Evil Bottle-Kirin Returns

Chapter 8

What the fat man found was on the ground in the center of the cave. It was a lotus-shaped bas-relief stone slab with six petals.In the middle is a lotus plate with a diameter of about one meter. There are hundreds of evenly distributed holes on the lotus plate, most of which are empty, and only five holes are embedded with things. The fat man put the light on it to have a look. Well, an old acquaintance, it is my dragon-headed turtle that I got somewhere.

As soon as the fat man stretched out his hand, the movement was obviously to go up and pry it down, but he turned halfway and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Wu, did you play with this thing when you were young?" It looked familiar, and the fat man immediately knew what he was referring to. This hexagonal lotus plate looked like an oversized checkerboard.The fat man pointed to the five tortoises on the lotus plate and said, "Could it be that this is the remnant score left by our ancestors. You have to break this game to pass the game? It's okay to leave a Go record, but how can you keep a checkers record?"

I looked at the lotus plate and pondered: "It's quite like checkers, but the chess pieces are unreasonable. You see, these dragon-headed tortoises are all the same, and there is no difference between the two games." I don't have much research on Go, but in the past When doing business, I also received chess records, but there was no situation where there were so few moves.The fat man walked half a circle around the lotus plate, knelt down and scratched his head, and said, "According to this, it can't be Go, grandma, did we discover the originator of backgammon?"

I shook my head and said: "Impossible. If the dragon-headed tortoise in our hand was originally placed on this lotus plate, there would be more than five seeds. It is very likely that there were this thing in other holes, but in the Someone took it away before we arrived." The fat man jumped up and asked Poker Fing: "Brother, you said this thing is weird, what is so weird about it? Is this thing worth money? If it is worth money, let's take these five It’s also worth a round, go out and sell it for a good price and divide it among the three brothers, it’s not a waste of time.”

"This shouldn't be a chessboard." Poker Ping came over and knelt down, took out the dragon-headed turtle, and put it into a hole.The original five pieces formed a "Z" shape that was pulled to the left and right. After the Poker Bottle was put down, only one side was extended, and the structure did not change much. It is difficult to explain the problem. "Brother, do you mean that you have been here before, and the layout at that time was six? You brought one out of the hole?" I looked at Poker Ping, and he nodded.

I was a little skeptical, is there such a coincidence in the world?Poker bottle came here decades ago, and brought out one of them, and this one passed through several times and finally came into my hands. !

The fat man was a little impatient: "So we're done here? Return this waste to the original owner, and everything will be fine and you can run away? Then I dare to learn from Lei Feng!" I got up and circled the relief, thinking quickly, and finally I felt that this place could not be the end point, and there must be details that we didn’t pay attention to. Suddenly, I thought of a question, and asked Poker: “Brother, is there a mechanism on this stone slab? Can you pry it open?”

Poker-Face sat down cross-legged, and gave a positive answer: "Yes. But I'm not sure what it is. The structure under the stone slab is very complicated, and there may be a large mechanism." After a pause, he said, "It may be very dangerous. , I'm not sure." This sentence was said to me, and I thought it was strange, why did Poker Face look like asking for my opinion, did he suddenly burst out with team awareness?And make me the team leader by default?

I was a little bit flustered, and the speed of my brain was greatly accelerated. I suddenly had a desire to pour out the contents of my stomach. I looked at the holes around me and said: "Now let's assume that there is a mechanism under this lotus pan, then logically Angle, the person who designed the mechanism should prepare two directions, one is to trigger the trap; the other is to enter the next link. I think the little brother is right, this is not a chessboard. Fatty, you look at the surrounding holes and The star map above my head just now. If I guessed correctly, there should be 28 holes around the circle, representing the 28 constellations, and the mechanism on the lotus plate must also be related to the constellations." I was a little proud after I finished speaking, because the fat man I have counted the entrances of the caves, and there are indeed 28.

Poker Ping sat across from me, looking at me quietly, and I continued involuntarily: "And the position of the six jade turtles on this board represents a star." The fat man leaned over to me and said, "Hi, Xiao Tianzhen, what you said makes a little sense, let me think about it, the six-star constellation...could it be the one in the Luoshu nine-star map..."

"No." I raised my head, and Poker Ping in front of me didn't move at all. I swallowed, feeling a sense of nervousness for a big exam, and looked over Poker Ping's head. The hole behind him should be the passage we came in just now "If I'm not mistaken, there's another one besides these six..." From the dark hole to Poyouying's ancient well-like eyes, and then to the lotus plate on the ground, I drew a straight line with my fingers. , pointing straight to a hole on the lotus plate, "Tianshu. This is the complete seven stars, Big Dipper."

Why?I looked down at the hole I poked with my finger, what an ugly picture, why doesn't it look like a Big Dipper?

The position of my finger point is connected with the other six points, although it can be regarded as a bucket shape, but the shape is ugly. Is it necessary to explain "inverted bucket" in this way?I raised my eyes and glanced at the Poker bottle, and found that his face changed, and he jumped up with a "bass", and rushed towards me.