treasure hunter

At the end of the bronze bridge, Pei Miao stepped on the stone ground. Ah Fa and Yao Wenhu used their flashlights to shine forward, but nothing changed in front of them. It was still a long bridge leading to endless darkness.

The difference is that the current bridge is made of stone.

After walking forward for tens of meters, Yao Wenhu couldn't help sighing in a low voice: "How big is this cave..."

Suddenly, Pei Miao said, "There is something ahead."

Ah Fa and Yao Wenhu immediately focused the light of their flashlights in front of them, and sure enough they saw two rows of people standing in front of them, blocking their way.

"Someone!" Yao Wenhu exclaimed.

Pei Miao took a closer look and said, "It looks like a statue, take a closer look."

The three of them slowed down and walked forward cautiously. When they were seven or eight meters away, they finally saw clearly that the people standing in front of them were indeed not people, but they were not statues either, but a row of puppets.

After they approached, they could see that there were six puppets standing side by side. One meter behind the puppets was an endless abyss with no way out.

Pei Miao said: "It seems to be an old rule. Only when the password is cracked can there be a way. Now it should be a question."

Ah Fa said: "This time is the fourth question, 'Ten Fingers with Two Hands', look at the hands of these puppets."

Pei Miao and Yao Wenhu looked at the hands of these puppets, and saw that some of these puppets had both hands intact, and some had only one hand.

Pei Miao inspected the internal structure of these puppets with his whole body, and found that the internal structure of these puppets is full of mechanisms and precision gears, and counting from the right, the fourth puppet is a bit special, it has healthy hands, and all ten fingers are connected with very thin The steel wire leads to the endless darkness ahead.

Pei Miao shone a flashlight on the puppet's hands, and said, "Ah Fa, look, this puppet has steel wires in its hands."

Ah Fa also shone a flashlight on the puppet's hand, and looked at the direction of the steel wire. Then he looked at the other puppets, and found that the fingers of other puppets were not connected to the steel wire.

Ah Fa thought for a while, then suddenly said: "I see, the mechanism is on the puppet in the middle."

Yao Wenhu was puzzled and asked, "Then why put six puppets here, in order to confuse us?"

Ah Fa said: "The purpose of putting six puppets is to make a question. This question is called the two-handed ten-finger question, which is the conversion between binary and decimal. 0 and 1, there is no 2, the decimal system is 0 to 9, there is no 10, you see the arms of these puppets, some have one arm, some have two arms, one arm represents 0, two arms represent 1, the ancients were in accordance with the right to the left, then the binary number given in this question is 110101."

Yao Wenhu blinked his eyes and said, "Although I don't understand, I think it's very powerful."

Pei Miao said, "Ah Fa, you do the calculation."

Ah Fa smiled, and said, "I've already done the calculation, just enter the answer directly."

Yao Wenhu asked: "How to input?"

Ah Fa said, "It's on the puppet's finger."

As he spoke, he walked to the puppet whose fingers were connected to steel wires, and curled up the two fingers of the puppet's right hand. In this way, only three fingers were left straight on the right hand of the puppet, and five fingers were still straight on the left hand. .

Immediately, they heard a sound coming from the darkness in front of them. This was the sound produced by mechanical friction, a bit like the cry of an elephant.

They shone their flashlights forward, and soon, they finally saw it. They saw a huge suspension bridge, held by steel cables, slowly falling down.

Yao Wenhu exclaimed, "Damn, it's another big project!"

Ah Fa laughed and said, "It's no surprise."

The suspension bridge descended very slowly, and it took three or four minutes for it to stabilize completely. Pei Miao and the others bypassed the puppets, stepped onto the suspension bridge, and continued on their way.

The suspension bridge is made of wood with a total length of about 50 meters. After the suspension bridge is completed, everything seems to return to the original state. It is still a stone bridge and still leads to endless darkness.

But soon, they discovered the difference. When they looked up, they could see a little light appearing from a high place, like stars in the dark night.

Seeing this, Ah Fa excitedly said: "It seems that we are going to the fifth question."

Pei Miao asked, "The fifth question is... 28 Su Zhou Tianjie?"

Ah Fa nodded: "Yes, the dots of light we see now should represent the 28 constellations. This place is really interesting, and I like it more and more."

Yao Wenhu gave Ah Fa a weird look, and then said two words: "Pervert."

Finally, the stone bridge came to an end, and they came to a huge platform. On the platform was a bronze armillary sphere as tall as a man. Behind the armillary sphere was a huge stone gate.

The stone gate is a pair of doors, and there are two rows of large characters engraved on the door, because most of them are traditional characters, Yao Wenhu asked Pei Miao: "Pei Miao, what characters are engraved on the door?"

Pei Miao illuminated the words on the stone gate with a flashlight, and read out: "To the extent of the void, there is nothing to rely on in terms of celestial phenomena and geography, but I am the only one to rely on. The evidence is all empty. The master of the West City——Liang Siqin."

