After the brilliant light, the seven-star dial on the Gate of Truth slowly retracted, and the glittering walls returned to their original state. The starry and dreamlike scenes disappeared like smoke.

Only Lin, lying flat on his back, could verify the power of the ruins.

The people around carefully checked Lin's condition, then shook their heads at Q silently, confirming that nothing could be done.

If someone was still optimistic about the ruins at first, they would be truly scared and feel the fear of the unknown after seeing Lin in a vegetative state. No one understood the principle of the murals, and no one knew why others were fine, but Lin was brain dead.

Q looked at Lin lying on the ground with a complicated expression. He said helplessly, "Maybe this is fate."

He was overwhelmed by the fact that the people he had trained had gone astray and now had fallen into such a state. He had originally hoped that his family would prosper for a long time, but somehow the goals and results gradually became increasingly distant and exhausting.

Maybe he should take a break.

Without Lin's leadership, Shi Zhuoqu and others outside the ruins were quickly subdued. They were powerless to fight back against the Chinese and H country people.

Lilith was captured on the spot. Joe also escaped from his restraints and was freed.

Abner tried to move the crystal ball, and he found that it could now be easily removed without being stuck on the stone pillar.

The chaos is over, everything is calm.

As they were about to leave the hall, they noticed car tracks in the corridor. These were left by Lin and his companions when they rashly drove in.

Abner scratched his head in annoyance: "I wonder if there is any way to fix it."

The group avoided car tracks, passed through the dim corridor, and finally saw the daylight outside.

Outside, Liu Jun and others were counting the personnel after the chaos. Fortunately, Huang Xian reminded them in time and no losses were caused.

Chu Qianli had been hiding behind Tan Muxing, holding the object tightly in her hand. After the Seven Stars were completed, a stone rolled out of the dial, but the light in the hall was too strong, and she didn't have time to check the details.

Now that she had come out of the corridor and returned to the familiar team, she finally had the chance to open her palm and observe the dazzling round gem in her hand. It was like a red star in the sky, shining and radiant in her hand, as if it was made of a special material.

"This is..." Tan Muxing saw the ruby ​​in her palm and hesitated, "...baby stone?"

The baby stone was a pure red crystal, but it was not as dazzling as the gem in her hand. The gem in front of her was emitting a dazzling light, similar to the style of the murals when the ruins were closed.

"It seems to be made of baby stone, a gemstone that has been purified." Pan Yicheng looked worried. "Did you pick it up from the ruins? It won't have any effect on the body, right?"

Because Lin collapsed in the lobby for unknown reasons, everyone in the Mondsen Group was in a panic.

Qiao and others believed that Lin was punished for offending the God of Wrath, which made the others fear the ruins, fearing that they would be cursed. The remaining people stayed in the ruins carefully, and their attitude was much more respectful than before.

Pan Yicheng did not have such a belief. He suspected that the baby stone had an irreversible effect on the human body, which eventually caused Lin, who was in a state of emotional turmoil, to fall.

Chu Qianli stared at the gem and shook her head honestly: "I didn't pick it up, it was given to me by someone else."

"A gift?"

Tan Muxing and Pan Yicheng both looked surprised.

"Yes, because my name is written inside." Chu Qianli held up the gemstone and showed it to the two of them, wondering, "Is this the word 'Li'?"

Pan Yicheng's eyesight was not good, so he quickly put on his glasses and exclaimed after confirming it: "Oh, it's really the running script of the word 'Li'. This is so weird!"

There is a golden Chinese character "Li" in the middle of the stone, which is integrated with the purified rutile. It can only be discovered by carefully examining it under sunlight.

Among the people present, only Chu Qianli's name was related to it, and the gem fell into her hands naturally. No wonder she said it was given to her by someone else.

"But who prepared this?" Tan Muxing asked curiously, "and it's written in Chinese."

Chu Qianli thought of the seven-star dial, and suddenly thought of the young man in ancient robes, and the surprised look on his face when he saw her, and suddenly realized: "It's the Grandmaster."

The ruins of the baby stone were not built overnight, but were accumulated by generations of predecessors. After all, numerology is changing and developing, and metaphysics will also alternate between the old and the new, which is why someone is needed to repair and continuously fill in the gaps of the past.

The crystal ball stone pillar is related to Kabbalah, but the seven-star conjoined bead disk on the Gate of Truth is clearly from Ziwei, and was probably built by the creator of the baby stone compass. Ziwei Fengshui is very beneficial to the overall construction of the ruins, and it is estimated that many facilities were left by the founder of Haomen.

