Chapter 39: Never forget
More than 4,000 people were scattered in the labyrinth, like ants crawling in a huge disk.
Ground traps have appeared one after another, and dozens of people have ended this trip to enlightenment ahead of schedule.
Fortunately, after one person falls into the trap, the flap remains open, instead of resetting it to its original state, otherwise more people will be tricked.
The students hit the wall one after another in the maze, and they couldn't find a way.
Some people claim that children in the chess path can find a way out, because to practice chess, you need to learn formations, and the maze is actually a kind of formation.
Everyone followed the footsteps of the chess children, but soon found that they were also confused, and tried the yin and yang gossip and various formations, and some even used the technique of Qimen Dunjia, and in the end they still couldn't get rid of the result of hitting the wall.
Someone else came up with another idea: look at the stone bricks on the ground to determine the length and orientation.
But they soon found that this trick did not work, the stone bricks seemed to be of the same size, but in fact there was an error, and a brick seam line that looked perpendicular to the wall was actually oblique, and it was in this way that the labyrinth confusing people's judgment.
Qin Mo was not in a hurry at all, and while learning from the experience of others encountering a wall, he was thinking about the method of clearing the customs.
Because the height of the stone wall is more than three meters, it is difficult for the people who live in it to determine the orientation, which is an important problem that needs to be solved urgently.
Some people say that if you jump up, you can see other passages, which is easier said than done, when you stand in different positions, you see different scenes, unless you have a strong sense of direction and a strong memory, you can find a way out from a moment of picture.
After the tea, Qin Mo still couldn't find the trick, the most difficult part was that no matter where you went, the scene in front of you was the same.
He suddenly remembered a poem by Su Sansheng, two of which said: I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain!
In popular terms, these two poems say that because you are in the middle of Lushan, your vision is limited by the peaks and peaks of Lushan, and what you see is only a part, which is one-sided.
This is true of what you see in the mountains, and it is often the same when you observe other things, and if you want to understand the whole picture of things, you must go beyond the limits of the scope and get rid of the influence of subjective preconceptions.
Look up, look down, look left, look right.
In addition to looking, the other three directions belonged to the maze, and Qin Mo raised his head to look at the starry sky.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and he remembered the shadow wall he had seen when he entered.
The star map on the shadow wall corresponds to the stars in the sky, and the two should be related.
In fact, at the first glance of the shadow wall, he felt that this thing had a purpose, otherwise it would not have been placed at the gate, so he kept the entire star map in mind, as well as the lines connecting the constellations.
He turned slightly to the right, and the star map in his mind was completely integrated with the starry sky, and then determined the four directions of east, west, north and south.
Call!
A whirlwind blew in the Wen Palace, and he subconsciously checked it, and under the action of the Holy Dao Star, a fresh wind formed a cyclone with a diameter of inches at an unhurried speed, which was oval-shaped, and at first glance it looked a bit like a human eye.
"Don't forget!" his eyes widened.
This new cyclone is no stranger to him, and it represents something that will never be forgotten.
The reason for the surprise is that forgetting and single-mindedness are both high-level skills, which are things that can be encountered but not sought by scribes.
Who would have thought that this skill could be acquired just by memorizing a star map and overlapping with the real starry sky, no wonder people always say that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.
Qin Mo was excited for a while, if it weren't for the fact that there were so many people here, he would definitely shout out happily.
Take a deep breath to calm your excitement, it's fun to get a new cyclone, but the more important thing is how to clear the level, the more floors you climb the Starry Tower, the more you'll get.
Once the orientation is complete, the next step is to determine the composition of the maze.
In the labyrinth, everything he sees with his eyes is not real, but it is easier to be fooled, and then he makes wrong judgments, he looks up at the stars in the sky, uses the peripheral vision of his eyes to determine the angle of the passage in front of him, and maintains a standard distance of two feet with each step, and maps the scene he sees on the star map in his mind.
Walking forward, everywhere he walked, whether it was a dead end or an unimpeded one, all appeared in his mind, forming a new map.
