Lan Yue explained to Shen Chaixing: "The so-called array eye is the core position of a formation, or the key to solving the problem, the formation and mechanism design and even the design of the house garden will have an 'eye', just like people have eyes, each design will have an eye as a whole, and there will be a local eye in the specific part, such as the position of the stone crack in the hole just now is the eye position of the hole." ”

Shen Chasing Xingqi said: "Aren't all formations or mechanisms that can be seen at a glance?"

Lan Yue smiled: "Of course not, the so-called eye is from the designer's point of view, he will take this eye as the core of the design, and make an overall design according to certain rules, the eye of the formation is flowing at any time, and the eye of the mechanism is divided into true and false, that is, the living eye and the dead eye, for example, now this layer of the secret room is a dead eye relative to the lower layer, and the next layer is the living eye." Only from the designer's point of view can it be possible to break the formation or arrange the mechanism. ”

Shen Chasing Xing said as if he didn't understand: "You have been talking for a long time, are you afraid that you will find that you are also a dead eye after going down, and you dare not face it? With that, he raised his torch and walked into the hole below.

The two of them walked diagonally down for a while, and the road was flat, and an oil lamp was also placed on the stone walls on both sides at regular intervals, but there was no lamp oil for a long time. A few more steps ahead, there was a fork in the road left and right, and the two did not dare to separate, so they continued together. Suddenly, there was a "bang", Shen Chaixing kicked something under his feet, picked it up and saw that it was actually a short sword, although it was covered with dust, but after wiping it, it still had a cold light under the firelight. After walking a short distance, I found a helmet on the ground. With this little discovery, the two of them were a little excited.

Not far away, it was a fork in the road again, Shen Chaixing chose the route at will, and after going back and forth a few times, Shen Chaixing finally found the helmet again - the two returned to their original places.

Shen Chaixing was unconvinced and wanted to go again, but was pulled by Lan Yue, and said with a smile: "The layout of this layer is designed according to the method of the Nine Palaces Ecstasy Array, no matter whether you choose to turn left or right, you will return to the original point in the end, just like the legendary ghost hitting the wall." But there is also a benefit. ”

Shen Chaixing said, "Is this still good?"

Lan Yue smiled: "At least you won't get lost in it and can't get out." Some formations are designed to go in and not get out. ”

Shen Chaixing said: "Then does this array have what you said?"

Lan Yue said, "Follow me." Then he led Shen Chasing Xing forward, turned left three times, turned right once and came to a fork in the road, Lan Yue stretched out his hand to remove an oil lamp, sat down the lamp and turned left under the stone, and then pushed it in, and a stone next to it suddenly made a "click" sound, Lan Yue pushed the stone, and a stone door was opened immediately.

Seeing this, Shen Chaixing complained: "You already knew where the eye of the array was, just come over and open it directly, but you want me to take the lead in offering ugliness and watch my jokes!"

Lan Yue explained with a smile: "It turns out that I am such a sinister and cunning person in your mind! Actually, you haven't noticed, we have walked through all the intersections of this secret passage, and only after walking can I determine which place is where the formation eye is, so if you don't go in vain, you still have a lot of credit!"

The stone chamber was quite large, and the first thing they heard when they entered was the sound of gurgling water, and they hurriedly approached with torches to look closer, but there was nothing inside, and no running water passed by.

After Lan Yue came in, she looked at the stone wall for a long time and did not speak.

After coming over, he said to Shen Chaixing: "Let's go, the treasure is not in the Arctic Palace." ”

Shen Chaixing said: "So, this is also a dead eye?"

Lan Yue shook her head and said, "No, this is the Living Eye." Come and knock on the stone wall and listen to it. ”

After listening to it, Shen Chaixing found that the sound of running water came from here.

Blue Moon explained, "I say it's the Living Eye because it's a door, a door where you can't go out but you can come in. As he spoke, he led Shen Chaixing out.

Shen Chaixing asked, "The door, I don't see a crack in the door." Besides, I can understand how to get in, as if it was full of water outside. ”

Lan Yue said as she walked: "To explain this issue clearly, you have to use the method I said, consider the problem from the designer's point of view, and consider his original design ideas and purposes. Only by thinking about this question can we consider the issue of King Wu's treasure. ”

Lan Yue picked up the short sword that Shen Chaixing picked up and said, "This sword is a standard sword in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Zhang Shijie, the Momen giant, was also the privy envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, in charge of the Southern Song Dynasty military, when the Southern Song Dynasty court decided to retreat from the sea, Zhang Shijie let people establish this Arctic Palace here, and there were a large number of weapons hidden in the underground palace. This place is by the sea, and you can secretly enter the palace from the sea at any time. Once the Central Plains fell, it became the best place to land. ”

Shen Chaixing asked, "Where did his people sneak in secretly?"

Lan Yue said: "Do you remember those sea we saw yesterday? Put down the small boat from the big boat, you can row straight into the sea, enter through a secret passage connecting the underground palace somewhere, and the entrance is the stone wall you just saw, and there is no door on the stone wall, because the stone wall is the door." The best part is the water outside the stone wall, which is the underground water connected to the sea, if the bottom layer of the underground palace is discovered, or even the stone wall is found, no one will open it, because it will cause a large amount of river water to pour in, drowning everyone in the underground palace. ”

Shen Chaixing asked, "Since there is all that water, can't it come in either?"

