Chapter 12: The Centipede Code (1)

Although I don't want to, I still have to do it. In order to verify whether Song Jin's proposal was valid, Song Jin first tried the method himself. Song Jin squeezed the snake bile into an empty bottle, and a fishy smell immediately came out. Because the juice of snake gall is limited after all, some water is added to dilute it, which increases the amount, and secondly, it also slightly reduces the fishy smell, so that we will not be too disgusted. But later events turned out that diluting and reducing the fishy smell was actually a bad result.

After getting ready, Song Jin smeared the juice evenly on his body, and in a flash, he slipped through the crack in the door he had just pushed open, and disappeared into the darkness. A few minutes later, he swooped out of the crack in the door.

Seeing that he was unharmed, this shows that this method is feasible. We were in ecstasy, and now we could easily avoid the snakes. The rest of us quickly wiped the bile on our bodies, and the last one was the same as the green version of the Avatar, with only one mouth leaking white teeth.

After getting ready, Song Jin was in front, Lao Zhao followed, and I and Pit Zi followed last, entering the door in turn.

In order to avoid overstimulating the optic nerve of the snake, although the snake's eyes are not easy to use. We dimmed the brightness of the flashlight, and even then, some of the snakes reacted to the sudden appearance of the beam of light, but because we were covered in snake bile, the snakes mistook us for our own kind.

Behind the stone gate was a wide hall, much wider than the one we had been in when we first came down. The hall has a flat roof, and this construction mode is maintained because it was built on the mountain, and it will not collapse due to the influence of gravity. Behind the door is a big Yong Road, the Yong Road is a piece of artificial stone to build together, since it is built by opening the mountain, it is not better to dig out the Yong Road directly, why bother to mine the stone? There are no three hundred taels of silver here, and there must be strange things in Yongdao.

There are stone pillars standing next to the road, all of which are in the process of excavation, directly chiseled, each pillar is carved with dragons and phoenixes, it can be seen that the Mongols were deeply influenced by the Han culture after entering the customs, but it is also possible that this is not the tomb of the Northern Yuan Dynasty that we are looking for at all. Between each pillar, there is a stone statue of a horse, a cow, an elephant, and a soldier in armor. Some snakes climbed up the stone statue along the pedestal, and then fell down again without paying attention, and fell to the ground with a "snap" sound.

The pit was just about to step on the Yongdao, but Lao Zhao pulled him back and said, "This Yongdao is so strange, let's be more careful." In my opinion, there must be a mechanism for this road. ”

When Lao Zhao said this, he was scared and sweated coldly, and thanked Lao Zhao again and again for saving his life.

"If there is really a mechanism on the Yongdao, we don't take the Yongdao, just go to the sides, can't we?" I threw the doubts out of my mind.

"Brother Ling, you think too much, it's impossible." Song Jin tapped the ground on both sides of the corridor with a probe.

"Except for the road, which is paved with stones, the rest of the place is paved with green bricks, but the gap between each brick is super small, so you can't see it. And the most terrifying thing is that every brick is alive, that is, there are all mechanisms under the bricks. Song Jin continued.

Listening to Song Jin's words, a layer of cold sweat broke out on my forehead, the owner of this tomb was too ruthless, he actually covered every brick with mechanisms, and also raised a hall full of pythons, leaving only a strange stone road.

To get through the hall, we had to go through the corridors, so we turned our attention back to the intricate rocks in front of us.

"Since we're worried about a mechanism, why don't we try it with a probe?" I asked Lao Zhao.

"The probe also has its limitations, the thickness of the stone is too large, which will block the transmission of sound waves, so it is impossible to make accurate judgments." Lao Zhao touched his chin and said, "Moreover, I suspect that this is a centipede stone." ”

"Centipede Stone?" We said in unison.

"Well, the centipede stone is a special kind of mechanism, usually each part of the participating mechanism is connected to the activation device, but touching one of them will not cause the mechanism to activate, only when it reaches a certain level, the mechanism will be suddenly activated, and the future offender will be killed unsuspectingly, just from the name you can know how vicious this mechanism is. This effect is a bit similar to the modern password device, only enter the password, and the sequence and the number of digits are all right, in order to calculate the right, otherwise it will be displayed as the password is wrong, too many mistakes will also cause the password to start the protection system, not allowed to try again. Lao Zhao explained to us like this.

Lao Zhao pointed to the stones on the road and said, "Each stone is equivalent to a password button, only by stepping on the stones in order, we can pass, not one more, not one less." ”

"Damn, each of these pieces is about the same, who knows which one is right and which one is wrong, so give me a few answers to choose from." The pit yelled.

