Chapter 3 Mysterious Charts

The origin of the "Gray Sparrow" is a mystery, and Young Master Nan is also a mystery in the eyes of others.

In Binglan City, Sang Nan is an out-and-out celebrity. He was extremely intelligent from an early age, and his memory was particularly impressive. When he was six years old, his calligraphy teacher, the university scholar Gu Yuan, once said to Sang Baihua, "This son is amazingly talented, he can read by eye, he can touch the class, and the good will become a great tool!" If you are not good, you will become a demon! Conclusive. For a while, the entire Binglan City knew that the city lord's family had a talented prodigy.

Fate is often full of drama! When he was eight years old, this prodigy young master got a strange illness for no reason, and he never grew taller again. You must know that the men of the Sang nationality have always been known for their height, physical fitness, tough facial features, and strong temperament! Whether it is his father Sang Baihua, or his two elder brothers Sang Dong and Sang Bei, they are all burly and outstanding, and they are famous great male families in the Kasha aristocratic circle. Therefore, for a 14-year-old San boy, his height of 1.3 meters will undoubtedly make him a joke in aristocratic circles!

The gossip of the mediocre people in the market, the indifference and contempt of the servants in the house, and the teasing and ridicule of the villains in the clan, you can imagine what the young people experienced at that time. Gradually, the originally smart and well-behaved teenager began to become eccentric and perverse, and often did some crazy things. Those who teased and mocked him to his face, within a few days, had a blue nose and swollen face, and severed hands and feet, even the Frost City Lord's own son was not spared. Of course, when this kind of thing happens, the city lord of Sangda will generally adopt a "goodwill" adjustment method, and the other party is at fault first, and he can only consider himself unlucky.

Since then, all the gentlemen and ruffians in Binglan City have understood one thing, that is, the dwarf of the Sang family is not only extremely smart, but also ruthless! Don't provoke!

In the past few years, the people of Sangfu have summed up several major habits of Young Master Nan: reading, catching birds, teasing cats and raising flowers. This is an experience that many people have experienced, but it has become abnormal when it rests on him.

Young Master Nan likes to stay up late to read books in the library building, but he rarely rests, but he is still alive and vigorous during the day, and he is not tired.

Young Master Nan likes to catch sparrows with his bare hands in the woods - gray-headed sparrows, catch them and release them, release them and catch them again, and this catch is five years.

Young Master Nan also likes to tease cats, and it is a Rakshasa tiger cat that is a specialty of Orton, this kind of cat is not only fast and flexible, but also bloodthirsty and aggressive, and often scratches him to rags and scars. I remember when I first came, I was often scared to wake up in a nightmare because of this, and I cried. It is said that Young Master Nan later planned to get two plateau lynx to play, but he was scolded by the city lord, and finally gave up.

The most incredible thing is that people like Young Master Nan still like to raise flowers, and he has a small greenhouse in his yard, which is full of all kinds of beautiful and precious flowers and plants, there are hundreds of kinds, he takes care of them himself, and also asks someone to take care of them regularly, and he also ranks these flowers, but the first place is an inconspicuous sword thatch......

In a blink of an eye, six years have passed, but Young Master Nan still looks like an eight-year-old child. But everyone felt that there was actually a demon hidden under his innocent and immature appearance. Fortunately, this "demon" generally does not take the initiative to hurt people!

Sang Nan has never taken the initiative to explain the opinions of the people around him, on the contrary, he enjoys his current life very much. In his heart, there is a secret that cannot be told. And the fewer people who pay attention to him, the safer this secret will be.

Six years ago, when he was flipping through an ancient edition of "The Chronicles of China", he accidentally found a mysterious nautical chart in the cover mezzanine! The chart is five feet square, the material is not gold or silk, thin as a cicada's wings, but it is extremely tough, and the preservation is so secretive that it is enough to show that it is extraordinary. A few faint mottles show its age.

The picture is crisscrossed with rivers, lakes and seas, mountains and rivers, and the technique is exquisite and full of meaning. Among them, the description of the continent of Moya is the clearest and most detailed, and the annotation is also the most. Even the islands, reefs, shore shapes, and water depths in the ocean are marked in detail, indicating that the mapper is very familiar with the continent of Moya. It is estimated that the entire Kasha Empire could not find such a detailed chart.

The strangest thing is that the land depicted in the whole picture is extremely vast, the whole is divided into three parts, and the Moya continent only accounts for one of them, and there are two continents in its north and east, which subverts Sannan's perception of the whole world, because in Sannan's memory, there is no large land in the north of Moya.

On the back of the diagram are some zigzag ancient characters and patterns, which are supposed to be related to nautical charts.

