After returning to the house they had been to before, everyone was a little confused.
"Your Majesty, how should we go this time?" Jing Fan asked.
Ying Zheng was quite calm, smiled and said, "How else can we go? There is only one door in this room that we have not yet entered."
Only then did the craftsmen realize that in this secret room, only the door in the middle had not been passed through.
"Now that we're back again, don't worry, take a rest and eat something." Ying Zheng said.
After the craftsmen responded, they put down their things, took out their own dry food and water, and started eating and drinking.
Ying Zheng was also a little hungry, so he sat down against the stone platform, put down the black iron snail in his hand, and took out his own dry food.
Li Si came over and sat down next to Ying Zheng, leaning on the stone platform.
"Sir, which secret room are we walking through?" Ying Zheng asked after taking a sip of water.
"It should be the room where we discovered "Lian Shan"." Li Si looked at the stone door from which he came, and his tone was quite certain.
"Why do you see it?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si lowered his voice and said: "In "Lian Mountain", unlike other objects, Wei Chen made some marks on the inside of the stone door where he came from. Generally, rooms where valuables are placed should be slightly special."
"That's right." Ying Zheng said while eating dry food, "I don't know which room contains the map of this secret room. I am looking for each one, and I don't know when I will find it before I can find the ultimate secret room. "
"Now, we have to be more patient." Li Si smiled bitterly, "The layouts in this room are all the same. We have long been unable to identify the direction, and there is no guidance, so we have to use stupid methods."
Guidance?
Li Si's words seemed to have affected something. Ying Zheng's chewing mouth suddenly stopped moving.
The old man in white once said that there is something that will guide Ying Zheng when he is looking for something.
Ying Zheng looked down at the black iron snail on the ground and slapped his thigh suddenly.
All this time, Ying Zheng has been using the black iron snail in the form of a key, but he has forgotten that this thing has another form of use, which is the pointer form.
Ying Zheng quickly put the half-eaten dry food into his arms, took out the compass containing the black iron snail from the package, unfolded it, restored the black iron snail to its normal state, and placed it on the compass.
"Becoming an Immortal in One Step"
When Li Si saw Ying Zheng's actions, he guessed his intention and came over.
The black iron snail trembled a few times, but did not spin and stayed there.
Doesn't this method work?
Li Si stretched out an index finger, pressed lightly on the tip of the pointer of the black iron snail, and then pushed it gently. The black iron snail then slowly started to rotate, but the "pointer" was not horizontal.
"Sir, this...?" Ying Zheng looked confused.
"This pointer can be adjusted in height. Different heights represent different categories that need to be found." Li Si explained, "The category just now was wrong, so it stopped."
It turns out that's the case. It seems that this black iron snail really has many mysteries.
The pointer of Xuantieluo rotated three times in the clockwise direction, and then stopped. The position pointed at was the stone door in the middle.
Ying Zheng said happily: "It seems that this black iron snail can really help us find the ultimate secret room."
Jing Fan and Tian Yi also came over and looked at the black iron snail on the ground.
"Your Majesty, can this black iron key still be used like this?" Tian Yi murmured.
Ying Zheng sighed softly and said: "It's strange that I couldn't remember the second use of this black iron snail for a moment, and I went through a lot of mistakes."
Jing Fan cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please don't say that. Didn't we also take a lot of the treasures in these secret rooms?"
"Having said that, the most important thing is to find the last secret room first." Ying Zheng said solemnly.
Li Si looked at Ying Zheng and said, "Your Majesty, since we have found a way to move forward, why not go back today and come back tomorrow."
Ying Zheng hesitated for a moment and said, "It's okay. These craftsmen brothers are carrying some things. It's really inconvenient. However, I want to enter the stone door in the middle and try the Black Iron Snail again to see if it really works."
Li Si cupped his hands and said, "I respect the king's orders."
All the craftsmen also put away their dry food, stood up and came behind Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng picked up the black iron snail, restored it to its normal state, and then walked to the middle
In front of the stone gate.
squeak...quack...
The stone door opened.
