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Chapter 4 The Book, and the Quest for Grandpa Bates' Secret
Chapter 4 The Book, and the Quest for Grandpa Bates' Secret
In the evening, Loren sat by the stove, flipping through the two books he got during the day, while Grandpa Bates was packing his bags.
"Pictographic Symbols General Explanation" is not an introduction to the content of symbols. The pictographs in the book may refer to the runes introduced in a large chapter in the middle.
The first half of the book is some alchemical content of occultism, Loren seems to be mostly unfounded fantasy.The use of dragon's blood, the use of magical animal materials, and the names of some other plants have never been heard by Loren in two lifetimes.
When it is refined, there is a distinction between a full moon and a waning moon, and a distinction between a rainstorm with thunder and a rainstorm without thunder.
Is this a British feudal superstition?Loren thought it was interesting to see it as a legend.
But the second half of the book is more interesting, the autobiography of a man who calls himself Nicole Flamel.
He told that he was born in Paris in the 14th century, and he worked as a scribe in the early days to copy books, letters and wills for various noble figures.Occasionally getting some alchemy content, Nicol has alchemy as a hobby.
Ordinary life ushered in a huge turning point one day, a man wearing a black cloak came to his dream and told him that he would receive a magical book, which he had to study hard and understand thoroughly, in order to obtain extraordinary and amazing knowledge strength.
This dream has come true.
The book reads: I have an ancient and huge book in exchange for 2 florins.It does not use paper or parchment like other books, but is made of fine and smooth young bark.The cover is tightly wrapped in brass, and it is full of words or strange symbols... It has 7 sets of 3 pages, including the front page, and the seventh page of each set has no text, but the first page On the seventh page of one set, there is a drawing of a magic wand being swallowed by a giant snake.
When Loren saw this, he took another book and looked at it carefully.
This should be the "Book of Abraham". The content of the book does seem to be pressed and printed with some kind of metal, and then inked. It is not any text that Loren has seen, and he cannot understand it at all.
The book has 21 pages in total, and every seventh page is full of weird pictures.
The first seven pages depict a quaint walking stick with two serpents of unknown species twined around it, one of which is devouring the other.
This book should be some years old, the pages are yellow, and the simple lines outline a picture without color, let alone clear, but when Loren looked at the painting, there was a colorful and clear image in his mind.
The cane was pristine black, the two snakes had white spots, and he could even feel the matte texture of the scales.
Loren guessed that life was too boring, coupled with the large amount of online film and television materials in his previous life, he made it up by himself.
On the second seven pages, No.14, a cross is painted, but it is not Jesus who is crucified on the cross, but a snake.
Loren looked at this picture, and he felt that the snake in this painting should be different from the one in front. The snake on the cross seemed to have two small horns on its head.
The third seven pages, No. 20, depict several clear springs emerging from a desert, and many snakes emerge from the springs.
Loren's impression of this picture is more about the spring water. The scene of the spring water gushing out in his mind seems to be able to feel the sweetness and coolness of the spring water.
In addition, there are four small pictures on the fourth and fifth pages, which are too small for Loren to make up anything.
In "A General Explanation of Pictographic Symbols", Nicole Flamel's opinion on this is: these small pictures are not important, they seem to be in the narrative and seem to be in some popular mythology, and there is no mention of alchemy.
The following self-report became gibberish, with many spelling mistakes and nonsense grammar.
Turning to the back is some travel notes. This Nicole Flamel has traveled to almost every place in the world, recording the customs and habits of many places. Of course, there are also some garbled words in the middle. Loren still reads with relish .
Grandpa Bates put away the bundle and looked at the sky through the small window.
Although it was snowing at this time, the clouds were very thin, and a gapped moon could be seen hanging low in the sky.
Grandpa Bates closed the small window and inserted it tightly with a wooden stick, "Loren, listen up. I'm going into the mountains tomorrow, and you stay at home by yourself, as usual, you know?"
There are times like this every month, and Loren can't ask for any results, "Okay, I got it!"
Grandpa Bates may not know that he is no longer young, and the winters of the past two years have been particularly difficult.Especially in the few days after returning from the mountain, the whole person was so weak that he would feel as if he had suffered a serious illness.
Occasionally Loren felt that, as the people down there said, Bates was making a deal with the devil up there.
But after living together for a few years, Bates has no other strange things. Maybe he has a withdrawn temperament, but after getting to know him, he is just a slightly stronger little old man, just like an ordinary farmer.
Anyway, he decided to sneak behind Grandpa Bates tomorrow to find out.
The next morning, had breakfast.
