Chapter Seventy-Three: The Sealed Cage
The whip can be faked.
ID cards can also be faked.
But the jade ring he was wearing on his hand couldn't be wrong.
I reached out and took the jade ring off the fingers of the corpse, erasing the stains on it, and saw that the surface of the jade ring was engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns, both in color and style, exactly the same as the jade ring I saw my grandmother in the first place.
The most important point is that when I took off the jade ring, I found that the corpse's finger had a ring of strangulation marks, and judging from the traces, this jade ring was definitely not worn later.
In contrast, the old-fashioned ID card must have been placed on the corpse later.
The identity of this person......
I rubbed my temples, and all I felt was a pain in my brain. His real grandfather actually died decades ago, and now the one who grew up with him is not his biological grandfather at all.
This unexpected discovery made me a little unacceptable, and I couldn't even believe it.
Besides, Lin Miao once said that there were indeed only two people who left here, and those two were my grandfather and Granny Yan.
Could it be that it was a fake to leave grandpa from here in the first place?
So what is his identity?
The mountain people? Or is it something unknowable that lives inside a meteorite?
He is not related by blood, so why would he pretend to be my grandfather? Or borrow your life for me?
Does all this have anything to do with Jingmei?
The corpse in front of her was beaten to death by Old Lady Yan with a broken bone palm, which means that she must know the secret.
Could that be why she hated my grandfather so much?
I heard Yan Xiaoying say that Granny Yan had a very good relationship with my grandfather when she was young, but since she went out here, the relationship between the two has stiffened.
Even, Old Lady Yan once gave her grandfather a black coffin and cursed him to die.
I felt a headache......
"Who is it that fakes the illusion that your grandfather is dead? What exactly is his plot? Yan Xiaoying was still investigating the corpse, muttering to herself.
"No...... It's not an illusion......"
I shook my head and said with a deep frown: "This person is really my grandfather, that feeling, that feeling that blood is thicker than water is absolutely not wrong, this feeling ...... I also feel it in the old man who is alive now, when it is definitely not so rich. He...... It's really my real grandfather. ”
"What?"
Yan Xiaoying was shocked and incredulous, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "But...... If this person is real, then why would anyone still put their ID cards on him? Isn't that redundant? ”
"Anyway, there must have been a few decades between the time Grandpa's gang came in and the time we came in, and there must have been people who entered here and kept their ID cards."
"If someone really enters here, then this person must not be simple, and it is not something that ordinary people can do to enter here and successfully leave."
Lin Miao said lightly: "And he still has your grandfather's personal belongings, it must be someone close to you, and the most important thing is that he also knows the fact that your grandfather is dead." ”
Lin Miao analyzed it thoroughly, I never thought he was so smart. According to him, the identity of the person who placed his ID card on the corpse was about to be revealed. That man was my current grandfather, the old man who was disguised as my grandfather.
If things are really as I guessed, then what is the identity of the current grandfather?
Anyway, I didn't know until now...... Perhaps the old man's sudden departure was not only to avoid the debt collection of the Patrol Judge, but also to avoid me.
He knows...... I'll know about it someday.
So he hid in advance.
But......
I think of the scenes I got along with the old man when I was a child, that warm scene, no matter what his identity is, his feelings for me are absolutely real.
"Tianyan ......"
Just as I was in a painful contemplation, Yan Xiaoying suddenly called out to me.
I instinctively turned my head to look at her, who was also looking at me.
Her eyes were red, and tears swirled in her sockets, and after a few moments, tears finally overflowed her eyes, cut her face, and dripped down.
Seeing Yan Xiaoying's appearance, I couldn't help but be stunned.
This kind of expression appeared on Yan Xiaoying's face is simply rare for a thousand years, the dead person in front of her is her grandfather, why is she so sad?
I was puzzled.
"Tianyan...... This person...... Your grandfather was beaten to death by my grandmother's broken bones, this is absolutely wrong, it was my grandmother who killed your grandfather with her own hands. ”
Yan Xiaoying looked at me, her face was pale, her red lips trembled, she took a deep breath, looked at me without blinking, and continued: "The elders repay the debts of their children and grandchildren...... My grandmother is very old, if you want revenge, kill me...... Then maybe you feel a little better. ”
Looking at that sincere expression that was not mixed with any other feelings, I was stunned, and suddenly remembered that when we were in the coffin shop before, Old Lady Yan had done everything possible to prevent us from coming here to find ghost lanterns.
She said, I came here to die, and she didn't want her granddaughter to die with her......
At that time, I still wondered in my heart, although this place is dangerous, as long as we are careful, there is always a chance of survival, after all, she got out alive in the first place, didn't she?
Now I finally understand why she was so worried about her granddaughter's well-being, because she was afraid that I knew that she had killed my grandfather and sought revenge on her.
Yan Xiaoying, as her granddaughter, will definitely take all the responsibility on her shoulders, and I am eager for revenge, and I will definitely vent my hatred on Yan Xiaoying.
But...... Their mother-in-law and grandson inevitably look at me Lao Tianyan's mind too narrowly.
