角色故事•一(解锁条件:角色等级20)
一日,玉阙太卜司晨会之后,庄严静谧的空气中飘散着闲聊的碎语。
「缺席晨修也就罢了,她居然还跑去参加玉阙杯牌赛!」
「上次说了她几句,她却说什么能得『牌圣』之名的都是深谙爻象之士,不信的话与她比试比试…」
「然后,你真与她比了不成?赢了没?」
「……」
几袭长袍在风中扬起,仿佛积压了满肚子的不满。
「你还记得上回吗?她在子夜时分召集了几个青年卜者勾画法阵,说是要试验外邦的卜算秘术,学习百家之长,倒把巡夜的长老吓了个魂飞魄散。」
「怎么不记得?她在课堂上公然用自创的卜算方法挑战老师,把先生气得向太卜告状,得亏太卜心慈手软,不然纵然她有万般天才,也免不了一顿重罚……」
「不过嘛…任她有百般不是,『十方光映法界』的布成有她几分功劳,司内上上下下,谁能像她一样,眼睛过一遍就能算准。」
「哼,你知道现在同辈都叫她什么吗?『爻总』,说什么人算不如天算,天算不如她干——这哪还有玉阙朴素严谨的学风!」
不约而同的一声嗟叹,涤走了不少怨气,二人的言辞终是趋于和缓。
「说起来,这丫头又跑到哪里去了?」
忽地传来一阵歌声,只见一位少女跨坐在房顶候风仪上,仰观天象,她冁然一笑: 「师叔们,小心了。师傅今日给我算了一卦,说是什么『震惊百里,不丧匕鬯』。你们离我太近,恐怕也要被雷劈了!」
是时,玉阙穹顶之上忽然雷声大作,声势骇人;更有斑斓雷光飞绽,触目惊心。
「如果躲不开的话,不妨安心享受这难得一见的奇景吧!」
她知道,这声势不过是玉阙掠过星云时,星尘划过船体产生的震动,自己会安然无恙——
但仍有一丝疑惑掠过她的心头,此卦…当真应验了么?
——卦曰 :震惊百里,不丧匕鬯。
Character Story: Part I
• Unlocked at Character Level 20
One day, after the morning meeting at the Yuque's Divination Commission, the solemn silence was broken by snippets of idle gossip.
"First she skips morning practice, and now she runs off to the Yuque Cup tournament!"
"When I confronted her, she said only a true master of augury could be called a 'Master of Cards,' and I should play her if I didn't believe it."
"And you actually played against her? Did you win?"
"..."
Several robes fluttered in the wind, as if holding a bellyful of grievances.
"Remember last time? She gathered a few young diviners at midnight to sketch matrices, claiming she wanted to test foreign divination techniques and study their strengths. Nearly scared the elder on night patrol out of his wits."
"How could I forget? She publicly challenged her teacher in class with her own invented methods of divination, infuriating him so much he complained to the Master Diviner. If the Master Diviner hadn't been so merciful, she would've been in deep trouble, genius or not..."
"But still... for all her flaws, she did contribute to the formation of the 'Deca-Light Reflection Barrier.' Tell me, who else in the whole division can get the divination right with a single glance?"
"Hmph, do you know what her peers call her now? 'Boss Yao,' saying man's divination is no match for heaven's will, and heaven's will is no match for her. This is nothing like Yuque's simple and austere academic style!"
A simultaneous sigh washed away half their resentment, softening their tones at last.
"Speaking of which, where did that girl run off to now?"
A sudden song drifted in from above. A young girl straddled the rooftop wind vane, gazing up at the heavens. She flashed a bright smile:
"Heads up, seniors! Master did a divination reading for me today, something about 'thunder shakes a hundred miles, yet the ritual vessels remain.' You might want to keep your distance, or you'll get struck by lightning too!"
Right then, thunder instantly roared across the dome of the Yuque, deafening and fierce. Brilliant arcs of lightning unfurled, dazzling to the eye, yet horrifying to the heart.
"If we can't dodge it, might as well sit back and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime spectacle!"
She knew this commotion was merely vibrations from stardust scraping against the hull as the Yuque passed through a nebula. She would be perfectly safe.
Yet a small doubt still flickered in her heart: did this divination... truly come to pass?
The divination reads: Thunder shakes a hundred miles, yet the ritual vessels remain.
