Chapter Twenty-Four: Boiling Ding Debate
At the same time, there is another question that bothers me, why hundreds of years have passed, the corpse oil in this ding is like just refined yesterday, there is no sign of oxidation at all, under normal circumstances, the oil is in contact with the air for a long time, it should gradually oxidize, but the corpse oil here is not in this case, then there is only one possibility that these corpse oils have been manipulated by people, and some other raw materials have been added to keep the long-term nature of the corpse oil stable.
Since it is impossible to remove it, and the flashlight cannot shine in, then I have to use a method that is not the way. I saw that Song Jin was right under the ding, beckoned, and Song Jin quickly climbed up the stone ding. I said this to Song Jin, Song Jin nodded, turned over and got off the stone ding.
I saw him take out the kerosene stove we had brought with us from his backpack, set it up under the stone ding, light the flame, and turn the flame to the maximum. My idea is that although these corpse oils are not oxidized, they are almost solidified at this temperature and have a very high viscosity, which will be a serious obstruction to light. If you want to see the bottom of the stone tripod without removing the corpse oil, the only way is to heat the corpse oil, let the corpse oil heat up and increase the transparency, and then use a strong flashlight to focus the light and see through the corpse oil.
I stood in front of Shi Ding, folded my hands, and bowed to Shi Ding, although I don't know who the people are in this Ding, but I still have to disturb these ancients, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, when I go out from here, I will definitely give you a cart of paper money, you must not blame me.
After a while, I pulled a piece of drenching from my clothes and covered my mouth and nose to cover the stench emitted by the heating of the corpse oil, and turned over and went back to Shiding. Due to the heating, the viscosity of the corpse oil in the ding is obviously lower than before, I used a flashlight to shine in the ding, this is the pit also climbed up, looked at the words at the bottom of the ding, read: "The venue overturned the car ......", heard the old Zhao and Song Jin under the ding were stunned, I patted the pit and told him not to talk nonsense. Through the gradually clear corpse oil, I found that the bottom of the tripod was indeed engraved with words, after my efforts to identify people, the inscription on the bottom of the tripod was: "Yin and Yang turn around, Qiankun is replaced, ten thousand miles of long heaven, bless my great yuan." ”
I read out the text at the bottom of the ding, just in case, I asked Song Jin and Lao Zhao to come up and check it together. As a result, the three of us had the same opinion, and there were indeed only 16 words at the bottom of the tripod. The kerosene furnace was removed, and the temperature in the ding gradually decreased, and the text at the bottom of the ding was gone.
The meaning of the first two sentences of these sixteen words is obvious, but as for the last two sentences, I don't know what they are talking about, so it is probably just a good expectation of the tomb owner. "Yin and Yang Flip" can be known literally, this is the flip of Yin and Yang, if you don't understand this knowledge, you may not know what's going on, but for me, although I don't understand Zhou Yi, I still know this Yin and Yang, these two words refer to the Yin and Yang in Tai Chi, as for the "Qiankun Transformation" is the Qiangua and Kun hexagram in the gossip, of course, after the Qiankun is flipped, the others must be flipped at the same time, otherwise the relative position between the hexagrams will be different, for a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, It's uncomfortable not to turn around, and I vaguely feel that this tomb owner is also a little obsessive-compulsive, and has built a tomb so precisely.
Now that we know the method, let's do it, I and Lao Zhao's group, Kengzi and Song Jin cooperated, and the four of us swapped the yin and yang of all the steps on the stone abutment, that is, the original Qiangua became Kun hexagram, Zhen hexagram became Xun hexagram, Kan Yu Li, Gen Yu exchanged. After all this, we thought something big would happen, and we waited with great anticipation for a while, but nothing happened.
"Isn't our understanding right?" Old Zhao Wu said to himself.
"No, according to the meaning of the text, it is to change the hexagram, we must have done something wrong." After that, I walked around the stone abutment, only to find that there was no mistake in our transformation, so what was the problem?
If the previous step we did was "Qiankun Transformation", then how to do "Yin and Yang Flip"? and the last two sentences, there is no clue. The steps around the stone abutment are used as the eight trigrams, so in the middle of the eight trigrams is the yin and yang fish, is this the yin and yang mentioned here? Thinking of this, I walked on the stone abutment again, there is nothing else on this stone abutment except this stone tripod, the yin and yang in this secret language are this stone tripod?
