"These chains extending from the bearings are pulling the message mechanism here, only one of the chains is the correct decoding, and the others represent errors." I counted it, and there were five chains running from there.

I was very surprised, because I never thought that in ancient China, there would be such a mature modular technology. In China, the most famous primitive module technology is movable type printing, which can be used many times beyond geographical limitations, and it is clear that the mechanism here can be used anywhere.

Sichuan and Guangxi, the geological conditions, weather, and various factors on both sides are different, so we must ensure that the organs set up on both sides and are related to each other can be stable enough and will not be damaged after a thousand years.

Because the whole organ is for their own children and grandchildren, no matter where part goes wrong first, it can cause the death of their children and grandchildren.

If you are an ordinary craftsman, you can only use ingenious techniques to design mechanisms that are suitable for both sides according to the conditions of each of the two places. However, it was impossible to use it in ancient times, because the craftsmen of the time could not calculate what would be like in a few hundred years, so the mechanisms designed according to their respective geographical environments were two completely different things.

The modular thing is different, it can ensure that in any environment, you put this thing wherever you use it is the same effect, which is why KFC tastes the same everywhere, and movable type printing ensures the high-quality use of a set of fonts repeated many times.

"So what?" Xiaohua doesn't understand very well.

I said: "The ancients had the habit of thinking about things from a practical nature, for example, in the old printing technology, a book had to be engraved with a full page, and when it was used up, it could not be used, and an ancient publisher found it very annoying, so he invented movable type printing. In this way he could fire half of the carvers and leave only a few of the best spare, and no one would be modular for the sake of modularity. The modularity of the ancients was an adjustment made in anticipation of a large amount of repetitive labor. ”

If the craftsmen here used the modules, then the reason I can think of. They don't want to design the traps separately for all the links, so it's very likely that all the traps here, and the ones in Guangxi, are using this kind of hive-like thing, and if the stuffy oil bottle knocks on those stones, he might see the same thing as mine.

The designers of Zhangjialou before they chose the building site of Zhangjialou. So they designed everything and got the traps in place, so they just had to pick a good place and smash a few holes and fit these modules in.

"I kind of know what you mean." Xiaohua obviously understands my thinking better than the fat man, "Damn, this is a bit awesome, you mean, Zhangjialou is moving." ”

I nodded: "The biggest benefit of modularity." It is possible to dismantle the whole and take it away, you look at the style of thunder, and look at various other traces. The iron chains here, but only this thing is bronze, which shows that in history, the coffins of those ancestors of the Zhang family have changed more than one place, and the so-called Zhangjialou must be only their last time. ”

Xiaohua smiled meaningfully: "I found out the reason why another mother-in-law asked me to bring you, and in a way, you are also a bit of a calf x." ”

I grinned, and my heart said how these words sounded like he didn't want me to be with him at all.

I crouched down. Shine a flashlight on something below: "I think Style Ray is just a contractor. They helped the so-called Zhang family build the Zhangjia Tower to place those coffins. But they are not involved more. ”

"Lei Siqi's later years are a matter of the Cixi era, the gold and silver mountains of the Great Qing Kingdom have been spent, the Lei family is huge, and the friends are extensive, whether it is friendship sponsorship or private work, they may be able to help the Zhang family build a new ancestral tomb."

"Yes, maybe every time the Zhang family builds an ancestral tomb, because these ancient buildings are built in very strange and difficult to enter places, they have to find the best craftsmen in the world."

"Then, if they were in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, maybe they would have been in contact with Wang Zanghai." Small ikebana.

I nodded, very likely, as long as this family really has that deep history. And I believe that with the development of transportation, the two sites will be farther and farther apart, and perhaps at the beginning, this cave where the "keys" were placed was only a mountain away from the group burial place of the Zhang family. Then it slowly became a province, and then the distance from Sichuan to Guangxi, if the descendants of the Zhang family are still there, then they may have to move abroad next time.

This also explains my other doubt, I have not been able to determine what dynasty the things here are, if so, then some of the things after years of renovation, will leave the traces of several dynasties, basically impossible to judge.

