Chapter Eighty-Seven: Identity
Tofu's words were naturally heard by Bai Sanye, but he was smiling, like an old fox, letting the two of us figure it out, it looked very heart-wrenching. Tofu couldn't hold his breath and said, "Laugh, laugh, laugh, what's so funny!" This map was given to you by Wu Shui, right? β
Bai Sanye said: "In my eyes, Chen Ci or Wu Shui are the same person. β
Tofu said again: "Then when did this thing be given to you by Chenci?" β
Bai Sanye said: "He gave it to me before leaving, this map is a deal he made with me, otherwise why should I send people to him?" "As soon as the surnamed Bai said this, I understood, it seems that this map should have been given to him by the dumb man in front of the tomb of the Giant Ear King. Eighty percent of them were drawn by Wu Shui with his own memory, but in this way, things are a little strange, because the time does not coincide at all. The map was only in the hands of the grandfather after Chen Ci's death, how can the dumb remember the contents of the map?
Unless, this map is not only grandfather's, dumb people in the more than 20 years, I don't know what to do, could it be that he has seen this map in other places? So after the memory began to recover, did you draw the map? But this map, no matter how you look at it, was two or three years ago, and the dumb people at that time should still be in Japan.
What did he mean by handing over this map to Bai Sanye?
Grandpa and Wu Shui have never met and never crossed paths, but why do they have the same map in their hands?
Now I'm thinking too much about it, but I'm also confused, so it's better to ask the person in front of me directly, and I said, "What is the use of this map?" Why did Wu Shui find you? β
Bai Sanye said: "Since I am looking for you to work, there are some things that I will not hide from you, but I am not charitable, and there are some secrets, if you want to know, you need to pay a price." He pointed to the map spread out on the coffee table and said, "Back then, Chen Ci and I fought to the death for this map. Unfortunately, all of a sudden, he disappeared from the world, and I thought he was already dead, but I didn't expect that twenty-eight years later, he would find me, with the same face as when I was younger. β
Tofu was surprised and said, "You and Chen Ci have ever snatched this map?" Where did his map come from? You knew each other when you were younger? β
When Chen Ci was still alive, he already had a map in his hand, so where did this map come from? I remembered the self-proclaimed apprentice of Chen Ci, Si Taiping, who had followed Chen Ci for a whole year, and traveled to many places with Chen Ci, he said: Chen Ci seems to have been looking for something.
Three years later, Chen Ci died in the tomb of the Giant Ear King, and then when I was fourteen years old, my grandfather went to the tomb of the Queen of Treasure Elephant and got an identical map. Even if Bai Sanye didn't make it clear, I also understood that the period when he and Chen Ci snatched the map should be the two years when Chen Ci was looking for it.
I can't imagine how much he had been through in the years he had traveled. As far as I know, he has searched for red rock paintings, been to the Xuanbing Tomb, fought a battle with Bai Sanye, and even traveled to many other places I didn't know. This qiΔ is only three years, and what happened to him in three years?
Just thinking about it, I feel a heavy tiredness, how can a person face so much alone. I consider myself an independent person who can survive no matter what the odds are, but I ask myself that I am not a person who can completely tolerate loneliness.
Over the years, when I first started doing business, whether it was drinking and eating, getting drunk and dreaming of death, whether it was sloppy and slapping, hooking and fighting, at least there was always a group of people around me, and even when I was bankrupt and down, Tofu followed me without hesitation.
And Chenci has always been a person.
How many roads he has traveled and how many things he has experienced in those three years, the dumb man did not mention it at all before he died, and without that time, perhaps for him, it is not worth mentioning.
