Wanderer of the whirling world

Chapter 133

Behind the Great Falls, in the middle of the mountain.

After solving the three oblique quadrature problem on the stone gate, a group of people from the treasure hunting team of the Song Dynasty walked in the long dark corridor, wondering inwardly:
"Among the cliffs and cliffs, there is actually another world. What kind of ingenious means can it be built?"

After walking tens of feet away, Xin Ziqiu suddenly pricked up his ears, and heard the sound of gurgling water, which was clear and clear.

Sure enough, after walking forward for a short distance, everyone came to a huge deep stream.

This is a cliff, seven or eight zhang away from the other side of the shore.

More than ten feet below the cliff, the current is so fast that it scours the mountain wall like a mirror.

In the belly of this mountain, there is actually a source of water, and it is such a deep stream, which is really incredible.

Everyone stood on the edge of the cliff, a little dumbfounded, there was no way ahead, did they come to the wrong place?
But the road behind Shimen didn't branch off, and it went straight to this place. Coming here was another test set by the warlocks.

Sure enough, after some investigation, someone found another stele in a bush on the edge of the cliff.

Another calculation problem is engraved on it in the characters of Wei State in the Warring States Period.

This is a classic "profit-deficit" problem:
"Today, there are people who buy things together. Each person pays eight qian, which is a surplus of three qian; each person pays seven qian, which is less than four qian. Ask how many people are there and what are the prices?"

The translation is: if several people buy things together, if each person pays eight yuan, there will be a balance of three yuan after the purchase; if each person only pays seven yuan, there will be four yuan left to buy the thing .Ask how many people there are and how much money they have.

This question is much simpler than the previous two calculation questions.

In modern times, it is the level of elementary school students' application questions.

Or set the number of people as an unknown number, and solve a linear equation in one variable.

In fact, the calculation problem of "insufficient surplus" has been recorded in the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" of the Han Dynasty in China, and a technical text for solving the problem has been given.

If you don't know about such a superficial topic, these great Confucian scholars from Sitianjian and Guozijian will really feel ashamed.

Sure enough, several scholars did some research, and after spending some time, they successfully came up with the answer.

The number of people is seven, and the price is 53.

This time, Xin Ziqiu didn't show off again, but quietly watched everyone solve the problem.

He had completely stunned everyone before, and he had also achieved his goal of opening a mathematics lecture in Si Tianjian.

If you try to show your edge again, you will be a bit of a sensationalist, and you don't know what is good or bad.

After all, he couldn't stay in the Whirling World forever. To promote his mathematics textbooks in the future, he still had to rely on the strength of these scholars, so he had to impress them without offending them too hard.

Xin Ziqiu figured this out, and felt rather proud.

Dude is no longer stupefied, his EQ has obviously improved a lot.

And after he pondered the ways of the world, he was also secretly thinking about these questions posed by the ancient warlocks, and felt that they were very interesting.

Although it is difficult to directly answer the question of "I don't know the number of things" on the first gold tablet, if you substitute all the numbers one by one to check the calculation, as long as you spend some time, you will definitely get the correct answer in the end.

The only test is one's patience and perseverance.

Because before the answer is reached, no one knows whether to try until 100, [-] million, or [-] billion.

Just like the people in the Imperial College, it took a lot of time, and after more than 7000 experiments, they didn't get the answer, so they gave up halfway and looked for another solution.

Such people are probably the ones that Fang Warlocks most want to get rid of.

As for the geometry problem on the second stone gate, even if you use the most stupid method to measure a little bit, you can get the answer, but this solution requires high precision in drawing, and the solver needs to be meticulous and strive for perfection.

This level, the test is probably the carefulness of people.

It can be seen from this that the calculation problems formulated by the warlocks were not intentionally to make things difficult for others, nor were they made up randomly, but were carefully selected and very purposeful.

There are probably two types of people they choose.

Either a genius who is really good at arithmetic, such as Xin Ziqiu.

Or ordinary people with perseverance and patience.

Of course, the premise of all these speculations is to assume that Fang Warlocks really wanted to use this tomb to screen out certain people, as Xuan Ming deduced.

Following this line of thought, Xin Ziqiu looked at the question in front of him, but was a little confused.

Even in ancient times, this "insufficient surplus" question was too simple. Even Bai Ding, who had never learned magic, could get the answer after careful thinking and time.

So what is the test here?

……

At this moment, Zhang Yun took a meaningful look at Xin Ziqiu, and saw that he had no objection to the results made by himself and others, so he walked to the side of the stone tablet and triggered the mechanism above according to the final answer.

