Lao Qiu was speechless by Liu Qindong's words. After a while, he said: "Aren't I trying to be polite to you? Why did you just take it seriously? That's right, now there are eight other nine-color crystals
There is more or less some news, at least their abilities have been announced, and I now know who is in the hands of three of the crystals, but as for the whereabouts of the transparent crystal, or the colorless crystal
It remains a mystery because no one has found it so far."
"So does colorless crystal really exist in this world? Isn't everyone mistaken?" Liu Qindong asked curiously.
"This is impossible. Colorless crystals must exist, because there are nine holes in the compass that can be inlaid with all crystals, and the hole in the center is where transparent crystals are inlaid. Therefore, transparent crystals are already all nine colors.
The most important one among crystals! As for how we can infer that this last nine-color crystal that has never been born is colorless and transparent, it is because this crystal compass is made of ordinary crystals, and this ordinary crystal
It is colorless and transparent; at the same time, among the other eight holes inlaid with crystals, you can vaguely see a line connecting the center hole, and the color of this line is the color of the corresponding crystal."
"In addition, although the origins of the nine-color crystal and the crystal compass have always been controversial, and there is still no definite answer, the earliest record of relevant information is a magic book - "Dirk's Wanderings"
"Notes", although this magician named Dirk has average abilities, he has traveled around the world more than a thousand years ago. He is also the first person in recorded history to possess a pink crystal, and this pink crystal also made him
He can always maintain the most perfect physical condition, no matter how extreme the weather is, it has no effect on him, and he can even move normally in magma. This is what he can rely on to travel around the world."
"But in the end, this guy had an inflated mentality. He wanted to climb the Himalayas when he had nothing to do, and he didn't prepare anything. Of course, this also had something to do with the fact that he heard that the blue crystal was teleported to the top of the Himalayas.
Unfortunately, it was later confirmed that the blue crystal was actually lying at the source of a large river nearby; as a result, Dirk encountered an avalanche while climbing the mountain. Although he relied on the power of the pink crystal to survive unscathed, in a sense, after all,
After Dirk was swept into the snow, it was equivalent to swimming in the water; but when he climbed out of the snowdrift, Dirk dropped the pink crystal into the snowdrift without paying attention, and when he reacted, he dropped the pink crystal into the snowdrift.
I no longer know the location of the pink crystal."
"In the end, Dirk, as a third-rate magician, was naturally unable to leave the Himalayas, and finally collapsed in a glacier crevice, so he only left his travel notes, which mentioned that he had obtained the pink
The process of making crystals, and in this record it is mentioned that he met an Eskimo tribe near the Arctic Circle. While resting there, he heard a legend from the locals that there was a cave in a nearby forest.
The people who entered it never came out again; although Dirk was only a third-rate magician, he was still much more powerful than ordinary people, so he felt that he had to solve this potential problem for the Eskimo who took him in to rest.
hidden dangers."
"So, Dirk went to the cave alone, and found out that there were ruins of an ancient civilization here. But this is quite normal. After all, everyone now knows that there were many civilizations in ancient times, and these ancient civilizations
Most civilizations have been wiped out by various mythical creatures, or some civilizations themselves are foreign mythical creatures. They are consumed by the evil and evil, and finally many ancient civilization relics appear under our feet; the one where Dirk is located
The ancient civilization was called the Crystal Clan, but after Dirk cracked various mechanisms and saw the remains of many Crystal Clan, he discovered that they were not silicon-based creatures, and that their bodies and crystals had nothing to do with each other."
"However, this crystal clan carries a crystal in their hands, which looks like a necklace or amulet. At the same time, there are a large number of crystal decorations in various buildings. At the same time, like the Aztecs, they like to use crystals to make spears.
Of course, there are also some firearms with crystal warheads! All in all, the crystal clan are all enthusiastic fans of crystals; but for Dirk, this is a bit unreasonable, because Dirk has also examined the body structure of this crystal clan.
, found that it is impossible for them to digest crystals, and these crystals have no special effects, so this fanatical pursuit of crystals is difficult to explain."
"Until Dirk came to the deepest part of the ruins, which is also the royal palace of the crystal clan, he saw many paintings on the walls. Although the painting style was very abstract, it can be seen that these paintings mainly talked about crystals.
The process of establishing a clan. The content of the largest painting is very simple. The first generation king of the water collar clan kneels in front of a huge god. On the forehead of this god is a crystal compass with nine colors inlaid on it.
Crystal, and the crystal in the middle is transparent and colorless! However, this god looks round, and in Dirk's opinion it should be a huge meteorite, or some kind of flying device."
"Of course, because many of the old rulers and ancient gods don't know the origins of the nine-color crystals and the crystal compass, many people think that these crystals may have been discovered or made by some mythical alien creature.
It came out, but for some reason it was put on a meteorite or an aircraft and brought to the earth, so no one recognized its origin; then this crystal family relied on the power of the nine-color crystal to become the overlord of the party. At the same time,
They also began to crazily pursue various crystals. After all, they have personal experience of the power of crystals! However, the good times did not last long. These nine-color crystals are indeed very powerful, but they are not intelligent."
"Again, as long as the holder of the nine-color crystal receives fatal damage, the crystal will automatically resist the damage and teleport away instantaneously. But the problem is that many holders can resist this fatal injury in other ways.
