11 Unexpected Contest
We had been eating for half an hour before the other party called and said that they had changed the location of the meeting, and asked us to meet at a café deep in the alley of a certain folk street.
So we had to move the location again after eating.
When I arrived at the place, I found that the location was in an old-fashioned courtyard converted café, and it was still on the second floor of the self-built.
It's very atmospheric, but I can't go up the simple staircase in the open air.
At this time, it is time to play the role of the dog of the furball, and he has not yet turned back into a dog, but he has acted as my coolie and is responsible for carrying me on my back.
But when we got to the private room upstairs, we saw a waiter who gave us a letter.
The letter gave a new meeting place.
"It's so winding." I say.
"Look what the hell they're up to." Boss Ning opened the letter and told us to go out through the back door of this café, and then we came to the narrow and dark alley outside.
After following the map given in the letter for a long time, I finally came to the door of an old house that looked dilapidated.
"It felt like a haunted place. It's scary. Boss Ning said.
I looked at Boss Ning with wide eyes - he himself was a terrifying god!
"I'm knocking!" Boss Ning said and began to knock on the door, and the wooden door opened as soon as he pushed it, and inside was a dilapidated yard that had not been cleaned up for an unknown amount of time, as well as a retro building.
There was still a light in the house, and when we went to knock on the door again, it was opened, and it was a young woman who politely invited us in. But take off your shoes.
The woman, who seemed to be a housekeeper or a servant, brought me a stool and told me to sit in the hallway and take off my shoes.
The furnishings inside this room are very different from the outside, and the interior is decorated like a palace, or ancient!
Following the maid, we walked up the wooden steps to the second floor, and finally came to a parlor that was furnished like in a costume movie.
There was already a beautiful woman in this room who was dressed smartly, wearing what should be a men's suit, but it was cut and fitted, and she looked very heroic.
"Miss, the guest has arrived." The maid said.
"Please come in, Qin Daozun." The woman in the suit said.
I was placed on a futon cushion with a backrest, and the furnishings were clearly for people to sit on the floor.
The woman in the suit also sat down cross-legged and invited us to tea.
"My surname is Zhao." She introduced herself, "She is the head of this generation of the Phantom Palace. ”
"Palace of Illusory Memory?" I wondered.
"The Illusory Palace is an organization that has existed thousands of years ago, probably similar to a force like the Shifting Flower Palace in martial arts novels." Miss Zhao said with a smile, "The Illusory Palace has been a mysterious organization where women are in charge of the house since ancient times, with huge financial resources and power, but it has always been hidden in the shadows. However, in modern times, the Palace of Illusory Memories has also kept pace with the times and changed its name to the Illusory Memory Foundation. ”
"Then Miss Zhao, what is the original diagram of the formation you said? I took such a great deal of trouble to bring me here in order to get rid of the people who were secretly following me Wu Renfa. I said.
"That's right. In fact, when you entered this old folk mansion, you entered the formation of the Illusory Memory Palace, and I took you on the only correct path. Miss Zhao said, "But this formation is as simple as it is compared to the formation of Xinda Community." The formations here are only disorienting at best.
As early as eight hundred years ago, in order to prevent the invasion of foreign enemies, the Illusory Palace did everything possible to invite the Formation Wizards to set up a large illusion array. However, with the change of the times, the Palace of Illusory Memories has been relocated several times, and the formation has gradually been abandoned. In the modern war-torn period, the original atlas of the formation of the Phantom Palace was lost due to the war, and finally fell into the hands of the Wu family.
Wu Renfa stumbled upon the mystery of this formation diagram decades ago, but he couldn't understand it himself, so he found a formation genius to study, and in the end, that formation genius single-handedly created the Xinda community, and disappeared into the Xinda Great Array with the original formation map. ”
"So, Miss Zhao wants me to crack the formation of the Xinda community and bring back the lost original formation map of the Illusory Palace, right?" I asked.
