In the inner hall of Yuheng in Chenji Palace, a unicorn flower pigeon glided down over the courtyard, and then landed on Ouyang Hongye's raised hand. He gently stroked the dove twice with his free hand, then tossed it into the air.
The pigeon landed on the ground, cooed twice, and transformed into a little old man wearing black and gray feathers. Although he looks old, he is the sixth among the seven members of the Intelligence Group. His wrinkled skin and droopy eye bags are natural, and his age is actually only two hundred years old.
He saluted Ouyang Hongye respectfully, and then said: "Lord Hongye! According to our tracking in the past few days, the red-eared demon spirit indeed met Huang Scorpion again, and Qingyun gave him an order."
"Tell me what it is?" Ouyang Hongye interrupted hurriedly as soon as he heard Qingyun's name.
Hua Gege quickly responded: "He ordered the red-eared demon spirit to start taking action and asked him to close the seven-tone gate!"
"Well done! I will immediately send someone to investigate the Seven Sound Gate. Is there anything else to report?" Ouyang Hongye thought for a while and asked.
"temporarily unavailable!"
After saying this, the flower pigeon turned back into a pigeon, flapped its wings violently a few times and flew into the air.
Ouyang Hongye had never heard anyone mention the existence of a seven-tone gate in Qingyang, Tucheng, let alone what the seven-tone gate was used for. After once again confirming the close connection between the red-eared demon spirit and Qingyun's group, he felt that he was the traitor in the royal city who secretly let Yasha go, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart.
But now is not the time to be immersed in anger. He must immediately return to Ouyang's ancient house in the human world to see if Dong Muya and her little hacker friend can find out the information about the Seven Sound Gate.
Recently, Dong Muya fell into a bottleneck in his research on the Qi Lie Formation and lost his sense of direction for a while. Compared with Jincheng and Shuicheng, the records of the remaining three cities are very few, because these three cities have always been in a relatively closed state in the past and were independently managed by the city lords.
What the investigation needs is clues, and clues are often hidden in keywords or key information. Even a little bit can play a big role, and now these are what she and Min Endong lack.
To this day, she has great admiration for this genius child. She once thought that her memory and ability to analyze things were superior, but Min Entong was far beyond her.
Although she had organized all the information on the bookshelves in the underground database of Ouyang Ancient House, she sometimes had to rely on computer records to find those that were not commonly used. However, this eight-year-old child found it in just a short time. Within a short period of time, I have learned by heart how to use the database and the order in which the data is arranged.
The two of them split up to investigate the same keyword. Min Endong was always faster than her, and the answers he found were higher than his own in terms of quantity and efficiency. I have to admit that this child from the Qi Lie Formation has indeed inherited all the excellent genes of his parents.
On the surface, Min Entong was not interested in anything else except for his super terminal MM, but in his little mind, he also had his own agenda.
Recently, he was planning how to get his uncle and Dong Muya to meet. Compared with the butterflies flying around his uncle, Dong Muya was the best candidate for his aunt in every aspect.
Ouyang Hongye returned to Ouyang's ancient house through the two corridors and the labyrinth. As soon as he opened the door and entered, he saw a little boy standing by the pond in the courtyard, admiring the fish. Although Dong Muya had long heard about this genius child, this was the first time the two met. In fact, it was because Min Endong spent too long in front of the computer screen that Dong Muya forced him to come out and relax his eyes.
Min Endong was startled by the strangely dressed man who suddenly appeared in front of him. Although he had a thorough understanding of things in the demon world, he had never seen the real guy. This boy looks much more handsome than his uncle. He looks like he stepped off the covers of ancient romance novels drawn by famous illustrators, especially the two strands of silver on both sides of his temples. It reminded Min Endong of Yang Guo, the heroic hero in Jin Yong's works.
He thought to himself that it was going to be bad this time. The demon world was really full of beautiful men who looked like monsters. His uncle was in trouble. But after thinking about it again, a woman as smart as Dong Muya shouldn't judge people by their appearance. I'd better give this weird guy a show of strength first.
"Shu Miao, who are you?" Min Endong deliberately pretended to be innocent and innocent as a child of the same age, and asked ignorantly.
"My name is Ouyang Hongye. Are you Min Endong? I heard Mu Ya mentioned you before!" Ouyang Hongye said as he wanted to reach out and touch Min Endong's head, but he suddenly avoided it like a cat.
He became a little angry when he heard this strange man call Dong Muya Muya. Then the child's arrogant side was revealed. He puffed up his mouth and said, "Well, Red Leaf Sage calls my future aunt so affectionately!"
Ouyang Hongye had no idea what kind of medicine was sold in the little gourd in front of her. She was just curious about how Dong Muya would become his future aunt after not returning to Ouyang's ancient house for a few days. She didn't expect that she would feel sad after hearing such words. It has a slightly unpleasant taste.
He pretended to be calm and smiled at Min Endong, then entered the house and walked down the stairs to the door of the database. The thick smell of smoke and coffee wafted out of the half-open door as usual. He walked straight to the big table at the end, only to find that Dong Muya was lying on the table and fell asleep.
