Modern, Sang's living room, November 7, 4:15 pm.
The small northern town has entered winter. The air is dry and cold. The elderly have already put on down jackets. There are still a few days before the heating starts on the 15th.
Sang Que walked out of the bedroom wearing thick pajamas, stretched and yawned, collapsed on the sofa, and took out his mobile phone to order takeout.
After spending half a month in the Gui Dynasty, it feels unreal when she holds the phone in her hand.
She came back in the morning, had lunch at noon and then went to sleep. She woke up at around two o'clock and started making up lies to reply to the messages Jiang Zao and Xu Yichao had sent her during this period.
There were also some other people's messages, and it took her two hours just to reply.
A huge black monster suddenly jumped onto the sofa, got on Sangque's face and was about to lick her. Sangque quickly pushed the big black dog, which had grown quite a bit, away.
"Even now, we are not allowed to mention the supernatural, and we cannot write about the supernatural. Could it be that this is a means of suppressing the supernatural? This is exactly the same as the method used by the Weird Dynasty, not allowing records or dissemination, suppressing it through forgetting. Does this mean that the supernatural in the two worlds is essentially the same and can be handled with the same rules?"
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"If the supernatural came from our side, then it would explain why our supernatural power is weaker than that of the Weird Dynasty. We also have so many folk customs about exorcising ghosts, even more comprehensive than that of the Weird Dynasty. But ghosts seem to exist mostly only in storybooks."
Sangque quickly sat down and listened carefully.
"Your biological father is most likely in Shengjing, which is far away from Wangshan City. Your biological mother is missing, but since you were found in modern times, and only the Yansheng Coin can cross the two worlds, I suspect that it is more likely that she is in modern times."
Sang Que shook his head, "Actually, I don't know either, but he is a night patrol captain after all, and he also has the ability of the fourth-level ghost. He should be able to resist the attack of the gambling ghost. At most... he will be injured."
Sang Que's heart was pounding, and he felt that what his mother said was the truth, because it was very logical and everything could be explained.
I don’t know what’s going on with the storyteller. It seems that apart from him, I have never met anyone from Jiuge. Don’t they come to find her?
"Of course, this is just speculation, Mom. It is also possible that the Gui Dynasty was originally infested with ghosts and monsters. The first ghosts and monsters in our world did come from the Gui Dynasty. The guardians of our world just sent the ghosts back and then found a way to imprison them in the Gui Dynasty. All of these are possible."
"Perhaps, given the relationship between your biological mother and Empress Wu, she can use the power of ghosts and gods to distort people's cognition, or create invisible obstacles, so that He Buning and other people who want to find you are always misled and pass by you without recognizing you."
Sang Que felt that this was very possible. Kou Yushan, the only person who knew her identity, had now forgotten the first time he met her.
Sang Que shouted, and Sang Wan walked out of the study, wearing a prosthetic limb. His gait was very close to that of a normal person, and he was wearing the same pajamas as Sang Que.
"But why did they get together in the first place, knowing that this would be the outcome? If He Buning also knew about this, he would probably suspect that I would bring disaster to the Gui Dynasty just like my biological mother, and would do something to me."
"So the cultural background of the Gui Dynasty's development to the present is a mystery. On our side, however, everything is well documented, including the mountain ghost, which first appeared in the sacrificial poetry of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. The Gui Dynasty probably doesn't have as long and complete a history as ours."
Sang Que nodded, "Well, I checked the style of the evil-averting coins that appeared over there, and they are different from mine. I actually thought about it before, and I thought that the Gui Dynasty also had Taishang Laojun, but it turned out that the Gui Dynasty did not have Taishang Laojun, so the evil-averting coins can only be made here." "Then is it possible that your thoughts are the opposite? You think you belong to the modern era, standing on the standpoint of modern people, and subconsciously regard modern times as victims."
Sang Wan asked worriedly, "Have you ever thought about why many things in the Gui Dynasty are similar to ours, including the organizational structure of the Evil Suppression Bureau, which is also a simplified version of the Netherworld. So which one appeared first, the Evil Suppression Bureau or the Netherworld?"
Sang Wan sighed and said, "Xia Chan is different from you. I can only say that your biological mother may have anticipated this, so she made such an arrangement in Heishan Village, letting Xia Chan stand in front of you and let her portrait become the switch to forget her."
"Mom—help—"
Sang Wan took over the conversation, "From what I know so far, I have several hypotheses. You can listen to them first. They may not be correct."
Sang Que frowned, a little distressed, "That's true, but in the Gui Dynasty, many things were not allowed to be recorded, and history can only be learned from the mouths of the older generation, including how Daojun and Shoufo appeared, no one knows."
