Chapter 57: Ancient Mechanism
The world of science and technology also has archaeology. There is an industry of archaeology. At first, we examine our own antiquity, and later in the interstellar era, we examine the antiquity of other civilizations. In archaeology, the study of literature and materials of various civilizations is naturally the top priority, which involves the issue of preservation.
The current situation of Ye Zan is not uncommon in archaeological activities. If you discover an ancient tomb or ruins and open it rashly, it may not have a devastating effect on some gold and silver artifacts. However, those documents include paper, wood and bamboo, and even animal bones and tortoise shells, etc., which may have already turned into ashes, but they have not been subjected to external force and have maintained their original appearance, let alone a touch, a little bit of air flow It's all ruined.
Therefore, there is such a technology that uses a smart nano-material to penetrate the interior of the material and replace the decayed fibers to keep the material in its original form.
The things in this study room may not have reached the point of ashes, otherwise, with such leaky doors and windows, those books would have long since ceased to exist. However, judging from the condition of the main hall outside, it must be quite rotten, and the pages of the book may not be able to be turned at all. This is the time to use this method.
Ye Zan first used film to cover the big air leaks in the house, such as the windows without window paper, making the house a basically airtight space, leaving only a small hole the size of a bottle mouth. Then, he took out a suitcase-sized machine from another dimension, and connected an aluminum can the size of a fist to the machine. There was a tube at the other end of the machine. Ye Zan connected the tube to the reserved hole, and then turned on the machine.
As the machine was turned on, it could be seen through the window sealing film that a cloud of mist began to slowly diffuse in the room. Not long after, the entire room could no longer be seen, and was completely filled with the mist. Ye Zan glanced at the data displayed by the machine to confirm the density of the fog in the room, then turned off the machine again, and waited quietly outside the door.
However, Ye Zan was not made to wait long. After the machine was turned off, the fog in the room began to gradually fade. After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, the fog in the house completely disappeared, and it seemed that there was no change from before. But this time, Ye Zan was not so cautious, he stretched out his hand and opened the door, and the inside of the room did not change.
Ye Zan came to a desk and casually picked up a book on the table. The book, which was supposed to break when touched, seemed quite firm at this moment. After all, this technology is not going back in time. While the smart nano-material solidifies the paper, it also gives the paper a sense of firmness like plastic.
Of course, this change will not affect the browsing and reading.
Ye Zan flipped through two pages. The handwriting on the book was in a relatively ancient font. Compared with the brain database, it was at least five thousand years old. From this point of view, unless the owner of the secret realm deliberately used ancient characters, it can be basically inferred that the history of this secret realm should be more than five thousand years.
Ye Zan did not intend to use the scientific and technological dating method to determine this result, after all, this world is still very different from the technological world. This world is a world with special energy like aura. Under the influence of aura, many things are different from the technological world. For example, the carbon-14 dating method that has been used for a long time in the world of science and technology is completely inapplicable in this world.
Anyway, Ye Zan didn't really come here for archeology, so it doesn't matter whether it's five thousand years or six thousand years, finding something that is useful to him is the main point. From this point of view, Ye Zan may be more like a tomb robber, although this is not a tomb.
Ye Zan took this book and placed it directly on the desk, perhaps it should be said to be a notebook, and nearly half of the back is blank. The cover of the note is made of animal skin, and there is nothing written on the cover, which is not surprising, who would give his note a name and sign his own name if he has nothing to do.
The content of the notes is indeed related to mechanism techniques, but it is more about recording some experimental results. Even, some terms used in it,
In the eyes of Ye Zan, a person who has never been in contact with machine skills, it seems a bit cloudy.
Obviously, if the lord of the secret realm recorded all his research on mechanism techniques in his notes, then the book in Ye Zan's hand should be the notes in the later stage of the research. Since there is a later stage, there should be an early stage. Ye Zan quickly found several identical notes on the bookshelf at the side of the room.
In the first notebook, Ye Zan finally found the identity of the master of the secret realm. The master of the secret realm called himself Taoist Baiji, but this name made Ye Zan very strange. Although he has read a lot of materials related to various sects, he only knows that there is a sect called Qianji Sect. As for the relationship between the two, at least for now, he cannot know.
The notes of Taoist Baiji involve mechanism techniques almost from scratch, just like a beginner gradually becoming a master. This is very beneficial to Ye Zan. Just by reading these notes, he can learn mechanism skills from simple to deep, without the need for a teacher to teach him.
However, this also made Ye Zan a little strange. It didn't look like he was only studying intelligent mechanism puppets, but more like studying mechanism techniques, or perhaps creating mechanism techniques.
Thinking of the previous speculation that this secret realm may have a history of five or six thousand years, Ye Zan suddenly thought of a question. In this world, mechanism art is not an ancient inheritance. In fact, it is the era of Xuanyuan Taoism ten thousand years ago, and there is basically no complete inheritance of mechanism art.
In other words, even if this Taoist Baiji was not the creator of the inheritance of the mechanism technique now, at least he should have been one of the participants in the creation back then.
However, to say the same thing, Ye Zan didn't come to do archaeology, no matter what the identity of Taoist Baiji is, getting these notes is a big gain. From the notes, Ye Zan also found something related to intelligence, and was really taken aback when he saw it. The intelligence of those mechanism puppets was actually related to the soul.
It is no wonder that various forms of organ puppets have corresponding performances that conform to the form. For example, the tiger form behaves like a tiger, and the wolf form behaves like a wolf, because they contain the soul of a tiger or wolf inside. And those puppets in human form, including the four bronze terracotta warriors, undoubtedly used human souls.
Of course, judging from the notes, in order to ensure the autonomy of the organ puppets, but also to have enough control, no matter whether it is a beast soul or a human soul, it has been processed. There is a saying in this world that there are three souls and seven souls. After a person dies, the soul of heaven returns to heaven, the soul of earth returns to earth, and the soul of man lingers in the place where he was buried. And this Taoist Baiji captured the human soul and refined it into a mechanism puppet.
Such an approach, even for Ye Zan, who came from the technological world, feels a bit sinister. In this world, playing with human souls can be said to be close to the way of the devil, at least on the surface, it is not allowed to do such things in the righteous way.
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