Chapter 34: Overlapping Spaces
Fei Yunfan's mind was dark, and a voice came from the darkness, the voice was very familiar, as if the fat man was calling him. "Second, wake up, second."
Fei Yunfan opened his eyes, and sure enough, it was a fat man again, Fei Yunfan asked, "Fat man, how did we escape?" β
"What escaped, you jumped down from the well and fell unconscious, but fortunately you didn't hurt your bones."
"Aren't we being bitten by three corpse worms?"
"What nonsense, you were bitten by three corpse insects, can you still live? Get up and see if you have broken arms or legs. β
Fei Yunfan barely looked around, and it was the grave road they had just fallen from. Could it be that what just happened is a dream again? Could it be that Fei Yunfan had another dream in his dream, is it a dream now? Fei Yunfan slapped the fat man hard, the fat man covered half of his reddened face and looked at Fei Yunfan with wide eyes, jumped up and scolded: "Damn, you fell stupid, right?" β
Fei Yunfan pinched his thigh again, it hurt, it hurts. Not a dream, not in a dream right now. Fei Yunfan let out a sigh of relief. The fat man wanted to scold again, but when he saw Fei Yunfan pinching his thighs to a large chunk, he had already decided in his heart that Fei Yunfan was stupid, so he sat down far away from Fei Yunfan, for fear that he would have any more nerves and beat himself again.
Fei Yunfan didn't have the spirit to explain all this to him, these two dreams were so real, all his physical strength was almost exhausted in the dream, and now he just wanted to lie down and rest quietly.
As soon as Fei Yunfan fell asleep, he was uncomfortable by the things in his pocket, and he touched the things sideways, and suddenly the whole person was dumbfounded. In comparison, the fat man's eyes were full of green light, and he didn't care that Fei Yunfan was going to get nervous to hit him, so he came over and snatched the things in Fei Yunfan's hand, "My good girl, when did you hide such a good thing." I'll tell you that we have a share, and we will quietly take it out and divide it. You are six, I am four, you are seven, I am three. β
This thing is nothing else, it is the night pearl they dug up on the coffin of Wu Jiuyi's tomb. Something is there, which means that it was not a dream before, the first time it was not, the second time it was not, and this time it was not.
Or the first time it was a dream, the second time it was also a dream, and this time it was still in a dream. But the pain just now was real. What the hell is going on in this tomb, why is it that after each death, he has returned to the original starting point. And only he has memories of what happened, but the fat man does not. They keep repeating, repeating and repeating.
Fei Yunfan suddenly pulled out the knife on the fat man's body, the fat man was looking at the night pearl with all his attention, and was startled by Fei Yunfan's sudden action, instinctively took a few steps back, and said: "Don't, don't, don't, the second child has something to say, the one who does this business doesn't eat alone, what you find belongs to you, or you share a little with me, ninety-one, you nine-one and I one." β
Fei Yunfan stabbed himself violently, and the blood spurted out, and the fat man was even more confused, "I don't want it, it's all for you, there's no need to cut yourself." β
Fei Yunfan covered the wounds on his body and scolded: "What nonsense, help me bandage it." β
The fat man helped Fei Yunfan bandage his wound suspiciously, Fei Yunfan told him what had happened, and after listening to it, the fat man gasped and said, "You mean, we have all died twice?" After saying that, he sat down without saying a word, lit a cigarette, and smoked himself.
After Fei Yunfan finished talking about the matter in an hour, they sat in place for more than two hours, and they didn't say anything to each other, just you and I were smoking. A pack of cigarettes quickly bottomed out.
They first sorted out the problems in front of them, which were roughly divided into three aspects.
First, they entered a time and space of repetition, repetition, and repetition, which the fat man summed up as a time lapse, probably because of the special environment here. Because Fei Yunfan is not the only person who repeats, the fat man also does the same thing over and over again, unlike Fei Yunfan, the fat man has no memory of the past in the process of repetition, while Fei Yunfan retains the memory of what happened before. Why this is so, they are not clear.
Second, when they passed through the fork in the road, what did the numbers on the tomb crossing mean? Whether there is a direct connection between the numbers on the tomb and the time lapse is the first thing to understand before proceeding to the next step.
Third, the fat man said that in the secret art of feng shui, it is a truth to nourish people with qi and raise corpses with qi, everything is in balance in the world, and a feng shui eye can almost only raise one main owner, which is why the feng shui treasure cave cannot bury many people at the same time, and Fei Yunfan found two main owners in the two tombs, indicating that there are very resentful things in this tomb that can wake up the originally sleeping main owner. They had to find it and destroy it, or they would end up in the same chamber as the first two times, no matter which tomb they entered.
The fat man was the first to speak: "You mean that there are four tombs ahead, and we have entered two of them?" Fei Yunfan nodded. Each tomb is marked with a number, which is 978, 591, 1212, 1048? Fei Yunfan nodded again.
"978, 591, 1212, 1048, what does that mean? The order in which it enters, or the password? The fat man said to himself, he didn't mean to discuss with Fei Yunfan, and then he squatted on the ground to write and draw, and the ground next to the fire was almost full of him. A few years later, Fei Yunfan slowly came into contact with the ancient ciphertext and learned that the fat man was using the ciphertext to interpret the relationship between numbers, but this incident was far less complicated than they thought.
Here is an additional explanation of what is the ancient ciphertext, as the name suggests, ciphertext is an encryption method used to transmit information in ancient times, similar to the telegram cipher in the current spy war film, but in ancient times, almost all of them were encrypted in the form of text, and the current Arabic numerals would not be used. Historians have speculated that the ancestors did not pay much attention to numbers, and that the Chinese writing is broad and profound, which is itself a kind of cipher blessing.
Before the Qing Dynasty, there were two times in history that ciphertext was encrypted with numbers. The last decisive battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and the last text left by Liu Bowen when he returned to seclusion, the gap between the two is thousands of years, but the ciphertext uses the same kind, and later generations call it the ancient ciphertext.
The fat man slapped his thigh, as if he had figured out something: "Second brother, don't you think there seems to be something missing in these two tomb robberies?" β
Fei Yunfan was puzzled, and looked at the fat man stupidly: "What's missing?" β
"Oops, it's the process." The fat man said anxiously. "The purpose of our entry into the tomb is to find someone, since we are looking for someone, why do we go to open the coffin, both times we entered the tomb, and then opened the museum, and finally were bitten to death, which is not like a template."
"What's the point of the template?"
"Produce memories so that tomb robbers don't dare to go in and rob tombs." The fat man is giving himself a thumbs up for his perfect explanation.
I saw Fei Yunfan slowly take out the night pearl and said, "How do you explain this?" And why do you remember nothing but me? β
Fei Yunfan's two whys, the fat man was speechless for a while.
Although the fat man couldn't explain Fei Yunfan's problem, he insisted that this tomb had mysterious powers such as adding memories to people's brains.
The fat man muttered, "Then how can I explain it, I don't need a gun, what kind of knife do I want to use, am I not stupid?" Every time something happens that seems logical on the surface, it is put into a specific environment, and it is full of loopholesγγγγγγ β