Chapter 9: Mysterious Writings
After several fruitless struggles, the little one finally surrendered and promised not to run around again. Jiang Chen put it on the sofa, and the other party was very dissatisfied with combing his hair with his tongue, and occasionally glancing at Jiang Chen with his eyes, he couldn't laugh or cry.
Looking at the small ball of furry arching around on the sofa, it was really cute, Jiang Chen touched his head, and sure enough, he grinned again.
Helplessly, he had no choice but to let go of his hand: "Divine Beast Senior, I have many questions I want to ask you. ”
"Don't bother meow, lick the hairy meow. ”
"The senior looks really too much like a cat......" looked at the other party not only licking himself in a circle, but also seemed to purr faintly.
"Lao Tzu wasn't like this before, it's not that I haven't seen the sun and eaten for too long!"
Could it be that this cat has been locked up in the Qiankun Ring all along? Jiang Chen felt incredulous and asked tentatively, "Hmm...... Did the seniors stay in that cave for a long time?"
The other party disagreed: "The master is asleep, I want to wait for him to wake up and meow?"
"Master, is that the senior in the box?"
The kitten stood up instantly, and its back arched again, as if they had met for the first time in a cave: "Don't touch my master's meow!"
Jiang Chen suddenly felt that this little beast was also a little pitiful, but he was a little puzzled, could it be that such a civilized creature could not understand death, so he tried to slow down his tone and try to comfort the other party:
"Don't worry, I won't do anything to that senior. Seeing that the little guy seemed to relax slightly, he pondered and said, "It's just...... He probably won't wake up. ”
The other party was not as excited as he imagined, nor was he very sad. The kitten's reaction was completely unexpected, and it showed a mocking expression. A little milk cat sneered at herself, such a strange scene is not for everyone to have a chance to see, only to see the cat look at him with disgust: "Mortals know a fart, meow!"
Jiang Chen's original accumulation of little bit was thrown away at its pitiful mood, and he smiled and leaned back: "Okay, I don't understand, I don't understand......"
I laughed for a while, thought about it and said, "That, senior, I have a question that I don't know whether to talk about or not." ”
"Meow. The little beast began to lick his cat balls without shame or irritation.
"I don't know who that senior in the cave is, and why are you locked up inside?"
As a result, the other party's answer was extremely simple: "Forget about meow." ”
Seeing Jiang Chen's face of disbelief, he said a few more words: "I haven't eaten or drunk for so many years, this immortal is relatively weak now, and I can't remember many things clearly." ”
"Okay......" Originally, he had a little hope in his mind, after all, his background is so bizarre, according to the protagonist's aura, picking up a mythical beast is not a big deal, but he picked up a little white cat who doesn't know three questions, and is so weak that ordinary people can catch it casually, reality is always much more skinny than art......
"That...... I wonder what the seniors plan for the future?"
"What's going to meow?"
"That's it...... Where to go after that, what are the arrangements, etc. ”
Who knew that the guy rolled on the sofa very unceremoniously, and the whole cat lay down, and his paws hooked to the pillow on the sofa, looking like a scoundrel: "Lao Tzu is not going to meow anywhere! You mortal hold my master's ring meow! I want to wait here for the master to wake up and meow!"
Jiang Chen: "......"
Does the ring refer to the Qiankun ring?
The other party waved his paws: "Stupid mortal, give Lao Tzu a yellow croaker meow!
He finally understood, Tianzheng sold himself a second-hand Qiankun ring, which not only contained a dead man, but also gave a feline that had always been extremely temperamental and powerful, claiming to be a divine beast but only idle. It's a pity that he is not a cat slave, and he really can't really bow down to this Bashu divine beast with a combat strength of only five, so he decided to fight for his identity: "That...... It's not convenient to call the seniors like this all the time, so why don't I give the seniors a name?"
I thought that the other party would be very opposed, but I didn't expect this little guy to immediately show great interest: "Count you sensible meow!
Tsk, but also culture...... Jiang Chen thought for a moment: "Lu You once wrote a poem about Xiang Yu, and there is a sentence in it: 'The eight-foot general is a thousand miles away, and it is strange to pull out the mountain and carry the tripod. What do you think of the word eight?"
