"How is it possible?" exclaimed Fat Zhang, "how can it be possible to manipulate these room changes, what a huge and complicated mechanism is required?"

He turned his head to look at Tang Da, hoping that Tang Da, who was proficient in the art of mechanism building, would also support his opinion.

However, Tang Da's face became very ugly, both a little unbelievable and a little helpless: "This ...... Theoretically, this is not entirely impossible. ”

Zhang Fatzi stared at him in surprise, and he was clearly asking, my second brother is whimsical, and he doesn't talk nonsense, after all, he doesn't know anything about tricks or anything, why did you go crazy with it?

He raised his voice and retorted: "Do you know what you're talking about? Not to mention the high level of technology required to design such a huge and complicated mechanism, let's first talk about how many dynasties and how many years it has passed from the Qin Dynasty to the present, and where does the power come from if such an organ wants to maintain normal operation all the time? Could it be that there have been people operating it underground for generations? This is completely impossible!"

Tang Da was silent, if such an organ really existed, where did this motivation come from was indeed a big question, he couldn't answer.

Actually, it's not completely impossible. ”

A voice suddenly sounded, and Zhang Fatzi saw that it was Mo Qizhong, who had been sitting weakly on the ground and injured.

He had forgotten that among the people present, the Mo family was also famous for their skill in mechanism building.

Mo Qizhong said slowly: "As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, you have forgotten the controversy between the master Gongyi and the patriarch Mozi?"

Zhang Fatzi was stunned for a moment, and then understood what he meant.

Gongyi class, a master craftsman from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period, because he is a native of Lu, the world also calls him "Luban".

At that time, the king of Chu admired his talent very much, and sincerely invited him to come to Chu from Lu State, and made a large number of military equipment for him, such as "Mozi Lu Wen" has recorded that he made two kinds of weapons for the Chu ** team, hook and rejection, to help their warships advance and retreat freely on the water, and defeated the Yue naval army that was good at water warfare.

He has not yet made siege equipment such as ladders for the Chu army, and with the help of the public loss class, the Chu ** team was invincible for a while, invincible, and powerful in the world.

At this time, the king of Chu wanted to send troops to attack the Song State, and the Song man Mozi Mo Zhai, who had served as a doctor in the Song State at that time, traveled thousands of miles from the Song State to the capital of the Chu State for ten days and ten nights, and had a polemic with the Gong Loss Ban.

It is rumored that in the debate, in order to show that the Chu ** team has his help and is invincible in the world, he showed Mo Zhai all kinds of ordnance he designed and manufactured for the Chu army, but Mozi cracked them one by one on the spot, and did not fall behind at all.

In order to convince the king of Chu and prove his superb skills, the public loss class took out a large wooden magpie made of wood at this time, flapped its wings and soared in the sky, and it is said that it can fly for three days and three nights without landing.

Mozi said to him with great disdain: "Your wooden magpie is not as good as a wooden jurisdiction cut out by an ordinary carpenter in an instant, and if the wooden jurisdiction is placed on the axle, the car can immediately carry forty or fifty stones, benefiting the people." And what is the practical effect of this wooden magpie of yours? What the carpenter makes is good for the people and can only be called clumsy. ”

After listening to his words, the public loser class was speechless, and finally in the end, Mozi successfully persuaded the king of Chu to give up the plan to attack the Song state.

When Mo Qizhong mentioned this allusion at this time, he should refer to the wooden magpie that was made by the public loss class and could fly in the sky for three days and three nights without landing.

At that time, the public loss class was able to make such a miraculous thing, which shows that the skill level of the craftsmen in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period has reached a very high level, and even greatly exceeds the imagination of today's people, so it can be inferred that in the Qin Dynasty, the first emperor gathered the world's skilled craftsmen

A craftsman may not be able to build such a huge and complicated mechanism.

However, this still does not explain the problem, what kind of power has such a huge organ relied on for more than a thousand years to maintain its operation?

Seeing that Zhang Fatzi was still full of disbelief, Mo Qizhong explained: "Although there is no detailed description of the principle of the flying of this wooden magpie made by the public loss class in the history books, but in the classics of the Mo family, it has been recorded that the ancestor of the contemptible sect, Mozi, once had his own guess about this. ”

"Oh?" Tang Da became interested when he heard it, "I would like to hear about it." ”

Mo Qizhong said: "Mozi guessed that the belly of this wooden magpie should be hollow, and small animals such as mice were trapped in it, and objects such as pulleys were placed under their feet. When the wooden magpie is thrown into the air, the mouse will run desperately as soon as it is afraid, which drives the pulley under its feet to rotate, supplemented by the transmission machinery, then the wooden magpie can have a steady stream of power to continue to wave its wings and fly in the sky. ”

Listening to his words, Tang Da nodded silently, but Zhang Fatzi was full of disdain: "According to what you said, the same principle is in this underground, trapping some rats or other animals to provide power." How much power does it take to move the stone chamber, how many rats need to be hidden underneath? Besides, how many years can rats live? Is it nonsense that these rats have been passed down from generation to generation in the underground for more than a thousand years, and then continue to run obediently and step on pulleys to provide power?

For his refutation, Mo Qizhong couldn't think of an explanation for a while, so he could only be speechless.

