Volume II, Chapter 204
Luo Qingyun saw that Chen Fan didn't get mad all the way, looked at the door of the tailor shop, and breathed a deep sigh of relief.
Chen Fan leaned over and asked, "What are you doing with your comfort?"
"No, nothing!" Seeing that Chen Fan didn't seem to be very happy, Luo Qingyun didn't say anything in order to avoid another winter long-distance run, and immediately changed the topic, he pointed to the door of the tailor shop at the end of the street and said, "Look, we have arrived, and it is the tailor shop." ”
Chen Fan looked in the direction of Luo Qingyun's finger, and saw that the shop in front of him was very dilapidated, and the signboard with "Oracle Painting" had faded, leaving only the watermark of these four words, and this one-story wooden hut looked like an abandoned building that had been baptized by war and had fallen into disrepair for a long time, ordinary people should think it was a haunted house!
Chen Fan glanced at the storefront and said, "Such an old store?"
"It does look relatively old, I thought it was a dangerous building at first glance!" Luo Qingyun said: "If it weren't for the many questioning, I definitely wouldn't know that this is a place to buy clothes, but it's normal, it doesn't make money to buy clothes in Maya City, and her clothes are so cheap, it seems that she can be regarded as an isolated master." ”
"I don't know if you're complimenting or being sarcastic. Chen Fan said and took the lead and walked in.
"It's the same no matter what!" Luo Qingyun said, and walked in as well.
When the two of them came to the store, the atmosphere and furnishings here were not unusual, there were all kinds of clothes hanging on the walls, and there were no special furnishings in the room, just a counter in the middle, and a wooden door leading to the inner hall behind the counter.
"Old woman!" Luo Qingyun saw that there was no one in the store, so he called out very politely.
"Are you here?" The door to the back hall suddenly opened, and an old woman walked out. She still had a smile on her face as she did yesterday.
"Mother-in-law, I'm here again, this dress really fits, it's like it's tailor-made. Although what Luo Qingyun said was a bit flattering, it was indeed true.
"Huh. It's good to like it, it's good to like it. The old woman smiled, looked at Chen Fan behind Luo Qingyun and said, "This is your boyfriend?
Chen Fan saluted the old woman and said, "Hello mother-in-law, my name is Chen Fan. ”
The old woman smiled and said to Chen Fan: "What a polite young man, I see that you are not here to buy clothes, right?"
"Yes!" Chen Fan nodded and said, "May I ask if you are really an oracle painter?"
"That's right!" the old woman smiled, looked at Luo Qingyun and said, "But this little girl doesn't seem to believe me." ”
"Hey, don't put me on the table! I'll bite. ”
Chen Fan continued to ask, "Then Oracle painter, I want to divinate one thing from you. Is that okay?"
"I'm not just divining for others!"
Hearing this, Luo Qingyun immediately cast a contemptuous look and said, "You can make a price for as much as you want, don't swallow it." ”
Luo Qingyun complained in his heart: Really, why would Chen Fan believe in such a magic stick? But then again, what does Chen Fan have to ask for help from this magic stick?
Hearing Luo Qingyun's disdainful words, the old woman didn't get angry, but just smiled and said, "Hehe, young man." I'm not the kind of person who is greedy for money. ”
When Luo Qingyun was about to say something, Chen Fan interjected: "Luo Qingyun." Do you have a weapon in your hand?"
"Sharp weapon?" Luo Qingyun said helplessly: "Where do I have a weapon, disillusionment is still in the room!"
"No, no, young man, come in with me, I have all the utensils in my room. The old woman said, and led Chen Fan into the door behind the counter. Of course, Luo Qingyun also walked in, but the old woman did not allow Luo Qingyun to enter, so she closed the wooden door.
"Really, how did you make it mysterious?" Although Luo Qingyun sat obediently outside the door, he was also quite angry about this kind of treatment. So he muttered to himself: "If you don't steal in the crack of the door, won't this become a voyeur?" But that old woman is ......" So, Luo Qingyun could only sit outside the door and wait.
Chen Fan followed the old woman into the room, only to see that this room is not big, the simplicity is similar to that of the shop, but there are some blackboard white chalk drawings hanging around the room, and they look like some sketches, but the content of the paintings is different, some are portraits, some are landscape paintings, some are animal sketches and so on A dazzling variety of sketches are scattered around.
In the center of the room, there is a square low table with a glass of water, a short sword, a white chalk, a blackboard, and two cushions on either side of the table.
The old woman sat on one of the cushions, and at the same time asked Chen Fan to sit on the cushion opposite, and of course Chen Fan respectfully sat down.
The two faced each other, and Chen Fan said: "Oracle painter, I've just heard of it, but I didn't expect to really meet it." ”
"Hehe!" the old woman smiled and said, "I'm also a mortal wandering in the Zhongzhou Continent, and for me who often changes places of life, if I don't have a chance, it's really not easy to find." ”
Chen Fan asked tentatively, "I heard that your divination is 100% accurate, is this true?"
