Five hundred and fifty-five chapters Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches?
The arched tomb passage and square tomb passage have been passed before, but now only the circular tomb passage remains. Senior Brother Geng probably thinks that the path we chose before is wrong, and the rest may be the correct choice.
I shook my head: "Don't rush to act now, wait."
After saying that, I waved to Dawei again: "Dawei, fire another shot."
Dawei used a sniper rifle to break a new hole in the ground. I sank the glass egg into Yin Tang, which moved towards the solid wall directly opposite the entrances of the three tomb passages.
I can only wait and see, hoping that the next time the ground shakes, another tomb passage will appear on the wall.
I asked Liu Shangang: "Skinny Monkey, how long have we been in the tomb?"
Liu Shangang looked at his watch: "It's less than ten minutes or less."
I took out dry food and water from my backpack and said to the people around me: "Everyone eat something, drink some water, let's rest here for a while before leaving."
For Liang Houzai and others, getting to the tomb is not a strange thing. We have had the experience of eating in the cemetery in the past. Dry food and jerky meat are served. I don’t think the taste of these two foods is different from usual. But when Senior Brother Geng and Dawei were chewing jerky meat, their expressions looked like they were chewing wood. Both of them looked bitter and revengeful.
I asked Senior Brother Geng: "Is this the first time Brother Geng has been to the tomb?"
Senior Brother Geng took a breath and said a little embarrassedly: "I followed my master once when I was a child, and since then, I have a shadow in my heart."
I asked Dawei again: "Dawei, where are you, your first time getting to the tomb?"
Dawei: "This is not the first time I have ever been to the tombs that I have gone through, but none of them are as evil as they are now."
I can understand what he means as: he has placed in ancient tombs, but has never placed such an evil tomb.
Liu Shangang was right. It was fake that Dawei came to assist me. His real task was to monitor our every move and help the organization confirm whether we were insiders. Even my senior brother Geng came with the surveillance mission.
Thinking of this, I felt very upset. After that, Senior Brother Geng and Dawei, I had no more communication. I didn't even want to look at them. I always felt that their eyes became a little strange when they looked at me.
After eating, everyone's physical strength was restored. I sat in the middle of the tomb, staring at the solid wall opposite, and waiting silently.
I don’t know how long I waited, but the long-lost "crack" sound finally came from the tomb passage behind me. The ground shook, and a large amount of dust fell from the top of the tomb chamber, and a large number of ghost-eyed shovels also fell down.
The dust gradually dissipated, and three tomb passages finally appeared on the solid wall opposite.
I still chose the square mouth directly opposite, and the direction of its straight extension coincides with the direction pointed out by the glass egg.
As soon as I entered the tomb passage, I felt that the evil spirit in the air became stronger, but this concentration was always maintained within a range that ordinary people could tolerate. Senior Brother Geng and Dawei would not be affected too much.
I walked silently, Senior Brother Geng retreated to the middle of the team, and Xian'er and Luo Fei were following me.
After walking in this tomb passage for less than ten minutes, cracks and footprints appeared on the floor. Under the illumination of the fox fire lantern, dark green shadows cast in the cracks, which looked very strange.
But soon, a large section of complete stone road appeared in front of him. Every stone slab on the ground was intact, and the huge lurking in the tomb obviously had never appeared here.
I used fox fire to illuminate the bronze walls on both sides, all of which were solid walls, with no holes on them. I wonder how the monster left this tomb passage.
Later, we encountered a three-fork at the end of the square tomb passage. I stopped and measured the source of the qi field of Yin Tang with glass eggs, and chose the arched tomb passage opposite the three-fork passage.
Walking in such a tomb passage, except for the faint green emitted by the fox fire lantern, there is no other color around me, which makes me feel that everything in this space is repeating continuously.
In such a place, people's perception of time will become very numb. I don't know how long it took me to walk to the end of the arched tomb passage. Outside the tomb passage, there is another small tomb chamber.
The arrangement in this tomb is exactly the same as the first two tombs, but I found that the coffin cover in the middle was less grease, and there were two very shallow depressions on the ground next to this coffin.
I couldn't help but frown. This coffin should be the one I had opened before, and the depression on the ground was smashed out with the hilt of the green steel sword.
It seems that we went around a big circle in the tomb and finally returned to the origin.
Luo Fei, who hadn't spoken much all the way, also muttered behind me: "Why are you turning back?"
Yes, why did it come back?
I asked Dawei to make a hole in the ground and use the glass eggs to measure the source of the Yin Tang again. The direction of the glass eggs moving shows that we are indeed not wrong in this journey, but we are indeed back to the original tomb.
Could it be that the source of Yin Tang is constantly changing, so that we have followed this source for so long, and finally we are still going around in circles.
At this moment, a "crack" sound appeared in the tomb passage. I quickly took everyone into the tomb chamber. When the ground was shocking, I carefully paid attention to the connection between the entrance of the tomb passage and the tomb chamber. I found that when dust splashed, there seemed to be signs of movement at the top of the tomb chamber.
Three new tomb passages appeared on the solid wall opposite. I was not in a hurry to choose a way, so I asked Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai to carry me up, and then used a green steel sword to carve a trace at the top of the tomb. There was no ghost-eyed shovel in this tomb, and there was a soil layer at the top of the tomb.
