Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Cipher Disk (Yesterday's Supplement)
The light source summoned by the system re-illuminated the darkness, a bright but not dazzling light that illuminated the surroundings of several people.
At the moment, they were in a wide corridor about ten meters long.
This short corridor has the characteristics of a temple as the system says - the walls on both sides are carved with a large number of sculptures of various shapes, human figures, buildings, all of which are huge and ornate, and all of the human expressions are smiling and happy and retain solemnity. A quick glance at it is not difficult to guess that this is a picture of the kingdom of God that is common in religious studies and that mortals fantasize about. In the kingdom of God, all the people stretched out a hand and shook it to the gate where Hao Shen and they were, as if to welcome the comer into the kingdom of God. The other hand, resting on his chest, seems to be exercising some kind of etiquette.
The system was next to the gate, reinforcing the various gravels piled up at the door, and then turned around, and saw that Hao Shen and Zhao Ran were looking at those sculptures, so he said: "That's not welcome, but the meaning of refusing to enter." If you really want to welcome the visitor, then the palms of the sculptures will be upwards to indicate the connection, but these sculptures are palms downward, which is a very obvious refusal. They caressed their chests with their other hand, a special etiquette that meant surrender and an oath of allegiance. I think it's probably the Shaper swearing allegiance to this kingdom of God and eternal submission. Of course, there is also a sense of warning, reminding the comers to be in awe and get out of here. ”
Hao Shen nodded, he also found the details of the gestures of the characters in those sculptures, but he didn't think of the meaning of these gestures, and the systematic interpretation made him suddenly realize.
This means that the creator of the sculpture, or the keeper of the temple, does not want anyone to enter at will. Well, this is a common type of graphic psychological application. Temples where such statues usually exist are usually filled with important things, such as ancient books of gods, sacrificial props, or something with the meaning of a religious deity. Zhao Ran slowly stroked the sculptures and said slowly.
Hao Shen and the system immediately looked at her in surprise, and even Lilith turned her face to look at her.
Zhao Ran suddenly laughed, "I have been to the Americas with an expedition group before, and there is something similar in a Mayan ruin......
"The benefits of being well-informed." Hao Shen sighed and asked the system, "It is said that the place where the guardian sleeps forever is a temple?" What's inside? It can't all be the religious sacrifices that Zhao Ran said, right? ”
"Of course not, but it's all weird." The system shook his head and looked into the depths of the hallway, "There should be a way to keep those stone statues out here, let's go inside." ”
Beyond the corridor, which looks a little strange against the backdrop of the sculptures, is a large concave circular space, on the outer wall is an intricate polychrome fresco, and at the edge is a circular staircase that extends down to a height of about two or three stories, and is connected to a five-meter square platform decorated with purple lines, on which a one-man high stone platform is erected.
This is completely different from the solemn and solemn chapel that Hao Shen imagined in advance, the whole space is empty, and the only thing that can be seen is four things: frescoes, staircases, platforms, and stone platforms.
While leading a few people forward, the system introduced his discovery to Hao Shen: "The content of that mural is the history of the city, starting from the end of the first world destruction impact, oh, it is almost 700,000 years ago after the first destruction of the evil fire. By the time of the last seal, it was about 400,000 years ago. There are too many bits and pieces in it, I'll eliminate it for you, in short, the general content is - 700,000 years ago, with the efforts of the seven great kings of the world, the whole world was not destroyed by the fire of evil energy, and the whole city fought with the fire of evil energy for 300,000 years, and finally the seven kings worked together to transform the city, pushed it to the core of the fire of evil energy, and sealed it in the depths of the space, and the seven kings personally guarded the seal and disappeared into another space. The remaining living people in the city have built a lot of mechanisms for the whole city, and they are responsible for defending against any accidents that may occur. I didn't understand this at first, but now it seems that these mechanisms are really powerful. But the only thing I don't understand is that those stone statues are indeed very powerful, but they don't seem to be of much use to defend against evil fires......"