The old woman still smiled and replied, "I don't dare to do it 100 percent, to be honest, in fact, my job is not what you call divination, I just translate God's will to people who are destined to know." ”
"Don't pretend to be a god in front of me, there is no god in the world, right?" Chen Fan's words were very sharp.
"Hehe, the boy is an atheist, and if you don't believe in God, it's nothing. In the face of Chen Fan's harsh words, the old woman still said unhurriedly, which shows that the old woman has experienced a lot of this kind of thing, and if she meets it, she is used to it.
Chen Fan also knew that it was a bit wrong to talk to others like this, so he said: "No matter what, since you say that there is a god in the world, I will believe in your god, I want to ask you to do a favor......"
"Wait a minute," the old woman intercepted Chen Fan's words and said, "I believe you also know the rules for finding an oracle painter, right? She handed the knife and the glass of water to Chen Fan and said, "Do you know how to do it?"
"I've heard of it before!" Chen Fan said. Pick up the dagger and cut a scar on his hand, and then drip the blood from the scar into the glass of water, when the glass of water receives the blood, the color of the water gradually changes from transparent to crimson, but this is all common sense. Dissolving blood in water will of course turn it red.
This crimson didn't last long, and when Chen Fan's blood continued to drip in, the crimson color actually slowly faded, and gradually, gradually, in the end, it actually turned back to its original transparency. Then, no matter how much Chen Fan dripped blood into the water, the color of the water in the water cup never changed.
Half an hour later.
"Enough. Okay, you don't have to keep dripping blood. The old woman said, put back the water cup and the short sword, then carefully looked at the changes in the glass of water, looked at it for a while, and said to Chen Fan with a regretful expression, "It's a pity, young man." You're not destined, I can't paint with you. I'm so sorry......"
At this moment, the glass of water in the old man's hand suddenly bubbled, at first it was just one or two small bubbles, and then the bubbles became bigger and bigger, and more and more, and finally. It was like boiling water, not only bubbling violently, but also emitting a large amount of water vapor, and that glass of water was completely steamed in an instant, and the water vapor disappeared into the void.
The old woman and Chen Fan were both stunned as they watched the change in the water. I didn't know what to say for a while.
Everyone was silent for a while, and the old woman suddenly "ahaha...... Haha......ha
"It's you!" the old woman smiled and said to Chen Fan: "My mission in Maia is to paint for you, but I didn't expect you to come so soon, hehe, but that's good, come on, let's paint, tell me, what do you want to know? ”
Seeing the change in the old man's expression, Chen Fan was also very surprised, but since the other party said that he could paint for himself, he was not polite to her, so he boldly said what he wanted to know: "I want to know where my sister is, her name is Chen Rui, because she is a twin, she looks very similar to me, can you help me find her?"
"Are you really sure you want to ask this?" warned the old woman again, "I think it's better for you to think clearly, think with your heart what you want to know, and then tell me, because you only have one chance to ask questions." ”
"That's why I'm looking for you everywhere. Chen Fan said very resolutely: "Please tell me where my sister is." ”
Seeing Chen Fan's resolute expression, the old woman smiled slightly and said, "Okay, since this is what you want to know, I'll tell you." ”
The old man spoke, biting his finger open, and then smeared the white chalk with blood, and the white chalk immediately turned blood red when it touched the old man's blood, and then the old man held the blood-red chalk, and recited some incomprehensible incantations in his mouth.
Then the old woman raised her head, closed her eyes, and scribbled with the red chalk on the blackboard on the low table.
Although she closed her eyes, she seemed to see something in front of her, and her hand kept moving back and forth on the blackboard, although the chalk was crimson, but the drawing was indeed white, and the crimson on the chalk gradually faded as she drew it.
A minute passed, and the movements of her hands did not stop, but became faster and faster, this kind of drawing speed is much more skilled than those professional painters, her hands are like a high-performance printer, as time goes by, a sketch is gradually presented on the blackboard, when the crimson completely retreats on the white chalk, the painting is also truly completed.
Seeing that the old woman's movements were listened to, Chen Fan opened his mouth and asked, "Have you finished drawing?"
Hearing Chen Fan's question, the old woman seemed to wake up from her sleep, she suddenly opened her eyes, put down the white chalk, looked at the chalk painting in front of her, then smiled, handed the painting to Chen Fan, and said to Chen Fan at the same time: "The painting you want has been painted." ”
In the library north of the city of Maya, the three of them were wrestling with a large pile of books, coming here from about ten o'clock in the morning until now at two o'clock in the afternoon. It's been more than four hours.
