Chapter 30: The Blazing Copper Ball
Of course, the consequence of being stricter is that the temperature inside the sphere rises rapidly, and a heat wave is coming.
"How are you?" Regardless of his own safety, he asked the other party first.
The copper ball was half bright and half dark, and he saw that the Snow Maiden was looking up calmly with her hands behind her back.
"We don't have time, we have to risk our lives to drill a pathway. Both of your men are very shrewd, and when you go out, there will inevitably be an encounter, and we must join forces, agree?" Ding Jun weighed the situation and made the wisest judgment at the moment.
Of the two enemies, the most dangerous is the One-Eyed Man, and the Pikemen are driven by him, and the One-Eyed Man is in charge of all actions. Judging from the fact that he killed the small-eyed man in an instant, his scheming and skills are quite good, and the danger is no less than that of an Indian king cobra that was provoked. Therefore, once he gets out of trouble, Ding Jun's first target is him.
"You're wrong." Snow Maiden said.
The height of the copper ball from the bottom to the top is about two meters three, which is exactly the distance of one person and one arm's length. She tilted her head, close to the brass pipe.
"The purpose of the copper ball is to collect, not to murder. Therefore, the temperature will not rise and fall directly, but will rise and fall repeatedly. Snow Maiden said again.
The beads of sweat on Ding Jun's forehead kept rolling down, the inner wall of the copper ball became brighter and brighter, and finally turned into a suffocating fiery red, and the temperature in the sphere had already exceeded forty-five degrees, which was equivalent to the ultra-high temperature extreme environment when the sun was directly exposed at noon in the hot summer. In this situation, within half an hour, ordinary people will collapse and die.
What's worse is that as the temperature rises, Ding Jun's clothes are all soaked with sweat, and he can't think anymore.
"Come here." Snow Maiden said.
Ding Jun staggered forward, and as soon as he got close to the other party, he immediately felt cold and cleared his mind.
The Snow Maiden stretched out her right palm and pressed it on Ding Jun's heart, and the palm emitted a steady stream of cold air, helping him resist the heat wave coming from the inner wall.
If it weren't for this special environment, Ding Jun wouldn't have let anyone touch his chest, especially since the other party was the head of the enemy camp a few hours ago.
"Thank you." His mind soon became extremely clear, and the Snow Maiden was like an iceberg that did not melt, cold and hot, just enough to neutralize the air inside the copper ball.
The two of them stood almost face to face, and the strange fragrance wafting out of the Snow Maiden's body completely wrapped Ding Jun, and the fragrance penetrated into his nostrils, seven orifices, and internal organs. Although he didn't look at the other person directly, he could already see her flawless face out of the corner of his eye.
The Snow Maiden's skin was as bright as jade, and there was not a single blackhead or freckle. In Ding Jun's opinion, the major film and television actresses who are rumored to be "goddesses" today, even if they apply more than a dozen layers of cream powder, more than a dozen layers of honey milk, and more than a dozen layers of makeup on their faces, they are less than one-ten-thousandth of the Snow Maiden. The beauty of her skin, natural and radiating from the inside out, is unmatched by any synthetic cosmetics.
In addition, her breathing is much slower than that of ordinary people, and the breath released when her nose flutters slightly also carries the fragrance of snow lotus and the nobility of snow mountains.
"Flawless" - this is the only word Ding Jun can think of to describe the Snow Maiden.
Compared with her, Fang Qing is like a rose, a gorgeous flower, but with a touch of cannibalistic fireworks. On the contrary, the Snow Maiden is "not eating the fireworks of the world", just like the "Zhuangzi? The famous sentence in "Getaway": "The mountain of despise the girl, there are gods and men who live there, the skin is like ice and snow, like a virgin, do not eat grains, suck wind and drink dew; Ride the clouds, fly the dragon, and swim beyond the four seas. Its spirit is condensed, so that things are not flawed and ripe. ”
In a trance, he remembered the shadow on the water in the cave of the Guge ruins.
"That must be her, I guessed correctly, she lives in a very secluded cave. We used to be close at hand...... How is her shadow reflected in the water? Where was she when the shadow appeared? A girl like her, who has come out of the dust, is actually the leader who commands the Ten Heavenly Eagles to attack Shi Miaoshou for a long time? It's so amazing that I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes...... She is so beautiful, like a fairy beyond the reach of mortals, and does not belong to the disturbing red world we have now...... This time, we're not going to burn to death in the copper balls at the same time, are we? She must be killed, the outside world is so beautiful, she has a bigger future, I will definitely accompany her to kill out......"
Several times, he wanted to ask her about the cave at the Guge Ruins, but in the end he finally held back and did not pierce the only remaining layer of window paper, and still kept the other party in the last veil of mystery.
At this moment, there is a hot furnace outside his body, but there is a cool breeze inside his body, one cold and one hot, gradually gently reconciled, so that his anxious mood gradually calmed down.
More than ten seconds later, when he used the help of the Snow Maiden to restore his normal state, he immediately understood the intention of the copper ball designer, that is, through the repeated roasting of the trapped people, their willpower, spirit, and the deepest survival in their bodies were all extracted, and transmitted through the guò copper pipe, collected to another place where they could be processed and extracted, and some Gu alchemists, spiritual cultivators, cult wizards, and priests of mysterious tribes could absorb these shadowless and invisible "qi" through guò to improve their skills.
In fact, "inhaling qi to help gong" is also a cult martial art that existed in ancient China, and Ding Jun has been exposed to it in several sources, and one of the most widely circulated examples is the second version of the ancient torture "please enter the urn".
Those four words were originally Chinese idioms, which referred to the use of other people's laws and the treatment of others.
