Chapter 46: Tocharian Script [4K]
Xiaoyuyu: “We agreed to study at your place together before, why haven’t you invited me?”
Luxianbei,
This girl seems to be the one with an especially strong sense of pride, exuding a somewhat modern independent woman’s aura?
Zhipianxian has grasped this girl’s psychology, affirming her various efforts from multiple aspects, all I need to do is to go against the grain.
After a brief consideration, Luxianbei typed a response: “Studying? Ha! Why work so hard, girl? Aren’t you tired? If it’s too much, just find a good husband with a car and a house, isn’t that good?”
“[Xiaoyuyu is not your friend, please verify before sending a message] Lin BIUBIU: “Brother Lu, do you think this new dress of mine looks good?”
She’s a girl quite confident in her looks and cares a lot about others’ opinions. Luxianbei: “Pretty good, but…”
Lin BIUBIU: “But what? [Cat tilting head]”
Luxianbei: “I always feel like you look much worse in person than in photos. What photo editing software do you use? Recommend it, seems pretty good.”
“[Mu BIUBIU is not your friend, please verify before sending a message] Xu Xiuxiu: “Game tonight?”
You like to show off, huh? Hmph, no showing off!
Luxianbei: “Yeah, but you’re still playing support today, right? It’s normal for girls to not be as skilled, but I really want to win.”
Because life trajectories are not completely the same, each person’s personality cannot be entirely the same, which leads to different sensitive points in everyone’s psyche.
Luxianbei is very clear about this.
So, he carefully browsed through the various social media accounts of the girls on Zhipianxian’s phone, roughly understanding their likes and dislikes before sending them messages one by one.
In fact, Luxianbei admired Zhipianxian quite a bit, managing in such a short time to open up so many girls’ hearts to him.
Being able to unreservedly grant Zhipianxian browsing privileges for all social media account information is the best proof.
Thus, during an entire class of “Introduction to Linguistics” plus some break time, totaling one hundred and five minutes, his hands almost never left his phone.
At one point, his phone even ran out of battery, forcing him to take a power bank from the God Realm Prototype for more juice.
Ultimately, when the class bell rang, Luxianbei successfully got thirty-two of the forty-three girls added to Zhipianxian’s phone contact list to block him, nine did not respond to his messages, and two threatened to find someone to beat him up.
It was basically a perfect conclusion, freeing him from the troubles Zhipianxian had caused him.
Now the last issue is the suspicious Yu Jianqiu girl.
Before Miaomiao Sauce returns, I have to resolve all these ridiculous issues! Though she probably won’t care about Luxianbei at all.
Jiang Li truly won’t care, after all, if it were her, she could see at a glance that there’s absolutely nothing between Luxianbei and those girls.
Moreover, she can clearly discern what kind of girl could pose a threat to her.
After class, Luxianbei stayed in his seat, quietly waiting for all the students to leave before getting up to leave the classroom. He really wasn’t afraid of the couple of strongmen waiting to beat him up outside the classroom.
It’s just that a lone wolf like him doesn’t like to walk with others!
Leaving the classroom and before exiting the teaching building, Luxianbei silently expanded his spiritual sense to the utmost, confirming that Yu Jianqiu was not lurking in some corner near the teaching building before stepping out.
That Yu girl fell pretty hard by the parking shed in the morning, she should be seriously injured.
She probably won’t have the time to bother me for a while, Luxianbei thought, speeding toward the College of Arts and Literature Experimental Building. Ever since he found that command token at the small Taoist temple where he lived while in Qing Ji, he occasionally thinks of it. It felt like casually hearing a particularly beautiful song.
At that time, he might not have cared too much, but in the future, that song would always flash across his mind, leading him to hum it subconsciously, ultimately becoming an obsession to find the complete song.
Today, he must get Professor Ma to help him see what was written on that token!
Before arriving at the College of Arts and Literature Experimental Building, Luxianbei did not contact Professor Ma in advance, and Professor Ma wasn’t in the office. “Knock knock—knock knock!”
“Professor? Are you in there?”
Luxianbei knocked a few times on the door and called out several times, but got no response. Furrowing his brow, he instinctively twisted the doorknob.