The little guy obviously didn't understand, but he still had a condescending expression: "Hmph, make do!
"Then I'll call you Xiaoba!" Jiang Chen patted Bachi's head, ignored the other party's objections, threw down this sentence, and went to the refrigerator to find fish for this little ancestor. It's just that he secretly thought in his heart: If this illiterate cat knows the last two lines of this poem, I'm afraid it will up again......
Xiao Ba didn't know that Jiang Chen didn't think of it as an eight-foot general at all, it was just Bashu's minibus. It was lying on the couch beautifully, licking its tail and reminiscing about its new name.
In this way, in a daze, Jiang Chen has one more feline in his life. And the distress is that in the days to come, no matter where he goes, this guy will follow him, whether it is going to the toilet or taking a bath, Xiaoba will stand aside and stare at him for a moment. If he's going out or something, get into his bag or his clothes.
Are there any human rights left...... I don't have any privacy...... Jiang Chen looked up to the sky and sighed.
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There is still about a week to go until the start of school. During this time, he didn't toss around anymore, but stayed at home to carefully study the 30 G's of audio-visual and textual materials left by Xia Mai.
He found that in addition to Chen Qi's personal information, there were also some basic common knowledge about the world of cultivating immortals and cultivating in these materials, and he guessed that Xia Mai should have added it to him. Among them, there is a PDF scanned document "General History of Natural Law", which roughly tells the various historical events on the road of cultivating immortals and cultivating the Tao for thousands of years, Jiang Chen felt that it should be very useful, and downloaded it to his mobile phone, planning to take some time to take a good look.
Originally, he was very worried that he didn't know anything about cultivation, and if he had too big a gap in strength after the start of school, his true identity would be exposed. But after learning about the information, he realized that these immortal cultivators did not practice exercises for their children since they were young, at most they exercised their bodies. According to Feng Jing's book "The History of the Spirit and the Study of the Cause", the human body is like a water bottle, and the so-called "spirit" is like a drop of water falling from the sky.
The information about Chen Qi in this compressed package mainly contains several parts: parents and family, growth process, hobbies, emotional experience, etc. After understanding, Jiang Chen learned that this young man named Chen Qi came from a very decent family of cultivating immortals, and he did not specialize in charms like the Xia Mai family, nor did he focus on exorcism and defilement like the fat Sun Qian at the propaganda meeting. To put it bluntly, it is to strengthen the body, practice some exercises that facilitate life or protect one's life and self-defense, and then prolong life according to the realm, and move infinitely closer to the goal of immortals.
Interestingly, most of the immortal cultivation families will let their children participate in the country's nine-year compulsory education, instead of playing at home to learn spells as he imagined. Until the child is 16 years old, the way of measuring the "spirit" is used to determine whether the child has the talent to continue to walk in cultivating immortals. Although it sounds simple, in fact, there is often only one child in ten out of each family who can continue to cultivate. Similarly, Boyang College also has its own unique way of detecting "spirits", relying on the information they investigated, and sending admission letters to colleges that the school considers to be talented. And these people who receive the notice will not necessarily participate in the study. After all, there are also different concepts among different immortal cultivation families, and some of them must be learned and grown in the cultivation places set up by their own clansmen.
Looking at these very fanciful materials to him with relish, gradually, Jiang Chen felt that he had all kinds of misunderstandings and assumptions about cultivating immortals.
And this Chen Qi is also like this. Judging from the information Jiang Chen obtained, in the past nine years, he has been studying in the primary school and middle school attached to Haihai University, and his grades are very ordinary. Chen Qi's height and body type are very similar to Jiang Chen, but there are certain differences in personality. Jiang Chen is a very stuffy type, and he can't type a word with ten sticks. Chen Qi is relatively lively and outgoing, and this extroversion is especially reflected in the way he treats the opposite sex, and there are all kinds of examples that can be called "great achievements" since he was a child:
Since kindergarten, I lifted the skirt of the female teacher and was asked to the parents, and when I was 14 years old, I once went home to let his father hang up and beat because of the crazy pursuit of a little girl in the class. But this kid didn't change his life, and he kept pestering other little girls until he graduated......
