Before officially leaving, Chen Ziyang still has a lot of preparations to do. The first thing was about the transportation of the Xuanming Ancient Sword.

Because this time the journey is relatively long, Chen Ziyang plans to take a plane, so it will become a big problem to go through the security check with this weapon. Although Chen Ziyang was not 100% sure that this weapon would not pass the security check, if the sword was seized, it would be a big trouble. So Chen Ziyang remembered Wang Lele.

Wang Chuan's family runs an auction house, and they often buy some antiques, including ancient swords and other weapons, so they naturally have a certain way to transport such things, and there must be nothing wrong with asking Wang Lele for help.

Wang Lele is still very angry with Chen Ziyang, but she is also a knife-mouthed tofu heart, although she kept teasing Chen Ziyang with words, saying that he is now powerful, and he looks down on himself as a little woman, why is there such a thing, the dignified Chen Dadao still asks for himself. Chen Ziyang had no choice but to pay for it one by one, and with a smiling face.

Wang Lele issued a certificate in the name of his father's auction house to prove that the item had been bought by the auction house and needed to participate in the auction in Shaanxi Province, and Wang Lele also issued two seals to Chen Ziyang and mailed them to him along with this certificate.

With the certificate and seal, Chen Ziyang's confidence was a little more sufficient, so he put this Xuanming Ancient Sword into the box that contained this sword before, and pasted the seal on the outside of the box. In this way, this Xuanming Ancient Sword should be able to land safely at Xi'an Airport with him.

The second thing is to arrange the transportation of the materials he bought, Chen Ziyang found a hotel in the county he was going to on the Internet, he called the hotel to book a room, and told the hotel staff that he might not arrive in a few days, but he had some things to mail to them, hoping that they would help receive them.

After receiving an affirmative reply from the hotel, Chen Ziyang mailed all the items in his shopping cart to the address of this hotel, calculated the time, and when he arrived at the hotel, it was very likely that these things had also arrived.

So Chen Ziyang carried his backpack and the box containing the Xuanming Ancient Sword and embarked on his trip to Xi'an. Big Walnut Town is really a little too remote, every time Chen Ziyang goes out, he is worried, if he takes a plane, he must take a five-hour bus to Changchun, and then he can board the plane.

When he was at the airport, just as Chen Ziyang expected, Wang Lele's proof was very useful. Although the Xuanming Ancient Sword had some trouble passing through the X-ray machine at the security check, when Chen Ziyang issued a certificate from the auction house, the sword could be consigned.

When Chen Ziyang got off the plane and arrived in Xi'an by the airport bus, it was already a little dark, so he found a random hotel to stay. The reason why Chen Ziyang told him that he would not be able to arrive at the county hotel he booked in a few days was because he wanted to spend a few days in Xi'an.

Anyway, I have run so far away, I have to take a look at Xi'an. Chen Ziyang has two places that he wants to go to very much, one is the ancient city of Xi'an, and the other is Luoyang.

Some people say that raising ghosts is in Chongqing, robbing tombs in Luoyang, moving corpses in Xiangxi, and using Gu in Yunnan.

As the ancient capital of many ancient dynasties, Xi'an also has the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, so Xi'an has always been a place where Chen Ziyang wants to come. Unexpectedly, he came this time for Lao Lu's business.

So in the next two days, Chen Ziyang took a general turn around several famous scenic spots in Xi'an, Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses was the place he went to on the first day, and then went to see the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and went to Gulou **** Street that night to experience the food of Xi'an.

The next day, Chen Ziyang took a walk around the antique market in Xi'an, looking at the novelties and experiencing the history and culture of Xi'an, which was his favorite thing.

As a city with a deep history, Xi'an's cultural relics and antiques market has always played an important role in the country. Therefore, there are many antique cities in Xi'an, and after inquiring, Chen Ziyang came to the largest antique market in Xi'an.

The antique market here is similar to the antique market in Beijing, but it seems to be larger. There are no less than a few hundred stalls in this antique market, and it is also operated by a combination of counters and small vendors. This method is Chen Ziyang's favorite, because you can see all kinds of strange things, which is very interesting.

Although Chen Ziyang has been to a lot of tombs and seen a lot of real things, if he really asked him to see which thing was real and which thing was imitated in modern times in the antique market, he couldn't see it, and he couldn't say why, Chen Ziyang walked here just because he was interested in these things.

So in this whole day, Chen Ziyang visited almost every corner of this antique market, and even he felt that the soles of his feet began to hurt when he walked. At first, it was okay, but as he walked more and more, Chen Ziyang needed to stop and rest from time to time.

Especially in the afternoon, Chen Ziyang rested more and more frequently, he felt that his soles were no longer his own, as long as he stood up and pressed the weight of his body on the soles of his feet, his two soles hurt very much, making him very helpless.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Ziyang sat on a bench, then took off his shoes and rubbed the soles of his feet vigorously, but at this time, he heard a very strange sound.

The sound was like the clicking sound of a gear slowly turning, as if a gear was constantly turning in your ear. Chen Ziyang looked left and right, but he didn't see such gears turning around him.

Because of the incident with the golden gear in the Bohai Palace, Chen Ziyang is now very sensitive to the clicking sound of this gear when it turns. But he looked around and didn't see anything that made a sound, so Chen Ziyang continued to rub his swollen feet with an attitude that he didn't care about himself and didn't worry about it.

However, the sound of the gears spinning kept ringing in his ears, and Chen Ziyang was a little upset by this sound. So his stubbornness came up again, and he had to carefully find out where the voice came from.

got up and walked around the neighborhood, but Chen Ziyang didn't find anything that made a sound at all, and now he felt a little strange, this thing was not quite right, where did this sound come from?

