Chapter 15 [Treasures in the Study II - The Greatest Female Astrologer]
Du Wei picked up a candlestick. After thinking for a moment, he took off a hanging weapon from the wall. Of course, considering his current weak physical strength, he chose a short sword. He pondered for a while.
, Du Wei picked up a few new candles and put them into his arms.
Then Du Wei stepped into the secret room on the wall.
The weak candlelight could only illuminate the space about two or three steps in front and back. Fortunately, Du Wei's natural mental power was stronger than that of ordinary people, and his sensitivity to the surroundings was also much stronger.
This is a secret passage embedded in a huge stone wall, with cold and hard stones on both sides. I don't know how old it is. This secret passage is full of dust. Although Du Wei has tried his best to make every move lightly,
But he still couldn't help stirring up dust and sneezing again and again.
From time to time, his feet would step on some small stones. In the flickering candlelight, Du Wei could only stagger forward cautiously.
Fortunately, this place seemed to have ventilation, and although the candle flame flickered, it did not go out due to the lack of oxygen in the air.
After walking along the secret passage for a while, a step appeared in front of me. The spiral steps led straight to the ground. The steps were very narrow and made of stones. They seemed a bit rough, but fortunately they were strong enough. Just go down all the way. According to Du
Wei's inner estimation was that after walking up more than 30 steps, he finally saw a small door.
The metal doorknob was said to have been rusted for a long time. Du Wei held the doorknob and twisted it twice, but found that the door was locked and could not be opened at all. He sighed, and suddenly thought of the bookshelf.
That reverberated sentence...
"The spoon is the key..."
Du Wei thought for a moment, raised the candle and looked around in front of the door, and finally saw a pattern on the ceiling above the room above the door.
This is a carved pattern. Based on the pattern on it, Du Wei can barely recognize that it seems to be a star chart. He is not very knowledgeable about stars, but because he remembers the "spoon" question in his mind, he is very familiar with it.
It is clear that the "Big Dipper", which is shaped like a spoon, is found on this astrological chart.
"The spoon is the key..." Du Wei muttered. The ceiling was a bit high for a thirteen-year-old. Even if he stood on tiptoe, his hands could not reach the ceiling. With the dim candlelight, Du Wei studied carefully.
This pattern came up.
One candle was almost burned out. When Du Wei lit the second candle, his heart suddenly moved and he remembered an important question!
key?
joke!
If this secret passage is discovered, then even if the person who comes in does not have the key, won't they find tools to pry open the door? Without the key, the door can still be broken open by rough means.
If this is the case, then the key is not that important. But the prompt specifically states "key", so it must have a different meaning!
In other words, if you don't have the key, trying to smash or pry it open or other methods will be ineffective.
This "key" probably cannot be explained literally.
Du Wei sat down and thought for a while. When he stood up again, he jumped up with all his strength, raised the dagger in his hand and barely struck the pattern of the Big Dipper on the ceiling.
boom!
Du Wei's eyes lit up! The voice seemed a little hollow.
He gave up trying to pay attention to the door, but bent down, found a gap on the stone slab on the ground, and then inserted the dagger fiercely into the gap, letting the dagger stand on the ground, and then Du
Wei reluctantly held on to the wall and stepped on the dagger, so that he stood a little higher. Although he was still a little wobbly, he could barely reach out and touch the ceiling.
There was a thick layer of dust on the ceiling. Du Wei groped for a while and could feel that the star pattern on the Big Dipper had a different concave and convex feel from other places. He tried some methods, such as knocking, twisting, turning, etc.
Finally, he didn't know where he touched it. He turned it hard and twisted a star stone. With a clicking sound, a floor in the corner suddenly sank!
A black passage appeared on the ground, and in the passage were steps going all the way down!
Done!
Du Wei let out a low cry and jumped down from the hilt of the dagger with a smile.
Sure enough, this was a trick! Du Wei was convinced that his guess was correct.
The rusty door next to it is simply a blindfold! The real secret is not in this door at all! If the people who come here do not pay attention to the "Big Dipper" according to the prompts, even if they use brute force to open the door, they will still find it.
