Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 38 Secret Organization (2)
I licked my dry lips and said, "Is this approach too risky?"

Professor Ye asked me back: "Then do you have a better way?"

I said, "Why don't we just throw something in the past, trigger the mechanism, and then we will go there after the mechanism is activated?"

Professor Ye said: "If the mechanism is triggered and the secret passage ahead is full of crossbow arrows or steel thorns, how can we continue to move forward? Well, you stand behind, and the three groups of rays will start to alternate again. I must We must calculate the exact time, otherwise a difference of one second may kill us!"

Seeing Professor Ye's serious expression, I knew that this mechanism was not so easy to deal with, so I stood quietly behind, not daring to make any noise.

Professor Ye stared at the red rays, silently counting the time in his heart.

After a while, Professor Ye turned around and said, "The time difference between each two rays is two seconds. You must remember that only these two seconds are our chance to survive. Well, you stand here now, look at me. How did you get there, and then you come over again."

Gu Meidi and I retreated to the back, our hearts pounding wildly with nervousness.

Professor Ye took a deep breath. Taking advantage of the moment when the bottom ray of the first group alternated with the middle one, Professor Ye put his knees on the ground, bent his waist, and knelt against the ground from a distance of one meter high. Sliding over, I couldn't help applauding in my heart. If the strength is not well controlled, it is very likely to hit the second set of rays.

Professor Ye quickly squatted on the ground. At this time, in the second group of rays, just when the second and third rays alternated, there was a total space of [-] meters high.Professor Ye stooped forward and rolled forward, reaching in front of the third group of rays, which happened to be the time when the third rays alternated with the first rays.Professor Ye jumped up, and a beautiful carp jumped over the dragon gate skillfully.The whole set of movements can be said to be done in one go, passing through this seemingly complicated mechanism in the blink of an eye.

Gu Meidi and I looked at Professor Ye in surprise. We never knew that Professor Ye was so sensitive.

I took a deep breath and stabilized my breathing. It should be no problem to complete this set of movements with my skills. What I am most afraid of is timidity on the spot, which will cause deviations in movements.

"Quick! It's now!" Professor Ye suddenly shouted at me.

I gritted my teeth violently, rushed up with a lunge, landed on my knees, leaned back vigorously, and tried my best to keep my body below one meter. This movement must allow the body's balance and inertia to cooperate well, otherwise it is very likely He fell to the ground on his back.When the red rays passed over my head, I was so nervous that my heart seemed to stop beating.

"Yes, continue!" Professor Ye was encouraging me.

I dodged my waist, squatted on the ground, and then rolled forward, dodging the second set of rays.Immediately afterwards, I leaped up and successfully avoided the third group of rays.I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and stood up, taking a long breath.

Professor Ye patted me on the shoulder, "Tuoba Gu, you're good at it!"

Gu Meidi was the last one to pass through the mechanism, and Gu Meidi was also a martial arts practitioner, so she couldn't be troubled by this kind of climbing and tumbling.Her movements are more agile and her movements are softer, just like a shedding rabbit, her body is light and elegant, she jumps and jumps a few times, and she comes to us in a blink of an eye, and then shakes her long hair triumphantly.

We didn't go far forward, a corner appeared, and a stone staircase appeared below the corner, and the cold wind blew up from below.

Professor Ye took out his mobile phone and took a picture with the light from the screen of the mobile phone. He could vaguely see that the stone staircase was more than ten meters long, and there was a corner below it. It seemed that there was still a stone staircase.

"There shouldn't be an agency here, right?" I said.

Professor Ye said: "It's hard to say, it's better to be careful!"

We walked down the stone ladder slowly, and there was no danger in the distance of more than ten meters.Turning the corner, there is indeed a stone ladder leading to the bottom.

Professor Ye said: "From the height of the stone ladder, this secret passage should lead to the basement below the villa."

Gu Meidi said: "Wan Juncheng is really weird, he actually managed to make such a name for himself in his own home. We are here to find someone, not to play adventure games."

I secretly admired Wan Juncheng in my heart. Not only was the mechanism designed very delicately, but even the selection of the entrance to the secret passage was beyond ordinary people's expectations.Generally speaking, the passage leading to the basement is on the first floor, because only the first floor is connected to the basement. Unexpectedly, the entrance to Wanjia's basement is in the study on the second floor. If Professor Ye hadn't discovered the secret of ancient poetry, we would have no way to see it. To Wan Juncheng.But to be honest, it is really strange and exaggerated to make such a secret room at home.

"Friends from afar, welcome to come!"

The basement was brightly lit, and a generous and tall figure was facing away from us. This person must be Wan Juncheng.

I looked around and found that this basement is very spacious, not the kind of basement where debris is piled up as I imagined.To be precise, this basement is more like Wan Juncheng's studio than the study on the second floor.The basement is beautifully decorated. On the tall sandalwood cabinets are neatly stacked various books on the study of Xixia culture. There are also tall display cabinets near the corner. There are many works of art about Xixia culture in the cabinets, like what kind of Xixia culture? Silver pots, Buddhist paintings of Xixia, and glazed porcelain vases of Xixia, etc., each of which is a very precious collection.

