Chapter 344: The Inscription on the Cauldron and the Call of Dreams
Strictly speaking, many changes in this world always have some tiny preludes or inconspicuous accumulations.
Just when Yi Chun was speculating about Yu Xing's story with some kind of evil taste of an elder.
Inexplicably, he felt a calling...
That call is quite familiar...
Yes, he remembered...
Yi Chun’s memory went back to a rather distant day.
Someone was calling him, and he responded as expected...
But after that, no one called out the name that he had gradually forgotten.
Black Bird...
Yi Chun stopped fiddling with the sugar man.
He listened quietly to the call coming from somewhere in the night wind.
The calling was not anxious, but mixed with some young laughter.
Is someone making a wish to the black bird?
After figuring out what was going on, Yi Chun shook his head slightly.
Naturally, he ignored the nonsense of those young guys.
However, through this call, he received some new information.
His concept of the mysterious bird in this world or the next has been strengthened to a certain extent.
In the terms of the magical world, his name has formed a close enough bond with the Xuanniao.
This is quite an unexpected gain.
Yi Chun didn't know how his name came to be known.
But obviously, there must be something that holds the key.
Or, people?
Yi Chun thought about it, and then he began to concentrate on responding to the call that he had just decided not to pay attention to.
As Yi Chun put his will into it, the world gradually became silent...
Everything is sinking and falling...
Yi Chun is familiar with this experience.
Dream?
Then, he broke away from the real material world and fell into the depths of dreams...
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“I’m so tired…”
The girl felt tired from inside her body.
She tried hard to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt extremely heavy.
The surroundings were extremely dark and everything became blurry.
The girl subconsciously touched her eye sockets.
Her hand was blocked by something, but she felt relieved.
The glasses are still there...
This is an inexplicable sense of security, which seems to be enough to affect the normal functioning of the five senses.
"Where am I?"
She said this in a daze.
Before I knew it, I had walked onto a small path.
Maybe it had just rained, the path was very muddy.
The mud mixed with water made the girl's shoes feel vaguely damp and cold.
There seemed to be some light at the end of the path.
It is not as dazzling , but a warm, yet quiet red light...
Like a moth attracted to the light, the girl staggered towards it.
Although the path was narrow, she could still meet some people from time to time.
She didn't know them.
She squinted her eyes hard to see their faces clearly, but all she saw was a blurry shadow.
My eyelids are getting heavier...
I want to take a nap...
The girl thought so.
But the path doesn't seem like a place to sleep, maybe the red light can...
Just as she was staggering and gradually approaching the red light, someone suddenly pushed her from the front and pushed her out of the path!
The next moment, the girl suddenly opened her eyes!
She saw the fire and a group of people were dancing around the bonfire.
"Why did you fall asleep?"
Someone asked her in her ear, but the girl couldn't hear clearly what his tone was.
All I know is that it seemed like someone said something.
Then she saw the flames of the bonfire flickering as people danced.
In a trance, she saw the shadow of a bird flash by in the firelight.
“That’s the black bird.”
Someone else said.
For some reason, the girl reached out her hand, wanting to touch the bird in the fire.
Passing through the blazing flames, she felt the heat and the burning...
The pain became more and more clear.
Only then did she see their faces clearly.
Stiff and pale, and no matter how they danced, their eyes were fixed on her!
"Go back now! Confused boy."
Just then, the girl heard a voice.
The voice was so real that it penetrated the blazing fire and people's cold gazes, completely separating everything like Moses parting the sea!
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"call!"
Chu Kui suddenly opened her eyes, she felt hot all over and her back was wet.
It's like doing high-weight exercise and the oxygen can't keep up with the pace.
Her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was beating like a drum and it caused Chu Kui some pain.
On the bright ceiling, fluorescent lights are steadily emitting a reassuring light.
The TV next to me, which served as background music for my phone, was still playing a low-quality web drama that was prepared by some unknown investor.
But, she suddenly fell asleep without knowing why.
It was clearly just a dream, but Chu Kui felt as if he had walked through the gates of hell.
She ran to the bathroom in a daze and washed her face.
Only after his sweaty hands touched the cold water did Chu Kui feel the hidden pain disappear.
It was as if she had just been burned by something...
Chu Kui began to calm down, and she started trying to restore some of her fragmented memories.
After I came back from school, I had a meal. It was a very ordinary meal. There was nothing new to try, and nothing unusual happened during the meal.
Then, I returned to my dorm apartment…
What was I going to do after that?
While Chu Kui was thinking, he went to the table and turned on his phone which had been turned off.
Then the screen saver flashed by, and a half-opened paper appeared in front of her.
Yes, that's it!
Chu Kui suddenly remembered.
After returning to the dormitory, she prepared to browse B station and download milk tea for a while.
But at this time, she saw in her class group that a senior who was doing an internship with her on ancient artifact research had posted his newly published paper.
As a senior student facing the dual choices of graduation thesis and publication, Chu Kui naturally clicked on the paper.
Prepare to see if there is anything that can be learned or quoted.
Then, as she watched, she seemed to feel a little sleepy...
And then...
It was the path, the campfire, and the bird...
"That's the black bird..."
Suddenly, a scene emerged in Chu Kui's mind.
She couldn't remember who said this, but in her dream she knew someone told her the name of the bird.
The senior's thesis was about a series of conjectures about a series of atypical ancient artifacts.
Among them, there is an article recording the Xuanniao!
It was a fragment of a chapter engraved on a large tripod.
Because the large tripod had passed through the hands of many lawbreakers and cultural relic enthusiasts, it suffered extremely serious destructive damage.
Therefore, even that senior student did not mention it much in his paper.
When Chu Kui turned on his mobile phone, it showed the translation of this fragment from the paper.
And the page has been turned to the part near the end of a relatively complete paragraph:
"There is a different bird among the black birds, and its name is..."
Below is a picture of the area on the cauldron that corresponds to this part of the text.
Chu Kui opened her eyes wide, and saw only a blurry, mottled mark behind the word "name".
And at this moment, it was as if some prank software was triggered.
Her jpg picture, which was originally displayed extremely clearly, suddenly turned into a GIF!
The mottled marks on the cauldron gradually faded, and some new words emerged on it!
