"Mama, why are you in such a hurry?" Gong Xichou was grabbed by a hand and dragged inside just as he lifted the curtain. His body subconsciously wanted to fight back, but he could tell the identity of this person from the strength and suppressed his instinct. "Are you here to play with me today?"
Alas, he has been so idle that his bones are about to become stiff.
If Mama hadn't finished her business, he would have packed up and gone to look for his brother and nephew. It would be more meaningful than wasting time here. As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the back of his hand by Chen Tang. Gong Xichou reached back his hand like lightning: "Hiss, you hit me!"
Chen Tang said seriously: "Let's talk about business."
Gong Xichou responded with an "oh" but his actions were lazy and he chose a place to sit down: "You go ahead."
Chen Tang pointed at the pattern on the ground and asked him if he had any impression of it.
Gong Xichou, who was blindfolded, said: "..."
He pointed to his eyes, indicating that he was still injured and couldn't see the pattern on the ground. Chen Tang had no choice but to grab his hand and draw on his palm with his fingers. Gong Xichou tilted his head, and a few strands of his braids fell down, looking very focused.
“The first picture left an impression.”
Gong Xichou was talking about the nuclear radiation warning sign.
Chen Tang asked him, "Where have you seen him?"
Gong Xichou pretended to think seriously and said, "I've seen a lot of places! There's one place that you know, Mama! On Xian Yujian's back! If it weren't for this pattern, I wouldn't bother to care about this kid's affairs. There are also some documents in the clan, but this pattern is related to a force called the Gods Association. Have they contacted Mama?"
"…Are you also a member of the Gods Society?"
So she is the only outsider
Gongxichou suppressed his frivolous smile and shook his head: "How is this possible? The gods have a deep hatred for the ancestors of the Gongxi clan. Although there are only a few people left in the clan and the ancestors are buried underground, as a member of the Gongxi clan, I cannot do anything that goes against my ancestors. If I die tomorrow and my soul goes to the gods, won't I be surrounded and beaten by the clan members? It's not worth it!"
Chen Tang and Gu Chi looked at each other.
"… A deep hatred? What hatred? What kind of hatred?"
Gong Xichou hooked his finger at her.
"It's a long story. I'm thirsty."
Chen Tang threw the unused water bag into his arms. Gong Xichou did not keep him in suspense and continued the story after moistening his throat.
"Because the Gongxi tribe migrated several times in history, the earliest clan history was lost in the process. The subsequent clan history was repaired by later generations based on their memories. According to my memory, it should have been revised eight or nine times. Many contents are contradictory, and some are simply determined to be fabricated legends... There is a saying that the history of the Gongxi tribe can be traced back to one or two thousand years ago. At that time, all the tribesmen lived in an isolated world with abundant crops. Here, they had no worries about food, water, and clothing..."
Shen Tang couldn't help but complain.
"Is this place called 'Yindian Garden'?"
Hearing these three words, Gong Xichou turned his head and said, "Hey, how did Mama know? Did you recover some memory?"
Chen Tang: “…”
Gong Xichou continued, "However, 'Yindian Garden' is just one of its nicknames. The mainstream name that is more recognized by the clan history is 'Taoyuan'! According to the mythological version of the clan history, at that time, the heaven and earth changed abnormally, the yin and yang worlds were out of balance, and the netherworld death energy that belonged to Huangquan permeated the world. Living people who were contaminated by ghost energy would become ghost puppets, which would eat living people as food, and countless lives were killed and injured..."
Chen Tang frowned and asked, “Ghost energy?”
Gong Xichou nodded: "Yes, that's what the clan history says. It also says that the ghost qi has been spreading cholera on earth for twelve years, and all living things in the world are almost extinct. There are very few people, animals and plants that are not infected. Seeing that the world of the living is about to become the underworld, the ancestors prayed to the heavens, and finally moved the gods. The gods took all the survivors to an isolated place, which is the "Taoyuan". The gods also planted a sacred tree as the core of the "Taoyuan". This tree can isolate the invasion of external ghost qi. If the ancestors have any problems, they can pray devoutly under the sacred tree, and the gods will hear them..."
Gu Chi listened with great interest.
"And then what?"
Chen Tang interrupted Gong Xichou and said, "No, I remember you said a few years ago that your clan met a benefactor on the way to exile more than 200 years ago. The benefactor gave you a coffin, and I was put in this coffin. In order to thank the benefactor, your ancestors retired and destroyed the benefactor's statue?"
Is this the origin of the god worshipped by the Gongxi clan
Gong Xichou said very naturally: "I have said that the clan history was lost and damaged during several migrations. The content was supplemented and revised by later generations, and it is inevitable that it is mixed with some personal understanding and speculation... It is possible that it is all true, or it is possible that it is all false, or it is possible that it is half true and half false... Regarding the records of 'Taoyuan', the clan members don't really believe it, and they all treat it as a story."
