Chapter 12: .Weird old books

Since the last time I met Ahuang and Miyou, it has been a long time since Jiehai could not see the light purple figure again in the study room, as if the meeting that night was just an accident. Although he was a little surprised at the sudden sense of intimacy, he didn't think much about it. He still lived a peaceful and regular life at three points.
That evening, Jiehai watched as the only remaining guest in the bookstore disappeared in front of the door, and arranged the private room by the way, and then leaned against the bar and tossed his precious gold coins. At this time, the sun is still blazing, and there seems to be only two tones of day and night in the bookstore, and there is never any light shift.
The young man stared at the dazzling light on the edge of the window for a while, he even felt that it was like a golden light from a giant light bulb, always only stepping between on and off. The warm room temperature made people drowsy. He thought about it and yawned, so he collected the gold coins and lay down on the table to fall asleep.
Half-dreaming and half-awake, Jie Hai seemed to have returned to the weird meeting scene that day. The hollow and dead eyes of the purple-haired and purple-pupilled girl somehow kept him lost, and even a desire to explore from the bottom of his heart. "Miyou..." The young man murmured her name unconsciously. Suddenly, he faintly heard a weird shrill sound, and his whole body trembled and woke up.
He blinked dazedly, then listened for a while, but the strange sound suddenly disappeared, just like the strange situation last time. But this time the young man had experience. He got up and walked to the top of the stairs without a hassle. He took a casual glance and shouted upstairs: "Mr. Huang, is that you?"
Jie Hai waited in place for a while without a response. He hesitated and then called out "Miss Miyou?" He continued to wait for ten seconds, then walked upstairs with a light cough.
The garden on the second floor was still as quiet as usual. Jie Hai turned his head and looked around, then walked around the stone road, and as expected, there was no figure. "Every time it's so mysterious..." He muttered a little helplessly, and suddenly remembered the store manager's instructions "Don't go into the crystal wall!", and suddenly thought.
"Crystal Wall... Could it be that Miss Miyou was transformed from the crystal wall?" Jie Hai shook his head with a smile, feeling that it was really out of focus. He looked at the entrance of the deep round house, walked forward a few steps, and looked inward with the door frame.
There was no one in the darkroom at this moment. Jie Hai looked around, his eyes crossed the mushroom house with yellow lights, and he was determined to cast his eyes on the crystal wall in the center of the room, which emits bright silver light. "It looks really weird... Maybe there are other passages in there..." He looked at the mysterious high wall in a daze, conjecturing in confusion.
At this moment, another illusion-like murmur floated from the crystal wall, and Jie Hai couldn't help but feel that the sound was inexplicably tempting, causing his whole body to feel a little numb. He stood there, and his mind gradually went blank. When he woke up, he realized that he had stepped into the crystal wall.
This sudden strange incident made Jie Hai's hair stand upright, and he subconsciously wanted to run out, but his feet were soft and he fell to the ground. "Damn it..." The young man felt as if he was suppressed by some force, his hands and feet were sore and hard to move. He forced his elbows to scan around in a panic, his nerves were tense, and there was fine sweat on his forehead.
Suddenly, the ethereal whisper came from behind him again. Jie Hai reluctantly turned his head to look, and saw a golden five-pointed star pattern engraved on the ground one meter away from him, and the beginning of fluorescence floated constantly on it, as if some kind of mystery Ritual spells. With the shallow singing of the weird voice, the fluorescence gathered in the air more and more into a circle of light, and the last dazzling golden light flashed, and a dilapidated hardcover book was lying abruptly on the ground.
The moment this strange book appeared, the murmurs that echoed around suddenly disappeared, and Jiehai suddenly seemed to break free, and all the strength returned to his body. He supported his body and stood up and watched vigilantly. The space surrounded by the crystal wall was silent again. Except for the old book that was summoned, everything was the same as before.
"This crystal wall is too weird... No wonder the store manager won't let me in..." The young man glanced back at the old book on the ground with a lingering heart, and suddenly moved inexplicably, he involuntarily picked up the book and looked at it.
Several circles of different sizes were drawn with gold lines on the broken book cover, with strange characters written around it, and an empty hourglass was in the middle. There is an old bronze buckle on the side of the book, and the copper surface is full of small cracks.
The boy frowned and pulled the buckle and turned it over, but nothing was written on the yellowed page. He didn't give up and searched the book quickly, but couldn't even find a punctuation mark in the whole book, so he closed the book strangely.
