The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 46: Star Dust (Part 2)

The astrologer apprentice stretched out his hand to pick up the charcoal pencil, tore off the sketchy front page, and simply drew the outlines of the horizon, mountains, big insects, and sun on the paper. "When I was studying, I briefly read the wizard’s introductory textbook. , There are two hundred to three hundred kinds of magic elements currently known. I can’t remember the specific number; magic elements can be used to explain the basic composition of objects. The most common magic elements are nothing more than light, water, wind, fire, and ice. , Yan, Lei, etc. First of all, the carapace component on the back of the sandworm should belong to the rock element, and the hindworm is no exception. If the treasure is buried on the mountain on the back of the hindworm, the rock element is indispensable."

He drew an inverted triangle logo on the mountain peak,

"There is almost no precipitation in the endless sand sea, and the light element always exists."

He drew an arrow-shaped sign next to it,

"Since we got on the ship these days, the northeasterly wind has not stopped for a day."

He drew a three-slash mark again,

"What is the fourth element, I don't know."

Jona puts down the pen,

"If the guess is not wrong, what we have to do is to find a place with the fourth element on the back of the worm. I don’t know what kind of place it is, but it must be a very special landform, such as Water pools, waterfalls, ice, lightning strikes, or metal veins, we must be able to know when we see it with our own eyes." The astrologer apprentice picked up the pen and gently drew a question mark next to the three symbols.

"As far as I know, the entire back of the worm is covered with barren rocky mountains, and there is no special place you mentioned." Hannah thought slightly and denied,

"The place that is easy to find is not the place where the treasure is buried." Jonah said,

Hannah nodded: "It makes sense to say that. After reaching the post-worm node, I will try to find an aboriginal guide. People who are familiar with the terrain will have a lot more chances."

Following a rush of noise, a black-faced man ran up from the gangway. Danny, who was covered with ashes on the bottom of the pot, exclaimed vigorously: "Sister, I rummaged through the kitchen. The walls are all opened to see. Now the place where the dead ghost father’s legacy can be buried is the stove made of granite. Help me out with a sledgehammer. Let’s smash it to pieces and dig out the treasure. ."

"Jonah, are you afraid of blood." Hannah asked suddenly and without end,

"The first time I saw it, I was still very scared, but after a long war, the people of Saint Boren had shed so much blood, I have seen numbness, and now I want to come, in the fierce battles of Cherry Crossing, I didn't have any fear of the blood itself..." Jonalio thought about it and answered truthfully, but then he reacted and suddenly realized: "Oh...you mean..."

Stuart’s contemporary patriarch took off the big gun "Lame Henry’s Prosthesis" from behind, held the lower part of the barrel, and carried the spear in her hand like a stick. She walked slowly towards her brother who was confused, and faced her. Jonah’s finger gangway: "The personal belongings room is the last one on the left side of the corridor. You can find anything of value. Don’t touch the red box against the wall. That’s my locker."

"Okay, okay, thank you..." The astrologer apprentice fled, and just walked down a few steps, there was a dull metal hitting the flesh and a man's miserable cry on the deck behind him, Han Na Stewart’s majestic voice came from the gap between the above two sounds: "Do you know why I beat you up, sailor."

"Sister, I'm close to the truth, stop making trouble... Could it be your menstrual period... Oh my god, don't, don't slap your face."

Yona fled into the lower compartment with a cold sweat. As a fast three-masted sailboat, "Bactria's Blast" is not huge. The only gangway leads to the cabin corridor. The stairs are directly opposite to his residence and work. There are two or three closed doors on each side of the corridor. According to Hannah’s instructions, he walked to the end of the corridor on the left and stood in front of a wooden door with mottled paint.

Like the condition of an unmaintained three-masted sailboat, this door appears to be relatively broken. The red paint that had been brushed years ago peeled off, revealing the fine-grained dark yellow wood. Jona couldn’t help but raise his hand on the door. He knocked twice, and the dull sound told him that despite the dilapidated appearance, the texture of the wooden door is still very solid,

"Weird, it looks like a ship with only a dozen years of age." The astrologer apprentice scratched his head and tentatively pushed open the door. The poorly lubricated shaft made a dry creak, and the door was not locked. As the opening angle slowly increased, the dim light from the porthole covered with ochre yellow curtains gradually increased. As soon as he stepped into the room, dust was raised on the ground, and Jona covered his mouth with his sleeve and looked around. ,

The room is not big. The door is facing an oval window. The yellow velvet curtain hangs from the ceiling to the ground. It looks like it hasn't been opened for a long time. The floor is covered with thick sand and a few lines of clear footprints. Extending from the door to the right wall, Jonah moved his sight along with it. There were two wooden boxes, one large and one small, against the wall. The small box was red, and it must be the personal belongings box Hannah said; the larger one was painted. It was green. The top of the box was scribbled and wiped. There are some familiar items on it: exercise books, textbooks, astrologer badges and small deerskin bags containing some sundries that Jonah brought out from Cherry Tou.

