The blood moon is in the sky, and the blue mist is a sea.

The waves are churning, and the clouds are rolling.

For a moment, my mind was in a trance, and when I came back to my senses, I felt as if I had entered a vast picture scroll at that moment.

My soul broke out of my body and glided over the sea of blue mist, weaving through the stormy waves, the blood-red crescent moon above my head sprinkled with ominous light, and between the sky and the sea, the wind roared like a giant beast, and my eyes were full of slaughter.

After waking up from the trance, the blood jade had already absorbed the faint blue mist like a long whale drawing water, and the two "Yin Mi Qing", one large and one small, also disappeared.

Absorbing the last trace of faint blue mist, the red light on the blood jade was slightly retracted, and then exploded again-

【Netherworld Bloodline】

The four ancient seal characters, like projectors on the blood jade, radiated out and magnified in the air.

Then, the blood jade in the form of a book cover turned into an extremely small blood-red book, and just like the last time, the blood-red book slowly opened, revealing the pages inside.

The lines of small characters as thin as spider silk on the pages of the book were also magnified into the air......

The enlarged text is definitely Chinese, but I can only understand a very small number of words, because this kind of text is actually one of the oldest Chinese characters - oracle bone!

Under the pressure of my master, I did study ancient characters for a while, but most of them were just some ancient fonts, and the difficulty and difficulty of learning traditional characters after getting used to simplified Chinese characters were general, although I couldn't write, at least I could read them clearly.

But ancient characters are not within the scope of my study, because the time is too short, such as this kind of oracle bone inscription, I was only forced to read some when the master was alive, and when he returned to the west, I completely let go of myself, unless it was to check the information, I never took the initiative to turn a page of ancient books.

A pair of ancient books that my master left down, I kept in the safe in my bedroom, and I rarely saw the light.

But fortunately, otherwise this time Liu Yan rushed into the house and made a mess - it was a trivial matter that my grocery store was smashed, and if it destroyed the "inheritance" left by the master, it would be a great sin, and I am afraid that I will never let go of it for the rest of my life.

Just as I was frowning and pretending to "decipher" the oracle bone inscription, a cold female voice rang out, and she had already read out the content of the text directly!

I turned my head in surprise, and there was no surprise that it was indeed Shen Tangzhi.

Shen Tang stroked his chin with one hand, his eyes were fixed on the ancient text in mid-air, and he read in his mouth:

"Netherworld, the gate of life and death,

The Quartet is lacking, and the ancestral god Zhaozi.

The key to the Yellow Springs, the bloodline of the Tattoo,

By the heavens, Xuanjun seven chapters. ”

She repeated it several times, her voice became lower and lower, her eyes were engrossed, and a look of confusion flashed in her eyes for a while, and then turned to a sudden moment, and her eyebrows were also flickering......

When Shen Tangzhi fell into contemplation, how could I not be shocked by this text?

The short sixteen words are not as simple as the long 10,000-word scroll, and the content is even better!

……

So, a rather strange picture appeared in the room-

Shen Tangzhi and I were both meditating, as if we were doing an extremely difficult reading comprehension problem when we were in school for an exam, and Lao Dao and Brit Hyde, both of whom were full of anxiety, but they understood that they couldn't interrupt Shen Tangzhi's thinking at this time, and they looked like they were suffocating to death.

The blood jade floating in mid-air clearly reflected the oracle bone inscription in the pages of the book, and it lasted for about half a minute, and finally the red light contracted, and finally changed back to the appearance of a piece of jade.

I reached out in time to take the blood jade in my palm.

Shen Tangzhi also recovered from his contemplation at this time.

Seeing that the two of us finally came out of the state of "settled", the old knife on one side was already in a hurry and almost scratched his ears and cheeks, and hurriedly asked us at this time:

"I said, two archaeologists, what do you mean by the ghostly words just now? Both of you are like you've seen a ghost, and you've had hysteria for half an hour! ”

I cleaned up the messy information in my mind and said with a smile: "Old knife, you will talk nonsense, and it will only be a few dozen seconds at most." Even if it's an advanced math problem, it doesn't take so much time. ”

"Don't tell me that damn high math question, Lao Tzu has never passed...... Okay, okay, I'm talking nonsense, right? "The old knife was so anxious that he surrendered directly, which is a very rare exception in the history of quarrels between him and me.

