Only those who are familiar with this place know that in addition to the three floors above ground, the Ouyang Ancient Mansion also has a basement, and this floor has been used as a database for a long time. At this moment, in the underground database, Dong Muya was looking for something from the rows of shelves up and down, left and right, and finally her eyes were locked on a picture book in the higher shelf. There, clearly marked with three strange symbols, she pulled out the booklet, flipped through it in her hand, and then quickly jumped down the ladder and returned to the desk at the end of the database.

There were already several dictionaries piled up on the table, all dedicated to deciphering runes, written by the previous administrator of this underground database. The old man named Li Xun had been a servant of the Ouyang family for generations, and later his grandfather took over from the previous generation of database managers, and three generations traveled to many places in order to answer the undeciphered runes and oracles in the past materials, and finally Li Xun sorted out and completed these heavy dictionaries.

Li Xun is an extremely stubborn old man, who has been obsessed with studying various records about the sacred realm of the divine realm and the demon realm all his life, sometimes not leaving the database for ten days and half a month, and even eating and living here. At that time, when transportation and information were not developed, many of the books in the database were found by him from all over the world through great difficulty, and many of them were jerky and difficult to understand Chinese and foreign ancient books, and he even did not hesitate to learn many languages in the world for this purpose.

About twenty years ago, he felt that his life was coming to an end, and because he was focused on this database, he had never married in his life, and when he saw that there was no one to inherit his years of hard work, Dong Muya suddenly appeared in front of him. At that time, she was only a little girl of eight or nine years old, but she had an excellent memory and comprehension. What set her apart from her peers was that she was fascinated by these things that were out of the ordinary, and when he told her stories about the Sanctuary and the Demon Realm, the light in her eyes gave him hope that he had never seen before. Although there was no certainty for the adult Dong Muya whether he was still willing to manage this database, Li Xun was still desperate to hand over his life's research and this database that carried generations of loyalty to the Ouyang family to Dong Muya.

In those years, almost most of the time after school, even weekends, Dong Muya spent time with her teacher Li Xun in this database. No one expected that she was young, but her beliefs were so firm, and she had worked hard for many years, and she couldn't see the slightest repentance. In fact, in addition to her personal interest, there is a little-known secret that she can continue to do like this. As an ordinary person, only in this way can she get closer to that person's world, and that person is Ouyang Hongye.

Li Xun was a strict teacher, and Dong Muya was also an obedient and hard-working student, and she used her talent and enthusiasm to dispel his previous worries, and quickly mastered the classification and query methods of various materials, as well as the use of dictionaries, all of which made him feel extremely gratified.

After graduating from university, Dong Muya, who was quite good at academics, ignored the opposition of her parents and the persuasion of her friends, and resolutely chose to return to Yongchuan to inherit this database hidden under Ouyang's ancient mansion. She was born into a wealthy family and was the only daughter in the family, and the family business began in Yongchuan and grew from her father to Shanghai, who expected her to take over his own business, but did not expect her to refuse so simply, even if her parents forced her to disown her, they could not keep her. She escaped from her home in Shanghai and returned to Yongchuan to work as an ordinary middle school teacher, which led to her cutting off contact with her parents for many years.

Disobedience and detachment from her parents were painful and sentimental for her, and she had to pour all her experiences into this database. She used her vacation to travel around to continue the teacher's unfinished search and research, and over the years, she has used modern technology to classify and archive the solved literature and materials in the computer, making it more convenient to search. Even Ouyang Hongye was amazed, she had completely become the master of this database, and no one had ever been so familiar with everything here as she was.

As soon as she returned to the world from the Demon Realm King City, the mobile phone in Xia Qiu's pocket began to vibrate constantly, and when she saw that the screen was a call from her father, she hesitated for a moment and picked it up.

"Hey!"

"Hey, Xia Qiu, it's Dad."

"Hmm."

"Why didn't your phone get through before?"

Daddy's voice sounded deeper than usual, and although she couldn't hear the emotion in it, she could still feel his displeasure.

"The signal may not have been good at a friend's house before! Is there something wrong? Xia Qiu lied and tried to make herself sound calm.

"I heard your grandparents say that you always come home late late, although they didn't say anything to you, but they are older, don't let them worry too much!"

"Got it!"

Xia Qiu responded, she knew that her father would not be angry with her, because they were not close enough to be angry with each other casually, and the relationship between him and her was much stranger than that of ordinary fathers and daughters.

Hanging up the phone, she was in a bit of a dilemma, now she had to make a choice, embarking on a journey to find the rune would mean leaving the house for a while, but before she could find a reason that would be acceptable to her grandparents.

"Are you alright?" Ouyang Xiaoleng could see her uneasiness from Xia Qiu's face.

"I was wondering how to explain it to my family. You see, we're going to have to get out of here for a while if we're going to find the runes. Xia Qiu thought about whether she should express her distress, but she felt that she should trust him, because at this time, she could not solve this problem on her own.

Before Ouyang Xiaoleng could speak, Qianqi on the side couldn't help but take over the conversation: "Of course you have to use that at this time!" ”

"What?" Xia and Qiu are puzzled.

