Chapter 71: The Secret of Guidaowan (3)

But my emotions did not make Lin Jianguo feel anything. It was just an unfounded emotion, and there was no need to say anything.

Lin Jianguo was still talking about the incident. The box was taken out with great importance and naturally placed in the home of the village chief of the village. As for how the village chief handled it, the people in the village did not know at first, but they noticed that a few days later, the village chief’s mood became a bit abnormal, he lived a secluded life, and he also talked to himself, not knowing what he was saying.

If the box contained a spirit, this would be a very typical situation. It should be that the person was affected by the spirit… However, in my judgment, the jade on the box is the key. I intuitively think that it should be very important to us, but my guess is too incredible, so I can’t make a judgment for the time being.

“At that time, the excavation of the tomb was almost over. Basically, everything that could be moved had already been moved by the people in our village, and the people in the village had also become idle. The village chief, since bringing the box out of the tomb, had not gone to the tomb much. People were busy, and except for a few people, no one noticed the village chief’s abnormality. It was only after thinking about it that they realized that things had not been right since then.” Lin Jianguo paused here, and then continued, “It wasn’t until seven days later that things took a turn…”

What other twists and turns will there be? I listened intently.

“At that time, the village was already finished with all the busy work, and the village chief, who had already changed a bit, suddenly called all the villagers together again, saying that he was going to open the box in front of the whole village. He said that there should be something amazing in the box, and that the whole village should witness it together. At that time, as a half-grown child, I also participated in that event… The box was opened that time…”

“What was in the box? The key point is… the key point is…” I couldn’t wait for Lin Jianguo to finish his story and interrupted him eagerly. I was so anxious that I had to repeat myself twice before I could get it out: “The key point is, didn’t you say that there was a jade piece on the box? Did you see the jade? Where did it go?”

“Jade?” Lin Jianguo frowned and then looked at me with a strange expression: “I really want to believe that all this is a coincidence, but the key is that I can’t understand all this as a coincidence. You are the second person to ask me where the jade is. Do you know? There was a group of people before, and one of them, an old man, also asked me about this past event, and when I was listening to me here, he asked me where the jade was?

“What?” My throat suddenly became dry and tight. It was so obvious and so clear. Who else could it be? I had already guessed before, but I was afraid to ask. Now that Lin Jianguo mentioned it, my emotions fluctuated greatly again. Master… I have once again walked the same path as him, but he has always wanted to avoid this cycle… and wanted me to live a stable life.

But this is the fate of the Li family. How can I live a stable life? The fate of heaven is like a pair of hands pushing, how can it be changed by human will? Why bother to separate such a long period of time like this? It would be better to face it together. I would rather be the one who looks at my master’s back for a lifetime.

“Chen Chengyi?” Lin Jianguo couldn’t help but call out to me. During the conversation, he had already learned that my name was Chen Chengyi. I knew that I had lost my temper and quickly came back to my senses. He looked at me strangely and asked, “Why are you crying? Could it be that you really have something to do with that group of people two years ago? Do you know that they were once the group of people I had the most hope for, but…”

“That group of people may be my elders in the martial arts world. Don’t tell me any more. Wait until we reach our destination, and then you can tell me. I don’t want to give up hope. I must find them.” I said seriously, afraid that Lin Jianguo would tell me that they were all dead. If that were the case, what courage would I have to go to Gui Dao Bay?

“There is always hope. At least they are not dead.” Lin Jianguo looked at me, as if he had guessed my thoughts, and couldn’t help but say something to me with a comforting nature.

“Well, that’s enough.” I waved my hand, indicating that I really didn’t want to hear about this topic at this time, lest I become anxious, but instead changed the topic and asked, “Can you continue to talk about the jade?”

“The answer is the same as it was two years ago. When I opened the box, I didn’t see the so-called jade. And I can add an answer to you, so that you won’t ask again later. Everything that was dug out of the tomb was later… taken away by the so-called high-level people of the holy village you saw, and put into the so-called inner village.” Lin Jianguo answered very directly.

“The so-called inner village? Was there no inner village at that time?” I didn’t ask if those high-level people were the ones who had robbed the village. They were cultivators, so they naturally weren’t the ones who had robbed the village before.

“No, you will know everything that happened later if you listen to me.” Lin Jianguo gestured for me to calm down, and then continued, “On the day the box was opened, I was very impressed… The box was covered with a black cloth and solemnly placed on the sacrificial altar in the village. Later, the village chief personally opened the black When the black cloth was removed, the originally clear weather suddenly turned windy. The wind was really strong at the time, and it blew in people’s eyes. I remember that I was standing behind my father, and I still couldn’t open my eyes because of the wind.