I told Lao Zhao about my idea, and Lao Zhao thought it was worth a try. The four of us each carried a tripod, only to find that the tripod of this stone tripod was actually deeply trapped in the stone, and there was indeed a mystery here. The four of them exerted their strength at the same time, turned the stone tripod to the right, and only heard the sound of creaking coming from under their feet, which was the sound of the mechanism being triggered. We nervously stood still against the stone ding, waiting for what was about to happen. Suddenly, Lao Zhao shouted: "It's not good, flash fast." As I spoke, I rolled forward and got off the stone abutment, and I didn't have time to think about it and jumped off the stone abutment. When I looked back, I saw a rain of arrows in the sky, shooting down from the top of the dark tomb, and suddenly the stone abutment was already full of arrows, fortunately Lao Zhao found it in time, otherwise we would have been shot into a sieve.
I looked around again, but there were only me, Lao Zhao and Song Jin, where did the pit go? I shouted anxiously, but the voice of the pit came from the bottom of the ding: "Don't worry, I can't die, my life is hard." "It turned out that when we jumped off the stone abutment just now, the pit did not react, it was too late, so I had to make a quick decision, drill to the bottom of the ding to avoid temporarily, I was trying to praise the pit wit, but unexpectedly he shouted again, "Oh, my day, save me, this Ding is sinking." ”
I looked at the stone abutment again, and sure enough, as the pit said, the big stone tripod was slowly sinking, although the sinking speed was not fast, but it could be detected by the naked eye. This made the pit below, and the whole person was completely suppressed by Shi Ding, and gradually sank to the ground.
"The pit." I screamed, ignoring the rain of arrows, grabbed my backpack and ran to the stone pedestal, and when I landed, I felt several arrows hit my backpack, one of which even penetrated my backpack and was already stuck in my back. A stream of blood gushed into my mouth, I pounced, spit out, but I didn't dare to stop, two or three steps to Dingxia, about to pull out of the pit, but the pit signaled me to hurry back, let me run. He was yelling for me to save him, but this would have made me go first.
"Let's go together." I grabbed his arm and pulled him out, but he shook me off and pointed to the top of the tomb, I looked up, I don't know when, the top of the tomb has gradually lowered, at this rate, within ten minutes, several of us will be squeezed into flesh by the top of the tomb, and no one can escape. Damn, it's too ruthless, I can't help but scold in my heart, Lao Tzu is here, and he hasn't taken anything from you, as for being so ruthless.
At this moment, the rain of arrows in the sky finally stopped, but in its place, sharp blades slowly rose from the ground. I was caught off guard and was stabbed in one foot. At this time, Lao Zhao and Song Jin also ran over, and the three of us pulled the pit out in harmony. The helpless ding was too deep, and the gap was getting smaller and smaller, and it was estimated that I couldn't even stretch out a hand for a while.
The pit shouted anxiously: "Brothers, think of a way, I don't want to be stuffed meat." "Seeing the pit where we all came, the idea of survival was ignited again, and then it suddenly occurred to me that there was a simple jack in the backpack, but it was difficult to say whether it could lift this big stone tripod. At this time, I can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, I took out the gold top from my bag and handed it to the pit, "Try this." "I said to the pit under Ding.
"If there are good things, don't take them out early." Get the pit of the jack, quickly move at the bottom of the tripod, and after a while, the big stone tripod slowly stopped sinking, but the power of this simple jack is limited after all, and it can only temporarily keep the stone tripod from sinking, but it can't lift the tripod in reverse.
Although the sinking of the big stone tripod has stopped temporarily, the entire tomb roof is still descending, and looking up, the tomb roof is only a few meters high from us. The top of the tomb, like the ground, also stretched out a sharp knife, shining in the light of the flashlight. What a sinister tomb owner, we were completely calculated, and we thought this was a way to get out of the tomb, but we didn't want it to be a deadly mechanism.
I scolded me a few times in my heart, but I couldn't relieve my anxiety. Something must have gone wrong, it must be, but I couldn't think of anything that went wrong for a while. I repeated these secret words in my mind, and if something went wrong, it would be in the yin and yang transformation or the last two seemingly meaningless prayers.
