Firefly Journey

Chapter 263 Thunderous Sound from an Earthenware Pot (10)

Seeing that Lin Yuanran had changed drivers, Duan Feibai turned around and went back to his own carriage.

Lin Yuanran entered the carriage, sat down, placed his hand on the little clay figure's head, and quietly read the information.

Throughout the entire process, Lin Yuanran had a bright smile on his face.

A few minutes later, Lin Yuanran withdrew his hand and took out a miniature version of the ancestral artifact, Julius's Sun.

He looked excited.

In his previous letter, Lin Yuanran told Fengling about obtaining the Ancestral Artifact. In her reply this time, Fengling proposed a plan.

There are seven ancestral artifacts in the world. They come from different ancestral god churches and are all products of ancient times.

There are some unknown connections, or characteristics, between them.

Wind Chime's idea is that since everyone has ancestral artifacts, could we use their shared characteristics to achieve a certain effect?

For example, instant messaging.

In the Pangaea, the common means of communication was mail, which required postmen from different regions to deliver the mail. If the distance between the postmen and postmen was too great, it would affect the time it took to receive the mail.

This method is not safe; the journey is long and arduous, and if the postman encounters bandits, monsters, or natural disasters, the mail might mysteriously disappear. Although the post office will bear the corresponding losses, it is still not a reliable method.

Every year, countless emails are lost for various reasons. This is an inevitable result of technological backwardness and there is no way to avoid it for the time being.

A slightly more advanced method is communication between superhumans. For example, Cassius's clay figure uses magic to transmit messages, which is much safer.

This method also has a drawback: time. The little clay figure needs time to travel over mountains and valleys; although faster than a regular postman, it still requires waiting.

What if there was a tool that could allow two people who are separated by great distances to talk instantly together anytime?

In Lin Yuanran's original world, telephones existed, but they didn't exist in the Pan-Ancient Continent.

The idea behind Wind Chime is to use the properties of the ancestral artifacts to create a "telephone".

She couldn't guarantee success, but failure wouldn't be a big loss, so why not give it a try? Therefore, in addition to having the clay figure deliver the message, she also added a trace of the magical aura of "Ayepeya's Book" to serve as a "telephone line."

She even taught Lin Yuanran how to use it.

Lin Yuanran picked up the little clay figure and pressed it directly onto the miniature version of the ancestral artifact. He used his magic power to extract the aura of the Heavenly Book from the little clay figure and then sealed it into the "sun".

The sun, infused with foreign energy, did not reject it; on the contrary, due to the characteristics of the ancestral artifacts, the two merged.

Upon sensing all this, Lin Yuanran was overjoyed.

It was successful?

"Hey."

A girl's voice suddenly emanated from the miniature ancestral artifact. No, three years had passed; Feng Ling, like him, had grown up and was no longer a girl.

But who cares? In Lin Yuanran's heart, the image of the wind chime remains unchanged from the beginning—the scene in Torreg Town where the girl suddenly appeared at his door and asked to rent a room. After many years, it has become the most beautiful image in his mind.

He succeeded; he heard the sound of wind chimes.

"Wind chimes?"

"it's me."

A few seconds later, her voice came through the "sun" again: "It's much easier to contact you this way."

Lin Yuanran was overjoyed. Real-time voice calls were much better than the clay figure delivering messages once every two weeks.

However, Lin Yuanran dared not show any joy. For various reasons, he felt that the girl would not like him, so he could not let her notice anything amiss.

"Hmm, what are you doing?" Lin Yuanran asked.

"I'm making mushroom soup, what about you?" Wind Chime replied.

As if to confirm this, a sound of a spoon hitting the side of a pot came from the wind chimes.

"Do you like mushroom soup? As for me... I'm taking a carriage back to the capital of Chu to see Lü Jianming."

"I'm alright, I don't particularly like it, but the Palace Master likes it, so he asked me to do it. Is your task complete?"

"It's done. Shall we head back now?"

"I really don't understand why the Pope sent you to the State of Chu."

"I'm wondering the same thing. Mr. Blair must have his own plans. I'll just do as he says."

"Don't do things in a daze. It's better to ask about some things clearly, so you'll at least have some peace of mind."

By the way, I've discovered that while the two ancestral artifacts can communicate in real-time, there are some issues with their current state. I need to add a switch to it.

"You can come, I'm not good at it."

"I didn't expect anything from you either."

When he said that, Lin Yuanran could tell from his tone that he rolled his eyes, but he couldn't see it, which was a pity, because that wind chime must have been very cute.

The two fell silent for a moment. After about ten minutes, Fengling spoke again: "The switch is ready. It's just a few incantations."

"What spell?"

"You remember it."

"I'm listening."

"Lovers' path, shimmering lake, haunted woods, joyful white road."

Lin Yuanran was dumbfounded. What nonsense was this? Was this a spell? This was clearly a place name!

"Your naming method is quite unique."

Lin Yuanran wanted to praise her, but couldn't find the words, so he blurted out this sentence.

Fengling ignored the teasing in his words; she didn't care at all. Instead, she began to explain the usage of each incantation:

"The Lover's Path corresponds to opening, the shimmering lake to temporarily leaving, the haunted forest to indicate my return, and the joyful snow-white path to sever. Remember that?"

"If you didn't remember it, try again," Lin Yuanran said. Of course, who could remember something this complicated after just one try?

Wind Chime agreed and decided to ask a second time, but her tone was extremely disdainful.

After repeating it several times, Lin Yuanran finally memorized the incantation.

"Alright, that's all for today. I'm going to deliver the mushroom soup to the Palace Master."

"goodbye……"

After hanging up the phone, Feng Ling looked down at the miniature sun in her palm and couldn't help but smile. She decided that when she returned to the capital of Chu, she would find a shop to make it into a pendant to wear—otherwise, it would be too troublesome to take it out of the "fantasy ledger" every time she needed it.

Lin Yuanran repeated the incantation given by the wind chime, chanting it over and over again to reinforce its effect and prevent him from forgetting it.

After repeating this several times, he frowned. He felt that these incantations seemed familiar, but he really couldn't remember them. Perhaps it was because he had recited them so many times.

Through "Julius's Sun," Lin Yuanran can also contact Mr. Blair, but unlike before, he doesn't need to use a spell to find him.

"What's the matter?"

Blair's voice came from over there.

After listening to Feng Ling's words, Lin Yuanran decided to get to the bottom of things.

"You've brought me to the State of Chu to serve as an official. When will this end? I'm already a third-rank official. If this continues, I don't see how long it will last, but I'll be the prime minister..."

"No rush, just take the job. I've already said I'll ask you a question when the time is right."

Don't ask any more questions. What I can tell you is that the State of Chu will soon face a great calamity, and you represent the attitude of the Papacy.

Lin Yuanran wanted to ask more, but there was no sound from the other end, clearly indicating that they didn't want to say anything more.

A crisis for the State of Chu? What could it be?

Is this the Vatican's stance?

Lin Yuanran sighed. Why can't you just say it directly? Why do you have to play riddles?