"Don't talk about this, you are such a bull, can you guess which of these chains is correct?" Xiaohua asked me, "Or do we just have to try one by one?" There are five chains here, and if we pull it wrong, then the trap on top will be activated, and the pig on top will be shot as a hedgehog, or whatever trap possible, but here we are, it's going to be fine. ”

Theoretically, we just need to pull all five chains and get out, but I don't know what kind of mechanism is set up on it, if a boulder falls down and seals us inside, it will be dead.

"Nowadays, there will be a limit to errors in general passwords, and there will be a punishment procedure only if the error exceeds a certain number of times, but the ancients were not so merciful. The place is also not used as often. So, a little mistake, it can be fatal. We have to know exactly which one it is in order to pull. ”

"What's going on, Little Third Master." Xiaohua looked at me, "I think I can open a class called "Academic Tomb Robbery" in the old nine doors, and let you give a few lectures." ”

I'm funny in my heart, sometimes it's really good to be a teacher, especially when I figure out something, I always want to say it immediately so that others can feel the same way I feel, in the past, fat people often had whimsical ideas, no one accompanied me to analyze things, but Xiaohua can, so I said a little more. I used to think it was a gaffe, but after a lot of times, I don't think it's a big deal.

I looked at the whole hive. After thinking about it, I asked him, "How do you do your rules?" ”

"What do you say? Modularization? That's all I said to you. I haven't seen anything like this before. We tend to see traps that haven't been triggered quite clearly and break them. Our rule is to see how the information agency works. So. If it's our approach, we're going to have to crack this hornet's nest. ”

The whole bronze ball was completely cast, impossible to open, and it was full of water, so we didn't have that much time to take risks, and if we opened it, we could completely destroy the functioning of it, just like when we took apart the alarm clock and found that the gears fell to the ground and could not be recovered.

I try to immerse myself in water. Little Flower helped me illuminate, and I went to look at the chains, they were exactly the same, and neither the mechanism nor the correct one was used too often.

"Do you think so, you see, the dead people we see up there are dead in the hands of those hairs, and we don't see any signs of the trap being activated. If so, either Lao Jiumen is doing nothing here. Just stolen those ancient books, or, can you think so. There are no very devastating traps set here. "Little flower path.

I knew what he meant, but now I don't dare to assume anything: "It's not a guess, what if they really didn't do anything?" ”

"No way, I know Lao Jiumen, I know that group of people, unless, they encounter something very, very terrifying here, which makes them scared. No difficulty will stop them, but they will be scared. I can't imagine what that was, the most direct evidence. It's so much blood on an iron plate. ”

When I think about it, I always feel that something is wrong: "It doesn't make sense, such a tightly designed mechanism, there must be some kind of terrible measures, the ancient password is not too complicated, if there is a person who can try and make mistakes again and again, then he will soon be able to try out the right one, then there is no point in setting up such a strict mechanism." However, what you said also makes sense, if it was just an ordinary information agency, Lao Jiumen would not be scared away, the old lady said that there was a huge accident here, and the losses were heavy, if there were just a few snakes, or some bugs, or some darts falling rocks, they were so large, it was impossible to handle it. ”

Xiaohua nodded: "For example, those black hairs, or even those hairs outside, if it's that scale-"

"It will happen to me what happened to me in Qaidam, they may even burn the black hair on these jars, and then carefully move them out one by one, seal them into glass boxes, and pack them up and send them to the National Museum, so any actual threat is not a threat to them, that is, there is a dinosaur here that kills a dozen people, and it will be shot to death by the people who come after it, but everything in this cave has hardly been destroyed, they didn't use any barbaric methods, why?"

"What the hell are you concluding?" Xiaohua is a little impatient.

"I can only assume a few details now, for example, why they didn't get rid of those jars of black hair, that they had so many people, so much time, what weapons they wanted. With all this, they still didn't do it, obviously there is only one possibility, that is, they don't think it's necessary. I said, "Our old-timers, these old guys, don't take these jars seriously at all. ”

I can roughly imagine the scene at the time, they ignored the black hairs, and the fact that the jars didn't have any damage suggests that the last thing they encountered had nothing to do with the jars.