Seeing that the top of the tomb was getting closer and closer, the blade was already reaching out and could touch it. Lao Zhao and Song Jin are trying to use a steel probe rod to lift the top of the tomb, but it seems that it is also difficult to do so. The once omnipotent steel probe was very weak at this time, and the sinking tomb roof was not hindered too much when it encountered the probe, but directly squeezed the probe into a bend, and the head and bottom fell directly into the stone. It was not an easy task to insert metal into a hard stone, which shows how much pressure was exerted on the top of the tomb. Once a few of us are squeezed, I'm afraid it's not as simple as a meatloaf, but into a scrap of meat.
Looking at the half-sunken stone tripod in front of me, and the pit at the bottom of the tripod, I almost despaired. Angry I shouted, swung a punch on the stone tripod, blood flowed down the stone tripod, all the way to the gluttonous eyes, mouth, this carving is even more hideous and terrible, staring at the blood-red eyes, open the mouth of the blood basin seems to swallow me, scared my whole person to take a step back before mentioned that the gluttonous pattern on the tripod is a common decorative pattern on the ancient tripod, and there is nothing special, this time it became like this, I was so frightened that I took a step back, knowing that my legs touched the sharp knife that came out of the ground behind me. This terrible scene and the pain in my hands suddenly stimulated me, could this gluttony also be part of the mechanism, I circled around the stone tripod, and then I was thinking about this stone tripod, only this side has such a stone carving, and the other faces are nothing, as if this gluttonous pattern was taken from somewhere else. If I'm not mistaken, when I first checked Shiding before, there was definitely more than one glutton, but now there is only this one, where did the others go? I groped around the other sides of the stone with both hands, hoping to find some clues, but I couldn't find any traces. Is it really my mistake, I used a flashlight to shine on the stone tripod again, take a closer look, this time I finally found the problem, although the other sides of the stone tripod are very flat, but there are some places where the texture is different, as if it is inlaid on it.
No matter how cunning a fox is, it is difficult to hide his tail. This phenomenon directly confirms my suspicion that when we rotate the stone tripod, or after we turn the gossip, the relief on this stone tripod changes, and in the end only such a gluttony remains.
Flip yin and yang, change the world, thousands of miles of sky, bless my great yuan. On the stone pedestal, it is this stone tripod, this can only be the only yin and yang, change the universe, change the gossip, there is no problem, thousands of miles of long sky, to talk about the sky, here can be counted, there is only the trigram, bless the great yuan, bless is unharmed. If my idea is correct, this gluttony is like a scale on the knob of the safe, we turn the gossip, can only be regarded as the first operation to enter the correct password, the second operation is to point the knob in the right direction, in order to open the door.
At this time, the sharp knife on the top of the tomb was already close to the top of the head, and I couldn't hesitate any longer, I used all my strength to grab the Ding ear, but the Ding was too heavy, I shouted to Lao Zhao and them: "Come and help me." ”
Hearing my shout, two people immediately rushed over. The three of us bent on our waists, turned the stone tripod hard, and finally turned the gluttonous head to the Qiangua, at this time the sharp knife on the top of the tomb had stuck half of my face, and we were almost lying on the ground. I heard another series of sounds, as the sound stopped, as the top of the tomb rose, the sharp knife gradually retracted, the sharp blade on the ground gradually retreated, the hanging heart finally let go, the three of us sat down on the ground, this time it was really a great disaster. Look at Shi Ding again, but also gradually rise, the pit at the bottom of the Ding with a jack that was almost squeezed out of the bottom of the Ding rolled out, exhaled, and finally at the last moment, successfully got out of the bottom of the Ding, looked at each other embarrassed, suddenly rescued us, several people couldn't help laughing together, the laughter was full of indescribable happiness.
At this time, the ground of the burial chamber has been flipped according to a certain law, forming a spiral step, extending to the ground. Looking at the bottomless steps, we looked at each other, whether this step was a passage to escape or a stairway to death. A cool breeze blew up from the ground, and I couldn't help but shiver, to go down or not to go down? I think our hesitation is superfluous, no matter what is next to the ground, we have to face it, because this is the only way out in front of us, there is no choice, I can only hope that we can come to the extreme, God bless.
Packing up our gear, the four of us dragged our already scarred bodies up the steps. Lao Zhao walked in the front, and I walked in the last. I had just walked a few steps when the pit suddenly looked back at me and asked, "Why are you carrying a child behind you?" ”