Judging from the sound, the other party was already in my yard, which was a bit strange. Logically speaking, given the layout of my house, it would be very difficult to break in. The only way to get in was through the front gate, and there was only one door at the back, leading to my uncle's house.
But it's not easy to make a move from the main gate either, there are dogs there and the gate is an iron security gate, unless they're just here to steal chickens and ducks.
It was dark. I heard something being thrown towards the front gate, and then my yellow dog woke up and barked a few times. Not finding anything, I heard the dog run into the yard, as if it had discovered something.
I immediately realized that the other party must have dropped a drug specifically for sedating dogs. I quickly turned on the light and the flashlight and shone them into the yard.
I saw two people crawling in the bamboo grove by the courtyard gate. When they saw me pointing at them, they quickly stood up and ran towards the woods outside. The yellow dog barked wildly, trying to chase after them, but I called it back.
Just now, by the light, I saw two people who didn't seem to be from around here. Their clothes didn't look like those of thieves, and they moved nimbly. "Could they be here to cause me trouble?"
Judging from tonight's events, it's quite possible that, "It seems someone has already set their sights on me."
I went downstairs, opened the door, threw the piece of meat laced with sleeping pills into the water hook outside, and went back to sleep. I'll wait and see how things develop for now, and find an opportunity to go to town and ask around. Once I find out who's behind this, things will be much easier. But from now on, I need to be extra careful.
They didn't succeed this time, but they'll definitely come back again.
Early in the morning, after having breakfast, I took a bus to the county town. It was a direct bus, and it only took an hour. I was bored on the bus, so I started playing on my phone. When the bus stopped at the next station, a few young people got on. Two of them were wearing sunglasses. They glanced at me and then found seats.
When I arrived at the county bus station, I saw several young people get into a minivan. Based on my intuition, I felt that these people must have some ulterior motive.
Of course, I won't meddle in other people's business unless it concerns me. After entering the city, I started to buy things. It was almost noon before I had bought everything I needed. By the time I ate lunch and went back, it was already afternoon.
After leaving the items at the store, I called Xiang Fei and headed to his house.
When they arrived at Xiang Fei's house, it wasn't actually his real home. It was a house he had bought recently, just a single-story building, which was enough for Xiang Fei to live in by himself.
When I arrived, he was studying the art of Yin and Yang. We sat down in the open space by the door, and I first took out the bronze seal to show him.
Xiang Fei stared at it for a long time without saying a word, but you could tell from his expression that he definitely understood.
"So, did you understand what it said above?"
After setting down the bronze seal, Xiang Fei glanced at me, his face showing both shock and doubt. "This... I don't know if you believe it?"
"how?"
"I can understand it. It is a script between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and ancient times. It is a script of cultural transition. It should be the script of the vassal kingdoms that ruled the Bashu region at that time. But the contents recorded on it are probably unbelievable."
"What exactly is it?"
"Ahem, this seems to be the result of a divination. It says that when the Big Dipper aligns and the planet Firefly is closest to Earth, the 'Gate of the Immortals' will open. At that time, the immortals and gods who have disappeared will descend to Earth, and everything in the world will be turned upside down."
Do you think this could be true?
We both fell silent. If we had heard such things before, we would never have believed them, but now the situation was different. All signs indicated that the immortals in myths and legends might really exist, and maybe one day they would actually appear.
“It seems that this was divined by a priest in the tribe, but it seems that the divination was not recorded in its entirety,” Xiang Fei said. “Although it is indeed hard to believe, what we have seen and heard in the Shu Tomb makes us have to believe it to some extent. Moreover, the priests of the ancient tribes were known as prophets. They were good at predicting the future and could calculate what would happen in the future. Their mysterious power is beyond doubt.”
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I didn't say anything more, but took out the photos and let Xiang Fei take a look. He was also very surprised and said that the people in the photos were famous archaeologists in the Republic of China era, except for my great-grandfather. At that time, archaeology was just emerging in China, and most of these people had returned from abroad and were quite famous in the archaeological community at the time.
But later, these people all died mysteriously one after another, supposedly because they knew things they shouldn't have known and violated a taboo.
I pointed out the dark figure I saw in the photo to him again. Xiang Fei looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, and his expression became a little strange. "Hey, this seems... seems to be a person, but it just looks like a shadow in the photo."
"I understand now. It must be an evil spirit that has transformed into a human and is mixed among them, or someone who is possessed by an evil spirit and is hiding among them to kill them. It was just that they were accidentally discovered because of the photo. I've heard before that you can see things that are invisible to the naked eye through a camera."
I nodded in agreement with Xiang Fei's statement, but there was still a problem. My ancestor was also in there at the time. You know, my ancestor was a top-notch Yin-Yang Feng Shui master. If he were alive today, he would very likely be a Yin-Yang magician. How could he not have discovered it?
"We can't say for sure right now. Perhaps this evil spirit is very powerful, or perhaps your ancestor discovered it but didn't have enough evidence. Plus, this person's status must be extraordinary, so he didn't say anything."
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