Chapter 12: The Golden Hourglass

Jingui City, Warrior Association.

There are few warriors in China, and their status is very high.

The big people in the normal population mostly refer to warriors, they are existences that ordinary people can only look up to.

The strength and status that warriors possess are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and [Warrior Association] is the largest force in China that all warriors need to obey.

Although today is the weekend, the headquarters of the Warrior Association is still busy.

The Martial Artists Association located in the center of Jingui is a skyscraper with dozens of stories high, and it is different from the office buildings leased to major companies in the surrounding area, the entire building belongs to the Martial Artists Association.

There is a huge plaque hanging at the entrance of the association building, with the words "Warrior Association Jingui Branch" written in eight characters, which is magnificent and solemn.

And inside the association building, in an office.

"Zhang Yan, you were born in Ping'an Town. This time, there is something abnormal in your hometown. Go and investigate it!"

A senior member of the association's branch summoned his investigator alone and gave him instructions.

"Captain, I understand!" The shrewd and capable investigator with a cropped cut immediately took the order.

"Wait!" But the executive stopped him suddenly.

"Captain, what else can I order?" Zhang Yan quickly retracted the steps he had raised just now, and asked again.

"This operation...may be related to those people. I have received some news. In short, you should be careful!"

The high-level executives thought about it, shared the collected information, and said: "If you encounter any problems, report them in time, and the association will send support!"

"Subordinates understand!"

Zhang Yan nodded and left after confirming that there was no order.

"Those people hide their heads and show their tails, when will they become street rats!"

Watching his subordinates leave, the captain sighed again and again, his tone full of helplessness.

Outside the Warrior Association.

"Ping'an Town, the last time I was in the town was ten years ago, I don't know how Teacher Liu Chunlan is doing now, is she still teaching in Ping'an Town?"

When Zhang Yan walked out of the association, some vague memories flashed in his mind.

Those were the time when he was studying in Ping'an Town High School, and later he was admitted to Jin Nan Wu University with excellent grades, and finally graduated as a warrior.

Now he is an investigator of the Jingui Branch of the Martial Artists Association. He has many years of investigation experience, even in Jingui City, he is also a "powerful person".

But since staying in Jingui City, he hasn't been back to Ping'an Town.

If he returned to Ping'an Town in his current capacity, the mayor and the principal of the high school would probably welcome him, and Zhang Yan couldn't stand such a scene.

However, he quickly suppressed these thoughts, quickly got into the car and started it, and drove the vehicle towards Ping'an Town.

For him, the mission is above all else.

The Martial Artists Association is directly opposite.

On the roof of a skyscraper.

A young man in a gray overcoat stood in the air at the corner of the roof. The windbreaker fluttered under the strong wind from the roof, but it didn't affect his figure at all.

It is reasonable to say that at such a height, as long as one is not careful, it is possible to slip and fall, but this person doesn't care at all, his eyes are like a pool of stagnant water, and the ancient well is still.

"Snapped"

The young man snapped his fingers with his right hand, and with a casual grab, there was an extra letter in his hand.

The appearance of this letter is very strange, and it does not know where it came from.

The surface of the letter is dark yellow, the style is simple, and it can be seen that it has been stored for some years.

"Finally something happened. It seems that the person mentioned in the letter should have arrived in Ping'an Town. It's not in vain to wait for so long!"

The man watched Zhang Yan leave below, and the corner of his mouth raised an arc.

"But it's strange. This letter was left by the ancestor who didn't know where he was going more than two hundred years ago. How could he be sure that I would find this letter?

And honestly obey his orders to come over? "

The man was a little strange, because he found this letter in a closed secret room when he searched for the relics of his ancestors.

If he didn't open that secret room, the letter would probably be sealed for hundreds of years, and maybe the letter would be turned into ashes.

"Unfortunately, it's rare to come to Huaxia once. I really want to see 'Er Fatty' and 'Sanya'. I don't know how they are doing recently!"

The young man muttered and shook his head inexplicably.

He watched Zhang Yan drive away, still standing on the top of the building, without the slightest plan to come down.

Suddenly, he took a step forward.

Numerous dense golden arcs jumped around the man, and his figure disappeared in a burst of golden light.

The cold wind blows, there is no one here.

...

Ping An Town, a suburban residential area.

Lei Yi returned to his residence. After having a full meal today, he will naturally come back to continue studying.

Now he has enough money and food, and he doesn't have to worry about making a living. This little money can be saved, and he can persist until the end of the college entrance examination.

Since there is no need to worry about food and housing, the most important thing is to study.

Lei Yi opened his schoolbag, took out the cultural textbooks from it, and began to look through them.

half an hour later.

"Huh—huh—" the snoring sounded.

Lei Yi fell asleep again because of reading textbooks.