"This is not an exam for elementary school students, it is a gamble, if anyone feels difficult, I recommend going back the way they came." Lao Zhao said. This is for me and the pit, after all, we are not professional drillers, so there is no need to take too many risks for the unknown results.

Lao Zhao's words did make me hesitate for a moment, now I go back the same way, and within three days, I will be able to sit in my small shop again, lazily lying on the table, watching the people passing by at the door of the store, sitting at sunrise and lying down at sunset every day. Brightly dressed, brightly lit, no need to be like now, wearing wet sportswear, in a black stone hole, rubbing the stinking snake bile, surrounded by countless pythons, facing the danger of losing their lives at any time.

But if I look back now, my life may never have any waves, I just live my life quietly like most people, and finally when I die, I look back on my life but have nothing to remember. Is this really what I want? Human life may be short, and it doesn't even count as a flash of light for the whole time, but that's all I have. I should do something about this time when the glitter doesn't count, otherwise it will really be a flash.

Thinking of this, I no longer hesitate. I have spent so much time trying to get to where I am today, and it is impossible for me to overturn my previous efforts because of the difficulties in front of me. There is only one chance, choose or give up. For me, this is the kind of opportunity I have been looking for. If I give up today, one day I will regret it for the rest of my life because of my cowardice. I'm standing here, and I can only keep trying, so that I can tell myself with the results that I haven't given in vain.

I didn't hesitate anymore and decided to move on. The idea of the pit is simpler than mine, he is a man who will not give up until he has achieved his goal, and it is impossible to get him to stop until he has obtained what he wants. Of course, his recklessness is a double-edged sword, and sometimes it will lead to worse results.

Seeing that neither of us was willing to push back, Lao Zhao had no choice but to give up and stop persuading. So now the main question is how to unlock the code of the centipede stone.

I turned on the light of the flashlight and concentrated the optical fiber on the tunnel as much as possible, and found that the corridor was about 20 meters long and about 2 meters wide. The entire corridor is paved with stones, and the appearance of staggered intersections is somewhat similar to the straw mats that are laid in Japanese rooms, that is, tatami mats. I roughly counted more than forty stones. Do you really have to walk more than forty steps to get there? Then the password length of this so-called centipede stone is long enough.

The key question is how it is combined, and it can't be stepped on randomly. Thinking like this, Tushou swept away the soil from the nearest rock, and found that there was a word "home" engraved on the surface of the stone, and I was shocked, this should be the password character I was looking for. I called Lao Zhao and them together, guess what the meaning of this word is, Lao Zhao thought for a while, and asked me to clean the stone a little farther away, and there is a "light" on the surface of the stone. Lao Zhao nodded and said, "It's indeed a centipede stone." ”

"Every stone on this road is engraved with the corresponding text, if you want to pass, get the password of the "centipede stone", you must first know the text on the stone. Lao Zhao said.

The tunnel is 20 meters long, but we can't step on the tunnel and check the writing on each stone one by one, and if we can't get the words, we lose the prerequisite for passing, which is really a paradox.

When the egg hurt incomparably, Song Jin patted me on the shoulder and said, "Brother Ling, I'll come." ”

I thought about it, this kid must fly up and look at every word, and if he could really fly, how good it would be to carry us over one by one.

The truth is not what I thought, although Song Jin was good, he did not fly, but took the kettle in his hand and splashed the water evenly on the stone. I splashed more than half of it like this, but I splashed more than half of the farthest place, and I couldn't splash it farther away.

The pit shouted: "Classmate Song, you are crazy, you can't find a way, and you can't use water to vent your anger." ”

Song Jin looked at the pit and didn't answer, and I understood that Song Jin definitely had his own reasoning. After a few minutes, the water splashed on the stones flowed down the cracks between the stones, and Song Jin motioned for me.

I took the flashlight and shone it again on the corridor, only to see a text flashing on each of the stones that had been splashed with water. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but give Song Jin a thumbs up: Young man, you are too awesome!

The main reason why I praise Song Jin is that I admire his application of theory. When I was in school, my teacher told us that each material reflects light differently, and although I remember this, I couldn't combine it with reality. Song Jin just took advantage of the different degrees of reflection of water and stone to light, and splashed water on the stone, and the text on the stone was concave into the plane, so after the excess water flowed away, only the text had stagnant water, so that with a light illumination, you could see what kind of text this "puddle" was.

With the sharp weapon of "Song Jin", we can easily obtain most of the text on the slate, only the part farthest away from us, there is really no way, I hope we can crack the code of "Centipede Stone" in the case of incomplete information.