Chapter 62 Tracking
"Ding, the farm projection time redeemed by the host has ended. Please continue to work hard to unlock more functions of the space."
Gu Nian came to her farm space again. Just as she expected, the gray area that was originally projected to the outskirts of Jiangcheng returned completely. She opened the space map in the system and it was exactly the same as before. Her space was complete again.
Gu Nian came out of the farm space and turned on the radio again. Soon she heard a special news broadcast. The host was stuttering to tell the audience about the sudden incident. In front of everyone's eyes, the Peach Blossom Land suddenly appeared and suddenly disappeared. The radio also received the recorded audio of the scene. Some people at the scene exclaimed, some were disappointed, and some were shocked...
Gu Nian turned off the radio and drove to the main house of the Jing family. She had an appointment to meet Yue Jian.
This mysterious space came from the jade lotus. Gu Nian now understood that the jade lotus passed down from his ancestors was a rare treasure. Being able to own and inherit such a jade lotus, Gu Nian felt that his ancestors did not look like ordinary people at all, but more likely to be a big family in the cultivation world.
Gu Nian already knew that the Jing family was a family of practitioners whose inheritance had continued for thousands of years. So, perhaps in the Jing family, she could learn about her ancestors.
"You want to know about the Gu family?" After listening to Gu Nian's explanation, Yue Jian asked curiously, "Don't you know?"
Gu Nian said helplessly: "Not every family has left behind a legacy like the Jing family. I only know that my ancestors should also be a family of cultivators, but I know very little about it, so I would like to ask you to help check if there is any relevant information about the Gu family in the records passed down by the Jing family."
Gu Nian came to ask Yuejian to check the information of the Gu family, also with the mentality of trying to touch porcelain. She actually just speculated that her ancestors were practitioners, and then see if she can find information here to verify it. If she finds it, it will prove Gu Nian's inference. If she can't find it, then forget it.
She still didn't plan to tell Yue Jian about the space brought by this mysterious jade lotus. There was no need to test human nature.
Yue Jian pondered and said, "As for the cultivation family with the surname Gu, I have seen it in the classics handed down by the family. I can take it out and show it to you to see if it is what you are looking for."
He found the housekeeper and gave him some instructions. After a while, the housekeeper came back with two yellowed books.
The two volumes were both old thread-bound books. Yue Jian carefully opened the first one and motioned for Gu Nian to take a look.
That volume records several spiritual families, the first of which is a family with the surname Gu. There are many alchemists in this family, and the most talented one is a member of the clan named Gu Qing, who is the top alchemist of the time and has left behind countless elixirs. What's more rare is that this master named Gu Qing is not only good at alchemy, but also good at refining equipment. He has extraordinary attainments in both. It should be noted that it is extremely difficult to improve in one of them.
This book also records the family emblem of the Gu family, which is an extremely delicate jade lotus.
Found it! The moment he saw Yu Lian, Gu Nian realized that the Gu family mentioned in this book was his own ancestor.
Gu Nian continued reading. According to the book, the Gu family was most prominent during Gu Qing's generation, but after that, there was a lack of successors. There were fewer and fewer descendants in the family who could inherit their talents, and they gradually stopped appearing in the cultivation world.
The tribesmen were unable to embark on the path of cultivation and became ordinary people.
When Gu Nian was flipping through the book, Yue Jian was also beside him. When he saw Gu Nian's brows relax and his eyes were filled with joy, he naturally guessed that this Gu family was most likely Gu Nian's ancestor, so he added, "In addition to this book, I have seen the name Gu Qing somewhere else."
He turned to a page of the second book underneath and handed it to Gu Nian.
"I visited my friend Gu Qing on the day of the month of the year of Gengzi."
There was only this short sentence on it.
"What is this?" Gu Nian asked.
"According to the rules of the Jing family, servants will record the affairs of each head of the family." Yuejian explained: "This is Jing Yuejian's record. According to what is written here, he went to visit a friend named Gu Qing, and not long after that, Jing Yuejian went to the capital and began to accept the emperor's offerings."
