Shennong Town goes southwest through the old site of the burial village, and then crosses the wild forest, which can be regarded as the edge of Shennongjia.

Mi Liyang took them to walk in the forest, and said casually: "Shennong Peak, where the Temple of Nongshen Shrine is located, is the highest among the peaks, and it is not particularly far from the current location, it is considered the door of Shennongjia, and this mountain gate is also the farthest place that hunters can reach, and after Shennong Peak, it is a deep mountain, and no one will easily go there." ”

"Brother Liyang, is it true that the hunter wants to tie a cotton thread when he enters the mountain?"

Yue Erpao remembered the experiences of Sun Daqiao and Tan Yanqiu, and asked curiously.

Mi Liyang nodded: "Yes, a few decades ago, hunters would tie cotton thread when they entered the mountains, so as not to get lost in the forest, but now it is different, and now there are few hunters who use cotton thread." ”

Yue Guanchao asked, "What is that for?" Aren't the hunters in Shennongjia afraid of getting lost? ”

Mi Liyang waved his hand: "It's not that I'm not afraid of getting lost, it's just that there are newer things that can ensure that they don't get lost, and of course they will be eliminated by such cumbersome and cumbersome things." ”

Speaking of this, Mi Liyang took out the things in his pocket, and everyone looked closely, the thing in his hand seemed to be a brass compass, with a red pointer and many traditional characters in the middle, which looked very delicate, and as Rao walked, the red pointer always turned in a certain direction.

"This is the compass?"

This structure is very similar to the compass, Song Siyuan took out her compass, saw the pointer shaking and rotating irregularly, and immediately understood that the thing in Mi Liyang's hand was probably not a compass, and her eyes lit up: "No, our compass is completely useless in Shennongjia, this point Boss Tan also mentioned, the pointer will indeed fail." ”

"Well, what you have in your hand is probably not a compass either."

Mi Liyang nodded: "This thing is called the Zhitu Disk, and the Sinan Compass is a kind of thing, but it can't be used to indicate the direction and direction, as long as it indicates the way in and out, as long as you follow the direction of the arrow, you can find the way in and out, even if there is no cotton thread, you won't get lost, it's much more convenient than the cotton thread." ”

Yue Guanchao listened to Mi Liyang's explanation, and became curious in his heart: "Then how does this thing work, the cotton thread can be smoothly entered and exited because there are traces of pedestrians walking, you don't have a thread or anything for this thing, how to ensure that the red pointer will definitely point to the right road." ”

He was really curious about this, the space in Shennongjia was likely to be randomly disrupted and reorganized, like a big labyrinth, without cotton thread to guide their direction, they were destined to get lost.

"You'll understand later."

The carriage walked, has passed through the wild forest to the mountain pass, far away from the forest vegetation cover, everyone got off the carriage, only to see the Shennongjia peaks hidden mist, such as the landscape painting scroll spread out in front of the eyes, endless, endless.

Mi Liyang picked up a stone watch near the mountain pass, and the pattern on it was almost the same as the pattern in the plate, that is, it was magnified countless times in the same proportion, and it looked like a basin.

The style of this stone watch, like the old style of the pendulum clock, is about a head taller than a human, the bell-shaped body stands on the square foot, the surface is a dial with etched metal lines, and there are several very strange spells around it, like a sundial standing in the sun.

As Mi Liyang approached the stone watch, the pointer suddenly rotated, and the red arrow finally stopped and pointed in a different direction.

He snapped his fingers: "From this position, go in the direction of the arrow, and you can find the next section." ”

Everything that happened just now was in everyone's eyes, and the Zhitu Pan was already pointing in other directions just close to the stone table, which made them very curious.

Mi Liyang coughed a few times: "This Zhitu Pan can guide the route, relying on these stone tables, from our location to Shennong Peak, there are probably dozens of stone tables standing in different positions, each stone table can be counted as a road sign and post board, just like the ancient post station, when the pointer of the Zhitu Pan is close to the stone table, it will continue to rotate to indicate the direction, so that it is convenient for people in a hurry to find the next stone table, and so on, of course, you can enter and exit smoothly without getting lost." ”

Judging from the situation just now, what Mi Liyang said is true, but everyone still doesn't know how this effect is realized, if these are just simple stone watches and brass pointer dials, it is probably impossible to have this magical effect.

Yue Guanchao continued to inquire: "Brother Liyang, how does this kind of thing look like a magic weapon?" Which old fairy made this? ”

Mi Liyang explained: "This is not an old immortal, from a very famous Luban craftsman in Xingshan County. ”

"Luban craftsman?"

Yue Guanchao heard the news and looked at Ban Shu, as long as it involved Lu Ban craftsmen, most of them were related to Lu Ban's secret arts, which Ban Shu couldn't be clearer.

"Then, have you seen this Luban craftsman?" Banshu asked.

