Daomu Biji

"These iron chains extending from the bearing affect the message mechanism inside. Only one iron chain starts the correct decoding, and the others represent errors." I counted a total of five iron chains from Extend over there.

I was very surprised because I never thought that there would be such mature modular technology in ancient China. The most famous original modular technology in China is movable type printing. Modular technology can be used multiple times beyond geographical restrictions. Obviously, the mechanisms here can be used anywhere.

I immediately thought of the ingenious mechanism set up by the descendants of Zhangjialou over the Menyoubo bottle. Sichuan and Guangxi have different geological conditions, weather, and various factors, so we must ensure that the mechanisms set up on both sides are mutually exclusive. The connected institutions can be stable enough and will not be damaged after a thousand years.

Because the entire organization is for their own children and grandchildren, no matter which part goes wrong first, it may cause the death of their children and grandchildren.

If you are an ordinary craftsman, you can only use ingenious technology to design mechanisms suitable for both places according to the respective conditions of the two places. But that was impossible to use in ancient times, because the craftsmen at that time had no way of calculating what the situation would be like hundreds of years later. Therefore, mechanisms designed according to their respective geographical environments were two completely different things.

But modular things are different. It can ensure that in any environment, the effect will be the same wherever you put it. This is why KFC tastes the same wherever you eat it. Movable type printing guarantees that a set of typefaces will be repeated. Repeated high-quality use.

"So what?" Xiaohua didn't quite understand.

I said: "The ancients had the habit of considering problems from a practical perspective. For example, in the old printing technology, a full page of a book had to be engraved, and it could no longer be used after it was used. An ancient publisher found it very annoying, so he invented movable type. Printing. In this way, he can fire half of the carving craftsmen and keep only a few of the best ones as backup. No one will modularize for the sake of modularity. The modularization of the ancients was an adjustment made in anticipation of a large amount of repeated labor."

If the craftsmen here are using modules then the reason I can think of is. They don't want to design mechanisms for all links separately. Then, it is very possible that all the mechanisms here and the agencies in Guangxi use this kind of honeycomb-like thing. If the stuffy oil bottle knocks open those stones, He might see the same thing as I do here.

The designers of Zhangjialou before they chose the construction site of Zhangjialou. Everything has been designed and these mechanisms are ready, so they only need to choose a good place, then smash a few holes and install these modules.

"I kind of know what you mean." Xiaohua obviously understands my thinking better than Fatty. "Damn, this is a bit awesome. You mean, Zhangjialou is moving."

I nodded: "The biggest benefit of modularity.

It can be disassembled and taken away as a whole. You can see the style and various other traces. The iron chains here are only made of bronze, which shows that in history, the coffins of the ancestors of the Zhang family have been changed to more than one place. The so-called Zhangjia Tower must be their last time. "

Xiaohua smiled meaningfully: "I discovered another reason why my mother-in-law asked me to take you with me. To a certain extent, you are also a bit naughty."

I grinned, thinking that these words sounded like he never wanted me to be in a group with him before.

I squatted down. Shining a flashlight on the things below: "I think Xiang Lei is just a contractor. They helped the so-called Zhang family build the Zhang family building to house those coffins. But they didn't get involved more."

"Lei Siqi's later years were during the Cixi era. All the gold and silver in the Qing Dynasty had been spent. The Lei family was large and had extensive contacts. Whether it was friendly sponsorship or private work, they might be able to help the Zhang family build a new house. Ancestral graves.”

"Yes, maybe every time the Zhang family builds ancestral tombs, because these ancient buildings are built in very weird and inaccessible places, they have to find the best craftsmen in the world."

"Then, if they were at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, they might have had contact with Wang Zanghai." Xiaohua said.

I nodded, it was very possible, as long as this family really has such a profound history. And I believe that with the development of transportation, these two locations will become farther and farther apart. Maybe in the beginning, there was only a mountain between the cave where the "key" was placed and the Zhang family's burial site. Then it slowly became a province, and then the distance from Sichuan to Guangxi. If the descendants of the Zhang family are still there, they may have to move abroad next time.

This also explains another doubt I have. I have never been able to determine what dynasty the things here are from. If so, then some things will have the imprint of several dynasties after years of renovation, making it basically impossible to judge.

