Steel Chang'an

Chapter 115

"There is indeed a control matrix here."

I saw half of Zheng Quan's body poking into the algae well on the roof of the Hall of Valor, and he didn't know what he was doing. After a while, I saw several beams of light shining down from the dome, positioning themselves at the holes on the ground of the Hall of Valor. points to form a planar graph.

"See something?" Li Jing asked.There are many holes distributed on the ground of the Hall of Valor. Before entering the dark river, the knights of the various families only took eight holes to draw lots, but the number of holes is far more than eight, just standing on the ground , but there is no regularity in the distribution of these holes.

"The pattern formed by these holes... seems to be the Hetu Luoshu on the ancient mother planet of human beings?" Zheng Quan's voice came, "That's right, He made the map, Luo made the book, and the sage made it. Earth is formed, water produces wood, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, and the five elements are left-handed and the center does not move. One, three, five, seven, and nine are positive numbers that are left-handed; two, four, six, Eight, ten, and negative numbers are left-handed..."

Li Jing and Mu Yun looked at each other, raised their heads together and shouted: "Can you speak human language?"

Hetu Luoshu, this kind of classics can be regarded as the ancestors on the ancient mother planet of human beings, and few people in this continent know about it. Zheng Quan also collected it in a volume under an extremely rare opportunity. Relevant records have been found in the paper ancient books, and he can recognize at a glance that this is Hetu Luoshu, and it can indeed be regarded as a well-known and well-known book. With profound knowledge, he is inevitably a little proud of it, and wants to show off a few words.But Li Jing obviously has no interest in the old antiques on the ancient home planet of mankind. No matter how precious ancient books are in his hands, he will only exchange them for wine. He is not interested in hearing that Zheng Quan dropped his book bags there.

As for Mu Yun, he understood every word Zheng Quan said, but he didn't know what it meant to be connected together.

Zheng Quan also knew that when he explained to the following two people what Hetu Luoshu was, it was just flirting to the blind, and it was purely playing the piano to the cow. He sighed and said: "The essence of this figure is a flat third-order magic square cipher. .”

This time both Li Jing and Mu Yun understood.I saw Li Jing chuckled and said, "It's just a third-order magic square code, so of course it can't trouble the big thief Zheng Quan."

As soon as the voice fell, I saw the figure composed of several light beams rising from the ground, rotating and deforming in the air. As the number of light beams increased, the whole figure instantly changed from flat to three-dimensional, layer by layer, ring ring Interlocking and becoming more and more complicated, Mu Yun couldn't count how many dimensions this figure is composed of.

"This... This is the picture of the sky, nine paths, myriad phenomena, and ten thousand blessings evolved from Hetu Luoshu!"

Zheng Quan looked at the graphics that were still changing, and blurted out, thinking that Li Jing and Mu Yun told him to speak human words, he quickly changed his words and said, "This is a multi-dimensional high-level magic square code!"

"The multi-dimensional magic square code is difficult to design, so it shouldn't be difficult to break it?" Li Jing touched his chin. Zheng Quan is a man who can hack into the Tianshu Pavilion of Daming Palace. Li Jing is still very familiar with his methods of cracking the code Confident, but I don't know why Zheng Quan's voice at this moment sounds like he has encountered some difficult problem.

"The problem is that the chaos mirror encryption algorithm was used in the design process of this multi-dimensional magic square," Zheng Quan said with a bitter face, "This means that while Zheng is cracking the magic square, the magic square itself will change itself. It would be fine if Mr. Zheng had something handy, but the amount of calculation that Mr. Zheng is carrying is not so large, so he can only use the bee colony algorithm to cut it into sub-blocks and crack it..."

"Hehe, don't say so much, what's there and what's not." Li Jing didn't have much research on these algorithms, and knowing that it was useless to listen to these words, he simply interrupted Zheng Quan's words, "Say it directly, can you solve it? Open this magic square code?"

"If Mr. Zheng makes a move, there will be a password that cannot be cracked?" Zheng Quan snorted, "Of course it can be unlocked, but it takes a little longer."

