Chapter 37: Whose Footsteps
"No, there are a total of gossip and hexagrams, and there are only five of the five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" the dog voiced his doubts.
Qing Xuanzi explained patiently: "The five elements of Bagua only talk about the five elements of the day after tomorrow, among which dry and dui are gold, Kun and Gen are earth, Zhen and Xun are wood, Kan is water, and separation is fire. The hexagram we enter the door is a hexagram, which is gold, so it is filled with jewelry, and the place where you find the I Ching is the Zhen hexagram, and the Xun hexagram where you find the wooden tablets are all wood. Books and wooden tablets were naturally placed where they should be. So if I expected it to be good, the remaining cabinets should also be corresponding things, Kun and Gen are earth, Kan is water, and Li is fire. But what is this fire and water containing? “
"I looked, the hexagram cabinet was filled with charcoal, and you can see that my hands were black after touching it twice. There seem to be some stones, which seem to have nothing to do with fire. The madman was in charge of moving the cabinet of the divination before, and spread out his palms as he spoke.
"Charcoal naturally represents fire, and I think the stone may have been a flint used in ancient times." Qing Xuanzi stroked his beard thoughtfully.
"But what does that have to do with opening those three bronze doors to get us out of here?" The madman still wanted to leave early, as always.
"Don't be in such a hurry," Qing Xuanzi comforted, "For this kind of place, we must find out every law and every detail, and eliminate all ways to make mistakes." You also don't want the bronze door that you worked so hard to open is wrong and leads you to a point of no return, right? ”
The madman is never sloppy when it comes to the matter of his little life, he is not urging for a moment, and he stands quietly on the side and watches the two of them think.
"Now we know that the cabinets in this room are arranged according to the gossip, although there were some mistakes in the previous placement, but they have been restored. The contents of the cabinet correspond to the acquired five elements to which the hexagram belongs. What clues do we need to find next? I think it may have something to do with the direction of the hexagram. Since the direction in which we open the door is dry, it should be the sky, that is, the north. So the other three gates are west, east, and south? Is there a way to choose? Feng Ping summed up the information he had received and raised his own questions.
"There are many options, but I don't know which method is used here. The properties corresponding to these three directions are also different, and there are so many variables in them that it is really difficult to determine. Qing Xuanzi replied.
"It's been a long time, and you don't have a clue. I thought I was going to find my way. The madman thought disdainfully, then thought for a moment and added, "I thought you were really smarter than me, but I didn't think it wouldn't work." I can't think of such a simple question, this room only has a cabinet. Now that you've found the pattern of the cabinet, the pattern of the things in the cabinet, what is left? “
Looking at the blank eyes of the two, the madman seemed to have found a long-lost sense of superiority, stood up and straightened his collar, cleared his throat and said, "Let the master tell you." The cabinet is right, the contents of the cabinet are right, and the rest is naturally the cabinet door. You see that some of these cabinet doors are open and some are closed, maybe there is something wrong with them? ”
Feng Ping and Qing Xuanzi were full of surprise when they heard the madman's words, not because his statement was too stupid, but because it made a lot of sense. There are only a few things in this room, the cabinets, the messy filling in the cabinets, since these two have been thought about, then the only thing left is the cabinet door. "I really can't see it, it's rare for you to have a serious time." Feng Ping was very relieved and patted the madman on the shoulder and said.
The madman seemed to be very pleased with this compliment, and hummed a little complacently.
There are too many cabinets in the room, and the doors are very messy, and some are even locked, so it is not very easy to find a pattern. The three of them were all observing with serious faces, but they didn't gain anything for a while.
Just when the three of them were at a loss, Feng Ping suddenly heard the sound of clicking, stopped searching for clues and listened carefully for a while before realizing that it was the sound of footsteps.
Yes, footsteps, and more than one person. Feng Ping originally thought it was his auditory hallucination, after all, there was no one else in this room except for the three of them. But when he found that Qing Xuanzi was also looking at him with a solemn face, he accepted this fact. Although the three of them moved around the room, they were all cautious, for fear that they would provoke something if the noise was too loud, so they didn't make any noise. And the footsteps are very pronounced, evenly paced, and apparently no attention has been paid to disguise.
In this enclosed room, whatever appears is not a good thing. There are too many strange things I encountered along the way, and now I don't even know how to get there, and something else comes to me?
The three of them quickly put down what they were doing, and after getting together, they searched for the source of the sound and found that the sound was coming from the previous aisle, and the three of them suddenly became nervous. Because of the long aisle, the voice seemed very empty, and there seemed to be some echoes, which made people shudder. Even more worrying, it was obvious that the voice could be heard from far and near, and it was obvious that something was coming towards him in the darkness that he could not see.
The unknown always seems scary, the three of them can't see it, and they can't really hear it, they just know that something is coming, but there is no way to avoid it. Walked to the bronze door, dragged the door with one hand, and shone the flashlight at the dark passage with the other, ready to push the door hard when he saw something bad, and then blocked them with some debris. The cabinet is not allowed to move, otherwise it is likely that it will never be able to get out of here again.
When the madman stood at the door and watched, Feng Ping and Qing Xuanzi had been constantly moving those gold, silver and jewelry ready to block the door at any time, they didn't care about any priceless or exquisite craftsmanship, they all chose heavy guys. Feng Ping even dragged a huge piece of gold armor and put it next to the door, I don't know who wore it, it was very difficult to drag, not to mention hundreds of catties.
When preparing enough heavy objects to block the door, the sound didn't seem to be far away. Looking through the crack in the door, the statues of different shapes looked even more terrifying in the light of the flashlight, and the shadows made the open mouth like a black hole, ready to be eaten at any time.
"Click, click... Click, click... The footsteps were like a spell, getting closer and closer, and the hearts of Feng Ping and the three of them were getting tighter and tighter. When two figures really appeared in the extreme distance where the light could reach, Feng Ping felt that his heart was about to jump out.
From a distance, it seems that the two figures are very thin, one tall and one short, but they can't really see it. But it's supposed to be humanoid, so it's not a monster.
Half of his frightened mind was relieved, and he was about to wait until he got closer to see more truthfully, when he heard the two figures speak, "You three are here?" What do you do behind the door like this? ”
"Po? Chen Xiaoxiao? ”