Chapter 1: The Unlucky Little Ding
Late at night, the ancient street, which had been noisy for a day, re-entered the quiet.
Rows of antique buildings are bathed in a thin mist. In the distance, the melodious sound of the bell came, and the dull sound of wooden fish tapping faintly sounded in Baitan Temple.
Tianjiu tossed and turned on the slightly dilapidated wooden bed, and the creaking sound made him feel uneasy.
This is his ninth job a year after graduation, and after working for half a month, he has a hunch that he will be unemployed again.
Because at this time, his boss, Xu Yichuan, the manager of Jibao Zhai, has been missing for more than ten days.
Suddenly, there were several soft knocks on the door downstairs. At first, Tianjiu thought he had heard it wrong, but after waiting for a while, the knock on the door continued to sound.
"Who?!"
Tianjiu quietly went downstairs and smashed the copper stove.
"Xiaotian, be quiet! I'm Xu Yichuan, open the door!"
"Boss Xu, what's wrong with you?"
Tianjiu heard that it was indeed the boss's voice, hurriedly threw the stove in his hand, opened the door, and asked in wonder.
Xu Yichuan flashed into the house, hurriedly closed the door, and carried a bulging broken briefcase in his right hand.
"Xiaotian, something is wrong!"
"Out of ...... Big ?!?"
Tianjiu's heart jumped, and he didn't have a hunch that hit his heart again.
"Alas, I was deceived and lost more than 20 million, I have to leave immediately!"
"More than 20 million ......?" Tianjiu swallowed violently, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
"You go, what should I do? Boss, I haven't received a dime from my salary! This is my ninth job in Zhongdu, you won't ask me to squeeze the talent market again, right?" Tianjiu cried.
"The ninth job?damn it!Is this the only job for the eighteenth generation of my Xu family's ancestors?!!The grandson thinks it's yellow!!"
Xu Yichuan's old face trembled, and he roared angrily.
"What the hell is going on? You've got to give me an explanation, right?"
"Alas, that 'Ding' is a scam! I have been cheated of more than 20 million yuan, including 10 million usury. It's over, it's over...... I, Xu Yichuan, are completely finished! The Xu family is also finished!"
Xu Yichuan was like a mourner, and suddenly, he threw the broken bag in his hand to the ground and stepped on it a few times.
There were a few metal crashes from inside the broken bag, and a palm-sized purple-black tripod rolled out of it and rolled to Tianjiu's feet.
"This is the tripod you bought?"
Tianjiu picked it up and started to be frivolous, not like copper.
With the faint moonlight penetrating through, Tianjiu could clearly see that this was a two-eared three-legged tripod, the paint and ink were as new as new, and there was a faint blue light.
"Alas, that's it, I shouldn't regret it! Why am I so obsessed?" Xu Yichuan lamented.
"Didn't you see it fake? You're an expert in counterfeiting. ”
"I watched it over and over again at the time, and it was real. From the style, to the material, as well as the pulp, and the inscription, there is no flaw. The experts we brought with us also tried it, and they all said that it was no problem. But when we brought it to Beijing, everything changed, changed...... You see, the bread is as good as new, and the new can't be newer, as if it had just been baked. The inscription is also missing, and the material is actually titanium alloy...... Titanium!!"
Tianjiu opened his mouth wide in shock, the ancients really couldn't make such a high-tech thing as titanium alloy.
Suddenly, Xu Yichuan raised his head: "Xiaotian, is there any income in the store these days?"
"Yes, a total of 51,300 yuan, six paintings were sold, eleven ......"
"Don't forget it, quick, you give me the money, I'm going out to hide and find a way to raise money. ”
"Haode, I'll give it to you right away. ”
Tianjiu went back to the second floor and took the money from under his pillow. This is what he has earned for more than ten days, and he has not touched a cent, if it were not for the purpose of guarding this "huge sum" of money, he would definitely not be keeping vigil here. He packed it in a plastic bag and walked briskly downstairs.
"It's all here, boss!"
"Well, okay, Xiaotian, you can stay here for a few more days, everything here is yours, you can sell as much as you can, and the money you make is yours." You're still young, and there's still a lot of opportunities out there, so I'm gone......"
After speaking, without waiting for any indication from Tianjiu, he immediately opened the door, dodged out, and quickly disappeared into the night.
Tianjiu carried the unlucky Xiaoding and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
"Ahh......h
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In the middle of the night, the clear moonlight sprinkled on the bed, and Tianjiu leaned against the wall, groping for the unlucky Xiaoding.
He only packed a backpack with his few clothes in it. He carried his bag with him, ready to slip away whenever he wanted.
Tianjiu looked at this small ding, which glowed with a purple-blue glow, and always felt indescribably strange.
"Could it be that this is an alien high-tech product?" he suddenly came up with this ridiculous idea.
