When the old ghost said this, he suddenly let go of his hand, and the floor tile immediately bounced back to its original shape, and almost at the same time, we heard only a few "whoosh" sounds, and a dozen crossbow arrows almost grazed the top of our heads.

After a while, the corridor returned to peace, and everyone stood up cautiously, and the old ghost patted the dust on his hands, and said to everyone: "If someone steps on the mechanism again, remember not to lift your feet up immediately." ”

Everyone immediately nodded.

The group continued to move forward, in order to prevent anyone from inadvertently stepping on the mechanism, the old ghost asked everyone to follow him, and after he stepped on the floor tiles, after making sure that it was safe, others stepped on it again, one after another, so that the probability of stepping on the mechanism again was much reduced.

We were lucky enough to make it all the way to the end of the corridor without triggering any more traps. However, at the end of the corridor there was a closed stone door blocking our way, which had to be opened if we wanted to continue.

The stone gate is made of a single bluestone slab, about two meters high, and the door is carved with exquisite patterns, and on the wall next to the stone gate, there is a stone disc that looks as if it can be turned.

Wen Qingshan stared at the disc and said, "Presumably this is the mechanism that opened the stone gate, right?" ”

The old ghost nodded, and he walked forward slowly, because his height was too short, and the position of the disc was more than ten centimeters higher than the top of his head, he had to tilt his head and stare at the disc to examine it carefully.

I took a closer look at the disc and found that the whole disc is actually composed of two parts, the inner circle and the outer circle, which are divided into eight grids, and each grid is engraved with a symbol, which is the hexagram of the eight trigrams.

The old ghost stared at the disc for a long time, and said: "The inner circle and outer circle of this disc are composed of eight squares, which should be able to rotate, and every time it rotates, the inner circle and the outer circle of the palace grid will form a completely different combination, that is, there are a total of eighty-eight sixty-four combinations, but only one combination can open this stone door." ”

When he heard this, he immediately said, "So, we have to try sixty-four times!?" ”

The old ghost glanced at the cheap: "Hmph! If we had tried so many times, we would have been shot into a chaff sieve. ”

"What do you mean?"

The old ghost said: "This is the correct way only once, once you get it wrong, not only will you not be able to open the stone door, but you are afraid that it will trigger the crossbow arrow hidden weapon." ”

After listening to the old ghost's answer, everyone looked at each other. Sixty-four possibilities, can't go wrong, this is inevitably a little too difficult, I can't help but think that in the evil stone tomb, every time I open the stone door, I am also faced with a variety of possibilities, and Wen Qingshan can always understand the mystery. Maybe he also has a way to open the stone door in front of him. Thinking of this, I turned to Wen Qingshan and asked, "Boss Wen, what do you think you need to turn to open this stone door?" ”

Wen Qingshan's eyes were fixed on the disc, and he frowned and said: "In the setting of the formation organs, gossip generally represents the direction, if you want to open the stone gate, I guess I still have to examine it from the aspect of direction." ”

The old ghost turned his head and glanced at Wen Qingshan: "This is still a person who understands, and can see that this organ is not unrelated to the direction." ”

Wen Qingshan said with a smile: "Hehe, let the old ghost seniors laugh, in front of your old man, I am just a class with an axe." Besides, there are only eight directions in Bagua, and there are sixty-four combinations, and I haven't figured this out yet. ”

The old ghost said: "This mechanism seems simple, but in fact, it uses the innate gossip of King Wen and the acquired gossip of Fuxi at the same time. Generally, the direction is determined by the use of acquired gossip, and rarely used innate gossip, because the order of the direction of the innate gossip and the acquired gossip is completely different, for example, in the West, the innate gossip is the position, but the acquired gossip is the exchange position. Therefore, if you start with the acquired gossip alone, you will not be able to crack this mechanism no matter what. ”

Wen Qingshan hurriedly asked: "Old ghost senior, then in your opinion, how should this mechanism be broken?" ”

The old ghost showed a smug look on his face, and he said: "The position we are in now is located in the northwest of the imperial mausoleum, in the gossip of the day after tomorrow, the northwest is the dry position, and in the innate gossip, the northwest is the Gen position, so as long as you find these two hexagrams, you can open the stone gate." ”

"Then which of these two gossip is the innate gossip and which is the acquired gossip?" I asked.

Wen Qingshan replied on the side: "Generally speaking, the inner circle is the innate gossip, and the outer circle is the acquired gossip. ”

The old ghost nodded, turned to me, and said, "Why don't you open this mechanism?" ”

"Me!?" I didn't expect the old ghost to let me open the mechanism, I was a little surprised.

"Didn't you just help me! It's a little higher, and I'm going to have to work hard to get there, so of course I'll have to ask you to help me. "The old ghost is right.