"How long?" Li Jing asked.

"Three hours." Zheng Quan was actually very safe in his actions, and he made a conservative estimate in his heart before he spoke.

"Are you kidding me!" Li Jing said, "We don't have so much time to spend here, I'll give you 10 minutes at most!"

"Are you kidding me!" Zheng Quan said, "Cracking the password is not about losing your virginity, how could it be so fast, at least two minutes!"

"It takes less than two hours to give birth to a child, are you good at it?" Li Jing began to expose Zheng Quan's background, "You were also struggling like this in Tianshu Pavilion of Daming Palace back then? It's no wonder you were tracked back."

"You do what you want!" Zheng Quan was angry.The fact that he stole "Lu Zang" will be revealed, because the terminal location of Tianshu Pavilion is too remote, and there are too many roads in Daming Palace.Although Zheng Quan is both civil and military, he is a road idiot. When he was about to retire that night, he strayed off the road and bumped into the person he shouldn't have bumped into. Only then did he reveal his whereabouts. It was definitely not Zheng Quan who was the thief There is a problem with the level of business!
"It's your turn if I can do it?" Li Jing said disdainfully, "I'll give you a minute, if not, come down!"

"One clock is one clock!" Knowing that Li Jing was provocative, but this mouth was so irritating, Zheng Quan finally couldn't help blurting out, "Just shut that mouth, stay below and watch Zheng break through this Let’s look at the heroic appearance of things!”

"Hehe, come on." Li Jing accepted it as soon as he saw it. He knew that Zheng Quan could compress three minutes to one hour, which was almost the limit. Sit down and close your eyes to meditate.

Mu Yun also followed suit, and found a pillar to recharge his energy, but he thought of the time passing by at this moment, and the time advantage he won in the dark river was slowly being flattened, so he felt anxious, and he felt a little anxious. I was restless, and after changing several positions in a row, I felt that my butt was tight.

Turning her head to look, she saw that although Li Jing seemed calm and composed, his fingers kept tapping on the floor. It was obvious that he was as anxious as himself, and Mu Yun couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

But Zheng Quan got back into the algae well above the dome and was busy for a while, then poked his head out again, and said angrily to the two people below: "It's so noisy, get out!"

Mu Yun was taken aback, "We didn't say anything!"

Zheng Quan snorted, and said: "You didn't say anything, didn't you urge me to hurry up and urge me to stop, the noise was so loud that you thought I couldn't hear you?"

Can you hear this?Mu Yun suddenly realized that among the three, Zheng Quan should be the most anxious at the moment. After all, if he cracked the code one second later, Teng Wengong led the crowd to catch up one second earlier, and Li Jing and Mu Yun At this moment, he is completely unable to help. It can be said that all the pressure is on him alone.

Thinking of when Zheng Quan was in the East China Sea, someone making noises beside him would have knocked him out. In order to prevent Zheng Quan from going down and hitting his head again, and wasting time climbing up and down, Mu Yun immediately stood up and walked towards the heroic spirit. Go outside the hall.

Li Jing chuckled, stood up slowly, and walked out of the Hall of Valor.

Outside the Hall of Valor, the blue sea and blue sky.

Although it is not a real scene, it is still pleasing to the eye and relaxing to the nerves.

Especially the rhythmic sound of the waves crashing on the shore seems to have a hypnotic effect faintly, making people feel tired involuntarily.

Staring at the regular undulating sea surface for a long time makes people feel an impulse to plunge into the sea, soak in the gentle blue waves, and drift away with the waves in the warm sunshine.

Who still remembers that what they are facing at this moment is actually an ancient battlefield where countless corpses are buried?

Mu Yun only took a few glances, then turned her gaze away and dared not look any further.He knew that this seemingly peaceful scenery was full of murderous intentions everywhere, not to mention that the magnetic field here was stronger than that in the dark river, which itself would cause strong interference to the human body, making people's thinking disordered, and making it easier to be attacked.