Seeing this, Jiang Chen touched his chin: Do you even need to imitate his character...... It seems a little difficult.
And this Chen Qi has never shown much talent in cultivation. In the past few years, he has also been participating in the family's body refining cultivation, but the effect is not satisfactory, in the Chen family, if his physical fitness is the second-to-last, no one dares to say that he is the first-to-last. Originally, the family didn't have much hope for him, but at the age of 16, when he participated in the test, the value of "spirit" suddenly skyrocketed, so overnight, he suddenly became the family's key training object. It was a month before receiving the admission letter, and Chen Qi officially entered retreat, and very few people knew about it.
I have to say that although according to the information, this Chen Qi himself is not a very good immortal cultivator, but as the object that Jiang Chen needs to imitate, it is really seamless—except for the love history.
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There is only one week, and there are too many things to memorize, even if Jiang Chen's memory is acceptable, it is impossible to memorize it completely. But this is indeed a life-threatening matter, so for the last period of time, he sat in front of the computer almost every day and read everything about Chen Qi over and over again, only feeling calluses on his buttocks. Except for preparing three meals a day for the howling Hachi, all the rest of the time is full of words. When he recited that Chen Qi had a few moles on his body, and he liked sweet and spicy food, he even felt that if he liked a girl, he probably wouldn't be able to do this, the power to survive was really great.
The day before the start of school, Jiang Chen finally had confidence: his understanding of Chen Qi should be second only to himself.
With bloodshot eyes open, the whole person fell on the bed. He did his best, and then he could only resign himself to fate, and now what he needs most is to rest well and sleep well. Xia Mai had already sent Chen Qi's admission notice and other documents to him, which made him lie down in a big word, holding a booklet in his hand to read the registration instructions.
2018 New Student Registration Instructions - Boyang University Branch Haicheng No. 13 Senior High School
This document contains the reporting time, required documents, orientation arrangements and even parents' accommodation, etc., and attaches a list of daily necessities, school maps, recharge, medical channels, etc., which are very detailed.
It has to be mentioned that although the name of Thirteen Middle School sounds like a public school, it is actually private, and Thirteen has nothing to do with the number of middle schools in Haicheng, but corresponds to the number of branches of Boyang College. As a private school, the tuition standard of the 13th Middle School for ordinary students is very high, but for Xiuzhen students, all tuition and accommodation fees are exempted, and the difference in treatment is high.
Since he also had experience in lodging in the past and had been living alone for a long time, Jiang Chen was very handy at preparing the common items on his own list. And because of the help of the space magic weapon, there is no need to go to school with a complicated and heavy package, which makes him feel extremely relaxed, and it is really a life change for immortals.
What's special is that there is a column called "optional" in the self-brought list that reads:
Bring Your Own Checklist - Optional List:
A Taoist couple (you can apply to the school for an independent dormitory, please contact 186032XXX66 Teacher Zhang for details)
Small and medium-sized contract monsters (need to register with the school)
No more than two non-human minions
There is no more than one Guardian Spirit of the Kinship Class
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Suspicious...... Everything looks very suspicious...... Is it true that high school students have Taoist couples at such a young age? Could it be that people who cultivate immortals will also get some child daughters-in-law and the like? Thinking about it, Jiang Chen patted the eight feet who were sleeping in a ball on the bed: "Little eight, I will start school tomorrow." ”
"Meow ......" replied vaguely.
"I can't take you to school!" the cat finally reluctantly opened its eyes.
"Why meow?"
Jiang Chen took out the school enrollment list and showed it to him: "Look, the school only allows contract demon beasts. ”
"Take it! I can't understand meow! And Lao Tzu is a divine beast!" snorted and rolled over.
"Hmm...... It reads. If you want to go to school with me, you have to sign a contract with me!" Jiang Chen continued to induce.
Who knew that the little guy was not fooled: "Hmph~ You are also worthy of meow!" gave him a blank look: "You don't need to sign, you just declare that I am your contract beast!"
All right...... Originally, I wanted to trick this guy into signing a contract with him, so that he could do whatever he wanted in the future, who knew that Xiaoba was a little smarter than he thought...... Jiang Chen, who was lying on the bed, was too sleepy, hugged Xiaoba and ignored the other party's struggle, buried his face in the fluffy ball of meat, sucked two mouthfuls, and suddenly felt that the whole world was healed.