In "Taiping Guangji", "The Ruling and the Wild? Zhou Xing" recorded that Tang Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing ate together, and Xing said: "There are many prisoners who refuse to admit it, if it is a practice?" Xing said: "It's very easy." Take a large urn and burn it on all sides with charcoal, so that the prisoner is in it, why not vomit?" That is, the big urn is surrounded by fire, and it is said that "there is an inner survey brother, please enter this urn." Kowtow in fear, salty is subdued.
"Information Governance? Tang Ji? The second year of the Heavenly Queen's Heavenly Grant also has the same record: Xing said: "This is very easy! Take the big urn and let the prisoner in, what is the matter! "Junchen is a big urn, and the fire is surrounded by the law, because it is said that Xing said: "There is an inner form to push the brother, please enter the urn." Fear and prostrate to sin.
Qing Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai? Xi Fangping also recorded: When the water of the Xijiang River is poured, it is the intestines; That is, burn the bed of the east wall, please enter the urn.
All the above records, in the writers, are just historical allusions to Bo Jun's laughter, but in the archives of Pentagon military analysts, there is a unique and profound analysis, proving that "setting up a big man and scorching in the air" is actually a kind of cult spell of "refining qi and refining Gu". Moreover, in the work notes of the Manila Chinese Great Gu Alchemist Khumbu Dosha exposed by the media in modern times, there are hundreds of mentions of the operation method of "please enter the urn".
Ding Jun is an extremely smart and thoughtful person, after he sobered up, he quickly gathered qi from the copper ball in the old mansion of Shifu, the vessel of ten thousand Gu in the eyes of the pregnant woman Siqin, and the desperate siege in the cellar of the Torin Temple.
The reason why he is reluctant to admit this so far is because after Shi Hai was divided by the five horses, he has always felt guilty, so he wholeheartedly respects Shi Miaoshou as his father.
"If the truth is so cruel in the end, I should ......" At the moment, his heart was already like a five-flavor dish that had been overturned.
"Alright." Snow Maiden lets go.
The strange thing is that the inner wall of the copper ball, which was so hot and shiny, also slowly cooled down, and there was no scorching and terrifying aura.
"The Gu Refiner's trick is nothing more than that, cold and heat alternate for seven days and nights, fourteen cycles, this is just the beginning." She said.
Ding Jun took a deep breath, held the hand-cranked drill in his left hand, and tilted his head to consider the specific position of the drill.
"Where is the gas going?" Snow Maiden said to herself.
Ding Jun's heart suddenly moved, the Shifu compound is so big, the courtyard is flat, there are no trees and ponds, not even stone tables, stone benches, flowers and grass melon stands, what can it mean? In his experience, the smoother the surface of the land, the more likely it is that there are hidden secrets underneath.
"Another underground room?" He picked up the Snow Maiden's words.
"Gas is reversible, and the amount of gas you get at the destination will reflect the amount of radium." Snow Maiden said again.
Ding Jun thought about it, put down the hand-cranked drill, straightened his arm first, tested the temperature near the copper pipe, and after confirming that it was only slightly warm, he inserted the index fingers of both hands into the copper pipe, pulled left and right, and pulled his body up, just like the "two-finger horizontal bar lifting" in military training.
He put his right ear to the mouth of the tube and closed his eyes to listen.
First, he heard the whistling wind, the baby would occasionally cry twice, and another "chirping" sound was supposed to come from the killing and gnawing of crustacean insects. He also heard someone whispering a mantra, the spell was obscure, not the few Chinese languages that he usually had access to.
From the changing sound of the wind, he could tell that the length of the brass pipe was at least 100 meters, and there were seven or eight bends in the middle from the entrance to the exit.
He landed slowly, silently analyzing the various sounds he heard, but he could not connect them into effective information.
The Snow Maiden walked directly under the brass pipe, she was about one hundred and sixty-five centimeters tall, and she could not get close to the hole without footsteps.
"I hear—" Ding Jun tried to relay what she had heard.
"No, don't say it." She raised her hand to stop him, "People have seven emotions and six desires, and their bodies have five internal organs. What do you listen to and what you think are self-contained, preconceived, and what's the use of telling others?"
Ding Jun smiled bitterly: "Okay, I'll help you, I hope you can find out."
He made a one-knee motion, showed his right knee, patted it gently, and then patted his right shoulder, motioning for the Snow Maiden to stand up.
The Snow Maiden was stunned, but did not refuse, the tip of her right foot lightly touched Ding Jun's flat right knee, and her left foot stepped on his shoulder, standing steadily.
During military training, Ding Jun did this kind of lifting assistance with his comrades countless times, but the collaborators were all strong men weighing more than 80 kilograms, and they had never supported girls.
He couldn't judge the exact weight of the Snow Maiden, but his knees and shoulders were only under slight pressure, and he felt that the Snow Maiden's body was as light as a wild crane and idle clouds, and perhaps he could hold her up with one palm and one arm.
"Poisonous insects, spells, babies, labyrinths...... This is something that Gu Alchemists often use. The space was in the southwest, and the copper pipe exit was in the center of a strange gate formation, and it would take a lot of effort for us to get in. I felt a great deal of resentment, and the strange location of this courtyard in the town of Torrin, with a deep ravine behind it, belonged to the tendency of breaking the cauldron and destroying the way to survive. Death can stimulate people's will to live; poison, the ability to fight poison with poison, and reverse a qiē established procedure...... If the Qiē Qimen formation was set up by Shi Miaoshou himself, his own cultivation would be too high, and he would not need so many people to help him. The Snow Maiden said quietly.
After listening to it for a while, she couldn't help but sigh: "I feel that murderous labyrinth, we have no choice, we have to go straight through it and reach the center of the formation, where the truth is revealed."
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