As Nicole walked into the small building, there were several sets of tables and chairs scattered on the first floor. On them were some utensils that Roddy couldn't understand, as well as small jars, bottles and the like. . There were several rows of iron shelves beside the wall, and the shelves were neatly packed with books. Rody could tell at a glance that those books were quite old, and some of them were simply antique-level sheepskin files!
These books alone are worth a lot of money!
What is even more creepy is that there is a complete human skeleton lying in the corner. The dense white bones gave off a permeating and faint light in the dark room. Rody walked over involuntarily. What surprised Rody was that there were some unexplained marks drawn with a red pen on the skull's head.
Just as Rody couldn't help but want to touch the skull with his hands, his eyes were attracted by a row of medicine bottles on an iron shelf next to it.
Those bottles were obviously made of silver, and there were small labels affixed to them. Unfortunately, Roddy couldn't understand the words on the labels. They were not words commonly used in the empire.
"Don't hold those bottles!" Nicole's cold voice suddenly came from behind.
Rody immediately retracted his hand that had been stretched out to touch the bottles.
Nicole glanced at Roddy. Although her face was still cold, her tone seemed slightly softer: "The contents of some bottles cannot be touched. For example, the second bottle in front of you, if you accidentally spill it A little bit, if you get a little bit on your hands, you're done! Your whole arm will be corroded into bones immediately!"
Rody was startled: "These...are these all poison?"
Nicole glared at him: "No! It's just some experimental materials!"
Roddy opened his mouth and wanted to say something else, but Nicole no longer gave him a chance to ask questions and shouted loudly: "Come up with me! Hurry up!"
Nicole turned and walked up a staircase, and Roddy quickly followed behind.
The second floor is an open platform, and the hall on the first floor can be seen from the railings. There are a lot more things on the second floor than on the first floor. On an old desk that has lost its original character, there is a strange instrument. The bookshelf next to the wall is larger, containing almost three times more books than on the first floor. Roddy has never seen so many antique books in his life! ! ! There is also a heavy iron cabinet placed in the corner. The rust on it shows that this iron cabinet is probably older than Rody and Nicole combined.
There was a large wooden table in the middle - to be precise, it was a large platform. The things on it were even more scattered. Some bottles and jars were scattered there, and some were even tilted on the table.
Rody stepped forward and found a few worn-out pieces of parchment on the table. The messy writing on them showed that they might be some experimental notes or something like that.
Suddenly, a line of writing on a piece of parchment attracted Rody.
"Lack of high-pressure equipment... Failure... Empire XXX year, Dandong... "
"Dandong!!!" Rody couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh my god!! This thing is a note left by the sage Dandong!!! Oh my god!!!"
Nicole glanced at Roddy and said calmly: "What's all the fuss about?"
"What is all the fuss about?" Rody exclaimed: "Dandong's notes! Do you know how much an autograph by Dandong can be sold for in the antique market in the imperial capital!!"
Nicole curled her lips: "What the hell! Everything here was left by Sage Dandong! Those on the bookshelf are all Dandong's experimental notes from that year, and these instruments are all from Dandong Xian. A relic of the author! This was originally Dandong’s laboratory.”
That great sage’s laboratory? !
Rody's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide.
"But...Dandong...how...his...laboratory...is...in your home...here..."
Nicole said calmly: "Because one of my ancestors was a disciple of Dandong, and Master Dandong lived in our house in his later years. This is where he worked!"
"Then... these things... are all relics of Master Dandong's wisdom!!" Rody whispered excitedly. Sage Dandong has been one of his idols since he was a child. In fact, without Dandong's reforms, civilians like him would have no chance of entering the Imperial Academy. In the empire, even a ten-year-old child knows how many miracles Master Dandong created for the empire back then!
