Chapter Twenty-Three: Ancient Books
"Huh!?Lin Shu, why are you here?"
Wen Yue walked into the magic shop, and the first thing he saw was Lin Shu who was wiping the shelves with a wet rag, Lin Shu looked very serious, just like he usually worked in the farmland, the whole posture looked particularly coordinated, eye-catching, and had a very strange sense of rhythm.
However, Lin Shu was very disdainful of Wen Yue's surprise, because when he came to help last week, he saw Wen Yue's figure, although she didn't enter the magic shop, but Wen Yue obviously saw Lin Shu.
"Help!" Lin Shu straightened his waist, turned his head to see that it was Wen Yue, and grinned with a simple smile, a mouthful of white teeth dazzling people's eyes!
Wen Yue seemed to feel a little dazzling, tilted her head slightly, wrinkled her nose and said, "Help?"
"It's us. Lin Shu grinned and pointed at Niu Xiaoyong, who had just stood up from behind a pile of neat demonic beast bones.
Wen Yue looked at Niu Xiaoyong, then at Lin Shu, bared her teeth and said, "You two are quite capable of tossing, why? Lao Ye is an iron rooster who never pulls out a hair!"
"Hmm!?How do you speak!?" Lao Ye's leaky voice sounded behind the counter, and half of the head came out from behind the counter, it turned out that he was squatting behind the counter and counting money!
Wen Yue was not stunned at all, and pushed the black glasses frame on the bridge of her nose and said, "I said that you are an iron rooster, no, not an iron rooster, you are an iron toad, you only get in and out!"
Niu Xiaoyong couldn't help but spray, and quickly squatted down with a red face, pretending to pile up bones, seeing that his shoulders were still shaking, obviously he had endured it very hard.
Lin Shu looked at Lao Ye indifferently and grinned.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh! Go and take out the books in the barn and bask in the sun, I found that the young mage nowadays is really not as good as a stubble, think about when we were young, it was called a studious, tsk. As soon as I entered the magic shop, the first thing I did was to find out if there were any magic books that I hadn't read, and now it's okay, Lao Tzu's books are almost moldy, and I didn't sell a few copies. ”
Lao Ye looked at Wen Yue and shook his head, but he almost didn't point Wen Yue's nose and said, "Young people now, tsk"
Lin Shu laughed, smiled at Wen Yue again, turned around and walked towards the back door, walked two steps and turned back and said, "Lao Ye promised to pass me the magic letter, hehe, you don't have to trouble Mage Wen Yue in the future." ”
"Uh" Wen Yue's face flushed, fortunately this is a fool, Wen Yue secretly rejoiced: "Yes, that's really good! I can't imagine that Lao Ye is still a good person!"
"I'm a good person, and I'm not a good person when I look at everyone else as a bad person!"
"Hee-hee, I want some deodorant, huh?"
"There are from level 1 to grade 6, how much do you want? Let's talk about it first, the price is not cheap, and the deodorant is a popular product with a large amount, and there is no discount!"
"Isn't it because I just said bad things about Lao Ye?"
"My old Ye is the most particular about the distinction between public and private, business belongs to business, grievances are grievances, two different things!"
Lin Shu paused slightly outside the back door, and turned to the right, there was a warehouse here. Don't look at this store is not big, but the warehouse is not small.
Lin Shu quickly took out a cart of books from the warehouse, the so-called car is a metal plate car, Lin Shu thought that this world does not use wheels such a thing, it turns out that there are still there, but due to the existence of magical energy, the use of this purely physical thing has been greatly reduced.
In fact, with the magic rubbing technique, as well as the anti-mildew treatment technique of paper, books will generally not be destroyed and moldy for hundreds of years, but they cannot prevent the attack of insects, therefore, basking in the sun and killing insects has become a necessary method to protect the stock of books, of course, pesticides can also be used, the problem is that the thing costs money, the sun does not need money, and even better, the farm in the dry season is the most important is sunlight.
Lao Ye naturally found that Wen Yue was observing Lin Shu through the glass at the back door, Lao Ye just smiled and did not expose this matter, in Lao Ye's opinion, Lin Shu was a very strange child.
Call him stupid, he doesn't seem to be stupid, but his behavior and way of thinking are as simple and direct as a child, and he is not at all as good at concealing as an adult, and from this point of view, he does seem to be mentally retarded.
But in terms of thinking ability, Lin Shu doesn't seem to be lacking, but his memory is still very good, of course, listening to Niu Xiaoyong's revelations, he is willing to remember it, from this point of view, Lin Shu is a very normal child.
There is also the fact that he almost doesn't know how to calculate money and doesn't seem to care about that thing, but Lao Ye wants to cheat Lin Shu of the remaining two gold coins, but he can't cheat it, Lin Shu said that his sister told him that he must have money around him.
Lin Shu is very quick to work, as long as he explains once, he can do it very well, which even Niu Xiaoyong can't compare, from this aspect, Lin Shu is a very smart child, with strong hands-on ability, look at him at work, he knows the way, and looks very comfortable.
