bookbashuk Chapter 438 Night Visit to the Bookstore
Chapter 438 Night Visit to the Bookstore
"The master who helped her break the curse originally didn't intend to help her; he also knew that the karmic consequences of this matter were too great!"
Li Hailun explained.
"Then why did he help untie it?" I asked.
"First, Zhang Xiaoling offered a lot of money; second, Zhang Xiaoling agreed that after the curse was lifted, this matter didn't need to be kept secret, and that person could use it to attract business. That's why I know the whole story!"
Li Hailun said.
"Zhang Xiaoling was forced into this situation; otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to let that person use this to solicit business!" I said.
"Zhang Xiaoling is a shameless person, and she doesn't really care about her reputation!" Li Hailun said.
"She was heavily influenced by Western liberal thought!"
After saying that, Li Hailun added another sentence.
"Got it!" Fatty Lin and I nodded at the same time. What a load of rubbish about free thought! It's just selfishness, only caring about yourself and not others!
"By the way, she came back to Hong Kong this time because she couldn't make it there anymore. She's not planning to leave again and is going to come to your place. Can you give her a discount? She's playing the long game!" Li Hailun said.
"Sister Helen, I understand. I'll treat you to dinner when I get back!" Fatty Lin said with a smile.
"Okay, I'm hanging up now. You go ahead with your work!" Li Hailun said.
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
"Zhang Xiaoling, interesting!"
Looking at the phone that had been hung up, Fatty Lin chuckled.
"Fatty, stop thinking about your Xiaoling, think about what to do tonight!" I said.
"I know, you didn't need to remind me!"
Fatty Lin flopped onto the bed, looking like he knew exactly what was going on.
12:30 a.m., Central Bookstore.
Unlike during the day, after the hustle and bustle, the bookstore exudes an eerie calm, and once inside, there is an indescribable feeling of stuffiness.
"You madman, do it the way we agreed. You take the dowsing rod, and I'll take the yin-yang mirror!"
Fatty Lin glanced at me sideways and gave me instructions.
"I know!" I nodded.
"Ni'er, you and Xiao Ba are in charge of guarding!" Fatty Lin said again.
"Mmm!" Long Nier nodded, while Xiao Ba chirped and waved its little paws.
The dowsing rod is L-shaped, with a handle at the bottom and a rod at the top that can rotate.
I hold one in each hand, lightly gripping them without locking them, keeping them parallel with a gap of about fifteen centimeters, and keeping them horizontally suspended in the air.
Fatty Lin was holding a palm-sized Yin-Yang mirror, its surface plated with silver and its back engraved with intricate runes.
As we walked along the central axis of the first floor of the bookstore, the dowsing rod began to swing slightly clockwise from the moment we entered.
"The atmosphere here is chaotic!"
Looking at the swaying dowsing rod, Fatty Lin frowned.
Afraid of disrupting the rhythm, I remained silent and simply kept walking forward.
"Fatty!"
As I walked to the center of the hall, I felt a force above the handles, and the two horizontal bars suddenly crossed and swung downwards, pointing towards the ground. If I hadn't noticed in time, the two dowsing rods would have fallen.
"knew!"
Fatty Lin nodded, glanced at it, squatted down where the dragon-seeking ruler was pointing, made a hand seal behind the Yin-Yang mirror, and held it close to the ground. Faint, snake-like patterns of energy appeared on the mirror.
"That's right, just as I predicted, this really is the scavenging passage!"
Fatty Lin snorted, stood up, and said, "The Qi-guiding patterns are laid in the foundation below, transmitting Qi through the resonance of the earth's veins!"
"Damn it, he really did set things up!"
I cursed under my breath and followed the guidance of the dowsing rod with Fatty Lin, heading forward.
As we walked, Fatty Lin jotted down the route with a pen. The moment we stepped into the entrance of the corridor, the dowsing rod suddenly started rotating counterclockwise. I exclaimed, "Fatty, it's moving again!"
"Um!"
Fatty Lin's expression hardened. He bit his finger and tapped the back of the Yin-Yang Mirror, causing the mirror to tilt at a 45-degree angle, reflecting the moonlight downwards and illuminating the corridor.
Under the reflected moonlight, some crisscrossing patterns appeared on the corridor. These patterns were very similar to the secret incantation patterns of the Nine Chrysanthemum lineage that we had seen before. In the middle of the patterns, a faint black band of energy extended to the northeast, which was Lotus Mountain.
"Damn it, you lunatic, Nier, look! This energy belt is the life force of the dragon vein that has been plundered. The dragon vein energy on the lotus has all been nailed down and drained away by this corridor!" Fatty Lin said through gritted teeth.
"You damned Japanese devils, I curse your ancestors for eight generations!"
After saying that, Fatty Lin cursed.
"Damn it!"
I joined in the cursing.
After we finished cursing, my brother and I exchanged a glance. Fatty Lin took a deep breath and said, "Let's go, to the second floor!"
"Yes!" I nodded.
When I went down to the second floor of the Poetry Garden, the scene was completely different from that during the day. The cherry blossom trees had lost their beauty. I took the dowsing rod and approached it. The dowsing rod started to rotate counterclockwise again, with the amplitude fluctuating greatly.
This time, without my prompting, Fatty Lin directly made a hand seal and shone the Yin-Yang Mirror towards the cherry blossom tree.
As before, a dark purple-black aura reappeared on the tree trunk, its dark color flowing and its patterns resembling diamond-shaped stone slabs laid on the ground.
"You lunatic, go up to the stone slab and test it!"
"I think for a moment and then I say," said Fatty Lin.
"Um!"
I nodded and walked back and forth on the stone path with the dowsing rod in hand.
The dowsing rod still rotated, but not as dramatically as it had in front of the cherry blossom tree. When I walked to a stone slab, the dowsing rod suddenly stopped.
"stop!"
Upon seeing this, Fatty Lin immediately called out, took the Yin-Yang Mirror and shone it on the stone slab beneath my feet. I could vaguely see a talisman underneath.
Upon seeing the talisman, Fatty Lin sneered and said, "Madman, see that? The tree is just a decoy to absorb evil spirits; this is the real key. If I'm not mistaken, this is most likely the core of the Soul-Controlling Array!"
As he spoke, Fatty Lin made markings and wrote them down in his notebook.
After finishing writing it down, he added, "Madman, let me tell you, the two of us aren't enough to break this formation. I'll send it to Second Master as soon as I'm done writing it down!"
"You're a real sly one!" I said.
Over the next hour, we visited the Book Garden and the Etiquette Garden.
The key point of the array in the book garden is by the Wisdom Spring. After the Dragon-Seeking Ruler arrives, it swings violently up and down, sometimes turning half a circle clockwise and sometimes half a circle counterclockwise.
After being illuminated by the Yin-Yang Mirror, a black energy vein extending downwards was reflected, connecting with the energy-guiding patterns on the rooftop corridor.
Fatty Lin said this was a reverse flow formation, drawing the energy of the literary tradition downwards.
The key point of the ritual garden is in front of the dry landscape garden. The Yin-Yang Mirror reflects on the sand and stone patterns, and the incantation of the Nine Chrysanthemums lineage appears on the sand patterns. There are also clumps of gray mist on the top of the stone lantern. Fatty Lin calls this human relationships and luck.
We visited three gardens without any surprises or dangers.
"It went pretty smoothly!"
As he left the Liyuan Garden, Fatty Lin muttered to himself.
"Fatty, don't jinx it!"
I don't know why, but when I heard him say that everything went smoothly, a bad feeling popped into my head.