red and white

Thousands of years ago, after the establishment of the Seven Schools of Philosophers, the Mohist School built an organ building called Mirage.

The mirage is not in the Three Realms, but in a place outside the territory, in which there are a large number of treasures accumulated by the seven families of the philosophers, which is a secret storehouse.

The mirage is suspicious in the sea, and the bird path is not in the clouds.

"Mirage, from worms, Chensheng, pheasant into the sea into a mirage, is a legendary sea monster." Zhu Yinxiao said: "The reason why the existence of the mirage is uncertain is because this building is not built on the ground at all. ——The Mo family built it on the body of the mirage.”

Anping walked out of Yeshui Zhuhua with a group of people, and the situation outside the store had completely changed. It was no longer the Chengxi Street before dawn, but a lotus platform, with a long bridge outside the lotus platform, connecting a nine-story building at the end.

This is a circulating space - a huge mirage is carrying a tall building on its back, cruising above the starry sky, and Anping looked up, and found that there was a vast ocean above his head.

The sky is in the water, the water is in the sky, the water and the sky flow, and the cycle goes back and forth.The silver swimming fish turned into stars and rushed down the sky, and the clouds swept up and turned into white waves overhead.

Since the inheritance of the Lingshuzi was cut off, no one of the Yao family has ever entered the mirage, and there was a low cry around.

"A group of ground turtles." Ubiyou snorted with a cigarette stick in his mouth, and flicked sparks into a copper lamp. The lamp was lit, and Mu Gesheng took the lamp and walked onto the long bridge.

"Although the mirage is a property of the seven families, everyone can enter, but you must lead the way when crossing the bridge." Zhu Yinxiao pushed Anping behind Chai Shuxin, "Men, follow my brother there, they didn't come for the banquet Pass here, and I will lead the way."

Anping looked at Mu Gesheng's back, he was walking in the front, holding a lamp in his hand.

Every time you walk a certain distance, there will be a light on the side of the bridge - bean-shaped copper lamps, bronze pan-handled lamps, goose-foot tripod-shaped lamps, Changxin palace lanterns... from simple to exquisite and complicated, the lights are lit sequentially.

Chai Shuxin said softly: "One lamp is for one generation."

Anping was taken aback for a moment, and then noticed that the craftsmanship and shape of the lamp were indeed not a product of an era.

At this time, Mu Gesheng had come to the end, and the long bridge was shining brightly behind him. He blew out the lamp in his hand, and the tall building in front of him was lit up, and the eaves arched, shining brilliantly.

A silver carp crossed the bridge, and the gate suddenly opened.

Chai Shuxin was in front, and after Zhu Yin was cut off, everyone entered the mirage one after another.The high-rise building is hollow, and on the high ceiling is a caisson painted with gold and multicolored colors, with overlapping patterns, and a Sinan is upside down in the middle.The handle of the spoon hangs upside down and rotates slowly on the disk.

They should be on the first floor of the mirage at this time, with no walls around, all of them are exquisitely carved screens, and each screen has a wooden shaft in the middle, which can be rotated in place, and can also be entered and exited from both sides.Anping tried to push open a few of the screens, only to see that there were one screen after another, and they seemed to be in the center of countless concentric circles, and there seemed to be thousands of ways out around them.

"Look at Sinan above your head." Ubiyou said from the side, "The first floor of the mirage is a maze, and these screens can move, but no matter from which direction you look at it, Sinan is always directly above your head."

He raised his finger and pointed to the high place, "Only the scholars know how to identify Sinan, you just follow Rakshazi."

"Don't you know?" Anping asked.

"There are seven doors on the first floor of the mirage, and different inheritances are stored in different doors." Wu Zixu bit his cigarette stick and said vaguely: "Every family has its own way. I only know the way to Yinyang's house. To enter the door of the Yao family, you can only rely on the spirit pivot to lead the way."

Then he added, "Maybe you are from the same line of fortune telling, and you can use the mountain ghost to spend money to figure it out."

Anping: "Since the mirage was built by the Mo family, do the Mo family know the way?"

"I don't know, when I was born, Mozi died long ago." Ubi said, "There is no Mozi anymore."

Chai Shuxin paused when he heard that, and looked back.

The boy immediately said: "I was wrong." Then he shut up and kept silent.

The group walked for an unknown amount of time, and the long screen spread into a gorgeous and deep corridor. The air was filled with an ancient and inexplicable smell, reminiscent of sandalwood and old bamboo slips. long thin line.

As if someone knocked on the door and entered, the wind blew the bead curtain.

Anping suddenly found that the screen around him began to change at some point. The engravings on it were no longer patterns, but words and pictures appeared. , "What's on the screen?"

Ubi didn't say anything, but took out his mobile phone and typed a line, "This proves that we are almost at the door of Yao's house. In front of every house, within a hundred feet, there will be a family screen, which records the inheritance of this family. .”

