On the cover of the book, there are six large characters in the Illustrated Book of Monsters of the Tang Dynasty. The writing is neat and strong, making it smooth and comfortable to read.
The dancing horse rode the gray mist and looked around the scroll up and down, feeling the soft pulse of the scroll and the warm breath of the scroll, and basically confirmed that this so-called "Illustrated Book of Monsters of the Tang Dynasty" should be a decent book.
This is a friendly book, a book that is free from vulgar taste.
It probably has nothing to do with evil heretics, demon sects, Ming sects, Sun Moon God sects, etc.
Except for six large gold-plated characters, the cover is empty, with no author or publisher.
There is no cover image that makes people excited or laugh.
There are no slogans such as that readers from all over the world read it in three nights on average, that so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so jointly recommended it, and that it is the pearl on the crown of the Mao Dun Literary Award.
Let's look at the title of the book, "The Illustrated Book of Monsters of the Tang Dynasty", which is both plain and weird.
Dancing Horse pondered the meaning.
Tang Dynasty, the era is determined.
Although it is the Sui Dynasty now, Li Yuan and Gao Junya have already appeared. The life of the Sui Dynasty is shorter than the tail of a rabbit and shorter than the Weibo explanations of some cheating and committing celebrities.
It is said that Datang is not in a hurry.
The word "monster" is enough to make the dancing horse think about it.
Of course, dancing horses appreciate fairies more, especially female fairies.
If the name of this book were "Illustrated Book of Female Fairies of the Tang Dynasty", Dancing Horse would definitely give it a thumbs up and get cramps in his hands.
As for the monster——
Journey to the West, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Liaozhai, Fengshen, Youyang Zazu, Yougui Lu, Legend of the White Snake, Sou Shen Ji, etc., all contain monsters.
Wu Ma subconsciously realized that the "Illustrated Book" was probably related to these myths and legends.
If we limit the era to the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty’s Feng Shen and the Qing Dynasty’s Liaozhai should be excluded.
Although Journey to the West was written in the Ming Dynasty, the monsters in the book are rich and colorful, and the era coincided with the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Especially the female fairies in the book are very beautiful and cute. I really want to see them.
The Legend of White Snake originates from the Tang legend "White Snake" which can be preserved. Youyang Zazu and Yougui Lu are all Tang legends and should most likely be preserved.
The Pre-Qin Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Sou Shen Ji are older. If the monsters in them were long-lived, it wouldn't be surprising if they survived into the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Ma carefully sifted through it, and suddenly remembered that it was not up to him to decide which monsters this book was related to. He really didn't know what the pretentious person was so obsessed with.
Look at the last two words of the book title again, "Picture Book"——
What kind of statement is this.
When I first thought about it, the so-called illustrated books were just pictures with text.
Wu Ma once watched a TV series called "Beijing Women's Illustrated Book".
Later I heard that women from Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Tokyo had published illustrated books, but it was a pity that they had sex with the corpse monster before I had time to read them.
After watching the TV series Dancing Horse, I checked the encyclopedia online.
I still remember the definition given by the experts of Dancing Horse quite clearly——
Illustrated books refer to scientifically accurate drawings or photos taken of specific objects in certain fields, especially natural objects such as organisms, rocks, minerals, and man-made objects such as vehicles, and are accompanied by corresponding explanatory text to form an overview book.
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Sometimes people's memory is so wonderful, they can't remember what they should remember, but they can remember a lot of others.
Monsters should be included in the category of living things, right?
There is a vast expanse of explanations from experts.
After a high-level summary of Dancing Horse, I grasped the key——
Illustrated books are actually used to help people study the current situation and development trends of things.
So, what does "Beijing Women's Illustrated Book" study?
What does "The Monster Illustrated Book of the Tang Dynasty" study?
Draw pictures of the monsters of the Tang Dynasty, write messy annotations, and study the essential attributes, development status and future trends of the monsters of the Tang Dynasty.
Is it possible that as dynasties change and emperors take turns, monsters will continue to be upgraded?
For example, Li Yuan's martial virtue year is monster 1.0, his martial virtue in one year is 1.1, and his martial virtue in two years is 1.2.
In the Zhenguan era, it was Monster 2.0;
Li Zhi's Yonghui reign is 3.00, and Xianqing's reign is 3.10.
So how to calculate Wu Zetian's reign? The era of light house is considered monster X? The era of vertical arch is regarded as monster Ⅺ?
Wouldn’t that become the Great Zhou Monster Illustrated Book?
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.
Wu Ma decided to stop thinking, and with his eyes covered with gray mist, he moved a little closer to the six characters "Datang Monster Illustrated Book" on the cover of the book, and carried out a close and comprehensive observation.
At this moment, the scroll suddenly flashed with yellow light, and the sky and the earth expanded rapidly. The scroll also grew larger and taller, like a curtain covering the sky.
Of course, after Wu Ma analyzed it calmly, it was also possible that he had shrunk infinitely.
The sound of rushing water sounded, and the blue cover on the front turned into an endless sea.
A rapidly rotating vortex appeared in the middle of the sea, and violent suction swept in.
Wu Ma originally wanted to use the gray mist to escape quickly, but found that the suction force came too fast, and he had no room to resist. He simply calmly watched the changes - his consciousness and the gray mist were all sucked in.
To be honest, he felt as if he was passing by a small hair salon and being dragged in.
When the suction power dissipated, Wu Ma found himself in a world covered with white mist.
The chains on his body are gone, and his eyes can be opened.
The gray mist from before wrapped around the naked body, protecting the indescribable parts.
"Fairy, where is it?"
The dancing horse raised its head and looked up.
White mist was floating all around, lingering all over the sky. In the middle of the white mist was about seven or eight square meters of quiet open space.
The dancing horse stood in the middle of the open space, with a large scroll standing in front of it, like a white wall.
There are traces of carving on the scroll, which divide the scroll into three neat lines, upper and lower, and several spaces.
Above the first space in the first line, you can vaguely see a faint gray shadow, as if the brush ran out of ink and was painted with water.
"This... is too perfunctory."
Carefully identify the appearance of the shadow. It looks like a bear but not a bear, and looks like an ape but not an ape.
"Ape bear?"
"Or a bear ape?"
"Or an ape among bears?"
Dancing Horse looked at the shadow carefully and looked around, but found no explanation text that met the definition of the illustrated book.
What's going on? Without explanation, who can understand?
In other words, is it possible that this scroll has the same trigger mechanism as the blue scroll outside?
The dancing horse thought for a moment and circled the painting several times. He looked at it from a distance, looked at it up close, looked upright, looked upside down, tilted his head, looked sideways, and looked at the horse in a straight line, but never looked at it.
What changes have occurred to the picture scroll?
"It seems that a close contact is inevitable."
Wu Ma thought and stretched out his hand to explore the scroll.
Get closer little by little.
Before he touched the scroll, he found that his hand turned into a puddle of gray mist.
"This is awesome...Grey Mist Fruit?"
The dancing horse shook his arm, and the whole arm became soft and atomized.
With such a soft feeling, Wu Ma tried to twist his body, and his whole body twisted into a puddle of gray mist.
"What the hell, have you become a gray mist spirit?"
"Would it be possible that from now on, everything will be clouded?"
I don’t know if I can still find a partner like this. Will my employer still pay five social insurances and one housing fund?
Wu Ma's loose hand, or rather misty hand, finally touched the scroll close to his chest proportionally.
At the moment of contact, a wave of heat poured into the dancing horse's body.
The gray mist all over my body surged enthusiastically.
Immediately afterwards, the gray fog expanded rapidly.