Mi Liyang shook his head: "That's not it, this old craftsman usually has no head and tail, we can't see it at all, I came to Xingshan County in the early years, and made farm tools and saddles in the area of the city gate tower, only to hear that the old craftsman Rao's craftsmanship is very good, even a piece of rotten wood can also let him make a mechanism, it looks like coming to life, this old craftsman saw that it was inconvenient for the people to enter the mountain, so he used the mechanism to make a stone table, as long as the road plate is close to the stone table, it can guide the direction, and it has appeared since about twenty or thirty years ago. ”

"At first, the common people didn't believe that this brass plate could really point the way, until there were fewer and fewer people who got lost, and the people understood that brass was really useful.

Ban Shu asked again: "Brother Liyang, what is inside this copper plate, aren't you curious about what kind of magic there is?" ”

Banshu himself is the leader of the Lu Ban craftsman, and he still knows a little about Lu Banshu, no matter how delicate the ordinary organs and appliances are, they are dead things, and what can move is probably what secret art is cast, or what spell is added, a Lu Ban craftsman Rao skill, has been perfected to this point, and he has probably learned the next volume.

Mi Liyang retorted: "What's so curious about this, just be useful, besides, since this thing is the craftsmanship of the old craftsman, can we open it, some people have already tried it, but they can't open it at all." ”

At the mention of this, his face became mysterious: "This copper plate is so useful, some craftsmen want to open the copper plate to figure out the ingenuity, so as to rob the business, they also once thought of opening the copper plate, but unfortunately this thing can't be opened at all, it is almost tightly sealed, except for the pointer that can be turned, everything else is sealed." ”

"If you really break the mind of the cauldron and sink the boat, you can use a hammer to smash it alive, but the copper plate is broken by the chaotic force, and the parts inside are immediately like dandelions as soon as you open them, scattered everywhere, and you can't fight if you want to. After coming and going, no one has this idea, anyway, the old craftsman spares the craft, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can steal. ”

"Can you show me?"

Mi Liyang nodded in agreement, took out another copper plate from his pocket and handed it to Banshu.

He carefully observed the surface of the copper plate, which seemed to be a whole piece of copper, but in fact it was made of extremely fine copper wires accumulated with each other, forming a structure similar to a lid, each copper wire was about half a centimeter wide, in a flat style, similar to a cage and a bamboo basket, and the copper wires were knitted with each other, which was extremely delicate and strong.

The red pointer is located in the middle of the upper and lower copper covers, and there is a thin round shaft fixed in the middle of the copper plate, and the pointer can be rotated freely.

"How? How the hell was this thing made? Yue Guanchao walked to Banshu's side.

Banshu picked up the copper plate and explained: "From Brother Liyang's description, these copper wires of the Zhitu Pan are probably put together with each other, as long as someone destroys the structure from the outside, the copper wire can not be restored after it is loose, it should be a variant of the Luban lock, the pointer in the middle is connected to the round shaft, what really works is the thing under the round shaft, that thing can probably sense the mechanism on the stone table, and then turn the bearing, driving the pointer to rotate." ”

"This is probably the secret of the copper plate's guidance."

Banshu paused and continued: "To be able to create such a thing, this Luban craftsman does have some Taoism, which is not comparable to ordinary craftsmen. ”

Yue Guanchao guessed: "Could it be some people from the Ghost Fang family?" ”

Ban Shu was very sure of this, and retorted: "Impossible, I am already the best one of Luban's secret arts, except for me, Luban craftsmen can't find a second person who is proficient in Luban's style, this craftsman is unlikely to come from Luban craftsmen, perhaps, it's just an old man who is familiar with Luban's secret arts." ”

Mi Liyang looked at them: "Let's go, I still have to take you to Shennong Peak, where there is already a caravan repairing the Shennong Temple." ”

Everyone got into the car and followed the route guided by the copper plate, although it was rugged and difficult to walk along the way, but they really didn't get lost, and by noon, they had already come to the bottom of Shennong Peak.

After getting off the car, Yue Guanchao they can already see the Shennong Peak in front of them, on the top of the mountain, Sheji Temple is backed by the sea of clouds, located in a dangerous mountain, which is not only the mountain gate that protects Shennongjia, but also the boundary monument that imprisons Shennongjia, implicates the nearby peaks, forms a barrier in and out of Shennong's deep mountain, and stands for thousands of years like a door stele.

"Brother Liyang, when you get here, you can go back, it's no problem for us to go up the mountain by ourselves."

Yue Guanchao thought to himself, he couldn't let Mi Liyang follow him anymore, after all, they were still looking for the entrance to the Ghost Fang Otherworld here, and it was not convenient for him to know these things.

"Okay, I'll leave one for you, then I'll take them back first."

Mi Liyang left a copper plate and turned back with the courtyard where they came, and when they were far away, there were already craftsmen coming from the mountain gate.

"You're finally here, Mr. Oni Fang is waiting for you on the mountain."