Chapter 136 The Prophecy of Atlantis (1) Then her scalp...
After a half-second of stunned silence, Si Ling immediately played dumb: "Huh?"
Lucifer smiled and gestured for them to sit anywhere. He turned back to his desk and took the prophecy.
A stone tablet the size of two palms contains the original language text that the mermaids took from the ruins of Atlantis, and there is also a notebook.
"Thoth speaks Atlantean, so I asked her to translate. But, uh..." Lucifer nodded apologetically, "Her Chinese is limited, so to avoid ambiguity, I had to translate into English."
"It's already very good, thank you!" Si Ling thanked from the bottom of his heart.
She hadn't considered the language issue before, but she knew that Atlantis had been submerged for tens of thousands of years, and the written language had long been lost. Even if she wanted to learn it, there was no place to learn it. If no one could help her translate, her efforts would be wasted.
She reached out and took the notebook from Lucifer, then opened the memo on the Tongming Disk, which contained the language version she had learned from the Fox Ancestor:
The general who once served the supreme power in the East will return to his former battlefield.
As the shadow of his wings passed over the land, death and fear returned.
The causal line spanning time has come to an end, the world of gods is about to be reshuffled, and the glory of the ancient gods shines once again in the world.
The new order redefines right and wrong, and the guilty receive the judgment they deserve.
The notebook Lucifer handed over contained seven lines of beautiful English cursive handwriting:
The Empress of Celestial Hosts awoke from ageless slumber,
While ministers of yore bound by loyalty burst forth from seals;
Light clashed with Darkness in the final reckoning.
The arch-traitor returned defiantly seeing things to the dark cage;
A new efficiency bathed the divine realms in crystalline order.
As incantations spanning aeons unrolled their final sigil,
Her primordial glory blazed, reborn in splendor.
After reading it, Si Ling understood where Lucifer's question came from, because the word "her" was mentioned at the end of the prophecy.
Si Ling raised her hand, produced a pen, and was about to write the Chinese translation in her notebook when she felt Xuan Chi's presence approach. She subconsciously glanced sideways; he was clearly about to lean in to read. After a moment's thought, she put down her pen and read the Chinese version directly to him: "The ruler of the sky has awakened from his eternal slumber..."
"Excuse me." Lucifer suddenly interrupted her. Si Ling looked up and saw him standing up from the sofa beside her. He straightened his suit jacket and reached for the notebook in her hand. "Let me translate it."
"?" Si Ling handed the notebook to him in confusion. Lucifer cleared his throat solemnly and read in a rhythmic voice: "The Lord of the Stars has awakened from his eternal slumber, and his loyal old subordinates have broken the seal and returned to the world—!"
He spoke with great energy and clarity, and although he was just reading aloud, he managed to give it an operatic feel.
"...Does he have some mermaid blood?" Si Ling's head was buzzing with this feeling of middle school. He held his forehead and whispered to Xuan Chi, "I want to go back to China."
Xuan Chi didn't respond. Si Ling looked at him intently. He listened to Lucifer's reading in silence, as if he had already entered a state of meditation.
Lucifer continued to chant:
"The ultimate showdown between light and darkness.
The rebellious minister returned to the dark cage in his resentment and anger."
"A new order of clarity sweeps across the worlds,
The spell that spans eternity drops its final characters.
Her ancient glory is reborn, radiant and shining."
After reading the last sentence, Lucifer closed the notebook, placed it on the coffee table, and sat down again.
He originally wanted to ask Si Ling and Xuan Chi what they thought, but when he noticed their expressions, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Si Ling was lost in thought.
The prophecy did not explain the past events as clearly as she expected, but compared to the version she heard from the Fox Ancestor, this original version still revealed some details.
For example, "the clear light of the new order bathes the entire divine realm" and "her ancient divine glory burns brightly and she is reborn", which seems to imply that "she" had indeed lost the throne of the Emperor of Heaven before, and is now about to regain this position.
For example——
"The loyal old subordinates broke the seal and returned to the human world."
She looked at Xuan Chi. Xuan Chi no longer looked like he was in a trance, but there was no expression on his face either.
Lucifer added, "The mermaids also brought back another record that seems to be related to you, but it's much longer than this one. Thoth is still translating it, and it should be available to you in a few days."
"Okay, thank you." Si Ling nodded and asked politely, "Are there any missions recently?"
"Not yet." Lucifer smiled, "But there are things I want to discuss with you alone."
"Uh..." Si Ling looked at Xuan Chi hesitantly. Xuan Chi stood up calmly and said, "I'll go back to my room first." Then he walked out. After closing the door, Si Ling looked at Lucifer with a complicated look: "How embarrassing! Can't we talk about it at another time?"
"I'm sorry, I do, but to be on the safe side I'd like to get this sorted out as soon as possible." He subconsciously glanced at the door as he spoke, and asked Si Ling seriously, "Is he in a stable condition now?"