But on the other hand, Lin Shu is very easy to be in a daze, sometimes staring at the photos on the wall for a long time, and sometimes staring at the skeleton of a certain magical beast for a long time, completely forgetting that he is here to work.
Moreover, Lao Ye also found that Lin Shu likes to read very much, at the beginning, Lao Ye didn't know that Lin Shu was illiterate when he first came, and later heard that Lin Shu's literacy was still taught by Niu Xiaoyong, and Lao Ye was surprised, because Lin Shu saw that many of those books were ancient books, not to mention Niu Xiaoyong, ordinary mages couldn't understand it.
But once Lao Ye secretly paid attention to it and found that Lin Shu was looking at the illustrations inside, and a painting could be read for a long time, Lao Ye believed that Lin Shu's head did have a problem.
In fact, he didn't know anything at all, Lin Shu was studying the evolution of magic, and those ancient illustrations actually contained a lot of very important information, just like the Xuanmen cultivators on the earth, whose foundation was completely from the two graphics of Hetu and Luoshu, so the graphics were the most fundamental thing.
Wen Yue saw that Lin Shu was holding a thick book to read, Wen Yue was a little surprised and forgot to hide it, Lao Ye gloated, so frightened that Wen Yue quickly retracted his gaze and helped his glasses in disguise.
"This is the deodorizer you want, hehe, don't you think it's amazing?"
"What?!"
"Lin Shu! Read books! It's still an ancient book, hehe. ”
"Yes, yes, he wasn't literate when he first came!
"Ha Lu Ha, you were also fooled, I was taken aback last time, and then I found out that he was looking at the pictures!"
Wen Yue sighed, and seemed to have a sense of relief, but she was a little disappointed in her heart.
"Really?"
"You can go and see for yourself, what else do you need?" asked Lao Ye with a strange wink at Wen Yue.
Wen Yue pursed her lips in embarrassment, rolled her eyes, pointed to the purple scroll on the shelf and said, "Phantom scrolls, ten of the third-order ones." ”
"There's no discount, this kind of thing is out of stock!"
"Hello, there is no discount without discount, I'll go see Lin Shu, I'm an alumnus of his sister. ”
"Go ahead, no one is in your way! ”
Wen Yue gritted her teeth helplessly, and the freckles on her face seemed to be darker.
Lin Shu looked at the graphics on the page very seriously, and his heart was shocked, in fact, the ancient text is not difficult at all, compared with the ancient text of the earth, it is basically a level of the ancient text of the earth after the Tang and Song dynasties, which is definitely difficult to study the golden text and the small seal of Lin Shu, fortunately, the simplification of the Green Star text is not too much.
What Lin Shu saw now was not a very amazing pattern, nor something he had ever seen on earth, but a pattern that Lin Shu was very familiar with, because this pattern was on Lin Shu's body, to be precise, it was tattooed in the middle of Lin Shu's chest and heart.
Lin Shu always thought that it was an ordinary tattoo, and Lin Shu had no memory of this tattoo at all, but when Lin Shu saw the content of the book "A Preliminary Study of Ancient Witchcraft" in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a storm in his heart.
The word 'witchcraft' is just translated by Lin Shu, the so-called witchcraft should be one of the most direct and vague feelings and applications of human beings to the natural world, the witchcraft of the earth and the witchcraft of the green star are naturally not the same, but the two have some striking similarities, that is, they tend to explore the soul and body.
The witchcraft of the earth is the precursor of all self-cultivation and medical skills on the earth, and the witchcraft of the green star is also the precursor of magic and modern medical skills, but the witchcraft of the green star has a longer history, the earliest can be traced back to about 10,000 years ago.
And the contents of this page, which the author of this book called the most magical, vicious, powerful, and mysterious curse of all time, named this witchcraft 'Curse of Fate'!
The four 'most' words are enough to make the forest trees fall into an ice cave!
"Lin Shu, are you reading?"
The sudden sound startled Lin Shu, and then he couldn't help but feel a little self-reproachful, how could he have scared himself so much that he lost his vigilance! This is really too undeserved, even if this curse is true, even if this curse will bring ruin to himself, what is the use of being scared and shocked now? I can't change the facts at all, what I should do now is to calm down, first understand what is going on, and then slowly think of countermeasures, at least, I am still alive and kicking around.
"Well, read the book!"
"Can you read ancient texts?"
"Gu Wen, I look at paintings!"
Wen Yue stared at Lin Shu's eyes tightly, except for the beginning of a little flustered, as if he was startled by himself, Lin Shu's eyes returned to a clear appearance, without a trace of impurities at all.
"Huh!?This one, this is the most mysterious curse in the legend--- the curse of fate, do you know what kind of mystery it is?"
Lin Shu shook his head.
"That's because no one has been able to reproduce this curse, so it's always been a legendary spell, quite famous. ”
"Oh!
Lin Shu said with admiration, but he was smiling bitterly in his heart, who said that he couldn't use it? he had one on him, and it was imposed within eighteen years, and more importantly, this curse appeared in pairs, not alone, Lin Shu had a bad premonition in his heart.