He first let Shen Tangzhi and Hyde into the room, helped untie the hiking bags on their backs and put them on the floor, and then pulled me to sit on the sofa: "You all sit down...... Sit down, right? Okay, now, let's give my buddies a good science popularization, what is the mystery of what is the 'door of life and death' and what is the 'seven volumes' just now? ”

Hyde on the side also nodded again and again, and said to Shen Tangzhi in an extremely exaggerated tone: "My God, I was so shocked just now!" Julia (Shen Tangzhi's English name Julia)! I must tell you - it was the most amazing sight I've ever seen since I was born! If I couldn't understand the stories behind some ancient texts, I wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of my life. ”

This British bearded man, with a bunch of titles, and a knighthood, is a visiting professor at St. Christ's University in the United Kingdom, a doctor of paleoculture and anthropolinguistics, and an expert in video analysis systems and video data stream management systems...... I secretly thought, at this moment, you, an old gentleman, finally can't pretend to be able to do it, just like those demons and monsters in Journey to the West, showing their original form.

Shen Tangzhi smiled and listened, and then stretched out his hand and pointed at me: "Don't worry, Ace (Hyde. Estorie), I believe that this gentleman in front of you, he will definitely let you get your wish. ”

Hyde told me a whole lot of how he was shocked, and he used words to do what he could to shake the earth.

I said in my heart, this foreigner is really too pompous, in their culture, the exclamation point is like not asking for money, throwing out a train at every turn.

The old knife was anxious, and stretched out his hand to cover Hyde's mouth: "Okay, you foreigner, why don't you finish talking, hurry up and listen quietly." Come, two 'archaeology professors', tell me what 'life and death, seven volumes', hurry up! ”

"The Netherworld Palace, the gate of death and life, the Quartet is missing, the ancestral god Zhaozi. The key of the Yellow Spring, the blood book of the Tattoo, the Seven Chapters of Xuanjun. ”

Shen Tangzhi repeated it again, and then asked me with a smile: "I don't have a deep knowledge of oracle bone inscriptions, and I don't know if there are any wrong words, what do you see?" ”

I said in my heart that I didn't recognize a few words at all, but my face was still tense, and I didn't want to show my timidity, but I thought about it again, how can this kind of thing be a joke?

The way the ancients used words was quite different from that of modern people.

Speaking and recording are extremely concise, and the pursuit of a concise and timeless use, especially the "finished book", every word and every word has a deep meaning, and sometimes it even needs to be studied before it can be interpreted correctly.

Therefore, if Shen Tangzhi really admits the wrong word, it will be a great mistake, which will cause great ambiguity in the meaning of the whole sentence.

I said honestly: "Section Chief Shen, my understanding of oracle bone inscriptions is only very small, and I can only recognize a small half of these sixteen words. But based on the meaning of the sentence, I don't think your translation is very abrupt. ”

Shen Tang's beautiful eyes widened slightly, looked at me and said, "Are you humble or do you really not recognize the oracle?" ”

"I don't really know much about my knowledge." I'm a college graduate, how educated do you think I am? At most, I memorized some ancient books, but after graduation, I was forced by my master.

"Personally, I think it should be right, just to be on the safe side, I will copy out the words looming in the blood jade in a while, and then consult the relevant experts. For now, let's take my translation as the standard. But first, I need to know, in the three months since I left, what happened that caused your piece of blood jade to have a vision? ”

I had already prepared that Shen Tangzhi would ask me this, so I directly told her what happened after she left.

After listening to it, the first sentence that came out of Shen Tangzhi's mouth was: "It's K again?" ”

Then there was a deep sigh: "The example of the 'brain in a jar' you proposed is indeed very similar to the situation in this case. ** substitution, or the blinding of thoughts, which one is true? If a person can be implanted and deleted at will, and can enter personality and personality at will, then is that person still not himself in the original sense? Compared with Xu Liqing, maybe death is her true destination - she who has been resurrected, maybe she is like a brain in a jar, she can't distinguish between reality and illusion at all, right? ”

"It is said that the memory of a goldfish is only seven seconds, so does it mean that the goldfish is reborn every seven seconds? Every time Xu Liqing changes her body, the memories she loses are also equivalent to rebirth, right? What a sad and joyful thing it must be. ”

Women's perspectives are indeed very different from men's, and I often just analyze them rationally, without too much emotion.

But Shen Tangzhi's sensual words also made me exude other thoughts, which was a very peculiar experience.

At first, I thought that this guy was definitely the leader of a cult, but as the events continued, I found that K's identity had become more complicated and confusing, and even in some cases, K secretly provided me with some help, and it was even more difficult for me to judge K's purpose.

However, it never makes me feel like I can't tell the difference between friend and foe for K, who is definitely friend or foe!

From the first case where K appeared. (See The Game of Eternal Life), I labeled K evil, and I still haven't changed the slightest bit about that.

Putting aside K's question, I said to Shen Tang: "Before, I had already obtained a piece of Yin Miqing, and at that time, a piece of text was also revealed in the blood jade, which was an ordinary ancient seal - Tongming Three Realms Road, illuminating the Northern Hades Palace. Step through the Nine Pyloric Gates and travel to the capital. ”

I also told Shen Tangzhi about my understanding of what Lao Dao said.