Ah Fa was not good at ancient Chinese, so he asked, "What do these two sentences mean?"

Pei Miao said: "It can be generally understood that there are too many variables in the sky and the earth, and there is nothing that can be relied on. The only thing that can be relied on is the self; the dead are gone, and the future, who can explain clearly, Hetu Luoshu predicts the future , are all falsehoods.”

Yao Wenhu asked, "What does Liang Siqin, the lord of the West City, mean?"

Pei Miao said: "That's the signature, the Lord of the West City is the title, and Liang Siqin is the name of the person."

Ah Fa said: "I have only heard of Liang Sicheng, not Liang Siqin."

Pei Miao knew that since Liang Siqin was able to create such a magnificent underground palace, his arithmetic and physics achievements were absolutely astonishing in that era, but there is no record of him in history, and there must be a special reason, so he sighed: "I think he is a reclusive expert, so he won't enter the history books."

Ah Fa turned his head to look at the armillary sphere on the platform, and said, "This level should be related to this armillary sphere."

Pei Miao nodded, and began to examine the armillary sphere with his whole body. He didn't know much about such things as the armillary sphere, but he just checked its internal structure. Sure enough, the armillary sphere was also connected to a mechanism.

Ah Fa walked around the armillary sphere, observed carefully for a long time, and said: "Yes, there are 28 complete constellations on this armillary sphere. According to my guess, this question should ask us to push the armillary sphere to rotate by hand. Simulate a cycle of 28 constellations."

Pei Miao asked, "Is it difficult?"

Ah Fa said: "It's a bit difficult. I may not be able to finish it by myself. I need your help?"

Yao Wenhu saw that he could finally come in handy, so he hurriedly asked, "How can I help?"

Ah Fa started pointing Jiangshan, and said: "After I push the main ring to rotate, Pei Miao, you push the ring from left to right at a speed of 3 centimeters per second. Yao Wenhu, you stand by in front of this small ring. You push like, you push from right to left, the speed is 1 centimeter per second, I will control the other rings, pay attention, the speed must be accurate, and the direction must not be mistaken, otherwise there will be mistakes.”

"Okay." Pei Miao and Yao Wenhu both nodded and walked to the designated ring.

Ah Fa said: "The position is wrong, Yao Wenhu, you move one meter to the left."

Yao Wenhu said: "But then I won't be able to reach the ring."

Ah Fa explained: "At that time, the ring will turn in front of you."

"Oh, that's right." Yao Wenhu suddenly realized, and moved one meter to the left.

After the three were ready, Ah Fa counted down "three, two, one!"

After finishing speaking, Ah Fa pushed the main ring, and the armillary sphere turned immediately. As soon as the main ring turned, the whole armillary sphere turned, and Pei Miao immediately turned the ring he was in charge of, at a very accurate speed of three centimeters per second.

Ah Fa carefully stared at the armillary sphere, not daring to make a mistake, after more than ten meters, Ah Fa said: "Yao Wenhu is ready!"

Yao Wenhu immediately fixed his eyes on the ring he was in charge of, and moved his hands and fingers. Obviously, he was a little nervous and a little excited.

"Push it." Ah Fa said.

Yao Wenhu immediately moved the ring he was in charge of at a speed of 1 centimeter per second.

Ah Fa moved one step to the right, his right hand was still manipulating the main ring, and his left hand was already playing with another ring.

The three of them worked together cautiously and lasted for about 15 minutes. Finally, a shock was felt, and the stone gate slowly moved to the sides.

"Success!" Yao Wenhu exclaimed in surprise.

Ah Fa said: "Okay, you can stop."

Pei Miao raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat off his forehead. He was not tired, but sweated from nervousness.

Pei Miao sighed and said, "It's really fortunate that I brought Ah Fa here this time, otherwise I wouldn't be able to enter this underground palace at all. Alas, there are still a few more levels to come, and I don't know if the next few levels will be difficult or not."

Ah Fa said: "It's definitely difficult. It's going to get harder as you go on. The last question is almost unsolvable."

Hearing this, Pei Miao couldn't help asking: "What's the last question? I remember you only told me nine questions last time, and didn't mention the tenth question."

Ah Fa said: "The tenth question is called 'Yuan beyond Yuan'. I searched for a long time on the Internet, and went to the library to search a lot of books, but I couldn't find the title of this question. I just said this question on the Internet. It is a method to find an arbitrary element solution. According to the speculation of many mathematicians, this is a high-order equation, which is beyond the scope of manpower. It is rumored that the last problem was calculated with the help of a computer."

Pei Miao frowned and asked, "Then if... the last test is this question, can you solve it?"

Ah Fa blinked and asked back, "Do you think I look like a computer?"

Pei Miao asked, "Then what should we do? How about we go back and find a computer?"

