Chapter 2: Lao Pang
"Just call me Lao Pang, you can come to me at any time if you have something." The middle-aged man seemed very kind, which made Qin Tian feel very good, and he also had a lot of questions about Taishan that he wanted to ask Lao Pang.
"My name is Qin Tian. By the way, Lao Pang, do you know Taishan? I want to go to Tarzan in two days. ”
Qin Tian naturally wouldn't tell his true thoughts to a person he had just met, even if the old man in front of him looked kind.
"Taishan, I know very well, after all, I grew up in a small village at the foot of Mount Taishan."
Qin Tian couldn't help but feel happy when he heard that Lao Pang was from the foot of Mount Tai, then Lao Pang must have a deeper understanding of Mount Tai than others, and he couldn't say that he could find clues about his grandfather's disappearance.
"That old Pang, have you ever heard the name Qin Yishi?"
Grandpa disappeared half a year ago, and Lao Pang has long lived in Mount Tai, so it is naturally impossible to see grandpa, but maybe he has some impression of the name Qin Yishi.
"Qin Yishi? Haven't heard of it, is he missing? ”
Hearing Lao Pang say the word "missing", Qin Tian's heart skipped a beat, and he thought that Lao Pang had discovered some secret, but Lao Pang's next words made him feel a little relieved.
"After all, Mount Tai is also a lofty mountain, and there are people who go missing every year, and it is likely that this person is the same."
Qin Tian nodded, thinking that it seemed that this method really wouldn't work, so it was better to ask some more about Taishan's strangeness.
"Then Lao Pang, do you know what is unusual on Mount Tai? Because I'm a man who loves to explore. ”
"This is the right person you asked, I ran to the mountain when I was a child, when it came to the understanding of Mount Tai, those tour guides are really not as good as me, just say that this Mount Tai, the two dangerous peaks of the big and small candle peaks are absolutely valuable, and that place must be a little weird."
Speaking of the beautiful scenery of Mount Tai, Lao Pang gushed endlessly as if he had opened the conversation, but the "Big and Small Sky Candle Peak" in his words just now aroused Qin Tian's interest, and his grandfather had also written about this place in his diary before, and he was quite concerned about this place.
"Eccentric? What's weird? Qin Tian hurriedly asked.
"That's right, I used to be to the Big and Small Candle Peak when I was very young,......"
Lao Pang said as he led Qin Tian to the door of his room, handed him the key, and then went downstairs to busy his business, after all, there will still be guests to stay.
Qin Tian was suspicious after hearing Lao Pang talk about his experience when he was a child, he felt that what Lao Pang said was a little unacceptable, there were too many doubts, and some details were too different from what his grandfather described, maybe Lao Pang was overexaggerating.
Entering the room, Qin Tian put his travel bag in the corner, took out the diary left by his grandfather from the bag, sat at the desk and began to look through it, he wanted to know if his grandfather had made any new discoveries after that.
"On February 21, 1981, after nearly half a year, I came to Mount Tai again, this time aiming at the top of the Jade Emperor. After the first two explorations, it has been preliminarily explored that Mount Tai does meet the conditions for the existence of the 'door', but I don't know which 'door' exists left, and you should be able to get the answer when you go to the top of the Jade Emperor, after all, it is the place where the original Zen was sealed. ”
Seeing this, Qin Tian became interested in the "door" mentioned by his grandfather, and through his grandfather's description, this "door" should be related to the mythology of the ancient heavenly court, and maybe even involved mythological characters.
"On February 25, 1981, the Jade Emperor was as prosperous as before, and it is worthy of being dedicated to the Jade Emperor, the Lord of Ten Thousand Heavens, where the Jade Emperor is located.
What exactly does the so-called "door" mean, this word that appears repeatedly in Grandpa's diary makes Qin Tian quite concerned, the so-called "door" in Qin Yishi's text seems to hide some existence of the mythological era, and there seem to be people manipulating all this behind the scenes.
"It seems that we still need to know more about the situation, and this information is far from enough."
Qin Tian closed his grandfather's notes and lay on the bed talking to himself, at the same time, sleepiness gradually crept up in his heart, and he slowly fell asleep after a while.
In his sleep, Qin Tian's memory seemed to go back to the time when his grandfather told him stories.
"Xiao Tian, do you know the origin of the Jade Emperor?" Qin Yishi looked at the young Qin Tian kindly and asked.
"The Jade Emperor? Is that the old man who is very powerful in Journey to the West is sitting in the Lingxiao Treasure Palace? Xiao Qin Tian tilted his head and replied innocently to Qin Yishi.
Qin Yishi also smiled when he heard Xiao Qin Tian's very immature answer, then touched his little head, and said softly: "That grandfather told you about the Taoist Tibetan "True Message", which said that the Jade Emperor existed before the First Tribulation, and his body was born from the Sanqing Ancestral Qi, and after turning into a human form, he existed with the Tao forever. ”
"Grandpa, it's so complicated, isn't the Jade Emperor an immortal?"
"Xiaotian, you are too young to understand this, but grandpa told you that the legend of the Jade Emperor has eight bodies, in other words, there are eight doppelgangers, even the existence behind the "door" is very afraid of him, but there are only a few. ”
The voice of Qin Yishi's last sentence was almost inaudible, he put down the hand that was touching Qin Tian's little head, looked straight into the distance with his cloudy eyes, and then sighed again.
Qin Tian didn't understand the deep meaning contained in Qin Yishi's words, he just learned from his grandfather's movements and looked out with his big eyes wide and flickering, but he couldn't understand what attracted his grandfather.
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At six o'clock in the morning, under the ground of J City, there is a bustling underground city that is no different from the above-ground metropolis, people come and go, so lively, the only difference is that everyone here is shrouded in a huge black cloak, and they can't see the appearance and shape of it.
An illusory figure appeared in front of a shop, and he slowly raised his head to look at the plaque on the store, "Wantong Pavilion", which looked like a place for information exchange.
"What information do you need?" An eerie voice from hell came from the store.
The corners of the illusory figure's mouth lifted a subtle arc when he heard the sound, and then the figure flickered into the store.
Qin Tian woke up from his sleep, since he learned the news of his grandfather's disappearance, he had always had this kind of similar dream, and he would always relive many things he had with his grandfather when he was a child in his dreams.
Qin Tian slowly walked out of bed, looking at the early light outside the window, he still had to continue to ask some things about Mount Tai today, and he didn't know if the weird guy who was following him was gone, he didn't even understand the purpose of that person, this kind of enemy hidden in the shadows made him restless too much.