"Azu, look, there is a strange bird there!" Pei Mianman pointed to a place in the middle of the stone door, "Maybe the mechanism to open the door is here."
Zu An actually noticed that there was a strange bird pattern in the center of the stone door. The whole body was red, and the shape looked like a phoenix but not a phoenix, and it looked like a peacock but not a peacock.
It even looks a bit like his summoned beast "Bai Ming".
Zu An felt moved, and hurriedly summoned Bai Ming, directing it to approach the strange bird pattern. Unfortunately, no matter how it flew around or howled, there was still no response from the stone door.
However, as the sound waves of the chirping spread, the red light in the eyes of the skeleton warrior kneeling by the steps not far away gradually dimmed. It was a pity that this scene was not seen by Zu An.
"It didn't work?" Zu An frowned, feeling disappointed.
He suddenly remembered the record about the Yin and Shang Dynasties in the previous documentary. The ancestor of the Shang Dynasty people was named Qi. "There was a daughter of the Wei family named Jian Di who swallowed the eggs of the black bird and gave birth to Qi." Therefore, the Shang Dynasty regarded the black bird as a totem, presumably.
This bird is their totem black bird, so what does the black bird here represent?
While he was meditating, Pei Mianman suddenly made a new discovery: "Hey, the pattern of this bird is a bit weird. The stones around it seem to be movable, and there seems to be some grids in the center of the bird."
Zu An was startled and quickly looked at it, only to realize that there were indeed two horizontal and two vertical lines on the black bird pattern, dividing the entire black bird pattern into nine small grids.
At the same time, there was a circle of weird symbols around it. Pei Mianman tried it. Those small squares engraved with weird symbols could slide into the nine small squares in the middle.
"One, two, three..." Pei Mianman counted and said in surprise, "There are exactly nine numbers with symbols engraved on them. It seems that the door should be opened by placing these squares in the corresponding positions."
"Yes, Manman, you observed really carefully." Zu An came to the door and looked at the nine stones around him in trance. He had thought too much before and ended up going astray. Instead, he was not as pure as Pei Mianman.
That's why we can find these clues, "But what do these symbols mean? Have you seen them before?"
"No." Pei Mianman shook his head, thinking hard about what he had learned, "I have never seen any race's literature with this kind of thing. Speaking of which, the style of these symbols is somewhat similar to the two words on the previous stone tablet.
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"Really?" Zu An was stunned and hurriedly checked again. Now that she reminded him, he gradually became more discerning about these weird patterns.
Since it is related to oracle bone inscriptions, these nine numbers, plus these nine squares, can easily be associated with the mysterious Hetu Luoshu in Chinese history. There is a famous song in it: "Wearing nine shoes, the third one from the left
Seven on the right, two and four are shoulders, six and eight are feet, and five are among them."
Simply means that the sum of these numbers in each row and column and diagonally is 15.
It is very simple to fill in these numbers, anyone with a little bit of mathematical foundation can do it, but the problem is the surrounding squares
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It was different from the numbers he was familiar with, and he couldn't tell which pattern corresponded to which number.
There are four patterns among them that are relatively easy to recognize, namely "one horizontal line", "two horizontal lines", "three horizontal lines" and "four horizontal lines", which should correspond to "one, two, three, four".
But other ones are difficult to recognize. For example, there is a symbol that looks like a trident with a curved tail, a symbol that looks like a herringbone roof, and a symbol that has an "X" in the middle and a horizontal seal above and below, like a folding stool or a Mali.
A symbol for Ori's spring bed is ")(", which is like a pair of parentheses with the order reversed.
The strangest thing is another symbol, a cross.
Zu An subconsciously thought it was "ten", but after a second thought, he overturned this. After all, there is no number 10 in the Jiugong grid.
He was filled with regret. If he had watched more Oracle documentaries, he might have known these words.
I don’t know how those archaeologists knew these ghostly symbols.
etc……
Suddenly an idea came to his mind. He remembered that it was said in a documentary before that the reason why Chinese culture remains the same is because people thousands of years later can understand the words written by their ancestors thousands of years ago.