"Blank book... This star pattern should be a teleportation array... Is it possible that the books in the bookstore came from inside?" Jie Haizheng stared at the book of unknown origin and wondered, suddenly a sharp voice came from downstairs. The shout: "Intruder! Intruder!" The voice was a bit out of tune, showing extremely urgent.
Jie Hai didn't know what had caused the little guy to be so irritable, he didn't think much about it, he put the strange book under his arm, and quickly ran out of the stone house. He leaped a few steps down the stairs into the hall, and saw that Dandan was constantly spinning around a young man, the gray-blue crystal eyes turned bright red. The little guy stretched out four thin mechanical arms desperately, trying to reach the right hand held high by the boy, Jie Hai was surprised to find that the white feather on the head of the egg was pinched by the boy in the palm of his hand.
"Intruder! Intruder!" The little guy's panicked scream made Jie Hai frowned and became dissatisfied. He has never seen a client like this, and he doesn't take politeness seriously? Jie Hai flew forward and wanted to take the feathers back, but was discovered by the young man first, and threw his left hand out like lightning to overthrow Jie Hai to the ground, and the old book also fell aside.
"Want to grab?" The young man didn't care when he took a shot and hurt others. He tilted his head and glanced at Jie Hai, and smiled triumphantly. "Look at you, weak chicken, dare you to do it with me?"
Jiehai was pushed by his strange force, and he pedaled backward for six or seven steps before sitting down on the ground, only feeling pain in his chest. He rubbed his chest and stood up, coughing speechlessly, he could only stare at the young guest with a look of beating.
He also looked eighteen or nineteen years old. He was wearing a baggy beige shirt, half of his belt was buckled crooked around his waist, and the corners of his pants were stuffed into black boots. He wears a blue jacket on his left shoulder and a pair of sunglasses on his neckline, and his whole body is full of ruffian breath.
This seemingly unscrupulous young man has short gray-blue hair, which is probably neglected at ordinary times, and he still has a few tufts of messy hairs that are raised high above his head. His facial features are slightly compact, his long Danfeng eyes are very evil, and the corners of his grinning mouth also show two pointed tiger teeth.
"Hey! Speak!" The blue-haired boy waited for a long time and no one made trouble. It was very boring. He glanced at the restless little puppet beside him, and threw his feathers to Jie Hai, yelling, "What kind of shop are you? No one greeted you after coming for a long time, do you want to do business?"
Jie Hai looked at the customer who was deliberately looking for trouble, and he took a deep breath and reminded himself not to be familiar with him. After doing enough psychological development, the boy smiled stiffly, and said indifferently: "This customer, our shop is self-service, please feel free to read a book, if you want to order food..." He looked at it and picked it up. Feather was rushing towards the little puppet who was rushing towards him, and stretched out his hand to cover it behind him: "I'm very sorry, I'm afraid you have no chance."
The blue-haired boy raised his eyebrows and slowly approached with a sneer. He stood with his back facing the sun, and the shadow just passed through the old book on the ground and projected on Boundary Sea. "I'm quite courageous..." He laughed and glanced at the broken book, bent over to pick it up and weighed it up, "I've been to so many restaurants, the first time I saw you entertain guests like this... …"
The boy named Saiker laughed evilly, and his words were full of threats. But Jie Hai has never eaten soft or hard. He looked at the blue-haired boy's gangster appearance with cold eyes, and when he sneered at him, he saw Sai Keer chuckle and suddenly threw the book at him. Reflexively, Jie Hai tilted his head to avoid it, and the old book flew back against his shoulder, bringing a whistling wind. The book flew extremely fast, and it was about to hit the wooden ladder when he saw it, but was firmly grasped in the palm of the palm by a strong hand, followed by a faint ridicule.
"True majesty...Why don't you send you back to the kindergarten to show off?" The voice was very deep and full of magnetism. Jie Hai looked back in surprise, and a man in uniform was slowly walking down the wooden ladder.
He looked like he was about twenty years old, wearing a tight-fitting gray-blue military uniform, ironed so that there were no wrinkles, and his tightly buttoned collar showed extremely strictness. He had no military badge on his shoulders, and he could not see his true identity. A white suspender was neatly tied around his waist, and his feet were covered with shiny black leather boots.
This man has a handsome face, a thin face, and his bright red eyes are very deep. With that short silver hair, he always gives a strange sense of majesty. He looked serious and seemed unsmiling, but his voice had the softness of closeness, which was a bit contrary.
