Chapter 34: The Cross Axis
Seeing that I hadn't left, Liang Ruoyi and Pig Head turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
I pointed to the river below the entrance of the cave: "You see, there are traces on the mud of this river, which should have been left not long ago, pig head, what do you look like?" ”
The pig's head was stunned for a moment, and he leaned over to look - on this river, there are traces of different thicknesses, like a snake left by passing through here, because the hole is small, so there is no end in sight, but the key is that these traces are not only one, but many lines of different thicknesses side by side, and it is also impossible to see how many.
The pig's head looked carefully, looked up and frowned, and said, "You mean?" No, didn't we kill? ”
"Killed?" Liang Ruoyi looked puzzled: "What is it?" ”
"Dead Man's Vine." I stretched out my hand and pointed to the city gate in the distance: "Yesterday afternoon, we saw a huge dead vine king inside the city gate, almost a few hundred meters long, and then we blew it up with a small black ball, but now looking at these traces below, I feel that it looks like the traces of the dead vine passing through here......"
"How many hundred meters long?" Liang Ruoyi looked incredulous.
"It's really hundreds of meters long!" The pig's head hurriedly explained: "If you think about it, it can form a flat ground back and forth piece by piece, if it weren't for Gu Rui looking at those things that looked like cracks and felt that something was wrong, we would have been caught off guard!" ”
Liang Ruoyi nodded: "Even if it is, I haven't found it now, it's better for us to find the Seventh Master and the Cloth Bag Master first." ”
I looked at the pig's head and felt that there was no other way but to do it, just be more careful.
The three of them walked away and walked along the Shinto path. Along the way, there are countless sculptures on both sides, animals, palace maids, honor guards, etc., everything. I think it's a little incredible, in my impression, the Southern Song Dynasty is in a corner of peace, how can there be so much money to build such a large-scale, high-standard Yashan Sea Palace?
"Pig head, you should also look at feng shui." As I walked forward, I asked, "Tell me, this place, where is the feng shui good?" ”
"Don't mind." The pig's head smiled bitterly: "I don't even know where we are now, what do you want me to think?" ”
When I thought about it, too, even the GPS was messed up before, and we didn't know where we were now. I shrugged my shoulders and continued walking with my flashlight.
In the darkness, there was only the footsteps of the three of us, and the lights of three flashlights shone ahead, swaying with our footsteps.
After about ten minutes, we finally vaguely saw the main hall of this Yashan Sea Palace, the Upper Palace.
"It's here!" The pig's head said with some excitement.
After a while, the three of us saw the outline of this upper palace clearly, and we couldn't help but be stunned: this upper palace turned out to be square, and from a distance, it looked like a huge rectangular box, without the majesty of an emperor.
When we approached, we were surprised again: the walls of the upper palace were all made of red square bricks, almost ten zhang wide from left to right, and about one zhang high, but there was no door to this wall......
In other words, as the main hall of the Yashan Sea Palace, which is very large-scale, this upper palace has no door!
The three of us looked at each other and decided to walk around the periphery first, how could a palace have no doors! But ten minutes later, when we walked around the palace carefully, we were completely speechless: there is really no door! The palace walls are plastered with red paint on all sides, square and square, and there is not even a small gap, let alone a door! The entire upper palace is like a huge red square brick, lying quietly on the ground.
In the dark, I took a flashlight and shone it on the palace wall: "Hey, what's going on?" Could it be that this place is not a palace? ”
"Unlikely." The pig's head shook his head slightly: "According to the distance we have walked, if this place is not the upper palace, then this undersea seamount is also too big, and the door is either on it, or there is a mechanism nearby." ”
As soon as the words fell, Liang Ruoyi on the side suddenly shouted softly: "Come and see, what is this?" ”
I turned my head to look at the pig's head, and saw that Liang Ruoyi was holding the flashlight in his hand to shine on the corner of the wall, looked carefully, and looked closer, and found that the corner of the wall was constantly seeping water droplets, the speed was very slow, the size of a soybean, shining under the light of the flashlight, like a pearl.