Zi Wei Dou Shu pays attention to names, and engraving names in gemstones is in line with the thinking of our predecessors.

"We really looked into each other's eyes at that time. It wasn't just my illusion. He saw me, too!" Chu Qianli held up the gem with joy. "This was given to me by my ancestor. Even my grandfather has never seen it. I will show it off to him when I go back to the village to sweep the graves!"

It was the glimpse of the two people across time and space in the corridor that made the ancestor leave a small gift on the dial, waiting for the younger generation who would come here after a long time to pick it up.

Although Chu Qianli has studied Ziwei Doushu since she was young, she doesn't know if she is a member of Haomen. After all, Chu Yilie has left her master, so it's strange to trace her lineage.

Now, she actually received a gift from the Grandmaster, which was undoubtedly the recognition of the predecessors. She was a well-deserved descendant of Ziwei, and no matter how others criticized her identity, it was useless. Who else could compare with the credibility of the founder?

She doesn't care about external gossip and false reputation, but this is the recognition and care from her predecessors, which means a lot!

"According to the theory of four-dimensional space, this is not impossible." Pan Yicheng said with a smile, "Your grandfather has been following the traces of the ancestor, but I didn't expect that you would accomplish it in the end."

Chu Qianli held the golden ruby ​​in her hands and raised her chin proudly: "Even the Grand Master admits that I am the best in the world."

Tan Muxing asked doubtfully, "Did you communicate in the corridor?"

"No, we just looked at each other."

"So when did he say that?"

Chu Qianli said confidently: "He gave me Qianli Stone, isn't this just praising me for being number one?"

Tan Muxing: "...You have already named the stones."

The purified rutile has no name, so Chu Qianli just calls it Qianli Stone and gives it the name directly.

Chu Qianli said calmly, "He also encouraged me to continue studying the stars, strive to integrate Chinese and Western knowledge and carry forward the school, and finally become a cross-era astrological genius, surpassing several generations in the past, and it doesn't matter if I surpass him..."

“…”

Tan Muxing faced her smug little look, and he had no idea what she had figured out from that look, to the extent that she could extrapolate such rich meaning from the Grandmaster's eyes.

Regrettably, the Grandmaster probably won't connect with them again, and he can't show up to say "I didn't say this in the tunnel." The final right of interpretation belongs to Chu Qianli.

Chu Qianli wanted to put the Qianli Stone away. She held it carefully but didn't know where to put it.

"Let me put the chain on for you."

Tan Muxing found a necklace with a glass bottle hanging on it. He placed the Qianli stone carefully into the bottle and gently put it on her. The ruby ​​in the glass bottle was intact, so she could carry it with her without it coming into direct contact with the outside world.

"You can study the ingredients when you get back." Pan Yicheng said, "But if it's specially sent to you, it shouldn't be harmful."

If it is a gift from the ancestors, then it contains blessings and cannot be a bad thing.

Chu Qianli nodded. She looked at the gem in the bottle that was as bright as a star, as if she saw the people under the same starry sky again after hundreds of years.

They once came here with the same ideals and turned into a tiny star in the long river of history.

After the ruins were closed, the crimes of Lin and others were cleared one by one, and the researchers finally had peace.

The Chinese side and Mondsen each took back the keys for safekeeping. After negotiation, the crystal ball was left at the ruins in Country H, and the remaining keys were returned to their original owners.

Chu Qianli later learned that the spirit pendant did not belong to Monderson, but had always been Abner's private property. He was reluctant to sell the spirit pendant, so he cooperated with Monderson to help explore the Baby Stone ruins.

"I plan to stay in Country H to continue studying the corridor murals after I have restored the ruins I am responsible for. Although we cannot witness the opening of the ruins, we can still dig out the valuable information in the murals." Abner smiled, "Are you interested in staying with us?"

Abner has always admired the tranquility of Country H. He originally planned to live there, so he invited Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing.

Tan Muxing said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, we have to go back to our country to go to school."

Abner was stunned: "Oh, by the way, you are still students, and your family members may not agree..."

Chu Qianli nodded in agreement: "Yes, and the banknote printing machine is not far away, otherwise I will lose money."

Abner: “?” He thought that Chinese culture is “Don’t travel far away while your parents are still alive”?