Jie Hai stared at the visitor for a while, and when he turned around, he saw Saiker with his hands in his pockets pretending to be surprised and shouting: "I didn't do anything! Don't wrong me! If you don't believe me, ask him..." The bad boy threatened Jie Hai with a slap in the face in order to get through, but he was all caught in the eye.
The red-eyed boy didn't reveal it, he glanced at Saiker sideways, and strode forward to Jiehai. He looked down at the plain old book, with a slight smile on his face, and handed the book back to Jie Hai apologizing: "I'm really sorry, this guy has been used to fooling around since he was a child. Please bear with me if there is any rudeness. ."
Obviously it was just a little smile, but it made people feel very sincere when placed on this red pupil. Seeing that he was so polite and embarrassed to speak harshly, Jie Hai could only curb the rest of his anger temporarily. He waved his hand to take the book, and repeatedly said politely: "It doesn't matter where it is."
The red pupil smiled deeper. He glanced at the guilty companion who was facing the window and pretending to be watching the scenery, subconsciously raised his hand and rubbed his thumb, and asked Jiehai seemingly casually, "Listen to your accent, Austronesian too, right?"
"Yes, you are also from South Island?" Jie Hai was a little surprised.
"Coincidentally, our brother is a student of the National Military Academy."
"It's amazing!" Jie Hai was very envious, "I wanted to go...it's a pity that I didn't have enough physical fitness."
Saiker on the side almost laughed. He turned his head and glanced contemptuously at the weakness of Jiehai's thin arms and legs, and ridiculed loudly, "Just like you, another hundred years of training is for nothing!"
"Shut up..." The young red pupil glanced at him warningly, then comforted Jiehai, "Military academy is just like this. If your physical fitness is not up to standard, you can't survive frequent training... I don't know which high school you are currently studying in. ?"
"I currently go to school in the capital..."
"Beijing?" The boy with a red pupil seemed a little surprised. His eyes flashed suddenly, but he was blocked by the drooping eyelids. He continued to ask without a trace, "Our two brothers have always wanted to travel to the capital. I don't know if it is convenient for Fang to ask you..."
Before he could finish his words, Saiker, who had been hanging next to him for a long time, leaped over and hooked his shoulders, yelling loudly, "Is there anything to ask, Verutt! Go away, I I'm hungry!"
"..." The red pupil was silent for a moment, stretched out his hand to hold his face and pushed to the side, straightened his collar and sighed to Jie Hai, "It's time for the military academy's regulations to be reformed. The lower limit refers to the standard of a normal person...Farewell." He solemnly nodded to Jiehai and said goodbye, and walked slowly toward the porch without waiting for Saiker to react.
The blue-haired boy was a little stupefied and didn't understand what he meant, and when he saw it, he rubbed up with a cheeky face, and joked with Virut's shoulder: "What to eat at night? Finally come, let's have a big meal! "
"...Eat stewed pig brain."
"Pig brain? This is so heavy! Can it really be eaten?" Saiker asked in surprise.
"Have you eaten? You should eat more..."
"why?"
"..."
"...Hey, do you mean that I have no brains? Hey! Virut!" Saiker was dumbfounded for a moment before he reacted, chasing the back of the opponent angrily and disappearing into the porch.
Jie Hai looked at these two people and laughed blankly, and suddenly realized that the red-eyed boy named Virut also appeared silently in the study room. There should be other entrances to the bookstore besides the gate, right? The young man thought about it for a while, and shook his head amusedly: Even if there is, it is normal. This bookstore is extremely mysterious. Who knows what weird situation will be? All you have to do is to do your part.
When he thought of this, he looked at the strange book in his hand again, and he muttered in his heart: What should I do? The manager is not by his side, so you can't just throw it away, right? What if you can't find it. The boy thought for a long time and decided to put it away first, and then ask him when the store manager came back. So he took the old book and turned to the bar, put it in the wooden cabinet, and walked upstairs again to continue daily chores.
In the small wooden cabinet that no one noticed at the bar, the dilapidated nameless book lay quietly. Suddenly, there was a tremor in the air, and a thin gold pattern suddenly appeared on the mottled book cover. This gold pattern slowly traced around the writing for a while, and finally stopped on the hourglass in the middle, a golden light flashed, and a shallow golden sand was strangely added in the hourglass.