Seeing that Li Jing was still facing the sea and standing against the wind, he seemed to be quite engrossed in this illusion, so he subconsciously walked to his side and reminded him aloud: "Be careful, there should be some in the visual and sound design of these virtual calculations. Contains psychological hints, deliberately leading people to a dead end."

Li Jing hummed vaguely.Before Mu Yun got close to him, the smell of cigarettes inhaled into his nose, and when he looked down, there was indeed a cigarette between Li Jing's fingers, and he was smoking it perfectly.

"How do I remember that you have quit?" Mu Yun asked.He remembered that during the spring hunting period, Li Jing always carried a pack of melon seeds in his arms and ate like a squirrel. Mu Yun thought that he finally quit smoking because of his hidden disease, but he didn't expect that he had smoked so much in the past few days. On the contrary, it was more fierce than before.

"Isn't that a ban on smoking in public places? Have you seen a no-smoking sign here?" Li Jing said.If quitting smoking really allowed him to live a few more days, he wouldn't mind quitting this crap, but it's a pity that he knew that his time was really running out.

Ji Butler also quit smoking in the hangar, don't you still enjoy smoking?Mu Yun vomited in his heart.Li Jing glanced at him and asked, "Why, do you want one too?"

Mu Yun really hasn't smoked for a long time, not because he doesn't want to smoke, but because he has no money in his pocket to buy cigarettes.At this moment, seeing Li Jing smoking happily, Mu Yun's addiction to cigarettes was also aroused, but seeing that Li Jing had already reached into his belt to touch the cigarettes, he looked down and saw that there were not many cigarettes left in the cigarette case, hesitated, and then She took her hand back and said, "Forget it, it's better not to come, you are still young, this thing is not good for your health."

It turns out that you also know that this thing is not good for your health!Mu Yun rolled her eyes, used a trick of falling flowers, raised her hand to pick the cigarette from Li Jing's mouth, threw it into the water, and said solemnly, "For your own good."

"Hey—waste!" Li Jing shook his head, reached out and touched his waist, but he didn't take out a second cigarette after all.

At this moment, Li Jing had already taken off his knight mask. Under the bright artificial sunlight, Mu Yun saw that his face was so pale that it was almost transparent, but there was still a smear of blood on the corner of his lips that had not been wiped off. The vermilion color was extremely gorgeous. It seemed that he had just coughed up not long ago, and his face was as white as snow, making him look extremely ominous.

Mu Yun's heart trembled, and his eyes fell on Li Jing's knight armor. The light in the dark river was dim, and Mu Yun didn't see clearly the several dents on Li Jing's armor. The deep depression can be clearly seen, it is the fist mark left by Teng Wengong's close-up hit.

Such an overbearing master's power!You must know that when they entered the Yin Ruins, the armor part of the knight armor they wore had been replaced with specially processed Amaterasu alloy. Unless they were hit by a battle armor, how could the weapon output of a real-life ratio be broken? According to the defense of the alloy?Therefore, Mu Yun only thought that Li Jing's strength was caused by a hidden illness at first, but he didn't expect him to be so seriously injured!

This guy's ribs should have been broken several times, but he can still stand there as if nothing had happened, his willpower is terrifying enough.Mu Yun thought about it, and took out the emergency treatment gel gun from her belt, and said to Li Jing, "Take off the armor, and treat the wound for you."

In order to reduce the load and ensure speed, they did not bring much first aid medicine with them. Apart from a sedative for pain relief, only this gel gun can be used to temporarily stop bleeding and fix the wound.

For some reason, when he found out that Li Jing was seriously injured, Mu Yun felt a faint sense of relief: He thought that since Li Jing was injured, he would naturally be powerless to stop him from taking the fire in Jiuge. A man, since he has vowed to be a real knight, he must follow the spirit of chivalry, and naturally he will not take advantage of the danger of others to initiate a duel with a seriously injured person.

But Li Jing chuckled and said: "This is a small injury, my teacher has already taken care of it. Next time you want to be filial, remember to hurry up."

"Have you dealt with it?" Mu Yun's eyes widened, "When did you deal with it? Why didn't I see it?"

