Chapter 198: Spring Sacrifice
The answer is a very insightful person, and his analysis gives Zhou Daoan a very valuable reference.
To a certain extent, the answer has a clearer plan for improving its own strength on the "Ark", neither rushing to the fire and blindly pursuing the speed of improvement, nor will it be excellent and passively face every task.
At this point, Zhou Daoan is not as good as the answer. After all, Zhou Daoan's previous three missions, each of which can be regarded as "tense and exciting, extremely dangerous", and the breathless rhythm is contrary to his nature.
So, he said goodbye to the answer, returned to his cabin with the bracelet he had gained, and after arranging all his valuable items together, Zhou Daoan began to ponder-
"In a sense, the ark is also a kind of real space, right? Can I just carve out this storage space in the Ark, in my cabin? After all, in the real world, even in my own bedroom, it's not completely safe. And on the ark ...... I don't think there's anything wrong with its security! ”
Zhou Daoan now trusts the Ark a little blindly, and he still doesn't know that his cabin has been watched by a certain treasure hunting mouse, which shows that although the Ark is mysterious and high-dimensional, it is also very "human".
Just do it, after Zhou Daoan was busy for a while, he immediately took out the wormhole bracelet and put it on his left wrist, and then activated the item special effect......
"The wormhole bracelet is activated for the first time, is it bound to the space in front of you?"
After a few seconds, a consciousness signal was sent out in the bracelet, giving Zhou Daoan feedback. And the space in front of him is under the bed in Zhou Daoan's "bedroom" in his cabin!
To explain, just before Zhou Daoan activated the bracelet, it had taken more than ten minutes to start "shopping in the mall". He had asked for the answer—most of the layout in the cabin had been purchased from the Ark's trading platform, like the coffee table full of modern technology, which was the result of a hundred hard work.
Don't forget, since there are ordinary goods such as clothes for sale in the Ark Mall, the existence of furniture is not unusual. What's more, the ark took the initiative to "upgrade" the ferrymen, and the potential line was to encourage the ferrymen to open up a comfortable space on the ark.
So, Zhou Daoan spent eighty-eight points of hard work (just a fraction of his remaining money) to buy a bed with a safe! This kind of bed is Chinese-style, flat and stable and surrounded by curtains, and the most important thing is that there is a dark compartment under the bed, about one cubic meter, which is "secret" with a very old mechanism. Don't underestimate this ancient mechanism, it contains the wisdom of the craftsman, unless the whole bed is destroyed, the owner must use the key to open the mechanism.
Judging by the structure and tonnage of this large bed, it is very, very laborious to destroy it!
Zhou Daoan's idea was that the ark itself was extremely protective, and no one could break into his cabin, and with the insurance of such a heavy mechanism, it could be said to be foolproof!
He used the bracelet to bind the dark compartment space under the bed, and put the bait hat, the unidentified scalpel, and the sage robe, which are usually inefficient items in it, and then immediately experimented with it, and found that it was really possible to retrieve objects directly from the bracelet with consciousness, and decisively put the keys of the dark compartment into the storage space.
In this way, only he can open the storage space through the bracelet, and the possibility of others stealing the key is eliminated.
Looking at the account balance, Zhou Daoan once again found that his money could not be spent. Due to the appearance of the newly grown inheritance item, Zhou Daoan became extremely interested in the unidentified scalpel!
He could guess that this inheritance item belonging to the "Ripper" (one of them) was about the same level as the blood-drinking dagger. Judging by the appraisal fee of the Pirate King's gold coins, it takes at least 800 points of hard work to identify N-level inheritance items.
I'm still half the hard work! Selling something? The few items on hand are quite useful, or rather, they work well in some way, which really makes Zhou Daoan difficult to choose.
"I should have just opened my mouth to borrow a little from the answer...... However, they are all ferrymen of the same level, and they are not high-level bosses, so they are really a little embarrassed to borrow four hundred hard work...... "Zhou Daoan is still very conscientious.
Since he decided that the next step is to unlock the scalpel first, Zhou Daoan doesn't plan to spend money first, keep this bottom, hold back his regrets, and Zhou Daoan left the ark. This time the extra time delay is a bit much, and I don't know if the little girl in the water chestnut can keep this 1 hour......
After a brief period of weightlessness, Zhou Daoan finally returned to the real world.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Zhou Daoan immediately checked his surroundings and found that he was still in the bedroom, and everything was as usual in the room, and the sound of water chestnuts humming a little song came from outside the room.
Zhou Daoan breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately coughed twice, signaling that he had "returned". Sure enough, the water chestnut immediately pushed open the door of the inner room, watched Zhou Daoan get up from the bed, looked at the young master curiously for a while, and made sure that he was fine, before he said with a smile-
"Brother An, I said I'll do it! You can rest assured in the future! Water chestnut will definitely give you that...... Good wind! ”
Listening to the little girl's crisp and lovely voice, Zhou Daoan also completely recovered from the previous chase and escape, and praised the little girl with a smile, making the other party smile.
