He roughly remembers the method of breaking the Hanging Soul Ladder in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", but the book doesn't say how the Hanging Soul Ladder was realized. The book can be vague about the past, but he has to figure it out when he sees it with his own eyes. .
It is theoretically impossible to construct such a Penrose ladder in three-dimensional space, but the ladder in front of us cannot be faked, so there must be some clever way to realize this trick.
Although there are all kinds of miraculous martial arts in this world, they generally follow the laws of science, but thinking of Ming Zun's thousand-year-old monster, Song Qingshu became a little uncertain.
He took a torch to check on the wall, and carefully looked at each stone step. Before, he felt strange that each step was too big, but now he finally understood.
Wu Chen and Wu Sun were in panic all day long, but Huo Qingtong noticed the change in his expression with keen eyesight: "Do you know what's going on?"
Song Qingshu pointed to the stone slab above: "Didn't you realize that each step is too long?"
Everyone nodded subconsciously. They actually noticed that each step of the stone slab is very wide, several meters long horizontally and several meters wide vertically. It is not known how much larger than normal stairs, but everyone did not think about it.
"Is there something wrong with this ladder?" Huo Qingtong asked curiously.
Song Qingshu replied: "Actually, it is easy to explain the ladder that never ends no matter whether you go up or down, that is, you think you are going up and down the ladder, but in fact you are just walking on the same level."
"How is this possible?" The old man Wusun questioned on the spot. After all, he walked it himself just now. He ran between the two steps and pointed to the height difference. the same level?"
"That's just taking advantage of your visual illusion," Song Qingshu explained, "each stone slab is not horizontal, but tilted in one direction, so that one side of the stone slab is higher and the other is lower, so that it is the same as the side of the next stone step. The connection creates the illusion of going up and down the stairs, but because the stone slabs are too big and the place is too dark, it is difficult for everyone to notice that each stone slab is actually uneven.”
Hearing his analysis, everyone's heart moved, and they hurriedly took out tools to measure it. Sure enough, everyone just didn't expect this before, but after being given the direction, it is actually not difficult to measure whether the ladder is level.
Everyone clicked their tongues: "This mechanism is too ingenious. Gaochang Kingdom back then had such skillful craftsmen. It's simply uncanny workmanship."
Wu Chen also patted Song Qingshu on the shoulder with great joy: "Da Zong really has a bright eye, if he can find the treasure this time, he will definitely be the one who made a big sweat, with you as the leader."
However, Huo Qingtong couldn't help but glance at Song Qingshu, thinking that Mongolia is full of talented people, and that any master Keqing has this knowledge, and the future of the Muzhuolunbu is getting darker.
Song Qingshu was thinking at this time, if it was him who designed it, it could be designed as a Mobius ring. A normal note has two sides, an ant crawls on it, and wants to cover all the places on both sides. It must cross the boundary of the paper, but if a strip of paper is twisted 180°, and then the two ends are glued together to form a paper tape circle, then the paper tape circle will only have one side, and ants can crawl all over the curved surface. It is not necessary to step over its edge.
In this labyrinth, some connections can be made into narrow and long burglary holes that confuse people's sense of up and down orientation, so that people will walk on the same plane repeatedly without knowing it, and never get out.
"I know the mechanism here, but how to crack it?" Wu Chen's question broke his contemplation.
Song Qingshu pointed to the two sides of the wall: "If my expectations are correct, there must be forks or trap doors on the walls along the way. It's so dark here, and the surroundings are surrounded by light-absorbing materials. In addition to making it difficult for us to find the problem of the stairs, it is also to avoid being caught. We see the mechanism at the wall."
Hearing what he said, several people rushed to check along the way, only Song Qingshu stayed in place to watch over Huo Qingtong, seeing that she was still kneeling on the ground, she didn't look good, so he stretched out his hand to help her up.
"How can we find a chance to let her go?" Song Qingshu felt a little headache, and he didn't want to kill her unless it was absolutely necessary.
"Thank you." Huo Qingtong looked at the Dongying man in front of her with some curiosity. She had heard about his deeds in Xingqing Mansion back then, and seemed to be beaten by Fu Cailin of Korea and fled without a fight. At that time, she was a little contemptuous, but now it seems But it is completely different from the legend.
At this moment, a burst of cheers broke out in the distance: "Found it!"
Song Qingshu took Huo Qingtong there, and found a very secret fork in the wall, which could only allow one person to pass through. In this dim environment, if he didn't know the principle and search deliberately, it would be impossible to find this place.
A group of people walked forward slowly along the side road. After walking for about tens of feet, suddenly a huge stone door appeared in front of them, which looked like a warehouse.
Wu Chen Daxi: "Finally found the treasure!" This place is so secret, and there are guards in front of the Hanging Soul Ladder, which is not a treasure room, what is it
Wusun also looked excited, but he was much more cautious. He scanned it with mental power first, and followed after making sure there was no ambush.
Song Qingshu's gaze turned sharply, and he noticed a shiny thing on the side road, which was Oman's headgear.
But now he doesn't know where Oman is, so he can only look for it after checking here.