It was harmful, but the nine-color crystal still collapsed and ran away without looking back; just like the previous holder of the black crystal, he was originally wearing an enchanted body armor, and then attacked
Even if the reporter's bullet hit his heart, it would actually stop his heart for a beat at most. As a result, the black crystal still obediently eliminated all the kinetic energy of the bullet, and then disappeared.
No trace..."
"Well, is there a possibility that the attacker aimed at the head? This body armor can't cover the head, right?" Liu Qindong couldn't help but ask.
"Didn't I say that this body armor is enchanted, so the head is also within the defense range, but the head's defense may be weaker, because the enchantment effect is to conduct the attack on the head to the bulletproof
clothing, and the transmission effect will be lower; in short, this bullet will definitely not kill the holder, but the result is still considered fatal damage by the black crystal, which shows that this nine-color crystal is also quite unreliable
, it is easy for someone to get stuck in a bug and teleport away directly, and the first king of the crystal clan seems to have lost the nine-color crystal for this reason!"
"Dirk was in a huge room in the palace. He saw many members of the crystal clan staggering around in gorgeous clothes, with obvious injuries on their bodies. At the same time, some of them had weapons on their bodies, and there were also some people who looked like guards appearing next to them.
The same situation happened; so it was obvious that some nobles wanted to attack the king, and the king lost the nine-color crystal by surprise. As for the final specific result, it is not clear, but the crystal clan without the nine-color crystal
Naturally, there is no future, but for some reason, Dirk picked up a pink crystal on the ground."
After telling the story for so long, Lao Qiu picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "But from our perspective, this pink crystal should be an assassin who saw the nine-color crystal suddenly disappearing and wanted it in a hurry.
He snatched the pink crystal, and the king naturally did not intend to let him take away his own things, so he dropped the pink crystal during the fight, and it was finally picked up by Dirk."
"Then Dirk is very lucky to be able to pick up this pink crystal after so many years." Liu Qindong said with a little envy.
"Haha, maybe it is life, and the law of conservation of luck is not a vegetarian. Dirk was so lucky to pick up the pink crystal, but in the end he lost his life because of blindly believing in this crystal. It can only be said that he drank and pecked everything.
It’s destiny.”
Lao Qiu smiled and continued: "The pink crystal is also the only nine-color crystal whose location can be determined at present, because it must still be near the Himalayas, but it is buried in heavy snow! And someone has done calculations and found that
The items in the snow will move down slowly under normal circumstances, and of course some will get stuck in the soil, because the snow at the bottom is also slowly melting and seeping into the soil; so this pink crystal is said to be easy to find.
, but if you want to find it, you have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, so no force will be idle now to look for this crystal."
"That's right. Although not many people usually come to the Himalayas, as the highest peak on earth, the Himalayas are..."
Before Lao Qiu could finish speaking, Liu Qindong couldn't help but interrupt: "Well, from a more rigorous perspective, the Himalayas belong to a mountain range, and Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world.
So is there a possibility that the pink crystal is not on Mount Everest, but on other high mountains in the Himalayas?"
As soon as Liu Qindong said this, Lao Qiu was stunned. After a while, he nodded and said: "It seems that there is a possibility, because I found that Dirk's location is still a little distance from Mount Everest.
, and not far away is the second highest peak in the Himalayas - Nanda Devi Mountain. This Nanda Devi Mountain is also more than 7,000 meters high, so for Devi people who did not have mobile phones to check data more than a thousand years ago.
For Grams, the Nanda Devi Mountain in front of him is about the same height as Mount Everest in his mind, so this kind of misunderstanding is normal."
"So, Lao Qiu, how do you remember such a difficult-to-pronounce name? Doesn't it mean that everyone will only remember the first peak, and only mountaineering enthusiasts will remember the second and third peaks? Could it be that, Lao Qiu, you still
A mountaineering enthusiast?" Liu Qindong asked with a smile.
"No, no, no, I don't like tiring and boring activities like mountain climbing, but information dealers like us need to know a little bit of miscellaneous knowledge, and we have to remember it, because some information seems common.
It's ordinary, but if you know some cold knowledge, you may find that this information actually has another reason; for example, a friend of mine received an encrypted information before, and it took a lot of effort to decipher the information.
And sold it, but the person who bought the information suffered heavy losses. At that time, everyone thought that the encrypted information was used for fishing, after all, there was no problem with the translation process of the encrypted information."
"However, I found that there is no problem with this encrypted information, but there is also a very niche encryption method that can also be used to decipher it, and the deciphered results are similar to the previously decrypted content, but there are a few minor differences.
This single word is the key to the problem, which can drastically change the content of the entire intelligence. As for why I know this method of deciphering, it is because I usually like to read some online novels, and this method of deciphering is what I use in
I saw it in a novel about traveling through the Three Kingdoms. The protagonist in it sent people to lurk in the enemy's camp, and then used this method to deliver defensive information."
"Is there still such an operation? But let me tell you something, I also think that today's online novels can really be called a collection of cold knowledge, because any kind of messy cold knowledge may appear in the novel."
Liu Qindong sighed, shook his head and said: "I used to have a good friend who liked reading novels. Sometimes he would come to me and brag about the cool knowledge he had read... Unfortunately, he and I are now on different sides.
We should probably never see each other again in our lifetime."
Hearing what Liu Qindong said, Liu Xing couldn't help but feel a black thread.
The reason is very simple. Liu Xing knows very well that Liu Qindong is talking about him, because when Liu Xing was a child, he often walked with Liu Qindong after school. On the way, he would show off all kinds of trivia that he had read in novels.
But why did Liu Qindong say this as if he was no longer here?