Chapter 16 Interpreting the Mystery of the Symbol

Only those who are familiar with this place know that Ouyang Ancient House has a basement in addition to the three floors on the ground, which has been used as a database for a long time. At this moment, in the underground database, Dong Muya was looking for something from the rows of shelves, and finally her eyes were locked in an atlas in a higher shelf. There, three strange symbols were clearly marked. She pulled out the booklet, looked through it in her hand, then quickly jumped off the ladder and returned to the desk at the end of the database.

Several dictionaries have been piled up on the table, which are specially used to interpret divine symbols, and these dictionaries were written by the previous manager of this underground database. The old man named Li Xun has been a servant of the Ouyang family for generations. Later, his grandfather took over from the previous database manager. Three generations have traveled to many places to answer the uncracked charms and oracles in the past data. Finally, Li Xun sorted out and completed these heavy-pressure dictionaries.

Li Xun is a very stubborn old man. He has been addicted to studying various records about the Holy Land of the Divine Realm and the Demon World all his life. Sometimes he does not leave the database for ten days and half a month, and even eats and lives here. In that era when transportation and information were still underdeveloped, many books in the database were found by him from all over the world through hardships, and many of the difficult-to-understand Chinese and foreign ancient books were also conquered by him one by one. He even did not hesitate to learn many languages in the world.

About 20 years ago, he felt that his life was coming to an end, and because he had not married in his life because he focused on this database, Dong Muya suddenly appeared in front of him when he had been struggling for many years. At that time, she was just an eight- or nine-year-old girl, but she had excellent memory and understanding. The biggest difference between her and her peers was that she was fascinated by these things that were beyond common sense. When he told her the story of the Holy Land and the demon world, the light in her eyes brought him unprecedented hope. Although there is no certainty about whether Li Xun is still willing to manage this database for Dong Muya as an adult, he still hands down his life's research and this database, which carries several generations of loyalty to the Ouyang family, to Dong Muya.

In those years, Dong Muya spent most of the time after school and even the weekend with his teacher Li Xun in this database. No one expected that she was young, but her faith was so firm. After years of hard work, she couldn't see the meaning of regret. In fact, in addition to her personal interests, there is a little-known secret that she can do it persistently. As an ordinary person, only in this way can she get closer to that person's world, and that person is Ouyang Hongye.

Li Xun is a strict teacher. Similarly, Dong Muya is also an obedient and hard-working student. She dispelled his previous worries with her talent and enthusiasm, and quickly mastered the classification and inquiry methods of various materials, as well as the use of dictionaries, all of which made him extremely gratified.

After graduating from college, Dong Muya, who is quite good at school, despite the opposition of her parents and the persuasion of her friends, resolutely chose to return to Yongchuan to inherit the database hidden in the underground of Ouyang Ancient House. In fact, working as a Chinese teacher in Yongchuan Middle School is just a cover-up for outsiders, or a means of survival. She was born in a wealthy family and is the only daughter of the family. The family business began to develop from Yongchuan from her father to Shanghai. Her father expected her to take over her career, but he did not expect that she would refuse so simply. Even if her parents forced her to break off the relationship with her, they could not keep her. She escaped from her home in Shanghai and returned to Yongchuan to be an ordinary middle school teacher, which led to her severing from her parents for many years.

It is painful and sad for her to be rebellious and far away from her parents. She can only pour all her experience into this database. She took advantage of the holiday to travel around to continue the teacher's unfinished search and research. Over the years, she has used modern scientific and technological means to classify and archive the solved documents and materials in the computer, making it more convenient to query. Even Ouyang Hongye was amazed. She has completely become the owner of this database. No one has ever been as familiar with everything here as she is.

As soon as she returned to the world from the Demon King City, the mobile phone in Xia Qiu's pocket began to keep shaking. When she saw that the screen was a call from her father, she hesitated and answered it.

"Hey!"

"Hey, Xia Qiu, it's Dad."

"Hmm."

"Why didn't you get through to your mobile phone before?"

Dad's voice sounded lower than usual. Although she couldn't hear the emotion, she could still feel his displeasure.

"The signal may not be very good at a friend's house before! What's the matter?" Xia Qiu told a lie and tried to make herself sound calm.

"I heard from your grandparents that you always come home late recently. Although they didn't say anything to you, they are old, so don't let them worry too much!"

"I know!"

Xia Qiu answered that she knew that her father would not get angry with herself, because they were not close enough to get angry with each other casually. His relationship with her was much stranger than that of an ordinary father and daughter.

After hanging up the phone, she was in a dilemma. Now she must make a choice. The journey to find the charm means that she has to leave home temporarily, but before that, she must find a reason that can be accepted by her grandparents.

"Are you all right?" Ouyang Xiao Leng saw her uneasiness from Xia Qiu's face.

"I'm thinking about how to explain it to my family. You see, if we want to find the charm, we must leave here for a while. Xia Qiu thought about whether she should say her distress, but she felt that she should trust him, because she could not solve the problem by herself at this time.

