"Hey, little girl, why don't you continue tinkering with your little box?"
Chi You's tone contained a hint of schadenfreude.
Shu Li didn't speak, just waved her hand gently.
"Hmm? Well! Wait! I."
Shuli exhaled softly.
It's quiet.
Picking up the small wooden box again, Shuli looked at it carefully again.
Shu Li felt that since permutations and combinations were needed, some clues would inevitably be given, and there could not be only straightforward questions.
Forty-six. Forty-six.
Shuli's fair and slender fingers stroked the patterns, each pattern was dotted with white dots, which looked like the stars in the night sky.
Um?
etc.
If we associate forty-six with the stars, Shuli happens to have a constellation that is relatively familiar to him, and he also happens to have forty-six star palaces.
The arrival of the divine dragon——Eastern Canglong Qisu!
The seven constellations of Dongfang Canglong include Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji, with a total of 46 star officials and 186 stars.
I squinted my eyes and counted, and the number of white dots was indeed 186.
The number of small dots in each pattern is different, if the small dots in each pattern represent its tone.
Shuli started to press each pattern into the corresponding position.
Click~
Just hear a crisp sound.
The wooden box in Shuli's hand cracked, then the lid popped up and slowly opened backwards.
Click click click~
There was a sound like a gear turning from the box.
The gears of the internal mechanism rotate, and when the lid of the box is opened, a splendid pagoda-like pavilion appears inside.
The railings of the pagoda and the tops are engraved with small golden characters. The walls and cornices of the pagoda are ancient green. There is a golden bead on the top of the pagoda, and there are a large number of golden gears at the bottom that can control the lifting and lowering of the pagoda.
The pavilion has five floors, and each floor corresponds to the five tones of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu.
There are twelve cornices on each floor, and there is a window under each cornice. Each window is marked with the name of the temperament, which corresponds to the twelve temperaments.
Immediately afterwards, the gear at the bottom began to rotate on its own, and each floor of the pagoda began to rotate accordingly. As the pagoda rotated, the column on the top of the tower changed from gold to emerald blue, and also emitted a faint fluorescent light.
Da~
There was another crisp sound.
Then, the pagoda made a crisp sound, forming a beautiful piece of music.
Shuli stared at the rotating pagoda and frowned slightly.
Music box?
Or, the Phantom Sound Box?
No, that's not right.
The Phantom Sound Box is the lost treasure of the Yin Yang family and can play countless pieces of music.
It is said that these pieces of music are both illusory and real, ever-changing, and have a terrifying and dangerous power. If those who are destined to hear it can improve their skills, but those who are not destined to hear it may fall into confusion or even go crazy.
Not to mention whether the rumors about the Phantom Sound Treasure Box are true or false, but according to what Shuli knew in his previous life, the Phantom Sound Treasure Box has been hidden in a forbidden area of the Mo family since it was lost.
Moreover, the appearance of the Phantom Music Box does not have these complicated decorations. It returns to its original nature and looks more like an ordinary music box.
Shu Li also did not feel the ancient charm that had experienced thousands of years from the music box in her hand, even though it might have existed for hundreds of years.
Therefore, this is most likely just an ordinary music box made in imitation of the Phantom Treasure Box.
It's just that the structure is also extremely exquisite, and it doesn't look like it was made by ordinary people.
Today, apart from the Gongshu family, which is famous for its aggression and domineering, the only one left with such a fine inheritance of mechanical skills is the Moh family.
As the rumors say, the main feature of the Gongshu family's domineering mechanism technique is that it focuses on attack and is extremely destructive.
Therefore, this music box can only be made by Mohists.
Click~
Another crisp sound interrupted Shuli's thoughts.
The music stopped suddenly, and after the pagoda slowly lowered into the box, the lid of the box suddenly closed, and the pattern also changed.
"Owner?"
Music suddenly came from the carriage, making Qinghe wary and worried whether Shuli had encountered any danger.
"It's okay, it's just the gadget from before." Shuli responded.
inside the car,
Shu Li smiled softly and was about to open the music box again, but then something suddenly occurred to her.
"Little girl, really, it's not like I can't stop talking, right? I'll be surprised next time." Chi You was halfway through his words, and then he saw the opened music box in Shu Li's hand.
"The box is open? But what is this thing? It can also make a sound!?" Chi You was quite shocked by this as if he had never seen this thing before.
Hearing Chi You's tone, Shu Li smiled with satisfaction, and then told Chi You roughly what a music box was.
"I see, what is its principle?"
Shuli:.
There are some questions that don’t need to be asked.
Ignoring Chi You, Shu Li looked at the imitation phantom sound treasure box again.
I have to say that if you just look at the appearance, it is indeed very similar to the Phantom Treasure Box.
But no matter how Shu Li looked, she couldn't see why.
Maybe it's because her skills in mechanism are too low?
No, she has never learned the art of mechanism at all, so it’s strange that she can understand it.
"System?" Shuli called tentatively.
But as expected, the system didn't know whether it was overstretched last time and hadn't been upgraded yet, or something else happened, and it still didn't respond.
Giving up on taking shortcuts from the system, Shuli set her sights on each floor of the pavilion.
If she remembered correctly, when the three little ones met the Phantom Sound Box for the first time, Yue'er turned around.
So Shuli also tried to rotate the pavilion.
Kaka~
As Shuli turned carefully, the machine gear made a crisp sound, which made Shuli even more cautious for fear of breaking it.
Ta da~
As Shuli let go, the music from the Pseudo-Phantom Sound Box changed, but the sound was relatively stiff, like a dancer covered in glue dancing.
But what Shuli cares about is not the harsh sound, but if the pavilions rotate like patterns and are arranged in combination.
The five-story pavilion has twelve cornices on each floor.
Shu Li said hehe.
Don't ask her to try one by one, it's impossible.
You still need to find hidden clues and then decipher them to find the secret.
But Shuli looked through the whole pavilion and couldn't find any clues.
As for the engraved Chu characters:
The thunder fills the sky and the rain falls, and the squirrels chirp at night.
The wind is rustling and the trees are rustling. I miss the young master but I am worried about leaving.
This is a poem. The original poem describes a passionate mountain ghost's tryst with his sweetheart in the mountains and his emotions of waiting for his sweetheart again and his future.
However, these two lines of poetry were obviously engraved later and did not always exist, so they cannot be used as clues at all and can be ignored.
Shuli fell into deep thought.
The clues to unlocking the secret of the wooden box from the beginning are all related to the Eastern Qisu, so is there a possibility that the rotation of the pavilion is also related to it?
Spica is the first place of the Eastern Canglong, representing the dragon's horn and the starting point of the twenty-eight places in the sky.
As for how to find Spica, you need to use the eye-catching Big Dipper.
Starting from the Big Dipper and extending its handles into a curve about four times, there is a bright first-magnitude star, which is Spica.
There is another third-magnitude star very close to the north of Spica, which is Spica. These two stars are located near the ecliptic, and they also represent the two horns of the blue dragon. The area of the sky perpendicular to the ecliptic is Spica.
Already.
If the ball on the top of the tower is regarded as the North Star, the North Star is on the five-fold extension of the line connecting Tianxuan and Tianshu in the Big Dipper.
This requires Shuli to use spatial imagination.
However, suddenly, the vision in Shu Li's eyes changed drastically.