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Lanxiang Pavilion is not far away, in an abandoned house next to the Guanyin Temple, and no one approaches because of the haunting.But it also made it easier for Wang Hang and Zhang Zhezhi to come to the pavilion without much effort.

It is a stone pavilion, located in a forest, probably because it has been abandoned for a long time, with cobwebs hanging in the corners, withered and yellow leaves all around, and a thin layer of dust on the stone steps, Zhang Zhezhi originally carried it. He was about to go up, but was stopped by Wang Hang.

"Be careful."

He turned his head and looked around, took two steps, picked up a stone, and threw it directly onto the stone steps.After waiting for a while, seeing no movement, he took Zhang Zhezhi into the center of the stone pavilion.

Due to the high stone steps, the two of them couldn't see the whole picture of the stone pavilion clearly from below, but they took a closer look after standing up.There is a half-person-high stone table in the pavilion, surrounded by three evenly positioned stone benches.But the strange thing is that the stone bench is very clean, it looks like someone often sits on it.

Moreover, the surfaces of the stone benches and stone tables are engraved with many complicated patterns, which look very regular, but are not symmetrical from left to right, up and down, which makes people feel dizzy.

"The owner of this house is so generous, there are such exquisite things in any pavilion." Zhang Zhezhi sighed, and did not find anything wrong with the pavilion.

Hey, it's still too tender.

"Look carefully at the patterns, are they not uniform?" Wang Hang brushed his fingers over a few places where the patterns are densely packed, "Look carefully at these places, do you find anything?"

Zhang Zhezhi squinted his eyes, and touched those places just like Wang Hang did. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out why, his mouth curled up, looking a little frustrated.

"In the future, when reading books, don't stick to the Four Books and Five Classics." After a sentence of enlightenment, his fingers clicked the patterns one by one, "Look at these seven places, they correspond to Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, The seven stars that shake the light, the four heavenly stars are the head of the bucket, and the rest of the three stars are the handle of the bucket, which is the dipper. The seven stars rotate together, and they form the array of seven stars of the Big Dipper."

"But what's the use of this formation?"

"Of course it is useful." He followed the direction pointed by the bucket handle, walked to the stone bench next to him, and carefully brushed off the dust on it, "It's true."

Zhang Zhezhi cast a puzzled look.

"The seven-star formation on the stone table is just to guide us. The real point is the eight diagrams on the four stone benches."

"Bagua diagram?" Zhang Zhezhi let out a low voice, leaning over his head.

A dense pattern covers the surface of the stone bench. Three large peony flowers are clustered around the Yang Yuyan, but there are seven small peach blossoms surrounded by the Yin Yuyan.However, in both places, floral patterns are used as an extension, covering the surface of the stone bench.At the same time, these small flowers also correspond to the snake-shaped buds, which are obviously divided by the buds as Yin and Yang lines.

But at first glance, it is really a very beautiful painting.If someone hadn't mentioned it, I believe that ordinary people would not have thought that such beautiful scenery turned out to be a gossip map.

"In the eight trigrams, there are Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan, which also correspond to different numbers in the Nine Palaces. Just like three and nine, they correspond to Li three and Qian nine."

"But what's the use of knowing this? There's not even a place to move around on this stone bench?!"

It is rare for Zhang Zhezhi to be so irritable today. Wang Hang felt a little strange, but he didn't say anything, "In the eight trigrams array, the eight hexagrams respectively indicate eight directions. For example, from the east and from the south. Calculated in this way, it is the east. Three, South Nine." He turned to look at the stone table, "Take the handle of the seven-star map as the north, and you can determine the direction."

Speaking of this, Wang Hang walked down the steps along the east.It was surrounded by a forest. The two of them didn't pay attention when they came in. The trees inside seemed to be centered on the pavilion. Although there was a slight deviation, they generally stretched out in a straight line, like a curled up hedgehog.This made Wang Hang secretly relieved.

He waved to Zhang Zhezhi, and the two first walked to the third tree in the east, and then counted nine trees along the south.At this time, there was already a certain distance between the two of them between the stone pavilion, so naturally they couldn't see any changes in the stone pavilion.However, the tree in front of him does not seem to be unusual.

