Chapter 289, The Witch's Curse
The information about the box of revenge is completely consistent with the halluciation that Wei Xueying saw, and the name Abigail does appear in the data, as for the young man in the East who created the box of revenge for Abigail, I think it should be Gong Aowei!
So how did he survive until now? What secrets does that vengeful box hide?
These two questions can be answered. I thought that this work could really end here, so Xiao Ai and I drove to the palace family manor again without stopping. Before we could ring the doorbell, the door opened directly, and it seemed that the people of the Gong family had already known that we would be coming, and they had been ready early.
There was no zombie courtyard in the manor, I drove the car to the door of the house, and only Gong Yan stood there waiting alone.
There was still some anger on his face, but this anger seemed to have subsided a lot compared to before, I don't know what Gong Aowei said to him, but I am sure that Gong Yan will definitely not do anything with us again this time.
I got out of the car, and Gong Yan said irrationally: "My father is waiting for you upstairs, he is a little inconvenient to move now, so let me pick you up." ”
"Inconvenient? What happened to him? I wondered.
Gong Yan sighed lightly and said, "You will know it when you see it." ”
After speaking. He turned around and walked into the house, and Xiao Ai and I followed him into the house.
After only one day, the atmosphere in this room felt like it had changed a lot, whether it was the walls, the floor, or the surrounding furniture, it looked very bad, as if it had been old for decades all at once. This also reminds me of the description in the document about the Vengeance Box, when Abigail sat in the garden with the Vengeance Box, all the flowers and trees around it withered, and the Vengeance Box was very dilapidated when it was auctioned.
Obviously, this qiē change is all related to Abigail's resurrection.
Gong Yan led me and Xiao Ai all the way up to the top floor, and then came to a large but equally dilapidated room, with a large bed hanging a curtain on the innermost side of the room, which was so dilapidated that it seemed to fall apart if you shook it slightly.
Gong Yan walked to the side of the bed and whispered something, and a soft response came from inside the curtain, and then Gong Yan lifted the curtain and made a "please" gesture to me. Meaning let me pass.
I walked to Gong Yan and glanced at the bed, this glance couldn't help but surprise me, there were two people lying on the bed, these two people were so old that people couldn't tell their age at all, if it wasn't for their eyeballs to move, I would even mistake them for two mummies.
"It's ...... Your dad? I asked, pointing to the "dry corpse" on the left.
In fact, I couldn't tell which of these two people was male and which was female, because they all looked similar, the skin on their faces was shriveled and gray, and their hair had fallen out, and only the clothes on their bodies indicated their gender.
Gong Yan nodded and said, "This is my father, next to her is ...... It's Abigail, you should know. ”
"I know! But how did they come to be like this? Weren't they okay yesterday? I asked curiously.
"It's their choice, it's my dad's choice, he says he has no regrets in this life, he wants to experience a full life. Abigail was also willing to accompany him on this journey. Gong Yan said in disappointment.
Gong Aowei, who was lying on the bed, seemed to see his son's sadness, and he raised his right hand at Gong Yan with difficulty, and Gong Yan hurriedly squatted on the side of the bed and held Gong Aowei's hand.
Gong Aowei replied: "I've lived for too long, and life has become a little numb to me, and sometimes I feel like it's more like a curse for me. But when you brought her to me, I finally understood why I had survived to this day. ”
After speaking, Gong Aowei turned his head to look at Abigail lying beside him, and the two looked at each other and smiled. The clasped hands tightened again.
"What the hell is going on? I need a detailed explanation. I looked at Gong Aowei and asked. Although his physical condition did not seem to be good, his voice just now sounded young and powerful, as if physical aging was just an illusion.
"It's really not polite to lie down and talk to you, but I really can't sit up now, please forgive me." He still apologized to me gentlemanly. Then he calmly explained, "I know you're not going to give up, and you're going to find a clue about that box." ”
"Yes, although it was a bit of trouble, I still found it." I replied.
"I painted the painting, I made the box myself, I was Jacob, and that was my name in Italy at the time. Most of the legends about the box of revenge are true, but there is a very strict deviation in the middle, and this deviation completely affects the good and evil of the whole legend. In addition, this legend is not complete, it is missing the previous parts, and it is also missing the later parts, I can complete the legend. ”
"Okay, you say!" I gestured with my hand raised.