"Qin Daozun, you speak very popularly, and you can understand it at all. That's right, the original formation diagram was originally the ancestral thing of our Illusory Memory Palace, of course I hope to take it back, but I won't create another illusion array, I just hope to recover the ancestral relics. Miss Zhao said, "Regarding the original formation diagram, it actually condenses the thoughts of the Zhao family for generations. ”
"Eight hundred years ago, in order to maintain the Transfiguration Array, the Seventh Palace Master specially organized an institution called the Arithmetic Mansion, which was full of all kinds of talented people with mental arithmetic talents to calculate the transformation and changes of the Transfiguration Array, and maintain and recuperate, so as to prevent the Illusion Array, which is extremely sophisticated and beyond the level of human civilization, from derailing and getting out of control. The operation of the Transfiguration Array requires a genius with super high ability to act as the eye of the array to coordinate and calculate all the data of the operator.
In modern parlance, it is the system of a supercomputer that has been artificially simulated. This system was created by your ancestor, Qin Fengze.
At that time, the array eye was a genius who was known as the number one wizard in the world in the past, called Nangong Xueqing. He struggled to support the operation of the formation alone, but the transformation of the large array was too laborious, so Nangong Xueqing died early. After that, the Transfiguration Array never exerted its true power again.
The seventh palace master married Nangong Xueqing, and thus had the blood inheritance of the later palace master. Before that, the palace master was elected. The original formation map of the Transfiguration Array is Nangong Xueqing's love for his wife, and it is also the ancestral treasure of our family for generations, since my grandmother's generation, I have wanted to retrieve the formation map, so I hope to recover it.
In terms of remuneration, Qin Daozun can open his mouth at will. ”
I glanced at Boss Ning and said, "I also happen to be planning to enter the formation in person in a few days, maybe I can directly find the formation wizard who is trapped in it and ask him for the original diagram of the formation." But it's a lot of work, so my price won't be low. ”
"We want three million." Boss Ning said directly.
"Then I'll pay a million deposits." Miss Zhao smiled slightly, I think Boss Ning's goods are going to be less, but I can't say any more, after all, everyone has signed a check over there.
Boss Ning took the check, and I felt heartache, because as soon as the money arrived in his hands, it didn't belong to me.
"Plus, there's a reluctant request." Miss Zhao said, "I hope Qin Daozun can see someone again." ”
With that, she clapped her hands, and the door opened, and an elegantly dressed young man walked in, he had long hair, and his face was very handsome, but his expression was a little arrogant and indifferent.
"Wushuang, is this person Qin Junhua?" When the young man came, he only looked at me and did not greet me.
"Yes, he is." Miss Zhao smiled and said, "Daozun, this is Nangong Xueqing." ”
“?!! Wasn't he a man of old? I was amazed.
"Xue Qing is the second 'Nangong Xue Qing' to be 'restored' by the Illusion Memory Foundation using the hair of Nangong himself handed down from his ancestors and going through biotechnology." Miss Zhao said, "He is also my fiancé. It can be said that he is also the best person in the world. Xue Qing has always had a wish, that is, he really wants to compete with you, the number one god in the world. ”
"What to try? I'm just a fortune teller! I hurriedly said.
"Try mental arithmetic." Nangong Xueqing said, "My body, that is, the eight-hundred-year-old Nangong Xueqing, can calculate the entire Transfiguration Array by myself, I believe I will not be worse than him, but in this era, I am no longer the only number one wizard in the world, which makes me mind a little, so I want to try it with you." ”
"I don't know that! And I'm not the number one god in the world, that's all nonsense! ”
"Qin Daozun doesn't need to be modest, I heard that you can use three talismans, and your brain power is no longer at the level of ordinary people." Miss Zhao said, "Actually, if you don't agree today, you may not be able to leave this house, although I really want the relics of my ancestors, but I want to fulfill Xue Qing's wishes." ”
"Can I just abstain from voting?" I said, "You won." ”
Nangong smiled and said: "If Mr. Qin abstains directly, or responds passively, it's okay, if you can't win against me tonight, then leave your other leg." Looks like you already have a crippled leg, right? Or leave one of your companion's legs behind. ”
He looked at Boss Ning.
"Don't underestimate my Meritus!" Boss Ning was a little angry, "What do you know!" Meritus just doesn't bother to toss with you mortals! You scumbags! ”
"Boss Ning! Don't get angry, I'll try to compete with him! "I'm more afraid of the gods going crazy than cutting off one of my legs!
When the time comes, it will really be a river of blood.