"Aren't you holding it in your hand?" Xia Changhe said.
Xia Lei's eyes moved to the wooden box in his hand. The compass in the box was pointing at himself. He took the compass out of the box, but there was no writing mark on it.
Xia Lei suddenly remembered the compass he had repaired. Wasn't it this compass that he relied on to find the fragments of the World Box? But the bottom of the compass had the words "Yongle Emperor" on it, which was the same as the one in his hand. This one is completely different. He couldn't guess where the compass came from, let alone who made it.
Xia Changhe said: "No need to guess, I can tell you. The compass you repaired was made by Ixitabu. In order to deceive others, she added the words of Emperor Yongle on the compass. Princess Yongmei, she is indeed She was a princess of the Ming Dynasty, but she had been transformed into Isitabu's clothes hundreds of years ago. What happened next, whether it was the White Horse Tomorrow City built by the White Huns or the expedition to the Holy City of Jerusalem, were all the same as those of Yongle The Emperor and Princess Yongmei have nothing to do with each other."
Xia Lei put the compass back into the box, "Then how did it provide you with clues?"
"Wherever the pointer points, I will go."
"That's it?" Xia Lei didn't quite believe it.
A wry smile appeared on the corner of Xia Changhe's mouth, "You may not believe it, but when I am with it, sometimes I hear some strange sounds. It is a mysterious language that I cannot understand. But Every time I hear that sound, my brain will download something, and I will have some dreams while sleeping... It is a very strange feeling, it is difficult for me to explain to you clearly, just It's like, like... what ordinary people call a dream."
I hear sounds but don’t understand them, but my brain remembers those sounds and then “decompresses” them into dreams while sleeping. This is what Xia Changhe said, but this statement is so absurd and weird!
"I know you won't believe it, but this is the truth." Xia Changhe said.
"Can you describe that sound?"
"I can't learn it, but I think it sounds like a dolphin sometimes."
Xia Lei's body suddenly trembled, like the sound of a dolphin. In the memory he stole from Isitabu's brain, he also heard a mysterious language, and one or two syllables in it also sounded like The sound of dolphins is very sharp!
"How many times have you heard it?" Xia Lei said excitedly, as if he had touched something!
Xia Changhe smiled bitterly, "It depends on the time. Sometimes it happens once every few decades, and sometimes... you don't hear it even once in a hundred years."
Xia Lei was stunned.
Xia Changhe said calmly: "I know your next question, and I can tell you the answer. I am here to go somewhere else with you. This is our last meeting. Before I leave, I will tell you what I know Tell you everything.”
Xia Lei was still calculating his age. His brain actually calculated the result in an instant, but he still couldn't help but repeat the calculation over and over again, because it was simply impossible!
Xia Changhe continued, "I am 1400 years old. I am probably the oldest Han Chinese in the world, more than 600 years old. When I was young, Zhu Di was still alive. I was the bodyguard of Princess Yongmei. I was young. He was very handsome when he was young, and he could write some poetry and so on. At that time, he was considered to be a versatile man in both civil and military affairs. Princess Yongmei liked me very much as a guard, and she always took me with her when she was playing and studying. As time went by, we developed a secret love for each other. , became a couple, and that period was also the happiest time in my life... The look you see of Isitabu is the look of Princess Yongmei. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. You What do you think?"
Xia Lei nodded. When he saw the afterimage of Isitabu for the first time, he was also shocked.