Pile in front of her was a thick stack of essays submitted by students, a pile of miscellaneous materials and notes, and a picture of an array of odd formations. She was really tired, but at the same time she was anxious about the lack of progress or clues in the search. She was anxious and had a low fever, but she didn't know it.
Looking at her like this, how could Ouyang Hongye not feel distressed? Just when he wanted to wake her up and go to sleep upstairs, she suddenly woke up. She raised her head from the table and stared at him for a long time. Then she rubbed her hazy eyes and looked again to make sure she was not dreaming. She smiled. He got up and asked him: "Why are you here?"
"Don't worry about it for now. Don't you know you are sick? Go upstairs and rest!" Ouyang Hongye said in a commanding tone.
Dong Muya touched her face. It was indeed a little hot, but in her opinion it was not yet to the point where she needed to rest. Moreover, Ouyang Hongye must have something important to come back to Ouyang's ancient house to see her at this time. She said seriously Question: "What's going on? Tell me quickly. Anyway, I won't be able to rest well if you don't tell me that I'm always thinking about you!"
Ouyang Hongye had no choice but to tell her about the Seven-tone Gate. When she heard the Seven-tone Gate, she paused for a few seconds, and then suddenly asked him, "Do you know what the Seven-tone Gate is?"
"Isn't it the dormifasollatido invented by Westerners?" Ouyang Hongye answered her tentatively.
But Dong Muya shook his head. In her impression, the knowledge of seven tones was much greater than that of simple doremi. It seemed that there was a volume called "Qiyin Lue" in "Tongzhi" that specifically talked about seven tones. When she thought that she and Min Endong had something to do again, she became even more reluctant to rest.
Ouyang Hongye had no choice but to go upstairs and change clothes so that she could go out and buy medicine for her. Because demons don't have headaches and fever, such medicine could not be found in Ouyang's ancient house.
Dong Muya immersed herself in the information again and began to search for records about Qiyin. Min Endong, on the other hand, focused on finding out whether the information on the demon world was related to the Seven-tone Gate. In the underground database, two people, one large and one small, were busy looking at a computer screen.
Before meeting Dong Muya, Min Endong had thought about linking his notebook with HyperTerminal MM, but he had been unable to realize it. Recently, he had to travel frequently to Ouyang's ancient house to work with her, so he worked hard to put his long-held ideas into reality. Now his notebook has become a Mini version of MM. Although the memory and calculation speed are not as good as the genuine ones, it is Much more convenient.
In the past, working alone in the old house where his parents were killed would have frightened him, but now that Dong Muya is around, everything has become much easier and happier. He has always decided everything by his own will and relied on his own thinking to solve problems, but recently he has been changing subtly. He has become very obedient to Dong Muya, and even relied on her to the point that she almost let him Whatever he did he would do it immediately.
Dong Muya began to search "Tongzhi", and sure enough, the thirty-sixth volume was called "Qiyinlue". The description of the seven tones is extremely mysterious. The book records that the rhyme of seven tones flowed into Zhuxia from the Western Regions. The Western Regions were the collective name for the areas west of Yumen Pass and Yangguan in ancient times, while Zhuxia generally refers to the Central Plains region of the Zhou Dynasty.
One of the passages says that foreign monks want to spread the teachings to the world with seven tones, because all the sounds in the world, including cranes and winds, roosters and dogs, thunder shaking the sky, mosquitoes and flies passing by, can be translated into seven tones, so human beings This is especially true for language. In this way, even if they don't understand the language, everyone in the world can rely on the seven tones to understand the teachings.
She just saw this and was about to read on, but Min Endong suddenly said: "The three words "Seven Sound Gate" cannot be found in the search, but I found some other things that I don't know if they are useful. Legend has it that the Demon Spirit Tribe will use a Planting a musical instrument to pass the boring time of growing herbs can also relieve fatigue, and this musical instrument is very similar to the human pipa."
"Pipa?!" Dong Muya sighed and began to mutter to himself, "Pipa is composed of seven equals, which form twelve, and correspond to the twelve rhythms. There are seven tones in the rhythm, and the tones form one tune, so they become seven. Tune, twelve laws combined with eighty-four tunes, rotating and intersecting, everything is harmonious."
"Spinning and intersecting, everything is in harmony?" Min Endong focused on the last sentence.
"Do you also care about this sentence? First of all, I can confirm that the seven-tone gate should be composed of seven parts, which respectively represent Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu, Bian Gong, and Bian Zheng. Then I guess that closing them means here The original meaning of the intersection and harmony is the harmony of the music, but here it means to make something come together closely." Dong Muya said confidently based on his intuition.
"Tucheng Qingyang is divided into seven layers. Are the seven-tone gates distributed in each layer?" Min Endong agreed with Dong Muya's analysis.
Dong Muya happily reached out and patted Min Entong's little face twice, winked at him and said, "Sure enough, it's different if we have clues! It feels like we are very close to the answer!"
Min Endong's face turned red after being patted by her. He lowered his head in embarrassment, but could not hide a proud smile on his lips.