Fatty checked to see if Jin Wantang was still breathing and then asked , "Didn't you say you were lured here? Whats the connection between this Xia Wen and the dragon vein?"
I didnt know, but now that we had already fallen this far into the trap, there was no way to go out and check it.
That young man was still far away from us, the building behind him like a beacon tower on the Great Wall of China. It seed to be a checkpoint of so sort, but I didnt know what for.
Although we had successfully rescued Jin Wantang, we were still at an impasse. We had to move on, but now it seed unlikely that we could. At present, I could infer the following outco: Jin Wantang would die of infection and wed receive the heavenly gift again after we left this area in search of food.
By the ti the three of us regained consciousness again, I wouldnt know how much ti had passed.
In fact, there might be a way to try to move forward. Like a snail, we could move this whole area by shifting the shrine and corpses bit by bit so that the conditions here remained unchanged.
But there were only three of us, so the traveling speed would be very slow and these corpses were already very fragile and easily damaged.
There must be a way, I thought to myself.
We settled down to rest for a bit, so I leaned up against a stone to ditate. Among the things Jin Wantang had ntioned, I always felt that there was a secret he wanted to say, but he stopped himself. He had said so much but he didnt dare talk about the most crucial step.
In this context, he told that Uncle Three took to a fake Xisha tomb when I was a child and asked to play Qi Yu.
But when I thought about it, this kind of incident wasnt logical at all. What kind of performance could I put on at such a young age? Moreover, Uncle Three had so many friends, so couldnt he find soone else to fill that role?
The only way it made sense was if I had to be the one to act.
I didnt have any mory of this incident, but I assud that what Jin Wantang said was true because he really didnt have to ntion it at all.
He mustve had a montary flare-up of kindness if he was willing to talk about it.
If this were true, there mustve been sothing aningful about playing as Qi Yu. Yet for so reason, I didnt have any mory of it?
Was it possible that at that ti, I entered a situation similar to when I was under the influence of the heavenly gift? In other words, was I possessed by Qi Yu at the ti?
But I was certain that it had happened in a very short period of ti and I soon returned to normal.
Because if I wasnt the original (1), then that ant that I wasnt the only one God wanted to bestow the heavenly gift upon. This seed to indicate that it was a huge system. For so many years, it had to bestow the heavenly gift upon so many people to keep in the dark. But if its power was so great, then why did it need the Zhang family? All it had to do was change the mories of anyone from The Hundred Family Surnas.(2)
The original could be recognized as long as there were enough people in the address book.
As soon I thought this, I shook my head. No, this wasnt right either. It was only at this ti that I discovered that ordinary people could be heavenly gifted. This must be a very special situation that couldnt happen outside the grassland. Based on our present situation, it should happen in the area where the dragon vein was located.
At this ti, I thought of another possibilitythink about it in reverse.
I had no mory of that incident, so maybe I didn't actually go there. But Uncle Three was seen with a child, so maybe he lied and said that it was .
But who was that child?
As I thought through the above analysis, I imdiately broke out in a cold sweat.
Fuck, is that kid really Qi Yu?
At this ti, I suddenly rembered a distant mory. When I was very young, I saw a strange doll in Uncle Three's room. The doll could move and its head looked absolutely terrifying, just like a monster. I was so scared that I started crying, but Uncle Three said that it was just a prank to scare .
Later, I never saw that thing again, so I just assud that it was lost.
The mory was very vague, but I rember telling my mother with certainty that the doll's eyes could move.
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TN Notes:
(1) The author used which ans id/the self. Since the id is the personality component made up of unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires, I was super confused about the author using it in this context. So, I chose to go with original and Tiffany agrees.
(2) The Hundred Family Surnas is an official record of the common Chinese surnas and prefectures of all the noble families. It lists 438 surnas. Each noble family had the nas, official positions, and blood relations of its mbers listed in detail. According to that Wikepedia article, Zhang () and Wu () are in there. Sidenote from Tiffany: Wu Xie was thinking about the possibility of his mory being altered, but if it was so powerful, it could just change anyones mories, and they didnt necessarily have to be soone from the Zhang family.
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