"Isn't the best thing a fox does to confuse humans? Just let him convince your family! ”

"You ......" Ouyang Xiaoleng was about to get angry at Qianqi's ridiculous proposal, but after thinking about it, maybe this might really be the best way so far. Although he had never tried this technique and was not proficient in it, it was still easy for him to control humans and low-level demon clans as a demon fox.

"But I don't want to deceive them!" Xia Qiu was still a little hesitant.

"Time is pressing, let's try this method first!" Although Ouyang Xiaoleng was still a little resistant to this low-level trick in his heart, seeing the embarrassed Xia Qiu, he still decided to accept Qianqi's proposal.

"Will this method do them any harm?" Xia Qiu asked with concern.

"No, it's like hypnosis, I'll make them accept my ideas, don't worry! I'll go to your house first, and you and Qianqi will go directly to Ouyang Ancient Mansion to find Dong Muya! After Ouyang Xiaoleng finished speaking, he got up and disappeared into the evening breeze.

After arriving at Ouyang's ancient mansion, Xia Qiu and Qianqi told Dong Muya about the changes that had just happened in the demon world. After hearing this, Dong Muya asked them to rest in Ouyang's ancient mansion for the time being, and she started to search for information all night to answer the prophecy mentioned by Yan Ming before.

There are many records and interpretations of the runes, but most of them are unverifiable, and some of them have been denied by his teacher Li Xun and his previous administrators. It is not difficult to find among the thousands of records that match what Yan Ming said is related to water, but finding that "it feels like water, and it should be a place surrounded by water" is like looking for a needle in the bottom of the sea. His guidance is too general, and there are countless such places, but what kind of methods are used to find him in the crowd?

The booklet she had just found was the oldest of all the records, and the entire booklet was written entirely in the language of the Divine Realm, half of which had been cracked by Li Xun, and half of which had still not been answered. The above records are all about the legends about the runes in Yongchuan and the surrounding areas, and the teacher Li Xun once told Dong Muya that this booklet was bought back from Europe at a high price, and at that time he only roughly understood that it was a legend about the runes around Yongchuan, which aroused his great interest. Although he had no idea how the booklet appeared in that place in Europe, he still asked for the permission of the head of the Ouyang family at the time to buy it back.

After years of research, this booklet was indeed a treasure, and he even felt that the person who wrote this atlas might be from the divine realm, because the symbols of the divine realm written by hand in this small booklet were more complex and comprehensive than any ancient book. She spread out the booklet, looked at its contents as she checked the dictionary, and jotted down some useful information, symbols, and the number of pages in the notebook next to her.

The yellow light in the database was cast warmly, and Dong Muya was wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt at this time, with the sleeves rolled up to half of her arms, and her hair was combed behind her ears at will. She had already laid down before Xia Qiu and they arrived, but she couldn't sleep, and she always thought that something would happen tonight, and sure enough, after tossing and turning for a while, the phone rang. The high tension of nerves at this moment made her completely sober, strange to say, for her, in fact, the two things of collecting information and finding information were the most addictive to her, she had never been to the demon world in person, and her teacher Li Xun was too, but they knew more about that place, where everything past, present, and was about to happen than most people in the demon world.

A string of symbols attracted Dong Muya's attention, and when she opened it, she could translate several symbols that were Yongchuan, Hubo, and Earth Symbols, and then continued to look at the annotations below, which answered more than the above line of symbols, Dong Muya translated them one by one, and then connected them and adjusted them slightly, and suddenly felt that these symbols were like two poems.

Song 1:

From noon, leaning on the shore of the green lake, borrowing three inches of daylight to the center of the green water

Pacing lightly, it shimmered

Song 2:

Ten steps to forget the past, and then ten years later, but the heart is sad

Thirty parties know that there is no trace, and forty foresee the afterlife

Fifty, if the Yellow Spring Trail is now, you just need to move forward and don't panic

Everything you want is here, but I am afraid that there is no way back

According to the literal understanding, Dong Muya first determined the meaning of the first poem, noon is the period from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at noon, and noon means the beginning of eleven o'clock; Leaning on the shore of the green lake, the lakeside here should be the lake in the Yongchuan forest; Borrowing the word "borrow" in the three-inch daylight, Dong Muya guessed that it should mean stretching out his hand, and where he could get three inches of daylight after stretching out his hand, he started to walk towards the center of the lake.

Then comes the next song, which is about ten steps to forget the past, twenty steps to start suffocating, thirty steps to the next one will give you the feeling of death, forty steps to give you the illusion of the afterlife, and fifty steps to see the entrance to the Yellow Spring. "The thing sought" refers to the talisman, which should be hidden in the realm of Yellow Springs, although so, but the last sentence is impressively written, and it is unknown whether it can return to the world after obtaining the rune.

Dong Muya then got up in a panic and walked towards a row of shelves, skillfully pulling out a thick book on the shelf, which was a book about the legend of the Yellow Springs Kingdom. When she first began to study with Li Xun, she had read that book, and most of the records on it were undocumented, and the whole book came to an abrupt end when it came to the chapter on going to the Yellow Springs Country, probably because none of the seekers who had embarked on this path of no return could turn back.