Get to the real secret here!
Du Wei was convinced that the real secret of this place lay in the black passage sunken into the ground!
He walked to the passage. The entrance was very narrow, and could only barely allow one person to enter. It was dark inside. Du Wei first lit a candle and threw it in. Through the light of the falling candle, he could see that the steps below were not deep, about 100 meters.
It's only two or three meters high and should be a secret room.
Du Wei did not go down immediately, but sat at the entrance of the passage and waited for a while. Seeing that there was nothing abnormal below, he carefully went down the steps.
•;
This is a room that is closed on all sides, with closed stone walls on all sides. There are a row of iron cabinets placed on the walls on both sides, many of which are sealed, and the locks on them are all rusted. In the middle is
A huge stone platform.
The height of this stone platform is about Du Wei's waist. There are many esoteric and difficult-to-read patterns carved on the platform. There is a large arc in the middle, and all the dots around it are the positions of stars.
Du Wei looked at it for a while and felt that he had no clue. Then he simply gave up studying the patterns on the table and concentrated on searching on the iron cabinet next to him.
All the iron cabinets here are locked. Because of their age, the locks inside may have been rusted to death. Du Wei worked hard for a long time, and just when he felt a little depressed, he finally cheered and discovered
An unlocked drawer!
This is also the only drawer in the entire iron cabinet that is not locked!
After opening it, a stone box lay quietly in the drawer.
On the front of this blind stone man is the emblem of the Luo Lin family!
Du Wei struggled to lift the box, then sat on the ground and carefully opened it. Inside the box was a roll of parchment.
This roll of parchment was densely written with some words, and after unfolding the parchment, a hexagonal-shaped green crystal that looked like a gem fell from the roll.
Du Wei patiently lit the third candle he brought, and then quietly read the words on the parchment...
“He who initiated the letter respectfully:
Dear reader, you must be a descendant of the Luo Lin family. So the first thing you must know is that this is a letter left by your ancestor. I am the one who wrote this letter.
, is the wife of the seventh-generation patriarch of the Luo Lin family, the astrologer Semmel."
Du Wei couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw the first two sentences.
Astrologer, Semmel?
Of course Du Wei knew that in the history of the Luo Lin family, there had been a peculiar family patriarch who was very interested in astrology and even married a female astrologer. And where Du Wei is now
A family castle, the tallest building of the castle, a tall white tower, was specially built by the family patriarch back then so that his wife, an astrologer, could stay on the high tower at night to do more work.
Great for observing the stars in the night sky!
What Du Wei didn't expect was that this letter was actually written by the patriarch's wife, a female astrologer!
He continued reading.
"...When you read this letter, I hope you can understand that what you will face next will be an adventure with great risks. You may open a door that has been banned for countless eras.
, because it is very likely that behind this door, there will be a taboo area that humans cannot touch.
At the same time, this is also the result of my lifelong research.
If you are ready to take the risk, then you can take the gem that is wrapped in this letter, and then carefully explore the stone platform in the room, and you will find a socket. After inserting the gem, you will get me
The most complete information left. In order to ensure that the inheritance of the information will not fall into the hands of outsiders, the activation of the information must require the blood of the descendants of the Luo Lin family. Please drip your blood on the gems. The blood of the Luo Lin family
Will guide you to the information I left behind."
At the end of this letter, there is another line of text:
"May the great Luo Lin family prosper, because of my husband, I fall deeply in love with this family!
Your ancestor, Semel Qila Luolin left a message"
Du Wei finished reading it in one breath, and couldn't help but feel a little more shocked in his heart!
Because based on the family history he had read, he had no idea what Semel Kira Luo Lin (whose real name is Semel Kira. He only took the Luo Lin family name after marrying into the Luo Lin family).
The name has a very deep impression.
This woman is the wife of the seventh-generation patriarch of the family, a famous female astrology master. In the field of astrology, she is worthy of admiration! Du Wei’s enlightenment teacher, the old scholar Rosciat, is also a
A well-known astrologer, during the year and a half he educated Du Wei, he occasionally mentioned Du Wei's ancestor's wife with great respect. He even mentioned inadvertently that this woman named
The female astrologer of Semmel is almost the best astrologer in the empire in the past two hundred years!