Chen Tang: “…”
This reason is too real.
"How did your ancestors become enemies with the ancestors of the Gods?" Gu Chi brought the topic back to where it had strayed. He expected this pair of strange friends to have a casual chat, but who knows where the topic would go
"This is a longer story. A few days after God saved our ancestors, he said he was going on a long journey to deal with the evil spirits, and he never came back. There were too many survivors saved by God, and they lived in peace for many years with our ancestors and the ancestors of the Gods Association as their leaders. However, during this period, people gave birth to people, animals gave birth to animals, and the space in Taoyuan was limited. In addition, the seeds that our ancestors brought to Taoyuan were infected by the evil spirits, and the yield decreased from generation to generation. There was a shortage of food in Taoyuan, and conflicts soon broke out."
"The ancestors of the Gods Society used force to gather a group of people and tried to use force to raise others as food, but the ancestors strongly opposed it. A war broke out between the two sides, and the ancestors were defeated and fled from Taoyuan with the survivors who were not raised."
Chen Tang: "Didn't they say that it's not suitable to live in a place with ghosts outside?"
Gong Xichou said: "Our ancestors were not stupid. They secretly took away many branches of the sacred tree. The ghost energy in the outside world was much thinner than at the beginning, so they could still survive. However, it was also due to the influence of the ghost energy. After a period of time, babies were either stillborn or deformed, with two heads, half a head, three arms, etc. Our ancestors prayed to the gods and they barely survived."
Gu Chi asked: "What about the people who stayed in Taoyuan?"
Gong Xichou recalled carefully: "The clan history does not record much about this, but it only said that after a hundred years, Taoyuan could no longer support itself, and people escaped one after another. These people scattered all over the continent, multiplied and became the people we are today."
Gu Chi joked, "According to this myth, we were a family thousands of years ago? Does your clan history describe what society was like before the catastrophe?"
Gong Xichou just shook his head and said, "If this part of the clan history is true, the relevant documents should all be in Taoyuan. Our ancestors escaped with nothing, so it is not easy for them to preserve so many records."
Shen Tang made a decision.
"Later, you will accompany me to the Gongxi tribe's territory."
She wanted to see the tribal histories with her own eyes.
Gongxi Chou knew her plan, but still couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water on her: "Mom, it's not that I don't want to, but the contents of the remaining books in the tribe are not as much as I remember in my mind. On the night of the extermination of the tribe, 90% of them were snatched away by Gengguo. Among the 90%, 50% are records after the last migration of the Gongxi tribe, all within 200 years. There are only a few single copies of the books that can be traced back to 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, and I don't know how many of them were fabricated and modified by later generations... I'm afraid they are useless."
Chen Tang was gloomy and said, "We have to go and see it."
Gong Xichou asked her, "Is Mama in trouble?"
Chen Tang concealed the details of his time travel, only saying that the three diagrams existed in the wrong era. Gong Xichou did not get to the bottom of it: "So that's how it is. According to what Mama said, the myth may not be a legend, but reality? The ancestors didn't lie? However, the Gods should not have the so-called "nuclear weapons" in their hands. What can exist for thousands of years and still be useful..."
Gong Xichou’s complaints are very accurate.
But Shen Tang was still worried.
“Maybe it will be created again later?”
Gong Xichou shook his head. He was optimistic. "Impossible. If the Gods had a treasure that could kill 80,000 or 90,000 people with a wave of their hands, why would they have to hide for so many years?"
Chen Tang: "Well, that's true..."
Although the Gongxi tribe's mythology is consistent in every aspect, it is not empirical evidence and has no authority. Chen Tang wants to find relics or related unearthed cultural relics. Even if there is only one, it can prove that there was indeed a modern civilization.
Perhaps we can also figure out why civilizations fall.
Ghost spirit, puppet, eating living people
My goodness, this can’t really be the zombie apocalypse, right
Chen Tang scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.
Gu Chi was very curious about the new words that suddenly popped up.
"What are zombies?"
Chen Tang said: "It's just the living dead."
She looked at Gu Chi with a strange look in her eyes: "You don't want to write zombie-themed novels anymore, do you? Stop it. I don't even know where you've put all the novels you owe."
He is only responsible for digging but not burying, he is just like a eunuch in chief.
Gu Chi is a bachelor: "As long as you live long enough."
He had originally scoffed at the myths of the Gongxi people, but when he confirmed that such a civilization might really exist, he became very interested. However, before finding hard evidence, these were only speculations. The most urgent task was for the gods to...