"Not to mention this, you are so awesome, can you guess which of these iron chains is correct?" Xiaohua asked me, "Or, we just need to try one by one and we will know. Here There are five iron chains, and if we pull the wrong one, the mechanism above will be activated, and the pig above will be shot into a hedgehog, or any possible mechanism, but we will be fine here."

Theoretically, we just need to pull all five chains and get out, but I don't know what kind of mechanism is set up above. If a huge boulder falls down and seals us inside, we will be dead.

"Nowadays, general passwords have error restrictions. Only if the number of errors exceeds a certain number, there will be a punishment procedure. However, the ancients were not so kind. This place is not used that frequently. Therefore, one mistake may be fatal. .We have to know exactly which one it is before we can pull it."

"What's going on, Dr. Xiaosanye?" Xiaohua looked at me, "I think I can open a class in Laojiumen called "Academic Tomb Raiders" and let you give a few lectures."

It’s funny in my heart. Sometimes it’s really easy to teach others, especially when I figure something out, I always want to say it out immediately so that others can feel the same way. In the past, fat people often had sudden ideas, and no one was there to analyze things with me. But Xiaohua can, so I said more. I used to think this was quite rude, but now that I've done it more often, I think it's okay.

I looked across the hive. I was lost in thought, and after thinking for a while I asked him: "What are your rules?"

"What do you mean by that? Modular? Just tell you. I have never seen this kind of thing before. We usually see the traps that have not been triggered clearly and then destroy them. Our rules are that we must see How does the information agency work? So, if this is our approach, we have to crack this hornet's nest."

The entire bronze ball is completely sealed and impossible to open, and it is full of water. We don’t have so much time to take risks. Moreover, after opening it, we may completely destroy the operation inside, just like when I was a child, I took apart the alarm clock and found that the gears fell out. A place that can never be the same again.

I tried my best to immerse myself in the water. Xiaohua helped me with lighting, and I looked at the chains. They were exactly the same. It must have been that neither the mechanism nor the correct chain had been used frequently.

"If you think so, look, the dead people we saw above all died in the hands of those hairs. We didn't see any signs that the trap was activated. If so, either Laojiumen is here or something Didn't do anything. Just stole those ancient books, or, can you think so. There will be no very devastating traps here." Xiao Huadao.

I understand what he means, but now I dare not assume anything: "This cannot be based on guessing. What if they really didn't do anything?"

"Impossible. I know Laojiumen and that group of people. Unless they encounter something very, very terrifying here that scares them out of their wits, no difficulty will make them stop. Instead, they must be frightened. To the point where they were all shaken out of their wits. I can’t imagine what it was like. The most direct evidence is the amount of blood on the iron plate.”

I think about it, and I always feel that something is wrong: "It doesn't make sense. Such a rigorously designed agency must have some kind of terrible measures. The ancient codes are not too complicated. If someone can try and make mistakes again and again, then he will soon be If you can try and find out the correct one, then there is no point in setting up such a strict mechanism. However, what you said makes sense. If it were just an ordinary information mechanism, Laojiumen would not be scared away. The old lady said that a huge thing happened here The accident caused heavy losses, and if there were just a few snakes, or some bugs, or some darts falling into rocks, it would be impossible for them to be able to handle it on such a large scale.”

Xiaohua nodded: "For example, those black hairs, or even those hairs outside, if it is on that scale -"

"What I encountered in Qaidam will happen. They may even burn the black hair on these jars, then carefully move them out one by one, seal them into glass boxes, pack them and send them to the National Museum. Therefore, any actual threat is not a threat to them. Even if a dinosaur here kills more than a dozen people, it will be shot to death by subsequent people immediately. However, everything in this cave has hardly been destroyed. They No barbaric methods were used, why?”

"What is your conclusion?" Xiaohua was a little impatient.

"I can only assume some details now, such as why they didn't get rid of those black-haired jars. They had so many people, so much time, and all the weapons they wanted. Even with all this, they still didn't do anything. Obviously there is only one possibility, that is, they think it is not necessary." I said, "Our old seniors, these old guys, don't take these cans seriously at all."

I can roughly imagine the scene at that time. They ignored the black hairs, and the lack of any damage to the jars showed that the eventual accident they encountered had nothing to do with these jars.