"Just when you guys almost went for a swim in the water." Li Jing's expression was sincere, and he lied without even blinking his eyelids.

But Mu Yun was still a little skeptical, "Show me how it's been handled." He didn't believe that Li Jing could take care of such a serious injury in such a short time. What kind of speed is this?
"There's something interesting between two big men, don't learn how to be a mother-in-law like Zheng Quan." Li Jing had no choice but to blackmail Zheng Quan, "That guy can be both male and female. , do you have the same hobbies as him?"

Mu Yun thought of Zheng Quan lying on his body to check his injuries when he was in the East China Sea, and suddenly felt a chill all over his body.

At that time, he had a vague feeling that Zheng Quan seemed to be looking for some special traces on his body, and wondered whether the use of the master's power would cause some changes in his body, but he himself did not find out what was related to him. It's different.He also put this matter on the back of his mind, and after hearing what Li Jing said today, he realized that he really thought too much at that time, and he was simply fed tofu by that harmless guy!

But Li Jing didn't know that he blackmailed Zheng Quan casually, but it was so black.He didn't want Mu Yun to treat his wounds, not because he didn't want Mu Yun to see how badly he was injured, but because he knew that he probably didn't have any wounds to treat.

He put his hands on his chest, and felt that the nauseating throbbing sensation from his chest and abdomen had disappeared, and the pain from the rapid healing of the wound was also gradually dissipating.He finally gave in.Li Jing thought to himself.He had to use strength that he shouldn't have used, otherwise, with his injuries at the time, he would not be able to stand up at all, and it would be impossible for him to continue fighting.He originally thought that he could solve all the problems smoothly by himself, and even brought Mu Yun and Zheng Quan just in case.

Turns out he was way too confident.Li Jing smiled bitterly in his heart.He didn't expect his body to have been eaten away to such an extent in the process of fighting against that force.After all, he is no longer the number one knight in the world who can stand as a thousand with one.Zhuo Renyue was not wrong, his era had long since ended, and he was just holding on for unavoidable reasons.

He also didn't expect that the master's power in Teng Wengong's body was already so strong.He didn't know how many spark particles that guy had absorbed to obtain such a powerful force, but he knew the consequences of doing so.The real Teng Wengong should have ceased to exist long ago, he was just a puppet controlled by power.

If he can't destroy Jiuge and Tinder, more people on this continent will become slaves to this power.It will rule the entire continent in no time.He believed that many people would willingly become slaves of this power in order to obtain such powerful power. Li Jing himself knew many such ambitious lord knights, and they didn't care at all about the real price to be paid for gaining power.

It's a pity I won't be your slave.He pressed his chest and sneered at the power that was about to move in his body, you can't control me.See who is using whom?You have done what I need you to do, now put me to sleep!
He felt the power roaring in his head, rushing through his body.Countless voices echoed like tinnitus.fury.Unwilling.dangerous threat.A hint of sly mockery.He feels its emotion.Then everything fell silent.

He breathed a sigh of relief.This is just drinking poison to quench thirst.He knew that every time he let that power repair his body, he lost a little bit of control over it.He was almost unable to suppress this force, the medicine had no effect on his body, and the shorter and shorter burst cycles were also warning him.He didn't know when the next attack would be.

That's why he urged Zheng Quan to crack the damn password quickly.His time is really running out.

He glanced at Mu Yun.The brat doesn't know anything yet.Li Jing thought to himself.But he immediately remembered the sword in the dark river, the sword that Mu Yun held his hands and tried to signal to him.Although the kid still can't really grasp his own power, his consciousness is quite good, just like the wolf lord told him, the brat learns really fast...

Maybe he should tell the kid something after it's all over here.It's time to get him ready.

But he had a vague premonition that everything here would be more difficult to solve than he expected.

He suppressed the worries in his heart, touched the cigarette again, and faced Mu Yun's condemning gaze, Li Jing patted Mu Yun on the shoulder, "Don't worry, boy, your master and I have experienced many battles, this little injury is really not bad. What is it, you can still fight later!"

