In front of the passage was a rectangular stone room, and the second and seventh uncles both stopped at the entrance of the passage, and no one was the first to walk in. When the old prostitute and I saw that they had stopped, we immediately took a few steps forward.

Just now, we couldn't see the whole picture of the stone chamber in the passage, but when we got closer, we saw the special features of this stone chamber.

It's not so much a stone chamber as a maze. There are three arches of the same size in each of the three walls of the stone chamber, and the passages in each of the three arches lead in three directions.

This is the most common mechanism design in ancient times, the ancients called it the reincarnation of life and death array, also called the four-door array, in addition to the arches of the three walls, plus the passage we walked on is exactly four gates, four different directions.

The reason why it is called the Reincarnation Array of Life and Death is because one of the four gates is the Birth Gate, two are the Death Gate, and the other is the Reincarnation Gate, that is, it leads to the inside of the ancient tomb.

In fact, tomb robbers prefer to call it the door of life and death, because such a title is more direct and more appropriate.

Among the four gates, the Shengmen is the only one that does not need to be judged, and the passage we enter is the Shengmen. This kind of design is completely a psychological game between the designer and the tomb robber, and the designer is creating psychological pressure on the tomb robbers, trying to make the tomb robbers choose the same way to leave.

In fact, this kind of psychological game does not work for real tomb robbers, and no tomb robber will choose to give up because he encounters the door of life and death.

However, although this mechanism design cannot scare away tomb robbers, it can also stump tomb robbers, after all, it is not an easy task to find the reincarnation door among the three options, and it takes at least a certain amount of time to observe and reason before it can be found correctly.

Of course, if the designers of the tomb put a lot of effort into this, it will be even more difficult to find the reincarnation gate.

I once went down to an ancient tomb with my elder brother, and at that time we encountered an extremely difficult door of life and death, and it can be said that the design of the door of life and death of that ancient tomb is extremely perfect. Usually tomb robbers will be in front of the door, or a few meters into the door of the passage carefully to look for old friction marks, whether it is the wall or the ground, as long as it is a passage leading to the ancient tomb, there will be traces of friction. After all, the ancients relied on manpower to build ancient tombs, so the friction on the ground should be very obvious, and even if it was covered up later, there would be flaws. Contrary to the Reincarnation Gate, there will not be much friction in the other two Death Gates, after all, the manpower and material resources required to build the ancient tomb are far greater than those in the Death Gate.

Another way to judge the reincarnation gate is to deduce the direction of the reincarnation gate by relying on the pulse position and direction. Most of the lords who have the ability to build the gates of life and death in the ancient tombs were high-ranking and prominent people during their lifetimes. The tombs of such people will be built on feng shui veins, so it is not difficult to deduce the direction of the tombs as long as you determine which part of the vein you belong to. However, this method also has drawbacks, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed, after all, the passage in the door can be designed to be curved, and sometimes the designer will deliberately design the death door in the direction of the tomb, which will bring wrong information to the person who deduces the reincarnation door through the feng shui vein, and the final result is likely to be death within the door.

At that time, the ancient tomb that I followed my senior brother down was designed in the direction of the feng shui vein, so we first chose the first observation. But when we really look closely, we find that there are obvious traces in the passages behind the three gates, and these traces are very similar, as if there is a large ancient tomb in each passage. This greatly interfered with our judgment at that time, so that we could not make a correct judgment, so we could only make a choice of feng shui veins.

At first, we thought that there was also a lot of construction inside the Death Gate, and we thought that the mechanism inside the Death Gate must not be simple, which is why there are such large friction marks. It wasn't until my brother and I returned to Chengde that we realized that it was not a big construction, but just a clever design by the designer, who deliberately made a lot of friction in the passage inside the Death Gate, in order to make it impossible for tomb robbers to judge the accurate reincarnation door through the traces.

When I think of the traces of friction, I want to go over and see if the inside of these three doors has also been rubbed.

I thought about going over to have a look, my body involuntarily began to move, as soon as I raised my foot and was about to walk over, I was immediately dragged by the old prostitute, and said softly: "My day, don't move blindly, don't you see the change?"

He stunned me for a moment, and immediately glanced in the direction of the doors, until I didn't find anything unusual, and then I wanted to turn around and ask the old prostitute what had changed.

But before I could say that, I saw a thin stream of water appear on the ground at some point, and this thin stream of water was slowly flowing towards the middle of the stone chamber. It felt like there was a thin snake on the ground moving forward.

I was about to see where the water was coming from, but before I could take my eyes off it, the water suddenly became faster, and in the blink of an eye, it split into two streams and began to flow in two different directions.