Sang Nan had not long been ill at that time, and he was helpless and extremely depressed, but this chart seemed to have a magical power that attracted him deeply, like a huge piece of fat that suddenly fell in front of a wolf cub who had been hungry for several days. Intense tension, excitement, and curiosity gradually spread in his body, and the depression was unconsciously eased a lot.

Who made this ancient map? Why did you hide it again?

Why is such a delicate chart full of errors? Is it to cover up something?

Where are the continents around Moya? Sang Nan guessed in his heart, but he never understood.

Unless...... Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and all his thoughts suddenly became clear.

This is not the current chart! That's right! It is only after a long period of time that the topography changes so dramatically. to explain why there are so many errors in this diagram!

However, the text on the entire chart is extremely illegible. Until these texts are deciphered, no speculation about the charts can be verified. So, for a period of time afterward, Sang Nan read books during the day and secretly took out the charts for research at night.

He was extremely talented, and his brain power was full of energy, and he made very rapid progress, deciphering more than 5,000 unfamiliar glyphs in the picture in just one month. It took another three months to understand the meaning of the entire ancient text.

The full name of this chart is called the ancient map of Shenzhou, and there are a few lines of small characters on the map, "Dewu Shenzhou map, that is, go to the north, the deep seashore in the north, the sanghou of Pian Pian, the Mo Dao people rest in peace, return to the soul and no one guards, beware of the avant-garde of the palace, I have all the seas!" It seemed to be a verse, but Sang Nan savored the meaning carefully, but he was a little confused.

The text on the back of the chart turned out to be a travelogue, which surprised him a little. It records what the person who drew the drawing has seen and heard in his lifetime, with a total of more than 30,000 words. The content includes five parts: the art of war, smelting, pharmacy, hearsay, and body refining. The strange things, strange flowers and plants, strange treasures, strange people and beasts involved in the travelogue are marked with locations and descriptions in the nautical chart.

Oh, my God! This is simply a map of the treasure distribution of the entire continent! Sannan was deeply shocked by his discovery. He didn't know what kind of impact this picture would have on the entire Moya Continent, but if it spread, it would make countless people blush and go crazy, and at that time, not only would he and the Sang family fall into a situation where they would never recover, but even the entire Moya Continent would have the possibility of rekindling the flames of war! Therefore, he decided not to reveal the secrets of the charts to anyone, including his own relatives, until he was absolutely sure.

He quickly memorized the entire text. The meaning can only be slowly understood later. Seeing these words, Sang Nan could imagine how wanton and high-spirited this senior was when he traveled all over Moya and the surrounding continents, and he couldn't help but be fascinated.

It's just that when learning that set of body refining methods, Sang Nan suffered a lot. It turns out that this method of refining the body is mainly aimed at the five parts of the head and neck, limbs, lumbar vertebrae, joints, and viscera. The whole process is about paying full attention and moving with you. He is a stranger to the human body, but these nine postures are so strange that he can only barely make one posture at first, but after each exercise, he will sweat profusely and be sore.

However, this inspired the resilience in Sang Nan's bones, and he gritted his teeth and insisted on practicing every day. After a week, the aches and pains were gone, and he was delighted that his body was lighter and his limbs were more elastic. So, it took him another month to complete the second pose, and his strength, flexibility and speed have all improved significantly, and even his ears and eyes have become sharper.

He has been carefully cultivated by Sang Baihua since he was a child, and has learned basic footwork and swordsmanship, with a solid foundation, but his body is thin and weak, and his strength is insufficient.

In order to test the effect of his learning, Sang Nan used the most simple and direct method - catching sparrows. There is a large poplar tree in the southeast of the castle lord's mansion, which is where sparrows like to build nests. He first lured the sparrow down with grains, and then rushed over to catch it, with only the word "fast". At the beginning, his movements were relatively stiff, and his strength and timing were not well controlled, and he often scattered the "finch" feathers. However, the saying "birds die for food" is very reasonable, these sparrows have no memory at all, as long as they see food on the ground, they are not afraid of death and pounce down, let him catch them on the side.

Sang Baihua had secretly observed a few times, but when he saw Sang Nan's embarrassed appearance of "full of finches", he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, and then stopped paying attention to him, but Sang Nan was just happy and quiet, and he wouldn't take the initiative to explain anything.

It took Sang Nan nearly a year to complete the learning of all postures, and not only was his physique greatly strengthened, but even his intuition increased amazingly.

With his strong physiconess and keen instincts, catching sparrows began to become a breeze for him, and he was able to catch them even with his eyes closed, so he began to try other methods......

Later, everyone in the house found that Young Master Nan's strange behavior was getting more and more, catching sparrows, teasing cats, and oh, there were puppets in his room, saying that he wanted to learn acupuncture...... Slowly, everyone became accustomed to it. Only the old butler Sambo once shouted that this was a sign that Young Master Nan was overly mentally stimulated and had an attack of madness!