Chapter 639: The Ancestor's Gift (28)

Luo Qi concentrated his attention, just about to try opening the door, when a series of stinging pains suddenly pricked his face.

He was distracted and turned his head back, perceiving a series of Magic activations, accompanied by a unique joy from Liu Ziyi amidst the crowd. It seemed the exploratory Magic that Liu Ziyi wanted was finally all running.

Luo Qi stopped in his tracks and asked Liu Ziyi, who was not far away, "Any new discoveries?"

"There are too many new discoveries," Liu Ziyi said with a dazed expression, her attention already lost in the flickering Magic symbols; those symbols were circling Liu Ziyi like colorful plankton, flashing and disappearing at high speed.

Luo Qi waited for a while—specifically, he counted to five—and then asked good-naturedly, "What did you discover?"

Liu Ziyi finally spared the energy to distinguish what Luo Qi was asking, "Oh, no new threats discovered, but there are many new findings in the field of Magic exploration, which explain quite a few interesting questions, for example... ah, do you want to hear them?"

Luo Qi asked tentatively, "Did you discover any Magic to open or close the Seal? For example, a Primary Seal—like a door lock; is there any Magic to open a door lock?"

Liu Ziyi didn't hear a word he said; her brows furrowed, and she was suddenly distracted by a certain line of Magic that Luo Qi couldn't understand, "Talk later, I'll find it for you later."

Luo Qi had no choice but to give up, abandoning the shortcut, and waited another minute, ensuring there were no more interruptions and no more Yajian focusing on him, before he began to concentrate his own attention.

Shi Xiansheng had left him a treasure mountain, and in front of it, Luo Qi felt he could only be considered a groundhog; his excavation ability on the treasure mountain was truly limited. He knew there must be priceless treasures buried in the mountain, but they were covered by countless ordinary jewels.

He could search according to basic keywords; under the general outline of "opening a door," he could indeed find many Magic texts. He could test them one by one within this scope; he could create a calm, emotionless Luo Qi branch to count and check. However, besides still being time-consuming, Luo Qi had some hidden concerns—what if some Spell was also categorized under this entry due to ambiguous semantics? If he caused too much of a stir, it would be hard to clean up. Doing it this way was like being a human artificial intelligence, or not even an artificial intelligence, because his knowledge base was too poor; he could only be considered a human artificial idiot.

Suddenly, a hand was placed on the door in front of Luo Qi. Luo Qi came back to his senses, realizing it was Wusu touching the Mekatelun Cube on the door.

Luo Qi turned his head and asked, "Is there a mechanism?"

With the composure of a ninety-year-old, Wusu ignored Luo Qi's nonsense, "We saw this symbol the day before."

Luo Qi asked, "Does Mage Wusu know what this means?"

"I don't know," Wusu said bluntly. Just as Luo Qi was feeling a bit disappointed, Wusu continued, "All existence has its own meaning. When the Progenitor Mage used the Mekatelun Cube, of course, they would have imbued it with meaning. Or perhaps the interpretation is not important; the meaning of a symbol is, in the final analysis, just for identification."

Identification. Luo Qi remembered Du Zhengyi once blurting out that he wanted to use the Mekatelun Cube to represent himself; there were actually not many coincidences in this world. "Like a human national flag; not many people can clearly state the meaning of every element in another country's flag, but that doesn't prevent them from identifying the country. This symbol doesn't seem to represent the Progenitor Mage entirely; otherwise, this symbol should have appeared in the Qionglin, and Mages wouldn't be so unfamiliar with it. If that's the case, could it represent one of the three Ancestors?"

Luo Qi hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "The image of the female Ancestor appears here, so does the Mekatelun Cube represent her?"

Wusu turned his head and glanced at him, as if trying to see through his true intentions. "In the handwritten Ancient Scrolls of Magic, there are some Spells with this symbol marked nearby."

Luo Qi was suddenly a bit nervous; he had never read handwritten Ancient Scrolls in the school Library, and he hadn't even been to the area where the Magic Ancient Scrolls were stored. He had no idea what the Mekatelun Cube represented in the Magic World; he only knew the meaning of the Mekatelun Cube in the human world—the meaning that human alchemists had vaguely snatched from Mages.

But, wait, Luo Qi suddenly realized that what he was thinking of was not the point at all. Wusu said that some Spells would have the Mekatelun Cube marked next to them; that was the key. He had indeed fallen into a misunderstanding; the meaning of the Mekatelun Cube might have long since become unimportant; what was important was that there was Magic categorized under the symbol of the Mekatelun Cube.

Perhaps, no, it should be said it was very likely, that there were such markings in the Magic that Shi Xiansheng had given him. He only needed to use the Mekatelun Cube as a "keyword" to search, and it was very likely he would discover Magic related to this place.

