"And when did you leave the island?" I asked softly.

Gao Cheng said lightly: "One year." Since there is no choice, the first thing to do is to balance people's hearts, and because I was not old enough to be a leader, then cut into buying the people who can speak best. ”

I could think of this, and I definitely asked, "That's the old man, right?" He replied softly and then said: "A group of people rely on reproduction to survive, and the old man is the oldest in the village, and accordingly he becomes an elder, and his speech is more weighty." With him as the axis, and then develop the outer line, form a balanced management body, so that we can live in peace step by step. ”

I was a little incredulous: "All this is what you did when you were 10 years old?" ”

"Isn't it weird? If I were ten years older, I wouldn't need to use the old man as a cover, I would have a way to convince those people. ”

He was not arrogant when he said this, he was completely taken for granted, but it still made me feel incredible, in just one year, he was equivalent to establishing his own relationship chain, and he stood at the top of this chain and controlled it single-handedly.

"How did you convince the old man?" I know he must have used psychological tactics, but I still want to know the details. He looked at me resentfully and complained: "Xiaozhuzi, you have a lot of questions, and you ask some things that are not nutritious." Having said that, he replied: "It is very simple to meet the needs of an old man, he has lived on the island for fifty years, and he will not be like a young man who wants to fly out, and his greatest hope is that his life will be stable, and his children and grandchildren will be healthy, and then one day he can go to the outside world, and I only need to promise him this, and everything will be fine." ”

"There's no way you're going to leave this island in a year, right?"

"Why can't it be? Now that the people's hearts have been pacified and they are all in their hands, they naturally have to carry out my plan. And the promise is in advance, and if it drags on too long, it will only work against me. Come, guess what, in the shortest possible time, is the best way to satisfy the old man's wishes and contain him? ”

I pondered for a moment and replied, "Take away someone close to him, such as a son or grandson." ”

Gao Cheng praised: "Little bamboo, if you were in my situation at that time, you would have done no worse than me." Guess who they are? "They? Meaning there are more than two people? Wait a minute, the old man's son or grandson won't be one of the crew members, and the ...... based on age will be "Captain?" He nodded, and I thought it was the most reasonable.

Gao Cheng negotiated with the old man at the age of ten, and the only way to convince the other party to believe him was to give the most tempting bargaining chips. Because he alone is far from achieving the goal, he must take the old man as the leader to dispatch the masses and rely on the strength of others. The most subtle thing in the human heart is selfishness, and the first thing that comes to mind is only oneself, so the old man is bound to push his son out to become the leader of Gaocheng's voyage.

During that year, they built ships and learned how to sail. But just one year, technology is enough for them to extradite the ship back to land? After I raised this suspicion, his face was slightly gloomy, and he paused for a moment before saying, "If I could have taken into account what you said at the time, maybe something could have been reversed." But I was too conceited to think that sailing was so easy and that it would only take time. The captain was the youngest son of the old man, and he was only thirty years old, and he was full of confidence when he set sail, but he did not think that our ship had been floating on the river for three months, and that if it had not happened to be a freighter passing by, I am afraid that we would never have reached the shore, nor could we return home. ”

Our voyage to the archipelago took only more than half a month. It is believed that Gao Cheng must have also learned from the old people how long it would take to travel from the land to the island, and even if they would have prepared more dry food, they would not have thought that it would take three months. Those three months must have been extremely difficult, because at that time, he didn't know how to guide the compass and observe the celestial phenomena?

Perhaps this experience set the stage for his future studies and seafaring experience.

"Little bamboo, you know what? At that time, I suddenly felt that the place I wanted to leave was probably the only safe place. And every time I went on my adventures, I had this city in mind. Later, I used psychological academic self-analysis, this place that I hated in my childhood impression is my root, and I can't forget it. So every time I come back, I sit on the rocks on the other side and look at this floating city, thinking about every day I have lived on the other side. ”

"Do you regret setting up a game against Chu Yuanfeng?"

He shook his head, "There's nothing to regret. He was there, either alive or dead, and his wish was granted. ”

I frowned deeply, in fact, Gao Cheng has feelings for Chu Yuanfeng, that person may be crazy, but he is the only person in his childhood memories. There is a question that I wanted to ask but did not dare to ask. Glancing over, he saw that I wanted to speak and stopped, and he chuckled: "Since the bottom has been uncovered by you, it's not too bad to ask a few more questions." ”

Obviously he wanted to say it himself! It was clear that after he poured out, the whole person relaxed.