Gong Aowei breathed a sigh of relief, and then spoke again: "I was born in China, an ordinary craftsman, and then by chance I followed a caravan selling silk to Europe. Originally, I didn't want to stay here, but on the way back, the caravan encountered robbers, and all of us were killed, and I thought I would die too, but a miracle happened, and I met Abigail, who was like a fairy who fell from the sky and killed all the robbers. ”
"How did she kill her? It can't be witchcraft, right? I interjected.
Gong Aowei smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's witchcraft, the church says she's a demon and a witch, but it's actually true, Abigail is indeed a witch, and an evil witch." She wasn't trying to save me, she was just trying to kill someone, and the reason she was killing was just for fun. ”
"As soon as she appeared, the robbers seemed to have been drained, and they all became mummies, and when they were all dead, she came to me again. It's funny, I didn't think she was going to kill me, I just thought she was here to save me, and she was so beautiful that my eyes were just on her face, and I didn't think about being scared or anything like that. Gong Aowei said.
"Because you're not afraid, she let you go?" I chime in again.
"Hmm." Gong Aowei nodded lightly and said, "She also wondered why I wasn't as afraid of her as everyone else, she asked me a lot, but I couldn't understand what she was saying at the time, I just said something when bargaining." Then she took me to her place where she lived, helped me heal the knife wounds I had been cut by the robbers, and then she taught me to speak Italian, and I couldn't help but fall in love with her from that point on. ”
"You may not know about witches, I don't know much, even now, I just know that she needs to kill people and drain people's souls to get magic, as long as she has magic, she is not afraid of those witch hunters. But the way she killed people was too ostentatious, and in order to protect her, I did some terrible things, very terrible things. Gong Aowei said. The regiment is a long and talented.
I couldn't help frowning, and then guessed, "Could it be that the perverted murderer in the legendary town is actually you?" ”
Gong Aowei nodded again and said, "Yes, I killed all the people." I've been helping Abigail kill people since before I settled in that town, but I only kill the damned people, never the good guys. But when I got to town, Abigail was in trouble, and she began to grow old, because the people I killed were all men, and she needed the essence of women to regain her youth. ”
Speaking of which, Gong Aowei didn't go any further, he just lay there and looked at me, as if to give me time to digest what he had said.
He was right, and I really need to digest it. The legend about the box of revenge is indeed the story of a woman who turns into a ghost and takes revenge after dying in vain, but the version told by Gong Aowei has a 180-degree reversal, and the original villain church has made the most correct judgment.
"Since she is a witch who kills people without blinking, why was she beheaded by the church? Was she attacked by a witch hunter? "Again, I have a question. I'm waiting for you in hell
Gong Aowei looked sideways at Abigail and smiled, then looked at me again and said, "It wasn't the witch hunter who really killed her, it was me." ”
"What do you mean?" I'll ask again.
"She didn't kill anymore for me, she just wanted to grow old like that, and then die like an ordinary person. It was because I was too greedy to see her die, so I killed people, cut off the most essential parts of a woman's body and brought it back to her, so that she could regain her youth. But she refused to ask for it, only to die of old age, until the people of the church became suspicious of us, and she ate the flesh and blood, restored her face, and then took all the sins for me. Gong Aowei said.
"And what about the rest of the story? What's the deal with the Revenge Box? I continued to ask.
"She taught me how to make the box, and she told me how to make it before the church took her away, and she didn't plan to come back alive. She said that by just putting her head inside, her soul would be sealed and she would not go to hell for killing too many people. I complied, and the church didn't embarrass me and let me take her head, but I was unwilling, I wanted to save her, so I killed another person. Gong Aowei said.
"She lives because of this?" I wondered.
"Well, alive, I killed a man, and then I cut off that person's head, and put her head on it, and she came back to life. But the first thing she did after she came back to life was to dig out my heart and put it in the box, the strange thing is that I didn't die, and the wound healed quickly, I knew it was her witchcraft, I thought she wanted to live with me forever, live forever, but then I realized that she wanted me to know that living like this is actually a kind of torture, and immortality is a curse. ”
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