A part of his Yajian, a part of Luo Qi, immediately rushed to search, and in an instant, he "thought" of the Mekatelun Cube in the depths of his memory; there were even quite a few of them. He ecstatically rummaged through these Magic spells in the depths of his memory; he should first look for Magic related to "opening a door," or "unlocking," or "Seal," or "breaking a Seal."

Luo Qi said vaguely, "Perhaps I can, I can..."

Before he could utter the rest of his words, he saw Wusu place a hand on the Mekatelun Cube on the door, and the tightly shut door obediently opened halfway.

"Can... open the door..." Luo Qi finished the second half of his sentence unconsciously, "You can open the door?"

Wusu's expression wasn't one of absolute certainty about opening the door either; he stood cautiously by the half-open door, not acting rashly. "I was just trying; I just thought of some Spells related to the current situation, I didn't expect it to actually work."

Luo Qi looked back at the others a bit nervously; there weren't many people in this corridor, and they were all his own people. The Lotus Burners were all with Du Zhengyi in a corridor ahead, examining the corpses of the Seal Beasts. Luo Qi could feel their excited and stimulated emotions, like crushed fresh mint; no one was interested in the rear where they were, and there was no new danger. Du Zhengyi was talking to a Battle Mage about some terminology regarding the Seal Beast's attacks and danger levels; Luo Qi wasn't interested in that either.

In their corridor, Liu Ziyi was fiddling with the Magic that the Seal Land allowed her to explore, Guan Xinyue was near her, and Majiang was talking to her in a low voice.

Luo Qi turned his head back and suddenly said to Wusu, "When Guan Xinyue woke up this morning, she was still peeking at you, but once she got to the Seal Land, that's not the case anymore. The shelf life of a handsome man shouldn't be that short, right? Are the boys from Wushan that bad? It's a bit strange, isn't it?"

Wusu, who was manually pushing the door, had been in a state of high mental tension, guarding against sudden dangerous situations, and hadn't expected Luo Qi to suddenly chat with him. Great Mage Wusu paused entirely, not knowing what to say; the Magic he was originally going to detect was also interrupted, and he was a bit stiff.

Luo Qi didn't think that much and reached out to push the door completely open. "What are you doing? This door isn't that heavy."

"Hey, wait." Wusu couldn't even stop him; Luo Qi had already stepped inside one step ahead of him.

"What is this place?" Luo Qi asked casually, looking around, and soon realized that it was indeed a bit different. Most of the rooms they had explored earlier were empty; here, at a rough glance, there were at least tables and chairs, or rather, furniture that looked like tables and chairs. Some Crystals were embedded in the walls; Luo Qi did not feel any active Yajian in the Crystals, so he ignored them.

The room behind the door was about thirty square meters; Luo Qi looked around and then focused his attention on another door in the room; this was a suite. He had an intuition that the current room had no value, so he didn't wait for Wusu, who was studying the Crystals on the wall, and headed straight for the inner door.

Wusu didn't expect him to be rushing forward like this after arriving here; he was so startled he couldn't care about the Crystals and hurriedly chased after Luo Qi. "Wait, don't act rashly, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Great Mage Wusu, my experience tells me that what is meant to come will come, and caution doesn't have much effect." As Luo Qi said this, he had already pulled open the inner door, "And I don't have time."

The door opened, and Luo Qi only had time to see a pair of pitch-black eye sockets; the primitive instinct to fear death made his hair stand on end, and the "person" behind the door fell lightly into his arms just like that.

"Holy... shit!" Luo Qi shouted, "What the hell is this?"

Wusu saw it clearly; he waved his hand to move the skeleton off Luo Qi's body from a distance. "Breathe, Luo Qi! You can't be this afraid of a pile of dry bones; you are a Mage."

"No," Luo Qi said, but he actually caught his breath, "Who knows how many bacteria and viruses are on it! It's already rotted."

"It rotted long ago; now it's just a pile of dry bones," Wusu said calmly, examining the bones on the ground, "It looks like it's been dead for a few years, I can't say for sure."

"Doesn't look like it's been dead for ten thousand years, right? In ten thousand years, the bones would have rotted into dust." Luo Qi stared at the bones, hoping it wasn't one of Du Zhengyi's grandfathers.

"I can't say for sure," Wusu said, "Maybe not that long, maybe that long; this is the Seal Land, life can exist for a long time, and the Seal Beasts outside have also existed here for ten thousand years."

Luo Qi felt a bit uncomfortable; he really didn't want to stare at a human skeleton; he would rather a little dinosaur run out right now!

Thank you all for your love, thank you to the treasure who drew the art, thank you to the treasure who left a comment (●''●)

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