Then he bowed his head and typed a few more lines, "But only the sons and daughters can enter the family and pass on the screen. The Yao family should have been cut off from the Rakshazi generation, and the girl Chai Yanyan is definitely not among them."

In the end, I hit a high-spirited cat head and several lines of wild laughter.

Anping looked at Wu Biyou who was expressionless, and then looked at the wonderful inner drama on the phone, thinking what is this called?Contrast cute?

Mu Gesheng's voice suddenly came from the front, "Here we are."

When the screen came to the end, the sight suddenly opened up, and there was a hall in front of me, with a door on the left and right, and two puppets with white faces and hooked faces stood in front of the door.

Mu Gesheng put a mountain ghost money into the empty slots in the doll's forehead respectively, and there was a sound of mechanism clenching, and the two dolls actually moved, bowed to everyone decently, and then clapped their hands, The two doors opened separately.

Anping was stunned. Inside the door was an elevator, a very old style, with a golden handle and telescopic fence, wooden walls, and copper lamps with green shades.

The mirage was built thousands of years ago, and there is an elevator?

"During the war, the second child took me to live here for a while." Zhu Yinxiao walked up and patted Anping on the shoulder, "He was free and had nothing to do, he renovated the whole building inside and out, by the way installed this elevator."

Chai Shuxin walked up to the crowd and said calmly: "The mirage has nine floors in total, and the interior has been arranged in advance. There are ten medicine puppets in each floor. After they are all cured, they can go up to the next floor. The two who reach the ninth floor first , is the winner."

"The mirage will automatically determine the winner or loser, and the winner will be the next Lingshuzi, who can enter the top floor."

Zhu Yinxiao explained to Anping in a low voice: "The drug puppet is a kind of mechanical puppet, a bit like the acupuncture bronze figure, but smarter than that. Every kind of drug puppet suffers from a disease, and it was originally specially used for the disciples of the pharmacist to study. It was used for medical skills, and this skill was lost after the death of the second child, and it is estimated that the Yao Family’s family does not have many collections now.”

Anping quietly looked at Chai Yanyan, who looked fine, wearing white silk gloves, and carrying a small medicine box.

"Each of the two families can send one candidate upstairs." Chai Shuxin looked around and said, "The rest are waiting here."

Chai Yanyan and Chai Boti stood up and bowed to Chai Shuxin. Chai Shuxin glanced at Chai Yanyan, "You don't need to bring the medicine box, there are ready-made equipment in the building."

Chai Yanyan nodded when she heard the words, handed the medicine box to the butler behind her, and then stepped into the elevator, followed by two mechanism puppets. "The agency will keep time and lead the way, and stay on each floor for up to four hours." Chai Shuxin said: "In case of accident, it can be used to contact."

Chai Bodhi suddenly said, "Is there no supervisor on each floor? Then how do you judge whether you pass the test?"

Chai Shuxin: "You will know when you go up."

Before the words fell, the two mechanism puppets shook the handles, and the fence slowly closed, gradually rose, and finally disappeared from everyone's sight.Then two huge hourglasses rose up from the bottom of the passage, taking the place of the original elevator car.

Chai Shuxin looked at Zhu Yinxiao, "I'll leave it to you." Then he looked at Mu Gesheng, "Follow me."

Wu Biyou: "Wait a minute, where are you going?"

Mu Gesheng stood aside and watched for a long time, folded his arms, and said with a smile: "Of course, go to the place where adults go. Smoking is prohibited, and minors are prohibited."

"Damn!" Wu Biyou just cursed, and Zhu Yinxiao immediately shook his head, "Okay, okay, brother will show you something fun."

As he spoke, he turned to the crowd and waved his hand, "Viewers, please turn back, and we will broadcast live for you next."

Anping then turned around, only to find that the row of screens behind him disappeared, and the entrance just now also disappeared. All the screens were turned upside down, and there was a whole bronze mirror on the back, which formed a huge mirror wall.

What's even more incredible is that, as Zhu Yinxiao said "live broadcast", what appeared in the mirror was not everyone's reflection, but the every move of Chai Puti and Chai Yanyan.

Ubi was stunned, and said for a long time: "...that's ruthless."

Anping followed suit and nodded - in the mirror, Chai Boti did not look elegant and dignified at all, with blood all over his face and hands, and his expression was not optimistic.Not far away lay a person, or the medicine puppet in Chai Shuxin's mouth, but it was more like a dead body.

Chai Yanyan was even more exciting, the eldest lady ran around barefoot, and she took the stockings to bandage.

This is not a live broadcast, but a live execution.

Anping observed everyone present, many of them were whispering and their expressions were different. They were so excited at the beginning, it seemed that the topic set by Chai Shuxin was really difficult.