"Indeed! Everything here is a relic of the master's wisdom! All of these were inherited by the ancestor of our family!" Nicole said with a bit of sadness in her tone: "But this is also our family's. Tragedy! Because for hundreds of years, no ancestor has been able to truly obtain this treasure of wisdom! Three ancestors of my family died of mental exhaustion after studying the master’s notes here in their later years. My father also died of illness here. Inside the laboratory!"
"Why? Is Dandong's wisdom so difficult to learn? Is it so profound?"
Nicole smiled softly, her smile was a bit weird and a bit sad.
"I don't know! We don't know what Dandong's wisdom is - because no one can understand those really important notes! The language in which Dandong recorded those most important wisdom notes is not the common language of our empire or the mainland. Any language—not even any language we know!” Nicole’s tone was full of ridicule: “Sometimes, we even doubt that the language Dandong uses is the real language of God! My ancestors have searched through various classics, but they can’t decipher this language!”
"God's... language?" Rody asked in surprise: "Is there really a god in this world?"
Unexpectedly, this time Nicole didn't glare at Roddy and get angry, but she angrily said: "Only God knows!" Because generations of the family have worked hard for that damn "language of God" but in vain. , which has consumed the lives and time of several generations of the family—in fact, it has become a heavy burden on the Tulip family! So Nicole seems to have less respect for God.
Rody was amazed in his heart, and couldn't help but reach out and gently touch the ancient sheepskin file on the table, and said cautiously: "Can I take a look?"
Nicole shrugged: "Whatever, the ones on the table here are all replicas, which I use for research on weekdays. The real ones have been hidden."
Rody immediately reached out and grabbed the sheepskin file and unfolded it.
Sure enough, except for the few lines of text on the first page that Rody saw just now, the sheepskin was recorded in the universal script of the empire. When you turn to the back, you can no longer see a common script of the empire - the sheepskin at the back is densely packed with text. It was filled with some words that Roddy couldn't understand at all. The composition of that kind of writing is very complex, each stroke is like a knife carving a sword, the structure of the writing is very subtle, each one is like a square, and each writing is like a special pattern. This is indeed not any kind of writing that Roddy knows!
Although there are occasionally some strange patterns and pictures - those pictures look like some kind of design drawings at first glance, but unfortunately, the annotations next to them are all the "language of God" that is incomprehensible. .
Nicole ignored Roddy, who was frowning at the sheepskin, and turned around and walked to the iron cabinet in the corner. She didn't know what spell she recited, and the iron cabinet slowly opened. Roddy immediately turned his attention - in fact, although he was a warrior, he was also very interested in magic, and he knew that Nicole used a spell lock, which was a variant of magic. The magic is made by using a kind of memory magic, which allows the cabinet to automatically remember the person's voice, and then only when the voice matches, the cabinet can be opened - this kind of magic is also the same as that of the great man more than two hundred years ago. Created by the sage Master Dandong.
Nicole blocked Roddy's gaze. She took out a long and narrow box from the cabinet, and then the iron cabinet door closed slowly and automatically.
Nicole touched the box, as if holding a priceless treasure, carefully placed it on the table, and then slowly opened it.
"Stop looking at that thing. My father has been looking at it for twenty years, and I have been looking at it for seven years, but I still don't understand it. Do you think you can understand it?" Nicole said coldly.
"What are you holding? What is this?" Rody looked curious.
Nicole's eyes widened, and she suddenly waved her sleeves. Roddy immediately flew out like a sandbag and hit the corner.
Nicole gave Roddy a cold look and said calmly: "You forgot! I said that when you talk to me, you must call me master! Now! Come here! Don't pretend to be dead, I know you are so strong Very, a fall won’t hurt you at all!”
Rody groaned and stood up from the ground, but he didn't dare to say another word, but he couldn't help cursing secretly in his heart: Why is it so fierce! One day, I will... Hehehe... Oh, but why is she so beautiful when she is fierce? well…
Roddy walked to the edge of the table while having these weird thoughts in his mind. He only glanced into the box and immediately took a deep breath! I almost screamed!