"Where's the treasure, where is the treasure?" Wu Chen's roar came from inside.
Song Qingshu hurriedly followed in to check, and found that the stone room was full of tables, chairs, beds, tents, many books, Go, lyre, stove, dishes, mirrors and other common things in the Central Plains, but there was no such thing as gold and jewelry. of.
"There are stone tablets here." Wusun found two huge stone tablets, and pointed to the wall, "There are also murals."
Song Qingshu looked over and saw that there were quite a lot of Chinese characters engraved on the stone tablet, but more of them were some other strange characters, but he couldn't recognize them. Fortunately, Huo Qingtong who lived in the Western Regions for a long time could recognize Kazakh characters, and slowly read them The words on the tablet were read out.
It turns out that this labyrinth was built during the period of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and this area was the location of Gaochang State in the Tang Dynasty.
At that time, Gaochang was a big country in the Western Regions, with rich products and strong national power. During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, the king of Gaochang Kingdom was called Ju Wentai, who surrendered to Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty sent envoys to Gaochang to ask them to abide by many rules of the Han people. Ju Wentai said to the envoy: "The eagle flies in the sky, the pheasant lies in the wormwood, the cat swims in the hall, and the mouse sits in the hole. Each has its own place. Can't it be evil?" It means that although you are fierce eagles flying in the sky, we They are pheasants, hiding in the grass, although you are cats, walking around in the hall, but we are mice, hiding in the hole and chirping, you can do nothing to us. Everyone lives their own lives, why must we be forced to abide by the rules and customs of your Han people
When Tang Taizong heard this, he was very angry, thinking that they were barbaric and refused to accept Wang Hua, so he sent general Hou Junji to crusade.
Ju Wentai knew that the Tang soldiers were powerful, so he made a strategy of only defending and not fighting, so he assembled a large number of people and built a maze in a very secret place, in case the capital could not be defended, there was still a place to retreat. At that time, Gaochang was rich and powerful, and most of the craftsmen from the Western Regions gathered here. This labyrinth was built with extreme twists and turns, and it was planned to hide all the rare treasures in the country in the palace. Ju Wentai thought to himself, even if Tang Jun broke into the maze, he might not be able to find me.
Hou Junji had learned the art of war from Li Jing, and he was good at using troops. He crossed the desert like a broken bamboo along the way. When Ju Wentai heard the arrival of the Tang Dynasty army, he was so worried that he would not know what to do, so he was frightened to death. His son Ju Zhisheng succeeded him as king. Hou Junji led the army and attacked the city. After several battles, Gaochang's army was defeated. The Tang army had a high siege chariot, ten feet high, and it was called the nest chariot because it was as high as a bird's nest. The nest cart was pushed to the edge of the city, and the soldiers were condescending, throwing stones and shooting arrows, and Gaochang's army could not resist. Ju Zhisheng didn't have time to escape into the maze, let alone transfer the treasure, the capital had been breached, so he had to surrender.
The Gaochang Kingdom was established by Ju Jia and passed down to nine generations for a total of 134 years. It died in the 14th year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty. At that time, the land was eight hundred miles from east to west and five hundred miles from north to south. It was really a big country in the Western Regions.
Hou Junji captured the king Ju Zhisheng and his civil and military officials and heroes, and returned to Chang'an. Tang Taizong said that Gaochang refused to accept Sinicization and did not know the benefits of Chinese cultural relics, so he kicked a large number of Han people's books, clothes, utensils, The musical instruments are waiting for Gaochang. Gaochang people said in private:
"A pheasant can't fly like an eagle, and a mouse can't meow like a cat. No matter how good your Han people's things are, we Gaochang savages don't like them either." The portraits of old emperors and so on are placed in the maze, and no one takes a second look.
The stone tablet records what happened that year in words, and the murals on the wall vividly depict the battle situation of that year.
It was only then that Song Qingshu understood that the maze here was built by Gaochang State with a lot of manpower and material resources as a refuge, and it was also used to deal with the Tang Dynasty. No wonder the mechanism in the maze is so powerful, but it is a pity that it was as useless as the Maginot Line of Defense in the end. .
"There is no treasure, there is no treasure!" Wu Chen knew the whole story, and the whole person was almost crazy. This time, he lost his troops and lost his generals. He originally thought that he could make up for his mistakes by finding the treasure, but he didn't know that it was all in vain.
Thinking of this, he was angry and afraid, so he drew out his waist knife and chopped off the figures on the mural, venting the negative emotions in his heart.
Unexpectedly, as he was chopping, a figure in the mural suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed his neck.
Wu Chen's mouth was clucking, and he wanted to call for help, but he couldn't do it.
"Ghost!" The ghost of the only remaining Mongolian soldier beside him screamed. The scene in front of him was too horrifying. The person on the mural came alive and stretched out his hand!
Rao they were always brave, but at this time they were also frightened, turned around and fled.
Song Qingshu was startled, and ran over in a hurry. The pattern on the wall seemed to come to life, and he walked out of the wall directly holding Wu Chen's neck. —
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