02 The Way of the Dragon
It is said that Xie Yixiang had dealt with the Mo family's "rose thorn" in Yueyang City, and knew the Mo family's ability to communicate with each other, but she had just taken the risk herself, which can be described as an escape from death. At that moment, Shang Buqi threw several corpses of crawling monsters into the center of the lake, and sure enough, the "dragon" in the lake poked out of the water for the third time, still repeating the same action as the previous two times.
With the help of the firelight, Xie Yixiang's "poor thousands of miles" magic power can be seen clearly this time, the whole "dragon" is dull and black, and it is clearly cast with fine iron, it is indeed an out-and-out "organ dragon". Because all the details of the dragon's body are readily available, even the "dragon scales" on the body are cast separately one by one, and they are really lifelike, so when I first saw it in the dark light and blind crypt, I really thought it was a living dragon.
After solving this mystery, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief one after another, Xie Yixiang asked Ning Cui why the Tianshan Mo family would set up an organ here, Ning Cui smiled bitterly: "In the final analysis, the doctrine of the Mo family is just the four words 'love and non-attack'. Since there is a rumor that the 'Tianshan Falling Dragon' here is 'you can get the world', after the Tianshan Mo family knows about it, of course, they have to hide it with all their might, and they don't dare to make it appear in the world. As for the cause and effect of this, I don't know. ”
Then the three of them continued to discuss and find a way out, and Shang Bu gave up hearing Xie Yixiang say that there were several bubbling deep holes under the center of the lake, and suddenly became interested, and quickly pointed to the Big Dipper pattern on the rock wall of the crypt above the walkway and asked: "Are those deep holes at the bottom of the lake also arranged according to the direction of the Big Dipper?" Xie Yixiang was frightened by the dragon at that time, but he didn't pay attention to it, but now he thought about it carefully, and immediately blurted out: "That's right!" Although I only saw four or five deep holes, looking at the size and arrangement of the holes, it was indeed exactly the same as the Big Dipper decoration on the rock wall!"
Shang Buqi laughed, took out a handful of stone beads from his arms, which were the seven stone beads he had pulled out of the Big Dipper decoration on the rock wall earlier, and said, "This mechanism can't trouble me." If I'm not mistaken, the way to open the mechanism here is to use these stone beads to plug the deep holes at the bottom of the lake. ”
However, Shang Bu said that it was easy to say that if he really wanted to use these stone beads to block the deep holes at the bottom of the lake, should he block all the seven deep holes, or only one, two, or three? There are countless solutions among them, but there are only seven stone beads, and even if there are inexhaustible stone beads, it is impossible for the three of them to test them one by one. After some analysis by Shang Bu, the Big Dipper is the seven stars of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang, and the mechanism designed by this principle usually uses the brightest "Yuheng" among the seven stars as the hub, that is to say, you only need to block the deep hole in the "Yuheng" position with a stone bead to open the mechanism. Even if this move failed, the three of them still had six stone beads left in their hands, and they could make a second attempt.
At that moment, Xie Yixiang took a stone bead and dived into the depths of the lake again. Since she had already figured out the movements of the trap dragon, she could easily avoid it and dive near the bubbling deep holes. When she tore off this piece of aquatic plants, there were indeed seven deep holes on the rocks at the bottom of the lake, arranged in the direction of the Big Dipper, and the size was exactly the same as the stone bead in her hand. She stuffed the stone bead into the deep hole of the "Jade Heng" position, and there was an invisible suction force in the hole, and in a blink of an eye, she sucked the stone bead in, but there was no movement around. When the dragon in the lake was touched and poked out of the water again, Xie Yixiang waited for the opportunity to swim back to the lakeside, and then looked at the shape of the crypt, and there was no change.
Shang Buqi pondered for a while, suddenly patted his head, and blurted out: "Yes! The motto of the Mo family has been passed down from generation to generation is to 'know the white and keep the black'. Therefore, the method of opening the mechanism should be the darkest 'Heavenly Power' in the Big Dipper, and the deep hole of the 'Heavenly Power' position should be blocked!" Ning Cui couldn't help but question: "In the end, this is just a speculation by Shang Shen, if this mechanism designed by the Mo family has no rules to follow and cannot be inferred by common sense, then wouldn't we be busy in vain?"
