Chapter 58: Uncertain News

Has this battle made me famous in the circle? Along the way, people looked at me with a little more awe than before, but I didn’t care about that. What I cared about was that whenever people mentioned the Old Li lineage, they would praise it with emotion.

Xixi’s Chengxin brother praised me all the way for bringing honor to the school. After all, outsiders see the inheritance of a school as fortune-telling, geomancy, and so on, while insiders see the power of the mountain school.

I happily answered the dormitory. Chengxin brother was very greedy and counted the money. He generously gave Shen Xing 10,000 yuan, but Shen Xing only accepted 2,000 yuan. She said calmly, “I don’t need more money, and I don’t need money anyway.”

I don’t care how they divide the money. I just looked at Shen Xing with a hint of reluctance, and remembered the first time I saw her, that secluded alley, and her strange smile. I just couldn’t connect her with the person she is now.

But I can’t ask, and she won’t say!

After a while of happiness, we discussed our plan for tonight’s visit to the ghost market. The “House in the House” is definitely a must-see, but it’s better to go alone. After all, Chengxin and I are both going, and it makes no difference to go with one person.

However, at this time, the “house in the house” is no longer important. What is more important and what we look forward to is the final unpredictable ghost market. As for the ghost market, apart from knowing that it exists, there is no specific news circulating in the streets!

After saying all this, I also remembered the letter that Lin Chen gave me. At this time, I took out Lin Chen’s letter and read it with Brother Chengxin.

Lin Chen didn’t lie to me. This extremely simple letter did indeed reveal the news about Yang Sheng, which was very important to me.

I read it once, and my hands trembled. I forced myself to calm down, afraid of misreading the meaning. I took the letter and read it a second time.

“Chen Chengyi:

When you read this letter, it means that I have lost, and maybe I am already dead?

In fact, I am not sure whether I will win or lose, so I took advantage of this hour of rest to write you this letter. I am afraid that I will not be able to tell you this news in person.

Although I, Lin Chen, am not a gentleman, I am a man of my word.

Before I tell you the news, I have a request. If I die, please bury me with Irene. With your relationship with the Yueyan Miao village, this is something you can do, isn’t it?

I don’t think you’ll refuse me because you’re a woman, so I won’t be long-winded.

As for Yang Sheng, he is a higher-ranking figure in the organization than I am. You have to admit that he is a genius who can successfully study some metaphysical things. How high up is he?

Hahaha, I’ll let you in on a secret. The higher-ups in the organization found out that he had secretly sent you a message, but they didn’t touch him. Aren’t you happy to hear that?

I’ll tell you another secret. I actually hate him. If he hadn’t risked his life twice to deliver the message, my Irene’s sacrifice would have been meaningless. How could I have failed to do what I did without emotion?

So, the person I hate is him first, and you second! You two were once good brothers, and just as I can’t do anything about you, I can’t do anything about him either. He is the organization’s treasure, and he is not even in China!

The organization provides him with the most advanced research conditions!

Finally, I’ll give you some uncertain news. With this, I’ve given you enough weight. That is, geniuses are always crazy, right? Yang Sheng seems to be too obsessed with research, turning himself into a monster. I hope this news is false. Hahaha…

Lin Chen

In the letter, Lin Chen’s tone was as arrogant and uninhibited as his handwriting, but when I read it a second time, I was sure that I had read the letter correctly.

My whole hand was shaking, and I felt an indescribable sadness in my heart, as if I had returned to that desolate village and was at the entrance, when Sheng gave me some trivial instructions…

I asked, “Brother Sheng, if you can’t let go of me and risk sending me a letter, how can you let go of your pregnant sister-in-law?

I had to thank Lin Chen for this letter, which made me realize that the bearded man who delivered the letter many years ago was actually Sheng Ge! It was him who deliberately disguised himself…

But what made my heart tremble was something else. At the end of the letter, Lin Chen said that Sheng Ge had turned himself into a monster. What kind of monster? I didn’t dare to imagine it, but I had no choice. I was so scared that when I closed my eyes, I thought of the purple plant, the old village chief, and even the purple eggs that had been taken! What would it look like?

Even I dare not imagine it. Can poor Sister-in-law Jingyi imagine it and accept it?

Seeing my hands shaking, Chengxin was worried. He took a cigarette out of my pocket and put it in my trembling mouth. Then he lit it and kept saying to me in my ear, “Chengyi, take a drag and calm down. You must calm down!”

Chengxin knew my weakness. Whenever it came to the feelings of those around me, I always took them too seriously. Once I took them seriously, I couldn’t help but get emotional.

I crumpled the letter into a ball, closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths of smoke. When the light blue smoke entered my body and I exhaled thick white smoke, my hands finally stopped shaking. I took out the cigarette and looked at Chengxin Ge with some confusion, almost trembling and saying, “If Sheng Ge becomes a monster, then… what should I do?”

Chengxin brother pressed my shoulder heavily and said, “Chengyi, first of all, Lin Chen is not sure about this news. Even if it is true, it is his choice. He can’t come back, not even to Huaxia. As long as he doesn’t regret it, what use is it for us onlookers to be anxious?”

“But, but I want to save him!” I said in a low voice with my eyes half-closed and a cigarette in my mouth. I knew that I was very serious at this moment.

“People can only save themselves and redeem their own hearts, including facing death, and they can only save themselves from the relief and peace of their hearts! Don’t you understand? Unless Yang Sheng repents himself and puts down his obsession, no one can help him! If he is willing to repent and take responsibility for his own mistakes, you can also save him. Think about it, Kunlun, Ghost City, such a magical existence is there, can’t we find a way?” Cheng Xin said to me.

Shen Xing, however, remained silent throughout the entire conversation. Only then did she say in a low voice, “The heart is already dead in this world. How can it be saved?”

What does this mean? Chengxin and I frowned at the same time and looked at Shen Xing. Shen Xing, however, gave us a warning look and said, “Don’t talk to me, I’m bored! You two are free to do as you please.”

This sentence made me and Chengxin brother not know what to say, but Chengxin brother’s words finally made my heart calm down a little. However, a new problem was in front of me. I knew the news, but should I tell my sister-in-law Jingyi?

After smoking two cigarettes, I decided to tell Jingyi’s sister-in-law at most part of it, not all of it, especially the uncertain news about Lin Chen, which I could not tell Jingyi’s sister-in-law.

I put out the cigarette butt. At this point, my heart was a little calmer. With some nostalgia for the past, a wave of exhaustion that I couldn’t suppress welled up from my body. Two consecutive battles were not an easy thing after all.

Finally, I fell into a deep sleep!

When I woke up again, it was already 1 a.m. The ghost market had already started an hour ago.

I shouted, “Oh no!” and jumped out of bed, but was met with Chengxin’s dissatisfied mutterings. He said, “Oh no, what the hell! We were the first batch last night, and today we should be the last batch. Go to sleep, it’s not late to go at 7 or 8 tomorrow morning. Really.”

But at this time my stomach was rumbling, and I innocently said to Chengxin, “I’m hungry! I want to eat.”

Chengxin brother poked his head out and said, “Do I look like something to eat?”

“I see everything as food now, don’t you think?”

“Then eat me!” Cheng Xin Ge said in a rascal tone.

“What do you mean?”

“That… that you slept in the afternoon, I was not bored? Eat up our not much food…”

“Fuck you!”