"When we first came in, there was nothing in this place." I confirmed with my teammates without giving up.
Xiangyu nodded towards me with a solemn expression.
"Oh, it's not peaceful in this ancient temple. Everyone, be careful. Let's go and have a look." Zhang Jisheng sighed deeply.
The picture on the ground is roughly composed of three gradually smaller squares. There is a cross in the middle of the smallest square, and the sides of the three squares are composed of solid and hollow circles.
"This is a picture of a river," the old man said after just one glance. He squatted down next to the picture, and the vertical lines on his brow formed the shape of a river.
Grandpa is keen on studying the Book of Changes, so I also know something about Hetu. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a dragon horse carrying such a pattern on its back, with one white and six black on the back near the tail, and seven white and two black on the back near the head.
Three whites and eight blacks are on the left side of the back, nine whites and four blacks are on the right side of the back, and five whites and ten blacks are on the back. After people discovered it, they drew it and used it for divination, and called it the "River Map".
Therefore, river pictures are composed of black and white dots, but the picture on the ground is composed of lines. I looked at it carefully for a long time, but I still couldn't tell that it was a river picture.
I saw Zhang Jisheng and Xiang Yu standing aside with puzzled faces, so I couldn't help but say, "Sir, how did you see that this is a river map? Isn't it just a few squares put together?"
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"The weight of the strokes is different, so we use this to distinguish black and white. Whether the strokes are coherent or not, you can touch it with your own hands." The old man raised his head, glanced at me, said slowly, and then stood up.
He clapped his hands.
Hearing what he said, I squatted down and carefully touched the floor tiles with my hands. Sure enough, these squares seemed to be composed of four sides at first glance. In fact, there was a mystery hidden on each side, which was consistent with what the old man said.
Suddenly, I discovered that there was something wrong with this pattern.
"The first part of the sky is water, and the earth is 60% of it; the second part of the earth is the fire, and the sky is 70% of it; the third part of the sky is the wood, and the earth is 80% of it; the fourth part of the earth is the metal, and the sky is 90% of it; the fifth part of the sky is the earth, and the earth is 100% of it." When I was a child.
The Hetu hymn my grandpa asked me to memorize came out instantly.
"Zhou Cang, what are you talking about? What about metal, wood, water, fire, and earth." Xiang Yu said.
"This pattern is weird," I replied.
If our idea of the river diagram is correct, then the two sets of parallel lines at the bottom of this pattern should be that the inner lines are floating and the outer lines are recessed into the ground. However, what I have touched so far
, just the opposite.
However, the old man didn't notice it just now.
I was wondering in my heart, but my hand unconsciously pressed towards the line floating on the ground.
Suddenly, a blue light emerged from the gaps in the bluestone floor tiles, and then spread out, covering the entire Xiangtang, piercing me so hard that I couldn't open my eyes.
As soon as my feet were in the air, the entire floor of Xiangtang flipped 180 degrees from top to bottom, and I fell straight down in an instant!
The feeling of free fall was really terrible. I grabbed my hands and feet wildly, trying to catch something. But the surroundings were empty and there was nothing to focus on...
The whistling wind blew past my ears rapidly, and my heart was beating rapidly, almost overloaded! Fear overflowed from my spine and flowed through every cell in my body.
Gradually, the only word "despair" remained in my mind.
This time, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky.
When Chen Mo found my body smashed into meat patties, would he be able to recognize me?
Bang——
I finally landed.
I don’t know how long it took, but I opened my eyes and sat up drowsily. My head felt like a jar full of paste, sticky and heavy. My whole body felt dizzy and very uncomfortable.
I shook my head vigorously, finally regained consciousness, and hurriedly checked my surroundings.
The surroundings were dark and the specific outline could not be seen clearly.
"Mr. Jisheng, Xiangyu," the surroundings were eerily quiet, but I still had the courage to call out.
Then, I heard my own echo hitting the four walls and wandering back.
Damn it, I'm the only one who fell?
"Woo,"
Suddenly, a deep female voice came from not far away from me.
I hurriedly followed the sound and found a woman lying on the ground not far to my left.
It must be Xiangyu. My anxious heart dropped a little. After all, there was another teammate here, and the chill behind me suddenly weakened a lot.
"Xiangyu, how are you?" I struggled to get up, ready to go over and check Xiangyu's injuries, because based on my memory, we fell from a very high place.
However, as soon as I stood up, I discovered that the woman lying on the ground was not Xiangyu. Although her hair was disheveled and her face could not be seen clearly, her physique was much larger than Xiangyu.
Is there another girl in this ancient temple?
My heart was beating wildly. I couldn't believe my eyes, so I rubbed them hard and looked again.
"ah--"
I screamed, and the pores all over my body suddenly tightened.
I suddenly thought of the woman I saw in the bronze mirror under the stage. Could it be her?
Thinking of this, I was so frightened that I fell to the ground and fled backwards on my hands and feet.
At this moment, the woman groaned and started crawling on the ground.
She seems to be looking for me.
The woman was wearing a white ancient dress, with empty sleeves and no visible hands. Her long hair was dragging on the ground, a pale face was looming, and her sharp nails scratched the blue brick floor making a "squeaking" sound.
The woman opened her mouth as if she said something, but what I heard was a "giggle" sound similar to laughter.