The mountain ghost blows out the lights

The Zhaixing Building is not guarded at night.

There are many reasons, the main one is that the building itself is heavily guarded, with all kinds of equipment, and the door is also heavy, there is basically no possibility for ordinary people to break in, and there is nothing valuable in it. Useful.

Besides, the people of Yanjing City have good customs, those who are so leisurely and awake at night will go to play, how can they have the extra curiosity to go to the Star Picking Tower.

Therefore, when the two came to the Star Picking Tower, there was no one around.

Today is sunny, there is almost no cloud in the sky, the moonlight shines on the street, the halo is white and bright, almost covering the fat burning lights on the street not far away.

The door of the Zhaixing Building was closed tightly, Shen Lianxing tried to turn the mechanism to open the door twice, but it didn't turn.

The door is locked, they don't have a key, and they obviously can't get in through the usual methods, but these obstacles are nothing to the two of them now, even if there is no door in this building, they can't stop them.

Yan Jinping looked up at the huge clock tower, and then took Shen Lianxing's hand.

"Hold on," he said, "we'll go through the wall."

Before Shen Lianxing could speak, the sound of flapping wings came from behind the two of them. The sound changed from small to loud, as if it was coming towards them.

The two turned their heads and looked at the boy in black who had just turned into a human form.

Crow Feather: "..."

The little crow saw an acquaintance when he was patrolling in the sky, and flew down happily to say hello, but before he landed, he saw Yan Jinping holding Shen Lianxing's hand, as if he was about to lean against the wall of the astrology building.

Although he knew that these two were lovers, he had short-sightedness and had never encountered such a scene in his limited life, so he couldn't decide whether he should continue to disturb him or not.

... You two didn't rest in the middle of the night, and you came here just to hold hands?

What a joy it was.

In short, now that it has been discovered, Yayu stood there thinking for a while, and decided to pretend that he didn't know anything.

The little crow stood up straight slowly, and greeted you two sternly: "Good night, you two, you are just patrolling the city below, your eyesight is not good, and you didn't see anything when you were in the sky, I am disturbing you two, I will Walk."

His eyes still deliberately glanced to the side, looking at the sky and the earth, but not at Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping, all capitalized to conceal.

Well, he might as well be inconsiderate, the atmosphere is even more awkward now.

Yan Jinping: "..."

Perhaps it was Yayu's attitude that affected him, Boss Yan, who didn't feel anything at all, suddenly felt awkward at this moment.

He tried to explain: "We want to go to the Zhaixing Building because we have something to do, not..."

not what?Isn't it shameless and indecent to run out in the middle of the night?

It would be very strange to add anything after the word 'not'. Yan Jinping stopped talking for a long time, and finally gave up explaining, and shut up depressedly.

Ya Yu didn't know if he believed it or not, but after all, he had grown up. After passing through the unclean sea, he had grown up a lot. At least he learned not to say what he was thinking directly, but just stared at the two of them subtly. After looking at it for a while, he nodded and said, "...Oh."

"Then I'm leaving." He said immediately, "You two... goodbye."

It turned into a black bird, and flew away as if fleeing at a much faster speed than when it came.

Yan Jinping: "..."

motherfucker.

Shen Lianxing was much more open-minded, and looked at Yayu Fei's back in a leisurely manner, and commented with interest: "Children."

Looking at Yan Jinping who was holding his hand, he said in his heart: Another child.

Immediately, he was dragged into the building by the expressionless 'Little Yan'.

……

The Zhaixing Tower at night is completely different from that during the day.

It may have been a long time since no one had entered the Zhaixing Building at this time, and now it has more symbolic meaning than practical significance for people, and maintenance is also done during the day, and the building is not even lit.

No lighting required either.

The two passed through the thick walls, and when they opened their eyes, they almost didn't realize that they were in the Star Picking Building for a moment.

There are brilliance flowing around in the building, not dazzling, but very bright.

As for the source of the light...

On the high part of the wall of the Star Picking Building, there are eight small windows.

The windows are flat and wide, sealed with transparent glass, and each wall has two sides, forming a circle around the entire building, which is not worth mentioning for the size of the building.

