Volume 9 Chapter 7: Imprisoned

Wen Jin had no memory of what happened after he was drugged by his uncle. When they woke up, they were already in the sanatorium in Golmud.

I was already very confused at this point. This is too strange. Obviously, someone kidnapped them while they were unconscious and locked them up there.

According to Wen Jin’s account, after Uncle San knocked them out, he would wake Wen Jin up, explain the situation, and discuss a plan. But Wen Jin didn’t wake up, so obviously something happened after they were knocked out.

“Wu Sanxian is not among you?”

Wen Jin shook her head. I said, “That’s strange. Who kidnapped you?”

“It was ‘it.’” she said in a low voice.

I have always been very confused about this, so I asked Wenjin, “What exactly is ‘it’?”

Wen Jin said a lot more, took a sip of water, and then slowly shook her head and said, “I can’t describe it. This is what we discovered when we were researching the whole thing. How should I put it? It can be described as a kind of ‘power.’”

“Power?” I frowned.

“After we survived, in that dark room, we speculated about the whole thing from beginning to end, but there were many links that we couldn’t connect. In the end, we discovered that in the whole thing, in many places, one person was missing.” Wen Jin brushed her hair behind her ear, ”That is to say, if this thing were to happen, a few people alone would definitely not be enough, but this thing happened, as if there was an invisible person, filling in these links. And the more we studied it, the more we realized that this person definitely exists, but so far, he has not revealed a single clue. It’s as if he has no shape at all, and he only exists in logic.

She said solemnly, “We will call this person ‘it’. This is in addition to Jude Cow, Xie Lianhuan, and us. There is another force involved in this matter. This force is buried the deepest and has rarely shown its face, but its power is actually pushing things forward. This makes me feel creepy.”

I was a little scared too, so I asked her, “Can you give me an example?”

Wen Jin said, “Did Jude really solve the code of the Silk Manuscripts? Is it possible for a foreigner to solve such a complicated thing? And where did he learn about the existence of the ancient tombs at the bottom of the sea? If no one had told him this information, he would not have come to China, would not have tried to bribe your uncle, and would not still be obsessed with a goal that no one knows about. This is the first logical gap. And…”

Wen Jin sat up straight, puffed out her chest and gathered her hair, letting me see her oval face: “It seems that all of us have lost the ability to age. After so many years, we have not aged at all.” That posture was really beautiful, and I was almost stunned by it. She immediately put it down and shook it off, saying, “After we were unconscious, someone must have done something to our bodies.”

I said, “That’s a good thing. Many people dream of this kind of thing!”

Wen Jin shook her head sadly and said, “Dream? Do you remember the thing you encountered in the basement of Golmud?”

I thought to myself, how could I forget, and nodded.

“That’s what we’ll end up looking like,” Wen Jin said. ”The one you saw, that’s Huo Ling.”

I was shocked. “What? That monster is Huo Ling?” I suddenly felt nauseous.

Wen Jin said, “After she returned from Tamuduo, she began to change, turning into a monster.”

“This…”

“This effect of maintaining youth has side effects.” She looked at me and held out her hand for me to smell. I immediately smelled a faint, very familiar scent, the smell of a forbidden woman. ”At a certain point, we will begin to change, and in my body, this change has already begun. Soon, I will become exactly the same as the monster you saw.”