"I don't understand it either...... the pig's head muttered, and he took out a piece of blood stone and stuffed it into his mouth.
"You're so cowardly?" I sneered, and saw that Liang Ruoyi also took out a piece and put it in his mouth, snorted coldly, and I also took out a piece and ate it in my mouth!
"Humph!" The two of them gave me a little thumbs up at the same time.
"Think about it......" The pig's head tilted his chin and whispered: "The emperor's mausoleum after the Song Dynasty, whether it is the whole or the buildings in it, most of them are symmetrical structures of the cross axis, we just came in from the city gate, and walked along the Shinto Road all the way to this side, the Shinto is a longitudinal axis, logically speaking, the palace gate of this upper palace should be facing the Shinto." Let's go back and see. ”
After that, the pig's head walked towards the Shinto, and Liang Ruoyi and I followed, but I always felt that there were some strange droplets of water oozing from the wall, but I couldn't say why for a while, so I could only put it down for the time being.
Returning to the side of the shrine facing Shinto, the pig's head took out a pair of black gloves from his backpack, put them on, and patted them lightly on the wall.
"Knock-"
The sound is very crisp, and it is obvious that it tells us that it is hollow inside, and it is very likely to be the palace gate. I can't help but think of Mazi, those slender hands as nimble as small snakes, if they were here, it is estimated that they can easily pry off a few red bricks on them.
"Pry?" Liang Ruoyi looked at the pig's head and asked.
The pig head shook his head slightly: "No, if this thing is pried open, it may not work, so let's find out if there are any mechanisms around." ”
The three of us split up to look nearby, and I stood here at the palace gate, walking back along the Shinto Road, carefully watching the road under my feet. The entire Shinto path is hundreds of meters long, each piece of blue and white stone is about two feet long and about one foot wide, the surface is flat, and some of the stones can still see clear lines, at least it means that it has not been soaked in sea water for hundreds of years.
"Gu Rui!"
I had barely walked a few steps when the pig's head suddenly called out to me behind me. I turned my head and said, "What's wrong?" ”
The pig's head stood more than a foot away from me and muttered: "Wait a minute! ”
After that, the pig's head took out a rope with a ruler mark from his backpack, handed one end to Liang Ruoyi, asked her to straighten up and stand in front of the palace gate, pulled the other end by herself, calculated the middle position of the Shinto, and walked straight towards me.
One step, two steps, three steps......
After walking about seven steps, the pig's head had already walked in front of me, turned his head to me and said, "Gu Rui, from me to Miss Liang, there are a total of thirty-two feet, and you find a position of sixteen feet." ”
I was stunned for a moment, I didn't know what the hell the pig head was going to do, but I still answered, and took a flashlight to shine on this rope, and easily found the sixteen-foot position: "Found it, and then what?" ”
"Miss Liang, let's put the rope on the ground." As he spoke, the pig's head cautiously bowed down and put the ruler rope on the ground, and on the other side, Liang Ruoyi also put the rope on the ground.
"Gu Rui, look at the sixteen-foot position." The pig's head looked at me and asked, "Is it on the center point of a cross axis of a piece of blue and white stone?" ”
"Oh." I nodded and leaned over, and sure enough, the red dot marked sixteen feet was right at the intersection of the cross shafts of a piece of blue and white stone, which was the center point.
"That's right, at the center point!" I was excited and puzzled, excited that I was so professional to find a mechanism in this way! What is confusing is that this pig head who has always said that he is just a little follower, finally showed up at this time, at least he in my heart, he is by no means a little follower who doesn't know anything, just follows!
"Good! Remember that location! The pig's head was about to get up and walk over, I answered, stretched out my finger to point a little in the center of the blue and white stone, and the pig's head that had just stepped suddenly shouted: "Don't! ”