For some reason, Mu Yun's eyes dimmed.Li Jing gave him a surprised look, "What's the matter with your disappointed eyes?"

"Nothing." Mu Yun shook his head.He originally thought that Li Jing didn't want him to worry, so he deliberately insisted on not allowing him to deal with the injury, but seeing that Li Jing's face was still extremely pale, standing and walking and talking did not seem like a seriously injured person, Mu Yun had to I believe that perhaps the Amaterasu alloy on the armor absorbed most of the damage, Li Jing is really fine.

And this also means that he will still have a battle with Li Jing in this gloomy ruins.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was Li Jing who would rather endure the injury than worry about him, or Li Jing was healthy and he could still challenge Li Jing to a duel. Which of these two situations made him more sad .

Mu Yun raised his head and met Li Jing's gaze. He knew that there was a strange expression on his face, so he quickly turned his head to the side, and said casually, "It's really nothing, I just thought that you can fight so well, so I don't have much room for display? "

"Hehe, so you are worried about this," Li Jing took a puff of smoke, shook his head with a smile, thinking that the brat is young after all, and he still has a competitive mood at this time.After thinking about it, he decided to tell Mu Yun some of the situations he had speculated before, "You should have noticed that this place is very different from Dead Castle, and there are even unreasonable things everywhere, especially The appearance of this second Hall of Valor made Teacher realize that we may have made a big mistake."

"This place is really weird," Mu Yun also realized. "We have been in the Yin Ruins for more than three hours, but until now, we still don't even know where this ancient battlefield used to be."

Although in order to completely obliterate the existence of the Immortal King, the entire era of mechanical civilization has been almost completely erased from the history of this continent, only a few incomplete materials have survived, and all records of the Millennium War have also been destroyed. It is unknown what these ancient battlefields thousands of years ago were like in the past, but at least after they entered the castle of death, they could see architectural relics thousands of years ago along the way.The remaining sculptures and murals in these buildings allowed them to speculate that this was a dragon castle that raised dragon beasts. Even the process of how people hunted dragon beasts for captivity at that time, and how they slaughtered dragon beasts to take out the amethyst can be seen from there. One or two can be deduced from the ruins of buildings with different functions.

But since they entered the Yin Ruins, the only two buildings they have seen are these two Halls of Valor.

Back then, Teng Wengong excavated the Hall of Valor located above the dark river, and concluded that under the dark river was the ancient battlefield of the Millennium War that Jiu Ge had fought.

It is precisely because Teng Wengong showed the hologram of the Hall of Valor in the Tianshou Pavilion that everyone firmly believed that Jiu Ge was in the Yin Ruins.

But at this moment Li Jing said that they probably made a big mistake, could it be...

"Do you think that everything here is caused by Teng Wengong, the two Halls of Valor are forged, Jiuge is not in the Yinxu, and the Yinxu is not an ancient battlefield of the Millennium War at all?"

Mu Yun frowned. When he saw this holographic illusion full of murderous intent, he felt that something was wrong. If all this was arranged by Teng Wengong, it could explain many weird things here.

"That's not true." Li Jing said, "Since the location of the Yin Ruins is marked on "Lu Zang", then this is the ancient battlefield of the Millennium War. As for the Hall of Valor...the heroic spirits on the dark river The hall is run through by yin and yang trees, and those yin and yang trees have grown for at least hundreds of years, which Teng Wengong could not forge, but this does not mean that the two halls of Valor were built by the people who buried the battlefield after the Millennium War of."

"It wasn't built after the Millennium War, could it be that it was built before the Millennium War?" Mu Yun wondered, could it be that the Donglin Knights vowed to fight to the death with the King's Legion in order to express their determination, and even helped themselves to advance the funeral? Ready?If we were lucky enough to win the battle and everyone accidentally died, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
But Li Jing took a deep puff of cigarette and said, "That's right! I had doubts when I saw You Ming Ji in the dark river. After discovering the mechanism in the Hall of Valor, I am even more sure that these two The era of the construction of the Hall of Valor must be earlier than the Millennium War!"

