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Chapter 177: The Ninth Turn

  "This... have we taken a wrong turn?" Zhuo Xiong said, he remembered it clearly, just two turns above and Chaozi had fired a shot here, the position of the bullet hole wouldn't be wrong.

  Cha Wenbin didn't rush either, just saying: "Let's go back and take a look, it's still two turns away."

  Two turns later, the wall opposite was spotless as before, where were the bullet holes? This time they returned exactly along the original route, remembering it again and again in their minds, and wouldn't make a mistake.

  "The bullet hole is also gone......" This kind of ghost hitting the wall has happened to many people, but no one has encountered such a situation, because there was no fork between these two turns, that is to say they really returned along the original route.

  Chaozi thought this must be the ghost of Shi Tou's father causing trouble: "He must have been bewitched by that old devil, if only we had torn him to pieces in the bamboo forest and let him never reincarnate. Wenbin brother, you were kind enough to bury him, but now he has come here to harm us!"

  Zha Wenbin's face was solemn as he said, "It wasn't him, I'm certain of it. Although ghosts can confuse the minds of ordinary people to a certain extent, they would never be able to confuse mine, because I have too many magical tools on me."

  "What's going on? Is it a ghost hitting the wall?" Chaozi asked.

  "Looking at the wall, Cha Wenbin said: "Now it seems that this is not an ordinary ghost wall. Although a ghost wall can cause us to circle in one place to some extent, but you see, this passage is too small, only allowing one person to pass through. When we went up just now, Zhuo Xiong led the team, and when we came down, I was in front. If it were a ghost wall, there would be only two short turns, and we wouldn't have circled in place because the order of the team didn't change. So there's only one possibility left: these passages are automatically moving, and every time we walk inside this space, the route is rearranged, which means that even if we walk in one direction, we'll always be walking a different road."

  "No way, Wenbin brother, all the roads we've taken have been marked by Chaozi." said Zhuo Xiong.

  Zha Wenbin asked Chaozi: "The marks you made are different every time, or?"

  Chaozi held up the dagger in his hand and replied: "Only a scratch was left."

  "Can you tell which scratches were made first and which ones came later? Like this one, when did you make it?" Cha Wenbin asked, pointing to the scratch on the wall beside him.

  Chaozi squatted down and took a look, indeed there was a scratch mark left by himself, but he swore that he had never scratched near the bullet hole before, because it was just after he came down.

  Suddenly everyone understood, it's really as Cha Wenbin said, the road here is constantly changing!

  "Why is it like this?" Chaozi suddenly slumped to the ground.

  "The problem lies in these turns!" Zhang Wenbin said: "The road we're walking on is almost a right-angle turn every few steps, and you can't see the change after the turn at all. This is actually a mechanism."

  "What's going on? What are they still messing around with inside this wooden box?" Chaozi thought it was still a ghost.

  "Don't underestimate the wisdom of our ancestors," said Cha Wenbin. "Zhuge Kongming invented the wooden horse flow cart very early on, but those ancient craftsmanship have all been lost. This mechanism wasn't designed for us, but to prevent tomb raiders. Those who don't understand will get stuck in these ever-changing roads and keep walking without end, circling around this coffin until they die. The snow pear is hard enough to withstand ordinary knives and axes, and the wooden structure has a special property - extremely poor stability. All the wood is piled up together relying on a single clever force, once one of them moves, the others will collapse with a loud noise, and the tomb raiders will be crushed to death underneath."

  "So you're saying we'll be trapped to death like tomb raiders? I think it's haunted, must be that Stone Father, when I get out, I'll definitely drag him out and whip his corpse!" Chaozi said.

  "Let me tell you, it's not him. Anyone who dies around here will be sucked into this soul-gathering coffin, so he won't have a chance to come out and do evil. As for that human face diagram, maybe it's just a coincidence. Don't get confused yourself. If it's a mechanism, there must be a way to break it. If the tomb passage is designed as a dead loop, then the tomb owner himself would mean being forever sealed in here, no one would design it this way. This constantly moving road, let's walk through it again, you mark each turning point with numbers according to the order of the stolen ones, so we can figure out which path appears first."

  They've been trapped in here for nearly two hours, and I reckon Old Wang and the fatty face are getting anxious outside. Cha Wenbin is really worried that those two will get impatient and break open the coffin, which would be a living burial.

  Chao Zi marked a number "1" at the current position, and then marked "2" at the next corner. When he finished marking the number "5", the next corner appeared with the number "1"!