Legend has it that someone once went to the Yellow Springs Kingdom to save his dead lover, but because he could not complete the problem of the Lord of Yellow Springs, the Demon King of Yama, his soul was lost forever, and his body became a slave of the Demon King of Yama. This is exactly the same as the meaning described in that poem, no matter what, the country of Yellow Springs is a world where there is no return. It is different from any realm of gods, demons, and humans, nor is it under the jurisdiction of any realm, just like the purgatory of black fire, into which the gods, demons and demons who have sinned deeply are beaten into it, and there will never be a day of release, and those who fall into the realm of Yellow Springs are also those souls who have done all evil in their lives, and they will suffer there and linger in it forever.

Dong Muya looked through the table of contents to see how to escape from the Yellow Springs Country smoothly, although she was sure that none of the books had such a record, she still hoped that she was only blinded by her memory, and there must be some information that she had missed. She read those ancient books over and over again, and was pushed to the brink of disappointment again and again, she knew that if she told Ouyang Xiaoleng, Xia Qiu, and Qianqi about the records of the runes in the poems, they would definitely run to the Yellow Springs Kingdom without hesitation, but what if they never came back? How is she going to explain to Ouyang Hongye? How could she make herself feel at ease? The stimulant-like pleasure she had felt when she looked up the information was completely gone, and she only felt the chill sweeping over her body, her hands and feet were cold, and she slumped in her chair, her hands clutching her knees, not knowing what to do.

For the first time in seventeen years, Qianqi finally set foot on this place called the world, and it happened that today was another golden autumn clear night, and the bright moon was in the sky, which was really beautiful and suffocating. He was originally a person who was full of curiosity about the unknown world, but the first time he came to the human world, he was just in time to complete such an important mission as finding the rune, so he wanted to stay in the courtyard of Ouyang Ancient Mansion for a while no matter what. Breathing the air of the human world also made him a little uncomfortable, because the demon was originally extremely sensitive to all kinds of information in the breath, and the air in the human world contained too complex information, many of which he had never felt. He saw the moon in the world in the painting, and the night sky here is also different from the demon world, the dark blue night sky makes the world seem to be in the deep sea, and it seems to contain infinite mystery, which makes him deeply fascinated.

Xia Qiu was anxiously waiting for Ouyang Xiaoleng's return, he didn't talk about how to hypnotize her grandparents, just nodded to her calmly. Knowing that everything was going well, her tightly clenched heart finally relaxed, and she went to the room to take off the gorgeous clothes she wore for the election meeting and change into her original clothes.

She was arranged to rest in the room opposite Ouyang Xiaoleng, and when she changed her clothes and walked out, she saw him sitting in a chair in the half-hidden door opposite, looking at something. Although she had been to Ouyang Ancient Mansion several times, she had never entered his room, and she was even more curious at the moment, so she walked over and knocked on his door.

Ouyang Xiaoleng looked up and saw that it was her, and responded: "Come in!" ”

This was the first time she walked into Ouyang Xiaoleng's room, which was unexpectedly no different from an ordinary boy's room, and the color of the whole room was black and gray, which was very in line with his character. But needless to say, with Du He, even compared with girls, his clothes are obviously too much, and the exquisite and simple walk-in closet shows Ouyang Hongye's doting on him. Proportional to the huge wardrobe was the bookcase that occupied an entire wall, and because he had little contact with other people and had few friends of the same age, he spent most of his leisure time reading and drawing, and there was already a thick stack of picture books in the corner of the wall next to the bed, and he was holding one of his own picture books in his hand.

"Can I take a look?" Xia Qiu asked tentatively, she had seen his painting before, and she was still very impressed by the Manzhu Sawa he painted at that time.

"Hmm!"

He hesitated for a moment but handed her the sketchbook in his hand, and pointed to the beige single couch beside the bed, and as soon as she was seated, he walked out of the room.

She couldn't wait to open the picture book in her hand, and at a glance she saw that the first picture was Yongchuan Forest, and the scenery there was very familiar to her. Although it is only a casual drawing with colored pencils, it captures the soul of Yongchuan Forest very accurately, and the lake surrounded by green pines and cypresses, the sunlight reflects a little bit of gold, as if there is life; Below is a huge banyan tree, and the boy sitting on the tree seems to be looking at the girl under the tree, and the composition is as beautiful as a fairy tale; The next few pictures are Manzhu Shahua, which shows Ouyang Xiaoleng's love for this kind of words.

Flipping through the pages, suddenly a single piece of drawing paper fell out of the notebook, and she leaned over to pick it up and found that the painting was none other than herself. In the painting, the corners of her mouth are slightly raised, the faint pink on her cheeks reveals the breath of spring, and her eyes are calm and firm. She couldn't help but think about when she had ever shown such an expression. And when did Ouyang Xiaoleng observe her face so carefully?

She felt that she looked better in the painting, and the thought of her in his eyes made her cheeks burn, and her heartbeat echoed throughout the room.