“What are you doing!?”
Murong Jing and Zhu Qingyan hurried forward, wondering what they were doing.
The tomb robbers ignored them and continued to work on their tasks.
Zhu Qingyan got closer and saw a few things that looked like beads inlaid on the wall. The tomb robbers were trying to pry the beads off.
Xu Laoba said with red eyes:
"This is the first time I've seen such a wonderful treasure in my life. Even if I die, I'll hold this treasure with me!"
"It's really crazy." Murong Jing stepped forward and pressed Xu Laoba to the ground.
Zhu Qingyan found a rope from the tomb robber's backpack and handed it to Murong Jing.
These tomb robbers were indeed a hidden danger. Murong Jing was worried and simply tied them all up.
She said to Zhu Qingyan, "Look carefully again to see if there is any way out."
Zhu Qingyan's eyes fell on the beads that the tomb robbers had just tried to chisel out. She counted them and found that there were exactly nine.
"Nine stars align, and the gates of heaven open by themselves..." She murmured what was written on the stone.
Murong Jing asked:
"You mean, these nine beads are the so-called 'Nine Stars'?
Doesn't that mean that if we connect these beads together, we can get out?"
"That's the reason..." Zhu Qingyan said hesitantly, "But these beads are embedded in the wall and can't be taken down. How can they be connected?"
"Let me try!" Murong Jing didn't say anything and stepped forward, trying to dig the bead out with force, but it didn't work at all.
Zhu Qingyan looked at her actions and was speechless for a moment.
He was so majestic just now, just like a hero in the movie.
Now it seems a little...tiger?
"There must be another way." Zhu Qingyan stopped her and looked around the stone chamber.
She finally turned to the stone table and flipped through the bamboo slips on it.
Murong Jing came closer with a flashlight, and saw that many of the words on the bamboo slips were unrecognizable, but Zhu Qingyan was reading them very carefully.
She nudged her with her elbow and asked curiously, "What does it say?"
Zhu Qingyan said slowly: "These bamboo slips all record some astronomical calendar information..."
"Wow, you can understand this?"
Murong Jing looked at Zhu Qingyan's profile with admiration, and suddenly said:
"I feel like if you were in ancient times, you would be like a teacher in an ancient academy.
Hmm, what should I call you... Little Master?"
It was such a dangerous and strange situation, but Zhu Qingyan somehow asked:
"So what do you look like?"
"Me, hahaha." Murong Jing put one hand in her pocket and laughed.
"I've never been good at studying, but I'm good at fighting. If I were in ancient times, maybe I could go to the battlefield and become a female general!"
Speaking of fighting, Zhu Qingyan was just about to ask Murong Jing indirectly about her identity and why she appeared in the archaeological team.
At this time, Xu Laoba's voice came:
"You guys seem to be having a good time chatting when your death is imminent. Why don't you think of a way out?"
The smile on Murong Jing's face disappeared. She picked up the bamboo slips on the stone table, picked up a stone brick from the ground and walked in front of Xu Laoba.
Xu Laoba was so scared that he immediately shut his mouth. He didn't know why, but he always felt scared in front of this little girl.
Murong Jing squatted down, shone the flashlight on the bamboo slips, and asked:
"Do you understand?"
Xu Laoba explained awkwardly that he only had a primary school diploma and that his tomb-robbing skills were all acquired through years of hard work following his predecessors.
It's easy for him to find the location of a tomb with a shovel, but it's really difficult for him to recognize so many words.
Murong Jing glanced at him with disdain. She never expected to meet someone who was worse at studying than herself.
She put away the bamboo slips in her left hand, showed the brick in her right hand, and smiled sullenly.
"Since you can't help and you talk so much, how about I help you get some sleep?"
She pointed at the unconscious black man next to her - just now Murong Jing wanted to kidnap someone, and this guy struggled and resisted. Murong Jing thought he was in the way, so she simply knocked him out with a brick.
The brick was tossed twice in her hand like a rubber ball, and Xu Laoba's face turned paler.
"You guys are busy, you guys are busy...if there's anything I can help you with, just let me know."
He swallowed hard and dared not say another word.
Zhu Qingyan on the side said:
"The positions of these beads are fixed. I guess the so-called 'Nine Stars in a Row' should be a mechanism that is pressed in a certain order."
Murong Jing asked: "But how do we know the order?"
She was completely clueless about the cultural relics and ancient books in this room.
"Don't be impatient, let me think about it." Zhu Qingyan said, picking up the bamboo slips again and checking them against the stone tablet.
After a while, she waved to Murong Jing.
"Look at this sentence, 'Observe the changes in the stars and determine their order.' Since it mentions changes, there should be a star map for comparison. Through the changes in the two star maps, we can find the order of these stars."
Murong Jing blinked in confusion: "How do I find it?"
Zhu Qingyan was a little distressed. "I don't know much about astronomy, and I can't calculate it through the 'precession of the equinoxes'..."
"Then there is no solution?" Murong Jing scratched her head and turned to look at Xu Laoba, who looked even more confused than her.
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