I see. This book is the Jing family's version of the head's daily life. According to what is written here, Jing Yuejian and Gu Qing are friends. Gu Nian thought to himself, maybe the jade lotus he got is related to this Gu Qing? That space is very much like a small world made by refining, and the farm has planting and refining techniques, and this Gu Qing happens to practice alchemy and refine equipment, and also knows Jing Yuejian. With so many keywords put together, Gu Nian can't help but think of a hole.
Yuejian said: "All the information related to the Gu family is here."
"Thank you." Gu Nian was already satisfied and even pleasantly surprised to know so much. She also planned to go back to her hometown to see if she could find more clues.
Early the next morning, she drove back to her hometown.
When Gu Nian was a child, he lived with his grandfather in Yantian Village on the outskirts of Jiangcheng. Later, Gu Nian moved to Pingcheng to live with his parents. A few years later, after his parents passed away, his grandfather sold the small bungalow in Yantian Village and came to Pingcheng to take care of Gu Nian.
In Gu Nian's childhood memory, Yantian Village was a small village nestled in the mountains and beside the water. After the apocalypse, the village was located on the outskirts of the wilderness. Gu Nian thought that perhaps Yantian Village had moved to the underground city, but when Gu Nian drove over, he found that there were still some people living in the village. These villagers were all evolved people, providing some accommodation and food for wilderness hunters. The villagers also hunted themselves, so they were able to live on the outskirts of the wilderness.
It seems that small settlements like this will also be a way of survival for humans in the future, Gu Nian thought to herself. She found the village chief and asked about her grandfather.
The village chief picked up his reading glasses, took the photo of his grandfather that Gu Nian handed over and looked at it carefully for a while, then said in surprise: "Nian boy! Well, well, you have grown so big!"
The village chief was very enthusiastic about Gu Nian, because he respected Gu Nian's grandfather very much. "Your grandfather is the most educated person who came to the village, and the school in the village can only be run thanks to your grandfather."
Gu Nian took the opportunity to ask about his grandfather's life.
The village chief told Gu Nian how careful her grandfather was when he was teaching and how kind he was to children. He talked a lot of things and Gu Nian finally heard some useful information.
"Your grandfather had his own office in the school, which contained many things. Your grandfather was a college student who had studied abroad and was doing research. He also knew medicine. He had found ways to make many herbs into pills, and everyone felt very good after eating them! Later, your grandfather left and locked the office before leaving. We didn't dare to open it... But as soon as your grandfather arrived in Pingcheng, your parents died after a few days of rescue in a car accident. He stayed to take care of you and never came back..."
Gu Nian followed the village to the small office, and under the pretext of wanting to stay a little longer, she stayed inside alone.
In the office, there was a paint-chipped metal cabinet against the wall, and then a wooden desk and a chair. The books left behind were all covered with thick dust.
Gu Nian looked through the books carefully, but unfortunately they were just some teaching notes, and some were just prescriptions with marks on them.
Gu Nian was a little disappointed. She started to search desperately, but the office was too small to hide anything.
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Gu Nian suddenly realized that this office was indeed too small. When she passed by outside just now, she clearly felt that from the outside, this office was much bigger than this!
She compared the inside and outside of the room and moved open the metal cabinet, where there was a secret door.
Gu Nian walked in. Inside was a room of about two square meters with a workbench in the middle.
On the workbench, there were many tools for making medicine. Gu Nian even saw a bronze tripod for the fractionation of mercury, which was the tool used by alchemists to refine mercury. In the middle, there was a stone platform with a shiny iron hammer on it. The iron hammer was very old, with traces of burning and chopping on it.
As if possessed by a ghost, Gu Nian reached out to touch the hammer, and as soon as she got it in her hand, she fainted.
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When Gu Nian woke up again, she found herself in an unfamiliar room. There was a tall wooden cabinet next to her and a familiar workbench in front of it, which was very similar to the one she saw before she fell into a coma.
There was a mirror in the room. Gu Nian twisted her body with great effort and was suddenly dumbfounded - she found that she had turned into a hammer. Looking closely, it looked a little familiar - wasn't this the one she was holding in her hand before she fainted?
