This picture depicts the scene of all the zodiac animals spraying water together, according to this point, it should be noon, that is, twelve o'clock at noon, but the hands on the bell tower from afar are pointing to seven o'clock, I don't know if it was the deliberate negligence of the painter, or the person who painted this painting deliberately? Luo Lie speculated in his heart that it should be the latter more likely.

This painting does not adopt the scientific perspective method of Western painting, but adopts the axonometric projection method unique to Chinese painting, avoiding the perspective method of transaction, so that the painted object is not affected by pushing away and pulling closer. Therefore, the bell tower and the hydraulic clock, which were supposed to be on the same central axis, have shifted left and right.

Sparrow said: "At first, I thought it was a mistake by the painter, but later I found out that this may be the painter doing it on purpose, and he should have left some clues in this picture." ”

Luo Lie listened very attentively, and the sparrow analyzed it meticulously.

Sparrow said: "If we regard the hydraulic clock as a clock, and suppose that the hydraulic clock points to twelve o'clock at that time, and we use the clock to represent it, then the hour and minute hands should overlap the position of the vertical line, and we draw a straight line from the center of the hydraulic clock, and then extend the line of the clock tower at seven o'clock and ten o'clock, and the two straight lines intersect, and there is only one intersection point." ”

Using a pencil and a triangular ruler, the sparrow accurately marked the intersection of the two straight lines, and then said, "What do you see again?"

Luo Hunting Sword's brows furrowed, this intersection was not the place where they had found the wood carving before.

Sparrow said: "There is a big deviation between the place where you found the wood carving and this position, originally I thought that this picture has nothing to do with the treasure place, but if we continue to extend the line of the bell tower at seven o'clock, we will find that the extension line happens to pass through the location where you found the wood carving before." ”

Luo Lie nodded, this was by no means just a coincidence.

Sparrow said: "In this case, I will draw another straight line from the hidden gold land, and see where this straight line leads?" She drew a vertical line from the marked point, and there was no clue from this straight line alone, after all, there are many buildings on this picture, and the extension of the clock tower hour hand and the intersection of this line are already outside the picture, and there is no reference value.

The sparrow draws a horizontal line from the axis of the bell tower, and the intersection point of this horizontal line and the vertical line just now on the picture is precisely located in the tin sea, and this point is precisely the center of the tin sea. Sparrow said: "These three points are the most special, and the possibility of hiding gold is also the greatest. ”

Luo Lie nodded, took out the picture that Mu Sanshou provided him, and wanted to find a possible treasure place according to the method of the sparrow, but take a closer look, on this map, there is no clock on the bell tower of Yuanyingguan, and the hydraulic clock only has the head of the dog-headed beast spraying water, and it is inferred from the hydraulic clock that the time is 戌時, and a straight line is drawn from the center of the fountain to the position of the dog, which happens to pass through the Zhengjue Temple, but it is not explicitly stated in the other line map. According to Sparrow, this picture should be fake, judging from the coloring and ink of the two pictures, as well as the line outline, it is obvious that it is the handwriting of one person, which is precisely what makes people puzzled.

Outside, the blind man complained: "Hey, what are you doing hiding in your room for half a day? ”

Arnold chimed in: "That's it!"

Not to be outdone, Sparrow said, "Is there anyone outside? Why don't I know?"

The blind man and Arnold had already carried a box of items sent by Shen Wangwei to the door, and the two of them were tired enough.

Luo Lie smiled: "It's hard work, come in and rest for a while." "I went out and helped carry the box to the study.

Sparrow complained: "This Uncle Shen is really, he said that he would send it personally, but he didn't see a single figure." ”

The blind man walked over and picked up Luo Lie's teacup and grunted a cow drink, wiped his lips after drinking, and said, "Sparrow, please go and eat shabu mutton at noon." ”

The sparrow glanced at him and said, "I know how to eat all day long, you see that you are almost fat into a ball, and if you continue like this, your wife will not be able to ask for it." ”

The blind man smiled: "It's okay, if I can't find a wife, I'll accompany Luo Lie for the rest of my life." ”

The sparrow glanced at Luo Lie, and said that Luo Lie is different from you. ”

Arnold said what the sparrow wanted to say: "Luo Lie is different from you, handsome and chic, pleasing to women, and still lacking a wife." ”

The blind man said, "He doesn't like women, does he?"

Luo Lie smiled and said, "You're poor, aren't you just a meal of shabu-shabu?" ”

Sparrow said: "What kind of big head are you, you are at my house today, and of course I am invited to help." ”

The blind man came to the chair and sat down, and said lazily: "No matter who invites you, you can eat well, in fact, you two invite the same." ”

Luo Lie knew that this goods were running the train with a mouthful, and when he came back, he said something embarrassing to the sparrow, and said to the blind man: "Don't be paralyzed, book a seat in Dongxing Building opposite, and you won't have to eat when it's full." ”

The blind man said to Arnold: "Golden Retriever, you go, the yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreign adult has a good face." ”

The golden retriever shook his head, knowing that the blind man was a lazy man, and he would definitely not be able to consume him, so he turned around and went out.