"And what do you want me to do?" I asked.

The old ghost said: "You just need to turn the dry position in the outer circle of the gossip and the Gen position in the inner circle gossip to the position of twelve. ”

"Why twelve?" I asked, puzzled.

"Because twelve o'clock is the upper position, from ancient times to the present, the superior is respected. Moreover, if a circle is regarded as a reincarnation, the twelve points are the origin of this reincarnation, as the so-called starting from the Si and ending at the Si, so I estimate that the twelve o'clock position is the key point to open the mechanism. ”

Listening to what the old ghost said, I took a deep breath and walked towards the disc.

I stretched out my hand and was about to turn the disc, when the cheap suddenly shouted, "Brother, you wait first!" ”

I turned my head and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"I just wanted to ask, what if the twelve o'clock position is not the key point to open the mechanism?" ”

The old ghost replied lightly: "That's hard to say, maybe nothing will happen, maybe, dozens of crossbow arrows will be shot." ”

"Holy! Then my brother won't be shot into a chaff sieve. The cheap exclaimed.

"Don't worry, if you really get shot into a chaff sieve, it will be me first, and you are all wearing body armor!"

Although the old ghost said it very easily, I was still a little nervous at the thought of potentially touching the mechanism, I turned my head to look at the others, and their eyes were both worried and seemed to have some anticipation, I hesitated for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to reach for the disc again.

I thought about turning the stem position in the gossip of the outer circle to the position of 12 o'clock, and then turning the inner circle. Out of habit, I chose to turn the outer ring in a clockwise direction, but what I didn't expect was that the outer ring couldn't move at all, even if I tried a lot of strength, it still didn't move.

I couldn't help but wonder a little, turned to the old ghost and said, "This thing can't turn!" ”

The old ghost was also a little surprised, he pondered for a while, then raised his head and said to me, "Try to see if you can turn counterclockwise." ”

I tried to turn the gossip in the outer circle in the direction of counterclockwise, and sure enough, the old ghost said it, and it really could be turned, and I was about to turn the dry position in the outer circle gossip to the position of twelve o'clock, when the old ghost suddenly shouted loudly: "Slow! ”

Originally, it was very quiet, but he suddenly shouted like this, which startled me, thinking that something was wrong, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, and turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The old ghost said with a solemn expression, "We may be mistaken! ”

When Wen Qingshan heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Old ghost senior, what do you think is wrong?" ”

The old ghost didn't answer him immediately, but asked rhetorically: "Just now you said that the inner circle is the innate gossip, and the outer circle is the acquired gossip, why are you so sure?" ”

Wen Qingshan replied: "Because the acquired gossip is evolved from the innate gossip, generally speaking, if a compass contains both the innate gossip and the acquired gossip, both the innate gossip is in the inner circle, and the acquired gossip is in the outer circle, so I think the design of this mechanism should be the same." ”

"You're right, I thought the same thing, but the bezel can only rotate counterclockwise. It suddenly occurred to me that the design of this mechanism and the compass might be the opposite! ”

Wen Qingshan was slightly stunned: "Why do the old ghost seniors think so?" ”

The old ghost replied, "Because if the eight hexagrams of the innate eight trigrams are in order from beginning to end, they are in the counterclockwise direction. ”

"You mean, this outer circle gossip may be an innate gossip?"

"Highly likely!" The old ghost said, looked up again and said to me, "Try the inner circle again, and see if it can be turned counterclockwise or clockwise!"

I hurriedly followed his instructions and tried the inner circle of the disc, but I didn't expect that it could only rotate clockwise!

In this way, although the old ghost's inference seems to be a little unreasonable, it is not impossible, I didn't know what to do for a while, and asked him: "Old ghost senior, what should I do with this mechanism now?" ”

The old ghost lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said, "You better change it, first turn the position of the outer circle of the gossip to the position of twelve, and then turn the position of the inner circle of the gossip to the position of twelve o'clock." ”

I hesitated for a moment before I turned the two gossip on the disc as the old ghost said.

After a while, the two gossip positions had been adjusted, but nothing happened, neither the crossbow arrows were fired, and the stone door was not opened.

Everyone was nervous, and they waited quietly for a while while holding their breath, but there was still no movement.

The cheap couldn't bear it anymore, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you react?" ”

The old ghost also wondered, he stared at the disc, and suddenly seemed to think of something, without saying anything, he stretched out his hand, and suddenly pressed on the disc, but he didn't expect the whole disc to be pressed by him like a button.

At the moment when the disc was pressed, there was a "click" sound from the wall, followed by a "boom", and the stone door slowly opened.

Seeing that the stone gate was opened like this, everyone was surprised and delighted, and the old ghost took the lead in stepping into the stone gate, and the others followed closely behind.