After the test just now, he didn't say anything, but he already recognized Xin Ziqiu's ability in his heart. Even though he gave the answer, he subconsciously wanted to see the boy's reaction.

At this time, there was a sound of "嗖", the mechanism in the stone tablet was activated, and a thick rope flew out of the hole in the mountain wall on their side like a black dragon, and went straight to the opposite bank.

Immediately following a "click", the flying end of the rope tightly bit the other machine spring on the opposite side and fixed it.

Surprised, everyone came forward with a torch and looked at it attentively. They saw that it was a cable made of fine steel, which was as thick as an arm. It was black and straight to the other side. It swayed slightly in mid-air and became the only way across the sky.

Everyone was taken aback, not to mention how the countries of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty forged such a strong fine steel chain, just such a miraculous mechanism is shocking enough.

Hundreds of kilograms of steel cables are ejected, across a distance of several feet, and are accurately linked to the opposite bank, standing in the air. Such a powerful spring and such ingenious mechanism are almost the means of gods.

Not to mention that after thousands of years, all of this has no rust and is as bright as ever.

Master Lin and Master Ye, two civil engineering experts who came with the team, looked at the long rope and were speechless for a long time.

Based on their lifelong accumulation, they couldn't design such an exquisite mechanism even if they asked themselves, and they admired Fang Warlock's methods thousands of years ago in their hearts.

Hong Taiwei didn't seem to be interested in these things, he approached the steel cable with a torch, his face turned from red to white, and he sucked his teeth:

"This iron chain spans the river, and there is a deep torrent below. If it falls, even if it does not die, it will probably lose its skin. Although I am also a military officer, but... this... is all practiced immediately. The ability is far behind."

Everyone knows that he, the captain, did not come here by killing enemies on the battlefield. Although his body is stronger than the average middle-aged man, his martial arts are ordinary. Some embarrass this adult.

Only Xin Ziqiu slandered endlessly in his heart:
"Pretend, you continue to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf."

He is [-]% sure in his heart that this Hong Taiwei must possess unique skills, and the purpose of coming here is not simple.

But this guy has always pretended to be crazy and stupid, packaging himself as a reckless and incompetent bureaucrat, and he doesn't know what his intentions are.

Just as he was thinking, Taiwei Hong looked at Xu Liang and Zhan Zhao again and said:
"Two heroes, one of you is the 'Shanxi Wild Goose', and the other is the official 'Royal Cat', can you cross this chain bridge? Oh, no, I mean, I'm a little sure about bringing people over there. ?”

Xu Liang thought for a while, and immediately performed lightness kung fu, leaping onto the steel cable with a flying body, using the kung fu of "jacking the weight", he stepped on the swaying steel cable to straighten it, followed by walking like flying, and walked to the opposite bank lightly and deftly.

He returned according to the law, and said to Hong Taiwei confidently:

"Qi Taiwei, I should be able to bring one person there each time."

Taiwei Hong immediately beamed with joy, and praised:
"The three generals are really outstanding in martial arts, it's amazing."

In this way, several people with the highest martial arts, such as Xu Liang, Zhan Zhao, Ouyang Chun, etc., took the old, weak, sick and disabled who were not working hard and passed the deep stream.

Especially Ouyang Chun, don't look at how he is letting himself go now, he is ridiculously fat, but his skills are still light and flexible.

Every time he clamps one person with his left and right hands, and with a vigorous shake of his big belly, he walks on the steel cable as if he is walking on the ground, which is amazing.

Although Xin Ziqiu hadn't practiced any light kung fu, he was really full of energy at this time, he controlled every muscle in his body meticulously, and had a strong sense of balance. Therefore, although his posture was a bit ugly, it was not as chic and elegant as Xu Liang and others, but he was still one step at a time. Steadily walked through the steel cable and came to the opposite bank.

Seeing the pale faces of all the old scholars, who were still in shock, he realized that the level of daring to love is a test of one's courage.

It's just that the original intention was good, but I'm afraid Fang Warlock, who built the treasure house, didn't expect that such a team would come in after a thousand years, trick each other, and pass one level after another smoothly.

……

After crossing the deep ravine, and then walking forward, passing through a cave, everyone's eyes suddenly brightened up. It turned out that they had arrived in a huge hall.

This is more than double the size of the cave at the entrance of the mausoleum.

The surroundings of the hall are smooth and smooth. It is obvious that a natural cave has been manually repaired and carved, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources were spent.

On the top of the cave, there are countless fist-sized holes, which seem to have introduced sunlight from the outside, illuminating the place transparently and brightly.

