Chapter 23: Thirty-six Tiangang
As soon as Uncle Dao finished speaking, my body couldn't help but shudder, could it be that the masked man from before didn't continue to move forward at all, but had been hiding in that small garden, secretly monitoring our every move? And then when we're all down, he'll close the door and cut us off from going back?
Those who come are not good, the enemy is dark and we are clear, and it seems that our situation is very bad.
"Sample, dare to play black with the fat man? If you are caught, you will be killed! The fat bear waved his fist at the place where the secret door was closed overhead, and said angrily.
I thought to myself, you just talk about it, and now we don't even know who the other party is and what they want to do, and it's almost the same to be rectified by others. Zheng Tian was also in a hurry, and slurred his words that he still had a large amount of family property to inherit, and several TV station projects to be responsible for, so he couldn't just throw his life here......
Uncle Dao asked everyone to calm down, don't panic, although the way back is blocked, as long as you keep moving forward, there must be an exit.
Indeed, it is important to remain calm in this situation, and I carefully observed the eight stone doors with the word "ink" printed on them, and the opening bolt was obvious next to each stone door. So optimistically, we can open every door and try again, and if one way doesn't work, we can turn back and walk again.
But as soon as I said this idea, I was stinked by the fat bear on the side: "Who the hell will build so many doors, you can think about it with your ass and know that there must be ghosts inside!" According to the fat man, this opening and pulling bolt are all traps, maybe as long as the wrong one is opened, ten thousand arrows will immediately pierce the heart, and we will be shot into hedgehogs in an instant. β
What Fat Bear said seems to make sense, under normal circumstances, the owner of the tomb would not have built so many passages for himself, so it is indeed easy for us to pull the deadbolt rashly.
At this time, Uncle Dao walked to the side of the terracotta figurines of the soldiers and carefully observed them for a while, and suddenly said to Brother Qi: "Xiao Qi, you and I take a hand to see if you can move these figurines, Brother Qi responded, and the two of them immediately grabbed the legs of the figurines and exerted their strength together, but the strange thing is that Uncle Dao and Brother Qi tried their best to count, and the green tendons burst out, but the figurines still did not move."
Then Uncle Dao stood up and patted the ash on his hand and said, "These figurines are fixed, there must be a mystery in them." β
I asked my uncle what the mystery was, but he asked me rhetorically: "Did you have the book "The Secret Book of Heavenly Craft" that the old man gave you with you?" β
I nodded, and immediately turned it out of my bag and handed it to Uncle Dao.
Although I can't read this book thoroughly, it contains a lot of occult things, and it is a lifesaver at a critical time, so it is the first thing I stuffed into my backpack before going to the grave this time.
Uncle Dao should have read this book, and he must be more familiar with it than me, so he casually flipped his fingers and let go of the brow that had been locked before, and said, "It's the thirty-six Tiangang in Qimen Dunjia." β
Before I could react to what Uncle Dao meant, he had already walked up to the thirty-six figurines, and compared them according to the legend in the book, he still muttered: "Eight desolations and six life and death, one door is open and one is closed." β
We didn't dare to disturb, we all waited quietly for Uncle Dao's conclusion, only the fat bear, relying on his level of three-legged cat, had been dangling in front of Uncle Dao, and from time to time pointed at those figurines and said: "According to the fat master, since all the mysteries are hidden in these mud people, it is better to smash all the hammers for him, so as to save trouble." β
I suddenly felt funny when I heard such uneducated and unqualified words, and ridiculed him: "It's good to have basic professional ethics in the fight, these are all thousand-year-old cultural relics left by the ancestors, how can you let a loser smash it?" β
As soon as my voice fell, Uncle Dao slowly spoke. "yes, smashed."
Seeing Uncle Dao's support, the fat bear gave a thumbs up: "There is a saying-heroes see the same thing!" β
Such a precious cultural relic, really say smash it?