Zhang Zhezhi frowned, probably because he couldn't believe that there was something wrong with Wang Han's judgment, but he looked again carefully, but still found nothing, "Could it be that we were wrong?"

Wang Hang shook his head.

This forest is so strangely built, it is impossible to have nothing to do with Shiting, we must have missed some important information.He walked forward, looked at all the lines on the trunk, and then reached out to touch it, moving slowly from time to time, and even closed his eyes for a moment, trying to feel something.

Finally, after turning around, he finally noticed something wrong - a bulge about the size of a palm, which seemed to be embedded in the trunk, and the surface was covered with bark. Rao But the bark is lighter than other places, and it is also difficult to detect.

This time Zhang Zhezhi was faster than Wang Hang, and he took out his dagger and started peeling the bark.I guess it's because nothing has been done these days, and I want to take this opportunity to show off.Seeing it, Wang Hang felt a little distressed, and swallowed all the words that should have been mentioned.

After about a stick of incense, Zhang Zhezhi put down the dagger in his hand, pointed at the object exposed in front of his eyes, and his voice was much more cheerful than before, "Look, Wang Hang, there is really a trap!"

Only now did Wang Hang get closer, and saw a square copper block embedded in the tree trunk. Although the surface was not carved, it was polished smooth, and there was a groove in the middle that looked like a keyhole.

Before Wang Han could speak, Zhang Zhezhi had already laughed: "This groove must be a keyhole, let's quickly take out the key and open this mechanism!"

His happy appearance infected Wang Hang, and his movement of holding the key became lighter.When he handed over the copper key, there was a faint smile on his face.However, to the surprise of the two of them, when the key was successfully fitted into the groove, not to mention the earth-shattering changes sung in the opera, there was not even the slightest abrupt sound.

The two looked at each other, their expressions becoming a little dignified.However, they were not the ones to give up casually. After searching around to no avail, they made a quick decision and rushed back to Shiting.Unexpectedly, they hit the right side. As soon as the two entered the pavilion, they saw that the handle of the seven-star map on the stone table had changed its direction and pointed to another stone bench.

"What number is this time again?" Zhang Zhe glanced over and reported two numbers, "one, seven".

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately heard an answer: "Kunbei, Kanxi." It seemed particularly tacit understanding.But in fact, there was no time for the two of them to experience the pleasure brought by this tacit understanding. After confirming the direction, they spent a lot of effort as before, and found the second goal-a gold nugget. Keyhole.

But when the golden key was inserted into the hole, the ground suddenly shook violently, and there was a loud noise from nowhere. Wang Hang felt the sky spinning for a while, and suddenly his feet were empty, and he fell into the darkness.He didn't have time to think about anything, he only heard the whistling wind blowing by his ears, and subconsciously scratched in the air, trying to grab something to stop his fall.

However, before he could catch anything, he heard a "boom", and his eyes went black first, and then a piece of gold star appeared, his back hurt as if it was broken, and even his internal organs were aching, his chest It was also very stuffy, and it felt like something was blocking the throat.

Fortunately, this time there was no tragic fall on the edge of the cliff, at least Wang Han was still conscious.He tilted his head, coughed a few times on the ground, and coughed up a few mouthfuls of rusty blood foam before he felt his chest get better.

However, he didn't give himself time to rest, but immediately propped himself up with his hands, and started calling Zhang Zhezhi's name in a hoarse voice.Zhang Zhezhi also fell not far away, and immediately replied to Wang Hang in a low voice, which also sounded like he was injured.But no matter what, at least the two of them were able to roughly know each other's position. With the help of the light from the falling hole, they spent a little more time and finally met inside.But now they had no strength in their bodies, coupled with the pain, they simply got together and rested for a while.

It was a moment, but for them in danger, especially when every breath could be heard clearly, a moment seemed extraordinarily long.What's more, my body is still in pain, and it's uncomfortable to sit or lie down. Especially when I'm quiet, my consciousness will run to the pain spot even more unconsciously.

So Zhang Zhezhi broke the silence, "Wang Hang, where do you think we are now?"

where?Wang Hang shook his head in the dark, "I don't know."

