Chapter 1194: 563: Star Text (2)
Chapter 1194: Chapter 563: Star Text (2)
But the closer they got to the cafeteria, the grimmer Su Yao’s expression became, her demeanor increasingly heavy.
This was an expression of “knowledge” and “perception.” Compared to her, the other team members, oblivious to the situation, seemed much more normal.
The five of them were like they were walking in their own layers, under the same dark sky, each feeling a completely different atmosphere.
…
“Are they just going to follow us like this?”
Walking at the front, Lin Yi clearly incorporated the state of those five people into his perception.
It wasn’t that he deliberately wanted to peek at Su Yao’s state, but rather his scope of perception was so wide that it naturally enveloped Su Yao.
Kuai Hongji coldly said, “If they want to follow, let them. If something happens, they’ll have to take responsibility.”
Lin Yi pressed his lips together, worried about the same thing.
They should know, the last group interested in them, Lu Zhao’s team of four, had already crumbled into dust and was floating in the air.
He deeply realized that they were now like walking Death Gods, and those who showed interest in them met grim fates.
“Oh, right…” Lin Yi said, “In my dream, I seemed to have learned the Cautions too…”
“Uh… maybe it’s not technically the Cautions, but that kind of text and language, I think it should be the Cautions?”
“Cautions…” Tian Bufan paused slightly, “The text you mention should be ‘Star Text’.”
“‘Star Text’…?” Lin Yi’s eyes focused, “It really has a specific name? So what does ‘Star Text’ mean? The language of the stars?”
Tian Bufan nodded: “The language of the stars, the language of celestial bodies, you can understand it however you like. It’s a script learned by ‘Star Speakers’ through observing the sky charts, together with ‘Astrologers’…”
“Is this recorded in that so-called Law Code?” Lin Yi asked.
Tian Bufan replied, “Yes.”
He paused, then said seriously, “This book… really is in the library section, didn’t you find it?”
“Damn… talking about it annoys me. I can find every book except that one. Wait, don’t change the subject! Let’s continue this topic!” Lin Yi said, and suddenly realized something, quickly adding, “Wait, wait! You just said… ‘Star Speakers’ and ‘Astrologers’ learned this text?”
“Didn’t they create it?”
“‘Create’?” Tian Bufan shook his head helplessly, “You seem to overestimate the ‘Original Apostles’, but in reality, they’re not omnipotent.”
Lin Yi muttered under his breath, “But from what I’ve learned, they practically seem omnipotent…”
Tian Bufan did not dwell on this further, instead continuing, “‘Star Text’ is a cosmic law, discovered and recorded in the form of ‘text symbols.’
“The mantras used in later myths for cultivation, even Western magic spells, are all derivations of ‘Star Text.’
“‘Star Text’ is also recorded on Sanxingdui… if you study Sanxingdui often, you’ll discover…”
“Hey, hey, hey!” Lin Yi interjected, exasperated, “Are you kidding me, Young Master Tian? Those things are artifacts, housed in museums! How could anyone possibly access them? You ‘often study’ them?”
Tian Bufan paused, correcting, “The museum doesn’t actually have true Sanxingdui artifacts… those items, like ‘Star Moon Night’, are contained in fixed places; what gets publicly displayed is all ‘bait.’
“Moreover, only true Sanxingdui creations bear ‘Star Text’, because such writing exudes immeasurable contamination through even the simplest strokes…
Lin Yi fell silent.
Instinct told him that Tian Bufan, or rather their team, had definitely come into contact with Sanxingdui artifacts!
“Oh, right… actually, you should have witnessed them too, here on this campus.” Tian Bufan was walking when he suddenly turned and glanced at him.
“Huh? I’ve seen them?” Lin Yi was slightly stunned, his mind quickly replaying scenes and soon noticing some clues.
“Could it be… the ‘Holy Hall’ is a Sanxingdui artifact?” Lin Yi exclaimed.
He remembered now.
He wasn’t sure what the Ancient Lamp ‘Netherworld Light’ or the Time Compass ‘Time Zero’ looked like, but he was very familiar with the Quantum Giant Clock ‘Holy Hall’. Upon recalling, the Holy Hall was imprinted with Star Text inside and out, even the inner walls of the Bell Tower’s first floor were covered with Star Text.
Tian Bufan nodded slightly, then shook his head: “On the contrary, the Sanxingdui artifacts use that kind of craftsmanship… the ‘Divine Craftsman’ engraved ‘Star Text’ on the three supreme Transcendent creations: the Quantum Giant Clock ‘Holy Hall’, the Ancient Lamp ‘Netherworld Light’, and the Time Compass ‘Time Zero’, bestowing them with supreme power.”
“Once created, those three supreme Transcendent creations became independent of the ‘Divine Craftsman’s’ control.”
Lin Yi looked solemn: “So, it’s not that the ‘Divine Craftsman’ created them, but that they ‘enlightened’ the ‘Divine Craftsman’, granting him the mission of bringing them into this world.”
Tian Bufan nodded: “They were meant to exist in the world, in this time and space, granting ‘Divine Craftsman’s existence its significance.”
Lin Yi quietly took a breath, suddenly feeling that the world was a massive Möbius Ring Time Paradox.
“So you’re saying… I have now learned ‘Star Text’?” Lin Yi pointed at his own nose.
Tian Bufan rolled his eyes, “Didn’t you say you learned it yourself?”
Lin Yi couldn’t help but say, “It’s just that you brought up this concept of ‘Star Text’ so suddenly, so I don’t feel confident. Can I truly learn such an enigmatic language?”
Tian Bufan thought for a moment, then said seriously, “Strictly speaking, you already knew it.”
“Huh?”
Tian Bufan continued: “Not just you, but I, we, even those following us, the whole world… fundamentally all know it.”
“‘Star Text’ is the symbols of the stars, not the writing of a specific race or civilization. We should all inherently know it, but due to ‘Cognitive Lock’ for protection, we forgot it.”
“When the ‘Cognitive Lock’ has been unlocked enough, it’ll be mastered automatically. It’s a pure ‘idea’, and the ‘Star Speakers’ and ‘Divination Masters’ organized and passed it down in a ‘concrete’ form.”
“What do you think ‘Secret Mark Totem Studies’ talks about? Isn’t it just the study of Star Text?”
Lin Yi was shaken; he suddenly realized that perhaps those mysticism subjects were simply records of the world’s study of the same mysterious laws from different perspectives…
As he was speaking, the cafeteria appeared before them. In the dim morning light, it looked like a gigantic corn cob.
The entire cafeteria was enveloped in a deep atmosphere, giving off the feeling of a monastery built in the fissure leading from the human world to Hell.
In such an atmosphere, Lin Yi instinctively shut his mouth.
The group soon reached the notice board in front of the cafeteria. As usual, they each took a “Dining Hall Rules” and then headed to the Student Passage.
Looking at the entrance of the Student Passage, a sense of sadness inexplicably surged in Lin Yi’s heart.
He remembered when Old Mo used to stand at the end of the Student Passage, suppressing everything.
But now, who knows how long it’ll be before seeing Old Mo again.
“Let’s go.” Tian Bufan seemed to sense Lin Yi’s sadness and patted his shoulder, “You’ll soon understand, no sorrow can outrun time.”