DPM Chapter 71-Seizing Treasure Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
Ye Fan stood silent through the weeping. He wasn’t good at being comforting.
So he simply waited until the people had cried themselves out. Then, voice serene, he said: “I killed both Wang brothers. However, you need not worry, I have a way to save you. For three days, you will need to come and drink the holy water. By the end of those three days, you will be able to go anywhere freely in this last age.”
“My own friend is ordinary like you. For his sake, I was compelled to kill the Wang brothers. I don’t want anyone to suffer the same issue as me. The next three days, you can consult with your own family and friends. If you want to leave the city, I won’t try to stop you. If you want to stay, gather here at the end of the three days.”
“What I’ll ask, if you choose to stay, is that you bring your relatives. Survival in these last days isn’t easy. Those who stay I will treat as my brothers. If there is meat, we will eat together. If there are hardships, we will bear it together. My one request for the coming three days is that no mutant steps foot in here. I will be resting here and only I know the practices you need. If I die, your fate is obvious.”
Having said his piece, and when any mutants had left, Ye Fan started making all manner of movements towards the water tank. For almost an hour, Ye Fan played the part, about a triple longer than the time Wang Ruoxu had usually taken, before the water was divided among the crowd.
Wu Xingyun was right. What was gained by deception couldn’t last.
Still, Ye Fan didn’t want to waste a bunch of time explaining. To avoid confusion and disorder, he bought himself three days of safety, during which he could decipher the books Wang Ruoxu had left behind.
After the three days, inevitably there’d be mutants who’d refuse to accept him. Ye Fan was hoping, when that time came, he’d be able to overpower them, avoiding unnecessary bloodshed.
When everyone dispersed from the main hall, the news of Ye Fan killing Wang Ruoxu and the Wangs’ leftover confederates spread at lightning speed.
Ye Fan, having made his announcements, left the main hall where trouble was most likely to occur. Taking Wu Xingyun with him, Ye Fan found them a safe nook in the city sewers and begin to slowly process through what Wang Ruoxu had left behind.
Those mutants who had ordinary family members rapidly formed into a spontaneous troop around the park, providing a protective barrier for Ye Fan. Their reasoning was simple enough—they didn’t want unattached mutants to kill Ye Fan and grab the treasure for themselves, thus dashing the hopes of free survival for normal people.
A few mutants were willing to make desperate moves for the sake of potential power. Hearing of the Wang brothers’ demise, their first thought was that Wang Ruoxu’s precious secrets had fallen into Ye Fan’s hands. One by one, they wanted to forcibly take for themselves, and crown themselves as king.
All around the Furong Garden, daggers were drawn in mutual hostility, the atmosphere extremely strained.
In the sewers, however, Ye Fan was attentively reading through Wang Ruoxu’s useful books by faint candlelight.
Wu Xingyun was also flipping through pages, trying to find anything that might help Ye Fan. Ye Fan had taken this step, there was already no way back. Now, Wu Xingyun could only assist Ye Fan as best he could.
Turning over book after book, the most common theme Ye Fan found was methods for improving health and well-being, yet Ye Fan had no idea if any of them were actually effective. Then suddenly Wu Xingyun held up a book, firmly professing: “I think it’s this one!”
Ye Fan stared blankly at the book. The cover was decorated with many small dots, but had no title or author. Inside, the contents were handwritten, with some words Ye Fan couldn’t understand.
“Why are you so certain?” Ye Fan asked. “This looks as if……And this formula here, it doesn’t seem to be Taoist in nature.”
“The cover,” said Wu Xingyun, “The cover is clearly a drawing of the Andromeda galaxy.”
Surprised, Ye Fan looked again at the book cover. The small dots didn’t look like a star chart to him.
“Andromeda galaxy? Isn’t that the closest galaxy to ours? The one they say is going to gobble us up in the future?” Thanks to his good high school education, Ye Fan quickly recalled the pertinent information.
Wu Xingyun nodded: “Yes, that one. I’m used to seeing this chart from since I was a child. The azimuth isn’t the same, but that’s it. Think, Wang Ruoxu was a Taoist priest, how would he come by such a thing? That’s why……I think it’s strange. When you took a look, what did it say inside?”