Ah Fa said: "Don't be kidding, I don't think there will be such a question. After all, no one in ancient times could solve this question. It's like, it's impossible for the teacher to come up with a question that can't be solved. question."

Pei Miao said disconcertedly, "I hope so."

Yao Wenhu was not interested in mathematics, so he urged, "Let's go in quickly."

"Well, let's go." Pei Miao nodded and walked towards Shimen first.

The three of them entered the stone gate, and saw that it was a grand hall. There were still many crystals in the hall that transmitted sunlight. Inside, they could barely see ten meters away.

In this hall, many square pillars are neatly arranged, and there is a long bluestone passage in the middle, which is a bit like the palace in the pre-Qin period, but the strange thing is that the decoration style in this palace has a lot of western taste .

Walking forward for nearly a hundred meters, at the end of the palace, I saw a confession case on a high platform. On the case, there was a coffin carved in white jade. On the coffin was written "The Spirit of Liang Siqin, the Lord of the West City".

Seeing this, Yao Wenhu hurriedly said: "Unlucky, it's actually a spiritual seat, this can't be a tomb, right?"

Pei Miao saw that there was nothing else in the grand hall, so he said, "Let's look around, this should not be the end."

Ah Fa said: "Then untie the rope and search separately."

Pei Miao objected: "We can't separate, lest we run into danger, let's look for them together."

"Okay." Ah Fa and Yao Wenhu agreed, and the three searched around in the hall.

Soon, they came to the walls of the main hall and found murals.

The walls of the entire hall are very long, and there are murals on all the walls. I don't know what kind of paint these murals are painted with, and they don't fade after hundreds of years.

The first mural they saw was a handsome young man standing on the top of a mountain, holding a sword in his hand, and the word "Heaven's Punishment" was engraved on the bottom of the gym. Like a knife, looking into the distance, there is a long and narrow scar on his left face.

In the lower right corner of the painting, there is a poem "Green grass and trees, friends from afar, mountain flowers blooming and smiling, and bright moon in full bloom. The spring is fleeting, but for a moment, the friendship between you and me can be passed on for thousands of years, the white clouds are long, just for a moment, the friendship between you and me, Thousands of years are like constant. The grass and trees are green, the guests from afar, the heart is like gold and jade, the voice is vibrating, the beautiful woman is smiling, the young man is happy, who is the friend? Let me tell you, the west is majestic, and Kunlun is great."

After reading this poem, Pei Miao suddenly remembered that Monk Zhizang told him about a person, this person is called West Kunlun, who combines martial arts, arithmetic, physics, and machine learning, each of which has reached the pinnacle of the world , is the year-end friend of Vajra Patriarch.

Although this painting does not say who this young man is, but in the poem, there are the words "the west is majestic, and Kunlun is great", so it is probably West Kunlun.

They continued to look at other murals.

Unexpectedly, these murals turned out to be like a comic book, with stories linked together. After reading all the murals, Pei Miao was finally sure that the handsome young man with a scar on his face in the first painting they saw was West Kunlun. He is also the grandfather of Liang Siqin, the master of Xicheng.

Liang Siqin's ability is passed down from his grandfather West Kunlun.

From the story of the murals, Pei Miao understood that when West Kunlun was young, he was in the tent of the Mongolian army, and the highest was General Zhi Pingzhang. It was he who improved the return artillery, broke through Xiangyang City, and caused the Song Dynasty to fall completely.

But later, West Kunlun turned against Mongolia again. During the Battle of Yashan, he entered the siege alone and rescued the young emperor of Song Dynasty at that time. I jumped into the sea to die for my country, and I don't know whether the history books or the content of this mural are true.

West Kunlun was hated by the Central Plains warriors, and the Central Plains warriors joined forces to capture West Kunlun. Finally, West Kunlun fled to the Western Regions, where he devoted himself to studying arithmetic and integrated Eastern and Western arithmetic. Ten years later, he returned to China, but at this time, China had already been reduced to Mongolia. .

West Kunlun once again fought against the masters of the Central Plains, comprehended the highest martial arts, and became a saint. The Mongolian army besieged the Central Plains warriors. West Kunlun and the Central Plains warriors joined forces to fight the Mongolian warriors. They almost died. Fortunately, they were saved by a genius doctor.

Afterwards, the warriors from West Kunlun and the Central Plains hid in Lingao Island in the East China Sea, and made a huge mechanism killer, hollowed out a deserted island, and made it into a mechanism submarine called "Qianlong".

West Kunlun didn't want to reinvent the killing industry, took his wife and secretly drove Qianlong away, fled to the Western Regions, and never returned to the Central Plains. The warriors of the Central Plains hated West Kunlun and shattered their last hope of a prosperous country.

A few years later, the teenage Liang Siqin appeared in Middle-earth with extraordinary abilities and helped Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army defeat the Yuan army.