To his surprise, with a ‘click’ from the door lock, the door unexpectedly opened.
This office beside Professor Ma’s lab was not large, and a large number of books and artifacts like stone slabs, bone fragments, and pottery vessels were haphazardly piled up in an orderly manner, making the already not spacious space look even more cramped.
“Is the professor in class?”
He should be back soon, that’s why he didn’t lock the door, right?
Luxianbei thought, taking the initiative to push the door open and walk in, clearing a small space on the small sofa piled with books and materials to sit down.
Though this action was somewhat impolite, given his relationship with Professor Ma, he wouldn’t mind such details.
Just like Luxianbei didn’t care that Professor Ma came to Jingyi Apartment to find him without prior notice, and entered his home for a short while.
If Professor Ma isn’t afraid of Wang Ying and those urban legends at home…
After waiting for a moment and seeing that Professor Ma had not returned, Luxianbei gradually began to feel a bit bored, so he stood up and walked around the office, observing everything.
Mainly to see what Old Ma has been studying lately.
Although he is very knowledgeable, he knows nothing about spiritual ability users and urban legends. What if he accidentally gets involved in some urban legend event? Luxianbei thought.
This is entirely possible; after all, Professor Ma has had the “luck” to come into contact with the Great Serpent God’s bamboo slips and the jars containing sealed urban legends from Peach Source. He even went to a tomb with the mysterious guy he mentioned.
Who knows, that mysterious guy might have a multi-year agreement with him, waiting for him in some hidden place! Only, the old man has probably forgotten others and is living his own life, now even his grandson is causing trouble. Luxianbei thought, shrugging his shoulders and opening his spiritual sense to explore the possible spiritual energy fluctuations in the office.
What he found was astonishing; as soon as he opened his spiritual sense and scanned over each artifact, he felt goosebumps all over.
In an instant, the light before his eyes became clouded and murky, and intense pain shot through his eyes. It was as if something was flowing through the air, cold, evil, and lifeless.
There were worm-like things crawling on the walls, leaving behind invisible, slippery trails.
The originally slightly crowded office suddenly felt filled, as if there were unclean things everywhere.
In a daze, it seemed like an illusion appeared before him; he saw a desolate ruin of an ancient city, as if it had gone through some disaster, everything was decaying.
The next moment, the scene changed, and he saw war, brutal warfare, thousands of bodies covered by steel, fighting against each other like beasts, stepping on bones and bl**d.
Following that, he saw a pitch-black sky, countless pale human skins, like birds flying in flocks beneath the sky, emitting haunting cries, and in the sky, a massive eye filled with bl**d threads replaced the stars, casting a venomous gaze toward the earth.
Then—
With cold sweat dripping down his forehead, Luxianbei finally snapped back to reality, hurriedly retracting his spiritual sense.
Although he had long known that Professor Ma attracts some strange things, before his spiritual sense was strong enough, he hadn’t realized that it had become this outrageous.
He had thought there would only be one or two items similar to the Great Serpent God’s bamboo slips, but it turned out that none of the artifacts in this room was unrelated to an urban legend event.
Luxianbei even felt that even if he hadn’t bothered Professor Ma, he might not have truly been killed by the lantern monster that crawled out of the Bamboo Slips Illusion.
“What on earth is this, Professor Ma’s office or some demon lair? How has he lived to this day? Does he rely solely on that Blessing God Copper Coin?
Could it be that there are so many urban legends stirred up that they balance each other out, and no one knows how to divide this old greasy meat?
I must emphasize to the urban legends and wandering spiritual ability users in Huacheng again, don’t come to Professor Ma’s office without reason, otherwise, if they attract those unknown evil gods, they won’t even know how they died.
“Ah!—”
Just as Luxianbei was secretly pondering this, the office door suddenly opened, and Professor Ma’s scream came from outside.
Luxianbei turned around to see Professor Ma standing there dumbfounded, pale-faced, with his lesson plan scattering all over the floor.
Is that strange thing coming to k*ll him? Professor Ma thought.
These past few days, he had been really scared by Zhipianxian, to the point that when he wakes up at night and lifts the blanket, he sees a group of Zhipianxian grinning at him in his bed.