Ye Fan opened the book again, serious after taking Wu Xingyun’s words to heart. He read aloud: “You don’t exist yet, but thousands of years from now, Saman will come and the world will die. I cannot bear to see the extinction of this species. Therefore, with the strength of my poor life, I will practice. And I hope that future generations will know. The sin of treason, the crime is great. My thoughts have moved, Saman will know. I sigh with sorrow, is it right or wrong? Who would have thought it of me……”
Not following what he was hearing, Wu Xingyun said: “I don’t understand, can you make it simpler?”
Pondering the text for a couple of minutes, Ye Fan responded: “Apparently, it seems someone predicted the last days thousands of years ago. Hmm……It says everything with die, but this person can’t endure this scene. So they left this book behind……But what does ‘my thoughts have moved, Saman will know’ mean? And ‘the sin of treason’ too? I don’t understand it either.”
Scratching his head, Wu Xingyun spoke without thinking: “If the cover is a star map of Andromeda, maybe there’s alien life there, right? Still……It’s unlikely, whether there’s life there or not, that someone was capably of crossing the galaxy to reach Earth so soon, even two thousand years from now……”
Ye Fan continued the train of thought: “Yes, it’s not likely. It’s not like we’ve discovered extraterrestrial life yet.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t echo Ye Fan’s statement. After all, Wu Xingyun was an alien himself. And, as humanity had advanced through the Milky Way, they had encountered extraterrestrial life. But—Wu Xingyun had never heard of a kind with intelligence equal to humans. Moreover, Wu Xingyun remembered that shortly before his marriage to Mozun, the Federation had only just set up transmission points to the Andromeda galaxy.
For no reason, Wu Xingyun thought of Wen Nuo.
Nowadays, Wu Xingyun wasn’t the immature soldier he had been. He remembered Wen Nuo’s words: “…Go to the Andromeda galaxy. We could find a suitable planet, settle down, and ignore all this fighting. Wu Xingyun, say the word and I’ll take you away. What to come with me?”
Back then, Wu Xingyun hadn’t completely understood Wen Nuo’s intention. Only now did Wu Xingyun grasp that Wen Nuo had meant eloping.
A little dazed by this realization, Wu Xingyun knew he couldn’t go back. He also clearly knew he’d die here, in this time, in the arms of Ye Fan.
And because he didn’t know the specific time or the specific way, Wu Xingyun couldn’t guard against it.
He was already prepared for his death, he possessed this awareness.
Yet, for some inexplicable reason, this book reminded Wu Xingyun of where he’d born and the places where he’d grown up.
His father, his mother, his older brothers, his comrades-in-arms.
Except for Ye Fan, Wu Xingyun had no one close at his side.
Lowering his head, Wu Xingyun said softly: “Ye Fan, come and hold me for a moment.”
Ye Fan didn’t move, but he spread out one arm, pulling Wu Xingyun into an embrace, lightly kissed the soldier’s lips, and continued reading the book.
As Wu Xingyun had anticipated, the book had indeed been Wang Ruoxu’s ultimate magical treasure, the one he’d continuously refused to reveal.
The content was heavy, and the practice methods quite complex.
Spending half a day reading it, Ye Fan wouldn’t have been able to repeat it from memory.
He could only start a rudimentary practicing of what was laid out in the text.
Sitting on the ground, Ye Fan quickly adopted a strange posture and went into a state of silence.
Wu Xingyun waited, his ears pricked up, listening for any sign of activity outside.
Ye Fan cycled through one pose after another. By the time night fell, the color of his body was changing, skin dropping off inch by inch, only to rapidly grow back. Even his hair grew like a flash, in the end dragging to the ground.
At first, there’d been small reptiles scurrying about the sewer, disturbing Ye Fan. But by the middle of the night, with Ye Fan acting as the center of a circle, the sewer became bare, no creature daring to come near.
Although Ye Fan kept practicing, Wu Xingyun couldn’t take it anymore. He leaned against the wall, drifting into fitful sleep.
Eventually Wu Xingyun completely surrendered to dreamland, only waking up when kissed by Ye Fan.
Wu Xingyun slightly opened his eyes. The sewer was dark, and Wu Xingyun couldn’t see anything.
