[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

"The astrology is still changing." Zhang Qiling frowned slightly as he looked at the slow moving image, "Looking at the current rotation direction of the stars, the next one should also be a pattern of a gloomy wooden box."

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The timekeeping device on the next floor began to strike again, marking the hour of Xuzheng.

Nan Xing turned his head to look in the direction of the spiral staircase, and a bad thought came to his mind.

Why does the timekeeping device stop at midnight?Is Zishi a special time node?

"Here it is, the second pattern of the gloomy wooden box." Zhang Qiling said suddenly, "The astrology will complete a change about every quarter of an hour. If it is extrapolated to the time, the patterns on each side of the two boxes can just be displayed."

Nan Xing suddenly realized, "Therefore, the reason why the entire astronomical observatory needs to be able to support until midnight is to display all the star charts on the cloud."

But it's not known yet, what will happen when all star chart shows are complete.

With more than two hours left, several people sat down near Hunxiang, either observing the stars or thinking about their own thoughts, and fell into a long silence.

Just when everyone's spirits began to relax a little, and Zhang Yuetong even started to yawn, there was a sound of metal rubbing inside the elephant, and then the rotation of the elephant stopped abruptly.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yuetong woke up instantly.The three teenagers next to them also showed horror, but they didn't lose their footing.

Zhang Qiling put his right hand on the surface of the elephant, and slowly frowned, then suddenly said: "The transmission of the elephant is stuck."

As soon as he finished speaking, the timekeeping device downstairs rang for the first time.

This is the third quarter of Haizheng, and there are only 15 minutes left in ion time.

At this moment, the entire observatory suddenly started to vibrate, and there were bursts of "click" and "click" mechanism transmission sounds from under the floor. The spiral staircase in the corner was suddenly retracted, and the stairway was quickly ejected. The wooden boards covered everything tightly.

Zhang Qiling squatted down, clamped a piece of floor with two fingers, and was about to pull it out, but the other side suddenly cracked.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Zhang Haisha's screams instantly disappeared into the hole exposed by the cracked floor, and then the hole quickly closed.

Zhang Qiling took apart the floor at the closed hole, turned his head and asked Nan Xing: "Do you still remember the pattern of the gloomy wooden box in your hand at that time?"

Nan Xing nodded: "I remember."

"Okay, I'll leave this to you." After he finished speaking, he jumped into the darkness in the cave.

Nan Xing's pupils clenched like needles, he gritted his teeth, and pushed the stopped stars forward with all his strength, "The whole image can't stop, we must show the last two images in the remaining time, listen to me Please help me move the other stars to their corresponding positions!"

Zhang Yuetong and the remaining two teenagers did not dare to delay, and quickly guarded different positions around Hunxiang.

"Yuetong, you move the first one on the left hand side two inches to the north, and then move it one inch to the northeast."

"Sea Breeze, you move the one closest to you three inches to the south."

"Haiyin, the second one on the right, move one foot to the southwest..."

"Click!"

The entire astronomical observatory began to vibrate again, and the stars on the cloud were linked together as one, as if they were tightly embedded in copper balls. Everyone exerted so much force that their knuckles turned white and their nails almost fell off. The tendons on the arms burst out and they could only move inch by inch.

"Hold on to the elephant!" Nan Xing stepped on the horizon and shouted to the remaining three people: "The floor will crack again, we can't let anyone fall!"

Nan Xing didn't need to order for a second time, all of them quickly found a place on the whole image and stood still.

In the next second, the floor around Hunxiang was completely evacuated.

Nan Xing looked down by the flickering light of the fire in the corner of the room, and his expression changed suddenly.

Underneath is a pivot wheel with a radius of more than three meters. The wooden spokes are evenly distributed on the pivot wheel, holding the water bucket and the hook-shaped iron dial.A set of lever devices is attached to the top and side of the pivot wheel, which acts as an escapement.To the east of the pivot wheel is a set of two-stage clepsydra connected to the large room where the water was stored just now.

The water in the big room is poured into the clepsydra through the hole, and the water from the pot is poured into the bucket. When the bucket is full, the pivot wheel will rotate downwards, driving the muddy image above to rotate.

Today, the water bucket of the entire pivot wheel has been entangled with nematodes, and at the same time, the sky locks on the left and right sides of the pivot wheel have also been entangled, making the entire mechanism unable to function anymore.

Moreover, the space where the pivot wheel is located has also been filled with water, and it is densely packed with nematodes.

Zhang Qiling was squatting at the sky lock on the left side of the pivot wheel, and lying next to him was Zhang Haisha who was rescued from the water by him. Zhang Haisha's body was entangled with countless nematodes.

Zhang Qiling drew the knife backhand, Nan Xing took a breath, of course she knew what he was going to do.

Nan Xing seemed to have been injected with adrenaline suddenly. At that moment, all the strength in his body was concentrated on his ten fingers and wrists, and he suddenly moved the stars to their final positions, and the stars in front of the other three also returned to their positions.

Immediately afterwards, she jumped towards where Zhang Qiling was without hesitation.

"—Nan Xing!" Zhang Yuetong yelled, and she said something later, but was drowned out by the chime of the clock.

"—Boom!"

Accompanied by the sound of the midnight bell, Zhang Qiling raised his head in disbelief, and looked at Nan Xing flying down from above.

The blade cut across the palm of her hand neatly, scratching the skin of the palm, but she didn't feel any pain. Instead, it was replaced by the unique softness of her palm.

Another warm liquid flows through the palm of the hand——

It was Nan Xing's blood, she had already cut her palm when she jumped down.

Two streaks of the same bright red blood fused together, criss-crossed along the palms of the two people, slowly condensed at the fingertips, and finally dripped onto Zhang Haisha's body, and the nematodes receded in an instant.

Zhang Qiling immediately tore off his clothes to stop Nan Xing's bleeding, pursed his lips tightly, and didn't say a word.

"Brother, I'm fine." Nan Xing held his hand tightly, "I've already cut out the technique, the wound is not deep, I have to bandage your hand first..."

Zhang Qiling quickly wrapped up her wound, raised his eyes to look at her, pulled out his hand and lifted her face, making her raise her eyes to look at him: "What are you doing down here?"

"..." Nan Xing didn't dare to look into his eyes, and forced a suppressed voice, "I can't bear your bloodletting..."

Zhang Qiling's heart sank heavily, and after a moment of silence, he finally let go of her, and whispered, "This is the last time."

He pushed Nan Xing behind him with his backhand, tore off another piece of clothes and wrapped it around his hand, "You go up first, and I will bring him up later."

As soon as the words fell, a strange sound came from the bottom of the water.

Both of them looked towards the water surface, and in the dim light, they saw a huge black object floating up under the water surface, getting closer and closer.

The author has something to say:

The hydroplane observatory for this chapter has a historical prototype, but I made some modifications.

In history, the Water Transport Observatory was discarded and lost after the Jingkang Rebellion, and it has not been found so far, and because no one could understand the drawings, it could not be imitated. It was not restored for the first time until after the founding of New China.

In order to write this chapter, I also went to CNKI to download a paper on the restoration of the water astronomical observatory~ Then I saw an article I published last year, and the number of downloads has not exceeded 200 for a year. The impact factor of my post is still good. Core journals, hey...

The last day of 2020 ~ Happy New Year everyone!

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