The clicking sound made when the gears rotated was very weak, and when Chen Ziyang was looking for it in a circle, as long as he walked to a slightly noisy place, he would no longer hear the sound of the gears spinning, but when he walked to a quieter place, this sound sounded in his ears again.

At this time, Chen Ziyang reacted, as if this sound of gear rotation came from his body, otherwise it would be impossible to hear such a faint sound after he had walked so far. That's weird!

This time, Chen Ziyang calmed down and listened carefully. Because he had a target this time, he soon noticed that the slight clicking sound was actually coming from the backpack he was carrying.

In order to travel conveniently, Chen Ziyang locked the Xuanming Ancient Sword in the safe of the hotel, but the package he carried with him was always on his back, anyway, the things in this backpack were not heavy, so he carried it with him, in case he really wanted to buy something, it was also very convenient to have this backpack to help pack something.

After opening his backpack and rummaging through some magic weapons for a while, Chen Ziyang quickly discovered that the source of this clicking sound turned out to be the compass left by the Du family!

Carefully took out the compass, Chen Ziyang took the compass in his hand, and at this time he found that the inner disk of the compass was actually rotating by itself, and every time the compass rotated at an angle, the compass made a clicking sound.

Cold sweat instantly oozed from Chen Ziyang's forehead, what was going on? Why does this compass turn on its own?

Countless times before, Chen Ziyang took this compass and played with it in his hand, because he really liked this Du family's compass very much, so when he traveled this time, he gave up his ordinary compass and carried this compass specifically.

The style of this Du family's compass is very old, and the main part of the compass looks to be cast in bronze, and there is patina in many places. Although this compass is still divided into three parts: Tianchi, Inner and Outer Disk, this Du family's compass is very different from the kind of compass sold on the market now.

There are two crossed red ropes on the outer disk of the compass sold on the market, and the two red ropes crossed into a cross shape are called Tianxin Shidao, which are used for calibration, but the outer disk of the Du family's compass is very smooth, and there are no two crossed red lines.

The outer disk of the Du family's compass is made of sandalwood, and it can be seen that this compass has been used for a long time, and the sandalwood is full of oiliness.

But even so, the sandalwood outer disk of this compass is very incompatible with the inner disk, and it seems that it should be equipped later specifically for loading the inner disk, just as a supporting tool for the inner disk, and it seems that the original shape of this compass has no outer disk.

And the heavenly pool of this compass and the inner disk are connected together, but the inner disk is slightly higher than the outer disk of sandalwood. Chen Ziyang has fiddled with this compass before, and when using it, he needs to gently rotate the inner disc with his hand to calibrate the bearing. And every time the inner disc of the compass is turned, the compass makes a kind of clicking sound of interlaced gears.

Previously, Chen Ziyang thought that the reason why there were gears hidden under the inner disk was to prevent this compass from rotating at will after calibrating the orientation, so as to avoid losing the direction that he had managed to find again. But at this time, looking at the inner disk that rotated on its own, Chen Ziyang felt that he had underestimated the Du family's compass before.

The experience of crawling in life and death several times made Chen Ziyang at this time immediately vigilant. He quickly put the compass in his backpack and looked up at it at the same time, taking a 360-degree look. When he found that the people around him were still bargaining in the buying and selling, and no one paid attention to him, Chen Ziyang was relieved, and then he hurriedly walked into the nearby toilet.

There was no one in the toilet except Chen Ziyang, so he got into a cubicle and closed the door. Chen Ziyang took out the compass and looked at it carefully, but to his surprise, the compass stopped rotating at this time, and the clicking sound stopped coming.

This is really strange, Chen Ziyang wiped the sweat on his forehead, was it his own delusion just now? No, whether it's your ears or your eyes, you can clearly hear and see this compass spinning.

After staring at the compass in the toilet for a long time, Chen Ziyang found that the compass was still motionless, and he no longer wanted to turn it by himself. So Chen Ziyang looked at his watch, could it be that this compass is still a clock? The reason why the compass rotates on its own just now, is it striking the time automatically?

But the time on the watch told Chen Ziyang that this moment had no meaning at all, not on the hour, not half a o'clock, not even every fifteen minutes.

The smell in the toilet was so bad that after waiting for a long time without any discovery, Chen Ziyang was more inclined to be his own delusion just now. So he put the compass in his backpack again and left the toilet.

Chen Ziyang, who wanted to turn around and go back to the hotel to rest like this, was a little unwilling, so he slowly walked back to the place where he was resting just now, and sat on the wooden bench again, while raising his attention and quietly listening to the sound coming from his backpack.

After waiting for a while, the clicking sound actually appeared again. Chen Ziyang licked his dry lips, he couldn't figure out the pulse a little, what the hell was going on? Chen Ziyang, who opened the backpack for the third time, saw that the inner disk of the compass moved on its own again.

As long as you sit on this bench, the compass will rotate by itself, and when you are just in the toilet, this compass will no longer rotate, obviously, whether the compass rotates or not, has nothing to do with whether you are standing or sitting, then the only difference between the two is the difference in location.

In order to verify his thoughts, Chen Ziyang once again walked in a certain direction with his backpack on his back, but as he walked, he put all his attention on the backpack until he heard the clicking sound of the compass in the backpack stop again, and Chen Ziyang knew that he had guessed correctly.

After walking back to the bench for the third time, Chen Ziyang listened to the clicking sound of the compass, and he almost felt like he wanted to go crazy. Now this clicking sound sounded to his ears like a kind of amulet.

However, Chen Ziyang, who had experienced many strange events, forced himself to calm down, and at the same time quickly thought about the reason why the compass rotated on its own in his mind. The change in one's own position, or the position of the compass, triggers the self-rotation of the compass, that is, the reason why the compass can rotate on its own is related to the position of the compass.

This shows that this compass should be giving itself a hint of something!

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