"Chu Yuanfeng told you...... Your parents' business? ”

Gao Cheng's light smile did not change, but I felt something unusual, my eyes were cold in an instant, and I was secretly frightened when I saw it, and I regretted my bluntness. I only heard Gao Cheng bite the words very seriously: "He's a madman!" You can beat me without frowning, or you can reverently kneel at my feet and call me king, and yet you look at me with pity when you are dying, with the eyes of a father looking at his son as seen in others. ”

"......" I completely lost my ability to speak, and only stared at him with wide eyes. He meant that Chu Yuanfeng might be his father? How can it be? If you are 100 years old minus 10 years old, you are also 90 years old, how can you still have children?

Gao Cheng patted me on the head, "Look at your stupidity, of course he can't be my father." I only said that he looked at me with a father-son look, not only because you think it is impossible at my age, but in fact I also suspected that I had investigated it. All the women in the villagers on the island have had children in about 10 years, and none of them have given birth in exactly 10 years or 10 years later. ”

As soon as my heart moved, I heard him say again: "I also thought about what you think, this city is enclosed in this space, so could there be anyone other than Chu Yuanfeng who has existed." But I searched every corner of the city, and all the bones I could find were dead for at least a few decades, and in the past ten years, there was not a trace of a third person. ”

"And where are you from?" It was ambiguous, but he certainly understood. It was not born to a woman in the village of the outer islands, nor was it possible to be born by the descendants of the Chu State who were hidden in this city, so how did he come to be? It can't be a crack in the stone.

Gao Cheng frowned, "I thought the biggest possibility was that the old guy was brought back from the outer continent, and he was insane and thought I was a descendant of his Chu State." This statement...... It's a bit far-fetched, listening to his description Although Chu Yuanfeng is a bit of a demonic disease, it can deter the villagers for so many years, which is enough to prove that reason is still there, and it is absolutely impossible to confuse the Chu descendant who is the most obsessed with him.

I saw that his face was not very good, and I swallowed these thoughts into my stomach. But he raised his eyes the next moment, but he said, "Actually, there is another possibility." My instinct was to ask, "What is it?" He whispered, "IVF." ”

Stunned, "You mean he found the genetic agency with his own ...... Did this experiment in order to keep the blood of the Chu State continuous? ”

But seeing Gao Cheng, he still shook his head: "No, I must not be his son." He abruptly got up and pulled me up, "Follow me." "It was the desk that led me to it, and I didn't know what he was going to do, but as he approached, he reached out and pressed it somewhere, and the square wall turned slowly, and soon a slit appeared in front of me.

I was shocked that this wall actually had something else, and there was still room behind the spiritual position.

Gao Cheng pulled me inside, and found that it was outside, but after walking ten meters, there was another door, and he pushed the door in again, entering a dim space. Is that a courtyard just now? That is to say, this is a front and back room, the front room is as big as a palace, but the back room is moderate, that is, there is only one fire on the wall, and the room is particularly dim.

And I shuddered as I walked through the door, not because it was too dark, but because a chill enveloped the space. What's more, as far as I can see, I can vaguely see a rectangular box neatly placed in front of me. The first reaction of the human brain to things is usually intuition, and at certain moments, intuition is very accurate.

When Gao Cheng pulled me closer, I thought to myself.

Sure enough, it was a dark coffin!

Not wooden, it's a sarcophagus. I don't know if it was later painted black, or if there was this kind of black stone itself, and it looked particularly gloomy when standing in front of it. I couldn't help but tremble slightly, and I was immediately discovered by Gao Cheng, who was holding me tightly, and he turned his eyes and whispered: "Don't be afraid. It's been so long that some things have been forgotten in the depths of my memory, and I just remembered them. ”

They? More than one person inside?

Gao Cheng let go of my hand and stepped forward to push the lid of the sarcophagus, which seemed to be heavy, but I couldn't move my foot to reach out to help. He didn't call me, he pushed the sarcophagus halfway apart little by little, and then called me: "Come and see." ”

I had been mentally prepared for a long time, and I was not too shocked when I saw the two blackened remains lying quietly inside. But Gao Cheng's next words shocked me so much that I couldn't say a word, and then I was only full of distress.

He pointed not to the two bodies, but to a place diagonally next to the sarcophagus, where he found several small holes, and he said: "These holes were pierced with an awl when I was five years old, when they were still well-preserved corpses, and then because of this stomata they oxidized and decayed, and even the white bones have become black over the years, and if you touch them lightly, they will shatter." With that, he stared at the remains. <