, and the plum blossom array was still gossip in the final analysis." It's the cage that rotates repeatedly, disrupting judgment. But after it doesn't make eight turns, it reverses eight times, which looks like eight turns, but it's actually seven turns, because one of the laps overlaps.

I'm wondering if this overlapping circle will be the birth gate of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array. The Shengmen corresponds to the Gen hexagram, a cage that happens to be turned once, just in the northwest.

The difficulty lies in determining whether this cage is anti-gossip or shun-gossip. ”

After Mu Qingchen said this, I suddenly realized. Hurriedly affirmed: "It's Shun Bagua, my grandfather once said that Shun Gossip can be reversed, but if you want to rebel again, it is absolutely a big thing, as long as you remember the location of Shengmen, Jingmen, and Open the Door, and enter from the corresponding cage, you should be able to reach the position of the middle iron pillar and rescue Miss Du." ”

"Are you sure?" Mu Qingchen asked me.

I shook my head and sighed lightly, "I have to try, when the time comes, Miss Du will die." ”

"But once you don't rescue Miss Du, the people of the Du family will hate you, human nature is like this. If you want to be a hero, you must succeed, and the hero who fails will only be scolded by people. Mu Qingchen looked at me very seriously.

I told him that I didn't care what people said about me, as long as the people I cared about could understand me.

It's better to try than to die, I can only do my best, listen to the destiny of God, and have a clear conscience.