Now, what he feared has finally happened—Zhipianxian has come to k*ll him to silence him!
The two stared at each other for three seconds, and he finally snapped back to reality, his body shaking, turning around to run, moving faster than a fifty-something-old man should.
Luxianbei: “Why are you running? I haven’t even run yet!——”
A few minutes later.
After catching the fleeing Professor Ma, at Luxianbei’s strong insistence, the two went to the laboratory next door to sit down.
Making two cups of hot tea, under the soothing warmth of the tea and the refreshing aroma, the two, greatly shocked, gradually regained their composure.
“So, you’ve dealt with that whatever fairy?” Professor Ma carefully asked while scrutinizing Luxianbei, “How are you going to prove it?”
“How to prove?” Luxianbei pondered, furrowing his brow.
He felt Professor Ma’s questioning was reasonable; after all, Zhipianxian, corrupted by the power of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit, looks no different from him on the surface.
But he couldn’t think of a good way to prove, 100 percent that he wasn’t a counterfeit, only saying, “How about I release it for you to see?” Luxianbei said expressionlessly.
Confrontation should be the most direct method, right?
Thinking of Zhipianxian’s chilling smile he saw on the pedestrian street, Professor Ma’s face changed.
He quickly waved his hand, saying, “No need, I believe you!”
Such a tormenting style, besides the real Luxianbei, there probably isn’t anyone else.
Calming himself down, Professor Ma said with a dark face, “You little brat, I absolutely won’t help you with this type of heavy task again in the future. Don’t ever give me something that terrifying to keep again.”
Now, he felt that his granddaughter might be more tormenting than his grandson, but—
Even if it’s tormenting, just thinking of his granddaughter’s cute appearance, he can’t dislike her at all!
After a pause, Professor Ma took a good look at Luxianbei and solemnly said, “You’ve just been unable to contact me for days, and now you come looking for me so early today. You must have other matters, right?”
“Isn’t that why I say you are the smartest person in the whole Huacheng University?” Luxianbei gave a thumbs up, “I haven’t even said anything, and you already know, impressive!”
“Stop it!” Professor Ma rolled his eyes, “Get to the point!”
“In that case…” Luxianbei’s eyes flicked around and took out the prepared command token from his pocket, handing it to Professor Ma, “Actually, I came to ask you to help take a look at the special writings on this token and see what it says.”
“Me?” Professor Ma furrowed his brows slightly, taking the token Luxianbei handed him, adjusting his glasses, as if he’d instantly shifted into academic research mode.
Holding the token and studying it seriously for a moment, he said, “Hmm? This is somewhat rare! What’s written on it is actually Tocharian script.”
“What is that?” Luxianbei tilted his head.
Although there was no expression on his face, his eyes looked as confused as a primary school student hearing about the Poincaré conjecture in class. “The so-called Tocharian script is a variant of the Central Asian Brahmi script used in the Tang dynasty in places like Kuqa, Yanjing, and Turpan, to write Buddhist scriptures, literary works, and secular documents, etc.” Professor Ma explained, “The three characters ‘command token’ on it are also in Tang styled lettering.”
“‘Oh oh!’” Luxianbei obediently nodded, asking, “Can you see what it says on it?”
Professor Ma shook his head, “I can only confirm that it is written in Tocharian script, but I can’t determine the detailed content yet; I need to check some materials.”
“There isn’t too much text on it, so it’s not too troublesome. I remember there are a few related texts in my office. If you come with me, we can check them out and get a general idea.”
As he said this, Luxianbei immediately shook his head, “I won’t go, I won’t go!” I wouldn’t go back to that cursed place even if you killed me!
Seeing this, Professor Ma furrowed his brows and asked the question that had lingered in his mind since earlier, “I was just about to ask, why can’t we stay in my office?”
“Is there something—”
“There’s nothing, absolutely nothing!” Luxianbei interjected, “No urban legends, don’t think about it.” But many urban legends are paying attention to that place [Luxianbei added in his mind.
Professor Ma, “”
Although saying that made people pay more attention, okay?
He vaguely felt that after the Zhipianxian incident, he would probably continue to have insomnia tonight.
