Chapter 54: What Markham Wing Knows

I leaned against the wall, trying to wait for him to continue. It took a few seconds before I realized that he was waiting for me to say yes. I had to nod. Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to talk about honesty for this kind of person, and no one can force me as long as I don't want to eat.

The man pulled up a chair and sat down and asked, have you seen the wardrobe, how many have you seen?

I was a little confused when asked, I had seen a lot of wardrobes, but I had never really counted the number, and if I was to remember, there must have been more than a dozen. But I can't guarantee that there is a wardrobe in it, and I've seen it more than once.

There should be less than twenty. I touched Bai Kai, how many have you seen?

Bai Kai obviously didn't care about the numbers, and scratched his head, but he didn't say three, six, nine.

Okay, don't count. You just need to know that there's more to the wardrobe than just one. The man stared into my eyes and asked, "Do you know that the number of wardrobes is getting smaller and smaller?"

Wardrobe dwindling? I thought he meant that many wardrobes were bought by antique dealers and that fewer and fewer were available on the market. After nodding, he found that he obviously meant something else, and his expression was a little strange.

Bai Kai asked, where did the reduced wardrobe go? Sinking into the Yin River again?

The man nodded, "You may think that what I am talking about is amazing, but please believe that it is true."

Say it, I've heard this more than once. I spat out my cigarette and said, I believe you.

Then the man said, I believe you all know that this wardrobe is related to the Yin River. But what was first salvaged in the Yin River was just a coffin, a coffin far larger than people imagined. I hadn't seen the coffin with my own eyes, but I knew from the people who witnessed it that it was something that would subvert everyone's worldview. This kind of thing is not supposed to be in this world, so it was quickly hidden, and then the coffin was made into many wardrobes, and the specific number was much more than you know. There is a reason why zuò is made into a wardrobe, because someone has discovered something.

I didn't make the original plan, and I got involved later. At that time, the number of wardrobes had already begun to decrease a lot, and the whole project was supposed to be run by another person, I didn't know who that person was, and the only thing I knew was that the person suddenly quit in the middle of the project, so I had the opportunity to get involved - as a replacement for that person.

There's a lot going on in between, and of course you don't need to know about it at the moment. What you need to know is that the reason why these wardrobes are decreasing is because they have sunk back into the Yin River. And more importantly, in every sunken closet, there is a person we sent.

Some of these people have returned, and some have not. Overall, there were very few people who came back, and I was very impressed, and when we sent more than 20 people down, only one person came back. Moreover, the man did not convey any message, and remained unconscious. There were some things that could not be talked about openly at that time, but I can tell you now that the man only came back in the flesh.

I don't know who chose these people, but I am also a human being, and every day I watch one by one the living lives disappear, and whether this person has anything to do with me or not, my conscience is condemned. They are all young, and their future should not be like this. But I couldn't stop it, and while I was ostensibly responsible for the plan, I didn't have any power to decide. Including putting people in the closet and sinking into the river, I don't even know who came up with the idea. I'm sure you've had the experience of just running as a part, and even if your part is important, you can never decide whether the whole machine has to stop or not. And the most important thing is that once you have this part fails, the result is often that a new part will replace you.

This went on for about a month, and for a month, people went down every day, and still very few people came back. Thankfully, this month allowed me to find a way to save these lives. My ancestors came from a family of metaphysics, but in my generation, there was no one in the family who did this kind of research. The older generation is only half-understood. I didn't dare to tell what I had seen and heard, so I could only look through some of the information left by my ancestors and ask the old people in the clan on the side. In the end, I was convinced that the reason why the people who sank with the wardrobe did not come back alive was because they had yang energy in them. So after that, I did a few practical things, and although they all failed, things gradually progressed, until one day I finally found a way, which was to put people in the closet and freeze them with ice. This man really came back alive.

The man sighed deeply as he said this. The timing of his sigh was appropriate, and I was worried that I didn't have time to understand what he was saying. I lit a cigarette and I don't know why, I don't doubt this man's words. Freezing people in the closet is surprisingly consistent with some of the things Qin Yiheng said before.

But unfortunately, the living man also did not reveal any information. Because the very next day, the whole project was abruptly aborted. The man seemed to take a deep breath regretfully and said, Now that my promise has been fulfilled to you, it is time for you to fulfill your promise. If you'd like to start now, I can have someone bring the urn in.

Don't worry, Bai Kai is holding his master's gnats cage, do you mean that my master's mother is also sinking into the river? Why can my master's fried dough sticks be fried by you when he is so old in the industry?

I don't know who your master is, these things were found in that huge coffin. Of course, I found something else, but it wasn't in my hands. A lot of things were taken away when the plan was abruptly aborted.

Hearing this, I suddenly reacted, isn't the mother's coffin board in Qin Yiheng's hand? I lifted the coffin board and shook it at the man, this thing has been sitting with you all along?

The man looked me in the eye and said unhurriedly, "It's only been borrowed once by your friend." It was at that time that I realized that Jiang Shuo on this coffin board was referring to you.

I was starting to sweat on my forehead, and it was a little hot in the room, and I was starting to get irritable.

You can wait and eat the ashes, but time is really running out. The man tapped me on the shoulder and sat down on a chair in the living room to drink tea.

I tried to quietly communicate with Bai Kai, but Bai Kai surprisingly didn't say anything, I don't know if he was infected by his master's matter, and he seemed a little lost. The two of us simply sat back in the living room, and the three of us kept drinking tea without saying a word.

I looked at Bai Kai and knew in my heart that this matter was getting more and more complicated for Bai Kai. And now the only person who can help him get to the bottom of the matter may be me. That tattooed man, no, maybe he should be called Markham Rong, he must not be a master who can get out of his words with torture, otherwise Bai Kai would have done it a long time ago.

Almost half an hour later, the sky outside was about to be clouded. I finally made a plan, I have touched this ash, it is very fine, obviously it has been processed very carefully in the later stage, it should not be able to eat the dead, and it is a big deal that my mother's son should be supplemented with calcium.

When you ask someone to bring the urn up, remember to bring me a cup of coffee. I stood up, hoping that Lao Tzu would be able to go up to the fifth floor in one breath after eating these things.

Bai Kai looked at me, and the man looked at me. Five minutes later, the driver actually knocked on the door with the urn, and to my surprise, he brought a lot of cups of coffee, because I didn't say what coffee I wanted to drink, he bought one of each kind.

I asked about the taboo, closed my eyes and dug a spoonful into my mouth, and poured the coffee into my stomach. The taste is better than I expected, to be exact, the ashes don't taste at all. I subconsciously covered my mouth and found that there was no retching as I expected, so I took another spoonful.

If you slow down, you won't be a fat man in one bite. Bai Kai poked the ashes with his finger and tasted them, and said, you may become a legend in our industry. Maybe one day, when you listen to anyone in the industry talk about something, you can pat your chest proudly, it's not a big deal, I've eaten it.