In the same way, the old lady said that something happened here that caused them heavy losses, and it would not be an actual threat, and it must not be some hidden arrow or falling rock.

What can make Lao Jiumen lose a lot at this scale will not be physical, but only mental.

The change they encountered must be something that they cannot understand. If you can't understand it, you can't defend it.

I said, "They must have prepared everything and activated the mechanism, thinking they could handle it, but what happened was unbelievable and completely different from what they believed." ”

Xiaohua still looked confused, so I gave an example: "If you activate the mechanism, and then there are random arrows flying towards you, you can use the shield as a moment, and a zongzi pounces on you, you can use AK47 to sweep back, but if something happens that you can't understand at all, you can't do anything to remedy it." Let's say you activate the trap. I paused, "Then you disappeared and never reappeared." ”

I used to hear that in the mountains of Zhejiang, there was a very strange disappearance, there was a team of forest rangers disappeared in the mountains, and then the government sent people up the mountain to look for them, and there were three fewer people down, and the armed police and the masses were mobilized, and some people disappeared, and these people never appeared again, and the search was almost like a carpet without any results, and the old man in the mountains said that it was taken away by the mountain mother-in-law, and finally the troops withdrew from the mountains, and it was over.

At that time, the grand occasion of patrolling the mountains, if there was really a mountain mother, and she looked as big as Altman, it would have been flattened. Only when it cannot be explained can it be possible to retreat from the power that wants money and people.

"Of course, the actual situation may be even more bizarre," I said, "because Jin Wantang said that many people were carried down covered in blood, and these people died, but we have not been confirmed by the old lady, and we cannot know the real situation, so we cannot infer any further." ”

"Okay." Xiaohua said, "You said so much, just to tell me that you can't touch those organs rashly." I agree, however, it doesn't help our situation, and now you say that I don't even dare to try. ”

The cold water stung the wound on my back, I couldn't bear it anymore, I took a few steps back, and I could feel the burning pain in my back, obviously the anesthetic was starting to take effect. At this time, I saw a dozen thinner chains extending out of the hive.

These chains are apparently connected to the final trigger mechanism, and they are connected to a dozen small holes in the cave wall, and I believe that if you twitch a few of the thick chains, several of these thin chains will be linked.

I looked at both sides and immediately realized what to do, it was actually very simple.

For a mechanism, if the step is correct, the mechanism is rewarded, and B is the step that is carried out incorrectly, and the mechanism is activated and punished.

There are three chains, they will be pulled by the bearing on the other side, in order, which is equivalent to a three-digit password, and then the machine in this hive will be pulled, pulling the thin chains that reach into the cave wall, activating rewards and punishments.

Then it's very simple, most of the random pulling, should be wrong, only the right pulling can lead to the right traction. So, we can experiment endlessly just by cutting all the thin chains, and most of the times, we will cause the wrong traction sequence, and knowing the wrong traction sequence, we will immediately notice the correct traction.

Although the order of one to five and five digit passwords is still a little cumbersome, compared to modern combination locks, this kind of physical work is simply not a problem.

Xiaohua made a cow x gesture to me, and I didn't believe that he couldn't think of it, and patted him.

The next thing is physical and careful work, we first number all the thin chains, and then carefully break them with a hacksaw, marking both ends of the broken chains so as not to get confused.

Then we tried one by one in order, and sure enough, it was exactly the same as what I said, most of the results we pulled, the thin iron chains were pulled in the same order, there were a total of twenty-three thin chains, and the order of traction punishment was: four, five, eight, twelve, twenty-one.

Finally, we finally found a traction that was different from this order of punishment.

Xiaohua recorded it, then reconnected the chains with a carabiner and tried again.

My heart jumped to my throat as I watched the thin chains being pulled in an instant, and then we heard an ancient, heavy voice coming from the cave walls.

The sound lasted for a full five or six minutes, and then it stopped, and I looked at Xiaohua, and Xiaohua looked at me, and we were all alive and nothing happened.

We all know that we succeeded, and there must have been some kind of change in the stone room above. (To be continued)