During the daytime, these windows are very inconspicuous, and people's sights will always be attracted by those wonderful and delicate mechanisms. They will marvel at the complexity of the internal structure of the Star Picking Building, and the windows—there are windows everywhere in the world. , Wooden, iron, carved... Windows are everywhere, not uncommon.

Only at night, when the external mechanisms on the wall are hidden in the darkness, can the functions of these small windows really be revealed.

A little further inward of each window, a prism is placed on a copper frame. The prism has been skillfully cut and polished, and after so many years, it still shines brightly.

——Maybe someone will clean them frequently, but those people may not know the real purpose of these prisms.

A staircase in the middle of the whole building spirals to the top of the building. The last time I came here, I just glanced at it and went to the top floor without seeing anything clearly. At this time, no one disturbed me, so I finally had time to study it carefully.

Yan Jinping raised his head and noticed that the mechanical core hanging on the roof was originally hollowed out, with a huge transparent gem embedded in the center, which also used a very unique cutting method.

The gem is so strangely transparent that it is easy to ignore it during the day, but now it is the most eye-catching presence in the entire building.

When there is no one at night, the bright moonlight passes through the eight small windows, is refracted by the prisms, and casts on the gemstone mirror with many facets in the center of the core, reflecting bits and pieces of light between the walls and the ground.

The Milky Way falls to the ground, and thousands of stardust also fall into this corner.

--Astrolabe.

The ancestors finally picked off the stars that are hundreds of millions of miles away and unreachable.

Yan Jinping: "Zhaixing Tower."

His voice was very soft. Now that the two of them are standing here, they are bearing the shadow of the ancestors of the Shen family. It seems that the spirit and soul of those people have been poured into this building, forming an inscribed monument, highlighting the past. Great achievements.

There is no other words to express the feeling of shock, and no amount of modification will be superfluous.

Shen Lianxing: "Yes."

He also looked up for a while, and finally raised his legs and walked slowly into the star shadows all over the place.

The moonlight was bright, and it was intensified in a strange way in multiple reflections. The broken stars all over the ground slowly changed their positions with the rise and fall of the moon, shining on the young man's head and body, even his clothes, They are all covered with stars.

During the day, the sunlight is too bright, but this effect cannot be achieved.

This is the bright and beautiful starlight that belongs to Zhaixinglou at night.

"I didn't notice it when I came last time." After all, Shen Lianxing was more professional than Yan Jinping, and his eyes were not only attracted by the scattered stars.He held his breath and studied for a long time, then suddenly said, "At that time, I didn't have a target, and I was in a hurry to see the high priest. I just glanced at it casually, but I couldn't see the connection."

Yan Jinping: "What about now?"

"Now..." Shen Lianxing looked around, pointed to a bulge on the wall, and said, "Did you see that? Those are the wings of a magpie."

Yan Jinping: "What?"

"The part of the wing—the part that makes it move." Shen Lianxing said, "That's a very powerful power system, and it's just right to put it here for transportation."

"It is slightly different from the one made by Cheng Ruxiu. The three of us have different styles and biases in design. It is impossible to be exactly the same."

However, the principle is similar, and the same goal by different routes, so even though it was the first time to study carefully, Shen Lianxing quickly saw the former use of these things.

"And that set over there." He pointed to the place under the window again, "It's for shock absorption, to prevent the magpie from falling too fast and causing problems."

Yan Jinping took a second look. Although he didn't understand where these things could absorb the shock, he understood Shen Lianxing's implication, and said, "You mean, this Zhaixing Tower..."

Shen Lianxing said: "During construction, a dismantled magpie was used."

The magpie made by Shen Zhi was broken on the way home, but since Shen Zhi survived, the accident was not serious, and they even recovered the wreckage of the magpie.

The wreckage was efficiently reused in the next building designed by Shen Zhi, without any waste.

"amazing."

Yan Jinping suddenly laughed. He leaned on the railing of the stairs, clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Interesting, this is really interesting."

Shen Zhi, the ancestor of the Shen family thousands of years ago, Cheng Ruxiu, a genius mechanism teacher 40 years ago, and Shen Lianxing today.

In this way, the three of them crossed the barriers of time and space and were linked together by a wonderful bond.

The name of the bond is 'knowledge'.

