I looked at a priceless silk painting for a long time, but I didn't have a clue.

The irregular borders and frames made of gold wire and precious stones don't look like words, they don't look like paintings, and they don't form any picture in my mind.

"You're old and sold, I'm so clumsy, I really can't see why, what's the secret on this? You'll just tell me when you get older. ”

I really couldn't see the secret hidden in the silk painting, so I finally opened my mouth to ask Professor Chen for advice.

"Huh."

As soon as my voice fell, Professor Chen took the silk painting with a smile, held it in his hand and looked at the opening.

"There are really some doorways on this, not to mention giving you such a little time, more than ten academicians of our research institute have studied for more than half a month before they have a general judgment on this thing, I think"

Professor Chen looked at me and said in a low voice.

"It's a map."

"Maps?" I was stunned for a moment, then reacted and slapped my head hard.

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that? ”

The irregular lines inlaid with gold wire on the silk paintings represent the highways and rivers, and the gems inlaid in the east and west represent the large and small towns.

Only the line pattern on the map is so irregular.

From this point of view, it is very likely that this silk painting is really a map, as Professor Chen said.

Xi Jing wanted to tell me where she ended up through this silk map.

However, just knowing that this is a map is not enough for us.

If the gems on the silk paintings represent cities, there must be at least hundreds of them in my rough opinion.

And the map doesn't show the scale and azimuth coordinates, let alone latitude and longitude.

I don't even know which city these hundreds of gems correspond to in reality.

If Xi Jing really went to one of these cities, then how should I find it?

"Professor Chen, on this map, are these gems the cities they represent?"

I asked Professor Chen to reconfirm.

"That's right." Professor Chen nodded.

"That's what we've come to the conclusion of our research, and it's likely that these gems represent towns."

I frowned when I heard this, but I didn't expect it to be expected.

These hundreds of gems represent hundreds of cities, and to find the whereabouts of Xi Jing from them, it can really be called a needle in a haystack.

However, by this time I had secretly made up my mind that I would definitely look for her no matter what.

It doesn't matter if I look for a needle in a haystack, even if I spend the rest of my life doing it, I don't regret it

However, although I have made up my mind to break the boat, I still need Professor Chen's help.

As I said earlier, on this silk map, I don't know which city each gem represents, and even if I want to, I can't get it.

"Professor Chen: The city that each jewel on this one represents? Do you have a clue? If we want to look for it, which city should we look for it first? ”

After I asked, the expression on Professor Chen's face became noticeably stranger.

"Brother, don't worry, take a closer look at what's special on this map."

When Professor Chen finished talking to me, I couldn't help but blush, and I felt like a waste when Professor Chen said this.

I hurriedly lowered my head and carefully observed the silk painting that Professor Chen had placed on the table.

Listening to Professor Chen's meaning, there must be something special on this silk map.

I'm going to have to find out what makes it special.

This silk map looks very strange at first.

The various gems set on it are almost all concentrated on one side of the silk painting.

On the other side of the silk painting, most of the area is occupied by a triangle surrounded by gold wire.

There are quite a few of these triangles, large and small, and I counted them, and there are fourteen of them.

Moreover, the triangles enclosed by these gold wires are arranged in an oblique vertical row on one side of the silk painting.

That particular green jadeite is set in one of the gold wire triangles, and it is the only gemstone set on the side of the silk painting.

It's something special

It has to be the green jade inlaid in the middle of the triangle on one side of the silk painting.

On this side of the silk painting, this green jadeite is the only gemstone set and the largest.

I stared at the silk map and frowned for a long time without speaking, when I heard Professor Chen on the side speak again.

"We did a carbon-14 analysis of this silk painting, and the final conclusion was that the date of this silk painting was about 2,300 years ago, and we later used several other maps of the Warring States period to study and compare. The location of the city in gems on this silk map is basically the same as that on other Warring States maps, so it can be concluded that this silk painting is a special map of the Warring States period."

"A map of the Sengokus?"

I was stunned for a moment, and my brow tightened

If it's really a map of the Sengoku period

Even if I knew that those gems represented the city, it would be of no use to me.

After more than 2,000 years, these cities that existed during the Warring States period have long been submerged in the torrent of history, turning into a pile of ruins and broken tiles, and there is no trace of them at all.

In this way, the focus on the map left by Xi Jing is not on the cities represented by these gems.

so

Thinking in my heart, I couldn't help but move my eyes to the other side of the silk painting, the fourteen triangles surrounded by gold wire.

At this point, I was completely focused on the strange triangles and the green jade.

"Fourteen green emeralds in a triangle"

I pondered it carefully as I muttered softly.

After repeating it a few times, I suddenly stopped.

I looked back at Professor Chen on the side, and the old guy looked at me with the same smile on his face.

"How? Do you see the doorway? ”

Professor Chen asked me with a smile.

I didn't speak, but reached out and gently turned the silk map around.

The side of the silk map that I moved with gems was facing to the right, and the side of the triangle surrounded by gold wire was facing to the left.

This should be the correct way to use this map, and it is the same as how the map is used today.

One side of the gemstone corresponds to the east, and the side of the filigree triangle corresponds to the west.

On the map, the cities that existed 2,000 years ago are actually completely meaningless.

These hundreds of gems represent cities that are really just an indicator.

Indicate the specific location of our fourteen triangles surrounded by gold wire.

In other words, on the whole map, it is the fourteen triangles that matter.

If I'm not mistaken, these fourteen triangles should allude to the fourteen peaks.

And by this time, I already knew the specific location and names of these peaks.

This is thanks to the gems on the other side of the silk painting.

It is with these gems that represent the city that I can make the final judgment.

If I didn't have these gems representing cities during the Warring States period as a reference, I wouldn't have been able to know the exact location of the triangles that represented the mountains.

In the southwest of our country, there are two well-known mountain ranges, the Himalayas and the Karakoram.

And on top of these two mountain ranges, there are fourteen peaks with the highest altitude in the world.

Judging by the location and number, the golden triangles on the map must allude to the fourteen peaks of more than 8,000 meters distributed on these two mountain ranges