As soon as everyone came in, they were shocked, only to see a beautiful woman sitting in the middle of the hall, leaning against the wall.

This woman looks elegant, bright and charming, wearing a white palace attire, holding a green jade flute in her hand, facing the sky without makeup, like a fairy in Yaochi, she is breathtakingly beautiful.

Everyone walked in the tomb for so long, and it was the first time they encountered a living person, and they were a little curious while being shocked.

Hong Taiwei cleared his throat, stepped forward to salute and said:

"Dare to ask the fairy Gao's name? We are the envoys of the current Song Dynasty. If we rush here rashly, please don't blame the fairy."

The woman looked at Taiwei Hong without saying a word, her face full of indifference.

Zhong Xiong has swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva since he saw this woman, and seeing that she was silent, he stepped forward and pointed:

"Fairy and beauty, the person talking to you is the current Taiwei, it's really rude of you to neglect us so much."

The woman remained indifferent, staring straight ahead.

Xin Ziqiu scanned it with his mind, but couldn't feel any vitality, so he said loudly:

"Captain, Commander, this seems to be a dummy."

Hearing this, Taiwei Hong boldly stepped forward to examine it carefully, and then touched it lightly. As expected, his hands were cold, and it was really just a statue.

The whole body of this figure is carved out of white jade, it is lifelike, especially the pair of eyes are carved by unknown gemstones, the brilliance flows, looking forward to brilliance, making this jade statue that should be lifeless come to life, so many of them can't tell the difference for a while come out.

As soon as Zhong Xiong heard that it was a statue, he rushed up to touch two of them, and said in admiration:

"This, this, this, this is really a treasure. If it can be kept at home, I won't change it for a hundred beauties."

Xin Ziqiu felt disgusted.

Brother, you are an official of the imperial court. You are so eager to be lustful, so why not?
But when everyone was admiring the ingenious plain female statue, the sculpture suddenly moved...

I don't know what mechanism Hong Taiwei and Zhong Xiong touched, the woman raised her arm slightly, put the hole flute in her hand to her mouth, and began to blow whimperingly.

Everyone was startled by this sudden change, but when they heard the sound of the flute, they couldn't help being stunned.

The sound of the hole flute echoed in the hall, mixed with the echoes from the walls, as if several people were playing at the same time, the aftertaste was lingering.

I don't know who made this song, it has great magic power, in the sound of the flute, it seems like a goddess who has stepped out of Yunmeng Daze, dancing in front of everyone, like a dream, it is indescribable.

At that time, the entire hall was silent, quiet and solemn, only the sound of the flute was continuous and continuous.

Everyone couldn't help holding their breath and listening carefully, worrying about missing even a note.

Xin Ziqiu faintly felt that something was wrong, so he covered his ears with his hands, but the melody of the flute went straight to his heart, no matter how he closed his five senses, he couldn't stop himself from being attracted by the music.

After a while, he felt limp all over his body, unable to move.

Looking around from the corner of the eye, I saw many people smiling and dancing.

People with superb martial arts and deep concentration, such as Ouyang Chun, Xu Liang and others, also closed their eyes and concentrated, with their brows furrowed, obviously affected by the sound of the flute.

Among the people present, apart from him, only Taoist Xuancheng, who possessed the mystical technique of the word "Jing", Zen Master Miaoqing, a master monk of Daxiangguo Temple, and the mysterious Hong Taiwei looked as usual, with a relaxed expression, It seems to be enjoying a beautiful rhythm.

Xin Ziqiu knew that people like himself might be fooled, but according to his guess, Warlock Fang should have no malicious intentions, so he wasn't very scared, but hurriedly tried to gather his mind, submerged his magic skills, and tried his best to resist the sound of the flute .

Xiantian Wuji Gong really deserves to be the supreme mental method of Taoism, and he has already refined Qi to transform into a god at this time, and the soul and real Qi are merged into one. When the real Qi is circulating, the soul naturally calms down like a peaceful lake.

Strange to say, even when he entered the realm of forgetting things and me, and wandering in emptiness, he could still hear the continuous sound of flute in his ears.

It's just that this voice no longer has a soul-stirring softness, but is very pleasant, like a trickle, nourishing his soul.

A bit of Xin Ziqiu's spiritual light followed the melody like a flowing spring, faintly, and he didn't know where it was drifting. He felt as if his soul was bathed in the moonlight, his soul was joyful, and he was indescribably comfortable.

He couldn't help laughing, and shouted:
"Wonderful, wonderful!"

At this time, another soft and moving voice also cheered:
"Sure enough!"

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(End of this chapter)