Chapter Ninety-Four

This is completely different from the previous when we cracked the mechanism, Tian Ji and I did not have the slightest joy on our faces, it was all panicked prostration, in fact, even if the stone gate was opened by Ye Zhiqiu, I had never been at ease in my heart, after all, I had no hope that she would be able to open the stone gate from beginning to end.

The most embarrassing thing is Gong Jue, I saw that he couldn't say a word when he looked at the open stone door with his mouth open, Ye Zhiqiu put on his backpack again, and walked in front of Gong Jue proudly: "Hey, such a simple thing doesn't bother you as an organ expert, and people like me who don't know anything are just gambling on luck, don't mind." ”

Ye Zhiqiu said politely, but Tian Ji and I deliberately turned our heads not to look at the palace lord, from the first day I knew him, I knew that he was arrogant and arrogant, and it was estimated that his teeth were about to be crushed by Ye Zhiqiu's words, where did he suffer such a loss, let alone being ridiculed like this, I threw him in the grave and he had to return it before he gave up, and now he was choked by Ye Zhiqiu and had nothing to say, seeing that most of his face was about to suffocate internal injuries.

"You too, what's not good to offend, run to offend women, I don't know that their Ye family is all the lord of revenge." The general patted Gong Jue on the shoulder and wanted to laugh, but finally held back.

"He's just a blind cat hitting a rat, don't worry about her." I went over and put my arm around the palace lord's shoulders and said with a grin.

"The three stone plates represent the year, month and day, and the thunder pattern represents the year, and I have seen that there are a hundred carvings on it, the dragon pattern represents the month, there are twelve carvings, and the kui pattern represents the day, and there are thirty carvings, and the combination between these three stone plates is completely astronomical, and it is impossible to rotate to the right time at the same time." Gong Jue pursed his lips and lost to Ye Zhiqiu in what he was best at, his mood at the moment can be imagined, but it is estimated that what he wants to know more is how Ye Zhiqiu did it. "How do you know the right time?"

"I won't tell you, let you raise the bar with me again." Ye Zhiqiu in front turned around and smiled mischievously.

"Okay, don't get cheap and sell well, let's hear it." I also asked curiously.

"Don't say it, he is so capable of thinking about it slowly." It is rare for Ye Zhiqiu to step on the tail of the palace lord, and it is estimated that it will not be easy to accept it when he sees it.

"Zhiqiu can know because she is careful, and I don't sigh to myself for this." Wen Ru said calmly beside him. "Zhiqiu, since the time you went to the temple, I have seen what you are concentrating on counting, presumably you must have made a discovery to open the stone door correctly, and I also want to know how you found out how to crack the mechanism."

"Elder Wen, I only said it on your face." Ye Zhiqiu's smile disappeared.

She told us that the temple is a square trapezoid, a total of five sides, and this stone gate mechanism is set according to the Qiyao calendar, in the Qiyao calendar, thunder, dragon, kui for the three specializations, and light, air, water, earth, stone for the five elements, Jiuli ancestors will be ten stem branches and twelve zodiac signs combined to create the heavenly stem, earth branch, sixty jiazi.

At the same time, the 27 Nakshatras were changed to 28 Nakshatras, and the four directions and the center were represented by gold, water, wood, fire, and earth, which happened to be the quadripartite structure of the temple and the top representing the center.

The stone pillars on both sides of the temple steps are arranged in groups of 28, and the steps are divided into 12 floors from the bottom.

"Elder Wen found that the stone gate mechanism is related to the Qiyao calendar, so I speculate that the temple was built according to the calendar, and every number is consistent with the Qiyao calendar, and the number of steps is no more than one hundred and thirty-five steps per floor." Ye Zhiqiu looked at the palace jue proudly. "Am I saying too complicated, I'm afraid you won't understand what it means."

"One hundred and thirty-five...... In the Qiyao calendar, the Jiuli people accurately deduced that the Tengu cycle is one hundred and thirty-five plastic moons, and the plastic moon represents the cycle time from the solar eclipse to the lunar eclipse, one hundred and thirty-five ......"

"Elder Wen, you don't have to count, I have already calculated that there are twelve floors, one hundred and thirty-five steps on each floor, a total of one thousand six hundred and twenty steps, the number of these steps is not built randomly, but used to represent the era, each step represents a year, which means that every thousand six hundred and twenty years, the ancestors of Jiuli will come to the temple to worship once."

"I see, the original scale on the stone plate is the time left from the last sacrifice, and you only need to add another thousand six hundred and twenty years to it to open the stone door." Wen Ru nodded in realization.

Gong Jue took a deep breath and rubbed his face vigorously, it is estimated that his intestines are repentant, but seriously, it is estimated that only Ye Zhiqiu will notice these careful things, then again, ordinary normal people who have nothing to count the steps.

There is no light behind the stone gate, and there are no words and patterns to be seen on the tall stone wall, and the further you go, the dimer the light becomes, and the palace lord is worried that we will touch the hidden mechanism, he still walks cautiously in front alone, the visibility in the passage is very low, and the palace lord is almost groping for the stone wall to move forward.