“What time is it?” Wu Xingyun asked.
Ye Fan smiled in the darkness, softly snapped his fingers, and a red round light appeared between his index finger and thumb.
The light illuminated all around them, shrouding Ye Fan’s body with a blood-red hue.
Wu Xingyun exclaimed without thinking: “Gamma ray burst!”
Ye Fan gently flicked the ball of light. It fell into the wall, disappearing after ten seconds.
His body starting to feel a little ill, Wu Xingyun recalled their time together in the forest, fighting the tree monster from Luoshi Research.
Harboring suspicions that his skin was going to get burnt off by radiation again, Wu Xingyun even conjectured about his cause of death—seeing as how Ye Fan was always honing his skills right in front of Wu Xingyun, the day would come when Wu Xingyun would be radiated to death……Therefore Mozun, heavy laden with a guilty conscience, would blame himself and be broken-hearted!
When the book Ye Fan read says-‘I will practice,’ xiulian is the word used
修炼[xiū liàn]
try to make pills of immortality and cultivate vital energy, etc
修炼xiūliàn
(of Taoists) to practice austerities / to practice asceticism
When used as a celestial coordinate, the azimuth is the horizontal direction of a star or other astronomical object in the sky. The star is the point of interest, the reference plane is the local area (e.g. a circular area 5 km in radius at sea level) around an observer on Earth’s surface, and the reference vector points to true north. The azimuth is the angle between the north vector and the star’s vector on the horizontal plane.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth
The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] The galaxy’s name stems from the area of Earth’s sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology.
The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses (2.0×1042 kilograms). The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. This has been called into question by a 2018 study that cited a lower estimate on the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy,[12] combined with preliminary reports on a 2019 study estimating a higher mass of the Milky Way.[13][14] The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly (67 kpc), making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension, if not mass.[citation needed]
The number of stars contained in the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion (1×1012), or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way.[15][needs update]
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4.5 billion years,[16][17] merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy[18] or a large lenticular galaxy.[19] With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects,[20] making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights,[21] even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
DPM Chapter 71-Seizing Treasure Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
Ye Fan stood silent through the weeping. He wasn’t good at being comforting.
So he simply waited until the people had cried themselves out. Then, voice serene, he said: “I killed both Wang brothers. However, you need not worry, I have a way to save you. For three days, you will need to come and drink the holy water. By the end of those three days, you will be able to go anywhere freely in this last age.”
“My own friend is ordinary like you. For his sake, I was compelled to kill the Wang brothers. I don’t want anyone to suffer the same issue as me. The next three days, you can consult with your own family and friends. If you want to leave the city, I won’t try to stop you. If you want to stay, gather here at the end of the three days.”
“What I’ll ask, if you choose to stay, is that you bring your relatives. Survival in these last days isn’t easy. Those who stay I will treat as my brothers. If there is meat, we will eat together. If there are hardships, we will bear it together. My one request for the coming three days is that no mutant steps foot in here. I will be resting here and only I know the practices you need. If I die, your fate is obvious.”
Having said his piece, and when any mutants had left, Ye Fan started making all manner of movements towards the water tank. For almost an hour, Ye Fan played the part, about a triple longer than the time Wang Ruoxu had usually taken, before the water was divided among the crowd.
Wu Xingyun was right. What was gained by deception couldn’t last.
Still, Ye Fan didn’t want to waste a bunch of time explaining. To avoid confusion and disorder, he bought himself three days of safety, during which he could decipher the books Wang Ruoxu had left behind.
After the three days, inevitably there’d be mutants who’d refuse to accept him. Ye Fan was hoping, when that time came, he’d be able to overpower them, avoiding unnecessary bloodshed.
When everyone dispersed from the main hall, the news of Ye Fan killing Wang Ruoxu and the Wangs’ leftover confederates spread at lightning speed.
Ye Fan, having made his announcements, left the main hall where trouble was most likely to occur. Taking Wu Xingyun with him, Ye Fan found them a safe nook in the city sewers and begin to slowly process through what Wang Ruoxu had left behind.
