As soon as I turned off the flashlight, I heard a leadership-like voice from the other end of the corridor, saying: "Uncle Tea, I'm so sorry for calling you to open the door so late."
Another voice that sounded very old said: "In other words, Director Xu, you're welcome."
Hearing the footsteps, one of them went upstairs, and the other was waiting at the door. Judging from the situation, this "Director Xu" is probably a leader of the Shanghai Medical Association, and "Uncle Tea" should be the person I was at just now.
The old man who locked the door last in the FamilyMart convenience store. Director Xu may have forgotten something in the office and didn’t have the door key, so he asked Uncle Cha to open the door for him.
Not long after, this old voice whispered in a slightly puzzled voice: "Strange, I remember locking the door just now...how..."
My heart trembled. It was over now. After I came in just now, I was so nervous that I forgot to lock the door!
After about three or four minutes, the sound of footsteps coming downstairs was heard, and then the leader's dignified voice said: "I've got the things. Look at my memory, haha, Uncle Tea, I'm really troubling you."
"Director Xu, you are so polite, where can I put my old face? I live so close to here, it is not troublesome to make a trip." The old voice agreed respectfully.
The two of them sang in harmony and walked out. I just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly I realized: Not good!
Since the tea uncle found that the door was unlocked, he would probably lock the door from the outside this time!
But I couldn't rush over and stop him, otherwise I wouldn't have exposed myself properly?
Sure enough, the lock cylinder turned twice and made two crisp sounds.
My heart plummeted and I hit rock bottom.
In this two-story building, all the windows on the first floor are sealed with anti-theft security. Only the area facing the street on the second floor does not have anti-theft security...
Do I want to stage a show of jumping out of a window in the most prosperous city in China, on the most crowded street? Even in the middle of the night, this road is still full of people and cars, just like the endless flow of crucian carp across the river.
What a shame! Why, how could I forget to lock that door?
I was like a child locked at home by parents who were busy with work. I sat there blankly, looking at the dark ceiling. I was helpless and just wanted to cry loudly. I leaned my whole body on the bed next to me sluggishly.
On the snake sculpture, my mind was in a state of confusion.
Time, just in the sound of the pendulum of the clock, passed by minute by second.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind.
That’s not right!
Why is this sculpture so strange? I can actually lean on it?
I straightened up and pushed it, but it didn't move at all.
Everyone, you need to know that this sculpture is not a stone lion at the door. You can even ride on it. There are just two palm-sized lace bases underneath the sculpture, with a spiraling snake on top... this thing
How many servings can there be?
Unless, its base is glued to the ground? What kind of glue is this? Is it still so strong after decades?
Or maybe it's not sticky, but some kind of mechanism?
I tried to turn it, but it wouldn't move.
Suddenly, I saw a dim light shining on another snake-shaped statue.
This place is as dark as ink and you can't see your fingers. The flashlight is also turned off. Where is the light coming from?
I suddenly woke up: it was the small hole in the upper left corner of the back door! I quickly turned around and saw a waning moon shining in through the small hole in the wall.
This small hole faces south. At this time, the waning moon in the southern sky can just illuminate it.
Wait, if this small building is now a completely sealed secret room... then...
There are twenty-four words written in the tomb robbing notebook of the uncle. The first four words are "The breeze is coming slowly", which refers to this small hole! It can be said that it is the only passage for this small building to exchange air with the outside world.
.
I grabbed some clues and couldn't help but get excited. I turned on the flashlight and looked at the two snake-shaped sculptures. I continued to think: In the notes, after "the breeze is coming" it says "the sound of the flute is melodious", which refers to this snake.
Let's make a sculpture! Isn't this surrounding and rising snake shape like the snake that an Indian snake charmer puts in a basket and dances when he blows his flute?
What does the next sentence "the one that escapes" mean? I thought about it and couldn't find an answer.
The twenty-four words written by the uncle must be related to this place, and there is no doubt about it. However, he has his own logic, and I still can’t follow his thinking. If he has been to this place,
If he had found any mechanism, I really don’t know how he came up with it.
Okay. Since the uncle can figure it out, and I still have the hints he left, there is no reason to be trapped here. I stood up and patted my cheek hard to wake myself up. If I can’t keep up with the uncle’s thoughts,
Why don't I think about it from other aspects? For example, why is this snake sculpture placed here?
If this is something left by the Freemasons, the Shanghai Medical Association should have disposed of it after moving in. Moreover, no matter how I look at it, I feel that this sculpture looks familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere...
I slapped my thigh suddenly, yes! I have seen it today, on the Shanghai Medical Association’s website! This snake-shaped sculpture is the logo of the Medical Association! No wonder they have been placed here and have not been thrown away. (See
Picture below)
The logo of Shanghai Medical Association, taken from its official website
However, this does not make sense: if the pair of snake-shaped sculptures are the logo of the Shanghai Medical Association, then they were placed here after the Freemasons moved away and the Medical Association moved into this small building. In this way,
They should have nothing to do with Freemasonry.
If the pair of sculptures were left behind by the Freemasons, but the Shanghai Medical Association did not move them because they resembled its own logo, there must be a coherent clue hidden in them.
