Zhao Shaohua was very depressed. He thought that he could go back to the municipal building directly after arriving in Nanjing, but he didn't expect that these special police officers from Shanghai did not care about his and his leader's feelings at all. They only cared about following that bold young man around. Not only did they meddle in other people's business in Dan Yang City, but they even broke into the Liang family's house!
If he hadn't seen two battles that were beyond his imagination, he would have protested. After all, this was already Nanjing's territory, and they could still make some decisions.
However, after he personally experienced the scuffle on Dan Yang City's train track and the incredible fight on Jin Ling City University's basketball court, Zhao Shaohua's courage suddenly became a lot smaller. Those strange scenes had a huge impact on his knowledge system and worldview, and caused a great deal of confusion. Until now, he still hadn't been able to calm down. His mind was in a mess, and it was like a nightmare. Even the mysterious disappearance of the sun was said to have a scientific basis, but what he saw with his own eyes was far beyond the scope of his understanding.
After calming down a little, he thought about Yu Jian's intention. Yu Jian deliberately brought him and his leader, probably because he wanted them to see these unimaginable things with their own eyes. To put it bluntly, it was a show of power and deterrence to them. It was a subtle reminder to his leader, 'Don't stand on the wrong side at a critical moment!'
In any case, Yu Jian's purpose was achieved, and the effect of the show was indeed very obvious. After his leader was sent away by a helicopter, he was left behind in Jin Ling University. He needed to argue with the school leaders. The first task was to persuade the school leaders to let Chu Yunsheng and the white shadow man enter the school library.
In fact, it could not be counted as persuasion. At most, he just needed to greet the school leaders. Because those two arrogant guys did not have the awareness of respecting the "leaders" at all. They had already broken into the library by themselves. He was just helping these two lawless people to clean up their mess.
These two people could ignore the school leaders, but Zhao Shaohua couldn't. After all, the leaders of Jin Ling University, especially the principal, had a very high rank, at least higher than him. So he still had to give them face. Otherwise, he would not be able to do his job in the future.
While he was absent-mindedly wolfing down his food and talking with the school leaders, Chu Yunsheng and the white shadow man were already in the oldest library of Jin Ling University.
This library was a modernized storage room that was renovated later on. It itself was not old, only the books were old.
As far as the eye could see, rows of bookshelves were dust-covered, and the fluorescent lights illuminated the sealed room. Ancient books lay quietly on the bookshelves, as vast as the sea. If one were to sit down and read them one by one, it was estimated that one would not be able to finish reading all of them in one lifetime.
"You brought me here to read these books? I don't understand any of these ancient characters. "
Chu Yunsheng took back the second jade pendant from the white shadow man's hand. He finally felt relieved. With two jade pendants in his hand, once they fused with the ancient book, the location of the third jade pendant would be guided by the ancient book, and he would not be able to escape. Apart from the time it would take, everything else was within his grasp. His mood was also a little better. Moreover, he really wanted to know the origin of this mysterious white shadow man.
But he did not let his guard down. The white shadow man had spent a lot of effort to steal the gun, follow him, and steal the jade pendant. He even got stabbed by him in the end. If he just wanted to see something, it would be completely unreasonable.
"People take history as a mirror, and history is recorded in books. If there were no books and no writing, I don't know how many detours human beings would have to take." The white shadow man stroked the ancient books one by one and took out a book from the last years of the Qing Dynasty. He stroked the book and sighed.
"At that time, the world's students were so high-spirited when they were writing on public buses, but in the blink of an eye, they were at the end of the Hundred Days Reform … The empress dowager came to the court, Kang and Liang fled in panic, and the reformers who stayed in the capital were either killed or captured. My family of more than forty people were all secretly executed because of their involvement. I was the only one who managed to escape. I crossed the river, experienced hundreds of thousands of hardships, and almost starved to death under the city of Nanjing."
The white shadow man paused, as if he had fallen into the memories of the past. His face changed from tearful to gloomy, as if he was regretting those lives that he had lost, and recalling that turbulent era.
After a while, a trace of vitality appeared on his face again, "At that time, your ancestor Chu was nineteen years old, and he was about to finish his apprenticeship. He was full of ambition and vigor. Unfortunately, at that time, the times were not good. Starving people were everywhere on the street, and the business was declining. When your ancestor saw that I was a scholar, he treated me with great respect. Although he was very poor, he still managed to eat three meals a day and hid me in a hut at the risk of being beheaded.
At that time, I often talked to him about some principles that are ridiculous now, but he listened very carefully at that time. He always thought that I was a learned scholar, a noble scholar, and that it was unfair for me to make friends with a lowly man like him. But now that I think about it, it was my honor. "
Originally, Chu Yunsheng thought that the white shadow man would take out something shocking, or something related to the hegemon's ruins, but he did not expect that the white shadow man would actually talk about his ancestor. Not to mention whether it was true or not, the motive of the white shadow man's attempt to get close to him was already very suspicious. "What era are you talking about? It has been more than a hundred years since the Reform Movement of 1898, have you lived for more than a hundred years? If you have something to say, just say it. For example, what about that scroll? "
A lifespan of more than a hundred years did not surprise Chu Yunsheng too much. Whether it was Huan or Huang Bei Ying, their combined lifespans could scare people to death. But he was surprised that the white shadow man was not talking nonsense. What it described, coupled with the reform it mentioned, suddenly reminded Chu Yunsheng that he had indeed "seen" an ancestor who lived in a shop during the Reform Movement of 1898 in the monolith.