Over time, he had completed most of the maze and the map was more than half complete.
Next, he used his dual-minded skills to continue exploring the path while searching the map for the path to the exit.
With the kung fu of two incense sticks, he found a precise route.
In fact, until now, he had only walked two-thirds of the labyrinth, which is not surprising, the correct route did not need to go through the entire labyrinth, and there was more than one route to the exit.
He hastened to what he thought was the best route, and in the time of a cup of tea, he easily found the exit, and a third of the sand remained in the hourglass in the sky.
As he stepped out of the door, he let out a sigh of relief, flanked by a stone staircase leading to the second floor, next to which was a four-foot-high lotus column with a rectangular groove directly above it, echoing the shape of a child's nameplate.
He took the nameplate out of his pocket and put it on it, and with a crisp "click", two numbers composed of white mist appeared above the capital: six and seven.
This shows that he is the sixty-seventh child who has cleared the level, and sixty-six people have completed the test before.
As for what method they used to clear the level, Qin Mo didn't know, but it turned out that his method was still very practical, and it was definitely a good result to be ranked sixty-seventh out of more than four thousand people.
After passing the confirmation of the lotus stigma, even if he fails to pass the test of the next floor, the next time Tong Sheng enters the Star Tower, he can go through the south gate and enter the floor directly from the stairs without having to re-accept the test of the first floor.
He retrieved the nameplate and strode up the staircase that curved upward.
After thirty-six steps, he came to the second floor, and when he turned the staircase landing, there were four stone doors of the same shape, the only difference was the stone plaque above the door, and different seal characters.
On the plaque of the first door on the left is written the word "qin", the font is so powerful that it looks like it is from a famous artist.
The second gate is the character "chess", the third door is the character "book", and the fourth gate is the character "painting".
In other words, children with different calligraphy paths had to choose different gates to enter, and Qin Mo walked towards the third stone gate without hesitation.
As soon as I stepped through the stone gate, the scene in front of me changed from night to day, but the sky was full of clouds, and it was gray at a glance.
In front of him is a forest of steles with a large area, with stone steles of all sizes.
He stepped forward, and the further he walked in, the older the stele became, and the edges showed severe signs of wind erosion, some of which were even cracked and missing, and the stele pedestal was even more dilapidated.
Further in, broken into several steles abound, randomly stacked next to the stele base, some have disappeared, only half of the fragment of the stele stands alone in the stele forest.
Along the way, these steles are very ordinary, although many are full of inscriptions, praising the life exploits of the tomb owner, but few are written by famous people, and most of them are written by unknown people.
Walking further, when he saw a "Yu Gong Gong Monument", his eyes involuntarily lit up.
This stele is the founder of the European body in the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Ouyang Xun book, when he was already eighty years old, the penmanship can be described as perfect, is the Ou Kai stele in the fine work, by the past dynasties of calligraphy scribes respected.
Qin Mo learned the European style at the beginning, and he was very familiar with this inscription, and now he can see the original stone of the inscription, so he is naturally very excited.
He walked over briskly and read hungrily to the inscription.
There was an obvious crack in the lower half of the stele, which affected the number of crosses, and he clearly remembered that the stele was broken into two in the Song Dynasty, so it was damaged, which should have been caused by this crack.
After this stele is broken, the lower half is missing, so that the rubbings after the Song Dynasty only have more than 800 words in the upper half, because there are many words that can not be read through, although this stele is very famous, but there are very few people who practice it, far less than the degree of popularity of "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming".
While this monument in the world of the sacred stone of the civil position has not been damaged, as a scribe of calligraphy, of course, he wants to see its full picture.
After the tea, he completed the reading of the whole monument, as if he had drunk a large glass of wine, and his whole body was refreshed beyond words.
But at the same time, he also realized a serious problem, looking at this layer is full of stone monuments, at least tens of thousands, it is very appropriate to call it a forest of steles, but how to pass the level?