"......" Hao Shen and Zhao Ran glanced at each other.
"Son of Evil Power? Or rather, the Chaos Sect? Zhao Ran's lips moved.
Hao Shen nodded, "It should be right...... It seems that as early as 400,000 years ago, the Chaos Sect already existed. ”
The system was stunned for a moment, and nodded, "It makes sense...... But I still think it's a little incredible, that something like Chaos Fire can really be controlled by mortals? That's God's creation......"
"What's that stone platform?" Hao Shen walked to the bottom platform, glanced around, and his eyes fell on a huge disc on the top of the stone platform. "This seems like a cipher disk?"
The stone platform is boxy and angular, and at the top is a two-foot-wide disc composed of many rings and delicate parts, on which are densely engraved with many numbers and words. It's kind of like a compass on Earth.
Each ring of the disc can be rotated, and each machine part can be pushed along the radius of the disc while rotating, and each push can make a new combination of the numbers on the disc - this is an extremely complex cipher disk.
"A astrolabe, I studied it for a long time before, but I didn't find anything. Referring to the meaning of this temple, I think it is some kind of astrolabe used to calculate the trajectory of the stars for sacrifice. The system said casually.
"Astrolabe?" Hao Shen's face turned strange, he raised his head and looked at the impermeable roof, "You mean here?" A place where you can't see the stars and the sky, calculating the trajectory of the stars? And this thing looks like a cipher disk, right? ”
"Do you have any other explanation?"
"Uh......" Hao Shen scratched his neck helplessly, as if he really didn't. The numbers and conformities marked on this strange disc are so messy that they can't form any meaningful words or sentences. Hao Shen didn't give up, stretched out his hand and fiddled with it a few times, using the numbers and conformities on it to form a text, but the combinations that appeared on it were just some time and a large series of numbers.
"Actually, it's not bad that this disc says it's a cipher disk, but we don't have the direction to decrypt it." The system glanced at Hao Shen, "I scanned the entire stone platform, it is solid, there is no possibility of a mechanism, all it can get is those strange combinations of numbers and symbols." We don't have any clues about the password, there are thirteen million combinations of this disk, each of which can be an answer, and each of which is not an answer, and we simply have no way to decipher it - because the premise of getting the 'answer' is the 'question', and we don't have the 'question'. ”
It's like a math fill-in-the-blank problem, followed by a three-digit number after the equal sign, which means that there are nine hundred and ninety-nine combinations. And in front of the equal sign is a blank equation that you don't even know about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, how do you calculate?
Hao Shen suddenly sighed helplessly.
Fortunately, none of the clues now point to this disk, otherwise Hao Shen would have to collapse.
"However, since it's called the Guardian's Eternal Resting Place, there's definitely something wrong with it. I'm going to do a full survey here. The system said.
"Well, that's all there is to it." Hao Shen nodded in agreement, and casually put his hand on the edge of the stone platform.
Click!
Hao Shen felt that his fingers seemed to touch a cold and smooth thing, like a piece of glass, and at the same time as touching it, the thing vibrated slightly, and then made a soft click!
"What!" The system reacted the fastest, followed by Lilith, Zhao Ran, and Hao Shen, who was the toucher, but was stunned for a moment, and then turned his head to look at his fingers.
He saw that his fingers were pressed against a palm-sized glowing square embedded in the side wall of the stone platform!
Hao Shen swore that his gaze had swept over the place five seconds ago, when it was only a part of the stone platform, and there was nothing unusual!
"Wait! Don't move! The system suddenly stopped Hao Shen's move to take his hand down, and quickly floated over, "I'll go, is there a mistake?" You kid don't have any shit luck, do you know how much time Lilith and I spent investigating this stone plate? You can just press it...... People are more popular than dead people! ”
Hao Shen smirked......
But the next moment, a slight sound of wind blew, and a dagger silently cut through the air, shot out from a corner, and went straight to Hao Shen's hand that pressed the mechanism!