Eight Enchanted Bundle Locks

Clever use of mystery to break the heart

The room behind the wooden door is not big, only about 30 square meters, there are no windows here, just two old-fashioned electric lamps that emit pale yellow light, and the dim light bulbs are hung on the roof, flickering and shaking, making the atmosphere here seem a little weird.

Compared with the exquisite and luxurious furnishings in the previous room, the things placed here are much simpler, I took a look at it, and found that there was only a very ordinary wooden bed and a large square wooden table in the shape of an octagonal straight cylinder, and the wooden table was inlaid with something like a compass, but it was much larger and more complicated than an ordinary compass. Other than that, there are some basic things to live in.

When I walked into this room, an old man was sitting quietly behind the table of eight immortals, he didn't have any expression, his two eyes just stared at the table in front of him, without saying a word, as if in his world, the table in front of him was the only thing worth paying attention to and caring about in his life.

Seeing that he didn't look at me, I stepped forward, then bowed deeply, and said, "Hello, Master! The younger generation's surname is Liu Mingtianyi, and he is a disciple of Uncle Duan. I came here today to ask for something. "Although it is no longer as good as those times in the old society, the rivers and lakes are still there, where there are rivers and lakes, there are rules and etiquette, and I used to be a person in this rivers and lakes, so this number of courtesies is absolutely indispensable.

As I spoke, I handed forward the wooden box I had been holding in my hand. "Hope you ......"

"Try it!" To my great surprise, the dumb gentleman who sat behind the desk and hadn't spoken for more than 20 years suddenly said something to me without a clue.

"Try? What to try? I asked, puzzled.

"This!" Tie Suo Zhang still didn't look at me, his eyes still fixed on the wooden table in front of him, but his chin was slightly raised. "See if you can open it."

"This? This is...... What is it? As I spoke, I couldn't help but turn my attention to the wooden table.

The wooden table was large and had a peculiar shape, and I didn't pay much attention to it at first, as I had all my attention on the iron lock when I first came in. At this time, I was reminded by the iron lock, and I put all my attention on it. It is said that it is a wooden table, but it is better to say that it is a king-size wooden box, the diameter of the entire wooden table is about one meter six or seven, the height is less than one meter, showing octagonal and other deformations, there is no table legs, it is a box shape that goes straight up and down. The material of this table is very special, it is a kind of wood that slightly exudes a metallic luster, this kind of wood I have not seen before, so I can't name the name, origin and origin of this wood for a while, but I vaguely feel that this metallic luster is flowing slowly from time to time, the luster is round, soft, and it feels very fascinating. In addition, the eight sides of this table are carved from left to right in order of the Heavenly Beings, the Two Dragons, the Three Yakshas, the Four Gandhavas, the Five Asuras, the Six Garudas, the Seven Kinaras, and the Eight Maharajas, which are often said by the Buddhists to be the eight protectors of the Heavenly Dragons, although they are often talked about together, and they are called the Eight Divisions, but in the records of the Buddhists, these eight Protector Gods have only one experience of enchanting together, that is, the vicious battle before the nine-headed gold-winged bird converted to Buddhism. According to legend, the war was provoked by the leading figure of the Outer Dao at the time, the Golden-winged Bird, who wanted to steal the Great Day Nyorai Heart Sutra, but was discovered by the celestial beings in charge of guarding the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and the two sides began a fierce battle. Seeing that the heavens were invincible, the seven people who had originally sat down to listen to the Buddha also joined the battle, but the nine-headed golden-winged bird's mana was very good, and it was a draw with eight people for a while. The two sides have been fighting for seven days and seven nights, from Penglai Island in the East China Sea to the end of the sky, but still unable to distinguish the winner, in the end, the Buddha appeared and used Buddhism to influence the golden-winged bird, so that it converted to Buddhism, which resolved a disaster. This large wooden box is carved with the eight Buddha and magic maps, each side of which carefully depicts a war picture, and when the carving is fine, people can't help but immerse themselves in it. Of course, the essence of this wooden table is not concerned with these reliefs, but with the compass-like thing on this table.

Since the lights in the room were dim, I couldn't tell what kind of compass it was from my vantage point. So I subconsciously took two steps forward, and just when I almost walked to the wooden table, I realized that the wooden table was not a compass at all, but a circle arranged according to a certain law, and extremely complex astrolabe, I counted it, and there were as many as fourteen circles.

"Tiangang Astrolabe?!" When I saw the fourteen circles of the chart, I couldn't help but blurt out.

"Oh?" The iron lock that had been staring at the astrolabe on the table listened to my words, and couldn't help but be surprised. Then, he finally took his eyes off the astrolabe, stared at me for a long time, and said slowly, "Do you know the Tiangang astrolabe? ”

"I don't know what my uncle said, but I once heard my grandfather mention that this Tiangang astrolabe is one of the seven ancient formations, which operates according to the twenty-four changes of Tiangang Beidou. Previously, it had only appeared once in Cao Cao's seventy-two doubtful graves, and then he had a stunt. The junior sighed just now, because he didn't expect to see this Tiangang astrolabe here. It's just ......," I said, pausing slightly.

"Just what?" Iron Lock Zhang stared at me and asked slowly.

"It's just that the junior thinks that your hexagram Tiangang astrolabe is not quite the same as what I know in my memory, it seems to be a ......," I said hesitantly.