"Luo Shazi just said that the time limit for the first floor is four hours, and they still have eight floors." Anping looked at Zhu Yinxiao and said, "Could it be that we have to wait here for three days and three nights?"

"The mirage is not in the Three Realms, and the things taught in compulsory education don't work here." Zhu Yinxiao said: "The speed of time flow is different on each floor. We are chatting at the moment, and they should have been feasting for more than half an hour."

"And the mirage can stop a person's time. In other words, you won't be tired or hungry, and you won't grow old." Zhu Yinxiao lowered his voice: "If you live here all the time, to a certain extent, you can achieve longevity."

As he said that, he smiled, "Back then, my second child and I lived here for three years, and we hadn't had a bite of food for three years, but it made me hungry."

Anping said: "Has anyone from the seven families of the philosophers lived here?"

"As far as I know, no, at least not in the Zhu family." Zhu Yinxiao shook his head, "The original intention of the seven schools of thought to build a mirage is to take refuge, but not to hide from the world."

"A mirage, like a mirror, cannot stay for a long time."

Mu Gesheng followed Chai Shuxin up a flight of stairs, "Where is this going?"

Chai Shuxin paused slightly, "You don't know?"

"My mountain ghost doesn't have enough money to spend, so I can only count the way down to the fifth floor of the mirage." Mu Gesheng said: "But you seem to be walking to the top of the building."

Just now Chai Shuxin pulled him past and turned a screen. Behind the screen was a long staircase, spiraling up and down, leading to a very high place.

Mu Gesheng has only been to Mirage once, and he just joined Tiansuan many years ago. The master of Ginkgo Zhai took him to visit, and he didn't know many internal structures and secret passages.Now he actually doesn't know where Chai Shuxin is going, and the other party didn't mention it beforehand.

What you said to Ubi was just nonsense, there's no way, it's really fun to tease children.

"A mirage is actually like a prayer wheel, with layers upon layers and complicated mechanisms." Chai Shuxin said: "Each layer will rotate, and the roads in it are always changing. Except for the fixed passages for the disciples to enter and exit, there is no The path remains the same, if you want to pass, you can only rely on the mountain ghost in your hand to spend money."

"Wouldn't that be the end of it." Mu Gesheng said, "I don't even know the way to the top four floors."

Chai Shuxin turned his head and looked at him, "All the inheritances of the seven families belong to the masters, and when the inheritance of the masters is cut off, the tokens will react with the mirage, and finally return to the building automatically."

The words were abrupt, Mu Gesheng blinked when he heard the words, "So?"

Chai Shuxin lifted up his windbreaker, revealing the red knife inside, "I was not there when Mozi passed away. I took this knife out from the mirage later."

"Three or nine days, you can do it." Mu Gesheng gave him a thumbs up, "I don't know there is such a thing as saying, it's brave enough to steal things from the second child."

"...I haven't finished my sentence yet." Chai Shuxin said: "Taking it without telling it is a thief. Mozi said before he gave me the Licking Red Knife. You can ask Xingxiuzi."

Mu Gesheng: "Okay, this is not fun anymore."

"In addition to licking the red knife, Mozi also told me how to get in and out of the mirage." Chai Shuxin said as he walked, "This staircase is a shortcut he built himself, which can lead directly to the top floor."

"Wait, wait." Mu Gesheng interrupted: "At the beginning, it was because of the restriction on the mirage, and it wasn't that Lingshuzi himself couldn't go upstairs to get the things. That's why there was a competition for Yan Yan and Director Chai to compete for the heir. Now that you can Go up, why don't you just come and get it? Why is it taking so much trouble?"

He said with a half-smile: "Huh?"

"You know it clearly." Chai Shuxin said helplessly, "This is how we can shut Fengdu's mouth."

"Really?"

"... After all, it's my sister's adopted child. If you don't return home for many years, you should take care of it."

"That's right." Mu Gesheng walked up two steps and patted him on the shoulder, "Although I know that you want to have a feast, you still have to say something. Emotion lies in expression."

Chai Shuxin turned around and continued to walk up, "There is one thing I want to refute."

"What?"

"Stealing things from Mozi, you did this a lot back then."

Mu Gesheng: "..."

Chai Shuxin suddenly stopped, the stairs came to an abrupt stop, and a mural blocked the way, with mottled paint on it, depicting an evil ghost with red hair and green eyes.

Mu Gesheng poked his head behind Chai Shuxin, saw the mural, and said, "Is this a picture of Rakshasa? Your senior looks really poor."

Chai Shuxin didn't speak, bit his finger, and tapped Luosha's eyes twice, the mural cracked open, and a tunnel appeared.

"It's so dark, it's like a time tunnel." Mu Gesheng said: "Did the second brother watch Doraemon when he was building this place?"

Chai Shuxin: "...Given Xing Xiuzi's age at that time, it's not impossible."