However, the gap in the stone door that gradually opened was different from before, and it was pitch black inside.
"Light the torch." Li Si shouted.
The craftsmen quickly took out their torches, lit each other on fire, and gathered around Ying Zheng.
"Same as last time, stick the torch into the stone door." Li Si said.
Everyone did not dare to neglect and quickly extended the torches into the stone gate.
Although the lit torch was white, it still beat violently.
What was different from last time was that everyone was confident and not afraid of anything. They all stood upright at the stone door, holding torches tightly, and their eyes were as bright as fire.
After a while, the torches in the secret room in front stopped beating.
The four walls, roof, and ground in the secret room all lit up little by little. This illusory feeling was much weirder than watching the sunrise.
Ying Zheng still hasn't figured out why the walls glow when they absorb firelight, but since Li Si doesn't know, there's no place to ask.
The secret room finally lit up completely, and Li Si walked into the secret room first.
Ying Zheng led the craftsmen and followed Li Si to the stone platform in the secret room.
After Li Si opened the cover of the stone platform, he shook his head gently and said, "There is nothing."
Ying Zheng nodded to express his understanding, then changed the style of the black iron snail, pressed down the pointer, and placed it on the ground.
The pointer of Xuantieluo turned clockwise again, three times again.
When he stopped, the direction of the pointer pointed to the stone door in the middle.
Ying Zheng ordered people to use two colors of paint to mark the front of the stone gate where they came and the one pointed by Xuan Tieluo.
The four craftsmen walked to the stone doors on both sides and painted one blue and one green respectively.
Ying Zheng looked around again, then he collected the black iron snail and said, "Let's stop here today. Come back tomorrow. Let's work together to find the final secret room."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The craftsmen cupped their hands and said.
Everyone tidied up, then followed the signs when they came and exited the door of the fourth floor.
Returning to Gucheng Palace, Ying Zheng ordered the craftsmen to put all the things they had brought back from King Wu's Mausoleum into the inner room of the study, and then asked Zhao Gao to find several vacant bedrooms so that the craftsmen could rest.
After everything was settled, Ying Zheng asked the imperial dining room to prepare a banquet.
After all, there are things to do tomorrow, so the craftsmen couldn't let go of the drinking, but they ate very happily.
After the banquet, all the craftsmen went back to rest. Ying Zheng simply tidied up the study and then went to Lan Ting's palace.
After repairing all night, everyone in Jing's class was in high spirits. They had packed up early in the morning and were waiting for Ying Zheng's order.
Ying Zheng also got up early, washed up, took everyone to have breakfast, and then headed to King Wu's Mausoleum.
After successfully arriving at the secret room he left last night, Ying Zheng used the black iron snail to open the stone door in the middle.
There is light inside this stone door.
Although he did not understand the principle of the stone wall's glow, Ying Zheng noticed that once the light was activated, it seemed that a series of secret rooms were illuminated. After passing through a certain number of secret rooms, the lighting mechanism needs to be restarted in the previous secret room.
It was still Li Si who opened the lid on the stone platform.
Inside is another bronze book!
Ying Zheng opened the bronze lid and saw "Return to Tibet" written on it.
The eyebrows are filled with joy.
Li Si once said that this is an ancient book translated by Emperor Tang who established the Shang Dynasty, and its status is similar to the "Lianshan" discovered yesterday.
Li Si took out a small tripod made of dense stone from the stone platform. Its shape was also one of the nine tripods.
It seems that there should be nine cauldron styles in this maze.
After putting away the "Gui Zang" and the small stone tripod, Ying Zheng changed the style of the black iron snail again.
But this time, Xuantieluo's pointer pointed to the stone gate on the left.
"It seems that every time you enter a secret room, Xuantieluo will redirect the direction." Ying Zheng analyzed.
Li Si nodded and said, "This shows that using the black iron snail to find the direction is correct."
"Then keep moving forward." Ying Zheng transformed the black iron snail back into the form of a key and stepped forward.
Open the stone door on the left.
