"Don't talk about it, it's terrible to hear!" Wang Qingzheng glanced at it from a distance, "Since you haven't found it, why are you still staying here?" Don't look for fat people anymore? ”

"Oops! I almost forgot about business. Let's close the coffin and go. Those two lively tigers don't know where they have gone again. "I quickly closed the coffin, intending to insert the nail back in, but the thing was so old that it snapped in half after two clicks. Shirley Yang blamed me for being reckless and destroying things in the tomb, and I said, "Why are you getting more and more like that Professor Li?" She didn't want to argue with me, so she took out her blue notebook and said, "We searched from the opposite direction, and since they are gone, they must have gone around ahead of us again." Let's go back to the meeting point to see if they're back. ”

I looked at the time and figured that they should be about the same. We did agree to meet at the place where we parted. Although I didn't find any useful clues in this circle just now, I have a certain understanding of the ancient city after all. This place may be hiding some secret as Shirley Young said. We turned back to the original point along the same path, and heard the fat man complaining from a long distance.

"It's all you, I said there's nothing to check, you have to study. What is there to study about a broken disc? It's okay now, the three big living people are just lost. Ouch, hey, my Uncle Li, you have something to say. Go find it, wait for no results. ”

Professor Li retorted: "It was a sundial, an ancient timekeeping tool, which is very valuable for research. The earliest record of a sundial in history is roughly in ...... BC - he stops halfway through, points at us and laughs, "What am I talking about?" Isn't this coming? ”

When the fat man saw that the three of us had returned safely, he was relieved, and asked us where we had gone, saying that they had found a heavy dà.

"Sundials, yes, we've seen it too. We also found the coffin. Wang Dashao's showy nature was once again exposed. Obviously, when the coffin was opened, he hid farther than anyone else, and it seems that it is all his credit at this time.

When the fat man heard the word coffin, his eyes lit up. I quickly snatched the conversation: "It's open, it's open, but there are no burial items in it, just a dried corpse, just behind the room you went to." ”

Professor Li asked, "How do you know which one?" ”

"It's not a three-story old house, and there's a well in the yard."

Professor Li and the fat man looked at each other, and finally the fat man said, "The sundial is right, but the one we went to has no well and no yard." It's just an ordinary wooden house, a bungalow. ”

Now it was my turn and Shirley Young to be dumbfounded. She hurriedly asked, "I remember you entered a very tall building, and it was on this road. ”

"Oh, that's me. When I came out, I followed Professor Li to the low house. What, you're in the wrong place? ”

I said, "There's something strange about this, and it's a big deal." "After both of them listened to me tell the whole story, they stopped talking. I said, "Don't look like a bitter melon, it's better to figure this thing out." If you haven't been to a three-story hut, why is the dust on the sundial wiped clean? ”

The fat man took the lead and said, "What else is there to check here, it is obvious that there are other people in the city besides us, and they are only close to us." ”

I nodded, and Shirley Young continued, "It's also strange that the sundial has the same thing in two unrelated rooms in a row. I have a conjecture that I don't know if it's right or not, and it needs to be further verified. ”

"You'd like to see the other rooms?"

"Yes. I suspect this stuff is all over the place. ”

"But what do you do in the grave of a dead man, burying so many sundials? Death is dead, who cares about time. ”

"That's what's weird. And the black shadow that has been watching us, whether it is a person or a ghost has not yet been clarified. In short, we can't sit still, everyone clean up, let's go. ”

The fat man was very interested in the coffin in the dark room, and said that he wanted to see it. I said, "The owner hasn't been found yet, so you can let go of that kind of poor family." ”

"You can't have nothing to do with you, can you?"

"Why are you lying to you, you're so poor that you're left with a whole body of clothes, and they're all rotting to the point of crumbling. You're still going to strip people naked? ”

"Well, I'm a man of professional ethics."

Finally dispelling the fat man's idea of returning to the dark room, in order to test Shirley Young's inference, we picked a random room and walked in, and sure enough, we found the same dilapidated sundial in the corner of the room.

