Chapter Twenty-Three: It Was All Planned (Part II)
This European named Jie was originally a businessman who came to China to look for his family, his ancestors had lived in China for a while, he was also born in China, and then the nanny took him and the family driver to live in Europe, everything was fine, but when he was twenty-two years old, a mysterious letter suddenly appeared in his mailbox, this letter was written in ciphertext, he couldn't read it, so he showed the letter to the old servant who had always been regarded as his mother, As a result, when the woman named Mary saw the words on this secret letter, she was very excited, and for a whole day, she locked herself in the room and did not come out, and then the man named Jay jumped in through the window, and when he entered, the old servant had been dead for a long time, and next to her body, there was a letter, which the old servant wrote to him, and in addition to some exhortations to daily life, there was also a sentence that changed his life completely.
"It's showing up, you can go to that place, go to your family, they need your help."
According to Jay, it took him a long time to find an antique dealer in Chinatown, and with the help of the merchant, he learned the contents of the secret letter and determined that the old servant was referring to us by "that place".
As for what was said in the letter, Jay told us that it really took the antique dealer a week to translate it, and it was a legend.
Legend has it that in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Valley, there was once a mysterious capital. It is hidden in the dense forest, and the people of the city will come out to the market in the nearby city every month to buy the necessities of life, and the appearance of these people does not affect the lives of the residents of the surrounding towns, and over time everyone has become accustomed to seeing them on the street.
Originally, everything was peaceful, but one day, a luxurious carriage came to the secluded city in the Yellow River Valley. This young man, who claimed to be the son of the scholar of the dynasty, caused a disturbance in the city as soon as he arrived, and what was even more excessive was that he actually ordered his men to rob dozens of young girls who had not left the cabinet and had good faces to go to his own courtyard to drink and have fun with him.
It is useless for the family to report to the official, and the Youcheng County guard is afraid of Shangshu's power. It was only out of his own pocket that he gave some consolation money, and the families of those victims could only give up, after all, daughters are not as important as sons, and in Youcheng, patriarchy is quite serious.
This Shangshu boy stayed in the ghost city for a few days, it was time to play, and he had eaten what he should eat, and he wanted to leave after feeling that it was not interesting, and it just so happened that this day was a bazaar. Commonly known as the market day, some young women dressed in colorful dresses walked in from outside the city, and everyone knew that these women were from the mysterious royal city in the dense forest deep in the mountains.
They are very friendly, and every time they come out, they bring some wild game from the mountains to distribute to those in need in the market, and everyone likes them very much, although they never speak, and only smile faintly every time.
The market on this day was the same as usual. Everyone took out their own things to buy and sell or called, and the market was peaceful.
This scholar listened to the people talk about this bazaar. On a whim, he even came to the market in disguise like an ordinary person, and felt that everything was so new.
But when these girls of different races appeared in the sight of this scholar, all the bad luck followed.
First of all, this Shangshu boy was found dead in his bedroom, and when he was found, his skin had turned dead gray. There were red spiders crawling in and out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and his limbs were wrapped around the poisonous snakes, and a dark brown toad on his stomach was gnawing at his internal organs, and his feet were bent in a very strange posture. It's like someone broke it up.
The servant screamed and fainted, he would faint, not because he saw his master die so tragically, but because he saw that beside this corpse, two alien girls were staring at him intently, and their shoulders, arms, and ankles outside of their naked alien clothes were lying on their shoulders, arms, and ankles, and there were poisonous scorpions, centipedes, and crimson poisonous insects.
By the time the others heard the shouts and rushed to hear the news, the two girls were gone.
Shang Shu Gongzi died tragically in the hidden city, after the bad news reached the capital, Shang Shu rushed to hear the news, and after hearing this eyewitness's description of the scene, he almost fainted, and kept talking to himself, repeating the word witch constantly.
Three days later, it rained heavily in the city, which lasted for a whole week.
After the heavy rains, the water level of the Yellow River rose, and the people of Youcheng fled to the mountains for refuge, and some of them proposed to go upriver with the current so that they would not get lost, and everyone, including the Shangshu who was stranded in Youcheng, also went upstream.
After a day and a night, everyone was exhausted, and just as they decided to camp on the spot to rest, one of the refugees suddenly screamed, and then everyone looked in the direction he was looking, and in the dense forest, a huge black shadow appeared.
Regarding what this shadow is, Jie said that the letter did not say it, and I don't think so, this letter describes the characters and events of this story in such detail, but does not mention this key place, isn't this a place without three hundred taels of silver?
Jiang Yuan and Xiyang were equally skeptical, but Jie repeatedly affirmed that it was really not written on the letter, and I smiled coldly in my heart, this Jie couldn't read the ciphertext on the letter, so he didn't know if there was any, and the reason why he said no so categorically was nothing more than the antique dealer told him.
I asked him, "What about the letters?" ”
Jie was already slightly unconscious at this time, Jiang Yuan gave him a heart booster injection, and he immediately regained his senses, but the effect of this needle only lasted for a few minutes, hearing my words, Jie just shook his head and said, "Lost in the woods." ”
My heart is broken at this moment, because the last sentence is the most useful of all these words he said, but the biggest suspense is here, but everything ends here.
At the end of his life, Jie told me something, he said that he had doubted the contents of the letter, that the antique dealer had not told him everything, and that the antique dealer had persuaded him to come to China, to look for his relatives, and at the same time to find the ghost city that appeared in this story and the mysterious royal city in the deep mountains and old forests.
Jie said that after he arrived in China, he first contacted his parents' friend, who he said was surnamed Zhang, and after meeting the man surnamed Zhang, he was arranged to a place for the simple reason that it was where his parents worked, a very secret villa.
After he went in, he learned that his parents had died half a year ago, and the last place where they lived in this villa, in that villa, he saw Jiang Yuan for the first time, and with Jiang Yuan's help, he unlocked the secret message that his parents left on the floor under the bed in the room, and knew the place of Lao Yunshan, and according to the instructions of his parents before his death, if one day, he came here because of a secret letter, then he had to go to Lao Yunshan to find the truth of the "Dance of Death" for them.
At this point, Jay left.
It was the first time I heard the term "dance of death" and I asked myself in my heart, what does it mean? A kind of dance? Or is it a curse?
Xiyang silently dragged Jie aside, dug a shallow pit with a flashlight, and then covered up his body with some fallen leaves, after everything was done, he looked at us and said: "The dance of death is a kind of witchcraft, the legend is that the high priest of the witch clan uses a kind of Gu magic to control people's nerves with Gu worms, when the Gu poison attacks, the victim will be excited to dance until the end of exhaustion, but this dance of death has another situation, that is, to come back to life." The so-called one side of hell and one side of heaven and one side of heaven and earth only produce different changes in heaven and earth because of the different ways of casting Gu and raising Gu. ”
Jiang Yuan and I looked at each other, and I asked him, "Boy, how much do you know about coming here so persistently and having a plan?" ”
Jiang Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm just in charge of the trip, and other than that, all the information is provided by other people." ”
I immediately thought of a person in my mind, "Zhang Yang? ”
Jiang Yuan was immediately stunned, how did he know that I was the one who came back from six years ago, and I knew everything about the four of them, but I didn't expect that there was such an action behind the mysterious auction incident rumored on the road back then. (To be continued.) )