In the same way, the old lady said that something happened here that caused them heavy losses. It would not be an actual threat. It must not be some hidden arrow or falling rocks.

What can cause Laojiu Sect to suffer heavy losses on this scale will not be physical, but only mental.

The changes they encountered must be something they couldn't understand. If you can't understand, you can't defend.

I said: "They must have prepared everything and then activated the mechanism, thinking they could handle it. However, what happened was unbelievable and completely different from what they believed."

Xiaohua still looked confused, so I gave an example: "If you activate the mechanism and random arrows fly towards you, you can use your shield as a shield. If a rice dumpling comes towards you, you can use an AK47 to sweep it back. But if something happens that you can't understand at all, you can't do anything to remedy it. For example, you activate the mechanism." I paused, "Then you disappeared and never appeared again."

I have heard that very strange disappearances occurred in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang. A group of forest rangers disappeared in the mountains. Then the government sent people up the mountain to search for them. When they came down, three more people were missing. Armed police were dispatched and the masses were mobilized, and another person disappeared. These The person never appeared again, and almost a carpet-like search yielded no results. The old man in the mountainous area said that it was taken away by Granny Shan. In the end, the troops withdrew from the mountainous area and left the matter behind.

The grand scene of mountain patrols at that time would have been wiped out if there really was a mountain granny who was as big as Ultraman. Only when it cannot be explained can the power of wanting money and people be withdrawn.

"Of course the actual situation may be even weirder," I said, "because Jin Wantang said that many people were carried down covered in blood, and these people were all dead. However, we have not received confirmation from the old lady, so we cannot know the real situation. situation, so we can’t extrapolate further.”

"Okay." Xiaohua smiled, "What you said so much is just to tell me that you can't touch those agencies rashly. I agree, but this will not help our situation. Now that you are telling me, I will try again I don’t even dare to try it.”

The cold water stung the wound on my back. I couldn't bear it anymore. I took a few steps back. I could feel the burning pain in my back. Apparently the anesthetic was beginning to wear off. At this time, I saw a dozen thinner chains extending from the hive.

These iron chains are obviously connected to the final trigger mechanism. They are connected to more than a dozen small holes in the cave wall. I believe that as long as a few of the thick iron chains are twitched, several of these thin iron chains will definitely move together.

I looked both ways and immediately realized what I should do. It was actually very simple.

For an agency, there are actually only two options. a If the steps are performed correctly, the mechanism will activate the reward; b if the steps are performed incorrectly, the mechanism will activate the punishment.

There are three iron chains here. They will be pulled by the bearing on the other side and pulled in order. This is equivalent to a three-digit password. After that, the mechanism in the hive will be pulled, and the thin ones will be pulled to the cave wall. The chain inside activates rewards and punishments.

It's very simple. Most random pulling should be wrong. Only correct pulling can lead to correct traction. Therefore, we can experiment endlessly as long as we cut off all the thin iron chains. Most of the time, we will cause the wrong traction sequence. If we know the wrong traction sequence, we can immediately detect the correct traction when it occurs.

Although the order of the five numeric codes from one to five is still a bit cumbersome, compared to modern combination locks, this kind of manual labor is simply a piece of cake.

Xiaohua made a cool gesture for me. I didn’t believe he didn’t think of it, so I patted him.

The next thing is physical and careful work. We first number all the thin iron chains, then carefully break them with a hacksaw, and mark both ends of the broken chains to avoid confusion.

Then we tried them one by one in order, and it was exactly as I said. Most of the results we pulled were that the thin iron chains were pulled in the same order. There were twenty-three thin chains in total. The order of pulling punishment was: Four, five, eight, twelve, twenty-one.

Finally, we finally found a pull that was different from this punishment sequence.

Xiaohua recorded it, then used the carabiner to reconnect the chains and try again.

Watching the thin iron chain being pulled in an instant, my heart jumped into my throat, and then we heard an ancient and heavy sound coming from the cave wall.

The sound lasted for five or six minutes, and then stopped. I looked at Xiaohua, and Xiaohua looked at me. We were all alive and nothing happened.

We all know that we succeeded, and something must have changed in the stone chamber above. (To be continued)