Book 3: Chapter 15: Summary of the Frightening Night

Book 3: Chapter 15: Summary of the Frightening Night

If it was the old me, I would definitely think that Old Jin was feeling disoriented and imagining things. But now I understood that this kind of thing could really happen. You just had to trust your senses.

Was this some kind of evil or was it something else? I looked at Ding Jingens eyes and knew that something had to be wrong with him. But I had never encountered this kind of situation before and couldnt find the right adjectives to describe it.

His state made me feel that there was some unknown thing hiding behind his soul that was coming out from time to time. It not only prevented Ding Jingen from answering key questions, but also suddenly came out to control his actions.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked him coldly. When Ding Jingen just looked at me and smiled, I turned to Old Jin and asked, "Can you speak Mongolian?"

"I can speak two phrases in the eastern dialect."

"What do you mean?"

"How much is it? I love you!" Jin Wantang said these two phrases in Chinese and then said them again in Mongolian.

I narrowed my eyes and looked at him. What were you planning to do after learning these two sentences? I thought to myself, but I still motioned for Old Jin to speak Mongolian to Ding Jingen.

I figured Ding Jingen's strange situation must have been a result of getting possessed by something in the worlds second most valuable tomb. So, no matter what had attached itself to him, it probably only understood Mongolian. Although these two sentences had no practical meaning here, maybe hearing Mongolian would make that thing in his body react a little.

Jin Wantang said to Ding Jingen first, "How much is it?" Then he said, "I love you."

Ding Jingen didnt react and just continued to look at us with that smile on his face. At this time, a big cloud covered the sun and the whole grassland darkened a little bit. Ding Jingen's eyes began to look in the direction of the small forest in the distance.

I realized that he thought it was going to get dark again.

"Lets talk about conditions," I said to him (or maybe it was to the imaginary thing behind him). "I can let you go to that grove, but you have to tell me what youve experienced."

He turned his head to look at me and suddenly said a few words in Mongolian.

I obviously couldn't understand it, but I saw Jin Wantang's expression change.

When he saw me looking at him, he said, "I don't understand."

It was a very strange feeling because the ceramic figurine at that time was in the hosts position. In other words, the ceramic figurine may have played the role of the banquet host and the corpses were all guests.

It was really weird and gave off an evil aura.

5. Their stomachs were full of grape-like stones.

The ancients used to swallow stones to fight off hunger during famine. Many people who died of famine had similar stones in their stomachs when their bones were found. There were also many animals that swallowed stones to help digestion. I didnt know what kind of situation this incident fell under: were they preparing to digest some kind of special food or were the stones the food itself?

6. All the participants had strange fins growing around their ears, which seemed to be a sign of attending the banquet. And this thing was currently only visible to me.

It suddenly occurred to me that Ding Jingen kept looking at my ears earlier.

I unscrewed the gas stove, found Fattys small shaving mirror, and took a look at myself. I held the mirror the same way Joker from A Chinese Odyssey did (1) and felt relieved when I didn't see anything in my ears.

I had been thinking that all of these abnormalities only appeared after you came out from the worlds second most valuable tomb, but now I was starting to think that it was more likely that they hadnt entered the tomb yet. But if that were true, where did they go before and where did they get the porcelain from? And what did they experience?

Which was the correct answer?

7. There were also those huge stone tablets I saw during that brief moment.

I didnt know whether it was the worlds second most valuable tomb or not, but at that time, it had really been shocking.

The clouds retreated again, letting the sun shine brightly once more. Jin Wantang had been fiddling with the satellite phone for a long time. The white noise had been going on for a while, so I didn't expect him to get in contact with anyone. But at this time, I suddenly heard a voice on the other end of the line.

I was particularly familiar with that voice and jumped up when I heard it. It was Xie Yuchen's voice. I rushed over and asked Jin Wantang to turn up the volume. Xie Yuchen's voice sounded very faint as he said, "Weve arrived. This is a one-way communication that broadcasts once every satellite cycle. Its not a real person. Listen to the following content."

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TN Notes:

(1) Per Tiffany: A Chinese Odyssey is a two-part 1995 Hong Kong fantasy-comedy film starring Stephen Chow. The protagonist is named Joker (Zhizunbao). Joker was the reincarnation of the Monkey King from Journey to the West. Basically, there was this scene where Joker looked at the mirror and saw that he was a monkey instead of a man. So, Wu Xie looked at the mirror like this: