The subsequent story shouldnt be recounted in detail.
At this point, Ah Tou could probably already guess what would happen next.
Pan Bodas operation was successful and the process was recorded in detail on the next tape. Pan Boda wanted this upright and honest man to beco the next long immortal so that he could be treated.
Within a month, the man began to grow taller, and within a year, he had already grown to a height of two ters. It was about four months after the surgery when he started to acquire the ability to heal people.
This man, however, turned out to be a demon. The desire in his heart was extrely fierce and he was a completely different person compared to Long Immortal. Even though he was usually very taciturn, his heart was completely corrupted by the healing power.
To prevent Pan Boda from operating on anyone else, he encouraged the villagers to hang the doctor (this reminded Ah Tou of the other object that had been hanging from the beam in Xie Yuchens house). Then, he kept the rest of the stones for himself. He blackmailed the villagers again and again, raked in a bunch of money, and threatened his patients into having physical relationships with him. He had suddenly transford from a seaside fisherman with nothing to an immortal who had everything at his fingertips.
He asked the villagers to build a statue of himself and destroyed all traces of the previous Long Immortal. In the videotape, this man constantly stayed silent, but he always looked coldly right at the cara. Ah Tou felt like he was completely unpredictable, as if there was a ghost living inside of him.
This new long immortal did everything he wanted without restraint until he turned twenty-nine. The villagers knew that he would turn into a real demon once he reached the age of thirty, so they killed him the night before he turned thirty. The tapes after this were all recorded by an unknown person, probably Pan Bodas assistant in the village. Nevertheless, the recorded information was fairly comprehensive.
After the new long immortal died, the assistant who fild the tapes cut open his brain in the middle of the night and removed the stone. The assistant found that the stone had beco larger than when it was first implanted and seed to be growing.
This assistant never showed their face, but they remained extrely calm throughout the whole process.
They hid both Pan Bodas and the new long immortals arras inside the old house that Long Immortal had bought before. To destroy the evidence, the old house was sold as a whole. It was dismantled into building materials, exported, and eventually rebuilt on Xie Yuchens property.
Ah Tou and Liang Yanyan looked at each other. "If the stone was hidden in the house, then it wouldve been mixed in with the building materials when the house was torn down," Ah Tou said.
"These stones were mixed in with other stones when they were brought to the new address. They were either used to pave the road or cushion the walls, so that ans that the stones from Long Immortals brain should now be sowhere inside the walls or in the road at Xie Yuchens property, Liang Yanyan said. If these stones emit any energy, its possible that we were sensing what they went through a long ti ago."
"So it wasnt Long Immortal who attacked , but the new long immortal. Long Immortal was a lot taller than the new one. He was almost six ters tall, whereas the bad one was only about two ters tall." After Ah Tou finished speaking, she felt like she was talking about sharks.
"I think thats what it is."
"Then who was the long immortal we saw underground? Did he co back to life? Or"
"I wanted to assu that it had already beco another organism, but thats not the case. He talked to when he captured ."
"He can talk?
Liang Yanyan nodded, "He wanted to apologize to Black Glasses for him.
Why?
"Because he can't cure his eyes," Liang Yanyan said. "When he touched Black Glasses, he sensed a lot of things. He wanted to heal Black Glasses eyes, but he couldn't. There are still people who need Black Glasses eyes, and Black Glasses knows it himself. In Black Glasses heart, there's soone whos more important than his eyes. Moreover, that person needs him to stay in his current state.
"Did Long Immortal say anything else?"
Liang Yanyan shook her head. Ah Tou could tell that the other woman was hiding sothing from her, but one thing good about Ah Tou was that she wasnt curious enough to get to the root of the matter.
"So, he didn't die but regained his ability to heal people."
"The biggest crystal in his brain wasnt taken out. Maybe after he turned forty, the cycle began again and he was protected by his own power. But he didn't want to be human anymore, so he had been living underground. Since we found him, he needed to leave his village and find another cave to hide in."
This is such a bad ending for an immortal. Is it really so terrible to be human?
"If thats the case, then why did the bad long immortal want to kill ? Is he simply a demon?
"I told you before, sotis this strange force will give you a false impression that it has wisdom. Rather than attacking you, the force might just be acting according to so laws or patterns. We just don't know which laws you conform to," Liang Yanyan said. They had finally finished watching the rest of the tapes, so she stood up and stretched her joints. While doing that, she ssaged Xie Yuchen using the new phone she had bought.
Xie Yuchen quickly responded. Ah Tou didnt know what he said to her, but it was obvious that a great weight had been lifted from Liang Yanyans shoulders.
It was at this ti that Ah Tou finally rembered Black Glasses, Ah! Hes still digging you up! Have you told him yet that youve already co back?"
"Let him dig a little longer. Im almost done dealing with your problem and I don't want him to cause any trouble. Now that we know all of the causes and effects, what cos next is solving the problem.
"What are you going to do? Should we go back first?"
Although a lot of things had happened in Guangdong, she at least didnt have to deal with that long-shaped ghost here. She couldn't help thinking that maybe it was safer for her to stay in Guangdong since Long Immortal was here.
"After you arrived in Guangzhou, you werent attacked again. This ans that the previous attacks were due to the location, Liang Yanyan said. "We need to go back and do so experints. I just exchanged so information with Xie Yuchen and asked him to stand by. Well sort it out bit by bit and figure out why those stones attacked you."
"Is there anything I should know about?" Ah Tou asked. She felt that Liang Yanyan had an idea but was hiding it from her. Liang Yanyan glanced at the tapes and looked like she wanted to speak up, but then she hesitated.
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