On June 3, Lu Cheng came to Anqi Baiyutang.
Wang Chengzhi saw him and smiled: "Lu You, you haven't been here for a long time. Where have you been?"
Lu Cheng said: "My cousin and I went around a lot in the south and plundered a batch of jade materials."
"Your cousin? Lu Cheng?"
"Um."
"Lu Cheng is worth a trillion dollars, how can he be interested in gambling on jade?"
"It's mainly me who makes the bets, and he only contributes the money. I only get 20% of the final profit of 28%."
"Twenty percent is nothing."
The shop owner An Qi came over and wanted to transfer a sum of money to him, because the last two pieces of material had not been paid in full.
Lu Cheng asked: "Teacher Zhang, how is the business in the store?"
Zhang Anqi replied: "It's not bad. It's just that good materials are getting harder and harder to find. Some shops nearby had to close down because they couldn't find jade materials."
"Is it because the state controls the jade market?"
"Yes. Hotan jade and jade are both monopolized. Some shops have to turn their attention to Russian jade, Canadian jade, and jade from South America. Those jade materials cannot compare with mutton-fat jade, nor can they compare with jade."
"Teacher Zhang, if you need white jade, I still have some on hand."
"Jia Xian, how much white jade does your family have?"
"Enough to support you until you retire!"
"Ah?" Zhang Anqi is a private business owner. She has the final say whether to retire or not. As long as she can do it, she doesn't want to retire. She is not yet 50 years old. As a senior jade master, she has more and more apprentices. Why are you in such a hurry to retire?
The reason why Lu Cheng came to the shop was to improve his hand carving skills. In the future, making more complex array disks would require a high level of technical knowledge. In addition, he also wanted to buy a set of wood carving tools to see if he could carve the pine wood into a magical weapon.
Lu Cheng not only wants to learn carving, but also wants to use the simplest and most primitive tools to carve, because there is no electric hand carving machine like modern ones in the other world. If he goes to the Witch Temple to take the exam, and the other party requires hand carving of jade, then He will be in trouble.
As long as it is not an electric machine, there is no big problem in taking it out in another world, because the inheritance of wizards is diverse, and everyone has their own originality. The progress of human history, from the Paleolithic Age, to the New Age, to bronze and iron tools, to electricity and internal combustion engines, except for electricity and internal combustion engines, other things have appeared in other worlds.
Therefore, Lu Cheng suspected that the other world he went to was not ancient China, but a parallel world that followed the civilization of cultivation.
Recently, Lu Cheng became interested in the star map on the top of the cairn.
He has a total of 5 star maps in his hand, which are from 2 Wulian Tombs, 2 Sanjiangyuan Tombs, and the star maps in the palace in the skull bowl.
Among them, the first four star charts are more complicated. Most people will feel dizzy even if they look at them twice, let alone understand them. The fifth star chart is a little simpler. I don’t know that Akamatsuko specially made a simple one. Star Map, it is still said that his skill is slightly weaker, not as good as Mu Shen Gou Mang and others.
These star maps are saved in his mobile phone and computer. Those stars are like runes. If they are printed out, they will soon appear missing. One will be missing today, and one will be missing tomorrow, as if they were swallowed up by heaven.
Lu Cheng stayed in the jade shop for most of the day. He took the time to search online and found the Purple Mountain Observatory and the names of some astronomers.
He selected a few young astronomers and sent a letter through their published emails, which related to the star map left by Chi Songzi.
That evening, a man named "Yang Qijiang" took the lead in replying.
"Mr. Lu, the star map you provided seems to be the Milky Way.
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of 100,000-180,000 light-years.
Our solar system is located in a place not far or near, about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. It can be regarded as the "urban-rural fringe" of the Milky Way. Here, the density of stars is lower. For example, Proxima Centauri, the star closest to us, is about 4.24 light-years away.
If the sun were closer to the center of the galaxy, the situation would be very different. The density of stars would be more than 100 times greater than it is now. The interaction between these stars, or radiation, or other effects that humans are not yet aware of, may lead to the demise of life.
Looking at the Milky Way from the side, our solar system is located exactly on the equatorial plane of the Milky Way, so the Milky Way we see in the summer is a strip. This is also crucial for us.
In the universe, supernova shock waves, gamma ray bursts and other rays are very terrifying "killers". If they hit the Earth, they would be devastating.
Fortunately, the countless stars densely packed in the galactic center are almost connected into one surface, like a giant shield, stretching across the night sky. Therefore, cosmic rays from farther away in that direction will be blocked by these stars, greatly reducing the probability of the earth being "attacked" by cosmic rays.
The Milky Way has a total of 4 spiral arms, and our solar system is located in the Orion spiral arm.
However, this is not stable. The solar system is not fixed in a certain spiral arm. Instead, it constantly shuttles between different spiral arms as the solar system orbits the center of the galaxy.
This shuttle process of the solar system may be the root cause of the mass extinction of life on earth. The solar system completes a shuttle between the spiral arms every 187 million years, and the earth experienced a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, 250 million years ago, and 440 million years ago, which is probably not accidental.
Lu, I compared the star map you provided with the current Milky Way galaxy map and found that 187 stars are exactly the same, the positions of 140 stars have slightly changed, and the positions of 36 stars have changed greatly, including several Stars have never been discovered by humans before.
After preliminary analysis, I believe that there is something wrong with your star map. There is either a fallacy or it was drawn tens of thousands of years ago.
You know, the earth rotates with the sun, and the sun rotates with the center of the galaxy. If a person stands on the earth, the star map he sees is different in every era...
Mr. Lu, thank you for providing the star map! I got inspiration from the star map and wanted to study those few stars that have not been discovered by anyone! If it can be captured from an astronomical telescope, it will be of great significance to the development of astronomy in our country..."
The next day, two more astronomers wrote back. One of them, named "Zhang Mingjin," even calculated that the celestial phenomena represented by the star map are about 150,000-180,000 years away from modern times!
Lu Cheng couldn't help but frown after reading the email, and thought to himself: "Chisongzi was a person from 150,000 years ago? Isn't this ridiculous? In what year were the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors people? According to the history books, the "Three Emperors" The era should be the late Paleolithic Age, represented by the Shangding Cave Man 19,000 years ago. The "Five Emperors" era is slightly later, from the Peiligang Culture, Yangshao Culture, Dawenkou Culture, Longshan Culture...many archaeological cultures The shadows of the legendary Five Emperors can be found in the ruins.”
But then I thought: "Chisongzi is at least a 'Witch King'. A Witch King is a figure who can ascend to the sky. Who knows where he stood when he drew the star map? Was it on the ground or somewhere in the sky? Furthermore, He said that the age obtained by archeology may not be accurate. In ancient times, there was aura between heaven and earth. In the era when there was aura, the decay process of objects was different from that in modern times, so carbon 14 determination would be inaccurate..."