But he snorted coldly and said, "Although you girl is scheming, she doesn't know anything about the art of organ information. It is necessary to know that the meaning of the existence of organ news is not 'closed', but 'open'; if you don't want to be opened, you can just seal it up, so why bother designing an organ to do this extra thing? And the method of opening the organ must be reasonable. Because of the design that goes against common sense, once the method of opening it is lost, no one will be able to open it, so what is the difference between that and directly sealing it? Since the mechanism here was designed by the Mo family, it should follow the purpose of the Mo family, if it is designed according to what you said, who dares to guarantee that the method of opening the mechanism will not be lost? In the end, won't it be difficult for the descendants of the Mo family?"
Xie Yixiang was afraid that the two would quarrel again because of this, so she hurriedly asked where the "Heavenly Power" was, and took another stone bead and dived into the lake. This time, after she stuffed the stone beads into the deep hole of the "Heavenly Power" position, she suddenly felt that the surroundings shook slightly, and it seemed that the entire pool of lake water was trembling. When she surfaced, she saw that the dragon's movement of poking out of the water had clearly changed, and the body raised on the surface of the lake was stiff and motionless, and it did not dive back into the lake like the previous times, and slowly opened the dragon's mouth. After half a sound, the whole machine dragon suddenly fell straight forward, and the dragon head landed right at the entrance of the walkway by the lake.
Shang Bu stood stunned for a while, boldly stepped forward to check this "dragon head", and then shouted excitedly: "Good guy! It turns out that this dragon itself is the way out, this dragon's mouth is the entrance, and the dragon's body is the passage of the road! The Mo family's machine technique is really amazing!"
Xie Yixiang and Ning Cui were dumbfounded, and hurriedly followed to check. I saw that the whole "dragon head" was cast of fine iron, and even the teeth in the dragon's mouth were readily available. Shine a torch into the dragon's mouth, the dragon body with the thickness of the grinding disc is hollow, and there is a similar design of steps underneath, which is clearly for human passage. Looking at the whole dragon's arrangement, it leaned out from the center of the lake and straightened up on the ground at the entrance of the walkway, which shows that the walkway in the dragon's body leads to the depths of the lake, which must be the way out of the entire crypt.
The three of them hurriedly cleaned up, bent down into the dragon's mouth in turn, and walked diagonally down along the walkway in the dragon's body. When the three of them entered the stone room in turn, they heard a sound of gold and iron behind them, and the corridor of the dragon's body had closed itself, leaving only a smooth stone wall.
Looking at the stone room in front of me, it is not too big, and on the wall opposite the stone room, a new walkway has appeared, and I don't know where it leads. Shang Buqi was already familiar with it, and immediately looked for it on the stone walls on all sides of the stone chamber, and sure enough, there was a square brick mechanism similar to before. He pressed down the brick, and the stone wall from which he had come moved to the sides, revealing the dragon's walkway again.
Shang Buqi couldn't help but mutter: "Strange, this series of mechanism designs are clearly 'easy to get out, difficult to get in'; to put it simply, it is easy to go from the inside to the outside, but it is difficult to imagine that we can enter from the outside to the inside like this." From this speculation, could it be that the Mo family's original intention in designing this mechanism was to make it easier for the people inside to come out? That is to say, there are people living in this 'Suli Tang Peak'?"
Hearing Shang Buqi's analysis, Xie Yixiang also felt the same way, and for a while, the eyes of the two fell on Ning Cui one after another. Ning Cui hurriedly smiled: "If it weren't for the help of two people, I wouldn't have been able to get here on my own anyway, just like the mystery of Fang Cai's 'Trap Dragon', if it were me, even if I wanted to break my head, I wouldn't be able to open the trap." So no matter what, I would like to thank you both for your help. After a pause, she added, "As for what happened here, I really don't know anything about it. I just heard my enemy mention it, saying that the 'Tianshan Falling Dragon' is hidden in this 'Suli Tang Peak', and it can win the world. I confessed to even the murder of the 'face-ripping demon', so why should I hide it from you in this matter? ”
But seeing Shang Buqi smiled coldly, he said lightly: "If you want to lie in front of me Shang Buqi, you girl is still a little tender." As he spoke, he glanced at Xie Yixiang beside him and said, "Xie Yixiang, didn't you just say that the 'face-tearing demon' is full of evil, and you can't tolerate adultery? To find out the secret of the 'Tianshan Falling Dragon' here, you and I are enough, since this girl doesn't know anything, why should we cooperate with her? It's better to arrest her and interrogate her slowly. ”