Lin Wu put away the pendant and asked, "What is this pendant made of?"

When mentioning this, Zheng Mingxian's expression froze slightly.

He said, "Three years ago, I went to Lingnan."

Lin Wu was stunned. Three years ago again? Or Lingnan?

Zheng Mingxian said, "At that time, I listened to my father's advice and went to Lingnan to look for a rare rough stone so that it could be used as a treasure at the auction. But when I arrived in Lingnan, I encountered a strange thing."

"Strange thing?"

"Yes. I remember it was in Dayuling, Lingnan, in a place called Zhangjia Village. There were rumors that the raw stone I was looking for was there, but I asked all the local villagers and no one had ever heard of the raw stone I was looking for. After searching for many days without any results, I prepared to leave and look for it somewhere else."

"However, on the night I was leaving, an expedition team came from the back mountain of Zhangjia Village and stayed in the guesthouse where I was staying. I was on the first floor at the time and saw that the team was soaking wet and their faces were very pale. They also scared the staff of the guesthouse."

Thinking back, Zheng Mingxian frowned, seeming to feel a little nervous.

He sighed, "I thought they must have wandered around in the mountains for a long time before finding their way out, so they looked so miserable. I didn't pay much attention to them and went back to my room to rest. But the next morning, the staff at the B&B discovered that they had all disappeared."

"Disappear?" Lin Wu was stunned.

Zheng Mingxian nodded. "It was a very strange disappearance. The staff said they saw them in the first half of the night, but they disappeared in the second half. Moreover, the doors and windows of their room were locked from the inside, and their things were still there. They were not necessarily the only ones there."

Lin Wu's eyes fell on the pendant in her hand. She asked, "What does that have to do with this pendant?"

Zheng Mingxian said in a gentle voice, "When the team arrived at the B&B at night, I was sitting on the first floor eating. I accidentally saw that when they were checking out, the zippers of their backpacks were open, revealing the contents, which included this kind of stone. Their backpacks looked very heavy. Based on my experience, they were definitely filled with stones."

In other words, they all had backpacks full of these stones.

"The next day when the staff said they were missing, I went to take a look. Their things were all there, except the stones," said Zheng Mingxian.

Lin Wu frowned and questioned bluntly: "How can you be sure that the stone they brought is the material for my pendant?"

Zheng Mingxian laughed: "Miss Daosheng, don't you think this is a bit presumptuous for someone who makes his living by gambling on stones? I started learning to gamble on stones from my father when I was seven years old. By the time I was twenty, I had basically understood all kinds of stones in the world. If a rough stone that I didn't recognize appeared, do you think I wouldn't take a few more glances?"

Lin Wu agreed when he heard that.

Zheng Mingxian said, “So I asked them if I could take a closer look and offer a high price, but they immediately rejected me and went upstairs with the room number. The next day, they were gone and I didn’t get anything, so I left Zhangjia Village. Finally, I barely found a usable raw stone somewhere else, and I left Lingnan.”

After a pause, Zheng Mingxian added, "Later, I kept thinking about this raw stone because I had never seen it before. I looked up a lot of information privately. It was not until last year that I managed to find out that this seemed to be a unique ore in a tiankeng deep in Dayuling Mountain in Lingnan. The substances it contains are not very good for the human body. Only then did I give up looking for it."

Hearing this, Lin Wu's heart skipped a beat.

Sure enough, the extra radioactive elements in grandpa’s body were caused by it!

Lin Wu asked: "If we use it to make a lucky charm and carry it with us, other than being harmful to the human body, what other uses does it have?"

She always felt that Lin Shenghai would not ask Master Zhang to pay a high price to get a piece for the old man just for this reason.

There must be other effects.

Zheng Mingxian shook his head, "That's all I know."

"Okay then, thank you." Lin Wu had no choice but to say.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Wu stood up and said, "I'll have someone bring the jade to you when I get back. Goodbye."

Zheng Mingxian also stood up, nodded gently, and sent Lin Wu out.

When Lin Wu disappeared from his sight, Uncle Huang could no longer bear it any longer. He quickly walked to Zheng Mingxian and said, "Young Master, why did you tell her?"

Zheng Mingxian walked back and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and took a sip to moisten his throat.

He said, "I was investigating the raw stone of Daosheng's pendant earlier. As I was investigating, I discovered that there was an unknown group of forces active in Lingnan, and they seemed to be targeting the Five Elements. But the people sent there were nowhere to be found, so the investigation had to be suspended. I didn't expect that not long ago, the people from Xuanmen also discovered something unusual through a case and investigated there."

Zheng Mingxian's expression became a little colder.

"Father plans to watch this matter from the sidelines to avoid losing more people in Shixing. But the person being investigated by Xuanmen is Cheng Man, how can I just sit back and watch? What if Cheng Man is in danger while investigating?"

Uncle Huang sighed, "Master Cheng is the lifeblood of Xuanmen, he will be fine."

Zheng Mingxian shook his head: "Then I can't just ignore Cheng Man. Besides, we always thought that this group of forces was only entrenched in Lingnan, but the pendant Daosheng brought showed that its people had already appeared in the North City, but we didn't notice it. If it weren't for Daosheng, maybe we wouldn't have discovered it later."

He looked up at Uncle Huang and said, "Uncle Huang, have you ever thought that if this group of people can appear in North City without anyone noticing, they can also appear in other places in Wuxing."

Uncle Huang’s expression froze.

After a long pause, Uncle Huang asked, "Would you like to tell Master Cheng about these things as well?"

Zheng Mingxian shook his head, poked his glasses with his fingertips, and said calmly: "Cheng Man has just started investigating, so he probably hasn't found much yet, so there's no need to tell him. Otherwise, he might get stubborn and investigate further. Now that Daosheng has started investigating, let's wait and see how far he can find out."

Uncle Huang couldn't help but ask, "That Daosheng is a little girl! What can she...what can she find out?"

Zheng Mingxian smiled and said, "Uncle Huang, don't underestimate people. Since Cheng Man praised her highly, it means that she is a very resourceful person."

"Can……"

"Okay, let's stop here and don't say any more."

Zheng Mingxian interrupted Uncle Huang and stood up. He said in a relaxed tone, "After Daosheng returns Cheng Man's jade, I will go back to the capital to find Cheng Man and return the jade to him."

Uncle Huang couldn't help but ask, "Why did you bother to get it back from Daosheng? You carved the jade anyway, so why don't you just carve another piece for Master Cheng?"

"It's different," Zheng Mingxian shook his head, "That was the first gift I gave to Cheng Man."

At the same time, Lin Wu, who had just left the black market, suddenly received news from Bo Yuting.

[I have found the pendant you wanted to find. ]

[The raw stone comes from a tiankeng in Dayuling, Lingnan. It is very dangerous there and few people can enter and come out safely. Therefore, the raw stones circulating in the market are very rare and the price is extremely expensive. ]

[The last time it was circulated was more than half a month ago, when Zhang Yuge, a famous master in North City, sold three pendants made of this raw stone. In addition to your grandfather, the other buyers were the Zhao family and the Chen family in North City, and they were all bought for their grandfathers.]

[However, the old men of these two families passed away one after another shortly after receiving the pendants. ]

(End of this chapter)