"Stable." Si Ling said earnestly, "I believe that kind of situation will not happen again... It is a low-probability event in itself and it is unlikely to happen frequently."
"That's good." Lucifer was obviously relieved, but he still added, "If you find anything unusual, please let me know immediately."
"Okay." Si Ling agreed. Seeing that Lucifer had nothing else to do, he said goodbye politely and left.
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That night, Xuan Chi disappeared, walked into the elevator, and went straight to the deepest circular cave in Hohenzollern Castle.
After the elevator door opened, the first thing that came into view was the corridor. However, since no one had been here for a long time, the doors between the corridor and the cave were no longer closed. He walked in and looked around for a while, then stopped in front of the huge bronze sword.
It once suppressed him for tens of thousands of years, but after being pulled out by Si Ling, it lost its effect and has been lying here ever since.
Xuan Chi squatted down, placed his hand above the sword, held his breath and concentrated, still able to feel the aura of magic.
His tense heartstrings relaxed slightly, and he carefully grasped the hilt of the sword and tried to lift it up.
Fortunately, this is not a magical weapon that is only controlled by the Emperor of Heaven.
Xuan Chi completely relaxed, breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, put the bronze giant sword into his backpack, turned around and walked through the corridor again, entered the elevator, and left the cave.
Fifteen minutes later, Si Ling was awakened by a knock on the door.
She frowned and opened her eyes, took out the Tongming Plate and took a look. When she found that the time showed half past one, she thought she was dreaming, but the knock on the door rang again soon.
Si Ling felt strange, so he got up, walked out of the bedroom and crossed the living room. When he opened the door and saw Xuan Chi, he was stunned.
"Good evening." Xuan Chi stood outside the door with a smile in his eyes. Si Ling looked at him doubtfully and replied, "Good evening. What's up?"
Xuan Chi looked into the room and said, "I can't sleep. Can I stay here with you for a while?"
"?" Si Ling was a little surprised, but still invited him into the house.
Hyun Chi sat on the sofa, and she casually asked him, "What would you like to drink?"
"No need." Xuan Chi shook his head, "Go to sleep."
“???” Si Ling felt even weirder.
Xuan Chi didn't say anything else and took out the Tongming disk to watch the video.
She thought about it and decided to sit with him on the sofa. After all, evil spirits didn't need to sleep, so she didn't mind doing something else.
The two people each swiped their own Tongming disk.
After about five minutes, Hyun Chi said again: "Go to sleep..."
"I'm not going to sleep anymore." Si Ling's eyes were still on the screen for a moment. After he finished speaking, he looked at him and found that his expression was unnatural.
What does it mean? He doesn't want to be alone because he has something on his mind, but he also doesn't want others to get too close to him?
Si Ling thought it was funny, so he didn't ask any more questions. He just nodded and said, "Okay." Then he got up and went into the house.
She closed the door and lay back on the bed, but didn't fall asleep again. She leaned against the pillow, turned on the desk lamp and continued to watch the videos on the Tongming disk.
A few minutes later, she faintly heard footsteps outside the door, light and slow. She almost imagined the scene of Xuan Chi walking on tiptoe.
Si Ling frowned and stared at the door. After waiting for a while, the door handle was turned in the same light and slow way.
Si Ling: “…”
In the middle of the night, this guy has nothing better to do than to come and perform a horror movie for evil spirits?
Soon, the door opened, and Xuan Chi looked towards the bed with a tense expression. The moment his eyes met Si Ling's, he froze.
"...Not asleep?" he asked dryly.
Si Ling looked puzzled: "Do you have something to tell me?" She put down the Tongming Plate and said, "Go ahead."
Xuan Chi pursed his lips and said, "I want to eat something."
Si Ling was suspicious and told him as usual: "There are snacks in the cabinet by the door."
"Thank you." Xuan Chi closed the door with his backhand. Si Ling teased him in his heart that his lying skills were not as good as a three-year-old child.
But what does he want to do?
She thought carefully, turned off the screen of the Tongming disk, turned off the desk lamp, covered herself with the quilt and lay down.
She closed her eyes and waited quietly. She vaguely heard the sound of the snack cabinet being opened. After a few minutes, Xuan Chi appeared again.
This time he didn't try to unlock the door, but used magic to go through the wall.
Si Ling lay on her side on the bed and could clearly feel his breath approaching.
This action was very strange, but she didn't think he would hurt her, so she continued to wait motionlessly.
Soon, she felt his hand touching her hair, gently twisting it...
Then her scalp started to hurt.
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Si Ling: Pulling my hair???
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【Comment…?】
After I determined the direction of the last three sentences of the prophecy, nothing I could write felt right. I felt a little off whether I wrote the Chinese or the English first. Finally, I discussed it with deepseek for several rounds, and I accepted deepseek's suggestions for the three groups of words "crystalline order", "final sigil" and "primordial glory blazed". I feel that this situation cannot be considered completely original, so I marked it here.
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