Shen Tangzhi nodded in agreement: "I agree with your opinion." This text is very much like a "Instructions for Use", which clarifies that the possessor of blood jade can have the ability to travel through the two worlds of yin and yang and travel through the underworld. ”

Then he asked me: "But it mentions the 'Three Realms', which is a very mysterious word, and then in the oracle bone inscription, there are four words: 'the gate of death and life'...... What is your opinion on the views on life and death of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism? ”

I said in my heart that this is my major, coughed, and said in a straight voice: "Zhong Ni said: Death and life are also great, and they must not be changed, although the heavens and the earth fall, they will not be left behind." But Confucianism is actually reborn and light on death, because someone once asked Confucius about what happened after his death, and Confucius said: I don't know life, how do I know death? Criticize him for not understanding the things he lives, and he still vainly tries to understand the things that are dead? ”

Therefore, the six words 'unknown life, unknown death' are the embodiment of the Confucian concept of life and death. Confucianism reincarnates life and death, enjoys life and evil death, views death with life, respects ghosts and gods and stays away, which can be described as a pragmatic view of life and death. ”

"Zhuang Ziyun: The life of things is death, and the death of things is life. He put forward the idea of 'one death and life, Qi Peng's death', and regarded life and death as equal, believing that there is not necessarily any difference between a long life and a short life. Choose to forget life and death, and communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth alone. Think that life and death are just trivial matters, and we must transcend life and death. To live is to die, and to die is to live. ”

As the saying goes, there is a way to live and die, the world is like a river, and those who come and go are endless, day and night. Taoism looks directly at life and death, sees through life and death, transcends life and death, reveals the value of life through death, and proposes "life and death are one", which directly refers to the transcendence of life. ”

"Buddhism also sees through life and death, but it is completely different from Taoism that Taoism regards life as the joy of being a human being, the great virtue of heaven and earth, and takes the present world as a happy land and talks about entering the world; Buddhists regard the present world as a sea of suffering, advocating detachment and speaking of rebirth. ”

"Taoism admits that life and death are different, and Buddhism says that there are three reincarnations."

"Taoism regards 'life as the great virtue of heaven and earth' and life as pleasure, believing that 'people in the world cannot be regained once lost, and cannot be resurrected once they die.'" And the fact that this life is so beautiful cannot help but make them deeply sad. Therefore, the pursuit of immortality in order to ascend to the void fairyland. Buddhism, on the other hand, believes that 'all actions are impermanent, all dharmas have no self', and that birth and death are all dependent on each other, so they pursue nirvana-like liberation in order to achieve the state of "permanence, happiness, self, and purity". ”

I have been thinking about this long period of realization in my mind for a long time, so I can finish it in one breath.

Shen Tangzhi applauded: "Wonderful! At first, I just asked casually, but I didn't expect you to answer so carefully and profoundly, and it seems that you are not useless. ”

I smiled wryly: "Thank you for the compliment." ”

The old knife on the side listened with a sad face, although it was not completely incomprehensible, but my words were half-written, it was indeed a little difficult for him, and it was difficult for him to endure it all the time - there was also an Englishman sitting next to him who was completely confused, and I had to explain it to the two of them in plain language.

Finally, I said, "The reason why I am so detailed is not for showmanship, it has something to do with one of my speculations. ”

Shen Tangzhi smiled slightly: "I also have some ideas, why don't we play a very famous game?" ”

I nodded, took the paper that I had written half of before, tore off two pieces, wrote a few words on one of them, folded it, and handed the pen and another piece of paper to Shen Tangzhi.

The old knife was confused: "What are you playing?" ”

I said, "I'll tell you an allusion." ”

I said, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wrote that in the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang discussed how to break Cao.

Zhou Yu said: "Brother Kong Ming, why don't we write down our respective strategies in our hands, and then read them together, what do you think?" ”

Zhuge Liang happily agreed: "That's what I mean!" ”

After writing, Zhou Yu took the lead in spreading his palm, and the word "fire" was written on it.

Zhuge Liang laughed: "Brother Gongjin and I really see the same thing as the hero!" ”

Zhou Yu hurriedly opened Zhuge Liang's palm, and it read: "Gongjin, you're right!" ”

……

It took a while for the old knife to react, I was telling a joke and shouting: "I thought it was really written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I damn it!" ”

Shen Tangzhi couldn't help but purse her lips and smile when she heard the old knife say this, she threw the folded piece of paper on the coffee table: "You take my note, I'll take yours, let's open it together." ”

I laughed and said, "That's exactly what I mean!" But it was a quote from Zhuge Kongming's words in the joke just now.

We both opened each other's notes.

Old Dao and Hyde hurriedly looked at it, and at a glance, they all let out a "huh", extremely surprised.

And Shen Tangzhi and I looked at each other and smiled.

I saw two slips of paper with exactly the same four words written -

"Xuanjun Seven Chapters".