A strange thought came to his mind, and he couldn't help but take it out and ask Sheng Shiyao: "Do you think these five people have anything to do with the ship that sank to the bottom of the sea before?" They may have been the only survivors of the shipwreck, and then they were caught in a storm, and after swimming to the island, they found this cave as a refuge, but were led into this rift by the magnetic power of the Heavenly Altar, and they could never get out again. ”

This is a wonderful idea that has no basis for the future, except that judging from these objects that they are crew members, or even captains, and thus that the wreck two hundred meters away may be related to them.

Sheng Shiyao confirmed my speculation, saying that the pattern of the shipwreck was indeed the structure of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also an official sealed boat, which meant that it was an official ship for envoys to travel to foreign countries. The wreck was about 60 meters long, 15 meters wide and 4 meters deep. There are more than two dozen cabins, all of which are airtight, and there is a 4-foot-high wave shield on the outside. After the hull was nailed and twisted, dozens of iron bars were used from the bottom keel along the gunwales to the two edges. The attachments are readily available, with 3-5 masts; 36 oars; 1 iron wood rudder, 2-3 spare rudders; There are 4 anchors, weighing a total of five or six thousand catties. There are also 40 water tanks to ensure water for the voyage.

These were all counted when he and Zhuang Yu went into the water before, so as to determine the nature of the boat. It can be seen that the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty has been very developed, and the more famous deeds include Zheng He's seven trips to the West.

As a result, the dynasty was able to match the nautical sea compass in the sheepskin bag. Then my inference can basically be established, Sheng Shiyao did not misestimate after the Broken Dragon Stone was cut, this cave was indeed used as a refuge, but he did not expect that there would be a crack in the space, and there were so many mysteries.

I didn't study the compass, and I wasn't interested, so I picked up the parchment booklet on the ground and found that it was only wrapped in parchment on the outer cover, but the inside was paper, and this wrapping method made the paper not only not corroded by moisture, but also intact. After opening the booklet and reading a few pages, I realized that it was a nautical record book, and from the point of view of the statement, it should indeed be the captain's book. I flipped through many pages in a row, and when I finally recorded it, I found the clue and hurriedly called Sheng Shiyao: "Look at it! ”

It actually recorded the lives of several of them after they arrived in this cave. On the first day, they walked back and forth in the cave dozens of times, but the end result was all back here; The next day they walked in layers, the first man stood in his place, and the rest went forward, twenty meters apart, and left another one, and when the last man came he went straight, and the result was the same, and the man came back after an hour, and saw the outermost man crouching; On the third day, instead of going any further, they searched for a way out of the place, rummaging through the stone tools, and even trying to jam the stone plate that turned the altar with stones, but it was still to no avail.

At this time, the mentality of several of them has changed dramatically, and there is no way to survive repeatedly, and it seems that all possibilities have been tried. So on the fourth and fifth day, they became irritable and began to quarrel, blaming each other for why they had taken refuge in this cave. By the sixth day, the record said that there was not much food, only enough ...... Wait, I stared straight at that word, and then looked up at Sheng Shiyao in surprise, "There are six people written on it?" ”

He glanced at me and whispered, "You just found out?" On the second day, there were six names listed. "As soon as I heard this, I turned a few pages forward, and the next day when they used the hierarchical progression method, they recorded who was standing where, and I didn't notice how many people there were, and I took it for granted that it was five people who were experimenting, but now when I count them, it is really six.

But there are only five people's bones here, so where did the sixth person go? Intuition is very crucial, related to how we get out of this cave, and hurriedly flipped back, but the subsequent record was very messy, and there was no mention of the sixth person, and only four words were left on the last page: I am sorry. Is the twisted glyph because of weakness? Being able to record so many days is enough to prove that they starved to death in the end, and not because of the altar and magnetic power.

The recorder writes the words "I regret it", what does he regret? Life coming to an end? Task not completed? Or are there unfulfilled wishes?

Obviously, it is impossible to infer from these four words, so we can only think about it from another angle. If there are six people trapped in this cave, and only five people die here, it is bold to assume that the sixth person who is not there leaves the cave, and the broken dragon stone at the entrance of the cave is very likely to be closed by this person. His original intention was to prevent others from entering this cave again, but how could he get that thousand-pound broken dragon stone with the strength of one person? It seems that this road is not going to work.

"No, you can do that." Sheng Shiyao suddenly interrupted my contemplation, "If this sixth person inadvertently triggers something and leaves the cave, he doesn't need to move the broken dragon stone at all, because the broken dragon stone itself exists. You see that the material of this altar and the broken dragon stone is different from the rock, the color is white, the precision and density are very strong, and the grinding technique is also the same. So it is certain that it was not set up by the sixth person, but by the same person who set up the altar here. ”

"So that means that this person touched the mechanism at the entrance of the cave after going out, and then caused the Broken Dragon Stone to be pressed down?"

