Shao Ling looked at the "human body" lying on the slate—to be precise, it was the "human body" of General Jin Bi that was slowly spelled out by himself and Li Xiaochun.
This body is a little unreal in reality, especially watching him being shaped bit by bit from bone to skin, to fingers and toes, eyes and ears, this process is not comfortable.
Shao Ling rarely observes "it" carefully, but Li Xiaochun, in his eyes, this human body is like a model in a shopping mall window, nothing strange or unnatural.
At this time, Li Xiaochun was carefully observing: "Mr. Shao, except for the hair and eyebrows, this person is basically complete."
Although Shao Ling didn't look at it, he knew very well that the "skeleton" and "physical" parts of this body were complete, and now only the last part - the hair is left.
The mysterious "question box" that looks like a chessboard will have the last question, and only if the correct answer is made, the hair part of this body can be "completely returned to Zhao".
And now, the world has only the last two hours left for the two of them.
Some of the previous questions were simple, some were complicated, and even one question took Shao Ling three hours to answer.
There was a bronze-colored light in the "magic box", and both of them understood that this was the prelude to the question that was about to come out.
A whole map appeared in the "magic box".
Although Li Xiaochun has been cooperating with Shao Ling, this does not hinder his enthusiasm for the whole thing.
Li Xiaochun first came to the "magic box" to check: "Mr. Shao, this is a map of China!"
Although Li Xiaochun's knowledge of geography is not very good, he must still know the map of his motherland.
When Shao Ling heard that it was a map, he was puzzled for a while. He really couldn't figure out what the relationship between human hair and the map was.
Shao Ling stepped forward and saw a clear map of China. According to the outline of the map and some place names, it can be judged that this is a map of China drawn in recent years.
"Judging from the questions just now, the chronological order of these questions is constantly advancing backwards," Shao Ling said of his own conclusion, "We started with the first question of oracle bone inscriptions, and experienced the Zhou Dynasty in the middle. , During the Three Kingdoms period, Sui, Tang, Song and other dynasties, I didn't expect the last question to be a question related to modern times."
Some of these exam questions are difficult, some are simple, but the most puzzling thing is the angle between the question and the answer.
Because there was no examiner present, and no questions were expressed in words, not only the answers, but also the thoughts of the questioners needed to be guessed.
Just like the question in front of me, it is a complete map of China, but what is the relationship between the map and human hair? It is really incomprehensible.
Li Xiaochun watched carefully, trying not to make a sound, so as not to disturb Shao Ling's thoughts.
About half an hour passed, and Shao Ling was still staring at the map in front of him with tight brows, as if he still hadn't found a clue to solve the problem.
Li Xiaochun said softly: "Mr. Shao, is this question the same as the previous questions? Once we get it wrong, this question will disappear and appear in another, more complicated way?"
Shao Ling nodded helplessly: "I think it should be like this. This kind of question does not give us any chance to go back."
"Mr. Shao, I think this question must be for us to point out a place, and this place must have something to do with General Jin Bi, or this place has something to do with hair..." Li Xiaochun guessed with his own ideas. Since Shao Ling couldn't find the answer, Li Xiaochun was unwilling to accompany him in silence, maybe he could give him some useful advice unintentionally.
Shao Ling stared at the various provinces on the map: "My initial guess, this place should be in Henan Province."
"Why Henan Province?"
"Because Zhuxian Town is in Henan Province." Shao Ling said with no surprise.
"Oh yes yes, I forgot, Zhuxian Town is in Henan Province," Li Xiaochun scratched his head, "Our Nianshu Art Museum happens to be in Henan Province! It seems that Henan Province is correct!"
Shao Ling stretched out his fingers nervously. This was his first guess with no confidence. Although there had been a mistake in the previous rounds of questions, it was a real misjudgment. Unlike this time, it was purely a mistake. is in Mongolia.
"Then let's click on Henan Province!" Li Xiaochun saw that Shao Ling was still a little hesitant, so he simply clicked on the location of Henan Province on the map.
Shao Ling did not expect Li Xiaochun to be so reckless: "What are you doing in such a hurry?"
"Isn't it all set to be Henan Province? Then why hesitate, we don't have much time..." Li Xiaochun didn't feel wronged, he fixed his eyes on the magical changes on the map.
Shao Ling also stared at the map calmly, and with another burst of bronze light, the map screen changed.
This time, it is no longer a map of the entire country, but the provincial map of Henan Province that Li Xiaochun chose just now.
Li Xiaochun couldn't be excited: "Mr. Shao, it seems that we guessed right! The answer is really in Henan Province! Can we just order Zhuxian Town next?"
Shao Ling hurriedly stopped Li Xiaochun: "No, I think this question is too simple, it's really not normal."
"That… "
"We must abandon this option of Zhuxian Town and try to rely on other directions." Shao Ling had no idea for a while, but he was very sure that the answer must not be Zhuxian Town.
"Mr. Shao, where is the ancestral home of General Jin Bi?" Li Xiaochun tried his best to use his imagination.