This incident reveals a sense of misplaced coincidence from inside to outside. Yan Jinping has lived for so many years, but he has never seen such an interesting thing.

Although short-lived, it can live forever in another form.

This is a unique quality of 'human'.

Interesting.

"So." Yan Jinping laughed to himself for a long time, and finally restrained himself.He looked up, "Is this what we're looking for?"

"I wasn't sure before I came here." Shen Lianxing said, "I knew it when I saw it with my own eyes. That's right, this is it."

The set of parts hanging on the roof of the Star Picking Building.

Even now, it is beating slowly and constantly according to a certain regularity.

Around the main shaft, some metal rods are pushed out, other gears and knobs are tightened and then retracted, and the chain pulls the rotating parts and is slowly tightened. After reaching a certain limit, there is a very slight 'click', skipping a certain At a delicate joint, the chain is loosened again, and the cycle is endless.

This thing is the core of the Zhaixing Building, the driving force of the entire building, and the foundation that supports the clock and calendar of the Zhaixing Building for thousands of years. It is...

It was the 'motivation' that flew into the clouds with Shen only.

"So it's really here." Shen Lianxing's voice was very soft, like a sigh.

Why never thought of it.

How come no one ever noticed.

It was obvious that the truth had always been here, so close, and it was placed on the table openly, without even bothering to cover it up.

Obviously, there are professional mechanism engineers to wipe and maintain every month.

Ordinary people don't care, the Shen family's gang of bastards, including that trash Shen Fan, don't they all sharpen their heads every day, and they only want to squeeze into the Star Picking Tower?

They never looked up?

Or is it that even if they saw and noticed it, they never thought about it, and never devoted even a sliver of energy to such "useless things"?

What kind of existence is the Shen family now...?

Shen Lianxing slowly leaned against the handrail of the stairs.

The temperature has warmed up recently, but it is still cold on such a clear night, even if the wind does not blow into the building, he will not be able to warm up.

Yan Jinping thought for a while, and then said: "I remember you said that the power of this thing should come from fire."

But now, at least on the bright side, there is no flame.

Not to mention the motivation, there is not even a torch.

"Well." Shen Lianxing said, "It's one thing when it's on the magpie, and another thing when it's in the building. The power source can't be placed on the bright side, so the flame can be easily extinguished, so I think, They probably made some changes later, and moved out the part that needs to be ignited."

It is still impossible to know what kind of fuel Shen Zhi used back then, and he can only know after seeing it with his own eyes.

"Although you should have thought about it a long time ago, I still have to remind you." Yan Jinping crossed his arms and said while observing the core, "If the Zhaixing Building shuts down, how big a storm do you think it will cause?"

With the development of the Shen family and the maturity of craftsmanship, clocks and calendars are no longer such rare things as before.Besides, Yanjing City is now a bustling city day and night, commerce has replaced farming, and residents' lives no longer need to rely too much on time.

Even if the Zhaixing Building really stops operating, it will not have much impact on people's lives.

Having said that, for nearly 1000 years, the Zhaixing Building, which has never had a problem, is bound to be very lively once it stops functioning.

It has been 1000 years, let alone stagnation, the error of the clock and calendar upstairs is not even more than a few breaths. Although people no longer rely on it so much, they regard it as a symbol of Yanjing City. If they are taken away rashly...

Shen Lianxing asked back, "What can you do if you keep it?"

Apart from using it for nonsense, flaunting your status, and putting it here as a decoration, what is the point of the clock itself running or not?

Those people might not even find out that their 'horoscope building' has stopped working until the next time someone goes up and finds that the elevator room is not moving.

With the development of this building, it has long lost its original meaning, and if it stays in this world, it will only add to the laughing stock.

It is no longer the Zhaixing Building that the Shen family was proud of in the past.

Yan Jinping: "Pick it?"

Shen Lianxing: "Pick it up."

The youngest heir of the Shen family took one last look at the stars all over the floor, closed his eyes, and said softly:

"Thank you, grandpa."

Please, lend me a ray of soaring wind.

The author says:

Shen Zhi: You're welcome.

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The folk customs of Yanjing City are simple and simple. If it were me, I would pull a guardrail at the door and arrange the Astrology Tower as a scenic spot, and visit it for a fee.

Stars, inheritance, machinery, I love romance.