Before Ouyang Xiao Leng could speak, Qianqi beside him couldn't help taking over the words: "Of course I need to use that at this time!"

"What?" Xia Qiu is puzzled.

"Isn't the fox best at confusing human beings? Just let him convince your family!"

"You..." Ouyang Xiao Lenggang wanted to be angry with Qianqi's joke proposal, but on second thought, this may really be the best way so far. Although he has never tried this technique and is not proficient in it, it is still easy to control human beings and low-level demons as a demon fox.

"But I don't want to deceive them!" Xia Qiu is still a little hesitant.

"Time is tight, let's try this method first!" Although Ouyang Xiao Leng was still a little resistant to this kind of low-level move, seeing the embarrassed Xia Qiu, he still decided to accept Qianqi's proposal.

"Will this method do any harm to them?" Xia Qiu asked with concern.

"No, it's actually like hypnosis. I will let them accept my idea. Don't worry! I'll go to your house first. You and Qianqi will go directly to Ouyang Ancient House to find Dong Muya!" After saying that, Ouyang Xiao Leng got up and jumped and disappeared in the evening wind.

After arriving at Ouyang Ancient House, Xia Qiu and Qianqi told Dong Muya what had just happened in the demon world. After hearing this, Dong Muya asked them to rest in Ouyang's ancient house for the time being, and she searched for information all night to answer the prophecy mentioned earlier by Yan Ming.

There are many records and explanations of the talisman, but most of them can't be verified. Some of them have been denied by the teacher Li Xun and his previous managers. It is not difficult to find what Yan Ming said about water in thousands of records, but if you want to find "it feels like water, it should be a place surrounded by water" is like looking for a needle at the bottom of the sea. His guidance is too general. There are countless places like this. What kind of method is used to find him in public?

The booklet she just found is the oldest of all records. The whole booklet is written in the divine language, half of which has been cracked by Li Xun, and the other half is still unable to find the answer. The above records are all legends about the charms in Yongchuan and the surrounding area. Teacher Li Xun once told Dong Muya that this book was bought back from Europe at a high price. At that time, he only roughly understood that it was a legend about the charms around Yongchuan, which aroused his great interest. Although he had no idea how this booklet appeared in Europe, he still asked the owner of the Ouyang family at that time to buy it back.

After his research for many years, this booklet is indeed a treasure. He even felt that the person who wrote this album may be from the divine world, because the symbols of the handwritten divine world in this thick booklet are more complex and comprehensive than any ancient book. She opened the booklet, checked the contents of it while checking the dictionary, and then wrote down some potentially useful information, symbols and the number of pages on the book next to her.

The yellow light in the database dropped warmly. At this time, Dong Muya was wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt, her sleeves were tied to half of her arm, and her hair was casually combed behind her ears. Before Xia Qiu and the others arrived, she had already lied down, but she couldn't sleep. She always felt what would happen tonight. Sure enough, she tossed and turned for a while, and the phone rang. At this time, the highly tense nerves made her completely sober. It's strange to say that for her, the two things that collect information and find information are actually the most addictive for her. She has never been to the demon world in person, and so has her teacher Li Xun, but they know that place better than most people in the demon world. The past, present and what is going to happen there. Everything.

A series of symbols attracted Dong Muya's attention. When she opened it, the few symbols she could translate were Yongchuan, Hubo and ground symbols. Then she continued to look at the annotations below, which answered more than the lines of symbols above. Dong Muya translated them one by one, and then connected them and adjusted them slightly. Suddenly, she suddenly felt that this These symbols are like two poems.

The first song:

From noon, leaning on the green lakeside to borrow three inches of sunlight to the center of the green water

Lightly to the light

Second song:

Ten steps to forget the past, but my heart is broken

The thirty parties know that there is no trace. Forty foresee the afterlife

If there are fifty yellow spring paths, just don't panic forward

What you want is all here, but I'm afraid that there is a vast road back

According to her understanding of the literal, Dong Muya first determined the meaning of the first poem. At noon, it is from 11 o'clock at noon, and it means that it starts at 11 o'clock at noon. On the lakeside, the lake here should be the lake in the Yongchuan Forest; borrow three inches of sunlight. The word "borrow" of Dong Muya guessed that it should mean reaching out his hand. After reaching out his hand, he can get three inches of daylight, and from there he began to walk to the center of the lake.

Then is the next song. About ten steps will forget the past. Twenty steps should start to suffocate. If you continue to walk forward thirty steps, you will feel the feeling of death. Forty steps will produce the illusion of the afterlife. In fifty steps, you can see the entrance of Huangquan. What is sought refers to the earth charm, which should be hidden in the country of Huangquan. However, the last sentence is written that it is unknown whether it can return to the world after getting the divine charm.