Ye Feng didn't seem to hear their words at all at this time, but stared at the strange text symbols engraved on the ground in front of Xie Zhenliang with all his attention, as if he had an understanding, and suddenly raised his head and asked Xie Zhenliang: "What clues do you see from these words? What are these words calculating?"

Xie Zhenliang nodded, as if he was very satisfied with Ye Feng's acuity, and said, "My father once explained to me the meaning of these words, but at that time, we couldn't figure out what it really was. ”

Ye Feng asked, "So what exactly are these words calculating?"

Xie Zhenliang smiled and asked rhetorically, "Have you all seen the feng shui compass in the hands of the Jianghu warlocks outside that is used to determine the direction and distinguish feng shui?"

Everyone nodded, and Fat Zhang couldn't help but ask: "That's just a thing used by those swaggering charlatans to fool people, what does it have to do with these stone chambers we are in now?"

Xie Zhenliang shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate this feng shui compass, in addition to the Sinan who is responsible for pointing out the direction in the center, the carved plates around it are from the inside to the outside, and the layers contain Taiji, Liangyi, Sancai, Four Elephants, Five Elements, Bagua, Nine Palaces, Ten Heavenly Stems, Twelve Earthly Branches and Twenty-eight Constellations, etc., which simply contain the information of the world. ”

"Each layer of the compass represents different information, from the inside out, each layer is divided into many small grids, each layer can be rotated, with the time and place of various conditions, supplemented by the center to indicate the direction of Sinan, you can deduce the current auspicious and evil direction and other information. ”

"It is rumored that the feng shui compass was finalized by the Tang Dynasty Kanyu master Yang Yunsong's collection of various versions since the past dynasties, so that we have the appearance we see today. The compasses before him were not amorphous, varied, but generally similar in appearance, and it is not known who first created them. ”

His explanation made everyone in the clouds, and Zhang Fatzi couldn't help but interject and asked: "Second brother, you are proficient in the art of yin and yang arithmetic, and now you are talking about the feng shui compass here, could it be that there is nothing to be done, I want to ask God to ask the Buddha, a hexagram, and ask how the future is?"

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Zhen Liang smiled and shook his head, didn't speak, just silently leaned over and picked up a piece of rubble, and drew a compass in front of him.

When he was done, he stood up and said, "What if this isn't a feng shui compass?"

Zhang Fatzi was stunned: "What is this not a feng shui compass?"

Suddenly, Ye Feng's face changed greatly, and he blurted out: "You mean, this is a map?"

Map?

Everyone was taken aback, it seemed that not only Xie Zhenliang and Tang Da were crazy, but now even Ye Feng had a problem with his brain.

This is obviously a feng shui compass, how can it be a map?

However, Xie Zhenliang smiled and nodded, his eyes flashing with excitement: "That's right, if we regard this center as the mausoleum of the First Emperor, and the surrounding layers of small grids represent these stone chambers where we are, this is completely likely to be a map here!"

For his statement, everyone was dumbfounded and felt incredible.

Looking at the graphics on the ground, Zhang Fat Man smacked his mouth in shock, my obedient, this is from the inside to the outside, I don't know how many layers, each layer has more and more small grids, I really don't know how many stone chambers there are?

Could it be true that such a huge project, such an unbelievable thing?

His head shook like a rattle, and he asked, "Even if what you say is true, how can we know which one we are in with so many stone chambers, and how can we find the right way out of the predicament?"

Xie Zhenliang pointed to the strange text symbols on the ground and said, "This depends on the calculation in these words." If these are really as you said were engraved by Tang Ao back then, then he really deserves to be a genius. He didn't know where to get some records about this labyrinth, and with the data in these records, he actually deduced the operation rules of all the stone chambers in the entire labyrinth on his own!"

Seeing that everyone didn't understand, he explained: "Under this huge labyrinth, there is a huge and complicated mechanism of the machine, which controls all the stone chambers, and every time there is a vibration sound in the ground, these stone chambers will be like a feng shui compass, each floor will rotate, and the position of the stone chamber will change, so we will find that the room we originally passed through has changed, and we can no longer find the way to come,"

"This is undoubtedly the most powerful means of defense, even if people who don't know what is inside can break the protection of the outer dungeon, and enter here, they will be trapped in this labyrinth, never able to get out, and be trapped here alive. ”

"The First Emperor built this labyrinth, in addition to defending against tomb robbers who stole in, but also because this labyrinth is an allusion to Taoist theories and many heavenly and terrestrial branches in it, the First Emperor should believe that after his death, in the center of such a labyrinth, he can go up to heaven's will, gather the aura of heaven and earth, be immortal for thousands of years, and be able to bless his empire for thousands of years. ”

"Such a labyrinth originally only left a passage to the mausoleum of the First Emperor in the center, which was reserved for the coffin of the First Emperor. However, when the whole labyrinth was placed and the whole labyrinth began to operate, the position of all the stone chambers was disrupted as the trees on each floor of the stone chambers were different and rotated differently, and this passage did not exist, so no one could enter the mausoleum in the center. ”

Hearing him say this, a look of disappointment suddenly appeared on everyone's faces. Is there really no way to enter the mausoleum in the center?

"But," Xie Zhenliang said in a slow tone, "as time goes by, at a certain point in time, all the stone chambers will coincidentally turn back to where they started, and only then will the passage to the center open." ”

He pointed to the strange text symbols in front of him: "And Tang Ao, what he was struggling to calculate back then was such a time node. ”