Meng 49 sword

Chapter 162 Who is at fault

The small building is very empty, except for the dust accumulated over the years, it seems to be empty.

Meng Qiqi stretched out her fingers to measure the thickness of the dust, and found that the thickness was almost as thick as a barren village where no one lived for decades.This secret place of Futu Temple is probably in a semi-abandoned state.

That group of monks really, have such a big treasure house and don't use it, are they showing benevolence to the maximum?

Continuing to walk in, the two of them didn't miss any place, one flipped through the scrolls, the other looked for hidden compartments, and the division of labor was clear.But the two searched the entire small building, but they couldn't find anything useful.

"Continue." Meng Qiqi said, walking towards the next house.

While walking, Jin Man thoughtfully looked at the patterns on the beams and the decorations on the table, and stopped from time to time to observe carefully, like a traveler who came to play.

Meng Qiqi gave him a strange look, but didn't say anything in the end.People like Jin Man have their own plans for what they do, and it's not beautiful to be judged by others.

After a while, Meng Qiqi was holding a book on the shelf and looking at it carefully, when Jin Man came in from the door and said, "Did you notice that the building here is a bit special?"

"What's so special?" Meng Qiqi asked.

"Those patterns and decorations don't look like Daxia's style. They are somewhat similar, but the ones here are simpler and more wild."

Hearing this, Meng Qiqi went to the bookshelf to look carefully at the patterns on it, but to him, aren't these patterns all the same?Patterns are patterns, there's really nothing special about them.

"Seeing that you are still so ignorant, I can't help but wonder why Mr. Chen fell in love with you." Jin Man said.

"He's good at it, what's the matter?" Meng Qiqi raised an eyebrow.

"Not really." Jin Man rolled his eyes.If Meng Qiqi wasn't the only one here, he would have been too lazy to talk nonsense with him and kicked him off the mountain.

But what needs to be explained has to be explained, "In short, you only need to know the difference between the two. The style of decoration and architecture will change with time. Just like words, fonts will also evolve with the passage of time. , different fonts can represent the styles of different periods.”

Meng Qiqi understood, "You mean that the style of these buildings and decorations seems to be from a long time ago?"

"That's right, I've never seen anything like it, anywhere."

"Is there any problem with this? Since the founding of Daxia, these secret realms existed, so it must be earlier than Daxia." Meng Qiqi didn't know what Jin Man really cared about, thought for a while, and asked Said: "Are you trying to say that you haven't seen this style in any historical documents?"

"Smart." Jin Man walked slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, glanced at the bookshelves and vases, and said: "It doesn't exist in history, but it has similarities with Daxia's style. It's a big problem."

Meng Qiqi frowned, "Could it be that you just haven't seen it?"

"Are you questioning my knowledge?"

Meng Qiqi spread her hands.

Jin Man snorted coldly, and said: "When I was young, I was indeed not knowledgeable, so even if I entered the secret realm, I couldn't see anything. But it's different now. I can guarantee that if you invite some great scholars over and over again, it's just the same as you. I came to the same conclusion."

Okay, you read a lot, you are right.

"Then Mr. Jin means that what we are looking for now is a piece of history that doesn't exist?" After saying that, Meng Qiqi suddenly felt that this matter became more and more interesting.

Buildings must be man-made, so where and when these people came from is a question.It is also a question whether they built the secret realm by themselves, or whether they built these buildings relying on the secret realm.But why did they lose track in the long river of history?

Either it is a completely irresistible natural disaster, obliterating everything indiscriminately.

Either someone deliberately erased all this from the world.

No matter which possibility, Meng Qiqi thought it was very interesting.Of course, it is not ruled out that Jinman's knowledge is superficial and there are some omissions. After all, the world is so big that it is difficult for a person to visit and see every corner even if he spends his whole life.

Suddenly, Meng Qiqi remembered the study she saw when she was exploring the Wang Clan's secret realm last time.That was before he met Shiqi for the first time, and he and Xiao Yuer searched the building like this, hoping to find some clues about Zhou Ziheng.

He has seen a travel book, which is a very ordinary travel book, which records the customs and customs of various places.There is also a line written on the last page-96 years, a pillow of yellow beams.Ask the hometown in the dream, where is it safe now?

"Do you know a place called Mengze?" Meng Qiqi asked suddenly.

"Mengze? What is that place?" Jin Man asked.

"What about Da'an?"

"Never heard of it."

"Built the city?"

"Never."

Meng Qiqi asked several place names in a row, but Jin Man shook his head in denial.He gradually revealed a stern look, and Jin Man also smelled something different from it, "Where did you see it?"

"It's in the Wang family's secret realm, a travelogue. It doesn't seem like it was made up." Meng Qiqi said slowly, her thoughts returned to that day, and she tried her best to recall the details of that day.

"I seem to remember... the last inscription of that book reads... 85 years of Chengwu."