The manifestation of the will of heaven, because the contents of the box were against heaven, that was my first thought.

Lin Jianguo was completely lost in his memories and continued, “Normally, the wind should have blown away the dark clouds, and it was originally a clear day. But unexpectedly, after the gust of wind had blown for a while, when the wind stopped, the sky immediately became overcast. I don’t know where the dark clouds came from, but they gathered in our village. It was clearly a warm spring day, but I felt cold even though I was wearing clothes.

“Is it possible that no one in the village felt anything unusual?” I thought that even ordinary people would feel uneasy when they saw such obvious signs. This is a human instinct, and the subconscious perception of the natural order of things will never be erased, not to mention a group of people who have a sense of awe in their hearts.

“How could they not feel it? Even I, who was there at the time, instinctively felt that there was something bad in the box! If it was something good, how could the atmosphere be the same as the scene of a monster appearing in the story? At the time, naturally, some timid people tried to stop the village chief, but the village chief simply wouldn’t listen. He said to us in a very strong manner that any good thing is hated by heaven, and that it is necessary to use the lives of the entire village to defy heaven and get this good thing.

I didn’t even ask him what the result was. If the box hadn’t been opened, how would the village have turned out like this? Not to mention that the village chief was already imposing in the village, the phrase “treasure” would have made many people unable to resist the temptation to take risks. Human greed is one of the worst human characteristics. Once it is unleashed, it will extend to an unimaginable extent.

“The words of the village chief obviously had an effect, and no one in the village tried to persuade him anymore… Because it was a long time ago, and the details of my memory are a bit fuzzy, I just remember that day the village chief walked into the box step by step. With each step, almost an accident occurred. It rained, there was lightning, and thunder… and the lightning struck straight at the side of the village chief… as if it wanted to strike the box, but for some reason it never did. Then the village chief walked up to the box, picked it up, and, like a madman, told everyone in the village to bleed into a copper basin that had been prepared in advance…” Lin Jianguo frowned, as if trying to recall the details for me more carefully, but he could only say that.

However, I knew that this was to nourish the existence in the box with blood and breath, and to cover the existence in the box with the breath of the people. In short, this method was definitely not something that the village chief who had robbed the village could have thought of. It should have been… the existence in the box that had bewitched him.

From Lin Jianguo’s story, I knew that the villagers were also confused. In short, it was like they were possessed. The village chief said that everyone did the same thing in the midst of the storm. The blood released soon covered most of the copper basin. Then the village chief held the box and kept moving forward in the thunder and lightning that kept falling around him. Soon, he immersed the box in the copper basin.

When the box was immersed in the copper basin, the thunder seemed to have become smaller, because the blood and breath of so many people mixed together, already covering some of the breath of existence in the box. This is another way of understanding the great hidden in the city… using the crowd to cover up.

Then, at this moment, the village chief opened the box.

“What did you see?” I felt like I was also involved in the story and couldn’t help but want to know the result quickly.

“Oh, you can’t even imagine it… After the box was opened, there was half a box of dark, unknown water in it, which disappointed everyone. However, at this time, the village chief solemnly knelt down and asked all of us to kneel as well. However, even if the village chief was very authoritative, he could not force the villagers to do this. After all, even grave robbers have a backbone. Who can kneel easily except for the ancestors of heaven and earth? The village chief just called a few times, but when he saw that no one was kneeling, he just ignored us and kept kneeling. Then after a while…” Lin Jianguo said this and frowned slightly, as if he was carefully recalling the time at the time, and then said, “I don’t remember exactly how long it was, but it wasn’t more than a few minutes. The black water in the box changed, as if something was stirring. Then, you may not be able to imagine what happened next.

“What was it?” I asked.

“A snake crawled out of the box, a very small one, about the thickness of a thumb! I’ve never seen such a strange snake before. The base color was grayish white, the kind of grayish white that a corpse might have. It looked uncomfortable to look at, but on top of that color was a very bright purple… I can’t describe that purple, but the two colors were very incongruous.” When Lin Jianguo talked about the snake, it was as if he had returned to the scene, and his face became very ugly.

I never thought that a strange snake would crawl out of the box!

However, purple… I found that it was a color that I could never escape from in my life, and it seemed that my destiny was destined to be linked to it.