Chapter 513: A Flash of Cold Light (1/2)

Chapter 513: A Flash of Cold Light

Translator: Pika

“Ah Zu, coe bird here!” Pei Mianate “Maybe the switch to open it is over there!”

Zu An noticed it as well A strange bird diagraate, and it was entirely red in color It bore a certain resemblance to a phoenix or a peacock, but was neither

It looked a little bit like the ‘Hundredwarble’ that he could summon

Zu An made the association and quickly used Hundredwarble, coram Unfortunately, no matter how it flew around and cried out, the door showed no reaction

As the Hundredwarble’s cries spread, however, the red lights burning in the eye sockets of the kneeling skeleton warrior gradually dimmed, but neither Zu An nor Pei Mian rather disappointed “It didn’t do anything?”

He suddenly re that the forefather of the Shang Dynasty was na clan was a wo of a strange bird, Qi was born’ Thereafter, the Shang Dynasty would often use that mysterious bird as a totem This bird was probably the same mysterious bird that they used What exactly did this mysterious bird syht, Pei Mianrae I think these rocks around it can be moved There are some patterns in the center of the bird as well”

Zu An was stunned He shi+fted his attention to the gate, and noticed that there were indeed four lines—two horizontal, two vertical—that divided this rara of se symbol Pei Mianman tried to move them, and discovered that these small square blocks could slide into those nine compartments

“One, two, three…” Pei Mianman counted them, then said with surprise, “There are exactly nine of these blocks It looks like we just need to put them in the correct spot for the door to open”

“You’re right Manate and stared distractedly at the nine blocks surrounding the diagra led astray In the end, it was Pei Mianhts, who noticed these things “But what do these symbols mean? Have you seen them before?”

“I haven’t” Pei Mianman shook her head She trawled her h to help her out “I have never seen anything like this from any of the records of the other races The style of these syh”

“You think so?” Zu An was stunned He exaht this up, he gradually picked up soe patterns

Since this was related to the oracle script, it was easy enough for him to associate the nine nurams of ancient China, which were believed to be related to the origins of writing In the book describing the diagrams, this famous verse stood out: “Nine in the crown, and one in the base; three on the left, seven on the right; two and four are the shoulders, six and eight, the feet; five resides at the center”

To put it siiven line would be fifteen, regardless of whether the line was drawn vertically, horizontally, or diagonally

Putting these numbers in the locations was quite sie could do it The problem was that the symbols on these blocks were different fron corresponded to which number

There were four patterns that were relatively easy to recognize The ones with one, two, three and four horizontal lines should correspond to one, two, three, and four respectively

The others were harder to distinguish For example, one symbol looked like a trident with a curved shaft, one was in the shape of the 人 character, and yet another had an X in the center, but a horizontal line above and beneath,in those Mario games Another looked like )(, like a pair of brackets put the wrong way

The weirdest one was the one that looked like a cross

Zu An subconsciously thought of it as ten, since it looked exactly like the modern Chinese character for that nuht After all, there were only nine compartments, so the nuret slowly crept into his ht recognize these characters

He really didn’t kno those archaeologists of the past ever figured out which character hich

Wait a second…

A sudden thought occurred to hi that the reason why Chinese civilization could always be traced to a coin was because people thousands of years later could always understand the writings of their ancestors fronize theeneration, froenerations came from the Qin Dynasty’s lesser seals, while the lesser seals were themselves derived from the oracle script

In that case, the oracle script should always have soenerations The coure out, but he already knew that these characters corresponded to the nu out if he examined them carefully