Chapter 935 Strange Black Clock

Boom.

The bell rang.

But when Yago reached the top of the tower and twisted from the shape of a crow to a human-like silhouette, a bell sounded in his ears.

In Yago's field of vision, in front of him, a mottled black giant clock hangs.

The pitch-black giant clock caught a glimpse of Yago's body at this moment, hazy and unreal, like a dream and a shadow.

Yago can feel a throbbing feeling close at hand.

That throbbing feeling came from this giant clock.

However, Yago soon realized something was wrong.

The shape of this clock.

In his previous life, in his world, the Chinese word "Zhong" had two meanings.

One is a clock and the other is a ringing bell.

Ringing the bell is naturally a "bell" as a percussion instrument.

The specific origin time is unknown, but around the Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze chime bells emerged as ceremonial instruments.

When the rites and music of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period collapsed, the specifications of the chime bells declined, or more nobles used these ceremonial instruments that were originally royal specifications.

The range of ceremonial musical instruments that can only be used on special occasions in special periods has gradually expanded.

This percussion instrument is used in more and more areas.

Even the scope that was originally only used in sacrificial ceremonies on certain special occasions has been expanded to all aspects.

In the square market, there are bell and drum towers beating drums and bells to announce the time, which is used to announce the opening time of the square market trading and curfew.

In the army, there are alarm bells and drums, and the loudness of these instruments is very useful for barracks calls and emergency communications.

Then another place that is most common is temples.

Used to gather monks.

To ring a bell at a specific time.

This is why Yago used the word "clock" in Lezhong to "clock" in Yago's memory.

Although Tianchao often uses "free translation", free translation must also be related, time-related, and things related to timekeeping should naturally be used.

Just like Duke Marquis and Viscount, it was the title of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States and Western Zhou Dynasties. When translating the feudal class in Western history, this set of titles was used as a "free translation".

Even if you know, when you first hear dukes and marquises, you always think of the West, and even many people who don't know it directly think that the title is an imported product.

The case of "clock" is also approximate.

The concept of "clock" is not imported.

However, because of the time-telling purpose of the clock, the "free translation" for the convenience of understanding will translate the timing machine into "clock", but it will actually cause many people to misunderstand the source.

When Yago inquired about many historical folklore, he always saw the confusion and misunderstanding caused by this kind of free translation.

What's more, Yago felt that this free translation was not accurate enough.

The water-driven astronomical timing device that appeared in the Tang Dynasty may be more appropriate.

However, it is too high to expect those translators to know the astronomical timing instruments of the Tang Dynasty at the time of translation.

All kinds of strange misuses and confusions are mixed in the history.

Yago didn't think that the related but not appropriate ambiguity between "Zhong" and "Zhong" would appear here.

Yago's eyes fell on the black giant clock. It can be confirmed that this building is the same as the clock tower in the mechanical city on the outside, as if made of bronze.

The reason why Yago is strange is because this black clock is not just a musical instrument.

On the black clock, there are fine engravings, and at the very tip, there is a sharp protrusion.

as if

sundial.

Yes.

The huge clock in front of him probably wasn't the percussion instrument and announcing device for telling the time and alarm as it appeared on the surface.

The concepts of "clock" and "bell strike" are strangely mixed together in it.

Although in the Tian Dynasty, the word "Zhong" has these two meanings confused, but this is because of the free translation of the text. Outside the Tian Dynasty, the two "zhong" words are not the same.

"Self-ringing Bell"?

Yago remembered a piece of history in the late Ming Dynasty.

However, at this moment.

Suddenly, Yago seemed to remember something and took out something.

A pocket watch.

That was something given to him by the mechanical apostle in the mechanical city of Wawei, in that mechanical kingdom.

What the apostle told him was that this clock could guide him when he was in danger, pointing to the location of the mechanical city.

but now.

He could vaguely feel that the pocket watch in his hand was somehow related to the strange clock in front of him.

Frowning slightly, Yago glanced at the pocket watch and the strange black clock in front of him.

Constraint, bondage?

Or seal?

The huge black clock, and the sundial-like timing device on it, sealed something.

And, what seals things is the .

"Mechanical way?"

The more the comparison, the more Yago noticed the similarity between the pocket watch in his hand and the strange black clock in front of him.

especially.

There is an inexplicable fit between the pocket watch he is holding and a groove on the strange black clock in front of him.

This discovery shocked him.

Why?

Why is the thing given by the mechanical apostle different from here?

Amazed and uncertain, Yago couldn't draw any conclusions.

He doesn't have enough clues.

He has no information that can answer this doubt.

However, there is a "hypothesis" that might explain it.

He, who stands here now, Diego, is the "Diago of the past".

It was Diego at a certain time.

What contact does that mechanical apostle have with a certain time, with his "future" self? What agreement?

This hypothesis is being confirmed by various clues.

For example, what the lady who claimed to be the ancestor of the Fast family said, the term "outsider".

For example, Yago's unexplained anger towards the other party.

For example, in the City of Mercury, the connection I felt with the City of Mercury appeared only after the snake of shadow was captured by the chains of Mercury.

Another example is just now, when he crossed the distant path like a dream, the other party noticed him.

Another example. Now.

Although, Yago is very clear that one cannot insist on 100% certainty in everything.

Yago knows the fallacy of forcing certainty.

However, these clues are indeed side evidence, not positive evidence.

He couldn't make a judgment with certainty.

While hesitating, Yago took a deep breath, and tentatively pressed the pocket watch in his hand to the strange black clock in this meaningless breathing movement.

click.

Amidst the crisp mechanical sound, the pocket watch was inserted into the black clock.

In Yago's field of vision, a black pattern like a snake shadow suddenly appeared on the pattern on the strange black clock that looked like a sundial pattern.

The black pattern like a pointer twisted slightly, and then...

The clock, the patterns on the strange black clock suddenly changed.

In the next moment, amidst the rumbling sound, Yago felt that something began to collapse.