"As we saw, a moment was missing." After Shirley Yang finished the examination, he turned back to Professor Li and asked, "Can you see which part is missing?" ”

Professor Li nodded, took out a small notebook and pen, squatted aside and said, "These timekeeping methods are regular, give me a little time, and I will be able to calculate it soon." Speaking of which, I didn't notice that just now. Miss Yang observed carefully and admired. ”

While Professor Li was calculating, I discussed with you the current form. First of all, there are definitely more than a few of us in this place. If it is Wang Puyuan and Xu San, there is no reason not to recognize us; As for the Japanese, it is not very likely, they almost all act in groups, and they have guys in their hands, so it is good not to rush up and fight with us, so how can they have spare time to hide and spy on us.

"What else can it be if it's not a human being? I haven't heard that the recent zongzi will climb the wall, and I haven't heard that the ghost sees someone turning around and running. ”

"No matter who the other party is, at least for the time being, he has not shown any threat. Be careful, don't go it alone. I'll go directly to the main city for a while, if Concubine Ming's coffin is really in this underground city, it is most likely to be parked there. ”

"I agree with that. However, what about other houses, don't check it? ”

"We can't afford to lose time, and the longer we delay, the worse it will be for us. This time it's best to make a quick decision, and withdraw immediately after taking something. I don't know what happened to the camp, whether I waited for support. Speaking of this, I couldn't help but look at Wang Qingzheng. Originally, I was afraid that the person surnamed Guo would bite back after the large army took over the camp, so I deliberately maintained an alliance with the Wang family. Now Wang Puyuan's whereabouts are unknown, and his group of people are scattered. Just taking Wang Qingzheng's bastard is enough for us, and I don't know what kind of impact we will encounter after going out for a while. But that's all for the future, and the focus of our work at the moment is how to find the golden tripod and find the coffin of the tomb owner.

Shirley Yang looked preoccupied, and when I asked her if she had any other concerns, she shook her head and said, "It's okay, it's just a little dizzy, maybe I'm thinking too much." The fat man said: "That's not, she didn't say a word after you came back, just knowing how to hurry, she almost didn't kill me and Lao Li." I was afraid that she would feel guilty again, so I immediately stopped the topic and turned to ask Professor Li how his research was.

"Yes," said Professor Li, who ran up to us excitedly, spread out his notebook, "Miss Yang is right, there are two hours in an hour in the ancient system, and this clock is missing a moment, and it is about eleven o'clock in the middle of the night today. ”

"So it's definitely midnight, not noon?"

"Of course, there are tick marks on the stone plate, and it is very clear in the morning and evening. The three sundials we saw in succession were all the same. I venture to assume that maybe all houses have such an incomplete sundial, but I don't know what it does. I think it's worth researching. ”

"That's what I had assumed." Shirley Yang nodded and said, "Maybe there is something special to the owner of this tomb. ”

"That's also a dead man's business, and it doesn't even have anything to do with us." The fat man was very unkind to Professor Li for continuing to study the sundial, and was bent on finding the main master. I didn't want to stay here and waste time, so I explained our current situation according to the fat man's meaning, hoping that Professor Li would focus on the overall situation.

Although the old man was reluctant, he couldn't screw the opinions of all of us, so he had to give up. He muttered a few words, suddenly stopped, turned his head and asked, "What time is it?" ”

We don't know why he suddenly asked about the moment, but to be honest, "Since I entered my mother's grave, my sense of time has become very weak, and I haven't paid attention to it." "But the old man has been talking about the sundial just now, and it is inevitable that he will talk about time. Shirley Yang subconsciously looked at his watch and replied, "Eleven o'clock, ten minutes left." ”

As soon as she finished reporting, everyone present was stunned for a moment. I don't know if it's psychological, I reached out and touched the wound on my neck, and I always felt that something was crawling up, light, itchy and painful.

"Lao Hu, are you okay?"

"It's okay, minor injury." The wound on my neck was caused by a sneak attack during a fight with the double-faced corpse, but I have already done emergency stitches, and Xu San also checked it afterwards, there should be no big mistakes, and the pain just now is probably caused by my own weakness. If I really want to talk about it, Professor Li's question is too mad, and it makes me goosebumps fall all over the ground, and I always feel that something is going to happen. Shirley Yang estimated that he was also made furious by him, and he kept unconsciously looking down at his watch.

When the fat man saw us looking funny, he burst out laughing. "Lao Hu, what else do I have to do. You shouldn't be scared, right? ”

"You're a naked slander. I don't do bad things on weekdays, and I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. I walk right, walk straight, what's so terrible? It's you, who obviously shivered just now. ”

"! Lao Tzu, that's cold, don't you feel it? The temperature here doesn't seem right. ”