Abner was responsible for repairing the placement points of the spirit ornaments, while Joe helped repair the placement points of the Runestones.

The key owners worked separately to improve the ruins, not only recording the precious heritage of the placement points, but also readjusting the mechanisms based on their own experience.

Meiru Z originally wanted to put the hidden arrow back, but she found that the six-pillar plum blossom pile could store an astonishing amount of arrows, and began to think about how to make the level more difficult.

Chu Qianli asked blankly: "Sister Ru Z, are you making things so difficult for the younger generation?"

She always felt that the difficulty of key placement had increased significantly.

"That's two hundred years later. This mechanism must not be difficult." Meiru Z said as a matter of course, "According to the development of technology, should we use nuclear weapons?"

Tan Muxing said weakly: "Please don't have such dangerous thoughts."

Chu Qianli: "That's right! We cannot impose our Spartan childhood on future generations!"

Meiru Z: “…”

On the other hand, Xu Zaiyuan also did something similar. When repairing the ruins, he decisively increased the intensity of visual misleading. It seemed that he was still brooding over the obstacles he had encountered here, and he treated his future successors without mercy.

To put it in Xu Zaiyuan's words, "If they can't surpass me, there is no reason to open the ruins."

Chu Qianli heard what his companions did and sighed, "Too much, too much! This is the involution of exams. They are all racking their brains to make things difficult for those who come after them. I can't do that..."

"So you want to lower the difficulty?"

"No, I won't deliberately make it difficult for them. I'm going to give them a really difficult set of questions!"

"?"

Chu Qianli asked the construction team to repair the bottom of the Majestic Column that was blown up. She also added a lot of creative ideas to the two key placement points to restore the damaged baby stone ruins to their original state.

Of course, the new ruins are naturally more difficult, but Chu Qianli will never quit the ranks of chicken kids (?).

The renovation days were over in a flash.

When Huang Xian had become friends with the local Arctic foxes, everyone finally set out on their journey back home.

The group had dinner with Abner, Joe and others, and would fly back to their homeland the next day.

After dinner, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing strolled on the snowy path. They admired the clear sky of Country H for the last time as they would soon return to their warm homeland.

This is a long-awaited moment of peace for the two.

In the quiet night, the stars are like bright lights hanging high in the sky. They gather together in the darkness, like the flowing river of life.

Tan Muxing followed Chu Qianli's steps closely. He clenched the things in his hand hesitantly, and watched her happily stepping on the snow, making a crackling sound. He was worried and didn't know how to start.

Chu Qianli was playing in the snow while casually saying, "I have already fulfilled my original agreement. It is Xingxing's turn to fulfill your agreement."

"Huh?" Tan Muxing was startled when he heard this, mistakenly thinking that she had guessed his inner thoughts. He was about to explain in a panic, but seeing that she looked normal, he suppressed his panic and asked, "What agreement?"

"You said you'd gain weight after everything was over." Chu Qianli said, with her hands on her hips, "My life span has been solved. When will you gain weight again?"

When Tan Muxing fell from the Gobi Desert and became thin, Chu Qianli fed him heartbrokenly. He later said that once all the problems were resolved, he might be able to turn back into a big white bear.

She now has her life left, so naturally she questioned.

"...You actually still remember this." Tan Muxing sighed softly. Seeing her calm face, he felt strange and said in a low voice, "I really thought too much."

Sometimes she is like a carefree child and completely forgets some important details.

"What are you overthinking about?"

Seeing her puzzled expression, Tan Muxing took a deep breath, finally mustered up the courage, took her left hand, and carefully put the colorful knot on her. The old hand knot was destroyed in the explosion of the Majestic Pillar, and he recently found materials to weave a new knot.

It is said that the bracelet symbolizes blessing for safety. He didn't know whether it had anything to do with her escaping danger this time, but as he never believed in metaphysics, he still weaved a new one for her.

"That day in the hospital, I always felt something was wrong." Tan Muxing recalled the kiss in the ward. His eyes suddenly drifted away, his lips pursed, and even his ears turned red. He said awkwardly, "I think there's something I haven't said formally yet..."

After a moment, he stepped forward and whispered in her ear, making up for the missing words.

The low and soft voice mixed with the warm breath was like a feather accidentally entering her ears, making her face tinged with pink against the backdrop of the fine snow.

"I like you."

It has been like this since a long time ago.

The next thousands of dawns will always be accompanied by the bright evening stars.

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