An Datou rushed in from the outside, lying down next to the blind man's fat legs, stretching out his bright red tongue and gasping for air.

Sparrow opened the box, and it was full of some items that her father, Ma Boxuan, had entrusted to Shen Wangwu before he left for Japan. Luo Lie was most concerned about Di Xuanjing, and Shen Wangwu had previously said that among the items that Ma Boxuan handed over to him for temporary safekeeping, there was such a piece of Earth Xuanjing ore.

It didn't take long for the sparrow to find the ore wrapped in oil paper, with the name of the earth crystal marked on it, and when he opened the layers of oil paper, he found that the earth crystal was about the size of a cherry. The sparrow took it out, inevitably a little disappointed, this spar was much smaller than he imagined.

Luo Lie took the earth crystal from the sparrow's hand and observed it with a magnifying glass, this spar was blue and transparent, somewhat similar to crystal, but through the magnifying glass, it could be seen that it contained a lot of snowflake-like substances.

Sparrow said: "This weapon made of earth crystal can kill those monsters?"

The blind man heard her say this, and he came up curiously.

Luo Lie weighed the earth crystal in his hand, although this earth crystal is not big, it is quite heavy to start, and its density should not be small, but I don't know how hard it is, I found a piece of glass and scratched it, and easily scratched a mark on the glass.

The blind man proposed to smash it with a hammer to see if it could be smashed, and the three of them, with curiosity, put the earth Xuanjing on the steel backing plate, and the blind man smashed it with all his strength a few times, and the earth Xuanjing was intact, but the iron hammer and the backing plate below were knocked out of the small pit.

The blind man sighed, "It's so hard." ”

Sparrow nodded and said, "No wonder your dagger is only a semi-finished product, the melting point of this earth crystal must be extremely high, and ordinary processes cannot integrate it with steel." ”

The blind man said, "It's a pity it's too small, how can this thing be used as a weapon? Looking at this blue spar, the blind man suddenly remembered one thing, when they were in the cave of Ling Tianbao when they were separated, Luo Lie and Yan Tianxin all the way, he and Zhang Longbow and Arnold together, when Zhang Longbow picked up a blue spar from the ground, which was almost exactly the same as the earth crystal in front of him. It's just that because of the appearance of the blood wolf at that time, they only cared about running for their lives, and no one cared about picking up the spar back in a panic.

The blind man told him about it, and Luo Lie secretly thought in his heart, but this matter was possible, and the place where Ma Boxuan picked up this piece of land Xuanjing should also be in Pale Mountain. At that time, in order to escape from Ling Tianbao, they entered the hidden soldier cave below, and accidentally discovered the underground mine, because they escaped in too haste, so they didn't have time to explore at that time, what kind of mine did this underground mine open? Now it seems that they are likely to mine the earth crystal, could it be that Xiao Tianxing already knows the value and function of the earth crystal?

The blind man ate a meal of shabu as he wished, ordinary people often don't think about tea and rice when they fall out of love, but this product is turning grief into appetite, since Zhou Xiaodie, he has completely given up the idea of losing weight and reshaping his image, and opened his belly to eat and drink, and from his round belly, it can be seen that this guy's weight has begun to rise sharply recently.

After dinner that day, Luo Hunt and the three of them sent the sparrows back to their homes, and just as they were about to leave, An Datou suddenly ran out from the blind man's side, and the blind man cried out, "Datou, where are you going? It's time to go home." ”

Suddenly hearing An Datou barking wildly, several people suddenly felt bad, and ran over at the same time, and when they arrived at the place, they saw An Datou standing in the courtyard, with his ears propped up, and he kept shouting ahead.

The blind man's eyesight is the most outstanding at night, looking ahead, but seeing that the bird cage that had been hanging on the corridor has fallen to the ground, the wren brother is dead, the death is very miserable, the bird's head has been taken away alive, the ground is scattered with blood and bird feathers, there are still bird feathers floating in the night sky and have not fallen, it seems that it is not too long since the wren brother was brutally tortured and killed.

The blind man's first reaction was that he was greedy, threw down the birdcage, and ate the wren.

The sparrow let out a coquettish cry and covered her lips with her hands, frightened by the scene in front of her.

Luo Lie's heart sank when he saw the scene in front of him, this wren brother was entrusted to him by Wu Jie to take care of it, and he handed it over to the sparrow, he didn't expect that in the past few days, this wren brother died tragically, and when he saw Wu Jie in the future, he didn't know how to explain? But what made him even more shocked was that the enemy who killed the wren brother should be nearby.

An Datou's screams did not subside but became more and more violent, the blind man felt that something was wrong, if these things were really done by An Datou, then it should take Brother Wren away and enjoy it slowly, or swallow Brother Wren whole, how could it bite off Brother Wren's head so pervertedly?

Luo Lie held his breath and listened, since practicing the meditation and pranayama method that Wu Jie taught him, his perception ability in all aspects has been unconsciously improved, although he can't reach Wu Jie's level of being able to detect subtle changes around him without relying on his eyesight in a short period of time, but compared to the past, his feelings have become much sharper.