She looked around the room. Thank God, she could observe with just a hammer - on the canvas hanging in the middle of the room, there was a lifelike jade lotus. It seemed that this was the Gu family.
Gu Nian was still adjusting when a tall man in coarse cloth walked in. He picked up the hammer that Gu Nian was using, pulled up the bellows, and started forging iron. Then the man started making medicine, and when he processed the medicinal materials, he used the hammer to flatten them and squeeze out the juice.
This man who can both refine weapons and make medicine, maybe he is Gu Qing, Gu Nian thought to himself.
"Gu Qing, are you home?" Just then, someone called out from outside.
Gu Qing stopped what he was doing and opened the door. Standing outside the door was a handsome man, his clothes were simple and gorgeous, he looked like a great man, but his eyes were covered with a thick white veil.
"Why are you here again, fortune teller?" Gu Qing frowned and said unceremoniously.
"Don't say that. So many people want to ask me for Yuejian, but it's hard for them to come to my house. Do you have tea? I want to drink something hot." The handsome man walked in familiarly, not seeming shy at all.
Gu Nian immediately understood that he was pulled into a memory by the hammer to see what happened to Gu Qing. Since he was here, he might as well make the best of it. Gu Nian simply became a spectator to see if he could find the clues he wanted.
Gu Qing felt a headache every time he saw Jing Yuejian. This man meant trouble to him. So he put on a sullen face and reluctantly boiled water to make tea. He asked casually, "What's the matter with the white gauze on your eyes?"
Jing Yuejian said nonchalantly: "I did a fortune telling and was accidentally punished by heaven, so I became blind."
Gu Qing didn't expect such an answer. He hesitated and said, "But... you look quite convenient to move?"
Jing Yuejian smiled mysteriously: "I borrowed a pair of heart eyes to use, they can still hold out for a while."
Gu Qing never understood these fortune-tellers, they were always mysterious. He still preferred blacksmithing or refining medicine, at least they had rules to follow. He placed the teacup in front of the Mirror Moon Mirror: "What is the hexagram that even you have to suffer such a severe punishment from heaven?"
Jing Yuejian picked up the teacup, smelled the tea, and said slowly: "I predicted this, it is a sign of the end of the world, all living things will be completely annihilated, and the world will return to nothingness. I have agreed to accept the offerings of the human dynasty, and I will leave for the capital in a few days, there I will predict my last death, but if I'm lucky, maybe I can predict a ray of hope for this world."
Gu Qing didn't expect this answer, again. Gu Qing was not an ordinary person either. After a moment of silence, he just asked, "What's the matter with you coming to see me?"
Jing Yuejian said: "I would like you to make a magical instrument."
Gu Qing asked curiously, "What are you going to do? A horoscope or a divination mirror?"
Jing Yuejian shook his head: "I don't do any of these."
"The magic weapon I want to make is a world that can be created on its own. This world can evolve and grow on its own. The plants and trees in it can wither and flourish, and there will be day and night and four seasons. If the world is really destroyed, perhaps future generations can still go to this small world to avoid the disaster."
Gu Qing has always been obsessed with refining tools. When others heard Jing Yuejian's words, they would only think that Jing Yuejian was fanciful, but he pondered for a long time and thought about the feasibility. Finally, Gu Qing said: "The magic tool you mentioned, let alone the trouble of refining, the most difficult thing is to find materials with spiritual intelligence to make the spirit of this magic tool. I have been looking for so many years, but I haven't found it."
Jing Yuejian smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I have found the material to open your spiritual intelligence for you. The witch tribe in Yunmeng Lake has sent me a message that a piece of wood spirit with spiritual intelligence appeared in the depths of Yunmeng Lake."
Gu Qing's lifelong wish was to refine a magical instrument with intelligence. What Jingyuejian said was exactly what he wanted. He took his tools and immediately set off for Yunmengze.
The hammer that Gu Nian possessed, as Gu Qing's most important tool, was naturally taken away as well.
Then Gu Nian saw the extremely rare material that could open up spiritual intelligence that Gu Qing had been searching for all his life.
It turned out to be a little black monster.
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