Chapter 016 The Fallen Sign
Yang Zengyue looked back at his master in horror, his voice a little stuck: "Master, I just, just now I really didn't touch the lottery box, I, I put it very steadily, very good..."
Jiuxiao closed his eyes, then opened them after a while and told Zengyue, "It's okay. Just pick up a stick from the ground and let me see it."
Although Jiuxiao said that everything was fine, his heart was in turmoil.
The fortune-telling box of Xingyun Temple fell for no reason, and this was recorded twice in the temple's history.
Moreover, every time it falls, there will be huge changes or even disasters in the Central Dimension.
And what does this third time portend?
Could it be what Zengyue just mentioned, the end of the world?
Yang Zengyue followed her master's instructions, walked to the scattered fortune sticks, closed her eyes, picked up one from the ninety-nine on the ground, and handed it to Jiuxiao who followed her in.
Jiuxiao turned the fortune slip over:
A light pneumatic mountain is difficult to climb with just a thread of iron.
The earth is shaking and the mountains and rivers are in chaos, and a visitor is coming from outer space.
After seeing the fortune sticks, Jiuxiao walked to where the fortune stick box was placed, took out the tortoise shell he had used for divination at Xingyun Temple, and breathed a sigh of relief after getting the hexagram of "Ze Tian Que".
Yang Zengyue and Chen Jiaer were watching quietly from the side.
Jiuxiao passed on all he had learned to Yang Zengyue, except for the skill of divination, which his master had never taught her. She once asked the reason, but his master did not answer.
She could more or less understand the meaning of the fortune sticks, but as for the hexagrams, she needed the master to explain them to her.
Jiuxiao wiped the fortune stick with a cloth and put it back into the fortune stick box that Zengyue had packed up.
"Let's go, we'll talk while we walk." Then they walked out of the hall.
Yang Zengyue closed the door again and blew a whistle. Pumpkin crawled out of the dog hole in the courtyard wall and quickly came to her side.
It licked its tongue, which was still dripping with water, and it was obvious that it had just had a good play. It rubbed against Zengyue obediently and went to lead the way.
Yang Zengyue carried the backpack on his back, and followed Jiuxiao with Chen Jiaer. After locking the main gate, the three of them quickly walked down the mountain.
After reaching a flat area, Jiuxiao and the other two caught up and told them the meaning of the fortune: "Zengyue, the fortune shows that a great disaster will occur, but it is not the end of the world. There is still a glimmer of hope."
Yang Zengyue had already guessed it to some extent: "So, what I said is true, it really is not like waking up from a dream."
"Well, Grandpa has no doubts, but what the fortune predicts may be more terrifying than what you described."
Yang Zengyue pondered: "Is it because Jiaer and I were reborn and changed some of the trajectories?"
Jiu Xiao thought for a moment and said, "No, these things did happen, but they probably happened somewhere else, so you might not have noticed. After all, you said that information was completely blocked after the apocalypse, and after you went to Nanyuan, no one passed on news from Sikun Mountain or even further south, right?"
That's true.
She never returned to Sikunshan after that, so she didn't know what happened there later.
Jiuxiao continued, "Nanyuan is in the heart of Zhongwei, Sikun Mountain is in the southwest, and an unexpected disaster may have occurred along the southern coast."
Yang Zengyue knew some news about the south: "After the apocalypse, that place was hit by the waves, and all the coastal cities turned into sea areas. Few people escaped."
Because it is no longer suitable for human survival, no one who left there has ever returned.
What particularly concerned Jiuxiao was the last sentence: "Also, the arrival of visitors from outer space could be a sign of a disaster from the starry sky."
Yang Zengyue was in deep thought. She didn't remember anything unusual happening in the starry sky, nor had any large celestial body hit this planet.
However, there are sporadic meteorites falling.
"Could it be something else? Some people have speculated that the beasts I'm talking about come from another time and space." Yang Zengyue replied.
Jiuxiao: "None of this is certain right now. First, build the project you envisioned and try to complete it before the winter moon arrives."
Jiuxiao's heart has never been calm since he heard Zengyue's story, and it was even more turbulent because of the fortune stick.
Fortunately, he is in good health, otherwise he would have heart problems.
"Well, let's think it over carefully when we get back, and then the master can make some revisions for me. There are some things I might not have thought of." Yang Zengyue quickened his pace.
Even though she had experienced the end of the world, she was not very old, and her life experience had more to do with witnessing the sinister nature of human beings. When designing these large-scale projects, she also referred to what she had seen.
She planned to use the wind farm in the Sikunshan Wind Valley to generate electricity. After the end of the world, there would be no water or electricity, and the manpower would be drastically reduced. There would be no one to maintain these basic facilities, so she had to be self-sufficient.
In addition, she would also like to purchase a few other generators as backup if possible.
She had to investigate the solar energy project. After all, after the winter month, the land would be in an environment with very short days and very long nights for almost six months.
The sunshine disappeared for a long, long time.
Jiuxiao decided to contact Xie Baigu, the current head of the Xie family, and ask the Xie family to transfer the dividends he had received over the years.
This amount of money should be enough to rebuild Sikunshan inside and out three times.
He also has a wealthy family.
He had originally intended to leave this money for Zengyue as a dowry, but now in this situation, the dowry has no meaning.
If you don't spend the money, you won't be able to spend it in the future.
The three of them quickly walked along the mountain path to their resting place.
At the wide part of the mountain road, there is an ancient tree that has grown for a thousand years and may be the same age as Xingyun Temple.
There are simple stone benches and stone tables under the tree for people to rest. These stone products have become extremely smooth after years of immersion. Usually, she and her master rest here when they go down the mountain.
Just as Yang Zengyue was about to sit down, he noticed a little bird with newly grown wings and feathers on the ground.
It's a small forest eagle.
It may be that the mother bird went out to find food and had not returned yet. The little bird was extremely hungry and struggled in the nest and accidentally fell out.
The black bird had a striking tuft of white feathers on its head and was flapping its wings trying to fly but couldn't.
Its wings are not strong enough, and its eyes are so cute that Zengyue feels soft in her heart.
Yang Zengyue held the bird in his arms and said, "Master, I'll send this little guy back, otherwise it will definitely not survive tonight."
There are still some elusive carnivores in the mountains. If this little forest eagle is discovered by those guys, it will definitely become their meal.
"Well, climb the tree slowly." Jiuxiao was not worried. With Yang Zengyue's current skills, climbing a tree was a piece of cake.
Yang Zengyue put the bird in the open bag he was carrying, then climbed up the ancient tree and put the bird back into its nest.
When she was about to get down from the tree, she nodded the little eagle's head and said, "Don't be naughty anymore. If you fall down again, no one will bring you back. I won't be going up the mountain recently. You must wait for your mother in the nest."
After saying that, Yang Zengyue climbed down from the tree. The tree was more than ten meters high, and she jumped down directly.
Because she was in a hurry, she didn't notice that she accidentally scratched her hand when she climbed the tree, and a trace of blood from her hand rubbed onto the bird.
The Xiaolin Eagle's entire body was pitch black, with only a tuft of white hair in the center of its head. The blood was stained on its neck, so Yang Zengyue did not notice it.
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