Chapter 100: The Center Point
I heard San'er say that I was too simplistic, and I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, and he also said that it was related to my past experience, which made me even more embarrassed, which clearly implied that I had not experienced a big scene, and I looked down on people a little.
"I'm just talking about my thoughts, of course, it's up to you how to do it here. If you don't think my solution works, there's a more direct and effective way, you find the mechanism that turns, crack it, or you control it, and let it turn us all to the right channel. "I spoke in a somewhat tempered tone.
San'er should have heard that there was a very unhappy tone in my tone, and said, "You can try it with your gravity method, but I think the method you just said is more feasible." β
I don't know if San'er did it on purpose, knowing that what I just said was angry, I even thought that the method I just said was feasible. You have to know how easy it is to crack such a huge rotating mechanism. Even if we can find the location of the rotating mechanism, we may not be able to control it, and if we accidentally break the mechanism, then we will be miserable, in which case, it will be impossible to turn out.
I don't care if San'er is deliberately angry with me, the most important thing at the moment is to turn this place around, only in this way can I prove that I am right.
I organized everyone to leave the rotating space and stand in the newly colored stone passage, waiting for the rotation of the rotating space. My plan was that as soon as we started turning, we would quickly walk back into the rotation space, and then move on to the next passage and repeat the process, and we would be done.
The small number of people is really easy to manage, and the three of them are very cooperative, and I ask them to take two more steps back, and they take two more steps. It's just San'er's performance that makes me very unhappy. He sat down against the stone wall, not caring if it was turning. It's like saying, it won't turn, it's useless to look at it or not.
Although watching San'er's performance made me unhappy, I couldn't say anything, so I could only wait quietly for the results.
In fact, at this time, I was the most nervous in my heart, my eyes were as wide as light bulbs, and I looked motionless at the docking of the passage. I kept shouting in my heart: Turn, turn, turn quickly.
With such anticipation and a wild shout in his heart, he waited for more than two minutes, and there was no sign of turning at all.
Scar, who was standing on the side, couldn't bear it anymore and asked me, "Boss, why hasn't it turned yet?" We didn't spend that long in that passage. β
At this moment, I don't know how to answer Scar, but the old prostitute said: "Xiao Qi, are we too close?" β
I nodded, acquiescing to this point of view, and there is no better explanation at the moment, and at this time I also hope that this point of view is correct.
We walked more than 20 meters into the passage and waited for another two minutes, but it still didn't turn.
This really made me anxious, not because I was afraid that I would not be able to hang on my face, but because I felt that my reasoning was wrong, if it was a gravity-driven mechanism, it shouldn't be like it is now, as long as we leave the rotating space, the gravity there should return to its original state, it stands to reason that the mechanism should be triggered, but now it doesn't move at all. Then there is only one explanation, and my inference is wrong, that the rotation of space does not rely on gravity to trigger the mechanism.
"Don't wait, I'm wrong, maybe it's not gravity-triggered at all." I looked at them and said.
Scar and the old prostitute didn't speak, but San'er said: "Your judgment is right, it should be the gravity trigger mechanism, the reason why the trigger mechanism has not been triggered now is because we haven't gone far enough, maybe it will only turn when we get out of sight." But we probably won't be able to go back then. β
"Did you expect that if we were too close, it wouldn't turn?" I asked San'er.
"Not exactly, I did think about this before you made this attempt, but I wasn't sure at the time. After this attempt, I dare to conclude. San'er explained.
"My god, since you have an idea, why don't you say it sooner." The old prostitute glanced at San'er, and then said, "Then you must have a way to solve it now." β
San'er didn't look at the old prostitute at all, so he said: "Yes, but it's not what I thought of, it's Xiao Qi." β
The old prostitute immediately turned to me and asked, "What do you think of again?" Why didn't you tell me. β
I looked at the old prostitute and couldn't answer his question at all. The heart said, if I had a good idea, I would have said it a long time ago, why should I have such a big foreign appearance. Besides, even if I have a good idea, the first one to tell me must be you, how can I talk to San'er.
"Let's go, it's time to go and solve this problem once and for all." After San'er finished speaking, he walked towards the rotating space.
I shook my head at the old prostitute, made a very helpless expression, and walked back.
I rushed to San'er and asked him, "Have you already thought about what to do?" β
"Yes, but your attempt is very meaningful, even if you don't do it, I will do it, and I hope your attempt is successful." San'er explained: "At first, I thought it was naΓ―ve for you to try, but I still thought it was a fluke, if your attempt worked, you wouldn't need my method, and that would be the best outcome." β
After listening to San'er, I was pondering what he said, presumably his method must not be very good, otherwise he would not have expected my attempt to succeed.
Suddenly, I seemed to think of something, and immediately glanced at San'er, and asked eagerly, "Are you looking for a mechanism to control its rotation?" β
San'er smiled at me, nodded, and said nothing.
