Chapter 15: Tricks
How does the trick work?
When Bai Zhi asked Master Ban this question, the old man's face was stunned.
After a while, Master Ban smiled and said, "I'll take you to take a look, you may know after reading it." ”
Following Master Ban, Bai Zhi came to the most mysterious place of the Mo family for the first time - Yeshan Pond.
Yeshan Pond is not a pond, but a natural mine cave hidden in the belly of the mountain.
The two entered the secret passage from the central hall, and went all the way around the levels, before they came to a dark cave.
The entrance to the cave was dimly lit, leaving only a narrow path less than four feet wide.
Master Ban stroked his beard and his head, led Bai Zhi forward, and said: "This is the place where our Mo family makes and stores the trap beasts. ”
After passing through the cramped path that was more than two miles long, Master Ban took Bai Feng and came to the central hinterland of Yeshan Pond.
Bai Zhi raised his eyes and looked around, stunned for a while.
Yeshan Pond is a hundred zhang in circumference, about ten zhang high, and every ten steps around the mountain wall, a torch is hung for lighting.
In the hall, which was illuminated as bright as day, on the left was a row of white tigers that were taller than the sky.
The white tiger is golden, the main killer, and it is the only creation used to fight among the Mo family's trap beasts.
The hideous and terrifying shape, the cold teeth and teeth, and the huge beast paws are combined to form a terrifying killing weapon.
Master Ban led Bai Zhi to a white tiger of the machine, he rubbed the fine texture on the skin of the machine beast, showed a proud and proud look on his face, and said: "The white tiger is the only one that can be used to fight among the Mo family's machine beasts, and it was created by Mo Zhai, the first generation of Mo family patriarchs.
For hundreds of years, the sages of the Mo family have continuously improved the production techniques, and added wings to the old man's hands, realizing the dream of the white tiger flying into the sky. ”
After speaking, Master Ban flicked his palm and pressed a mechanism, the white tiger's eyeballs revealed green light, and the sides of his waist quickly collapsed, and a pair of wooden wings with distinct feathers stretched out from it.
Bai Zhi's face was strange, and he was surprised in his heart, this shape, this technology, is this an inappropriate ancient version of Transformers?
Ancestral cowhide!
Seeing Master Ban's smug look, Bai Zhi took over the conversation and said: "Seniors, ordinary people say that the tiger is the king of beasts, and now you can add wings to the tiger, such a skill is really unimaginable." ”
Bai Zhi sighed in his heart, this little old man who is not good-looking is the number one person in the Mo family today. His level of skill can also be among the best in the hundreds of years of history of the Mo family.
Master Ban laughed, his eyebrows fluttered when he was praised, and he looked at Bai Zhi's eyes, and he also had a little more recognition.
Bai Zhi is the new leader of the Mo family, and Master Ban has the responsibility to take him to learn the Mo family's mechanism techniques, so when he came to the door today, Master Ban did not refuse.
But the two didn't know each other well, and Master Ban just had the idea of bringing Bai Zhi here to have a casual look. However, seeing Bai Zhi so upright, the old man had a bit of seriousness in his heart.
He led Bai Zhi to continue forward, and introduced unhurriedly: "The Mo family has four spirit beasts, and the one I just showed you is the white tiger. And the one that Juzi took you to the Mo family before was called Suzaku. ”
The two of them came to stand in front of a fiery red mechanism Vermilion Bird, Bai Zhi carefully observed every detail of Suzaku's body, and exclaimed: "Swimming towards the North Sea and twilight, the mechanism Vermilion Bird is really the greatest creation of the Mo family. ”
The ancient version of a private jet doesn't cost fuel, tsk!
Taking a breath, Bai Zhi likes this magical era more and more.
Slightly remodeled, isn't this Suzaku a proper high-altitude bomber? It's too short-sighted to run away or something.
Hearing this, Master Ban's face was even more complacent, he wanted to pat Bai Zhi's shoulder, but found that he couldn't reach it, so he had to pat Bai Feng's waist stupidly, and said: "Boy, the Vermilion Bird can not only be used to pull people, it is also a good hand at sending letters." ”
Seeing Bai Zhi's questioning face, the old man shook his long beard, strode forward with his hands behind his back, and said, "A few years ago, the old man created a small vermilion bird that was only the size of a palm. In this way, the letter is both concealed and safe. ”
Bai Zhi frowned, and said suspiciously: "This Vermilion Bird is just a creation of a mechanism, if there is no one to control it, how can it identify the direction?" ”
This thing, it's not scientific.
Master Ban shook his head, and he said vaguely: "This matter is confidential, only the giant and the old man in the Mo family can know about it, don't ask around it." ”
Science is a fart, the Mohists don't talk about science, they talk about tricks.
Bai Zhi's eyebrows were lightly raised, so he had to be curious in his heart. The other party talks about the level, and he can't raise his fists.
"Senior, you said that the Mo family has four spirits, why do you only see the Vermilion Bird and the White Tiger, but not the Qinglong Xuanwu?"
For the mysterious but powerful green dragon, Bai Zhi has been curious for a long time. The power of the landslide when the green dragon erupted is still fresh in his memory.