Uncle Dao has always been a very principled person, how could he say such unremarkable words, so I asked, "Uncle, were you stunned by this fat man just now, why did you follow the nonsense?" β
Uncle Dao glanced at the figurines beside him, closed the book and handed it to me, saying, "Everything in the world is neither broken nor standing. According to the records in the "Secret Book of Heavenly Works", two of the eight doors around us are the living doors leading to the main tomb, and the other six are all dead doors with no entry or exit. The only way for us to open the door is to pull the control device in the body of the corresponding figurine, and it seems that the only way to find the control device is to smash the figurines. β
I nodded helplessly, although I didn't understand what Uncle Dao meant, but I felt that these figurines had to be smashed today. At the same time, he sighed again at the power of the organization called "Mo Zong" thousands of years ago, I really don't know how they couldn't come up with this kind of mechanism, if there is no Heavenly Secret Spectrum, we are afraid that we will never be able to figure out the mystery.
The fat bear pulled his fingers, and said with a puzzle in his mouth: "No, these thirty-six divided by eight are inexhaustible, that is to say, a stone door corresponds to 4.5 mud people, is it possible to split a person into two?" Fat man, I'm good at counting, don't lie to me. β
Uncle Dao said: "It is precisely because a stone door corresponds to 4.5 figurines, so two of the doors share the control device of one of the figurines, which is opened and closed together. In other words, we had to break a total of nine of the stone figurines with the mechanism to open the door. β
"It's better to divide the labor quickly, and smash all the thirty-six stone figurines here, so that those nine are not included in the corresponding Shengmen? I don't want to stay in this place! Zheng Tian said anxiously.
"You can't smash it all!" Uncle Dao said solemnly. "If it's not corresponding, even if you smash the wrong one, the consequences will be unimaginable. At the very least, it can cause the poisonous gas inside the figurines to leak, or at the worst, it can trigger the traps of the entire hall. β
I thought to myself, is there any difference between light and heavy? Poison gas and organs are not the same, are they all dead words?
Then he asked Uncle Dao if there was any identification method mentioned in this book of "Tiangong Secret Book", Uncle Dao nodded and pointed to the figurines and said: The thirty-six Tiangang array is a special one in Qimen Dunjia, and the book says that the thirty-six figurines corresponding to the six horizontal and six vertical are originally a template at the beginning of construction, but after being applied to the organ, they have made slight adjustments to the physiognomy. Take a closer look at the nine people with special demeanors inside, and the mystery is among them. β
Recognize people by looking at faces? It is said that a person's expression can reflect a person's inner world, and it is unthinkable that it can be applied to inanimate figurines as well. At that moment, we took a closer look and looked at it, isn't it just to find the difference, it shouldn't be difficult.
But when I stared at the faces of those lifelike figurines, I realized that I was too naΓ―ve, and I looked at them one by one, and there were thirty-six people here, and all of them had the same expressions - smiling. I couldn't find any doorway at all, and I was just about to ask if Uncle Dao had made a mistake, when I heard Wei Yin, who was in the southwest of me, shouting, "Mom! β
It's weird, this woman is not afraid of zombie bones, why is she afraid of these figurines? We immediately rushed over to ask her what was going on, and Wei Yin trembled and pointed to a figurine in front of her and said, "Its eyes blinked just now!" β
We all looked into the figurine's eyes, but we didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
I waved my hand in front of Wei Yin, and asked her if she was too focused and dizzy, Wei Yin shook her head and said that she didn't know either, at this time I noticed that behind this figurine was a row of fire troughs, which swayed slightly with some strange firelight, could it be that the shadow of the firelight hit the eyes of the figurine, and the light itself was not enough here, so it gave people the illusion of it blinking?
At this time, Zheng Tian behind me suddenly stretched out his finger and pointed at the figurine just now, opened his mouth wide and said, "This thing is evil!" I was still smiling just now, why did I turn angry now? β
Got an angry face?