With his right hand propped on the side of his face, he dozed off. It took more than ten minutes before he woke up because his arm was numb and lost support.

"No, no, no, I feel drowsy when I read textbooks, I have a headache when I do papers, and I feel dizzy when copying books. What should I do?"

He slapped his cheek hard to wake himself up, but he still sighed again and again.

Because I don't seem to be suitable for studying, no one gets sleepy while reading, because I have too little self-control and my body is too honest.

If you can't overcome this, what's the point of learning!

"Hey, what can I do to keep me from sleeping?"

Lei Yi is helpless, daydreaming can't solve the problem.

In the end, he really had no choice but to pick up the textbook and continue flipping through it.

This time I failed even more than before, and I started to feel sleepy again after failing to hold on for ten minutes.

With a snap, he fell to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

The sun went down, and the time passed from evening to night.

When the last ray of sunlight disappeared from the horizon, Pingan Town ushered in the weekend night.

Lei Yi was still asleep, with the sound of snoring coming from his mouth, and the sound of huffing, it could be seen that he slept soundly.

But at this moment, a layer of golden light emerged from his chest, and the golden palm print pattern unexpectedly burst into a different layer of golden light at this moment.

Since Lei Yi traveled to Ping'an Town in 2293, until now, the palm print on his chest has not changed.

But today, when he was asleep, something changed.

A layer of golden light covered his body, and the soft power lifted him up and suspended him in midair.

Under the golden light, the world where insects could be faintly heard was suddenly quiet, and even the wind outside stopped.

If Lei Yi could walk out of the room at this moment, he would see that the whole world had turned into black and white, and everything was still, as if time had stopped.

And under the golden light, from the shadow under Lei Yi, bloody silk threads protruded from it, converging in the palm print on his chest.

With the influx of thin bloody lines, the golden palm prints shone brightly, and an hourglass made of pure gold flew out of the palm prints, quietly suspended in mid-air.

As soon as the hourglass appeared, the target where the bloody threads gathered immediately changed from flying into the golden palm print to pouring into the hourglass.

The hourglass bloomed with golden light, and a transparent golden barrier emerged out of thin air, covering Lei Yi completely.

"what's up?"

In the dazzling golden light, Lei Yi finally woke up.

As a result, when he woke up, he found that he was floating in a golden transparent sphere, and in front of him was a golden hourglass the size of an ordinary person floating in the air.

The standard of the hourglass is ordinary. It is made of two golden seats and three golden pillars. In the middle are two light golden transparent glass covers in the shape of water droplets, which look like a gourd.

In the upper part of the cover, it is filled with blood-red sand.

In the narrow pipe mouth in the middle, the sand grains in the upper half are being left in the lower half.

But what surprised Lei Yi was that the sand grains flowing from the upper half to the lower half would turn white.

The hourglass is very big, about the same height as Lei Yi, but the mouth of the pipe is very small, and the speed of sand passing is very slow.

According to Lei Yi's visual observation, the hourglass can't be exhausted for several days and nights.

But now his problem is to figure out what happened, why he was inexplicably inside a golden cover, and who put the hourglass in.

A few minutes later, Lei Yi stood at the edge of the golden mask with a bored face.

Because he found that he couldn't get out of the cover no matter what. If he touched the edge of the mask with his hand, he would be bounced back by a soft force.

He tried many times, but failed every time, and it was impossible to get out.

"What should we do now, do we have to wait for the sand in the hourglass to leak out?"

Lei Yi sighed and could only guess helplessly.

In the area divided by this golden barrier, the places where he can keep moving are limited, and he can't do anything.

But now his eyes are smeared and he doesn't understand anything. The only way to get out of trouble is to wait for the sand in the hourglass to leak out.

Just when he was desperate, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that within the area of ​​the golden barrier, his schoolbag and textbooks were within the range of movement.

"Waiting is not a solution, just read the textbook, it's better than doing nothing, and it would be nice to have a lamp to help me illuminate!"

He made fun of it, went to the schoolbag, picked up the textbook, and began to flip through it.

As a result, after looking at it, he finally found out that something was wrong.

In the past, he often felt drowsy if he persisted for ten minutes, but within the range marked by the hourglass, no matter how he read the textbook, he didn't seem to be sleepy.

Not only that, but after reading the contents of the textbooks that he would forget after reading them in the past, he seemed to have an impression in his mind, and it should be said that he memorized all the contents.

At this moment, Lei Yi was extremely excited as if a patient who had been poisoned for a long time found an antidote, and a traveler who was dying of thirst found a source of water.

He looked at the hourglass that hadn't changed at all, and smiled wryly.

"Forget it, I said I want to study, so let's start!"

He finally stopped being sleepy this time, and immediately started to study under the "supervision" of the golden hourglass.