After Tofu asked, Bai Sanye smiled, and seemed to fall into memory, he said: "How did we meet, this is my privacy, I will not tell you, as for where this map came from, I don't know, Chen Ci has always been, alone, his whereabouts are difficult to figure out, I don't know him, I don't know him, the content of the map, I didn't get it after all, and when I gathered forces to prepare to deal with him, this person disappeared." When he said this, he paused, obviously deliberately concealing something, so he passed it by and said: "Later, because of some things, I left China, I thought he had died somewhere, but I didn't expect that it didn't take long for him to come back." Seeing his youthful face, I knew that he had succeeded. β
"Success?" Tofu said: "What do you mean?" β
Bai Sanye said: "What do you think so many of us are pursuing?" Are you immortal? Immortality, eternal youth, everyone has this dream, but we are not stupid, in this modern society, the price to pay for immortality is too great. You need to keep falsifying your identity, and the people around you will slowly grow old. Someone has looked for the legendary magic lamps, but what can they do? β
I said, "So, what you really want to look for is not the magic lamp, what you want to know is the source of the magic lamp, the method of making the magic lamp, knowing this method, it is equivalent to opening the door to another world, right?" β
Bai Sanye said: "Throughout the ages, it is not only us who pursue these, how many emperors are superstitious and take Dan mercury, how many monks are superstitious and magical, and they have realized the Tao all their lives, although the methods are different, but the pursuit is the same." It's just that compared to those emperors and generals who only know how to force Fang Shi to refine the elixir, our group of people are more like warlocks, because what we are looking for is the method of 'alchemy'. As he spoke, his gaze shifted to Tofu and said, "And this method is now known only to him." β
Tofu laughed dryly under Bai Sanye's weird and hot gaze, shrunk his head and hid behind me very unproductively, and said, "Old man, I'm not a big girl with yellow flowers, don't look at me with such penetrating eyes, okay?" I'm curious, though...... How do you know about the magic lamp? When you were younger, how did you deal with clichΓ©s? β
Bai Sanye smiled mysteriously and said, "You don't understand such an obvious thing, he should have understood." As he spoke, he gestured to me with his gaze.
At this moment, my mind is spinning rapidly, more than 20 years ago, Bai Sanye and Chen, more than ten years later, grandpa went to the Yashan Treasure Palace, and the leader was a person surnamed Bai, nicknamed 'Thousand Changes', 16 years later, Bai Sanye returned to China, dumb to cooperate with him.
A qiΔ and a qiΔ were immediately strung into a line, and a speculation appeared in my mind, if I guessed correctly, the Bai Sanye in front of me was the 'Thousand Changes' of the year.
When Grandpa was dying, there was a white word in that unfinished sentence. At that time, I couldn't guess whether the white he said meant 'Thousand Changes' or the flying knife Bai Laosi, but now, I estimate that this Bai and Eight Achievements refer to the person in front of me.
In Tofu's puzzled eyes, I stared at Bai Sanye and said, "The matter of the Yashan Treasure Palace, you are really trying your best." β
Tofu finally reacted and exclaimed, "Yashan Treasure Palace? Damn, you're the one with the surname Bai? The one that is disguised? As he spoke, he leaned his face over, almost touching Bai Sanye's face, his eyes were round, and he said, "Is your face also fake?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and the next second, the short-haired woman on the back of his hand stopped her, and she said, "Don't move your hands and feet." β
Tofu touched his nose and said, "I'm not interested in doing anything to an old man." Immediately afterwards, he probably remembered the matter of the Yashan Treasure Palace, his expression changed, and he said angrily: "It's you, the old man, who killed Old Man Chen, I said that you are embarrassed to attack an old man!" And also...... And that uncle of Zhen Rui, was he also killed by you? β
I let Tofu ask, but my heart was calm, this person can be said to be my enemy, but in fact, when I went to the Yashan Treasure Palace, it was also my grandfather's own choice. Only three people survived that time, and grandpa was resurrected by the magic lamp after death, and he was no longer a human being. The remaining three, Bai Sanye, Zhen Donglai and Lu Su.
Facing Tofu's questioning, Bai Sanye's face did not change, and said: "Depending on my ability, I didn't hold a knife on his neck." As for the eastern...... Hum. He snorted heavily in his nose and said, "You don't need to ask more about him, I will settle accounts with him sooner or later." β
When I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned, and said in my heart that after these two people escaped, what happened to them? Now it looks like the two of them have a deep hatred. Tofu was silent, looked at me, and said in a low voice; "Isn't it rumored in the road that the 'Thousand Changes' is that......"
Tofu said 'that', it refers to some official thieves or archaeologists who are mixed in the tomb robbers, there have always been rumors on the road, saying that the identity of 'Qianchang' is mysterious, and it is likely to be an official thief, but I remembered the case that Bai Sanye did last time, so I shook my head and said: "If he is a spy, it is impossible to do the big case last time." β
Tofu scratched his head, looked at Bai Sanye's gaze and looked very angry, and said aggrievedly: "Old man." After talking for a long time, you didn't tell me why did you know about the magic lamp, the old Chen family is because of the pursuit of the curse, what are you for? β