What impressed Duwei deeply about this name was not because Semel was a great astrology master, but for another reason.
Because, according to the records of the Luo Lin family that Du Wei had read, this female astrology master was also a woman who deeply loved her husband.
The seventh-generation patriarch of the Luo Lin family who married her did not live long and died at about fifty years old. This female master of astrology from Semel was obviously an infatuated woman.
Three days later, she committed suicide and died in love on the tall white tower that her husband had built for her during his lifetime.
Before her death, the female astrology master carved a sentence on her tower:
"Because of love, we will live forever."
It was precisely because of these last words that Du Wei remembered this famous woman in the family's history.
Without any hesitation, Du Wei immediately lay down and groped under the stone platform, and soon found the socket mentioned in the letter.
The size of the socket was almost the same as the shape of the gem. Du Wei immediately cut his finger without hesitation and dropped a drop of blood on the gem.
As the gem was inserted into the socket, Du Wei subconsciously took two steps back...
In the dim secret room, suddenly, the patterns on the square stone platform in front of him burst out with a strong light. This light illuminated the entire room as if it were daytime! The strong light even stung Du.
Wei can't open her eyes!
Then these rays of light gathered together bit by bit, and finally formed a pillar of light on the stone platform, and in the middle of the pillar, a figure appeared!
This is not a real person, but a phantom made up of these lights that looks very much like a real person!
The size of this phantom was the same as that of a real person. Du Wei couldn't help but widen his eyes!
He suddenly realized something very important!
This Semmel, this legendary female astrology master, is probably also an outstanding magician! Because everything that just happened and the phantom in front of me are clearly a kind of magic!!
The light of the phantom gradually dimmed, and finally the intensity of the light was just right enough for the human eye to bear.
Du Wei was finally able to see clearly the figure standing in the beam of light.
A woman wearing a red robe, with long silver hair as white as snow, her whole body was covered in a bright red robe, an extremely beautiful face, and her eyes seemed to be gentle, but those black eyes,
It made Du Wei feel a little bit weird.
"The person who opened the message, I am your ancestor Semel Qila Luolin." The phantom slowly said: "This is the last magic message I left before my death. I left
This magic circle requires the magic crystal infused with my own magic power and the blood of the Luo Lin family to open it. Since you can see this message, it means that you are a descendant of the Luo Lin family, so you also
You can get all my secrets without reservation."
Du Wei looked at the lifelike and beautiful woman in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a little shocked in his heart!
Being able to use a magic circle to preserve a message for hundreds of years! With such magical ability, he is already a top-notch magic master! This Semmel actually has such an ability!
"I have no way of knowing how many years have passed when you activated this message, and I have no way of knowing how much magic power I have left in the magic crystal. So, please listen carefully to every word I say.
, because I’m afraid there is no magic power to activate this magic circle a second time.”
Semel's phantom spoke slowly.
Even though he knew that the Semel in front of him was not a real person, but just a phantom left behind, Du Wei couldn't help but nodded.
"First of all, I want to explain: What I leave you may bring you endless benefits, or it may bring you endless trouble. Because the results of my lifelong research, except for my husband, have no
One person knows. The person who opened this message, since you have made it this far, you must have a certain understanding of astrology, at least an understanding of astrology. So first of all, I want to tell you the most important thing
The thing is: all the astrologers in the world are wrong! They, all, everyone, are wrong!
Because astrology is definitely not a shallow thing that predicts the future just through changes in the stars. Although everyone now thinks that astrology is just a form of prediction. But what I want to tell you is... astrology
Magic is actually a kind of magic, a powerful and profound magic.
Astrologers should not just be considered scholars of astrology, nor should they just be shallow and mystical prophets.
A true astrologer should have powerful power comparable to all magicians!
Since magicians can summon the power of wind and use rain, storms, fire, and all other natural forces. Then, why can’t astrologers borrow the power of stars?
Even, we astrologers can go further! Because, I have discovered a power that magicians cannot, or even will never be able to master... This is... the law!"
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