At the Columbia University Observatory, agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. emptied the entire observatory, and in the room where the telescopes were placed, according to Chen Ang's request, they cleaned up a space about the size of three large conference tables.

Danny complained, "You know how much effort it took to get Columbia University to lend us a day. Please, a lot of people...... You'd better pray that your astrology works! ”

Chen Ang glanced at him and said calmly, "You'd better pray that I didn't take this sentence to heart!" ”

The stick is on crutches, the whites of his eyes are turned up, his face has the characteristic demeanor of a blind man, he does not look young, although his physical state has shown the characteristic of an old man, thin and withered, but those muscles that have been emaciated still contain abundant strength, and the expression on his face is not good.

"It's hard to imagine that S.H.I.E.L.D. called me over to deal with the Hand and Hui, relying on your astrology."

Sticksman said unceremoniously to Chen Ang, and he turned back to Danny and said, "If you hope that this liar can destroy Black Sky, I can only say that there is no need for our cooperation to exist. ”

Danny gestured, "To be honest, I'm suspicious too. But this was introduced to me by the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D....... Presumably he still has two brushes. ”

"The black sky is terrible, you don't know it." Still a little dissatisfied, he urged: "The Innocence Society and the Tewakai have been enemies for many years, as early as the founding of the shogunate, we were opponents, and to this day, we can be called old enemies." We know more about our opponents and associations than anyone else. ”

"The same goes for their most powerful weapon, the Black Sky."

Stickman put down his cane, stared blankly ahead, and sighed faintly: "The power of the black sky is beyond imagination, it can control life and death...... The five fingers of the Tewakai are immortal by its power, and the ninjas of the Tewakai are very powerful by relying on its strength. They are not afraid of death, and their bodies change into the state of demons. Even after destroying them, you can rely on the power of the black sky to bring them back from hell. ”

"The Hand and Guild relied on the power of the black sky and once ravaged the entire Dongying. Again, this is because they failed to fully control the black sky. If you let them take control of the black sky and gain its power, then you can imagine that what you will face in the future will be an army of ninjas who will not die, and they will control the entire world! ”

"Such a powerful force...... It's not like children playing games like astrology can stop it. ”

Chen Ang heard him question so much, and finally stopped what he was doing, and said curiously: "I remember that the core of the yin-yang technique, which is very important in Dongying, is the astronomical calendar. In fact, before Abe Harumi turned the onmyoji into witchcraft, the onmyoji actually inherited the secret techniques of the onmyoji family from the East, and were responsible for divining the fortunes of the country and formulating the calendar......"

"Astronomy, in the occult of that civilization, is a manifest science. You, a traditional ninja, saw such a lofty knowledge, and didn't hurry up to obey, but actually fought against feudal superstition? In the Toei tradition, people who master astronomy like me do not always have a high status like you, Prince Shotoku. He can even be called the leader of Shintoism. And you, a ninja, are just a dog raised by a daimyo, and your status is not as high as a low-level samurai. How dare you question the yin and yang astrology that only priests and monks can master? ”

Chen Ang shook his head and said, "The professors of the astronomy department of Columbia University next to him are all curious, you are a ninja so many plays?" ”

The face of the stick next to him turned blue, although the ninja sounded very powerful, but the status in Dongying was indeed very low, basically equivalent to doing dirty work, and the onmyoji could enter and leave the court, mingling among the high-ranking officials and nobles, and their status was far more prominent than them. Not to mention that in ninjutsu, there is also a large amount of yin-yang magic infiltrating.

But since the Song Dynasty, whether it is China or Dongying, astronomy has been in rapid decline, not only in politics but also in the occult. Except for a very small number of hidden forces, astronomy has even lost its occult significance.

This situation, on the one hand, is related to the concentration of imperial power after the Song Dynasty, although astronomical astrology is the most profound knowledge in divination, but also the highest occult science, but this study because of the unique Oriental idea of the unity of heaven and man, in fact, impacted the imperial power, and was scrupled by the imperial power. In the Song Dynasty, there was a law stipulating that in addition to Si Tianjian, scholars had unauthorized astronomical researchers, which was the same as the great rebellion!

This is true of both China and Dongying, and even Goryeo and Annam, after all, they both belong to the Greater Chinese cultural circle, and it is difficult not to be influenced by China.

On the other hand, there is astrological astronomy, which is declining in divination of fate. That is, the bankruptcy of astrology. After the long-term practice of the occult in the East and the West, it has been shown that the astronomical astrology at the time of birth has basically no impact on the fate of people, and it is okay for astrology to deceive ordinary people, but it is no secret to insiders.