"Ah......h ”
"It's only been four hours now, does Lisa have a headache so soon?" Yue Wuya said in surprise, "And Lisa has only read two books in the past four hours, and the second one hasn't finished yet." Compared to people who have read more than 70 books, it should be quite comfortable. ”
"Yes, yes?" Lisa smiled wryly, "I didn't like reading since I was a child, how can I compare to you?"
"Is that so?" Yue Wuya frowned, looked at the "History of Ancient Excavations" in his hand, and said, "I think these books are quite interesting, and there are many books here that I haven't read before, which is an eye-opener." ”
"Really, Yue Wuya is really studious. Lisa nodded and praised, "Did you find any information about the song?"
Yue Wuya shook his head regretfully and said, "Not yet, there is nothing we want in these books." ”
Lisa said in disappointment, "Is that hopeless?"
"You can't say that!" Yue Wuya pointed to the mountain of books behind him and said, "We still have these books that we haven't read, just keep working hard." I should find some clues?"
Lisa smiled bitterly, "I seem to see Yue Wuya's eyes burning. With that, she stood up and said, "I'll go outside and sit down here, I'll be overwhelmed." ”
"Okay, no problem. Yue Wuyan watched Lisa walk out of the door, and then continued to look at it.
Luo Qingyun sat bored on the chair, looking at the pedestrians at the door in a daze. It has now been more than five minutes, but Chen Fan still hasn't come out of it. Therefore, Luo Qingyun was a little worried.
Why did it take so long? It took more than five minutes to just draw such a sketch? Impossible, didn't she come out in a minute yesterday? Could it really be that something really happened to Chen Fan?
No, it shouldn't be, Chen Fan is a super martial artist, how could an old woman who can't help but be weak can harm Chen Fan? But you can't say that. Anything can be born in this world, although according to common sense, Chen Fan only needs to say what she needs, and then the old woman will help her draw what she wants to know.
Well...... Could it be that the old woman may be the remnants of the underworld, and she has learned that the church has been overthrown by us. So you want to take revenge on us, and now lure Chen Fan into this room, just to get Chen Fan done first?
No, Chen Fan is a super martial artist, how could he lose to an old woman?
Well...... Could it be that the old woman used the drug to make Chen Fan unconscious first and then attacked? Damn, what a despicable method, that old woman really can't be trusted! No, Chen Fan is also a very smart person, and besides, she can also distinguish the general poisonous smell, if he uses drugs in many ways, he will definitely not be fooled.
"Ahh
Luo Qingyun shouted, and suddenly, in the afterglow, he found a very old book in the drawer of the counter, the dark blue cover of the book was broken, the text of the title was unrecognizable because it was hidden in the darkness of the drawer, and the pages were already yellow, I believe it has a long history.
What kind of book would be in the drawer? Could it be an account book? Alas...... Forget it, it's always bad to peek at other people's stuff.
The more you are not allowed to know, the more you want to know, young people have such a bad habit, of course, Luo Qingyun is no exception.
Anyway, I'm waiting here.,Although it doesn't seem like a good thing to look at other people's things.,But if you put it back in its place after reading it.,I don't think it's going to be revealed.。
Luo Qingyun thought like this, and with a hint of curiosity, Luo Qingyun reached into the drawer and took out the book.
I saw that although the book had a title, those words were some strange and exotic characters, so Luo Qingyun didn't know what was written on it.
Luo Qingyun looked at the cover and said to himself: "What kind of book is this, although I don't know many words, but these words are definitely not our modern Chinese, using these words to write books, do you want to show off how high your knowledge is?" ”
Luo Qingyun complained, while turning the pages of the book, now the text on the book is all composed of some incomprehensible words, not only that, there is very little interval between horizontal and horizontal, and the font is not large, what's more, this book actually has no sections, no punctuation marks or anything, if you take this extreme, it's strange not to be dizzy.
Luo Qingyun was depressed in his heart, the only book that could be used for recreation was something that he couldn't see, and these strange symbols were so dense that they were like mold, and he felt a headache when he opened it, and he would be dazzled when he read the previous line, and he would fall asleep if he read a page.
"Is there really anyone who will read this kind of writing?" Luo Qingyun muttered to himself while flipping through the pages of the book: "Could it be that the old woman has been suffering from insomnia recently, so she deliberately found this Dongdong to hypnotize herself?" Or is this book actually used to test her eyesight, and the old woman suspected that she had presbyopia, so she deliberately did this to test her eyes......
Luo Qingyun, who was really bored, was thinking about it now, and kept thinking about some unnutritious things in his mind to relieve his boredom.
Suddenly, Luo Qingyun turned to one of the pages of the book, and now there was an illustration on this page, with the determination of "the text is not understood, the illustration is always fine", Luo Qingyun immediately carefully studied the illustrations in the book.
"This, this is ......" Luo Qingyun suddenly let out an exclamation: "This place, what's the ...... How can it be so similar?" (To be continued......)