We looked at the figurine again, and the figurine's face shimmered with a little shadow of fire, and it did show an angry face under the shadow, but this state did not last long, and when the shadow was removed, the figurine returned to normal.
I pulled out my lighter and started a fire and shook it in front of the figurine's face, and it turned into an angry face again!
As I expected, the change in expression was caused by the shadow of the firelight. But strangely, when I put the lighter in front of another stone figurine, nothing changed.
This is unusual, could it be that the structural composition of these figurines is different? How come some have changed and some have not? Wait a minute...... Aren't we looking for nine people with special demeanors?
I suddenly felt a thrill and patted Uncle Dao on the shoulder: "Uncle, I know!" The expressions of all the figurines here are the same, but they will change under the shadow of the firelight, so the figurines with changed expressions are the nine we are looking for! β
Uncle Dao was holding a magnifying glass to make a subtle observation of the face of the figurine, and after listening to my words, he slowly put down the things in his hand and smiled: "Well, it's true, I finally learned to use my brain!" β
It seems that Uncle Dao has also seen the mystery, and it is rare to be praised by Uncle Dao, I shook the lighter in my hand happily and said: "The puzzle has been revealed, let's try it one by one!" β
The fat bear on the side laughed at me twice, I asked him angrily what he was laughing at, he grinned and said, "Do you mean that Uncle Dao didn't use your brain before, you used to think with your ass?" β
I cursed in my heart, but in order to show my quality, I didn't bother with his boring words.
Because of the mastery of the doorway, so it is much easier to verify, we several division of labor comparison, in the expression will change the figurines to make a mark, less than ten minutes, these 36 figurines of nine hidden mysteries were picked out by us one by one.
When I was about to smash the first one, I was still very nervous, not to talk about the morally unspoken past, it seems that it is still illegal to destroy cultural relics without permission, Zheng Tian also said that he will definitely not dare to record this paragraph into his own video, otherwise he will basically not be able to mix in the circle of collection in the future.
But when he smashed it, he was very calm: "Isn't it just guilty?" Let me teach you a way, have you ever watched the show "Treasure Appreciation" that smashes fakes with a small hammer? Let's just learn from the host in there and treat these things in front of us as fakes. β
I'm a little speechless, what the is this?
Seeing that I didn't dare, the seventh brother smiled and said just let him come, but before I could say thank you in a hurry, he had already picked up the hammer, and a crack immediately appeared on the thousand-year-old antique.
Then there were a few hammers, and the whole figurine shattered to the ground, and I looked inside the figurine, and found that the so-called control device was actually a small lever.
Uncle Dao told us all to get out of the way, and he slowly leaned down by himself, carefully pulling up the lever, thinking that something would change, but nothing happened.
"It takes nine levers to pull together, and we'll keep smashing." Uncle Dao got up and said.
So we smashed six more one after another, and the guilt in our hearts at the beginning gradually disappeared.
I think people are probably like this, when they get used to one thing, they will become numb unconsciously. I looked at the sentence on the stele, "Before his death, the tiger served Nanliang, and after his death, he was still busy with war." I couldn't help but sigh.
The eighth figurine is in charge of the fat bear, he is big, he has great strength, and he has always had no reverence for the remains of these ancestors, so the efficiency is relatively high, and he has rolled up his sleeves and smashed three in a row.
But when he faced the eighth figurine and was about to continue to pick the hammer, he froze in place, his expression full of surprise.
I asked him what was wrong, and the fat bear turned his head incredulously and said, "This mud man's eyes just rolled at me!" β
When I heard it, I thought it was a big deal, didn't I just roll my eyes? It must be the effect of light and shadow again, and I was seen through it at a glance by the wise before, which is nothing new. So I taunted him a few times, and I didn't take it seriously.
The fat bear didn't care, he shook his head and said seriously: "But the problem is, there was no light and shadow on the face of this mud man just now!" β