Several people stared at Kirton with wide eyes on their faces, all of them looking at them in disbelief.

"You say, you discovered the time hidden in each poem?" Lu Hua asked in surprise, "Where?" ”

Cotton turned the poem on the first page of the book to them and said, "Look carefully, and don't you write it on this page?" ”

"What! Just write on this page? Lu Hua pricked his head in front of the writing, and held his myopic glasses with his hand to look carefully. Where is it? I don't know how many times I read this page last night, and if I had written the time somewhere, how could I not see it? ”

Sean leaned over and looked at the book and said, "Cotton shouldn't be referring to the word 'time' written somewhere on this page, right?" He's supposed to be discovering the time 'hinted' in the verse, right, Kirton? ”

"No, it's not true." Kirton said calmly, "You've all overlooked an inconspicuous place. ”

Lancy stared intently at Kirton. Lu Hua and Sean asked almost at the same time, "What is the inconspicuous place?" ”

Pointing to the "01" in the lower right corner of the page, Kirton said, "The time is clearly marked here—the number that makes us think it is the 'page number' is actually the 'year' of the event described in the poem!" ”

"What! This page number is the year of the event? Lu Hua shouted in surprise, and then suddenly realized, "Ah! That's right! '01' represents 2001 – the year 911 took place, and '04' ...... Oh my God, isn't that exactly what happened in 2004 when the Indian Ocean tsunami happened! ”

Sean and Lancey were both stunned, and the weirdness of the incident sent chills down their backs. After Lan Xi was stunned for a few seconds, she couldn't help but exclaim, "So...... Is this book really a magical collection of prophetic poems? ”

"That's really...... It's incredible. Lu Hua shook his head in disbelief and said, "If the year of the event is indicated, then the predictions made by these poems are simply incredibly accurate." I now understand what the fourth verse means, "Poseidon suddenly became angry in the last days" - the Indian Ocean tsunami occurred on December 26, 2004, which is exactly the "last days" of 2004! ”

"Ah......" Lan Xi gasped, "The author of this book is really a strange person with prophetic powers! ”

"But." Sean gave an incomprehensible expression, "Why did he mark the 'vintage' in such a misleading place?" ”

"I am afraid that this is a deliberate mystery on the part of the author—I suspect that for some reason he did not want anyone who saw the book to immediately understand what he was writing meant, so he put a mechanism in place everywhere—first of all, the verses themselves use a great deal of suggestive and symbolic language to make them obscure." And the year of the event is cleverly hidden in the 'page number' - these 'puzzles' are all set up to imply the true content of the verse. ”

"Well, you're right." Sean nodded in agreement with Kirton's analysis, "He did deliberately make the verses obscure—for example, the sentence 'Nerga came to the new city for the second time in September', if the author really wanted people to understand it at a glance, he could have written 'The new city on September 11th'." ”

Lancey felt completely confused, and she asked in confusion, "I don't understand, he wants to write these prophetic poems again, and he doesn't want people to read them easily—why do he do this?" ”

Kirton bowed his head solemnly and said: "Actually, the beginning of the book has already given us a hint - perhaps, the author of this poetry collection does not want ordinary people to gain insight into the mysterious 'heavenly machine'. ”

"Ahh Lu Hua seemed to be empowered, "You mean the ...... we saw at the beginning?"

"Forbidden for humans to read!" Several people spoke out together.

After the four of them looked at each other a few times, Lan Xi suddenly shuddered and said, "I think this book is ...... Weird ...... We ignore the author's sentence that 'human beings are forbidden to read', and after reading the content of the book, we also accidentally solve the puzzle he set, which is equivalent to an insight into the 'heavenly machine'...... We won't be damned, will we? ”

Sean said, "The two poems we've deciphered so far are about things that have already happened. Even if we have insight into the heavenly machine, it is still outdated. ”

Kirton suddenly remembered something, and he asked, "Lu Hua, you just said that you translated the first, fourth, and how many pages of the book?" ”

Lu Hua was stunned for a moment and said, "Page eight." ”

"So, this 'page eight' poem is written in 2008?" Sean exclaimed, "Wasn't that last year!" ”

"You still call it 'Page Eight'?" "That '08' isn't exactly what page eight meant," Kirton said. At first, we thought the book had been broken up, and we got it wrong when we rebound it – and now it looks like we've fallen into the author's trap! ”

Lu Hua took the poetry collection and looked back and forth, and sighed: "Sure enough! '01' was preceded by '99', then '98', '97'...... And the first 'page number' of the book is '13', which seems to refer to 1913! This way, the order of the books is not correct at all! ”

Lancey was amazed, "So he has predicted almost a whole century, every year's major events!" ”

"But," Sean said to Lu Hua, "you just said that '01' was preceded by '99'?" Where did the '00' go? What about 2000? He didn't predict the year 2000 alone? ”

Lu Hua opened his mouth, looking confused.