I closed my eyes and spread my thoughts. A lot of knowledge accumulated in the past collided repeatedly in my mind. Finally, the shape of a pyramid emerged.
On the back of one dollar, there is a pattern of the "All Seeing Eye" and a pyramid. This pattern is related to Freemasonry, so Freemasonry must also be inextricably linked to the pyramid. It is said that Freemasonry was originally
The founder of the Freemasonry was the mason who built the "Tower of Babel", the Tower of Babel, so the Freemasonry is also called the "Free Masons". It is generally believed that the pyramid is the remains of the Tower of Babel after it was destroyed by God. Therefore, the Freemasonry
It is not surprising at all that the Franciscans are related to the pyramids.
I thought about it bit by bit: the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids advocated pantheism, and they had extensive animal worship. Among all the animals they worshiped, eagles, cats, dogs, and snakes were the main ones.
snake!
The snake in ancient Egypt was...
Two snakes entwined!
Yes, among the several commonly used logos of Freemasonry, there is the logo of two snakes entwined. This is also the connection between Freemasonry and ancient Egyptian culture.
I opened my eyes and softly said "ah": in my uncle's tomb robbing notes, the fourth sentence of twenty-four characters was "Fuxi and Nuwa"!
In ancient Chinese mythology, Fuxi and Nuwa both have human bodies and snake tails. Although they are brothers and sisters, they got married in order to reproduce the human race. Therefore, when the images of the two gods Fuxi and Nuwa appear at the same time, they usually appear in the posture of twin snakes entwined!
(see picture below)
Fuxi and Nuwa paintings, the paintings of each dynasty have the clothing style of that time, but they are all entangled
In this case, what I have to do is to join these two snake-shaped sculptures together. The sculpture I was leaning against must not be pushed, so I pushed the other one.
Still motionless.
Are you kidding me? These two sculptures cannot be pushed at all. How do you get them together?
Wait, if we follow the uncle's notes, there is another sentence before "Fuxi Nuwa" called "Escaped One". Judging from the logic of this "twenty-four character mantra", this sentence "Escape"
"Going out of one" should represent how to put the two sculptures together into the shape of twin snakes.
I sat down on the ground, stared at the two sculptures, and thought hard: when it comes to "escaping one", this sentence should be from "The number of Dayan is fifty, its use" in "The Book of Changes.
It evolved from "forty to nine". Some people also say, "The great road is fifty, the sky is forty-nine, and people can escape one of them." If there is no such escaped one, all the numbers of fifty in the sky will be filled, and there will be no
There will be no more changes. This escaped one is like the "catfish effect", which has the finishing touch and stimulates endless changes.
However, "escaping one" is a Chinese saying after all. The uncle used this sentence just as a reminder. This small building is full of Western architectural style. If it has any mechanism, it must be designed according to Westerners' thinking habits.
. Moreover, Freemasonry believes in reason and order...
I looked down at the two snake-shaped sculptures. Since they were not glued to the ground, they must be connected to the floor. So, the mechanism is in the floor...
Could it be...
The square tiles on the floor under my feet contain the meaning of "escaping one"?
Could it be that these square tiles are all movable, just like the intellectual game "Huarong Dao"?
I quickly circled the hall, looking for which brick was missing. But I found nothing. Well, if the people from the Medical Association find that a brick is missing, why don't they quickly find a mason to replace it? It's my turn.
Come to discover?
I was thinking hard, my brows almost knitting together.
The one who escaped...
The one who escaped...
Suddenly, I remembered a little trick called "Never Ending Chocolate." Although this little trick is simple, it has successfully deceived countless people's eyes. I won't introduce the specific content, and will just put a picture to illustrate it.
Right. (See the picture below. Readers who read the article on mobile phones should view the picture on their computers. Readers who have pirated copies please go to Mootie to view the picture.)
Never run out of chocolate (eating method 1)
Never run out of chocolate (eating method 2)
This little trick seems to create an extra piece of chocolate out of thin air, but in fact it just takes advantage of the different slopes to evenly divide the area of the extra piece of chocolate into the diagonally cut section. To be honest, it is just a trick. But this
It is really difficult to detect a deception if it appears in front of you silently and quite naturally.
For example, these square bricks under my feet.
Because one wall in this hall is arc-shaped, the square tiles against the wall have been cut to fit the wall. There is also a slope problem. I lay on the ground with my butt sticking out and looked carefully. The square tiles and the arc surface
There is indeed a gap between the walls. If it weren't for this posture, it would be really difficult to find it.
I immediately started to do it, trying again and again, moving the square bricks up, down, left, and right. Some square bricks could not be moved, which showed that there was only one correct way to move. I almost felt that I was about to use up all my brain cells, and finally
, a complete square brick gap was exposed. At this time, the square brick against the curved wall had only moved one-third.
Following the same pattern, the other two-thirds of the square tiles were also moved. In the end, a total of three complete square tile gaps appeared on the ground.
I couldn't help but laugh.
The distance between the two snake-shaped sculptures is exactly three square bricks.