On the table were round shapes of pure gold lions, crocodiles, cows, dinosaurs, crabs, elephants, and the skeleton of a man. These 7 things are different in shape and lifelike, and even the number of ribs on the human skeleton model is 12 pairs, which is exactly the same.

However, there are differences between them. The lion stepped on the sun under its forefeet, and a half-curved moon hung at the base of its tail; The crocodile's back is hunched with a half-bent moon; Between the horns of the ox is a sun; The dinosaur also stepped on the sun and the moon at the same time; The crab's two pincers hold the sun and the moon, respectively; An elephant has a sun rolled around its trunk.

Human bones...... Only bones. It is the only model that does not own the sun and moon.

In the circle around them, the table top is recessed downward, and a disc of gold is inlaid with it. The disc is hemispherical in shape, slightly concave in the middle, and a dice are placed inside. Although the dice also have six sides, it is more like an approximate sphere, and each side remembers the number of points.

At 1/3 of the radius of the disc there are 8 meniscus-shaped guide grooves that extend out of the disc, one end of the guide groove is perfectly integrated with the middle disc, and the other end of each guide groove is connected to a small hole in the outer ring of the disc - a total of 8 small holes.

Yelu Zhousheng could see with his eyes that the diameter of the eight small holes was just enough for the middle dice to roll in.

He wanted to look at the gold leaf books on the chairs first. Neither he nor Watson had their hands on the books, but bent down to look at them with wide eyes. Each of these books is only 6-7 pages, and the pages of each book are evenly opened, supporting the book on the chair. The gold leaf was as thin as a cicada's wing, and the text was shown by mechanical indentation, and they did not know a single word.

Yelu Zhousheng said, "Seven chairs, seven books, seven models of animals -- man is also an animal. They're the races that qualify to sit down at this table and play craps, that's what I thought. ”

Watson said, "You see, the disc of this dice is made up of the sun and the moon, and the other six animals all have one or both of the sun and the moon, so why don't people have the same?" ”

"Maybe it's someone who set this table trying to tell us. If you look at these books made of gold leaf, maybe the words written on them are the secrets he wants to tell us. He wanted to keep the contents of these books alive, but over time we didn't know what they were. ”

Watson said, "Time is time, and these suns and moons represent time." If you look at these 6 animals, they have more sun and moon than humans, do they tell us that they have time to play with humans? ”

"Your idea is very apt, the most human beings lack is time, time leaves them with bones, and makes these well-preserved books useless."

Maybe the two of them only have one last thing left to do - move the dice.

"This set of things also tells me a revelation: all animals have equal opportunities. But it's not, big brother, you see, 7 creatures play this game, but there are 8 round holes left around the golden disc. Doesn't that mean...... Humans don't have a time advantage, but they have one more chance than other animals? ”

Watson said, "I regret that I didn't see my relatives for the last time. I don't move the dice, I want you to move. ”

"The bird that flew out and the skeleton at the door showed that this game can be lived or killed. Have you thought about it, big brother? ”

Watson said, "We've been looking for so long...... 50% chance. ”

Yelu Zhousheng stretched out his hand and picked up the dice from the golden disc. Watson said, "The door is gone." ”

Yelu Zhousheng looked at the way back and forth, and the entrance to the cave was indeed gone. The walls of the cave were the same as in other places, and there were no gaps. The crotch of the dwarf's skeleton was cut off by something, along with his legs and feet, and he was thrown under the corners of the wall.

The Great Leader said, "Our foreman gave us the last directions with his half-skeleton, and we came in from him. He said, "All right, now we represent this golden skeleton and play with them." ”

Watson saw the big leader pinch the dice and slowly raise his hand, his heart rose to his throat, and he looked at his hand intently. The hand rubbed the dice a few times, then retracted again.

"I remembered what Elder Hua told me...... Qimen Dunjia. He seemed to say...... There are two directions of the gate in our favor. He thought for a moment and looked back at the severed dwarf skeleton thrown on the ground, "He's there to open the door." ”

Watson didn't know what he was talking about, and before he could think about the Great Chief's words, the Great Leader had already put his hand on the top of the golden disc with his dice pinching. He just waited for the big boss to roll the dice into the disc in the middle, and then all he had to do was watch it spin for a while, and roll into any of the small holes with fate, and the result would soon come out!

The big boss didn't let go of his hand, but pinched the dice and made a gesture above each hole. Then he chose the small hole that was facing the half-dwarf skeleton. From this small hole clockwise to the right, move through one hole, stop at the third small hole, and let go of the great chief's hand.

"They have time, and we should have brains," the Grand Leader said calmly.

A door to the cave opened silently at a distance of 90 degrees from the half-skeleton of the gnome. The two men stood there without moving, and they didn't want any lions, dinosaurs, or human bones to come out of it.

So they got their wish, and they were quiet for a long time. The great leader of Yelu Zhousheng said clearly, "Yes, there is a birth gate. As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "click" on the ground under the table, and the dice fell out of nowhere.

Jeremy bent down to pick up the dice. He saw a picture drawn on the back of the table. He knows.

It was a yin-yang fish. They are connected from end to end, against the direction of the clock, and the two eyes of this yin-yang fish are somewhat out of tune with the proportions of their bodies, and the eyes are too large in proportion.

He raised the dice in his hand and gestured at the eyes of the yin-yang fish, which was just the right size. But it was just a floor plan, and there was no place to put the dice. He put it in his pocket, stood up, and said to Watson:

"I know what that extra chance is for us humans." He looked at the half-dwarf skeleton, "It's there." If we don't have the courage to try, we can go back the way we came...... But if we take advantage of this opportunity to return, we'll be just like the animals. Everybody's even. ”

"Well, we have brains but no time, they have time and no brains."

"Big brother, let's go try it."

The two of them checked the lighting equipment they had with them, and there would be no problem with the electricity. The ropes they had brought down were not enough to enter the new hole, and they didn't seem to need them. The two men did not touch the books, and entered the cave one after the other.