"I'll see what the hell it is!"
With this in mind, he found a diamond and an alloy file, which were available in the tool shop.
Half an hour later, Tianjiu was so tired that he was sweating profusely.
He was surprised to find that the diamond had been drilled on it for about ten minutes, but there was not even a trace left, and the alloy file had not even sparked for a long time.
This thing is hard, so hard! Who would fake such a hard thing to play with? Isn't that looking for a draw?
Tian Jiuyi sat on the ground, panting with exhaustion.
"Mom, 20 million, Lao Tzu will treat you as an oil lamp!"
Tianjiu scolded fiercely. I picked up a bottle of two pots under the bed, poured in a small half cup of spirits, and lit the lighter with a "poof".
The blue flames fluttered in the soft moonlight.
Suddenly, there was a crisp sound of "bang!", and a multicolored glow shot out from the ding, and immediately, a multicolored vortex was formed on the top of Tianjiu's head, and the moonlight that penetrated the window seemed to be twisted, falling in the multicolored vortex and constantly rotating.
Between the lightning and flint, Tian Jiu only felt a huge force pulling him into the colorful vortex, and he didn't even have time to say an "ah", he lost consciousness.
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A little dizzy and a little painful, as if he couldn't breathe, he fell on a layer of bluestone ground.
"Where is this?" Tianjiu muttered, and he got up on a wheel, and found himself falling into a five-zhang square stone room, the walls of which were glowing with white light.
The stone chamber was empty, and the walls and floors, including the top, were cold bluestone. There is no lamp, but the bluestone with white light illuminates the stone chamber transparently.
In a corner of the stone room, there was a small frog lying alone, the size of a broad bean, with a pair of big eyes, which occupied almost the entire head, and around the eyes, there was a circle of black lines. At that time, the chin that was rumbling from time to time showed that it was a living thing. It stared listlessly at the sudden uninvited guest.
It all seems so weird!
"I've gone too far, I've played with fire and killed people!!" Tianjiu cried.
"Little one, you're here!"
Suddenly, a faint sound came from the stone room.
"Who?" Tianjiu was shocked.
"Hum~!", a purple-black tripod burst out from the stone wall behind him, with three legs, two ears, and more than two meters high.
"Alas, it's been another hundred years, and finally we're waiting for someone to come again!"
“......”
Tianjiu's liver and gall were cracked, Mu Ran turned around, and found that an old man with a white beard and a green shirt emerged from the big ding, with a big mole under his right mouth, wearing a crown on his head, standing with his hands behind his back, a group of fairy wind bones, and two sharp blade-like gazes shot directly at Tianjiu's body.
"Alas, it's a pity, the Five Elements Miscellaneous Spirit Root is too bad! It's still a waste that hasn't entered the Qi Refining Period!"
The white-bearded old man's eyes became colder and colder, as if he would kill Tianjiu at any time.
"Old man, I'm a good person! I've never done anything wrong, don't look for me!"
Nine times out of ten, this old man is a legendary ghost.
"Little one, what are you crying about? Since Shi Ding has chosen you, and it is also your chance, let's make do with it!" The white-bearded old man stared at Tianjiu for a while, and his gaze slowly softened.
"You're not which...... Which one...... What the hell?" Tianjiu shuddered.
"Hmph, what the hell isn't enough for a finger in front of me. Hmph, not only are you poorly qualified, but you are also timid, I really don't know how Shi Ding would choose you as a waste?!"
The white-bearded old man said unhappily, and there seemed to be a hint of murder in his eyes.
"Old man, don't call me a waste, I'm a real college student. ”
Tianjiu Donkey's temper came up, and he was nicknamed "crazy" in college. It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, and it's out.
"What is a college student?" the white-bearded old man was stunned.
"Tell me first what you do, what are your intentions? I'll tell you. "Tianjiu wants to be a little clever.
"Oh, and bargaining, kind of interesting. Okay, let me tell you, I'm Tiandaozi. No, to be precise, it is a doppelganger refined by a wisp of Heavenly Daozi's soul. ”
"You...... You...... You still say that you are not a ghost, you are all distracted!"
"You don't understand this, if you can cultivate immortals, you will understand, ghosts are different from me, it's time for you to say it. ”
"My name is Tianjiu, and I'm twenty years old. What does Tiandaozi do?"
"Tiandaozi is the supreme heavenly emperor 100,000 years ago, who crossed time and space 10,000 years ago and went to the heavenly realm. This wisp of my soul is left here by him, leading people who are destined to pursue him. ”
"Wan Nian, then how do you understand what I say and how can you speak Chinese?"
"Joke! How many civilizations have been created by the twelve doppelgangers of Tiandaozi. The civilization of the Yalong Continent was created by the ontology of the Heavenly Dao Son, do you think I understand it?"
"Wow! You're still an ancestor, disrespectful and disrespectful!"