"In..." Shao Ling couldn't remember for a while, "It shouldn't be in Henan anyway."
"If this option in Henan is correct, it seems that the correct answer has nothing to do with General Jin Bi himself?" Li Xiaochun tried hard to let his thinking diverge, but he couldn't think of anything for a while.
Since the two of them were thinking about it, the surroundings seemed even more silent.
A gust of wind blew past, and the ancient trees in the cemetery made strange noises, and a few foxes couldn't bear the silence and let out a few long calls.
"Di-" even the sound of the timekeeping came to join in the fun, as if gloating to remind the two: time is really running out, only the last hour is left! If you don't come up with the right answer, you'll stay here forever.
Li Xiaochun let out a sigh of relief, knowing in his heart that the more time this happens, the less anxious he will be. If he is anxious, he will lose his position. In the end, all the previous efforts will be in vain, and the whole game will be lost.
Shao Ling finally said, "I think there is only one direction."
"What direction?" Li Xiaochun asked hurriedly.
"Just like the hieroglyphs we saw before, which directly implies human bones," Shao Ling looked over every place name on the map, "This place must have something to do with human hair. , but I really don't understand, why is human hair related to a location? What kind of relationship can they have?"
"Mao, Henan," Li Xiaochun muttered there for a long time before finally summoning the courage to tell Shao Ling, "I think I might know the answer."
"Tell me about it." Although Shao Ling had no hope for Li Xiaochun's knowledge, this young man was more or less reliable and should not be full of nonsense.
"Mr. Shao, do you know Xuchang?" Li Xiaochun asked.
"I know that it is a prefecture-level city in Henan," Shao Ling tried to search all knowledge points about Xuchang in his mind, "So, Xuchang is a place with a very long history, and the Xia Dynasty once built its capital here. ."
"Ah? Xuchang is so powerful?" Li Xiaochun was very surprised when he heard this.
"Yes, the Xia Dynasty once established the capital Yangzhai, which is today's Xuchang Yuzhou."
"Yuzhou? Oh my God, I used to stay there for two years!" Li Xiaochun couldn't believe Xuchang had such a long history.
Shao Ling nodded solemnly: "That's true. Xuchang was called 'Xu' in ancient times, and it was named after an expert named Xu You, who farmed the land and washed his ears on the shore of Yingshui."
This passage of Shao Ling made Li Xiaochun half-understood.
But Shao Ling quickly said: "Although your idea is very good, Xuchang has a long history, but I think this place seems to..."
"Mr. Shao doesn't know Xuchang now, right?" Li Xiaochun said suddenly.
"Um?"
"My aunt got married to Xuchang. I went out to work at the time, so I went to my aunt and stayed there for several years."
"Oh."
"Mr. Shao, do you know where President Obama's wife bought the wig and headgear?" Li Xiaochun asked suddenly excitedly.
"..." Shao Ling was confused by Li Xiaochun's words, and he didn't even know who Obama was.
"It's Xuchang! The wig headgear of the President's wife is from Xuchang!" Li Xiaochun said these words with a face full of pride, "Xuchang is the hair capital of the whole country and even the whole world! Every county and even every village in our country. There are people from Xuchang, do you believe it?"
"Why, why?" Shao Ling felt that his worldview had been refreshed.
"Because Xuchang people want to collect their hair there? President Shao, I don't know where you are from, but where you live, there should be someone shouting over a loudspeaker every once in a while: Collect your hair and collect your hair!" Li Xiaochun Looking at Shao Ling, "Am I right?"
"Yes, I've heard people cut their hair."
"That's all from Xuchang."
Shao Ling was simply refreshed with a world view.
"But now the living standards of the Chinese people have improved, and many people are going to perm and dye their hair, so the quality of their hair is also poor," Li Xiaochun continued. "Nowadays, people in Xuchang go to India and Southeast Asia to collect their hair."
Shao Ling was once again refreshed his world view.
"Including the wig industry in Japan and South Korea, all the raw materials are imported from Xuchang. Later, Xuchang changed from providing raw materials to processing it by itself. Since then, Xuchang's wigs have gone to the world." Li Xiaochun continued.
Shao Ling's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and he couldn't believe that he was being led to find the answer by this young wage earner with low education in front of him.
"So, if human hair can have the closest relationship with a place in my country, it must be Xuchang in our country!" Shao Ling's voice was a little excited.
"It's more than China. Even if the world map is placed here, no city's wig industry can compare to Xuchang." Li Xiaochun said with certainty.
"Okay, let's have some." Shao Ling's eyes were fixed on the location of Xuchang on the map of Henan Province.
"Really? Mr. Shao, do you really trust me?" Li Xiaochun said excitedly, "I can't even find where Xuchang is..."
"It's here, see?"
"I saw it, I saw it!" Li Xiaochun put his index finger on the place name in Xuchang.
In a flash of golden light, the two of them looked at the location where Jin Bi's "human body" was stored, but they were stunned to find that Jin Bi had disappeared, and what was left on the big slate was a piece of woodblock of a New Year's picture.