"Hey... According to what you said, we should have made no mistakes, not to mention that the key and the hole fit seamlessly, no matter how you think about it, it shouldn't be like it is now!"

"Perhaps, I deduced it wrong at the beginning." Wang Han's voice was as deep as water, "Or, this was a trap set up by King Yu."

Probably because the bleakness in his words was too obvious, Zhang Zhezhi changed his tone and began to persuade him, but Wang Hang just hummed a few times, indicating that he heard it.

As a result, Zhang Zhezhi's voice gradually weakened, and just when Wang Han thought he would not pay attention to him anymore, a pair of warm hands covered his hands, and a pair of black eyes also enlarged in front of his eyes, and then , The familiar breath immediately rushed to the front, "Wang Hang, don't worry, I will be with you no matter what."

It is definitely impossible not to be moved. After seeing his firm eyes, Wang Han even wanted to rush directly, but fortunately, at this critical moment, reason can always take a step ahead of emotion.Wang Hang just patted Zhang Zhezhi's hand back, "Don't worry."

Probably this kind of behavior made Zhang Zhezhi a little embarrassed, and he also slowly distanced himself from Wang Hang, chatting some illogical words.

Not long after this, Wang Hang felt that the pain on his body had eased, so he insisted on standing up and looking around.Zhang Zhezhi couldn't resist him, so he was left where he was, and continued to rest for a while.But in fact, Wang Hang's body is not as good as Zhang Zhezhi's. This kind of behavior is just putting him more important than himself.

Soon, Wang Hang returned to the original place. He hadn't figured out every corner of the darkroom, but he finally figured out the general idea.This is a long room, not big, about two feet long and three feet wide, without any furniture, it looks like a larger tunnel.

The location where the two fell was probably in the lower left corner of the room, but on the right side of the room, there was a wooden door one person high, which was locked.If Wang Hang's guess is correct, they are on the right path, and there must be something hidden behind this wooden door.

Hearing what he said, Zhang Zhezhi also became excited, even ignoring the pain on his body, he limped to his feet, intending to go over with Wang Hang to have a look.

It didn't take long for the two of them to walk to the door. Zhang Zhezhi had good eyesight, and immediately found the lock hanging on the door, and signaled Wang Hang to open it.

With a sound of 'click', the lock was opened, and then the chain hanging on the door fell loosely to the ground. Wang Han stretched out his hand and pushed the door open, and soft light immediately came in through the gap.He winked at Zhang Zhezhi, and just to be on the safe side, he pushed the door fully open with his foot after both of them were leaning against the wall next to the door.

But after a long time, there was still no movement behind the door, only a beam of light plunged straight into the darkness.Seeing this, both Wang Hang and Zhang Zhezhi breathed a sigh of relief, and began to walk inside.

Behind the door is an aisle wide for two people. On the left and right walls, there is a burning candle every foot. The floor is paved with bluestone, but it has been polished into a square, and it is spread piece by piece under the feet.Wang Hang was afraid that there would be a change, so he tried again, and then led Zhang Zhezhi up.

The aisle didn't look like it was long, and there was a turn as far as the eye could see.But when Wang Hang and Zhang Zhezhi turned the corner, they found that they were in the same aisle again, except that there was a three-way intersection in front of them!

Wang Hang's heart sank, knowing that they had already entered another round, he could only raise his 12 points and move on cautiously.However, the three-way intersection in front of us presents a problem, whether to go left or right.

However, Wang Hang thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a reason, the pain made his thinking a little dull.So the two stood on this fork in the road for a long time without any movement.In the end, Zhang Zhezhi laughed, and took out a copper coin from his clothes, "Since we can't figure it out, let God help us decide~" He held the copper coin tightly in his hand, and then looked at Wang Hang , "Come on, you decide, which side is facing which side?"

His childish behavior caused Wang Hang to bend his lips, and he felt a little resigned in his heart, "Facing the left side."

"Okay!" With Zhang Zhezhi's answer, as soon as he let go, the copper coin fell to the ground with a "ding" and rolled around before stopping at Wang Hang's feet.

Both of them involuntarily lowered their heads to look at it. Zhang Zhezhi was even more excited, and reported the result directly.

"Face up, let's go to the left!"