It is indeed troublesome to change the black iron snail back and forth like this, but it is still much better than going in circles in the maze.
In this way, following Xuan Tieluo's guidance, Ying Zheng and others moved forward into six more secret rooms. Most of the stone platforms contained books on warfare. When we reached the seventh one, the stone platform was empty again.
The next secret room will be completely dark again.
Sure enough, as Ying Zheng expected, the lighting system in the next secret room needs to be activated again.
After the secret room was lit up, another bronze book was also found on the stone platform with "Book of Zhou" written on it, and there was another small stone tripod next to it.
In this way, all three ancient books translated by several ancient emperors were found by Ying Zheng.
"Lian Shan", a treasure book of Xia.
"Gui Zang", the essence of Shang.
"Book of Zhou", the treasure of Zhou.
Ying Zheng carefully put away the "Book of Zhou" and the small tripod, and continued to move forward according to Xuan Tieluo's guidance.
After passing through seven more secret rooms, there was no light in the next secret room. It seemed that there would be something unusual in this secret room.
After still using the white flame to activate the lighting mechanism, Li Si opened the stone platform in the middle.
Along the way, Li Si was opening the stone platform, the same stone house, the same layout, the same operation. If he didn't have some concentration, he might go crazy, but Li Si kept repeating his actions with a smile, and became more and more The more skilled you are.
In the stone platform, there is still a bronze book.
Ying Zheng opened it and looked at it, only to see four words "Tian Cheng's Mausoleum" written on the cover.
When I opened it, I found that it was written by ancient text symbols.
Although Ying Zheng has not yet understood all these ancient characters, he has studied the "Book of Changes" for a long time and can still recognize nearly half of the fonts.
"This..." After turning a few pages, Ying Zheng said excitedly, "This is the secret book for building this royal tomb!"
All the craftsmen came together and saw those strange symbols, and they were a little confused.
"These symbols look familiar," Jing Fan said.
"It seems a bit similar to the one on Jiuding." Tian Yi followed.
Ying Zheng calmed down, nodded slightly and said, "But it is similar to the words on the Jiuding."
"Ah?" Jing Fan said in surprise, "Could the words on the Jiuding be a kind of writing?"
The Jing family class has been studying Jiuding for such a long time, and even now they still don’t know that it is a kind of writing.
Ying Zheng didn't want to hide it, but he couldn't explain it too clearly, so he said softly: "This is a very ancient writing called oracle bone inscriptions. It is also written on the tortoise shells and animal bones that helped me find 'my weapon'." Plant words.”
Oracle, Ying Zheng temporarily named the ancient writing.
"Then this secret book is written in oracle bones. I wonder if the king can understand it?" Jing Fan asked worriedly.
"Haha, don't worry." Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Since I can find the magic weapon and sharp sword, these secrets will naturally not be a problem for me."
"That's good." After hearing what Ying Zheng said, Jing Fan and others also breathed a sigh of relief. As for why Ying Zheng couldn't be troubled, these rough guys would not go into details.
Looking at Li Si's hand, there were already three more small stone tripods, which had just been taken out from the stone platform.
"Is this the last secret room?" Tian Yi asked.
"No." Ying Zheng replied, "The last secret room contains the secret book for casting the Jiuding."
Even Li Si had never seen the contents of the previous message left by the old man in white. Naturally, these craftsmen did not know what was in these secret rooms.
Upon hearing Jiuding's secret book, the eyes of all the craftsmen widened, and the person in charge of painting hurriedly went to the stone gate to mark it.
Jiuding is a flaw in the hearts of these craftsmen.
"Let's go." Ying Zheng's mood became anxious.
Following Xuan Tie Luo's guidance, he passed through eight more secret rooms.
Sure enough, it was still the same pattern. The secret room further ahead was pitch black again.
However, the tried and tested method of activating the lighting mechanism with a torch was really not working well this time.
After beating violently for a long time, the white flame showed no signs of stopping, and instead became more active.
boom! ! …
There was a loud noise, frightening Ying Zheng and others, and they all took a few steps back.
