Chapter 35: Nine Heavens of Arithmetic

"By the way, you said that there is a tomb that is the cemetery of the Sui Dynasty Tianshui County Guard?" The fat man seemed to remember something.

"That's what you said, you know, I don't know these things."

"What dynasty is the other burial chamber from?"

"You didn't say that." Fei Yunfan thought about it carefully for a while, and suddenly remembered something. "It's the Song Dynasty."

"Are you sure?"

"Well, you asked me to check the relevant information of the Song Dynasty, and I saw that the armor worn by the military generals of the Song Dynasty was the same as that worn by the zombie. That's right, it's the Song Dynasty. ”

The fat man patted his thigh and said, "By the way, that number doesn't represent any password or order, but only indicates the era, 591 years, Sui Dynasty." In 978, the Northern Song Dynasty or the Ten Kingdoms. In 1048, the Northern Song Dynasty or Western Xia. 1212, Jin Dynasty. "The fat man has never learned anything, but he didn't expect to be so familiar with the era of the Chinese dynasty.

The fat man gave such an answer, which didn't seem to be flawed, but it seemed too simple, so simple that it was just a numerical expression. However, it was later confirmed that the numbers on the walls of the cave were indeed only indicating the age.

As a junior rookie who has just gotten involved in this trip, Fei Yunfan has no qualifications and no reason to refute the fat man's conjecture. The first problem is solved, and then the second problem is followed. Who knows, but the fat man stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and prepared to leave.

Fei Yunfan hurriedly asked: "Didn't you say that if you don't find something that leads the zongzi to raise the corpse, it's useless to go?" ”

The fat man said, "Can you find it while sitting here?" Only by going to the remaining two burial chambers may we know the answer. I don't know if Xiaolan and they will be as lucky as us to have a chance to come back. ”

Fei Yunfan and the fat man walked to the fork in the road again, the fat man looked up at the number at the entrance of the cave, and after confirming the authenticity of what Fei Yunfan said, he walked straight to a tomb crossing marked 1048.

Fei Yunfan no longer asked why he took this road, and his intuition told him that only by following the fat man could he get out of this ghost place.

They walked through a long graveyard, this time longer than any other. Slowly, Fei Yunfan found that words began to appear on the wall of the tomb they walked on, with some pictures in between. But the picture is not too clear anymore. It's as if someone deliberately grinded it off.

The fat man also noticed this strange phenomenon, so he slowed down his pace and read the words on both sides of the tomb as he walked. But he didn't stop, maybe he didn't recognize the words on it, but just wondered why there were signs of wear.

The fat man asked, "Are there any words in the two corridors where we went first?" ”

"Nope."

The fat man didn't say anything, but continued to walk.

After walking for about half an hour, the surrounding text began to become clear, and the stone materials were much more elaborate than those in the tomb just now, probably the main burial chamber should be not far ahead.

After they had turned a large bend, a half-curved arch appeared, and one side of the stone door had been pushed open by a man-wide gap. The fat man cautiously poked into the stone door with a torch and said, "It's fucking strange, why is there nothing here?" ”

Fei Yunfan also went in to take a look, the tomb was not big, and it did look like an ear chamber compared to the previous two tombs. The inside of the tomb was empty, not to mention the coffin, not even a clay pot was seen.

When they entered the tomb, the light of the torches illuminated almost the entire tomb, and then they could see clearly that the tomb was surrounded by murals, which were more spectacular than those in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

However, the figures on the frescoes are all independent individuals, unlike the murals in other tombs, which are used to record some glorious lintel events that the tomb owner did during his lifetime. The characters here seem to be under some kind of torture, and their faces are hideous, making people feel like they have entered the eighteenth layer of hell.

Fei Yunfan looked at the picture above, feeling extremely uncomfortable, like a wooden pendant plugged, and just wanted to tell the fat man to leave here. Fei Yunfan looked back and saw that the fat man looked extremely seriously.

Fei Yunfan asked, "Fatty, do you see anything?" ”

The fat man shook his head and said, "No, but the murals in the tomb are extremely important things, and maybe there is a way to get out inside." The murals here are so weird, though, like 。。。。。 "The fat man didn't say anything for a long time.

Fei Yunfan added: "It's like the mural of the Bodhisattva in the temple. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. That's what it means, but you don't think it's messy, and you can't see what it's meant. ”

Fei Yunfan saw that the fat man had no intention of leaving, so he simply sat on the ground and watched the fat man look at the murals. Looking at it, Fei Yunfan felt that the murals were always weird, and he couldn't tell where the frescoes were.

Fei Yunfan took out the small book he carried with him and copied the things on the mural. Fei Yunfan has liked to draw since he was a child, and he almost always carries a notebook and a pen with him, and he loves to draw two strokes when he sees something new or beautiful scenery. If it weren't for the poor conditions at home, maybe I would have applied for the Academy of Fine Arts.

The fat man's speed of reading paintings is not too fast, but every time he changes places, Fei Yunfan can also finish drawing a picture.

The fat man looked at it for a while, his neck was sore, and when he moved his neck, he turned around and saw that Fei Yunfan was not looking at the mural, but sitting on the ground and painting. ”

Fei Yunfan was engrossed in painting, and was scolded by him, just like a student who deserted in class was discovered by the teacher, and tore off the drawn page in a panic. The fat man came over and saw that Fei Yunfan was still thinking about painting. "Fei Yunfan, you have a really big heart, I have heard that I used to sketch in the mountains, but I have never heard of running to the grave to paint. Let's go and see the other murals, we don't have anything to eat, in a few days, don't say that you will be bitten to death by zongzi, you will starve to death if you are hungry. ”

Fei Yunfan was scolded by him, stuffed the torn page into the notebook, and wanted to get up to see the mural. Who knew that this unintentional move actually found an amazing thing coming out.

Fei Yunfan hurriedly tore off the drawings drawn on the first few pages, and was very surprised when compared with them. It turns out that the mural here is not a stand-alone picture, but a huge picture separated. These murals resemble a fragmented jigsaw puzzle that was deliberately scrambled by the painters of the time.

Fei Yunfan told the fat man about the unexpected discovery, and the fat man was also very surprised when he saw this, and immediately asked Fei Yunfan to copy all the remaining murals. After several hours, the general outline of the mural was basically completed.

This mural is a spirit with a leopard head on its back, with countless tentacles on its back, and more than a dozen people are attached to each tentacle, each person's expression is very painful, and some have been slowly digested by the tentacles to leave a head, and the skull still has the expression before death.

There was also a temple behind the spirit, and in front of the temple there was a crowd of people who came to worship with fresh living people. The fat man looked carefully at a stone beside the spirit and said, "What is this monster doing?" ”

Fei Yunfan walked over to identify it a little, and exclaimed, "This monster seems to be telling fortunes." ”

Fei Yunfan hurriedly took the torch to find the mural of the stone, and his heart began to beat wildly: "This seems to be the nine-day arithmetic... ”

The nine-day arithmetic was learned by Fei Yunfan on a science and education program on the central station, which was found by a hunter hunting in the mountains and found in an ancient tomb washed out by heavy rain.