Wan Juncheng turned around. He was a burly northwestern man with a high nose bridge and two thick black eyebrows. He was at least 180 centimeters tall, and he was very heroic.With a pair of black-rimmed glasses on the square square face, he looks young, probably in his early 40s.

Professor Ye cupped his fists and said, "Hi, Professor Wan, I'm Ye Sheng. These two are Tuoba Gu and Gu Meidi, and they are my most capable assistants."

Wan Juncheng made a gesture of invitation, "Oh, so you are Professor Ye Shengye, a well-known archaeologist in Northwest China. I have known you for a long time, please sit down! Please sit down!"

We sat down on the sofa, and Wan Juncheng poured a cup of tea for each of us, "Congratulations, you found me within the stipulated time and got the chance to meet me!"

I murmured to myself: "What! You make it sound like you're a great person."

Professor Ye smiled slightly, "Your basement is indeed very secret."

Wan Juncheng smiled proudly, "That's right, those who have no ability don't want to see me. I don't accept everyone. Well, Professor Ye, please tell me why you are here!"

"Okay, refreshing enough!" Professor Ye nodded, and handed an enlarged picture to Wan Juncheng, "I heard that you are an expert in ancient characters, especially in Xixia characters, so I would like to ask you to help decipher this picture." The Western Xia text on the picture!"

Wan Juncheng took the picture, adjusted his glasses, and looked at us with a little surprise, "The Xixia script on this stele exceeds a thousand characters, and it is well preserved. You guys... where did you find this stele? "

Naturally, we will not tell Wan Juncheng the truth. Professor Ye said to him: "We excavated an ancient tomb half a month ago. This stone tablet engraved with Xixia characters is inside the ancient tomb. But the Xixia characters are very complicated. I don’t know him. After many inquiries, I learned that Professor Wan is proficient in Xixia, so I came to visit him all the way. Please forgive me if I disturb you!”

Holding the printed picture, Wan Juncheng was as excited as holding his beloved child, and muttered to himself: "Great, I finally have something to do, I just feel bored recently!"

As soon as we heard Wan Juncheng's words, we knew there was something serious about it. Professor Ye hurriedly asked, "I don't know how long it will take for Professor Wan to decipher the content on the stele?"

Wan Juncheng thought for a while, "About ten days!"

I blurted out: "Ah! Ten days is so long!"

Wan Juncheng lowered his face and looked at me with contempt and disdain, "What? Ten days is too long? Do you think doing this is as easy as looking up a dictionary? If I show you this picture , I’m afraid you won’t be able to decipher it in your lifetime!”

I finally got to know Wan Juncheng's eccentric temper. He belongs to the kind of very proud and conceited character who can't listen to anyone saying anything wrong to him.Forget it, as the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. Now that we have something to ask of him, we naturally dare not offend him.So I had no choice but to suppress my temper, and said with a smile on my face: "Professor Wan, you misunderstood! In fact, I mean to praise you, because I think that a knowledgeable and talented person like you may only need three to five days to decipher these things." Western Xia characters!"

"Hey!" Wan Juncheng smiled triumphantly, "Boy, you flatter me too much. This matter is actually quite complicated. Go back first, and come to me in ten days!"

We didn't say much, got up and shook hands with Professor Wan to say goodbye, "Okay, then I won't bother you, see you in ten days!"

Leaving the villa area, Gu Meidi finally couldn't help complaining: "That old guy Wan Juncheng is simply arrogant, self-satisfied, and arrogant! If I didn't ask him to do something, I really want to slap his 42 on the face of the code!"

Professor Ye and I were amused by Gu Meidi's words, and Professor Ye smiled and said, "Okay, don't be angry! Anyway, our trip was not in vain. After ten days, we will know the secret on the stele. "

The next day, we took the train back to Xi'an. After all, there were still ten days left, and we couldn't stay in Yinchuan all the time.In the next ten days, we lived like a year, almost counting the days on our fingers. I have never expected time to pass faster.

The evening before I set off for Yinchuan, I was packing my luggage in the back room, when Gu Meidi came into the room and called me, "Tuobagu, are you packed? We are ready to go!"

I zipped up the suitcase, "It's packed, let's go!"

"Hey, wait!" Gu Meidi suddenly stopped me.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Gu Mei Di came up behind me and said strangely: "Hey, Tuoba Gu, do you have a birthmark on the back of your neck?"

"Birthmark?" I said suspiciously, "I don't have a birthmark!"

"Then what is this?" Gu Mei Di reached out and pressed the back of my neck.

I felt a little pain, and quickly asked, "Is there something behind my neck?"

"Well, a red mark. Ah, it must be some kind of skin disease?" Gu Meidi said.

I heard Gu Meidi's words didn't look like she was joking, so I said to her: "Take a picture with your mobile phone and show me!"

(End of this chapter)