Let's not talk about the truth of the matter, even if it is really as I guessed, the corpse in front of me is really my biological grandfather, and he was indeed beaten to death by Old Lady Yan.
But it all happened decades ago, when Yan Xiaoying and I were not even born.
What's more, really counted, Yan Xiaoying actually has no blood relationship with Old Lady Yan. And although I am related to this grandfather who has been dead for decades, I have no feelings for the handover.
In terms of things, I don't have any emotions other than shock now.
There may be some sentimentality, but it definitely doesn't get to the point of getting carried away by hatred.
Putting all this aside, Yan Xiaoying has saved her life many times, and if it weren't for her, she wouldn't have known how many times she would have died.
I don't know if it's because it's related to my own experience, I feel that Yan Xiaoying is particularly sensitive to the word "hatred", but based on this alone, how could I hurt her?
I reached out to wipe away the tears that slipped from Yan Xiaoying's cheeks, pulled up a smile and said, "Don't be stupid, how could I possibly make a move on you?" You think it's beautiful, but you probably won't see this scene in your life. ”
Yan Xiaoying was stunned for a moment and asked, "Don't you hate Grandma and me?" ”
I shook my head and explained, "There are many things in life besides hatred. You shouldn't always put the word hatred at the forefront of your cognition, so being alive is unhappy or even torture. Although the Evergreen Daoist is dead, I feel that you have never come out of the cage of hatred, and you should try to let go and accept others. ”
I coughed lightly twice and continued: "Only in this way can you get rid of the confusion of being single and go to the peak of life, just like me!" ”
"Die!"
Yan Xiaoying pushed me, and said with an angry face: "You may not be so good now, you are still at the peak of your life, I think it is almost hell on earth, I don't want to be like you." ”
It was rare to see Yan Xiaoying so shy, I laughed and said: "In fact, with your appearance, with long flowing hair, even if your family opens a coffin shop, it is estimated that the person who comes to the door will step through the threshold." ”
"Those stinky men, I don't want them!" Yan Xiaoying snorted coldly.
I spread my hands, looked at the cold corpse on the ground, and sighed, and for a moment my emotions were like cobwebs.
"Bang, poof!"
Just as we were all silent, my arm was pulled by the rope, and the next moment, I saw the red-haired monster, which had been quiet, suddenly rushing towards the square stone table.
It was so fast that by the time I pulled the rope, I found that it had hit its head against the sharp edges of the stone table.
We were horrified and walked over to find a large hole in the red-haired monster's head, and the blue liquid splattered, and it fell to the ground and convulsed, and after a while it was silent.
The liquid that flowed from the wound dripped to the ground, melting the meteorite and gradually forming a deep crater, burying its body in it.
"This ......"
I looked at the corpse of the red-haired monster, dumbfounded, turned my head to look at Lin Miao and asked, "Didn't you say that the red-haired monster is timid and afraid of death?" Now how did it kill itself? ”
"There is an exception to everything!" Lin Miao frowned.
"Not good, the passage we came in...... Sealed! Yan Xiaoying exclaimed.
When Lin Miao and I heard this, we looked at the corridor that came in, only to see that the corridor dug up by the red-haired monster had turned into a blue light and slippery meteorite at this time.
In the depths of the cliff, a red monster was faintly visible.
"How is that possible?"
We walked over quickly, looked closely under the blue light, and found that the corridor was completely blocked, and we couldn't even see a single gap.
smashed with a mountain whip, leaving only a shallow trace on the turquoise meteorite.
There is no other way out except this road, but I didn't expect the only road to be filled in silently by the red-haired monster, and the only red-haired monster we caught had hit his head and died at this time.
At this moment, we are trapped in a huge space with no exit.
There is not even a place to breathe.
Inside the wall, the shadow of the red-haired monster farther and farther away, and finally disappeared completely.
"The red-haired monster not only has the ability to make meteorites open, but also has the ability to make it heal automatically." What Lin Miao said before echoed in my mind.
"It's too careless, I didn't think that the red-haired monster would commit suicide, it's all because of me, it's me who hurt you." I was annoyed, sat on the ground with a fart, and said with self-reproach to Lin Miao and Yan Xiaoying.
"It's not your fault, anyone who encounters this kind of thing will lose their minds, and besides, the red-haired monster wants to commit suicide and doesn't want to take us out, and you can't stop it." Yan Xiaoying comforted me instead.
"You're not nervous!" I smiled wryly.
"Next, those monsters shouldn't show up easily, at least before we run out of strength, and they won't come out until the last moment of their lives."
Lin Miao said expressionlessly: "Although the space here is large, it is completely sealed, even if we are not starved to death here, we will be suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen." ”
"Is there no hope?" Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, I looked at Lin Miao.
After all, he knows more about this place than anyone else.
However, Lin Miao's answer made me despair.
"Nope! This kind of meteorite can't be dug by manpower alone, and besides, the red-haired monster is cunning and won't be easily caught by us like before. Now, we are trapped here, waiting only for death to come, unless a miracle happens. ”