Chapter 8: The Changing of the Stars
Yan Jing had never been keen to enjoy the cheers and adoration of others.
This feeling can be ethereal at first, and it will soon come with a burden called responsibility.
However, reality is never subject to the will of the individual.
The identity of the Divine Descent meant that Yan Jing had been forced to take responsibility from the moment he appeared on the Dragon Boat of the Sky Survey.
Outside the window, there were still nearly a hundred people standing on the street, who gathered in the lights, staring at the small building dedicated to drawing star maps, and did not make too much noise, but followed silently.
For them, as Fu Shudao said, Yan Jing is the bright future of the Sky Survey Dragon Boat.
Just as a drowning person will desperately grasp the straw that saves his life, the cruel reality of torturing these people makes them yearn for the divine messenger who represents hope, that is, the "Venerable Yan" in Fu Shudao's mouth.
"Can't you really let them go back?"
Yan Jing turned around and looked at Zhao Henian next to him.
As the distance narrowed, the fatigue of the middle-aged man in front of him became more and more obvious, his upper body was always in a slightly hunched state, and his shoulders were drooping, as if a boulder was pressing on him every moment.
Unlike Shen Qiong and Fu Shudao, who only had to be in charge of their own part of the task, Zheng Henian undoubtedly had to face the boat people every day, and was undoubtedly under extremely heavy pressure, so after seeing Yan Jing, his state seemed to be more excited than the other two.
"I'll send someone to communicate, and they'll just get the news about you all of a sudden, and they'll be too excited for a while."
Zhao Henian wanted to bow down and reply, but was stopped by Yan Jing.
"Don't be too formal, communicate normally."
For this manager who has carried heavy pressure to this day, just looking at his current state, even if he has only seen him for a long time, Yan Jing is still quite respectful, and took out a bottle of juice made in advance from the ember space and handed it over,
"I did it myself, maybe it will put you at ease."
"Thank you, Your Holiness."
Taking the juice with both hands and taking only one sip, Zhao Henian's eyes widened.
For the Sky Survey, which was short of supplies, it was a luxury to be able to drink as much water as you wanted, let alone this kind of iced juice made from spirit fruits.
The fruity aroma overflowed, and soon attracted the attention of several people around him, who cast envious glances one after another.
Yan Jing is not stingy, there are many such juices in his space, and there are pure spirit gloves, and it is not too simple to make.
"This is for you, how about a taste?"
A bottle of the best quality juice was handed to the girl standing at the edge of the corridor, her head hanging all the time.
She should be called Ah Wan.
It all started when it descended on the Sky Survey.
He hadn't seen this psychic girl who was regarded by Fu Shudao as the only successor and also a psychic magic circle spoke.
"Thank you, Your Holiness!"
With a hoarse and light voice, Ah Wan raised her head and thanked her.
Through the light in the corridor, Yan Jing finally saw her appearance clearly.
There's nothing special about it.,At first glance, it's just an ordinary girl-next-door appearance.,With braids.。
If I have to say it, this girl's eyes are exceptionally round, and her pupils are also peculiar purple-red, but they seem to be covered with a layer of gray inside, and she looks a little strange.
As if sensing Yan Jing's gaze, Ah Wan looked timid.
Yan Jing wanted to ask her about her abilities as a psychic medium, but in the interval between him distributing the juice, Fu Shudao had already opened the door of the Star Atlas Room.
Yan Jing's attention was immediately drawn to the past.
"Except for the star maps that have been missing in recent years due to the observatories being occupied by Chaos Monsters, the star maps drawn before and the photos taken at the observatory are all backed up here."
Fu Shudao pushed open the door and pressed the switch on the wall, and the chandelier in the house suddenly lit up.
Yan Jing nodded in understanding, and stepped straight over the threshold, his gaze already wandering around the room.
Since Nanke's requirement is to observe once a month, even if it has been stagnant due to accidents in recent years, the accumulation of the previous decades still fills the two rows of bookshelves placed on the side of the wall in this room of about 50 square meters.
Leaning towards the door were three patchwork tables with astrospheres, mapping tools, and a large number of blank rolls of paper.
Even though they haven't been useful for years, they're still neatly arranged.
It looks like someone comes over every once in a while to clean it.
"Can I take a look?"
Yan Jing walked quickly to the bookshelf facing the gate, casually took off the scroll marked "12 years at the end of the disaster, July 17", and turned his head to look at Fu Shudao at the door and asked.
"Of course, these backups are for you, for the gods of Li Huo."
hurriedly stepped forward to tidy up the table, and several people outside the door also came in one after another.
Yan Jing untied the string tied to the middle of the scroll and spread it out on the table, only to find that in addition to the large star map drawn by the scroll itself, there were also several photos of the stars at that time.
Different from the dark night sky that Yan Jing saw on the deck just now, the starry sky recorded in the photo is as Fu Shudao said, full of bright stars, and probably because the shooting location is at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the sea of stars seems to be within reach.
Yan Jing pulled out his chair, flipped through a few photos, and turned his gaze to the hand-drawn star map.
Compared to photographs, the star map is obviously more detailed and delineated.
"The photos were taken according to the range set by the gods, and due to our limited technology, we couldn't zoom in on a specific area, so we had to take multiple photos first, and then carefully compare the parts of the photos and then draw them on the star map."
It is not difficult to lock down a specific area of the starry sky through an observatory, the point is that the gods are asking for only a part of it, and they have to strip it out of the complex star map.
"Did you find anything?"
Yan Jing looked at it for a while, rubbed his eyes, and asked with some helplessness in his tone.
He has to admit that he is a "tabula rasa" when it comes to studying the starry sky, and these photos are no different in his eyes, they are just a bunch of stars of different colors.
As for the enlarged star map, Yan Jing couldn't even recognize the stars on it.
In fact, Yan Jing tried to find the more famous stars or constellations in the present world, and if he could find a match, he might be able to determine whether the Shenzhou World existed in the same universe as the Earth through their locations.
As a result, not even a similar one was found.
"There are some discoveries, but I don't know what they mean."
With the accumulation of experience in the observatory over the years, coupled with the study of star maps, Fu Shudao naturally made some discoveries, paused, turned around and went to the bookshelf to get a notebook, and continued,
"I found that from the end of the disaster, the starry sky changes almost every year, sometimes there are some strange colored lights, and sometimes the stars seem to explode, spreading out strange star clusters."
Due to the unclear intentions of 'Nanke'.
Even if Fu Shudao discovers something, he only knows it, but he doesn't know why.
The same is true of Yan Jing's situation.
took the notes and looked at the changes in the star map recorded in detail on it, and I was puzzled for a while.
(End of chapter)