Those mutants who had ordinary family members rapidly formed into a spontaneous troop around the park, providing a protective barrier for Ye Fan. Their reasoning was simple enough—they didn’t want unattached mutants to kill Ye Fan and grab the treasure for themselves, thus dashing the hopes of free survival for normal people.
A few mutants were willing to make desperate moves for the sake of potential power. Hearing of the Wang brothers’ demise, their first thought was that Wang Ruoxu’s precious secrets had fallen into Ye Fan’s hands. One by one, they wanted to forcibly take for themselves, and crown themselves as king.
All around the Furong Garden, daggers were drawn in mutual hostility, the atmosphere extremely strained.
In the sewers, however, Ye Fan was attentively reading through Wang Ruoxu’s useful books by faint candlelight.
Wu Xingyun was also flipping through pages, trying to find anything that might help Ye Fan. Ye Fan had taken this step, there was already no way back. Now, Wu Xingyun could only assist Ye Fan as best he could.
Turning over book after book, the most common theme Ye Fan found was methods for improving health and well-being, yet Ye Fan had no idea if any of them were actually effective. Then suddenly Wu Xingyun held up a book, firmly professing: “I think it’s this one!”
Ye Fan stared blankly at the book. The cover was decorated with many small dots, but had no title or author. Inside, the contents were handwritten, with some words Ye Fan couldn’t understand.
“Why are you so certain?” Ye Fan asked. “This looks as if……And this formula here, it doesn’t seem to be Taoist in nature.”
“The cover,” said Wu Xingyun, “The cover is clearly a drawing of the Andromeda galaxy.”
Surprised, Ye Fan looked again at the book cover. The small dots didn’t look like a star chart to him.
“Andromeda galaxy? Isn’t that the closest galaxy to ours? The one they say is going to gobble us up in the future?” Thanks to his good high school education, Ye Fan quickly recalled the pertinent information.
Wu Xingyun nodded: “Yes, that one. I’m used to seeing this chart from since I was a child. The azimuth isn’t the same, but that’s it. Think, Wang Ruoxu was a Taoist priest, how would he come by such a thing? That’s why……I think it’s strange. When you took a look, what did it say inside?”
Ye Fan opened the book again, serious after taking Wu Xingyun’s words to heart. He read aloud: “You don’t exist yet, but thousands of years from now, Saman will come and the world will die. I cannot bear to see the extinction of this species. Therefore, with the strength of my poor life, I will practice. And I hope that future generations will know. The sin of treason, the crime is great. My thoughts have moved, Saman will know. I sigh with sorrow, is it right or wrong? Who would have thought it of me……”
Not following what he was hearing, Wu Xingyun said: “I don’t understand, can you make it simpler?”
Pondering the text for a couple of minutes, Ye Fan responded: “Apparently, it seems someone predicted the last days thousands of years ago. Hmm……It says everything with die, but this person can’t endure this scene. So they left this book behind……But what does ‘my thoughts have moved, Saman will know’ mean? And ‘the sin of treason’ too? I don’t understand it either.”
Scratching his head, Wu Xingyun spoke without thinking: “If the cover is a star map of Andromeda, maybe there’s alien life there, right? Still……It’s unlikely, whether there’s life there or not, that someone was capably of crossing the galaxy to reach Earth so soon, even two thousand years from now……”
Ye Fan continued the train of thought: “Yes, it’s not likely. It’s not like we’ve discovered extraterrestrial life yet.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t echo Ye Fan’s statement. After all, Wu Xingyun was an alien himself. And, as humanity had advanced through the Milky Way, they had encountered extraterrestrial life. But—Wu Xingyun had never heard of a kind with intelligence equal to humans. Moreover, Wu Xingyun remembered that shortly before his marriage to Mozun, the Federation had only just set up transmission points to the Andromeda galaxy.
For no reason, Wu Xingyun thought of Wen Nuo.
Nowadays, Wu Xingyun wasn’t the immature soldier he had been. He remembered Wen Nuo’s words: “…Go to the Andromeda galaxy. We could find a suitable planet, settle down, and ignore all this fighting. Wu Xingyun, say the word and I’ll take you away. What to come with me?”