  "This fork we've been to, go to '3', walk another untraveled path, after a few laps, they met the bullet hole again, only this time it was marked with the number '7' below."

  When the digit "8" was also marked by the super child half an hour later, all intersections no matter how to go, every time the next intersection will appear different numbers, and Zha Wenbin took them two in the same direction without stopping walking, every time they got a different number arrangement.

  Such a cycle continued for more than an hour, and it had been four hours since they entered the tomb. Old Wang was anxious outside, banging on the heavy coffin with a "bang" sound, and his hoarse voice was about to become hoarse, but there was no echo coming from that gap again...

  When the number "7" appeared in front of Zhang Wenbin for the eighth time, he made a stopping gesture and said: "Be careful this time, you must look at the marks on the wall clearly, success or failure depends on this move!"

  Although they didn't know what Cha Wenbin was getting at, hearing him speak so seriously made Chaozi and Zhuo Xiong both lift their spirits, afraid of missing every change.

  After walking eight turns, the number "8" appeared in front of them. This time they walked out a complete sequence of numbers "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8", unlike before when it was all jumbled up. Zhang Wenbin pointed to the next exit and said: "That place is very crucial, I hope we'll find it there!"

  When the three of them had all passed that turn, a snow-white wall unfolded before them. Although such a scene would appear after every turn in this coffin, this time was different, because there were no numbers below it!

  "Found it! This is the ninth one!" Cha Wenbin exclaimed with joy.

  "Can we get out of here?" Chaozi saw that he was very confident, and he really didn't want to stay in this damned place anymore. According to his idea, after going out, he would throw it away and let this damned thing be thoroughly buried underneath.

  "Mark it first, and then talk about it. The mechanism here is designed according to the Yu Bu diagram. As long as we have these nine digits, we can definitely get in and out, it's just a matter of time."

  Chao Zi had no choice but to pull out his dagger and was about to carve a number, when he discovered a scar below. He exclaimed in shock: "We've been here before!"

  "It's been here before, but it never came again. This place is called Li Gong, and it appears only once every nine times. I didn't expect that it was actually a mechanism designed by a Taoist master, it really opened my eyes!"

  "Daoist?" Zhuo Xiong asked, and he suddenly remembered the eight trigrams that had fallen from the sky when Cha Wenbin was lying there. No one had ever mentioned this to Cha Wenbin because no one was sure if he was really dead at that time. If he was dead, then who was this living and breathing Wenbin? Some things were better left unsaid, at least in this place.

  Zha Wenbin finally sat down, having walked for so long, perhaps he was really a bit tired. After taking a sip of water, he continued: "This is designed using the Nine Palaces technique. If we consider the entire tomb as the Heavenly Palace, then the interior of this Heavenly Palace is divided into nine equal parts by the '井' character, namely Qian Palace, Kan Palace, Gen Palace, Zhen Palace, Zhong Palace, Xun Palace, Li Palace, Kun Palace, and Dui Palace. Originally, this was used for observing the movement of the seven luminaries and star constellations on the ground at night, in order to observe changes in heavenly phenomena, which is also used for divination."

  The nine palaces are also known as: Zheng Gong, Zhong Lü Gong, Nan Lü Gong, Xian Lü Gong, Huang Zhong Gong, Da Mian Diao, Shuang Diao, Shang Diao and Yue Diao. The nine palaces in Qimen Dunjia represent the earth, the ground, and are the foundation of Qimen Dunjia, which is immovable. Qimen Dunjia is divided into four plates: heaven, earth, human and spirit. Among the four plates, only the earth plate is immovable, also known as Zuo Shan, or the main base camp.

  And on this road we've walked, we've already gone through the Heavenly Plate, Human Plate and Divine Plate, which are the four-sectioned changing passages of the Heavenly Plate; the dream we encountered was the Human Plate, where a fantasized ancient man almost took our lives with his illusions; while Fengyuan is the Divine Plate, something that only exists in ancient legends. Now this plate is the Earth Plate. The first three plates were solved by us through twists and turns, and once we break this Earth Plate, we can be said to have completely passed this greatest array of all time set up by a superior being. Whether he's a friend or foe on my path, I don't know, but everything here is boundless yet centered around the harmony of yin and yang, at least it's the work of a divine being who has transcended the heavens and earth.

  Zhuo Xiong and Chao Zi were in a daze, they only knew that they had been trapped here for a long time, now the most wanted to do is to get out, who would have thought of Cha Wenbin still having the mind to drink water.

  "What about before? Why did you say we would only pass through here once?"

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