Dong Muya then got up in a panic and walked towards a row of shelves, and skillfully pulled out a thick book on the shelves, which was a book about the legend of Huangquan Kingdom. When she first began to study with Li Xun, she read that book. Most of the records on it were undocumented. The whole chapter of going to Huangquan Kingdom stopped abruptly, probably because none of the seekers who had embarked on this road of no return could turn back.

Legend has it that someone once went to the kingdom of Huangquan to save his dead lover, but because he could not complete the title of the demon king of hell, the king of Huangquan, his soul was lost forever, and his body became the slave of the demon king of hell. This is completely in line with the meaning described in that poem. In any case, Huangquan is a world with no return. It is different from any world of gods, demons and people, and it is not under the jurisdiction of any world. Just like the black fire purgatory, sinful gods, demons and demons are beaten into it. There will never be a day of release. Those who fall into the kingdom of Huangquan are also full of souls who have done all kinds of evil in their lives. They will suffer and linger in it forever.

Dong Muya looked through the way to escape from Huangquan Kingdom in the catalogue. Although she was sure that no book had such a record, she still hoped that she was just blinded by memory, and there must be some information she had missed. She read the ancient books over and over again, and was pushed to the edge of disappointment again and again. She knew that if she told Ouyang Xiao Leng, Xia Qiu and Qianqi the records about the divine charms in the poem, they would not hesitate to run to the Kingdom of Huangquan, but what if they could never come back? How should she explain to Ouyang Hongye? How can she make herself face it calmly? The pleasure that seemed to have been injected with a stimulant when looking for information before completely disappeared. She only felt that her body was swept by the chill and her hands and feet were cold. She sat in a chair and clutched her knees tightly with her hands. She didn't know what to do.

Qianqi finally set foot on this place called the human world for the first time in 17 years. Today is another golden autumn and sunny night. The bright moon is in the sky, which is really beautiful and suffocating. He was originally a person who was curious about the unknown world, but the first time he came to the world, he had to complete the important mission of finding the charm, so he wanted to stay in the courtyard of Ouyang Ancient House for a while anyway. Breathing the air of the human world also makes him a little uncomfortable, because the demon is extremely ** to all kinds of messages in the breath, and the air of the human world contains too complex messages, many of which he has never felt before. He saw the moon on earth in the painting, and the night sky here is also different from the demon world. The dark blue night sky makes the world seem to be in the deep sea, and it seems to contain infinite mystery, which fascinates him deeply.

Xia Qiu was worried about the return of Ouyang Xiao Leng. He didn't talk about how to hypnotize her grandparents. He just nodded to her calmly. Knowing that everything was going well, her tightly grasped heart finally unfolded. She went to the room to take off the gorgeous clothes worn for the conference and put on her original clothes.

She was arranged to rest in the room opposite Ouyang Xiao Leng. When she changed her clothes and came out, she saw him sitting in a chair and looking at something in the half-closed door opposite. Although she has been to Ouyang Ancient House several times, she has never entered his room. At this moment, she feels even more curious, so she walked over and knocked on his door.

Ouyang Xiao Leng looked up and saw that it was her and answered, "Come in!"

This is the first time she walks into Ouyang Xiao Leng's room. Unexpectedly, it is no different from an ordinary boy's room. The color of the whole room is black and gray, which is very in line with his character. But it goes without saying that with Du He, even compared with the girl, there are obviously too many clothes for him. The exquisite and concise walk-in wardrobe shows Ouyang Hongye's doting on him. In proportion to the huge wardrobe is the bookcase that occupies the whole wall. Because he has little contact with others and few friends of the same age, he spends most of his leisure time reading and painting. There are thick piles of picture books in the corner of the bed, and he is also holding his own picture book.

"Can I have a look?" Xia Qiu asked tentatively that she had seen his painting before, and she was still very impressed by the Manzhu Shahua he painted at that time.

"Uh-huh!"

He hesitated for a moment and handed her the picture book in his hand and pointed to her to the beige single sofa by the bed. As soon as she sat down, he walked out of the room.

She couldn't wait to open the picture book in her hand and saw at a glance that the first one was Yongchuan Forest, where she could not be more familiar with the scenery. Although it was just a casual painting with colored pencils, it caught the soul of Yongchuan Forest very accurately. On the lake surrounded by green pines and cypresses, the sun reflected a little golden, as if there was life. Below was a huge banyan tree, and the boy sitting on the tree seemed to be looking at the girl under the tree, with a beautiful composition. It's like a fairy tale; the following pictures are Manzhu Shahua, which shows Ouyang Xiaolang's love for such words.

Turning over, suddenly a separate drawing paper fell out of the book. She leaned over and picked it up and found that it was not someone else but herself on the picture. In the painting, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and the faint pink on her cheeks revealed the breath of spring, with a sense of calmness and firmness in her eyes. She can't help but think of when she showed such an expression? And when did Ouyang Xiao Leng observe her face so carefully?

She felt that she looked better in the painting. When she thought that she was like this in his eyes, she made her cheeks hot, and her heartbeat echoed throughout the room.