Grandpa Bates took the packed bundle and the walking stick made of wooden sticks, and went up the mountain.
Loren was not in a hurry. Even if there was no thick snow on the mountain in winter, it would still be difficult to walk.
After feeding the sheep slowly, he put enough hay and water for the sheep into the sheepfold.Use a wooden rope and a glass bottle filled with water to make a simple timing mechanism. The water in the glass bottle will keep dripping out. The temperature of the sheepfold will not freeze the glass bottle. After enough time, the hay will fall from the beam. up and down.This is to prevent the sheep from eating up food for several days quickly.
After doing all this, Loren brought dry food for several days, coarse bread, cheese and bacon, a knife, a windproof lighter, and a windproof tarpaulin in the bag.
After thinking for a while, he put the fur blanket of that weird book seller old man in it too.
After locking the door, it was already after lunch, and Loren chased after Bates following the traces on the snow and the falling direction of wild grass and wild flowers.
The trees were covered with white coats, scattered snowflakes would occasionally fall on Loren's body, and the wind blowing from the road cut and scraped Loren's exposed skin like a knife.
He tried his best to protect himself with hats, gloves, and scarves, but the wind still penetrated into his body and bones through the thin holes between the clothes.
After walking for a while, Loren took out the tarpaulin and blanket and put it on his body, and put another tarpaulin on it to protect Loren's body like a cloak.
The effect is very good, the wind that drills into the body all the time is blocked, and the blanket is warm, like sitting by the stove.
This is definitely polar bear fur, Loren thought.
In less than an hour, I followed the obvious traces into the forest, and came out from the other corner. The footprints on the snow stretched to the side of a boulder. One side of the boulder was close to a small hill, and the footprints scattered around the boulder. Scattered in one piece and disappeared.
Of course Loren didn't feel that Mr. Bates had turned into a stone spirit.
There are some wooden stakes and wooden poles next to the stone to form a simple labor-saving lever.It can be seen that Grandpa Bates did not use brute force to move the stone. There should be a cave behind the stone, and there should be a similar labor-saving device in the cave.
After going around a few times, Loren cleared out a place in another leeward place, and built a shelter with branches and tarpaulins, trying to hear the sound in the cave.
Wrapped in a fur blanket, he didn't feel a little cold, and he didn't light a fire, which was warmer than a polar bear's fur.
He had eaten something and was quietly waiting for the night to come here...
(End of this chapter)
In the evening, Loren sat by the stove, flipping through the two books he got during the day, while Grandpa Bates was packing his bags.
"Pictographic Symbols General Explanation" is not an introduction to the content of symbols. The pictographs in the book may refer to the runes introduced in a large chapter in the middle.
The first half of the book is some alchemical content of occultism, Loren seems to be mostly unfounded fantasy.The use of dragon's blood, the use of magical animal materials, and the names of some other plants have never been heard by Loren in two lifetimes.
When it is refined, there is a distinction between a full moon and a waning moon, and a distinction between a rainstorm with thunder and a rainstorm without thunder.
Is this a British feudal superstition?Loren thought it was interesting to see it as a legend.
But the second half of the book is more interesting, the autobiography of a man who calls himself Nicole Flamel.
He told that he was born in Paris in the 14th century, and he worked as a scribe in the early days to copy books, letters and wills for various noble figures.Occasionally getting some alchemy content, Nicol has alchemy as a hobby.
Ordinary life ushered in a huge turning point one day, a man wearing a black cloak came to his dream and told him that he would receive a magical book, which he had to study hard and understand thoroughly, in order to obtain extraordinary and amazing knowledge strength.
This dream has come true.
The book reads: I have an ancient and huge book in exchange for 2 florins.It does not use paper or parchment like other books, but is made of fine and smooth young bark.The cover is tightly wrapped in brass, and it is full of words or strange symbols... It has 7 sets of 3 pages, including the front page, and the seventh page of each set has no text, but the first page On the seventh page of one set, there is a drawing of a magic wand being swallowed by a giant snake.
When Loren saw this, he took another book and looked at it carefully.
This should be the "Book of Abraham". The content of the book does seem to be pressed and printed with some kind of metal, and then inked. It is not any text that Loren has seen, and he cannot understand it at all.
The book has 21 pages in total, and every seventh page is full of weird pictures.
The first seven pages depict a quaint walking stick with two serpents of unknown species twined around it, one of which is devouring the other.
This book should be some years old, the pages are yellow, and the simple lines outline a picture without color, let alone clear, but when Loren looked at the painting, there was a colorful and clear image in his mind.
The cane was pristine black, the two snakes had white spots, and he could even feel the matte texture of the scales.