Hey, I, Jiang Chen, also have a cat!
I looked at Hachi again...... Well, barely a cat, it's okay, satisfied!
Holding Xiaoba in his arms, Jiang Chen opened the chat software again - it's like this every day, obviously I'm sleepy, but I still have to open the group to take a look and say a few words before I feel that I can sleep with peace of mind, this may be the legendary mobile phone dependence?
The people in the "Human Events" group are still chatting enthusiastically.
Jiang Chen noticed that today's group leader was very rare @ all members, so he flipped up, only to see that it was the bookkeeper who sent a picture:
Book Keeper: Today, when I was investigating a case of extermination in China, I found an incomprehensible clue.
Prince Arthurgard: ...... Which one is domestic?
Book Keeper: In a small town in Luzhou City, it happened three years ago.
Shen Xiaoshao: Is it so exciting?
Prince Arthurgard: I seem to have some impressions, is it a family of nine......
Book Keeper: Yes.
Azone: I've read the news reports at the time, isn't it true that the murderer has been caught?
Book Keeper: Yes, the case has been closed, but when I was researching the information, I found new clues.
Prince Arthurgard: This case is quite penetrating, tell me about it?
Book Keeper: Still taking advantage of my position, I found some photos of the crime scene at that time.
Red Devil: What the hell do you do...... How often do you use public resources to meet your personal needs?
Bookkeeper: Hahaha this is my secret.
Book Keeper: In short, there was actually a string of text on the wall at the scene of the crime, which was ignored by the police as invalid information.
Shen Xiaoshao: On the wall, could it be a blood book?
Book Keeper: I don't know, I only got the photos, I didn't have the appraisal report. If you look at the enlarged image of this text.
Jiang Chen clicked on the photo, but found that there were only four big characters, and the glyphs were extremely complex, not like Chinese characters or letters, but more like totems.
Bookkeeper: It has been found that this is not any of the scripts commonly used in the advanced world, or that exist in historical records.
Shen Xiaoshao: Maybe it's just a blind drawing?
Prince Arthurgard: Unlikely, it seems to have some symbolic meaning, if not words, but some kind of pictotact.
The more Jiang Chen looked at it, the more he felt that he had seen these words somewhere, and it was just the last few days......
Book Keeper: I have a friend who specializes in ancient writing, and I showed it to him, and he confirmed that it should be a textual information carrier, but there are too few words to guess the meaning. So I want to ask you people in China, have you ever seen this kind of writing, or can you have some relevant opinions?
Azone: See you for the first time
Jiang Chen: I think I've seen ......
Red Devil: You haven't been there for days!
Jiang Chen: It's hard to put into words, I've been a bit busy lately.
Book Keeper: Really?
Jiang Chen looked at the Qiankun ring of his fingers. Yes, he suddenly remembered that these large characters written on the wall were very similar to the tiny symbols carved on his Qiankun ring. Because he was also very interested in the history of this Qiankun ring, he simply put a microfocus lens on his mobile phone and took a picture of some of the details on the Qiankun ring and sent it to the group.
Jiang Chen: Look, this is a carving I have seen on an object, and it is very similar to what you posted.
Book Keeper: !
Bookkeeper: It's very similar!
Book Keeper: Thank you very much, would you mind if I sent this picture of yours to my friend for analysis?
Shen Xiaoshao: I didn't expect Xiao Jiang to be a female classmate with a story...
Jiang Chen: Uh...... I'm a male classmate.
Jiang Chen: I don't mind, if I can, I would also like to know what this text means, can Ashou let me know if there is a result?
Book Keeper: Of course, I'll let you know as soon as I have any news!
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It's really an unexpected receipt, I didn't expect that there would be a text similar to the Qiankun ring in the distant Lu Zhou, but this guy called the book keeper is also very mysterious, what kind of work can I do to get so much information in the criminal investigation system......
Tomorrow is the official start of school, I hope you are safe...... Jiang Chen was nervous and excited, buried his face in Xiao Ba's belly, and thought about falling asleep......