The spring is cold, and it is nightfall, so Zhou Daoan also "homeopathically" washes and sleeps. Before going to bed, he suddenly remembered a poem - "Peace of mind here is my hometown".
In the next few days, the days were uneventful, and on the 20th of the first month, the public school was about to open. It was very cold that day, but it was not humid, and Zhou Daoan still took Huang Li'er back to the public school to prepare for the resumption of classes.
As soon as I returned to the dormitory, I met Zhou Daoqi, this guy looked at Zhou Daoan, looked left and right for a while, and saw that Zhou Daoan was a little uncomfortable, and then said mysteriously:
"You've been summoned by the immortals to do a mission again, right?"
How do you know? Zhou Daoan had a question on his face. I only heard Zhou Daoqi say very smugly: "Temperament! Fourth, since you have had an adventure, your temperament has changed very quickly! This time, I feel like you're 'powerful' again, although I can't see where it's powerful, but that's how it feels. ”
"Hey, when are you going to let me do the mission too?"
Zhou Daoan hurriedly said two perfunctory sentences, but his mind noticed Zhou Daoqi's first few words. This reminded him that during the last mission, he had discovered that no matter how much time the Ark spent in the mission world, his essence would grow with the passage of time. In other words, although he has just turned seventeen, he is actually more than four months old at the age of seventeen.
There will be some changes in the face, one is the temperament. With the rapid improvement of his strength, he was far from being like other cultivators in this world, whose strength was slowly increasing, so he would always reveal flaws under a keen or deliberate eye.
Zhou Daoan immediately wondered if he should go back and take out the sage's robe immediately, anyway, now that the weather is cold, it won't look weird to wear clothes inside. Or, simply ask Huang Lier to change the style of her clothes...... Anyway, he had sharpened the edges of the Pirate King Gold Coins, and it didn't affect the effect.
Thinking in his heart, Zhou Daoqi spoke again-
"By the way, in 1 month, the spring festival will begin, and the uncle will let you go back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty early - this time it is the big sacrifice, and the family will make it very grand, and you must not be absent...... You get the idea! ”
The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in the Han region of this world, and in the spring season, it is also the only public festival held in the year, similar to the Qingming Festival in China on the earth. But unlike Qingming, this festival lasts for half a month before and after, and a grand ceremony must be held every 5 years to pay tribute to the ancestors and heroic spirits......
This year coincides with the 5th anniversary of the event, and the Zhou family, as a family, will attach great importance to this festival. Of course, I won't go into the reasons for this for the time being...... In short, the entire Han Domain will be shrouded in the atmosphere of the Spring Festival at that time.
Although this is a tradition in the Han region for thousands of years, it has also evolved over thousands of years and has become diverse.
For example, although the rituals have a major theme, that is, to sacrifice to the ancestors, it is generally in the form of a "debriefing report" to the ancestors to report the achievements of the past five years, self-recognition and review, and revision of the family tree, which is an eternal theme.
But in addition, the half-month spring festival will add other content, which is mainly a lively event. For example, "on the lantern", similar to the Lantern Festival, because there is no 15th Lantern Festival here, but in the spring festival to add a lantern festival, guessing lantern riddles...... Another example is "appreciating music", which is to hold a national opera concert; "Receiving wealth", similar to receiving the God of the Stove and welcoming the God of Wealth; "Pray for blessings", release paper boats in the Longjiang River, and put some fish food on the paper boats, which is equivalent to giving back to nature...... This is still a custom in the south of the Han Domain, and there is another set in the north.
In short, the Spring Festival, which is held once every 5 years, is the most lively time of the year, surpassing the Spring Festival of that year.
Shouldn't sacrifice be serious, you may ask? Why are there so many joyous activities in the future?
The people of the Han Domain will tell you that it is precisely because they have to pay tribute to their ancestors that they will have a happy future in the future, so that the ancestors and martyrs (generally referring to those who die in the sea and land wars once every 120 years) will know that their efforts in the past have not been in vain, and the people are doing well now!
Zhou Daoan has already learned these basic knowledge, but he hasn't experienced it after all, so he won't take the initiative to think about it. was reminded by Zhou Daoqi like this, and he suddenly agreed quickly.
In the next few days, Zhou Daoan felt the warm atmosphere of this year's sacrifice from other students.
Because of the Spring Festival, in fact, this time the public school has resumed classes, and many students' minds have not calmed down - just like if you have just finished the summer vacation, and it will be the National Day holiday in 1 month, few people can quickly adjust their mentality and face the ...... of their studies