Back then, Wu Xingyun hadn’t completely understood Wen Nuo’s intention. Only now did Wu Xingyun grasp that Wen Nuo had meant eloping.
A little dazed by this realization, Wu Xingyun knew he couldn’t go back. He also clearly knew he’d die here, in this time, in the arms of Ye Fan.
And because he didn’t know the specific time or the specific way, Wu Xingyun couldn’t guard against it.
He was already prepared for his death, he possessed this awareness.
Yet, for some inexplicable reason, this book reminded Wu Xingyun of where he’d born and the places where he’d grown up.
His father, his mother, his older brothers, his comrades-in-arms.
Except for Ye Fan, Wu Xingyun had no one close at his side.
Lowering his head, Wu Xingyun said softly: “Ye Fan, come and hold me for a moment.”
Ye Fan didn’t move, but he spread out one arm, pulling Wu Xingyun into an embrace, lightly kissed the soldier’s lips, and continued reading the book.
As Wu Xingyun had anticipated, the book had indeed been Wang Ruoxu’s ultimate magical treasure, the one he’d continuously refused to reveal.
The content was heavy, and the practice methods quite complex.
Spending half a day reading it, Ye Fan wouldn’t have been able to repeat it from memory.
He could only start a rudimentary practicing of what was laid out in the text.
Sitting on the ground, Ye Fan quickly adopted a strange posture and went into a state of silence.
Wu Xingyun waited, his ears pricked up, listening for any sign of activity outside.
Ye Fan cycled through one pose after another. By the time night fell, the color of his body was changing, skin dropping off inch by inch, only to rapidly grow back. Even his hair grew like a flash, in the end dragging to the ground.
At first, there’d been small reptiles scurrying about the sewer, disturbing Ye Fan. But by the middle of the night, with Ye Fan acting as the center of a circle, the sewer became bare, no creature daring to come near.
Although Ye Fan kept practicing, Wu Xingyun couldn’t take it anymore. He leaned against the wall, drifting into fitful sleep.
Eventually Wu Xingyun completely surrendered to dreamland, only waking up when kissed by Ye Fan.
Wu Xingyun slightly opened his eyes. The sewer was dark, and Wu Xingyun couldn’t see anything.
“What time is it?” Wu Xingyun asked.
Ye Fan smiled in the darkness, softly snapped his fingers, and a red round light appeared between his index finger and thumb.
The light illuminated all around them, shrouding Ye Fan’s body with a blood-red hue.
Wu Xingyun exclaimed without thinking: “Gamma ray burst!”
Ye Fan gently flicked the ball of light. It fell into the wall, disappearing after ten seconds.
His body starting to feel a little ill, Wu Xingyun recalled their time together in the forest, fighting the tree monster from Luoshi Research.
Harboring suspicions that his skin was going to get burnt off by radiation again, Wu Xingyun even conjectured about his cause of death—seeing as how Ye Fan was always honing his skills right in front of Wu Xingyun, the day would come when Wu Xingyun would be radiated to death……Therefore Mozun, heavy laden with a guilty conscience, would blame himself and be broken-hearted!
When the book Ye Fan read says-‘I will practice,’ xiulian is the word used
修炼[xiū liàn]
try to make pills of immortality and cultivate vital energy, etc
修炼xiūliàn
(of Taoists) to practice austerities / to practice asceticism
When used as a celestial coordinate, the azimuth is the horizontal direction of a star or other astronomical object in the sky. The star is the point of interest, the reference plane is the local area (e.g. a circular area 5 km in radius at sea level) around an observer on Earth’s surface, and the reference vector points to true north. The azimuth is the angle between the north vector and the star’s vector on the horizontal plane.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth
The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] The galaxy’s name stems from the area of Earth’s sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology.
The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses (2.0×1042 kilograms). The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. This has been called into question by a 2018 study that cited a lower estimate on the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy,[12] combined with preliminary reports on a 2019 study estimating a higher mass of the Milky Way.[13][14] The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly (67 kpc), making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension, if not mass.[citation needed]
The number of stars contained in the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion (1×1012), or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way.[15][needs update]
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4.5 billion years,[16][17] merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy[18] or a large lenticular galaxy.[19] With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects,[20] making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights,[21] even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
