"I think back in those days, when we ate turtle meat and drank turtle soup, the hall was full of turtles! There were big and small turtles milling around, and there was a big turtle king sitting in the middle..."
Liu Shiba was dumbfounded and carefully chewed on this deceptive statement.
Except for Liu Shiba, everyone else looked speechless. What kind of cheating father would it take to come up with such a mean word?
After a while, Liu Shiba frowned, licked his dry lips, stared at Cao Xiong and asked:
"Old Cao, since you have heard of it before, please explain, what do these two sentences mean? What does it have to do with this Zhenzi chess game?"
When Cao Xiong heard this, he frowned and walked slowly to the side of the Zhenzi chess piece. He slowly squatted down and observed it carefully for a while.
After a long time, Cao Xiong replied solemnly:
"Your father said it took five times to find the correct way to open it, and he won't talk nonsense.
What we are studying now is how the patterns on this Zhenzi chess are related to the words your father said?"
Liu Shiba's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he looked up at the doorway composed of eight passages around the palace.
Then, Liu Shiba lowered his head and looked at the Zhenzi chess piece in the middle, and couldn't help but said in his heart:
"Let me put the previous sentence first, and let me talk about the last sentence. Can the sentence "big turtles and small turtles turning around" be understood as the eight passages around this palace?
And in the later section, there is a turtle king sitting in the middle, which I think is an allusion to the Zhenzi chess in the center of the palace."
Cao Xiong smiled slightly and said:
"Children can be taught..."
At this time, Elian Hu twisted his old face and said curiously:
"Then how do you explain the previous sentence?"
Liu Shiba looked back at Allen Hu and chuckled:
"I think back in those days, we ate turtle meat, drank turtle soup, and the house was full of turtles! This sentence is a bit particular.
I think back then, these three words represented an ancient legend. According to the legend, turtle meat is yin and turtle soup is yang."
Ailian Hu was stunned when he heard this and said:
"Isn't it right? The turtle meat should be the yang energy and the turtle soup should be the yin energy."
Liu Shiba smiled lightly and said:
"This is just a popular saying. In fact, turtle soup really refers to turtle blood. Have you not seen some people drinking turtle blood to strengthen yang? Do you think this turtle soup is yin or yang?"
Ailian Hu was startled when he heard this and said:
"That makes sense, so what does this sentence mean?"
Cao Xiong slapped his head fiercely, his eyes flashed and he said:
"What does your father mean, to do the opposite? The correct way to open this Zhenzi chess piece is to start with yin and then yang?"
Liu Shiba nodded solemnly and said:
"This is just our guess, and there is still great uncertainty. Didn't you see it says, five mistakes resulted in five deaths?"
Hearing what Liu Shiba said, except for the living dead from Qin Da, the rest of the group carefully read the handwriting left by Liu Shiqi again.
Suddenly, everyone's expressions turned bad...
Who is willing to stand here and open this chess game?
What if I make a mistake?
Isn't it bloody bad luck?
Liu Shiba looked solemn, waved his hand gently and said:
"You all exit the hall, just leave me here alone."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and each showed a different expression...
Cao Xiong watched calmly from the side and thought to himself:
This is a good trick, you can appreciate the harsh conditions of the world and see the various situations in life...
Thinking of this, Cao Xiong shook his head, left the palace first, and stood on the dusty steps outside the palace...
Seeing that Cao Xiong, who was closest to Liu Shiba, left first, everyone followed silently and walked outside the hall to stand with Cao Xiong.
In the entire hall, only eight living dead, Liu Shiba and Qin Da, were left...
"Qin Da, why don't you go out? Didn't you hear what I said?"
Liu Shiba glared at Qin Da.
Qin Da smiled naively and said:
"The master is in danger, how can we stand by and watch? The master is dead and the servant is humiliated. Death is nothing."
When Liu Shiba heard this, he smiled happily, turned around and looked at the people outside the hall, and secretly exchanged glances with a few of them.
Originally, Liu Shiba had never been sure who the Japanese spy was, but today's drama made Liu Shiba's confusion gradually clearer, and he also got some answers...
Next, Liu Shiba asked eight people from Qin to stand at the stone gates of the eight passages to deal with emergencies.
Liu Shiba himself sat quietly next to the huge Zhenzi chess, stretched out his hands, and started to start the Zhenzi chess.
Slowly closing his eyes, Liu Shiba muttered a few words silently in his mind before reaching out and finding the palace grid with the word "Kun" engraved on the outer circle of the Zhenzi chess.
According to common sense, Qian Kun Qian Kun should be in the front and Kun in the back, but my father's reminder is that Yin is in the front and Yang is in the back, so...
Liu Shiba closed his eyes and gently pressed his right hand on the word "Kun". The square on the Zhenzi chess piece shrank quietly.
The first step is very correct...
Everyone outside the hall was very nervous when they saw this. According to the metaphor left by Liu Shiqi, first press the "Kun" square, then the entire Zhenzi chess will be unlocked, and then other parts of the Zhenzi chess can be moved.
That means that from now on, Liu Shiba cannot make any mistakes!
Otherwise, there will be no recovery...
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Liu Shiba stared nervously at the Zhen character on the Zhenzi chess, took a deep breath, stretched out his hand again, and followed the steps to gently turn the outer chessboard counterclockwise.
"Da da da!"
Unexpectedly, the huge outer chessboard seemed extremely heavy, but it rotated without any resistance and made a clicking sound as it rotated.
Liu Shiba slowly aligned the word "Kun" with the word "Qian" in the inner circle, aligned the scale, and started the next step.
Everyone stood outside the hall, looking at Liu Shiba attentively under the light of the miner's lamp...
Liu Shiba followed the steps of yin and yang and carefully turned the chessboard one by one.
Half an hour passed like this...
Liu Shiba wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his hand and pressed the last word "Li" with trembling hands. The inner circle of the Zhenzi chess piece suddenly started to rotate automatically, like a precision instrument.
Everyone couldn't help but look at each other in astonishment. Is this a mechanism that could be built with the technological level of the Qin and Han Dynasties?
After the Zhenzi chess rotated, it immediately sank to be flush with the ground.
At the same time, the character "Li" engraved in the middle suddenly split into two halves like a Tai Chi diagram, each separated, revealing a dark, bottomless hole.
Liu Shiba collapsed on the ground, casually took out a big Chinese and lit it, took a deep breath, then turned around and said with a smile:
"Come in, everyone, the trap has been unlocked."
After hearing this, everyone took a deep breath at the same time, slowly walked to the dark hole, and cautiously looked inside.
Underneath the Zhen Zi chess is a dark hole that leads straight into the bottomless ground.
Zheng Weida is a modern soldier. Where has he seen such strange things? At this time, he was the first to lie down at the entrance of the cave and said with a smile:
"Underneath, this should be Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, right? There are so many rumors out there, but I didn't expect that I, Zheng Weida, would be able to see the true face of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum today."
Liu Shiqi stood up and looked cautiously at the dark cave entrance. There was only endless darkness below. Many years ago, there was already a person who went down first. He was his father Liu Shiqi...
At this moment, Liu Shiqi and his party could not control their impulses and curiosity: What will Liu Shiqi encounter down there?
What exactly is the place down there?
Is Qin Shihuang really buried underneath?
A series of questions came one after another, and everyone began to slowly organize their backpacks, preparing to climb down to find out.
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ps: Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, see you there. I've been a little busy these days. I'm thinking about what kind of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum I want to give you. Please bear with me!