"We get along carefully and don't dare to let anyone find out. In that era, if a guard slept with the princess, the crime was enough to punish the nine tribes. What's funny is that Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty did not find out about my relationship with Princess Yongmei, but we The good times suddenly disappeared. I don’t know when it started. I found that Princess Yongmei’s temperament changed drastically. She didn’t have the gentle and intimate feeling towards me that she had before. She didn’t even let me touch her hand... "
"I have a humble status. At that time, I thought she was tired of playing and wanted to end my underground relationship with her. I just ended it if I wanted to, and that was fine. Because I felt that if I continued, someone would eventually find out one day. At that time, the royal family would definitely kill my nine clans, and I could not let my family suffer just to satisfy my needs. So I treated her coldly, no longer showed my love for her, and reduced my contact with her... "
"One day, Princess Yongmei told Zhu Di a story about immortality, saying that there was a medicine that could make people immortal, and she was willing to find the medicine for Zhu Di, just like Xu Fu in the Qin Dynasty. Zhu Di was very moved. , and then agreed. With Zhu Di's permission, Princess Yongmei selected thousands of elite soldiers to carry food and supplies and embarked on a medicine-seeking journey. And I, I was among them. At that time, I was secretly happy, because I feel that after leaving Ming Dynasty, I will have a chance to be with her... "
"It turns out that I was wrong. She is no longer the Princess Yongmei. During the march, I took advantage of an opportunity when no one was around her and plucked up the courage to hold her hand. She was furious and Kicked me out of her tent. With that kick, she kicked me more than ten meters away. I broke two ribs and almost died. With that kick, I was sure that she was not the person in my heart. Princess Yongmei. Because Princess Yongmei is a quiet and weak woman with no strength to restrain a chicken, how could she have such strength to kick a martial arts guard like me ten meters away? Fortunately, She did not pursue me, and I survived with the help of my colleagues... "
"After that time, I never dared to show my kindness to her, let alone touch her body. I stayed away from her sight, but I didn't give up observation. Gradually, I discovered her secret. She eats people, but She doesn't eat people's flesh and blood, but sucks people's souls. But she doesn't eat soldiers, but people along the way. After discovering this secret, I was so scared. I thought about running away, but every time I wanted to run away, I I will think of Princess Yongmei, that beautiful woman who didn't care about my humble status and agreed to marry me. I want revenge, I want to find the weakness of that devil, I want to wait for the opportunity... "
"The team eventually came to the land of today's White Huns tribe,"
"Then we came to Afghanistan, which is today the land of the White Huns tribe. There she found some fragments, and I didn't know which fragments were used for what. I originally planned to steal those fragments, but before I could do it , those who came into contact with the fragments first went crazy, and then died one by one. I had to give up the idea of stealing those fragments, and continued to lurk and wait for opportunities... "
"Those fragments seemed to have affected her, and she became crazy for a while, and she looked very weak. I thought I had waited until the opportunity to kill her to avenge the princess, but she was too powerful, even after she When I was at my weakest, I didn't dare to act rashly, because I only had one chance, and if I missed it, I would die, but she survived my hesitation... "
"None of the opportunities I dreamed of appeared in the end, and she made a decision. She wanted to build a city, and the army that followed her on the expedition was also named the Black Moon Legion. This is a name that looks evil to her. Later. , she decided to go to Jerusalem, and as the most elite bodyguard, I was among the accompanying team. On the way to Jerusalem, I finally found that she was using a compass to look for fragments. That compass was the one you later repaired That compass, and it took you to find those fragments again... "
"We arrived in Jerusalem. At that time, the Kingdom of Jerusalem had perished, and the holy city of Jerusalem was in the hands of Muslims. After we entered Jerusalem, she could find the ancient tombs underground with her eyes and look for what she wanted. As a reward, sometimes He would also ask us to dig up a certain ancient tomb and take away the burial objects. One day, under her instructions, we dug up the tomb of Baldwin IV and got a large amount of precious jewelry. You gave it to Shentu Tianyin’s string of sacred stars was actually taken from the tomb of Baldwin IV... "
"Finally we came to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. I still remember her expression at that time. She looked very excited. She asked us to kill the priests and Christians and dig up the Holy Sepulcher. We could not resist his order, but just as we were preparing While doing that, another demonic existence appeared... "
"She and he had a big battle in Jerusalem, and both sides suffered losses. It was that tragic battle that completely shattered the illusion in my heart. I will never be able to avenge Princess Yongmei in my life and continue to stay in the possession of that devil woman. There will be no good end for me. When the two demons were fighting, I escaped secretly... "
"I escaped from Jerusalem. I didn't know where I should go. Back to the Ming Dynasty, it was too far. I was alone. I couldn't cross those deserts and mountains. I would die on the way. But if I stayed, I A foreigner simply couldn't fit in behind the people here. I was wandering, lonely and helpless. Then I didn't know what happened, but I came to the barren mountains of Jerusalem... "
Hearing this, Xia Lei couldn't help but interrupt Xia Changhe, "Is that place where the pyramid in the mountain is?"
Xia Changhe nodded.
"Did you find the box?"
Xia Changhe said: "No, I met another demon, the only one in prehistory, Cassia Ruiz."
Xia Lei was stunned on the spot.