After walking for a long time, except for the sound of our footsteps walking on thin ice, the gloomy temple was dead silent, and the emptiness of such a huge building felt stranger and stranger.

"It's not appropriate to use a flashlight here, who has a torch." Gong Jue turned off the flashlight and turned around and asked.

When he was attacked by the temple guards before, most of the supplies and equipment were all discarded outside, and now only Ye Zhiqiu had the last torch in his hand.

"Help, shine a light on me." Gong Jue actually said to Ye Zhiqiu very politely.

Ye Zhiqiu was mostly still immersed in the joy of starting to win, and walked triumphantly in front of the palace lord, but was stopped by the palace lord just when he lit the fire: "You stand in front, otherwise the backlight." ”

Gong Jue has always been shrewd and has always been the first to go to the front, I have never heard him say who to let him go in front of him, I chuckled in my heart, I knew that something was going to happen, Ye Zhiqiu didn't realize anything at all, just lit the torch and raised it, when the firelight illuminated the passage in front, Ye Zhiqiu's scream instantly pierced the dead silence of the temple, and the torch in his hand fell to the ground and shivered and hid behind me.

Ye Zhiqiu's face was pale, her palms were full of cold sweat, she grabbed my arm and shook it so much, we all looked ahead in surprise, both sides of the passage in the firelight were full of skulls with spines, densely covered on both sides of the stone wall like a flagpole, and we looked like we were standing in a long corridor of human bones.

Gong Jue casually picked up the torch from the ground, and glanced at Ye Zhiqiu disappreciatively: "Yo, you are an archaeological expert, you deal with dead people every day, I can't help it, I don't know that you will be afraid of dead people's bones." ”

I knew that it was no good thing, Gong Jue estimated that he had already found the human bones on both sides of the stone wall, and he also knew that the only torch was in Ye Zhiqiu's hand, so he deliberately led her over, and suddenly saw so many strange corpses, I was shocked, not to mention Ye Zhiqiu, who was standing so close.

This is a well-known palace jue, I can't help but laugh and don't know how to comfort Ye Zhiqiu, who is still in shock, provoking the palace jue is destined to end like this, but I can't help but laugh and complain to him a few words: "How are you like a girl, what are you competing with her, if this is really scared, how can I explain to her father." ”

"Look at what you said, I think she has so much archaeological experience, she should not be shocked, a pile of dead people's bones is scared like this, it's really unbearable." Gong Jue spread his hands and learned Ye Zhiqiu's previous tone.

Ye Zhiqiu pursed his lips and blushed with anger, and was about to be pulled back by me when he was on the bar with the palace lord: "Stop, we are still trapped in the temple, I don't know if we can get out, and I don't have a deep hatred, why do you like to go when you go out." ”

The corners of the palace lord's mouth curled up and continued to walk forward, we walked through the corridor of human bones, and gradually saw that these people were all cut off alive and their spines were inlaid in the stone wall with their heads inlaid together, and the hollow and sunken eyes of countless skulls in the entire corridor stared at us, which was particularly eerie and terrifying in the dim firelight.

I probably estimate that there are tens of thousands of bones here, and the bones have calcified, and they must have been dead for a long time, but I don't know who these corpses are.

"There are so many people in the mural, and the priest goes out alone...... "Tian Ji asked me with palpitations." Do you think these dead people will be the ones who came to sacrifice. ”

"The religion of the Jiuli people has its own inheritance among the ethnic groups that evolved later, and it is true that there is a tradition of sacrifice, but there are cattle and sheep, and it has never been found that people are sacrificed with living people." Wen Ru said to us affirmatively behind him. "And such a bloody way of sacrifice has never appeared in other places, generally the ancestors are to pray for good weather and peace for the country and the people, and killing will be strictly prohibited during the sacrifice, but ......"

"What does Mr. Wen want to say?" Liao Kai saw that Wen Ru wanted to speak and stopped, and hurriedly asked.

"But of the sacrifices to God, human sacrifice is the highest standard, because the sacrifice of life to God is considered the most pious." Ye Zhiqiu seemed to have eased from the fright just now, and took Wen Ru's words to explain to Liao Kai. "If these bones are really used for sacrifice, then I am afraid that the people enshrined in this temple are not human!"

"God?!" Liao Kai looked at Ye Zhiqiu in surprise. "This ...... Isn't this normal? ”

"What's wrong with this, have we seen anything normal along the way?" I smiled a little numbly, from the appearance of the Three Corpse Gu, to the heavily armed Demon Flower Mantis, and finally the Undead Guard, there is nothing here that is within the range of what we can bear.

"Even gods are too evil, and I don't think it's a good thing for so many living people to come to sacrifice." The general interjected with a cold smile.

At the end of the ossuary was a circular stone house, and at last there was a grease groove for lighting, and when it was lit, the fire illuminated the large stone house, and in the center of the stone house lay twelve stone platforms, on which lay a dry skeleton, and a thick dust covered it.

We walked cautiously and saw the three-eyed unicorn in front of each stone platform, and in the middle of these stone platforms there was a hollow bronze lid carved with a maple tree, and in the center of the tree was a butterfly with its wings outstretched.