Loren guessed that life was too boring, coupled with the large amount of online film and television materials in his previous life, he made it up by himself.
On the second seven pages, No.14, a cross is painted, but it is not Jesus who is crucified on the cross, but a snake.
Loren looked at this picture, and he felt that the snake in this painting should be different from the one in front. The snake on the cross seemed to have two small horns on its head.
The third seven pages, No. 20, depict several clear springs emerging from a desert, and many snakes emerge from the springs.
Loren's impression of this picture is more about the spring water. The scene of the spring water gushing out in his mind seems to be able to feel the sweetness and coolness of the spring water.
In addition, there are four small pictures on the fourth and fifth pages, which are too small for Loren to make up anything.
In "A General Explanation of Pictographic Symbols", Nicole Flamel's opinion on this is: these small pictures are not important, they seem to be in the narrative and seem to be in some popular mythology, and there is no mention of alchemy.
The following self-report became gibberish, with many spelling mistakes and nonsense grammar.
Turning to the back is some travel notes. This Nicole Flamel has traveled to almost every place in the world, recording the customs and habits of many places. Of course, there are also some garbled words in the middle. Loren still reads with relish .
Grandpa Bates put away the bundle and looked at the sky through the small window.
Although it was snowing at this time, the clouds were very thin, and a gapped moon could be seen hanging low in the sky.
Grandpa Bates closed the small window and inserted it tightly with a wooden stick, "Loren, listen up. I'm going into the mountains tomorrow, and you stay at home by yourself, as usual, you know?"
There are times like this every month, and Loren can't ask for any results, "Okay, I got it!"
Grandpa Bates may not know that he is no longer young, and the winters of the past two years have been particularly difficult.Especially in the few days after returning from the mountain, the whole person was so weak that he would feel as if he had suffered a serious illness.
Occasionally Loren felt that, as the people down there said, Bates was making a deal with the devil up there.
But after living together for a few years, Bates has no other strange things. Maybe he has a withdrawn temperament, but after getting to know him, he is just a slightly stronger little old man, just like an ordinary farmer.
Anyway, he decided to sneak behind Grandpa Bates tomorrow to find out.
The next morning, had breakfast.
Grandpa Bates took the packed bundle and the walking stick made of wooden sticks, and went up the mountain.
Loren was not in a hurry. Even if there was no thick snow on the mountain in winter, it would still be difficult to walk.
After feeding the sheep slowly, he put enough hay and water for the sheep into the sheepfold.Use a wooden rope and a glass bottle filled with water to make a simple timing mechanism. The water in the glass bottle will keep dripping out. The temperature of the sheepfold will not freeze the glass bottle. After enough time, the hay will fall from the beam. up and down.This is to prevent the sheep from eating up food for several days quickly.
After doing all this, Loren brought dry food for several days, coarse bread, cheese and bacon, a knife, a windproof lighter, and a windproof tarpaulin in the bag.
After thinking for a while, he put the fur blanket of that weird book seller old man in it too.
After locking the door, it was already after lunch, and Loren chased after Bates following the traces on the snow and the falling direction of wild grass and wild flowers.
The trees were covered with white coats, scattered snowflakes would occasionally fall on Loren's body, and the wind blowing from the road cut and scraped Loren's exposed skin like a knife.
He tried his best to protect himself with hats, gloves, and scarves, but the wind still penetrated into his body and bones through the thin holes between the clothes.
After walking for a while, Loren took out the tarpaulin and blanket and put it on his body, and put another tarpaulin on it to protect Loren's body like a cloak.
The effect is very good, the wind that drills into the body all the time is blocked, and the blanket is warm, like sitting by the stove.
This is definitely polar bear fur, Loren thought.
In less than an hour, I followed the obvious traces into the forest, and came out from the other corner. The footprints on the snow stretched to the side of a boulder. One side of the boulder was close to a small hill, and the footprints scattered around the boulder. Scattered in one piece and disappeared.
Of course Loren didn't feel that Mr. Bates had turned into a stone spirit.
There are some wooden stakes and wooden poles next to the stone to form a simple labor-saving lever.It can be seen that Grandpa Bates did not use brute force to move the stone. There should be a cave behind the stone, and there should be a similar labor-saving device in the cave.
After going around a few times, Loren cleared out a place in another leeward place, and built a shelter with branches and tarpaulins, trying to hear the sound in the cave.
Wrapped in a fur blanket, he didn't feel a little cold, and he didn't light a fire, which was warmer than a polar bear's fur.
He had eaten something and was quietly waiting for the night to come here...
(End of this chapter)
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