Magus Tech Chapter 7: The Mystery of the Sphinx

Standing in the study room, what Li Cha saw were five or six tall bookshelves lined up against the wall, each of which was filled with books and scrolls.

Squinting his eyes slightly, Li Cha walked to one of the bookshelves, stepped on the special wooden ladder, and reached out to touch the top of the bookshelf.

Pushing away a large number of books and scrolls, Li Cha touched a cold black iron box placed in the innermost part of the bookshelf. The black iron box is about thirty centimeters long and wide, and five or six centimeters thick, with cumbersome lines engraved on the surface, which looks weird and mysterious.

With a slight force, Li Cha pulled the black iron box out of the bookshelf, walked down the wooden ladder, and placed it on the wooden table in the study.

With a "click", Li Cha opened the black iron box, revealing a book inside.

This book is about the size of a black iron box, and the cover on the surface presents an icy metal color, making it look extremely heavy.

Li Cha took out the book, feeling the touch like ice cubes, his eyes flickered, and his eyes fell on a depression on the cover.

The depression matches the metal pattern on the cover, and it looks like a split mouth. If you look at it from a special angle, you can still see a line of tiny words: Let me drink magic energy to my heart's content , I will tell you the truth of this world.

Spellbook! Or rather, it's a wizard book!

It was with great difficulty that Richard found it in the deepest part of the royal library. Even the oldest librarian couldn't explain its origin. All I know is that this is a weird book, full of evil power and vicious curses, if you come into contact with it often, you will get sick at least, or die suddenly at worst.

Li Cha naturally does not believe in the so-called curses and evil forces. In Li Cha's view, this book contains only a volatile substance that is poisonous to the human body. As long as you pay attention to the circulation of the air, you can completely avoid chronic poisoning.

However, it is not easy to unlock the secrets in the books.

Because this book is wordless.

Yes, a wordless scripture!

There is no word on the pages inside, and there is only one explanation except that someone deliberately played tricks on it: under special conditions, this book can reveal the hidden content. It's like the common deception on the modern earth, using starch to write on white paper, and it will change color when it comes into contact with iodine.

But Li Cha has done many tests, whether it is pure aqueous solution, iodine, acid or lye, none of them can change the pages of the book. Obviously, the paint applied on the page is a very special kind, and it is only necessary to find the corresponding reactant.

And what this reactant is, the cover has already stated clearly enough: magic energy.

What is mana? Magic substance?

In order to crack the secrets of this wizard book, to unlock the secrets of wizards and spells, Richard has been looking for weird creatures and human beings for several years, and now...

Li Cha tilted his head slightly, looking at the rose-colored liquid on the side of the table.

"Whether it's right or wrong, you should know immediately, right?" Li Cha said to himself, the next moment he picked up the bottle containing the rose-colored liquid, opened the stopper, and poured it slowly into the depression on the book cover. down.

Soon, the depression was filled, and a small air bubble came up. After standing still for half a day, it burst with a "pop".

A chain reaction seemed to be triggered in an instant. The liquid in the depression of the cover seemed to boil, and a large number of bubbles burst out and burst open continuously.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Then, as if some restriction was triggered, with a "gudong", all the liquid was instantly swallowed by the book and disappeared completely.

The next moment the book began to tremble slightly, like a human trembling, causing the tabletop to vibrate, and a faint voice sounded from the depths of the book: "Thirst...thirst...thirst..."

Li Cha raised his eyebrows, reached out and held down the vibrating wizard book, then picked up the bottle with rose-colored liquid and poured it again into the depression on the cover.

This time, as the liquid was poured, the sound of "gudong gudong" drinking water continued to sound, and every time the sound sounded, the poured liquid would disappear, and there was a low voice of "more...more..." Groan.

Just like that, Li Cha drank most of the bottle of liquid, and the sound of drinking water finally disappeared, replaced by a full belch, "Hee———"

The shaking book slowly returned to calm, Li Cha took a deep breath and opened it.

I saw that the first page of the book was originally blank, but now blood-red paint was displayed little by little, and finally merged into a somewhat terrifying skull.

There were raging flames burning in the skull's eyes, as if they were real. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Li Cha actually felt the heat.

This...

The next moment, something even more shocking happened. The painted skull actually moved, and the jaws opened and closed in an extremely cold whisper: "Who woke me up? Who is going to spy on Master Monroe's knowledge?" Treasure? Answer me, or you will receive the most severe punishment!"

If other people saw this situation, they would be scared to death, but Li Cha didn't. Instead, he looked at the skull on the page with interest and asked, "Who are you?"

"I am the book spirit created by Master Monroe to protect the safety of this book and to screen the qualifications of those who read it."

"What can you do?"

"I can verify that everyone who reads this book is smart enough. If so, then he will be qualified to read this book. If not, then he will pay for his own recklessness and ignorance. The price."

"What price?"

"Death!" Shu Ling's voice was extremely cold.

But Li Cha laughed: "It's interesting."

Then Richard asked: "How do you verify whether everyone is smart enough?"

"I will exchange a question with everyone. If he can answer my question correctly and make me unable to answer his question, then he is smart enough. During the period when I cannot answer his question , he can freely read the content of this book without punishment."

"Is that so..." Li Cha's eyes flickered, "Then what's your problem?"

"Those who want to peek at Master Monroe's knowledge, are you sure you want to start the challenge?" Shu Ling's voice became serious.

"I have to give it a try." Richard said, "Whether it is success or failure ~IndoMTL.com~ I want to study your mechanism of action."

"..." Shu Ling was silent for a moment, as if thinking about what Li Cha said, and finally said aloud, "Okay, since you are determined to challenge, let's answer this difficult problem: there is a strange creature with four legs in the morning and two legs at noon..."

Li Cha couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this, isn't this the mystery of the Sphinx in Greek mythology on the modern earth? In Greek mythology, the sphinx monster "Sphinx" sat on the cliff near the city of Thebes, stopped passers-by, and asked them the same riddle.

Many people couldn't guess the answer, and were eaten by the "Sphinx" mercilessly. Later, a person named "Oedipus" guessed the correct answer, and the "Sphinx" listened to the answer. He was so ashamed that he jumped off the cliff and died.

Before Shu Ling finished speaking, Li Cha couldn't help but interrupted: "Don't tell me, what you're going to say next is, 'This creature will have three legs at night, the most legs when he walked the slowest and was the weakest'. Then he asked me, 'what is this creature'?"

Shu Ling's voice stopped abruptly, and fell into silence for a long time, as if it was the first time he encountered such a situation.

Li Cha spoke again, and said to Shu Ling: "Well, if this is really the case, then I can only tell you that the puzzle is 'people'. Because people There are four legs for crawling, two legs for normal walking in adulthood (at noon), and three legs for walking with a cane in old age (at night).

But... the standard for judging whether one is smart or not is just such a puzzle that resembles a sharp turn of the brain. Is it really rigorous? Or, what you call smart is not the same as what I understand? You tend to be witty, but I am more biased towards wisdom...",