Before Mo Qiong left, he went to the library.
As far as he knew, the library of the University of Yan was a peripheral training place for the Blue and White Society in Dengzhou.
It was different from the Extreme Island where the formal members were trained. Peripheral members learned knowledge and skills in their own places of work.
Mike, for example, worked in a security company, so he could learn marksmanship, driving, and many other skills in his unit.
However, not all peripheral units had such conditions. Therefore, some cities had training institutions invested in by the Blue and White Society. While doing business, they also provided special training for peripheral members.
For example, some gyms, shooting clubs, driving schools, and so on. Peripheral members could go to these places to practice.
The library of the University of Yan was such a place. It was a peripheral public learning place.
Back then, Du Xiaoyu was only a parkour master. If such peripheral members wanted to improve themselves, they would go to the public learning and training places in their own cities.
The library of the University of Yan was not open to the public. It contained all the cultural materials in the world, some little-known works, and many internal teaching materials of the Blue and White Society.
Che Yun used to study here at the end of every month. She was a part-time administrator because she wanted to meet other peripheral members and get to know them.
However, not many peripheral members came here to study. After all, it was a place for self-learning. Che Yun only took two days here. Most of the time, she participated in extreme sports and practiced marksmanship and fighting.
Mo Qiong asked around and found that Che Yun had not come here for two years.
With a swipe of his badge, Mo Qiong easily entered the secret study area that was not open to the public.
Peripheral members needed to have a permit, but formal members did not. One Alpha Badge could allow them to enter all peripheral units in the world.
"Hello." After entering, Mo Qiong found that there was already a peripheral member reading inside.
Seeing Mo Qiong, the man was very surprised and hurried to shake hands with him.
"Finally, there is one of us. Brother, which company are you from?" The man was pleasantly surprised.
Obviously, this person had been here many times. However, he was always alone and did not meet other comrades.
Seeing Mo Qiong this time, he thought that he finally knew other peripheral members in the city.
He did not think that Mo Qiong was a formal member. From his question, he did not ask which department Mo Qiong was from, but which company.
Mo Qiong smiled. "I am a farmer."
This was a typical way of addressing oneself as a club member. If one was a member of the outer circle, they would be able to tell. However, this person seemed to be a very isolated outer circle member. They even thought that Mo Qiong was really a farmer. After all, outer circle members had all sorts of strange occupations.
"Ah … I see. My name is Ying Fei and I'm a grave robber. I'm in charge of keeping an eye on the tombstones. I'm here to look for information. What about you?"
"Oh, I'm just looking around."
Mo Qiong raised his eyebrows when he heard the man's profession. There really were all kinds of professions. This white-collar man in front of him was actually a tomb raider.
However, all trades and professions needed informants. Naturally, the antidote business couldn't be without its own people. If someone unearthed any anomalies, how could the Blue and White Society not know anything about it?
Anomalies had existed since ancient times. Didn't Mo Qiong borrow Zhang He's hand to find a 400-year-old deep-diving wooden sculpture in the sea?
Perhaps there was an anomaly hidden in some ancient noble's tomb.
Ying Fei told him that when they excavated Emperor Qin's tomb, they found anomalies.
Of course, that anomaly had nothing to do with Emperor Qin's conquest of the world. It was an anomaly of the Terracotta Army.
That Terracotta Army was alive and had its own thoughts. It could synchronize a hundred people nearby with it. That is, if it didn't move, the hundred people couldn't move. If it took a step forward, the hundred people also took a step forward.
Absolute homology.
It took a step forward and stabbed with a spear. Even if the hundred people were injured, they would still take the same step and stab with the same speed.
Of course, if the person who was synchronized didn't have hands and feet, then it was useless. In addition to this case, as long as the person was still alive, even if they were in shock, they would complete synchronization.
If the Terracotta Army existed before the burial, then the Qin State may have built an absolutely excellent, iron-disciplined, and uniform army through it.
However, a hundred people could only affect a part of the battlefield. Moreover, the Terracotta Army's anomaly had a great drawback. That is, the person who was synchronized with it would suffocate because the lungs of the Terracotta Army didn't rise and fall.
In this way, the surface of the synchronized person's chest would be forcibly suppressed. Even if they wanted to breathe, their lungs wouldn't expand, and then they wouldn't be able to breathe.
In other words, if he was controlling the enemy, then he only needed to stand still. The Terracotta Army could stop a hundred people from moving. Even if no one took the opportunity to stab a few times, the hundred people would suffocate to death in a few minutes.
If this terracotta soldier had really participated in the war, then Qin Shi Huang would have probably recruited skilled craftsmen to create tens of thousands of terracotta soldiers based solely on its material, perhaps even including gold-plated men and the like.