"Chengwu? Yaoguang reigned for 11 years, and his reign name was Guanghua. His son succeeded him at the age of five, and his name was changed to Chengwu. Chengwu was 85 years old, which happened to be the sixth year of Da Xia's founding dynasty No. 90." Jin Man said.

Meng Qiqi suddenly turned her head and stared at him, "You said the Great Xia Dynasty was established for 96 years?"

"So what?" Jin Man raised his eyebrows.

Meng Qiqi also raised her eyebrows, and then told Jin Man the last sentence, and said, "Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

"It really doesn't look like it."

The two looked at each other, and immediately looked for other things that could prove it.If Meng Qiqi was able to find the travel journal, there might be other clues here.Even Jin Man wouldn't take a second look at these things on weekdays, but as the truth gradually surfaced, these trivial things that were most easily overlooked became the key to answering questions.

So when Xiao Yu'er woke up and came to look for his master, she saw Meng Qiqi and Jin Man sitting on the floor of a certain room without any image, with a lot of bamboo slips, scrolls, and even a lot of Xiao Yu'er sitting beside them. bottle.

"Master, what are you doing?" Xiao Yu'er leaned over.

But Meng Qiqi didn't seem to hear his question, fixed his eyes on the words on the bamboo slips, and murmured: "Jiancheng is far away...Jiancheng is far away..."

A place name that did not exist in the present world appeared again on the scroll of the secret realm. What does this mean?

Where is Jiancheng?

"We need to verify again after leaving the secret realm." Meng Qiqi looked at Jin Man and said.

"Of course you can go to ask for proof again, but I can tell you that you won't find any place called Jiancheng." Jin Man put down the letter and stood up, looking out the window at the gradually graying sky, and said, "Now we should think about how to do it." Only then can we reach the edge of the secret realm, we have already spent enough time."

Meng Qiqi followed his gaze to see the coming daylight, and was startled by the passage of time.

No, wait.

sunrise?

Meng Qiqi suddenly heard another clue that he found in that study room, Zhou Ziheng once left a sentence on the table - I will wait for you at sunset.

Zhou Ziheng went to the depths of the secret realm and never came back, which can be regarded as his last word.When the sun goes down... why is it the time when the sun goes down?Is this related to the depths of the secret realm?

Meng Qiqi immediately discussed with Jin Man, Jin Man said: "Now is the sunrise, if we really want to solve the confusion according to this sentence, we need to wait another whole day."

Hearing this, Meng Qiqi frowned.There are too few clues in this sentence, only the word "sunset" is not enough to deduce anything.But now they have been searching all night, but they haven't found any definite clues about the barrier.

At this time, Meng Qiqi noticed that Xiao Yu'er was staring out of the window blankly, with a puzzled expression on her face.

"What's wrong?" Meng Qiqi asked.

Xiao Yuer scratched her head, blinked and looked at Master with one eye, and said, "Master, don't you think there is something wrong with this sun?"

Meng Qiqi was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"The direction is wrong." Xiao Yu'er grabbed his master's hand and ran to the window, put her feet on the window sill and looked out, saying, "The sun has risen from the west!"

"How could it be?" Meng Qiqi couldn't help laughing.Since ancient times, the sun has risen in the east and set in the west, and there is no mistake in the secret realm. Isn't the direction they are looking at at this moment the east?

"No, what your apprentice said may not be wrong." Jin Man's voice suddenly sank, and he walked quickly to Meng Qiqi's side, looking at the direction they came from, and asked: "The basis for us to judge the direction is The sun, where the sun rises is the east. But what if the sun is wrong?"

How could the sun be wrong?

Meng Qiqi felt that this statement was a bit absurd, but he also knew that Xiao Yu'er was not a child who could talk nonsense.

Xiao Yu'er looked at Master's dignified face, and whispered again: "We came from the west yesterday."

It was this sentence that gave Meng Qiqi and Jin Man a sudden enlightenment.

If Meng Qiqi's conjecture is correct, then the world and the secret realm overlap each other, and the directions of the two are the same.In such a small secret realm, there is only one clock, and its location is at the entrance of the secret realm, which is where Mount Vimo is.

And the crack through which they entered the secret realm was located on the west side of Mount Vimo.

No one has discovered the connection between the secret realm and the present world before, and everyone judges things by the position of the sun, which is common sense.In the secret realm, it is rainy all the year round, and the sun rarely appears. Even during the entire exorcism conference, you can hardly see the sun, so no one notices anything unusual.

Last time in the Tianzhu Mountain secret realm, and this time, Meng Qiqi judged the direction by intuition.And this intuition is based on the present world's east, west, north and south.For example, before he entered the secret realm, he was facing the north. After he entered the secret realm, he took it for granted that the front was the north, so he found the clock accurately.

But the fact is that the sun has really risen in the west.

At this time, Jin Man rummaged through the Sumeru Ring and finally found a compass the size of a palm.Meng Qiqi and Xiao Yu'er looked at the compass together, and saw that the pointer wobbled a few times, and finally stopped at a certain position.

The south it points to is exactly the north.

The compass, too, is wrong.