The reason why we know it is mainly because writing has also evolved from generation to generation.
The writing of later generations mainly evolved from the Xiaozhuan of the Qin Dynasty, and the Xiaozhuan also has some shadows of oracle bone inscriptions.
In this case, there should be a correlation between the oracle bone inscriptions and the characters of later generations. The complex oracle bone inscriptions are just that. Now we know that these oracle bone inscriptions represent the numbers 1-9. We should be able to find clues by slowly working backwards.
He looked at the trident icon with a curved tail, and kept turning his head to look at it from various angles.
Suddenly, he discovered that if the head of the trident was pulled down and the whole trident was flat, it would be the left half of the "nine". The curved tail behind the trident was exactly the hook on the right side of the "nine".
Those pair of back brackets, don’t they look similar to the shape of “eight”?
Hey, if this is eight, what is the "human" shape? It also looks like eight? Could it be two dots under six?
Then only five and seven are left. The "ten" symbol doesn't really match up with "five" no matter how you look at it.
So is the symbol for a spring bed five?
He tried to twist the "X" in the middle of the two horizontal sides of the spring bed in his mind, and it seemed that it could really turn into the shape of a "five".
Then "ten" is seven, and the difference between the two is one more hook.
Zu An tested it again and found that although his reasoning was somewhat logical, it was not without loopholes. For example, if the four horizontal lines did not represent four, many subsequent reasonings would be wrong, even that
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Eight and six, he wasn't sure if he got it right.
He was about to verify it again, but at this moment, another roar of "嘤嘤嘤" came from not far away. Apparently, the gluttons had already chased after them after devouring the bodies of their companions.
“Azu, what should we do?” Pei Mianman looked at Taotie looming in the thick fog, with black flames wrapped around his hands, obviously ready to enter the battle.
With so many gluttons, the two of them would probably be in bad luck.
Zu An didn't have time to think about it further and directly moved each character to the corresponding position according to the inference just made.
This gate is extremely delicately designed. The grid drawn by two horizontal and vertical lines has exactly grooves that pull the surrounding character blocks to slide within it.
When he slid the last character in, a burst of golden light shone on the nine characters, and then the golden light extended, filling the gap between the two doors one by one, and then along the contours of the upper and lower sides, the two doors were
The large doors were all surrounded by golden light.
The sound of gears coming from inside was heard, and then the two doors slowly opened.
Pei Mianman looked at Zu An in shock: "Azu, I really admire you more and more now. You can even crack such a difficult mechanism?"
She has always boasted of being smart, but when she looked at those weird patterns just now, she had no clue.
"Haha, in the future you will know that there are many great things about me." Although Zu An sounded very proud, he still felt ashamed in his heart. The reason why he was able to solve this mechanism was mainly because he took advantage of the time traveler. If
Without the knowledge of his previous life, he couldn't figure it out even if he tried hard.
"Beauty~" Pei Mianman's beautiful eyes wandered, thinking that Chu Yan didn't know why he could see his extraordinaryness in advance, but she didn't have time to think about it now, she pulled Zu An and ran into the stone door, "Taotie
We’re almost catching up, let’s go in first!”
After the two people ran through the gate, they subconsciously wanted to lock the stone door again to keep Taotie out. Unfortunately, they tried their best and still couldn't close the stone door.
Now that time was running out, they had no chance to find the closed mechanism, so Zu An had no choice but to pull Pei Mianman and escape inside.
“嘘嘘嘤!” A glutton howled as it came to the steps and was about to pounce into the stone door. Suddenly a cold light flashed through and its figure froze instantly.
The tall and burly skeleton warrior next to him slowly stood up from the ground, and a drop of blood slowly dripped from the Changge in his hand to the ground, making a soft sound.
Then the stiff Taotie body trembled, and its huge head slowly slid down from his neck.
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Some things were delayed today, so that’s it for this chapter. I’ll make up for it tomorrow.
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