I thought about it in my heart and felt that it was still necessary to ask, this is not a trivial matter. "Are you sure you can control it? Such a large mechanism must not be easily overpowered. β
"I tried it and realized that if there was a better way, I wouldn't choose to do it." San'er replied.
"Can you locate the mechanism now?" I asked.
"This rotating circle is too big and too stable, and it is its large and steady that exposes the position of the mechanism."
When I heard San'er say this, I immediately asked, "So you know the location of the organ, where is it?" β
"If my judgment is correct, the location of the mechanism should be the center point of the rotating space." San'er tapped down with his hand, signaling that I was below, and then said: "Think about it, the rotating space is full of stone structures, what a lot of weight this is, if you want to take it to maintain a balanced rotation, then only one point is the most likely, that is, the center point." β
What San'er said is reasonable, this rotation space is indeed too big, and it is too heavy, and the mechanism can only be designed below the center point, which is very easy to analyze.
But I'm afraid that this kind of super-large mechanism design doesn't follow the usual path and doesn't play cards according to the routine, so I'm still a little worried in my heart. After all, if this mechanism is broken, or stopped, then it will be even more difficult for us to get out again, and I am afraid that we will not even have a chance to try to turn it in the future.
"I know what you're worried about, and I'm a little worried, but you can't stop trying because you're worried about the consequences. Sometimes things that are too big are not necessarily complicated, but some small things are more complicated. The mechanism here may be big but simple. San'er patted me on the shoulder, which was considered comfort, and then said: "Don't worry too much, I have calculated the location of the center point here, it should be at 84.5 meters, as long as we don't destroy the mechanism, the success rate is still quite high." β
Hearing San'er say 84.5 meters, I immediately understood how this number was calculated, this is the number he calculated on the ground, presumably it must have been obtained by dividing 169 by 2.
Thinking of this, I glanced back at the old prostitute, and said in my heart: Fortunately, the old prostitute doesn't know, if he knows, San'er even has to write out such a simple division and calculate, then it will not kill San'er.
According to San'er's calculations, we come to the middle point of the rotating space, which is 84.5 meters. San'er and the old prostitute personally pry the colored stones on the ground.
Maybe they were afraid that Scar and I would make a mistake, so they didn't let the two of us do it, but it was better to settle down. It's just that the old prostitute and San'er are suffering, and the colored stones are full of natural mountain stones, and it is too difficult to dig down. It is necessary to ensure sufficient width, but not to use too much force, so as not to accidentally destroy the mechanism.
The old prostitute said several times that she wanted to use explosives, but San'er and I didn't agree, so we had to dig hard little by little.
At first, for dozens of minutes, San'er and the old prostitute could stand it, but the stone here was too hard, and the time was constantly consumed, but the pit was not very deep, and finally I and Scar took turns to do it, until more than two hours passed, and a pit more than one meter deep was chiseled.
When I was digging the stones, I thought to myself, if there was no so-called mechanism below, then the old prostitute would have to kill San'er. He was so tired of being forced to do so, and in the end there was nothing, so it was no wonder that he didn't go crazy.
I don't know how many minutes passed, this time it was my turn to rest with the old prostitute, Scar and San'er were chiseling there, and as soon as I sat down with the old prostitute, I heard Scar shout: "There is something, it seems to be iron." β
When my wife and I heard this, we immediately got up and saw that there was really something in the stone. It's just that the exposed part is too small, and you can only see that it's metal, and you can't tell whether it's iron or not.
San'er and Scar began to dig along the metal in the stone, the stone on the edge of the metal was easy to break, it didn't seem to be one, the metal should have been driven into the stone later, otherwise the surrounding stones would not have broken so easily.
"Oh my god, I'm finally seeing the light of day, and this should be a fucking part of the agency." The old prostitute was a little excited to see the metal in the stone.
San'er chiseled some stones, and the scars were cleaned out, and metal rust stains could be seen on the gravel.
I wanted to take a piece of gravel and see if it was rust or patina, but it didn't feel right as soon as I held it in my hand.
This gravel is so damp that it feels a little wet.
"Is there water in the pit?" I asked, as I looked in.
Scar was cleaning the rubble inside, and before he looked back, he replied, "There's no water, it's just that the stone is a little wet." β
San'er stood up, took the gravel in my hand, looked at it carefully, and immediately asked Scar to come up quickly, and then he lay on the edge of the pit, poked his head into the pit, and put his ears on the stone below, probably listening to the sound.
After listening for a few seconds, San'er stood up and said that he couldn't dig any more, and there was an underground river below.
He couldn't chisel this sentence anymore, which completely angered the old prostitute, and immediately yelled at San'er: "What do you mean? You don't fucking mean that the mechanism is built in an underground river, do you? β
"It looks like it should be, maybe the underground river is the power source of the mechanism." San'er also became a little annoyed, and then said, "I ignored this problem, I should have thought of it." β
Before San'er finished speaking, he heard a muffled bang on the ground, as if something had exploded.