Lan Yue said: "If I guess correctly, there must be a mechanism at the sea gate where he came in, the gate that controls the water of the underground river, when he comes in, let people lower the gate, and when the water runs out, he can open the stone wall from the outside to enter, and at the same time send someone to guard the gate, close the stone wall when he comes out, and then open the gate, and release the water to flood, seamless." ”

Lan Yue said again: "Do you still remember what Uncle Gu said about Zhang Shicheng's incident that day? I think it should be like this: after Zhang Shicheng and the other eighteen members of the Salt Gang fled into the Arctic Palace, they secretly joined up with the Momen people there, and the Momen took out some strange weapons for Zhang Shicheng to use, and of course, firearms, so many people rushed out of the palace with the so-called divine weapons and killed those Yuan soldiers by surprise. As for whether Zhang Shicheng escaped to the Arctic Palace by accident and met Momen, or whether he planned to meet there, it is unknown. In short, Zhang Shicheng got the help of Momen and succeeded in the incident, and afterwards Zhang Shicheng joined Momen, became the secret protector of Momen, and hid a treasure in the Momen treasure. ”

Shen Chaixing said: "I also heard Ji Tan Zongxi say that Zhang Shicheng is the protector of Momen. In that case, now that Momen should know and grasp the location of this treasure, what else are we looking for?"

Lan Yue smiled: "This is the secret of the secret, the Momen was divided into north and south in the Song Dynasty, Zhang Shijie is the giant of the North Momen, the North Momen was betrayed by Pu Shougeng back then, and the whole army was wiped out, but only the Arctic Palace survived, Zhang Shicheng should be a person from the North Momen." With the death of Zhang Shicheng, the North Momen has completely disappeared, and now the Momen is actually only the South Momen, and they don't know the whereabouts of King Wu's treasure. The only clue is in your hands. ”

At this time, the two of them had already walked onto the ground, breathed a breath of fresh air, and Shen Chaixing said: "How good the air is outside, some people like tunnels, secret passages or something." Lan Yue sighed: "The secret is like this, it always makes people heavy. ”

Shen Chaixing smiled: "It seems that you know the people in Momen, why don't you lend your hand and return it to them after finding the treasure?"

Lan Yue said: "I said earlier, it's your treasure, I'm just helping you find the treasure, so it's up to you to decide." However, it is too early to say this, let's find the treasure. ”

Shen Chaixing asked, "Isn't there any clue at all?"

Blue Moon shrugged and said, "Now it's certain that the treasure is not in the Arctic Palace and its dungeon. However, it is related to the Arctic Palace. Shen Chaixing didn't disturb Lan Yue's narration, revealing a deferential expression.

Lan Yue continued: "People often say 'mechanism arrangement', you and I have been down for a long time, but we have seen a lot of 'arrangement', how have you ever seen a 'mechanism'? Why? Because there is no treasure, there is no need to design a 'mechanism' to protect. ”

Shen Chaixing said disapprovingly: "This is not necessarily, treasures, treasures, can be hidden." Who says there must be an agency to protect it?"

Lan Yue said: "You don't know Momen to say that. Other treasures may not necessarily be protected by mechanisms, but the treasures of Momen must have mechanisms. In addition to being amazing in martial arts, Mo Zhai's ancestor is also a first-class skilled craftsman, and the world thinks that Lu Ban is the ancestor of the world's craftsmen, but in a book of "Gong Loss", it records Mo Zhai's many victories over Gong Zhai's deeds, and Gong Lose is Lu Ban. In the early days, in addition to the samurai, the people of the Momen were craftsmen. You say, can the Momen Treasure not design a mechanism?"

Shen Chaixing spread his hands and said, "This is just your subjective speculation, just like a butcher who kills pigs and sells meat may also be a vegetarian!"

Lan Yue smiled: "You are called far-fetched. Do you remember the words engraved on the back of your jade pendant?"

Shen Chaixing said: "I memorized it, starting from Beichen and ending with Yaoguang." Nine feet to nine, the sun is in the extreme sun. ”

Lan Yue said: "Beichen is the North Pole, starting with Beichen is the meaning of starting from the Arctic Palace, therefore, the treasure is not in the Arctic Palace, but it has something to do with the Arctic Palace, the Arctic Palace is a punctuation point, starting from this point, you can find the treasure according to a certain method calculation." ”

Shen Chaixing applauded and praised: "A master is a master, and the analysis is too good." Then are we going to find a place called 'Yaoguang'?"

Lan Yue smiled: "'Yaoguang' is not a place name, but the name of one of the seven stars of the Big Dipper••••••"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door at the mountain gate in front, the two walked over, opened the door and looked, it turned out that the Yunhe Taoist had arrived with a group of Taoist priests, Lan Yue immediately arranged for all the Taoist priests to clean the hall, and he and Shen Chaixing returned to the North Pole Hall to carefully observe the patterns of the Big Dipper, trying to connect the patterns with the words on the jade pendant.

After looking at it for a long time, still having no clue, then a Taoist priest came over, first saluted the blue moon, and then said: "Qiqi Dharma Protector Zhenren, the eighteen corpses have been disposed of, do you see whether they will be cremated or find a place to bury them outside? Also, will the bones of the Taoist friends in the original Taoist temple be buried after the ceremony?"

Lan Yue said: "You can decide such a thing yourself, ask Yunhe!"

After saying that, when I thought about it, I always felt that something was wrong, and suddenly remembered that there were 19 Japanese pirates at that time, how could I say that there were 18 corpses? The two of them hurried to the scene, and indeed there was not a single corpse, and it was the second Japanese robber named Noda that they had seen during the day.