"It turned out to be here, great..." The astrologer apprentice walked over overjoyed, holding the badge in his hand, from the time when the Stewart brothers and sisters were completely disposing of themselves as cargo, the two brothers and sisters now Give him enough trust to allow him to enter the storage room freely. This change happened unknowingly. Thinking of this, Jonah can’t help feeling a little happy. He understands the two owners of "Bactria’s Blast" and himself. There is a strange symbiotic relationship between them. On the one hand, they are goods worth two gold coins; on the other hand, they are the most important support for them to find their father’s inheritance. Although Hannah and Danny have different personalities, they have been in contact for a long time. , Can feel the innocence in their character, Jonah suddenly thought at this moment, whether he can go through some more days and nights, he can rest assured that he can regard them as partners and truthfully confide the prophecy of the Betrayer Segles,

The thought flashed by, Jona put away his belongings, erected the staff Sirafana in the corner of the wall, and began to inspect the other items in the room. The two wooden boxes on the opposite wall contained a five-story large shelf. The shelves are densely packed with things, and there is a finger of thick floating dust on the surface of everything,

The height of the upper two floors exceeded the head of the astrologer apprentice. Jonah walked closer and checked from the third floor of the shelf. With a light blow, the dust covered the dim light and made him cough. Finally the dust settled, I was barely able to see what was on the partition, a torn leather boot, half a bottle of cactus wine for an unknown period of time, two black stones of unknown texture, and a glass bottle of colorful Strange sand, a large stack of parchment that was bitten by insects, twelve blunt daggers that were not made of wood or gold, a thick and large book, a heavy belt...every time you pick up an item, Jonah’s doubts increased by one point. These messy things should be stuffed under a sloppy bed. Why should they be neatly placed here, like soldiers waiting for the owner to review,

I rummaged over the third partition. As Danny said, there are no valuables, they are all weird things with no clear purpose. Jonah patted the dust on his hands and thought for a while. It seems that an object evoked some memories of him, but it was fleeting and could not be grasped accurately,

He frowned, and started playing with those objects one by one again from the beginning. As soon as he grabbed the bottle of fine sand in his palm, the astrologer apprentice was stunned. He took off the glass bottle, stepped back two steps, and borrowed Observing carefully through the dim light of the porthole, you can see through the dirty bottle body that the sand is composed of particles of five colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and black. When you gently shake the bottle, the fine sand floats in the bottle. After falling, a slender and beautiful little rainbow formed at the mouth of the bottle,

"Star dust." Jonah exclaimed,

Star dust is one of the few astrology props that can increase the interstellar line sensing ability. It is a commonly used and very expensive casting material by astrologers. You can see it in Mr. Koshava’s room. After a bottle of this kind of thing, I accidentally spilled a little bit at that time, and the old man Koshawa went into a rage and accused him of "wasting a whole year of food for the ordinary St. Boren family." The origin of the star dust is said to be the northern continent ice and snow. The covered extreme north, where the natural conditions are extremely harsh, is a natural forbidden area for mankind, and only a branch of the northern elves live there, loyally guarding the precious products gifted by the Creator, such as star dust and moon grass tea. Every year, countless stars fall in the extreme north. Star dust is the powder of the debris of these fallen stars, so it has the magical power to communicate with the starry sky.

From the large astrologer's robe on her body to the full bottle of star dust in the storage room, there is no doubt that an astrologer once lived on this ship. This discovery made Jonah shake and feel nervous. I am also excited. As one of the five major guilds, astrologers are used to living in the simplest sense. They have locked their lives firmly with the astrology tower. They rarely appear in the world, and a few practical astrologers are free. On the margins of the Association’s regulations and the "Joint Special Administrative Order", it provides various advisory and help services for the state power. The general public’s understanding of astrologers usually comes from the wealthy people who are despised by the Association. The astrologer on Ria’s Wind is such a senior, where has he gone now?

Jona cheered up and looked more closely at the items on the third shelf. A broken boot was indeed a broken boot. Even if it was covered with dust, he could still smell the pungent foot odor of the former owner. ; Half a bottle of wine is indeed half a bottle of wine. Pull the cork off, and a pungent, inferior alcohol smell rushes into Jona’s shining nostrils; the black stone tossed over and over and there is no peculiarity. The blunt dagger, how can you look at it? A bladeless blunt dagger, in the end, Jonah found a clue in the basically thick book,

The sheepskin cover of the big book has been destroyed by dryness and insect erosion. As soon as it was opened, it broke into pieces. The astrologer apprentice slowly wiped away the debris and dust, and found a line of vague handwriting on the title page of the book. It was a book. Owner’s README and signature,

"September 17, 2269, a memorable day, the Association..." Jonah had difficulty recognizing the handwriting, and slowly said: "...so, leave the words to read,,, Erlan? Dantlier, the eighth-level astrologer."