"What's more? But it doesn't hurt to say it! There seemed to be a light in the eyes of the iron lock for a moment.

"The younger generation doesn't dare to say anything!" I said.

"Say it! Where do you get so many courtesies? Iron lock said in a deep voice.

"The younger generation thinks that there are seven more changes in your Tiangang star chart, and I can't say what these seven changes are for a while, but they seem to be intentionally or unintentionally integrated into the original hexagram, making the Tiangang astrolabe, which is already a Tiangang trigram, more cumbersome and complicated." To be honest, I don't know much about the hexagram star chart, but recently I always think of some of the "Qin Dragon Secret Techniques" that my grandfather taught me from time to time, and I vaguely remember that "Qin Dragon Secret Techniques" is divided into: entanglement, division, determination, solution, nephew, figurines, chasing, heart, void, kan, gen, and Qin. And in the first chapter of the word wrapping recipe, there is a mention of the Tiangang astrolabe, I remember my grandfather once told me, the book recorded in detail about the Tiangang astrolabe, but I didn't like to read since I was a child, everything I knew was passed on by my grandfather's mouth. And when I was young, I just thought that this Tiangang astrolabe had a little relationship with the stars in the sky and it was very interesting, so I consciously or unintentionally remembered it, but I didn't expect to use it here today.

"I didn't expect you kid to have this vision and knowledge. Not bad, not bad. Tie Suo Zhang nodded and said. Then try it and see if you can unravel it! As for the matter of you coming to me, I will naturally agree when you solve it, but if you can't solve it, then there is nothing you can do to redeem the old decay! ”

"Alright! I'll try it reluctantly! "Since it's difficult to ride a tiger, then I'll just let it go," isn't it just to solve a astrolabe!" Sister, when my grandfather was going to teach me "The Secret Art of Qin Long", why didn't I study hard. Uncle, now I can only bite the bullet, I hope I can solve this little bit of ability. Thinking of this, I arched my hand, and then strode in front of the Tiangang Astrolabe.

I didn't immediately solve this astrolabe, but carefully observed its position, and saw that the yin and yang tracks of the fourteen circles were engraved with different characters, including hexagrams, hours, stars, and stems, which were very complicated. In addition, this large wooden box seems to contain the message of the mechanism, starting from the outermost circle, and every other circle will rotate itself at a specific time, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, seemingly irregular. However, once you take the liberty of dismantling the astrolabe, it is easy to set off the mechanism inside to ambush, although I am not sure what kind of information mechanism is in it, but since the pattern of the eight tribes is carved on the outside, it is estimated that the mechanism inside should be similar to the characteristics of these eight protectors.

I closed my eyes and silently counted the seconds in my mind, "One, two, three, four, five...... Fourteen, fifteen ......" Just when I counted to fifteen, there was a slight "click" sound from the Tiangang astrolabe, and my heart moved, and I secretly thought: It turned out that it had re-set the entire astrolabe according to the decimal method. In this case, according to the record of the word entanglement formula in "Qin Long's Secret Technique", I only need to rotate the seven yin and yang tracks in the middle and not move.

Because I had only heard my grandfather say about the content of the word wrapping trick before, I was not very well-versed in classical Chinese, but I only vaguely remembered a rough idea, and I had not personally practiced it, so at the beginning, I seemed a little clumsy, and after ten minutes passed, I just found the correct position of the outer two circles of the astrolabe. However, as time went by, I began to understand some of the mysteries and doorways in the word wrapping trick, because many places seem to be life, but there is often no way out, and many times the choice of death is undoubted, but you are left to die.

Slowly turning the five yin and yang tracks behind, my movements and speed have begun to get faster and faster, and the accuracy is getting higher and higher, it probably took less than ten minutes, I turned the innermost yin and yang track to the position of the Shang Palace corresponding to Tiangan Geng, only to hear a "click", the whole big wooden box slammed.

I don't know why, I thought it was touching a certain mechanism, and the whole person subconsciously jumped back in an instant. And at this moment, the big wooden box suddenly spread out like a lotus flower, revealing the blackened inner tank inside.

"It's open!" Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but say loudly.

"It's open! I didn't expect you to open it. Yes, it's terrifying! Tie Suo Zhang said and nodded, but from his expression, there was no sign of approval, but a little more loneliness. And I, who was originally cheering on the sidelines, saw his expression, and naturally it was not good to be proud of anything. just said softly: "Uncle Shi, what's wrong with you?" ”

He looked at me and it took a long time for him to say lightly, "Do you know what this box is called?" ”

"The juniors don't know!" I said.

"His name is the Eight Enchanted Locks, and I invented it!" Tie Suo Zhang said: "Old man, I have been rebellious all my life, and I think I can compare with any locksmith who has become famous in the world. I spent more than 20 years developing this eight-part enchanted lock, and I thought that no one but me could open it, but I didn't expect it! Unexpected! Is it providential to let you like a junior untie it so easily today? As he spoke, Iron Lock Zhang sighed. If you have such great ability, why will you come to me? ”

"Uncle Shi, this eight-part enchanted lock of yours is really unparalleled in the world, and the reason why the younger generation can open it is definitely by luck, not by real ability. And I'm looking for you because I hope you can help me open this pepper lock. With that, I handed over the wooden box that I had put aside.