Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 230 One and Zero
Xiao Ran looked around with a flashlight, no matter whether it was the stone room they were in, the stone roof above, or the deepest part of the corridor, there was no trace of the giant desert worm.

Could it be that everything that happened just now was an illusion created by Tianling Sanren?Just like the scorpion that I met on the way to Ganggang Yingzi, and the big spider of the bride made by the Onmyoji at the Kwantung Army fortress in Yerengou?
But looking at the burns on his hands, and the panicked eyes of Liu Shengli and Xu Er, he felt that everything that happened just now was so vivid, and it was not like the hazy dream that he had in previous hallucinations. Feel.

He listened intently to Guan Shandao's voice again. This rough man stopped singing Peking Opera and began to report the names of dishes in cross talk, but the reports were all monsters he had chopped up, which meant that the electric shock just now was also true.

The flashlight moved to him, and he was even more sure that what happened just now was real.On the sandy floor of the corridor under the lights, there was still wet sand, mixed with undigested mouse fur, bone fragments, and even staring mouse heads.

He took the wooden-handled shovel in Xu's second hand, shoveled a few shovels on the sand in front of him, and rummaged through it, but besides the ordinary sand here, it was sand that had turned into worm feces.

"Comrades, the good news is that the worm is gone, the bad news is that this thing has gone somewhere..."

Seeing that the two looked tense, Xiao Ran had no choice but to joke with them with a wry smile.But Xu Er still stuttered and asked: "Xiao...Xiao Gang, aren't these two the same..."

Xiao Ran waved his hand, and said seriously: "Let's quickly find out the correct way to open the mechanism. You look at the stone slabs on both sides, this thing is the way of the corridor when it is put down, it can cover the sand. Don't look at that thing is big , it can’t move on flat ground, it can only drill in the sand. As long as the road is paved, it doesn’t have to worry about it really cheating on the ground.”

Hearing this, the two impatiently went to fiddle with those oil lamps again.Liu Shengli asked: "Manager, there are a total of six lamps. It's not right to push all of them in, and it's not right to put them all outside. What should I do? Some are pushed and some are not?"

Xiao Ran nodded and said: "It must be so, but our problem is to quickly find out the correct method. The worm that was broken into several pieces has gone now, and I am worried that it will make another moth."

But the problem is that this Tianling Sanren is a complete lunatic, and most likely a sadistic lunatic, otherwise he wouldn't be able to think of so many tormenting things.

"Then why don't we try one by one?" Liu Shengli asked.

Xiao Ran picked up a piece of steel needle that was burnt by worm acid from the door, and drew it up on the ground: "Six oil lamps, each of which has two situations: whether it goes in or not. There are 64 situations, and I tried one just now, and these rusty mechanisms turned for more than two minutes. Even if the two situations that have been ruled out are eliminated, let’s try the rest , it will take more than two hours..."

Xu Er's eyes lit up and said: "Xiao Gang, you are really not an ordinary person, college student? You can calculate this, how did you calculate it?"

Xiao Ran smiled and shook his head: "Many college students don't know how to do it, this is a middle school course..."

Liu Shengli slapped his thigh at this time and said: "Well, manager, you rest, Xu Er and I will try one by one. The kind you said can only be done right at the last time, and it will take two hours. What if the two of us It’s done after a few tries, isn’t it just a matter of a few minutes? We are not good at technology and brainpower, we are good at this kind of repetitive work!”

After Xiao Ran's hard work just now, his physical strength and mental strength were exhausted at this time, and he couldn't think of a better way for a while.Anyway, this mechanism, even if it is mistaken, it will not be fatal, so they can try it if they want.

Sitting on the ground, Xiao Ran looked at the two people tossing about on the left and right, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this Liu Shengli has a very clear understanding of his status as a social animal.

Although he was resting, he still didn't dare to relax.The disappearance of the giant desert worm that had been cut in half was too bizarre.Since it is not a hallucination, there are two possibilities, either Ya is not dead at all, and is hiding now; or there are other dangerous and quiet predators, taking advantage of them while they are tinkering with the mechanism, to kill the big one. The worms ate them all along with their tentacles.

That must be a monster of what size!Thinking of this, Xiao Ran couldn't help feeling even more anxious.

He flicked his flashlight back and forth frequently, taking various photos carefully, worried that a pair of eyes or a tail might be revealed somewhere, or worried that a spout of acid would suddenly erupt from the sand.

A few minutes passed, and Liu Shengli and Xu Er had already tried the third method.He was very curious about how these two people recorded which arrangement they had tried, and just in time he heard Liu Shengli shout: "One zero one zero zero, void!"

As he spoke, he used a broken steel thorn to engrave the number he just mentioned on a fairly flat wall.It turns out that they use one to represent not to press in, and zero to represent not to press.

Suddenly, several numbers spun rapidly in Xiao Ran's mind.He stared blankly at the numbers on the wall, feeling that he was grasping some important information.

Ones and zeros... six oil lamps... a total of 64 possibilities...

Yin Yao Yang Yao! 64 hexagrams!
This thought hit his brain like lightning, and Xiao Ran suddenly became excited.No matter how deviant the Tianling Sanren are, they will eventually be subject to the concepts and thoughts of their own era.He is neither the first nor the last to use Taoism and traditional culture to engage in crooked ways.

There is such a coincidence of numbers, it is very likely that he turned on the mechanism according to the hexagram. As long as you find the one that is most suitable for him, press the oil lamp according to the law of the upper left hexagram and the lower right hexagram. You should be able to try it soon. come out!

It's all my fault that my brain is short of oxygen and sugar, maybe it's also short of water.Such an obvious coincidence, if Hu Bayi was around, he might have seen through it in an instant.

At this time, Liu Shengli and Xu Er had just finished trying six possibilities, and their arms were already sore and their hair was swollen.The two kept raising their arms without talking, and they were still so close to the oil lamp. They were suffocated by the smell of burning oil from the beginning to the end, and they were a little tired at this time.

Liu Shengli shouted dejectedly: "One one one one one zero... void!"

Xu Er remained silent, just put one hand on his waist, quietly waiting for the rotating gears and copper rods to return to their positions.The body and language of the two showed impatience.

Xiao Ran went to the wall and carefully looked at the numbers engraved on Liu Shengli, and pulled Liu Shengli over to ask.Coincidentally, Liu Shengli and the others also came in order from left to right, but Tianling Sanren counted pressing and not pressing as one and which counted as zero. This is not sure yet.

Judging from the current line that is not one is positive, but zero is yin, the two hexagrams of all one and all zero have been ruled out. The ones that have been tried so far happen to be Qian, Kun, Li, Kan, Zhen, Gen, The eight basic hexagrams Dui and Ze.

Sure enough, Tianling Sanren's mind, which is always twisted and twisted, does not know how to use such a simple basic hexagram.

Xiao Ran greeted the two of them: "Stop trying nonsense, I will teach you two a lesson..."

(End of this chapter)