Mu Yun also remembered at this moment that in the dark river, Zheng Quan once mentioned that You Ming Ji did not belong to the King's Legion, but was a guardian of underwater treasures specially created for the nobles before the Immortal King betrayed mankind.It is also because of this that the upper body of You Ming Ji is designed to be a beautiful woman, while most of the mechanical creatures of the King's Legion do not have a human appearance at all.

In other words, the You Ming Ji in the dark river is not left behind because of the Millennium War, but is guarding something.

But no matter what You Ming Ji is guarding, the people who arranged them here back then must have some kind of method, a way to pass safely without being attacked by them.

I just heard Li Jing continue to say: "If my guess is correct, the organ in the Hall of Valor we are in now controls the water area in front of us. As long as the correct password is entered, the magnetic field in the water area can be turned off. , safely enter the place under the water."

"The structure of the two Halls of Valor is exactly the same," Mu Yun also realized at this moment, "Since the Hall of Valor we are in now is a mechanism, then the Hall of Valor we saw before entering the dark river should also be an institution." mechanism, and it is very likely that it is the mechanism that controls those You Ming Ji!"

"Not only that, but I even suspect that those geothermal gushes are also artificially designed, and the naturally formed geothermal gushes will not be so dense." Li Jing said, "In any case, I believe that the role of the Hall of Valor is the same as the one in front of us. Yes, as long as you enter the correct password, you can pass through the dark river safely."

Back then, in order to erase the existence of the Immortal King, people even did not hesitate to erase the history of the entire mechanical civilization era. They just wanted to completely bury the ancient battlefield. Without such a mechanism, there are remnants of the king's army in the ancient battlefield, and those who stray into it are a dead end.Mu Yun thought, so before the Millennium War, these two Halls of Valor already existed, and those who buried the ancient battlefield just buried the Hall of Valor together, which means...

He raised his head in shock and looked at Li Jing, only to see Li Jing nodded to him slowly, "This means that we have made a serious mistake." He said, "We always thought that the Donglin knight driving Jiuge The regiment was killed in the Millennium War, but in fact, this knight order was killed long before the Millennium War."

Mu Yun opened his mouth, but even the children in Donglin had heard the legend of the Donglin Knights driving the Nine Songs to fight the king's army to the death. the words said--

The people of Donglin have always believed that there is a Yin soldier hidden under the Yin Mountain.That's what King Teng told them at the time. Those people believed that Duke Teng had found the Yin soldiers buried under the Yin Mountain.

At that time, they all thought that the so-called "yin soldiers" referred to the remaining mechanical creatures of the King's Legion.

Mu Yun turned her head and looked at the lifelike statues of the Nine Songs gods in the Hall of Valor, as well as the dense list of dead soldiers carved on the huge pillars. For the first time, she felt a gloomy chill.

At this moment, the artificial sunlight above their heads suddenly dimmed, and black shadows quickly engulfed the scenery around them.The sky was shaking unsteadily, and the dark brown rock formations were exposed from the breaks in the clouds, and a huge tremor came from the bottom of the feet.

It took them a few seconds to realize that Zheng Quan had cracked the magic square code of the control matrix here.

"Exactly one hour." Zheng Quan jumped down from the algae well in the Hall of Valor, clapped his hands with a smile and said, "Now you can speak, just say what you want, you are welcome, Zheng is ready to accept your Praise."

No one spoke, and the roar from the bottom of their feet swallowed up all voices.

The calm blue sea surface turned into gray waves in front of their eyes, and the sea water spun and disappeared slowly amidst the huge rumbling sound, and they didn't know where it was going.They watched the water level drop little by little, and a huge object emerged from the water. Before they had time to see what it was, the artificial sunlight above their heads completely disappeared.

Darkness surrounded them instantly.

Before the last ray of artificial sunlight disappeared, Mu Yun noticed for the first time the expressions on the faces of the statues of the Nine Songs Gods in the Hall of Valor.

They are smiling smugly.

(End of this chapter)