Master Ban paused and said with a smile: "Xuanwu is water, naturally it will not be in this deep mountain mine, and under the ink regulation pool in the city, it is its hiding place.
As for the green dragon, the old man can only tell you that where you look, all of them are green dragons. ”
The first half of the sentence was naturally clear, but the second half of the vague sentence made him frown.
Everywhere you look, all of them are green dragons?
This sentence is mysterious and mysterious, almost like a riddle, if ordinary people listen to it, I am afraid that Master Ban must think that Master Ban is fooling him.
However, combined with the memory of the collapse of the organ city in an instant, an answer quietly emerged in Bai Zhi's heart.
"Hiss",
Bai Zhi was amazed, these old men of the Mo family were really playing.
After looking at Suzaku, Master Ban walked to a place and stood still, he smiled at his beard, and said loudly: "Next, I will take you to see the place where these trap beasts have been created, that is the real good place." ”
After speaking, Master Ban pressed his palm on the rock wall, and a round platform engraved with the heavenly stems and earthly branches instantly raised under the feet of the two, and the round platform slowly descended from the ground, and after a while, the two of them fell to the ground ten zhang below.
Bai Zhi looked fixedly, and there was really something else here.
It is a huge underground mine that is connected to a mountain cliff and the mountain wind howls outside.
The cave is surrounded by a turbulent underground river, which follows the earth's leylines and falls from the cliffs from top to bottom, resembling a waterfall.
Next to the dark river, the cliff wall is fiery red, decorated with diamond-shaped crystals, which look like agate, illuminating the mine and emitting a warm glow.
There were more than a dozen disciples of the Mo family in the cave, and they were fiddling with the wooden and stone mortise and tenon stacks on the table in front of the desk.
Behind them, there were already some half-finished white tigers, Suzaku machines, which were gradually becoming complete under the joint efforts of everyone.
Seeing Master Ban come in, everyone stood up and saluted.
Master Ban waved his hand and introduced to the disciples, "This is the new leader of my Mo family, Bai Zhi. The old man brought him here to have a look, and he just did his own thing, and left us alone. ”
"Yes",
All the disciples agreed one after another, turned to Bai Zhi and saluted, "I've seen Lord Commander Wait. ”
Bai Zhi nodded, and saw all the disciples.
He turned to Master Ban and said, "Senior, is this the origin of the Mo family's machine beasts?" ”
"The scale is a bit small," Bai Zhi said secretly with his chin propped up, but it was also in line with the current situation of the Mo family.
Master Ban turned his back to Bai Zhi and did not notice his expression. He looked forward to himself and said, "It is not easy to produce and maintain, and each one is extremely precious. What you see has been stored by the Mo family for many years. ”
Tricks are easy to learn and difficult to master, and there are very few who can be drawn to make trap beasts.
And each machine beast is made by hand, every bearing, every piece of scale armor, it takes a lot of time for the maker to make it, and there is no room for error.
Bai Zhi is still curious,
These beasts are so huge, but there is no source of power around them, and their operating mechanism is really beyond his imagination.
Picking up a diamond-shaped crystal from the table, Master Ban said slowly: "You ask the old man a question, and this thing can give you the answer." ”
After receiving the crystal handed by Master Ban, Bai Zhi was taken aback. This fiery red crystal is warm to the touch, with a hint of hotness, the texture of the crystal is unknown, but it looks as beautiful as a gemstone.
"This crystal is called Yu Shi, which is an ancient relic with special powers.
The origin of its name is unknown, but it is rumored to be a gift from heaven and earth left over from before the Zhou Dynasty. ”
Master Ban's voice was slow, old but full of energy.
He Fu introduced: "Mo Zhai, the patriarch of the Mo family, discovered the magic of Yushi, and he told his friend Gongyi Ban the secret of this secret.
The two worked together to create a mechanism that could harness the energy of Yu Shi.
It's a pity that the two have different philosophies about the trick, and in the end, the public loss class created the domineering trick, while the ancestor Mozi founded the Mojia and the wood and stone tricks. ”
As Master Ban narrated, the mystery of the Mo family's tricks slowly unraveled in front of Bai Zhi's eyes.
A secret is a secret because it is always hidden.
After the veil was lifted, the magical Mojia trick was no longer so mysterious.
With Yu Shi as the driving force, through the runes burned inside the Trap Beast, the energy of Yu Stone is introduced into the joints of the Trap Beast, so as to achieve the miracle of "Wood and Stone Walking".
This is the production process of the Mojia Trap Beast.
Easier said than done, making flexible joints is the hardest part of the technique.
In comparison, this seemingly strange and abnormal Yu stone is not surprising.
It is nothing more than a special energy source, which is not much different from coal and oil.
However, Bai Zhi was very interested in the mysterious source of Yushi's energy.
He shook the crystal in his hand, looked at Master Ban, and said clearly: "Senior, I am very interested in this stone, I don't know if I can ...... it?" ”
Slanting at Bai Zhi, Master Ban cocked his beard and said, "That's it, since you are interested, take a piece." But at this point, the next one is not an example. ”
Bai Zhi chuckled and nodded, and took it into his arms.
Master Ban led Bai Zhi to sit down, and he said with a surging face: "Do you know why my Mojia Organ City was built on this mountain cliff?" ”