Chapter 9: The Word of God
As Nicole walked into the small building, there were several sets of tables and chairs scattered on the first floor, on which were placed some utensils that Roddy did not look at, as well as a small jar, small bottle and other things. There were rows of iron shelves on the walls, and on the shelves were neatly packed books - Roddy could tell at a glance that they were quite old, and some of them were antique-level parchment dossiers!
These books alone are worth a lot of money!
What's even more creepy is that there is a complete human skeleton in the corner of the wall. Sensen's white bones shone with a faint glow in the gloomy room. Roddy involuntarily walked over. To Roddy's surprise, there were some marks on the white bone's head that he didn't understand with a red pen.
Roddy couldn't help but want to touch the skeleton with his hand, but his eyes were drawn to a row of medicine bottles on an iron shelf next to him.
The bottles were clearly made of silver, and had small labels on them—unfortunately, the text on the labels was unreadable by Roddy—which were not the language of the Empire.
"Don't hold those bottles!" suddenly came Nicole's cold voice behind him.
Roddy immediately withdrew his hand that had reached out to touch the bottles.
Nicole glanced at Roddy, although her face was still cold, but her tone seemed to be a little softer: "Some of the contents of the bottle can't be touched." For example, the second bottle in front of you, if you accidentally spill a little bit, as long as you get a little bit on your hand, then you're done! Your whole arm will immediately corrode into bones!"
Roddy was taken aback: "These...... Are these all poisons?"
Nicole glared at him, "No! It's just some experimental material!"
Roddy opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Nicole didn't give him a chance to ask questions anymore, and said loudly, "You come up with me!"
Nicole turned and walked up a staircase, with Roddy hurrying behind.
The second floor is an empty platform with a view of the lobby on the first floor from the railing. There are a lot more things on the second floor than on the first floor. An old, deprived desk sits a strange instrument, and the shelves on the wall are even larger, holding almost three times as many books as on the first floor. Roddy had never seen so many antique books in his life!! there was a bulky iron cabinet in the corner, and the rust on it showed that this iron cabinet was probably older than Roddy and Nicole combined.
In the middle was a large wooden table, a large platform, to be exact, and the contents on it were even more disorganized, with some bottles and jars scattered there, and some even lying crookedly on the table.
Roddy stepped forward and found several tattered pieces of parchment on the table, with messy handwriting suggesting that they might be some test notes or something.
Suddenly, a line of handwriting on a piece of parchment attracted Roddy.
"Lack of high-pressure vessels...... Fail...... In the xxx years of the empire, Dandong ......"
"Dandong !!!" Luo Di couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh my God!!This thing is a note left by the sage of Dandong!! Oh my God!!"
Nicole glanced at Roddy and said lightly, "What's all the fuss?"
"What's the fuss?" Luo Di exclaimed, "Dandong's notes! Do you know how much Dandong's autograph can sell for in the antique market in Yanjing now!!"
Nicole pouted: "What is this! Everything here is left by the sage of Dandong! On that shelf, all of them are Dandong's test notes, and these instruments are the relics of Dandong's idlers! This was originally Dandong's laboratory back then." ”
The laboratory of the great sage?!
Roddy's eyes widened, his mouth wide open.
"But...... Dandong ...... He...... ...... of laboratories How could it be...... In your home...... Here......"
Nicole said lightly: "Because one of my ancestors was a disciple of Dandong, Master Dandong lived in our house in his later years. This is where he works!"
"That'...... These things...... It's all a vestige of Master Dandong's wisdom!!" Luo Di whispered excitedly. Dandong Xianzhe was one of the idols he worshipped since he was a child, in fact, if it were not for Dandong's reforms back then, a commoner like him would not have had a chance to enter the Imperial Academy. In the Empire, even a ten-year-old child knows how many miracles Master Dandong created for the Empire back then!
"Yes, indeed! Everything here is the vestige of the master's wisdom! All of these have been inherited by the ancestor of our family!" Nicole's tone was a little sad: "But this is also the tragedy of our family! Because for a hundred years, no ancestor has been able to truly obtain this treasure of wisdom! Three ancestors of my family died of exhaustion after studying the master's notes here in their later years, and my father also died of illness in this laboratory!"
"Why? Is Danton's wisdom so difficult to learn, so profound?"
Nicole smiled softly, her smile a little weird, a little bleak.
"I don't know! We don't know what Danton's wisdom really is-because no one can read the really important notes! Danton's language in which the most important wisdom notes are recorded is not the common language of our empire, not any language of the continent - not even any language we know!" Nicole's tone was full of mockery: "Sometimes, we even suspect that the language Danton uses is the true language of God!" My ancestors have searched through all kinds of texts, but they can't decipher this language!"
"God's ...... Roddy exclaimed, "Is there really a god in this world?"
Surprisingly, this time Nicole didn't get angry at Roddy's eyes, but snorted angrily, "Only God knows!" because generations of the family have worked in vain over the damn "language of God", which has cost generations of the family's lives and time - in fact, it has become a heavy burden for the Tulip family!
Luo Di was amazed in his heart, and couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke the ancient parchment dossier on the table, and said cautiously, "Can I take a look?"
Nicole shrugged her shoulders: "Whatever, the ones on the table here are all replicas, which I use to study in normal times." The real thing has been hidden. ”
Roddy immediately reached out and grabbed the parchment dossier, then unfolded it.
Sure enough, except for the first page of the first page, the lines of text that Roddy saw just now were recorded in the Imperial Common Script, and when you opened the back, you could no longer see a single Imperial Common Script - the sheepskin behind it was densely covered with some words that Roddy couldn't understand at all. The composition of the text is very complex, each stroke is like a knife carving and a chisel, the structure of the text is very subtle, each one is like a square, and each text is like a special pattern. This is indeed not any kind of text that Roddy knows!
Occasionally, there are strange patterns and drawings that look like some kind of design, but unfortunately, the notes on the side are all of the "language of God" that is incomprehensible.
Nicole ignored Roddy, who was frowning and looking at the sheepskin hair, turned around and walked to the iron cabinet in the corner, and I don't know what incantation she chanted, the iron cabinet slowly opened. Roddy immediately turned his gaze away - in fact, although he was a samurai, he was also interested in magic, and he knew that Ni was using a spell lock, which was a kind of spell that was mutated from magic, which was changed by using a kind of memory magic, so that the cabinet automatically remembered the human voice, and then the cabinet could only be opened if the sound matched—this kind of magic was also created by the great sage Master Danton more than two hundred years ago.
Nicole blocked Roddy's gaze as she pulled out a long, narrow box from the cabinet, and the iron door closed automatically.
Nicole touched the box as if she were holding a priceless treasure, carefully placed it on the table, and then slowly opened it.
"Don't look at that thing, my father has been watching it for twenty years, I have been watching it for seven years, and I haven't understood it, do you think you can understand it?" Nicole said coldly.
"What are you holding? What is this?" Roddy looked curious.
Nicole's eyes widened, and with a sudden wave of her sleeve, Roddy immediately flew out like a punching bag that had been thrown out and smashed into the corner.
Nicole glanced at Roddy coldly, and said lightly: "You forgot! I said that when you talk to me, you must call me master! Now! Come here! Don't pretend to be dead, I know you are very thick, and a fall will not hurt you at all!"
Luo Di snorted and stood up from the ground, but he didn't dare to say another word, but he couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart: What a fierce one! One day, Lao Tzu will ...... Huh-huh...... Alas, but why is she so good-looking when she is fierce? Alas......
With these strange thoughts spinning in his heart, Roddy walked to the edge of the table, and he only glanced into the box, and immediately took a deep breath!