On the other hand, the core pillar of astrology, the people who should respond to the astrology, the loyal ministers and good generals, after the brilliant period of the two Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, almost completely silent, since the Ming Dynasty, there is no one who responds to the stars, Zhu Yuanzhang learned from Liu Ji that he failed to respond to the Ziwei Heavenly Star, and the astrology was almost completely abandoned.

If it weren't for that, Stickser wouldn't have heard that Chen Ang was going to use astrology to find clues to his hands and control the black sky, so he immediately scoffed.

As he spoke, Chen Ang had already arranged a large round table under the telescope, a huge compass composed of many movable mechanical structures from the inside to the outside, divided into many layers, and many movable small copper blocks engraved with astrological symbols and heavenly and terrestrial branches.

Faced with this complex compass, the transparency of the atmosphere began to reach the best observation level, and above the observatory, the clear air refracted the starlight hundreds of millions of light-years away to the earth's surface, and Chen Ang began to observe it with the naked eye.

After determining the current Northern Hemisphere chart, Chen Ang began to pull out the human files of unnatural deaths and missing persons provided by S.H.I.E.L.D., and explained: "Modern astrology usually uses the zodiac signs as the basis for divination...... But this is completely wrong and layman's. In any ancient astrology, the first and most important astrological aspects have always been the nine planets in the solar system...... Now it's the Big Eight! ”

"In the ancient astrological system, India and China both belonged to the 28 Nakshatras, and Europe originated from Mesopotamia, occasionally referring to ancient Egyptian astrology, but all these civilizations, in the first step of astrology, that is, the astrolabe of modern astrology, the Chinese cultural circle became the house of life, indicating that the energy of different positions of the stars has various effects on living organisms of various innate and acquired ......"

"The first ring must be the Nine Planets, or to use a familiar concept - Nine Yao."

Chen Ang suddenly raised his head and sneered: "The so-called astral energy is also a concept invented by modern astrology, which belongs to superstition and a tribute to science. ”

"The reason will be said later, now I will first calculate the Nine Yao Star Positions at the time of birth and death of these people."

Chen Ang glanced through the list of dead and missing people, and then quickly chose a name: "This ...... Erica, a Caucasian female, twenty-four years old, was born on April 23, 1988, died on July 6, 2012, and the time of death inferred by the medical examiner was around 3:20 p.m. ”

"These two times, the positions of the nine planets of the solar system...... Of course it can't be the same! ”

"But including the tidal forces of the moon, the relative positions of the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the sun and the moon, they are strikingly similar in astrology. According to the analysis of Chinese feng shui habits, that is, the law of the one-day tour of the nine palaces, the time sequence of the eight gates of the heavenly disk, and the four gates of the year, month, day, and hour in the Qimen Dunjia fit each other......"

Chen Ang's hands began to slide the copper block in the compass quickly, the complex nine stars of the heavenly and terrestrial branches, with a complex mechanical movement comparable to the difference machine, running, Chen Ang casually calculated the orbits and relative positions of the nine planets and the sun on the scratch paper next to him, a series of complex formulas, and the Danny and the stick next to him were colorless.

Sticksu seemed to feel a look of contempt in the dark, just like when he was a young ninja, when he occasionally passed by the noble guest of the head of the family, the onmyoji, and the eyes that glanced back, as if he was blind, drooping old age, walking in the schoolyard, smelling the breath of learning, the eyes projected around him.

Just when the stick was under tremendous pressure, Chen Ang finally put down his pen and said, "This girl's death is not an accident, she was sacrificed!" ”

Danny took Erica's file, looked at it carefully, looked up, and said, "But after investigation, she died accidentally!" In the archives, there are not many people who are a hundred times more strange than her death, why are you so sure that her death is related to the conspiracy of the hand and the society. ”

"Because of the time sequence of the eight gates, I use the time and place of her death to run Qimen Dunjia, the nine palaces of the heavenly disk have nine stars, the eight palaces of the middle plate are covered with eight gates, and the eight palaces of the earth represent the eight directions, standing still, and at the same time, on the heavenly disk, each house is assigned a specific Qi (B, C, Ding) Yi (E, Already, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui Liuyi). In this way, according to the specific time, the six instruments, three odds, eight gates, and nine stars are arranged. ”

"Qimen Dunjia, the heaviest chronology, followed by geography, according to the different times and places, the three plates are rowed, and it was found that the time of her death and the date of birth correspond to each other."

"With her life, death at the corresponding time must be a sacrifice."

"This person's life is mediocre, and the four pillars are not a miracle, and it is difficult for ordinary people to sacrifice them. To be able to use this kind of mediocre birth eight characters and four pillars to sacrifice, either the host is a master of occultism, or it is a lot of manpower and material resources to try and make mistakes! ”

"Trial and error?" Danny asked rhetorically, frowning.