Regarding this anomaly, Mo Qiong also knew a little about it.
Because there were no relevant records, there was no evidence that it was active in the Qin State.
The research department was inclined to believe that it was an anomaly that appeared inexplicably after the Terracotta Army was buried.
After all, although this terracotta soldier had its own thoughts and memories, it did not remember things that were too far away. After being buried underground for two thousand years, that long period of silence and loneliness had long destroyed its mind and erased too many of its memories.
However, it called itself 'Qin Er Five Hundred Lord' (Death to Millet).
This was probably the only evidence that it existed before the Terracotta Army was buried. However, because it was what it called itself, it wasn't very convincing. Because it might have been the persona it assumed, or rather, it was the military position it represented in the Terracotta Army.
Qin Er Five Hundred Lord was a Chiliarch, a very normal military position at the time. Including the name 'Death to Millet', it was also a very normal name, a very common name during the Qin and Han Dynasties.
However, after joining the Blue and White Society and learning a lot of modern culture, the anomaly often referred to itself as' Death to Millet '.
"Is there such a joke?" Ying Fei wasn't an official member, so he naturally didn't know about this joke that only official members knew about.
"There is." Although Mo Qiong didn't come into contact with the Terracotta Army like Ying Fei, his access level allowed him to view the censored version of the Beta-class anomaly.
After chatting with him for a while, Mo Qiong found that this person wasn't looking for normal information, but rather the location of a hidden treasure.
He believed that Lu Ban, or even Yanshi before that, had grasped an anomaly related to the wooden armor mechanism.
The legend of the wood kite flying for three days might be true, and Yanshi's dancing doll might also be true.
Ying Fei was obsessed with this, so he summarized a lot of information for Mo Qiong to see. He also pointed out that if such a situation occurred in a modern city, the Blue and White Society would definitely consider it an anomaly and investigate it to see if there was an anomaly behind it.
Since this happened in the pre-Qin era, shouldn't it be examined with the eyes of an anomaly?
"I've experienced the Terracotta Army incident, and it was after that incident that I became a peripheral member. If the Terracotta Army can be an anomaly, why can't the wooden dolls? [The Book of Rites] has a note: Terracotta Army, also known as Dolls, have mechanical facial features, and resemble living people. Mechanical movements are active, hence the name Terracotta Army. [Guang Ya] also says: Wooden dolls are used to set traps for funerals, and can also jump, hence the name Terracotta Army. "
"In other words, wooden dolls that can jump by themselves are called Terracotta Army. These things were widespread during the pre-Qin era. Gongshu Ban was able to cut bamboo into magpies, and create wood into kites. Mozi was also able to develop many weapons of war, such as the earliest crossbows and ladders. "
"In the early Han Dynasty, there were many descriptions of pre-Qin wooden dolls that could drive wooden carts and horses very far away. This was hundreds of years earlier than the story of wooden oxen and horses …"
"More importantly, my ancestor once raided an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty. The tomb was filled with traps, and there was also a wooden dolls guarding it. They wore heavy armor and were very agile. They killed all the tomb robbers at the time, leaving only my ancestor alive. He used a large fire to burn the wooden dolls to death. His peers all thought that it was my ancestor who killed them, but according to the stories passed down from generation to generation in my family, I personally believe that my ancestor didn't lie … "
Ying Fei didn't know how long he had been researching. In order to find the anomaly that he hypothesized, he had searched through countless materials.
Among them, there were precious books collected by the Blue and White Society that outsiders didn't know about, and there were also rumors that he came from a family of tomb robbers.
After combining all the information, he was very sure that there was such an anomaly. That anomaly could create wooden dolls, wooden birds, and all kinds of wooden armor that were no different from living people.
However, most of them were destroyed in pre-Qin. Because of the war between Chu and Han, a large number of tombs were burned down, so there were very few left in the Han Dynasty. Even if there were, they were taken into the tombs and then completely disappeared.
As for the method to create this kind of wooden dolls, or rather the thing, it was lost in the early Han Dynasty or disappeared.
A few years ago, Ying Fei used the excuse of looking for this thing to apply for a lot of funds. He cooperated with the archeological team to excavate many Han Dynasty and pre-Qin tombs.
Unfortunately, they didn't find anything. Now, the higher-ups had already determined this as: Maybe there is, don't investigate, let nature take its course.
Thinking about it, even if this anomaly really existed, they could completely ignore it. After all, it didn't appear in the modern world, it didn't affect modern society, and there was no evidence that it had a huge hidden danger.
Even whether it existed or not was unknown. Something that had disappeared two thousand years ago, the Blue and White Society didn't have the need to investigate and find it.
Therefore, in these two years, Ying Fei didn't have the support of the Blue and White Society anymore. He was completely on his own.
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