Speaking of the Gods Association, Gu Chi wanted to give Chen Tang a shot of prevention, so that she would not have any grudges because of Qi Shan's position as a senior executive in the Gods Association, and then shake her trust in Qi Shan. No matter how strong the fate of his master is, he can't stand the fact that Qi Shan is the master's killer.
"My Lord, as far as I know, the Gods Association has also contacted Qi Yuanliang..." Gu Chi did not dare to say where he and Qi Shan first met, "Do you want to write a letter to ask?"
Shen Tang was not surprised at all.
These weirdos under her command may be treacherous, but their talents and qualifications are beyond reproach. If Qishan's feat of killing seven masters in a row cannot attract the gods to extend an olive branch, then the gods will be blind: "Don't write letters. Letters also have the risk of being exposed. Now we are in the open and the enemy is in the dark. Any risks must be eliminated. When we meet again, I will ask him in person... Don't tell him."
Although Gu Chi's literary skills allowed him to know a lot of gossip, he was not a gossiper. He would say what he should say and would never say what he shouldn't say even if he was beaten to death. There were more than one Qi Yuanliang left behind, but he was the only one mentioned, so there must be a special situation.
Shen Tang knew what was going on.
Gu Chi crossed his arms and saluted, "Yes."
Before leaving, Gong Xichou suddenly remembered something. "Mama Lin, the little mama under Mama's command, had a note written by the high priest. There was a detail in the note that the high priest was out looking for corpse vines and came across a mass grave in a deep forest. It was full of bones... That place is quite old. Maybe it is a relic from that time, who knows."
Hearing that there was a clue, Chen Tang borrowed the notebook from Lin Feng.
Copy the records related to the mass grave.
He also ordered people to find a tomb-robbing captain who was skilled in tomb robbing.
Lin Feng looked horrified: "My Lord, are you going to dig up someone's grave?"
Counting on his fingers, in the battle of guarding the pass, Military Advisor Xun showed his prowess, and the lord's private treasury owed a lot of money. Taking advantage of the war, he found some tomb raiders to rob graves and make money. Although the method was unethical, it was profitable. Lin Feng did not object to this.
The living are more important than the dead.
Chen Tang said: "Ahem, no."
She also did it, but she did it quietly. Whether it was Heyin County or Longwu County, the ancestral tombs of the local nobles and gentry were very rich in burial objects. Chen Tang was in a very difficult situation at that time. It was not enough to just confiscate the property, so he had to borrow some from their ancestors.
She explained: "I just wanted to collect some things from them. After thinking about it, I realized that their profession has a lot of contact with them."
This excuse convinced Lin Feng.
She always trusted her lord, and believed whatever Chen Tang said.
After Lin Feng left, Chen Tang looked at the map for a long time.
My eyes were almost red from staying up all night, but I still couldn't find the approximate location of the "mass grave". I couldn't help but complain that the high priest was not rigorous.
Why don’t you mark the coordinates of such an important discovery
Because Kang Jishou's bad luck was still affecting him, Chen Tang didn't dare to close his eyes for too long these days, for fear that he would wake up and find himself buried alive. He changed seven or eight places to stay, experienced choking on water, stuck teeth, biting tongue, falling flat, justice from heaven... a series of tortures, and Chen Tang paid the tragic price of spraining both feet. He finally survived by relying on his strong body.
At this moment, she was in a daze.
His mental state was completely different from the last time we met.
Qin Li was shocked at first sight.
"My lord, are you feeling unwell?"
Although Shen Tang's eyes were bloodshot and she had a cane under her armpit, she was agile and used the cane as if it were flat ground. Seeing that it was Qin Li coming over, she grinned at him and said, "Gong Su!"
Qin Li bowed and said, "Greetings, my lord."
Seeing his perfect hands wearing the rings she carefully selected, the "released" Shen Tang felt a little better: "No need to be polite, are you used to it these days?"
"Thank you for your concern, my lord. I am used to it."
Qin Li was a little restrained and couldn't let go, but Chen Tang didn't force him and let him walk around with her when he had nothing to do.
Qin Li: “…”
His eyes fell on Shen Tang's legs.
Chen Tang coughed and said, "Ahem, I accidentally sprained my ankle while walking. It will heal in two days..."
Qin Li: "…Walking, sprained your ankle?"
Should this word appear on the sixteenth-level great masters
“Haha, even horses can stumble, and so can people… I was only one Kang Jishou away from spraining my ankle… I won’t mention him, because my eyes hurt when I mention him…” Only she herself knew how she had survived these past few days, “Even though my feet are wrapped like this, I can still walk briskly, I—”
The rubble where the crutch landed suddenly collapsed, and Chen Tang's body fell uncontrollably towards the city: "Fuck—" a>vas>div>Scan the code to download Hongxiu and Xiaoxiang's welfare gift for newcomers to read for free for a limited time div>div>div>