When I put me down, Liu Shangang looked at his watch.
After a while, the crack sound came again, the ground was shaken, dust splashed, the entrance of the tomb on the left wall disappeared, and the new entrance of the tomb on the right appeared on the solid wall on the right.
Liu Shangang looked at his watch again and said to me: "The front and back interval between the two oscillations is twenty-four minutes."
I nodded, and when the soil was no longer falling on my head, I looked up and saw that the traces I had carved with the green steel sword moved to the left for a long distance. It was originally facing the center of the tomb, but now it moved to the base of the wall.
The soil layer above our heads will not move, and the tomb itself is the displacement.
Then, I used the glass eggs to test the direction of the source of Yin Tang again, and the glass eggs still pointed to the solid wall that had just disappeared from the entrance of the tomb.
I'm not sure how the tomb chambers move. If they simply move left and right, when I detect the source of Yin Tang, the glass eggs should move in a left or right direction, but it has been straight forward several times, which means that the location of the source of Yin Tang and the relative position of the tomb chamber have not changed much.
Of course, the premise is that the source of Yin Tang does not move with the tomb chamber.
After waiting for a long time, the ground shook again, and the three tomb passages appeared again on the bronze wall on the left.
Liu Shang looked at his watch and said to me: "The time interval has not changed, it is still twenty-four minutes."
I put away my glass eggs and walked straight into the square entrance of the tomb passage. This time, the evil energy in the tomb passage disappeared.
When I first entered the entrance of the tomb passage, Liang Houzai asked Liu Shangang: "When was the shock just now?"
Liu Shangang: "It's exactly two o'clock in the afternoon."
Liang Houzai pinched his fingers for a while, and used an engineer shovel to carve the word "Wu" in the tomb chamber. After entering the tomb passage, he carved the word "Xu" at the entrance of the tomb passage.
Seeing his actions, I couldn't help but feel a little confused and asked him from afar: "Houzai, what are you doing?"
Liang Houzai didn't explain much, but just responded: "I suddenly had some ideas, but I need to verify it."
After a while, he added: "Yesterday and the night before yesterday, Lin Zi's Qi field changed in the hour of Hai. If my speculation is correct, what we are looking for should be in Guihai."
After hearing what he said, I still don’t understand what he was thinking. I only know that he probably thought of something related to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches through certain clues.
Every time I walked in the tomb passage, the strange noise did not appear, and the ground did not shake. I moved forward along the tomb passage, and soon there was another fork. I didn't plan to use glass eggs to detect the source of Yin Tang, and wanted to walk straight into the square entrance that was facing us, but Liang Houzai ran over from behind the team and suggested that I measure the direction of the source of Yin Tang again.
Although I don't know what he was thinking, I did it anyway.
This time, the glass egg did not move directly forward. It moved a distance to the left and pointed to the arched tomb passage.
I asked Liang Houzai: "How do you know that the direction has changed? Have you discovered something?"
Liang Houzai shook his head: "I'm not sure whether my guess is right now. However, if my guess is correct, we should be able to return to the tomb just now at 6 o'clock tonight."
I put away the glass eggs and took everyone into the arched tomb passage.
When he came out of the tomb passage, the time on Liu Shangang's watch was 4:00 pm. As soon as Liang Houzai entered the tomb chamber, he engraved the word "A" on the floor and the word "Chen" on the tomb passage we passed.
After ten minutes, the ground shook and the tomb passage behind him disappeared. Three new tomb passages appeared on the bronze wall directly in front of him. Liang Houzai immediately rushed into the three tomb passages and looked at them. Then he pointed to the arched tomb passage and asked me: "Is this direction?"
I used the glass egg to sideways, and the source of Yin Tang was indeed in that direction. So I asked Liang Houzai: "How did you identify the direction?"
Liang Houzai waved at me and signaled me to go over and see. When I arrived at the entrance of the tomb, I saw the word "Chen" appear on the ground. This word was just engraved by Liang Houzai.
I stared at the carvings on the ground and Liang Houzai said to me from the side: "Brother Dao, if nothing unexpected happens, the next time we meet will be the one with the word "Wu" engraved."
I asked him, "How did you speculate?"
Liang Houzai: "I also heard from Liu Shangang that the time interval between the two vibrations was twenty-four minutes. I thought that the person who designed this tomb should have divided the twelve hours of a day into sixty equal parts, and a Jiazi was also sixty years. He divided the time of a day into sixty equal parts, which may be the yearly way of dealing with the heavenly stems and earthly branches. The tomb passage is used as the earthly branches, and the tomb chamber is used as the heavenly stems. The structure of this tomb should correspond to the dial of the heavenly stems and earthly branches."
After finishing, Liang Houzai added: "But I am still not sure now. Whether the thing we are looking for corresponds to the time when the forest moves abnormally. If it can be matched, combined with the nature of Yin Tang, we can basically confirm that we will find the tomb chamber and tomb passage corresponding to Gui and Hai at midnight tonight. The thing we are looking for is either in that tomb chamber or in that tomb passage."
Chapter completed!