Kirton held his chin in his hand and thought for a moment, then suddenly the corners of his mouth crooked, and he laughed: "This author is a very intelligent and thoughtful person - think about it, do ordinary books print the page number '0'?" If the next page of '99' was '00', then anyone would have thought it was the year 2000 - and the puzzle he had set up was a little too simple! ”

Sean understood: "You mean, in order not to make it easy for people to see that the 'page number' is a disguised 'year', he deliberately omitted the page of 2000 and did not write it?" ”

"Exactly." "I'm imagining how clever this prophetic poet from hundreds of years ago is!" ”

Sean looked at the stunned Lu Hua and asked, "Speaking of which, didn't you think it was strange when you saw that the 'page number' was '01' and '02' yesterday?" Usually the page number of the book will only be printed with '1', so how can it be printed with '01'? ”

Lu Hua sighed and said, "I didn't think about this at all yesterday!" I only thought it was an ancient book, so the page numbers were a little strange. ”

Lu Hua whispered on the side: "The poem on the eighth page...... Do we still watch? ”

This sentence reminded everyone, and Kirton said: "Of course it depends - Lu Hua already knows the content anyway." Besides, what happened in 2008 is not over, what is there to be afraid of? ”

Lu Hua glanced at them side by side, as if asking for advice: "Then I really wrote it?" ”

"Write it." Sean handed him a pen and paper.

Lu Hua turned to the page of the poetry collection '08' and wrote the Chinese meaning of the four-line poem on the paper:

"The name of Kress should be changed to Erepos,

Only for the atrocities she committed in the East on the twelfth day.

Innocent people tremble with the earth,

Call upon the coming gods and saints in the ruins. ”

Although several people had been mentally prepared, when they finished reading the poem written by Lu Hua, the huge fear in their hearts still shocked them. Lancy was the first to hold out her finger, trembling and pointing to the verses on the paper, "What do you think...... What is this poem written about? ”

"What else could it be?" Sean took a deep breath, "What could be the biggest disaster of 2008?" ”

"Wenchuan earthquake." Kirton whispered with a heavy expression.

Lan Xi made a final psychological consolation: "I think this poem is about an earthquake...... That's right. However, it does not indicate a clear time and place...... In my opinion, it may not be referring to the Wenchuan earthquake, right? ”

"No, Lancy." Lu Hua said sadly, "It indicates the time and general direction." The first and second lines of the poem are expressed. ”

Lan Xi carefully read the first two lines of the poem, and looked up at Lu Hua blankly.

Lu Hua let out a long sigh and said, "'Chriss' is the goddess of the earth and the harvest in Greek mythology, she rules the 'May' of the twelve months of the year, and 'Eresus' is the god of destruction in Greek mythology, representing destruction and destruction. The meaning of the first sentence is actually this: the goddess of the earth in May unfolds destruction and destruction. And her 'atrocity' came on the 'twelfth day' - didn't this happen to be the day of '5.12'! And the poem says that the place is in the 'East'. For the distant French, isn't China just right in the East of the world? ”

After listening to Lu Hua's explanation, Lan Xi felt a chill all over her body, she fell onto the sofa and said, "It's over, it's over!" I thought that this Frenchman would only predict what happened in the West, but I didn't expect that everything far away in China was predicted by him! ”

Sean's body shook for a moment, and then he let out a sullen breath. Pointing to the fourth verse of the poem, he asked, "What does the phrase 'coming gods and saints' refer to?" ”

Lu Hua shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand this sentence either. Kirton buried his head in thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Ah! The words "gods and saints" must refer to the airborne troops who jumped from the helicopter in order to rescue the people who were shipwrecked. Think about it, for a medieval man, aren't those paratroopers who descend from the sky like oracles sent from heaven! ”

"Ah, yes! That's what it means! Lu Hua and Sean said together. In this way, the meaning of the four lines of the poem completely corresponds to the '5.12' earthquake! ”

"Oh my God, these three poems are just three that Lu Hua randomly selected for translation—each of them is exactly the same as the major events that happened that year, and the time and place are so accurately predicted! If every poem in this collection were 100% accurate, the author of this book would be the greatest prophet in the world! Not even Nostradamus is as good as him! Sean exclaimed excitedly, "But the question is, if there really is such a great prophet in the world, how could we not have known it before?" And how could this book of his poems have only been discovered by a few of us high school students in their teens now? ”

Lan Xi raised her head and glanced at Sean, "I want to know more about ...... than this question" She hesitantly glanced at Kirton and Lu Hua, and said the second half of the sentence.

"I wonder what ...... poem on page '09 is about?"