Sheng Shiyao still shook his head and vetoed: "No, the broken dragon stone at the entrance of the cave has no mechanism at all, if there is a mechanism, it is impossible for me not to see it." Therefore, its mechanism could only be here, and you should not forget to record that they searched this place carefully, studied the altar several times, and even used stones to jam it, so it is likely that the dragonstone sank at that time. ”

This makes a lot of sense, but the question is what is the point of how the broken dragon stone came down after studying here for a long time? I just want to know if the sixth person went out, and if so, how?

Sheng Shiyao shifted his gaze and said slowly: "If this person really goes out, it must be through this altar." ”

I also followed his gaze, which is equivalent to saying that everything is back to the original point, and the current clues are not clues, and we have to study this rotating stone tool thoroughly to decipher the answer. But I have a hidden worry in my heart, and now I can't prove that the sixth person went out, and even the landing of the broken dragon stone has been confirmed to be a coincidence set up by the person who arranged the altar, and it is very likely that that person died in some corner that we have not walked to.

Sheng Shiyao saw that there was nothing to search for in the sheepskin pouch, got up and walked to the altar again, before we were all standing on the periphery to watch, this time he found a sharp stone from the side to touch, and found that there was no special phenomenon, he squatted down again to study the little gossip. Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something, and at this moment the stone plate on it was spinning, and he looked above and kept an eye on the gossip. When the rotation stopped, I noticed that his dark eyes were shining, and I couldn't help but ask, "Did you find something?" ”

He said, "I know how the altar turns." It operates through the main Bagua above, which drives the secondary Bagua, and every time it turns, the central part of the Bagua will rotate with it, and when it stops, the corresponding direction is different. Qian represents the sky, Kun represents the earth, Xun represents the wind, Zhen represents the thunder, Kan represents the water, Li represents the fire, Gen represents the mountain, and Dui represents the Ze. When these corresponding directions are different, the figures are different, and the meanings of the representations are different. ”

I was confused, smiled wryly and said, "Can you make it simpler?" ”

"To put it simply, the hexagram position formed by each rotation of these five groups of gossip is equivalent to a nine-palace diagram, and the gossip is matched with nine palaces, which can be described as exquisite. The person who set up the altar is a master, and he wants to use this method of gossip and nine palaces to gather yin and yang qi and change the spatial magnetic field, so as to achieve the coexistence of magnetic field balance and spatial balance. ”

"So what? What is this person going to do? ”

Sheng Shiyao narrowed his eyes and spit out a few words: "Become an immortal!" ”

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this, "Become an immortal? Absurd! If human beings can become immortals with this kind of stone tool, then they won't all go to the sky, then the heavenly palace above our heads will be very crowded. "Why are there always people who are so naïve, and it's good to become immortals? In ancient times, there were Qin Emperors and Han Wu, and later there was the Ming Dynasty Heavenly Palace, all of whom sought the art of immortal immortality, and what was the final result? It's just a smile and generosity, and it also adds a failure to their old age on the Emperor Road.

I found that Sheng Shiyao did not respond to me, but stared at the stone tool in a daze, as if he was contemplative and seemed to be in a daze, this is the first time I have seen him with such a look. After waiting for a while, seeing that he still hadn't come back to his senses, he couldn't help pushing him and asking, "What's wrong?" ”

He turned his head sideways to look at me, his dark eyes were full of mixed emotions, "Xiaoxiao, this Heavenly Altar is probably from that era. ”

I didn't react for a moment, and after a few seconds, my eyes widened and I asked in surprise, "You mean 2,000 years ago?" "It's too much of a coincidence, wait, he's a wizard, don't tell me he used it, it's really not a coincidence.

Fortunately, he shook his head and said: "I haven't seen this thing, but its shape and sacrificial symbol pattern are very similar to the utensils at that time, the Dian Kingdom has not studied much on the Five Elements Bagua Culture, but it has studied the Nine Palaces very deeply, and you see that Yu's underground palace is cleverly set up with the Nine Palaces, which is the Chu culture brought in by the ancestors of the Dian Kingdom." In the later period, after the Dian Kingdom surrendered to the Han Dynasty, the first thing Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did was to loot the witchcraft and nine palace metaphysics of the Dian Kingdom, so the Han Dynasty had a deep understanding of the gossip with the nine palaces. ”

"You don't want to say that this altar was made by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."

"He is an emperor, so naturally he won't do it himself, he just needs to ask a Taoist master to set it up, and gossip is also a symbol of Taoism."

In his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty indulged in alchemy, seeking immortality and obtaining the medicine of becoming immortals, in order to go down in history. But I don't understand, what's the use of making such a stone tool on this isolated island? Could it be that the yin and yang qi gathered on the altar could still be absorbed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty thousands of miles away?

But he heard Sheng Shiyao say: "He is following the example of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, there was a Yingzheng faction Xu Fu looking for the elixir of life and finding Penglai Xiandao, and Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, also wanted to let the Taoist master find a fairy island for him, and the fairy island had to use this heavenly altar to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, and collect the qi of yin and yang." Didn't find out? Many of Liu Che's actions are following the traces of the Qin Emperor, and he regards surpassing the Qin Emperor as the most noble goal. ”

In ancient times, the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty were all talked about side by side, which shows that the two generations of emperors are equally extraordinary, so how can they go beyond it?