I was stunned by the scene in front of me, because I really didn't see what caused the water to split in two. The ground was bare, there was nothing obvious to block the flow of water, and there was no low-lying unevenness, but the water was suddenly split in two, which made me somewhat confused.

I began to come back to my senses to see where the water was coming from, and I thought that this sudden flow of water was coming from the ground, but I didn't expect that the direction of the water came from the passage where we were standing.

Looking back along the thin stream, I quickly understood how the current appeared. It turned out to be a member of the Meng family squatting behind the entrance of the passage, and the water in the bucket was slowly pouring to the ground.

I don't know what he's doing it for, but one thing is for sure, it was prepared when they came in, or they wouldn't have brought those buckets of water.

Compared with the Meng family's pouring process, I was more concerned about the direction of the water flow in the stone room in front of me, and I turned around to see that the separated water had flowed into the two passages.

Seeing this scene, I somewhat understood that the Meng family must be using the flow of water to judge the reincarnation gate. But I still haven't figured out what the basis for this method is, and I've never heard of it being possible to test the door of life and death with water, which seems too simple and child's play.

Just when I thought that this method might not be reliable, the second uncle and the seventh uncle actually took the lead in walking towards the passage where there was no water flow.

At the same time, the Meng family, who poured water, stopped pouring water on the ground, picked up the bucket and walked over. San'er and the little wolf did not hesitate and followed directly. Only me and the old prostitute looked confused, and we didn't understand what kind of routine this was at all.

The old prostitute walked to the place where the water in the stone chamber was separated and looked at it a few times, then touched the ground with her finger a few times, exclaimed: "Damn" and then looked back at me and asked, "Can you see any difference here?"

I squatted down, but I didn't see anything special, and I touched it a few times like an old prostitute, but I didn't find anything.

"Did you touch it?" The old prostitute asked me, and I shook my head and didn't speak.

"Oh my god, it's so obvious that I haven't figured it out yet. You touch it well, is there a line? ”

As soon as the old prostitute said this, I touched it again, and I really felt a little bit, but this feeling was so inconspicuous that I thought I might have been brought in by the old prostitute, so I felt that there was a thin thread on the ground that was thinner than a silk thread.

Of course, it wasn't a thin line, but a part of the stone on the ground, and I couldn't understand how it existed on the ground, let alone how the ancient stonemasons did it. This is completely beyond my knowledge of ancient stonemasons, and I even began to suspect that this is not the work of human beings, because ancient stonemasons did not have modern technical equipment, and even mechanized modern times may not be able to make such fine lines on stone. And this thin line, which is invisible to the naked eye, can also drive the water flow in the direction of the guide, which is definitely a super awesome design.

When the old prostitute and I sighed at the magic of the ancients, we had to leave immediately, although the little wolf did not go far, but we did not want to be left behind.

The direction of the reincarnation gate is on the wall on our right, and because the water flows into the passage in front of us and the passage on the left, it can be determined that those two passages are death gates with mechanisms. Although neither I nor the old prostitute know whether the basis of this judgment is accurate, one thing is certain, the Meng family understands this door of life and death.

After following the second uncle and them into the reincarnation gate, the passage began to be no longer flat, and gradually a downward slope appeared, although this slope was not large, but it could still be felt that the passage was constantly going deeper into the ground.

The old prostitute walked while sighing with me about the design of the door of life and death just now, I always thought he was talking about the thin line on the ground, so the matter around the thin line echoed him two sentences, but I didn't expect this guy to start saying that I was superficial, saying that I looked at the problem too superficially, and said that if I experienced the door of life and death just now, I would definitely choose the wrong one.

To be honest, I really don't want to fight with him at this moment, after all, I can't wait to enter the main tomb as soon as possible, so I have no intention of arguing with him, and let him be ashamed.

The old prostitute said that if it weren't for the Meng family knowing how to distinguish this door of life and death, we might really choose the door of death on the left to enter, because it was the most reasonable and the most similar direction to the gate of reincarnation.

I wondered why he thought that, and I couldn't help but ask him, "Why do you think that?" Even if there is no one from the Meng family, we may not choose the door of death on the left. ”

"Damn, don't believe it, if you really don't know how to distinguish with water, then we will be 100% led by the wrong information here."

I didn't think about what the old prostitute said about the misinformation, and just asked him to say it quickly, don't ink.

"The semi-elliptical passage we just walked through, that's one of the biggest misinformations." The old prostitute continued, "If you think about the shape of that passage, will it make you think that we are walking on the periphery of the main tomb?"

After speaking, the old prostitute stretched out a hand, and her fingers bent inward to make a C-shape.

Seeing the shape of the old prostitute's hand, I couldn't help but look at him very seriously, and suddenly felt a chill in the back of my head.