Chapter Twenty-Four: The Relic of Xiling
Passing officials, please leave a few words......
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Lin Xue...... This is the mysterious old man you are talking about? β
"When did I say he was a mysterious old man?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes, "I just said that he has something that is not ordinary." β
"Even if it's just a custodian of a mysterious item, he must be a little special...... This image ......"
In front of us, an old man with dark skin, a dirty shirt on his upper body, a pair of gray pants on his lower body, and trousers pulled up to his knees, was holding a large bowl, desperately sucking noodles as if he had never eaten in his life, and from time to time reaching out to scratch the itch on his hairy calves, as if he was completely immersed in his noodle world, and did not notice our arrival in the slightest.
"Don't underestimate this old man," Lin Xue said in a low voice, "Gu Zhengfeng, once the most famous tomb robber in China, he has stolen more tombs than you have ever entered the supermarket, and almost never returned empty-handed, but it is a pity that when he robbed the tomb in the last time, he moved something that should not be moved, and let a person he absolutely could not provoke to chase and kill, and he had to hide in this place to escape." β
"Really......" I looked carefully at the sloppy old man in front of me who was fighting with noodles again, and I never imagined that the other party was such a powerful person.
Lin Feng leaned over a little mysteriously and said, "Not only that, it is said that on the second day after hiding in this exile town, the enemy who chased him was choked to death by a Sixi pill......
"Stinky boy, you came here today to sincerely block me, didn't you!" The sloppy old man had already sucked the last noodle into his mouth at some point, and shouted to Lin Feng with his eyes glaring, it turned out that he had already heard our conversation, but he was too lazy to talk to us.
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Lin Feng arched his hand and said with a smile, "Today we are here to ask your old man for something important, I wonder if we can go into the house to discuss in detail?" β
"Less nonsense," said the old man, picking up the sea bowl, pouring the noodle soup into his stomach with a clatter, "you won't let me go anyway, what can I object to in your land?" β
Following the old man, we entered this ordinary-looking mud house.
The sight inside was a big surprise to me.
The small room is full of worn-out bottles and cans and tools that don't see the purpose, so that people have almost no place to put their feet, and even the walls are covered with dirty things that look like cultural relics, and the already not very bright room makes these black and shiny relics of the predecessors polished by the long river of history even darker, and as soon as I entered this room, I even had the feeling of stepping into a tomb that had just been excavated.
"That's what made me like this," said the old grave robber, who walked through the "rags" of the floor, "but I was reluctant to throw them away." β
"Anything that is taken out here and sold should be priceless, right?" Shallow cautiously stepped over an old clay pot that looked like it would turn into shards all over the ground at the slightest touch, and whispered.
"You don't have the idea of fighting these things," Lin Xue said in a low voice, "Otherwise, Gu Lao will definitely find you desperately, when he came to this town, he donated a total of two hundred and twenty-seven cultural relics and all his family property, and made a request, that is, no one is allowed to touch these remaining things here until he dies." β
The old tomb robber's hearing is obviously very good, and Lin Xue's soft voice can't escape his ears, only listening to him smile and say: "After I die, these things will naturally be dealt with whatever you want, but when the day I die, I hope to lie in this pile of treasures - Lao Gu has dug the graves of countless princes and nobles in his life, and when I die, I will be like them, lying in this treasure pile!" β
Hearing the old man's words, all of us could only roll our eyes to the sky, completely helpless.
"Alright, sit down." After a long journey, we finally came to the only open space in the room, and the old man casually pulled out a few chairs that seemed to be falling apart and beckoned us to sit down.
Sitting in the midst of these treasures of our ancestors, we suddenly had the feeling of having a meeting in the grave......
"Tell me, did you come to me for that thing?" The old man seems to have already known our intentions.
"That's right." Lin Xue replied briskly.
"It's not impossible to give that thing to you," a glint flashed in the old man's eyes, and his original sloppy aura seemed to disappear without a trace, as if he had regained the shrewd and capable demeanor of the tomb robber he used to be, "If it hadn't been for the greed of the moment, I wouldn't have ended up in this field, which is a disaster for me, but I can't give it to you so easilyβyou know my rules." β
At this time, I finally heard that Lin Xue asked this old tomb robber for something that almost killed him back then, and even I had a strong curiosity about that mysterious item.
Lin Xue didn't seem to pay attention to the rules mentioned by the old man at all, she pushed Qianqian, who was curiously observing the antiques on the side, forward, and said, "This is Xu Feng's daughter, Xu Qianqian, if what you said is correct, then this girl has the qualifications to start that thingβhow about it, take it out and try it?" β
"Hey-" I thought that Lin Xue was going to let Qianqian do something dangerous, so I couldn't help but stop it.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt your sweetheart, I just need her to cooperate in a test."
The old tomb robber looked up and down for a while, and then smiled: "Hey, the missing man's daughter?" Her dad is a materialist who doesn't even want to believe in your abilities, and he scolded me, why is his daughter willing to believe in this nonsense? Wait, I'll get you ......."
When the old man got up and went to the back to look for the mysterious thing, I asked with Qianqian, "Uncle Xu (Dad) has also been here?" β
"Yes," it was Zheng Yiming who answered us this time, "because the ruins they are going to explore are a bit special, so before we set off, we arranged for several main members of the expedition team to come here, hoping that they could get that important item from Gu Zhengfeng's hands, fortunately, Mr. Xu successfully resonated with that thing, but what we didn't expect was that Mr. Xu not only didn't believe our words at all, but also dismissed our suggestion as pseudoscience, and scolded Gu Lao, who was born as a tomb robber......"
Shallow glanced at us embarrassedly, as if he had anticipated his father's stubbornness.
Hearing Zheng Yiming's description, I was even more curious about the mysterious item in their mouths: "You said that thing can have a 'resonance' with Uncle Xu, and as Uncle Xu's daughter, Qianqian can also have the 'resonance' you said?" What exactly is that? β
"You can see for yourself that one thing is certain, it is a magical item that is more difficult to explain than the strength of our abilities."
Just then, I heard a noise behind me, and the old grave robber had taken the object.
"That's it?" I looked at the inconspicuous object in the old man's hand in amazement, it was a hexagonal metal plate the size of a palm, I don't know what material it was made of, it was a layer of black-red dirt like rust, and I could faintly see some incomplete symbols on the surface of this metal plate, but other than that, it was no different from the waste product on the garbage dump.
This thing that looks like a piece of broken iron is the mysterious object that has been blown to the gods?
Just when I thought I had been deceived by an old man who liked to pretend to be a ghost, Pandora's voice came through the spiritual connection: "It's an ethereal beacon!" β
"What?!" I was shocked, "Pandora, do you know this thing?" β
"The Ethereal Beacon, something used by Imperial Legion members in an emergency situation to evacuate the battlefield, and can also be used as a navigator for small-scale spatial jumps, I have a similar device, and for a Hiling warrior, the Ethereal Beacon is quite important...... How can there be ...... in this world?"
At that moment, what happened on the scene interrupted my heart-to-heart conversation with Pandora.
According to Gu Zhengfeng's instructions, Qianqian put his left hand on the black metal plate that Pandora called the "Ethereal Beacon", and immediately, the metal plate made a slight buzzing sound.
"How is that possible!" Pandora's voice full of surprise came from my spiritual realm, I had never seen her have such violent emotional fluctuations, "How can something from the Xiling Empire resonate with a carbon-based life?" β