"More than a hundred years old? Maybe even longer, who knows? " The white shadow man said sadly, "In my life, I have traveled all over the world, I have killed countless people, and I have also saved countless people. I have come and gone freely, but I don't have the face to come back and face your ancestor. Chu Jun saved me from a desperate situation, and he gave me three meals a day. I made an unforgivable mistake, but in the end, he was still able to forgive me, and still supported me to study abroad. Most of the details are unbearable and ugly, so I won't tell you anymore."
Seeing that he was still talking about the past, Chu Yunsheng sneered and questioned, "I just don't believe it. Since you owe my ancestor a favor, why are you always against me? Not only did you repeatedly rob my things, but you also want to kill me. Isn't this just repaying kindness with enmity? Isn't it contradictory?"
The white shadow man put the book back on the bookshelf, turned to look at Chu Yunsheng, and said, "Do you really think that I can't kill you? If I really want to kill you, I have at least a hundred ways. If I only use the weapon I took from Dan Yang City, you won't be able to defeat me today. "
Chu Yunsheng's eyes suddenly narrowed. What the white shadow man said was both right and wrong. If he took out the freeze gun in the basketball game, he could indeed win, but the premise was that the gun could still be used, and he knew this. The gun was broken, and it was impossible for it to be reactivated in the blink of an eye. But if the white shadow man fixed the gun now, he would be in danger!
In order to prevent accidents, he immediately increased his vigilance, "Not necessarily."
This was not Chu Yunsheng's bluff. Even if he couldn't defeat the white shadow man, he was confident that he could run away. Moreover, he still had one last thing that he could rely on. Once the jade tablet and the ancient book merged, it would prompt the ancient book to absorb a large amount of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi around it. The ancient book was also connected to him, so he could replenish a large amount of Yuan Qi from the ancient book in a very short period of time.
The white shadow man laughed, "You don't have to be so nervous, I was just saying. At that time, I first went to Europe, and only then did I know how big the world was. Later, I went to the United States and traveled around the world, but I always felt that I was too ashamed to come back to see your ancestors. After that, there was the Great Revolution, and then there was the war in the Central Plains. The world was in chaos, the feudal lords fought day and night, and then the world war broke out. Japan invaded China, and until the liberation, I completely lost contact with your family. Later, I became an old monster, and I didn't dare to disturb the descendants of Chu Jun. If it weren't for the sudden situation in Shanghai that alerted the military and the government, I might not have come to you. At that time, I just wanted to know the situation, but I didn't expect that you were the descendant of Chu Jun, and you really inherited the book. "
Chu Yunsheng's brows twitched inadvertently. It seemed that the white shadow man really knew the existence of the ancient book, but now Chu Yunsheng's dependence on the ancient book had greatly decreased. There were also many people who knew the existence of the ancient book, such as the No. 1 old man, so he was not afraid to talk about this topic. After thinking for a moment, he calmly said, "Then why did you come back now? Is it because of this book? "
The white shadow man selected a few more ancient books from the bookshelf, held them in his hand, and while reading, he shook his head and said, "your ancestor once asked me to identify the book, and he never doubted it at all. If I wanted it, I wouldn't need to come back today, I could have gotten it a hundred years ago."
Chu Yunsheng pondered. If the white shadow man really knew the ancestor, logically speaking, his pure sword Qi supported this statement. Only the method of the ancient book could make use of the super stable state of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.
The white shadow man held a few ancient books in his hand and continued, "your ancestor once said that the book was a family heirloom, and it would be of great use in the future. Unfortunately, no one could understand the strange characters on it, even the old pedant in the East Chamber had never seen it before, so he asked me to help him verify it.
At that time, I also had nothing to do. After the reform, I went to the Nanjing Imperial College Library, the predecessor of Jin Ling University, to look up ancient books. Unexpectedly, I really found a few books that no one paid attention to, which mentioned these strange characters. One of them even mentioned that Chu Yan, a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty, had a deep understanding of this. I followed the history book and found that this person became the Imperial Astronomer during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. He participated in astronomical observation and calendar calculation. For the royal family at that time, these were the secrets of the continuation of the country. All the documents in this regard were stored in the palace of all the dynasties.
After the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms invaded the capital, many ancient books and cultural relics were scattered abroad. Many years later, I happened to see a copy of Chu Yan's work in an auction in France. I bought it, and it's the one I'm holding now.
According to his book, plus my many years of research, I did decipher some of the characters that I can still remember. But because the content recorded in the characters could not be verified and corroborated at that time, the rest of the characters could not be deciphered, so I failed to fulfill your ancestor's wish. "
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