"You mean, the supernatural was not spread here from the Weird Dynasty, but was spread from here to the Weird Dynasty?"
Sang Wan looked at him with admiration, realizing that the experience gained during this period had made Sang Que's thinking much more flexible.
Sang Wan walked over and sat down, and the general followed closely behind him and knelt down at Sang Wan's feet.
"I just can't bear to call it." Sang Que found his phone and sat down. "Mom, do you want milk tea? I have a coupon. The second cup is half price."
"Have you thought of how to make up for it?" Sang Wan asked.
Or just as my mother guessed, there was an invisible force blocking them, and Jiuge and the others could only pass by her.
Sang Que began to talk slowly, and kept talking until the milk tea was delivered. After she finished the tea, she cooked dinner with her mother. After dinner, she told her mother everything that had happened in the past half month.
"Could it be that there is a group of people who are silently protecting our world and sending ghosts to the Gui Dynasty? So that our world can develop smoothly until now? It is precisely because of this that supernatural events are extremely rare in our world, but the Gui Dynasty is full of evil spirits and evil ghosts."
"You can check first to see if there were any major events in the Gui Dynasty in the eight to ten years after about ninety years ago. Check first and we'll talk about it when we get the results. If it's true that people here banished the spirits to the Gui Dynasty, then there is an irreconcilable conflict between this side and the Gui Dynasty, and it's a mortal feud. That's what mom wants to tell you."
"Don't lick me, your mouth stinks."
Sang Que regretted very much that she did not bring Xuan Yu back. Otherwise, with Xuan Yu there, the general would not have pestered her.
Sang Que smiled bitterly, "Yes, I know now, it is still the easiest to go to school. If I were not forced to do so, who would be willing to go to that crappy class?"
"But he had already misunderstood Xia Chan as his sister, but he didn't hurt Xia Chan."
Why did her biological mother do this? To prevent her from contacting Jiuge and being found by the evil suppression department and other forces?
At the dining table, Sangque was eating chicken wings while trying to think about whether he had missed anything.
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"Will anything happen to He Bu Ning?" Sang Wan asked cautiously.
This is the relationship between the two worlds!
The five-black dog, renamed General, kept wagging its tail and pouncing on Sangque. It was so enthusiastic that it almost knocked Sangque down. The main reason was that it could feel that Sangque's body was not very "clean", so it tried to use its own method to help Sangque lick it a little cleaner.
As soon as Sang Wan called out, the general immediately got down from the sofa, ran to Sang Wan's feet and squatted, his eyes bright and full of loyalty.
"In order to make up for the Gui Dynasty, this group of people spread the knowledge of our world to the Gui Dynasty and tried to help them deal with supernatural events. But they were afraid that the Gui Dynasty would develop and seek revenge on us if they knew the truth, so they suppressed their technological development and kept them in the feudal dynasty?"
Sang Wan picked up the notebook and pen beside her and said, "Okay, now that you've eaten and slept well, let's start the regular process. Tell me about your experience working at the Evil Suppression Department in the past half month."
Sang Wan frowned and thought, then said to Sang Que, "Xiao Que, your identity is probably about to be exposed."
Sang Wan thought for a moment and asked again, "You said before that the evil-averting money came from our world, and it was the people in our world who opened the door first, allowing the supernatural power of the Ghost Dynasty to penetrate, which led to the supernatural events on our side, right?"
Sang Que had no appetite to eat anymore, so he wiped his hands with a wet towel, "If I'm really found out, I'll just admit it. He's an okay guy, not a big villain. I don't think he and I will be as close as family, so we can just be friends from now on."
Sang Que came to his senses, "Yes, judging from the distance, He Bu Ning is in Qinzhou. The Gambler's Rule is to kill him first, which is more labor-saving. Shengjing is heavily guarded. Even if the Gambler's Rule can ignore the distance, I'm afraid it can't kill people casually in Shengjing."
Sang Wan analyzed, "Although I don't understand ghost matters, the gambling ghost was born in Wangshan City, and the people he killed before were all near Wangshan City. No matter how the gambling ghost determines the order of relatives, distance is always a problem, right?"
Sang Que reacted, "You mean, I can't recognize He Bu Ning. This may be the root cause of the conflict between my biological parents. My biological mother is from the modern world, and her mission is to protect our world, while my biological father is from the other side and can't accept this, so they separated."
Seeing Sang Que and the general fighting on the sofa, she couldn't help but smile and said angrily, "You can just slap it down, and you still need me to save you? General, come here."
Sang Que suddenly thought, "Mom, if I check whether there is a surge in ghosts in the Gui Dynasty during the war years here, can it prove that people in our world are sending ghosts to the Gui Dynasty?"
The chicken wings in Sang Que's hand fell into the bowl. Her thinking ability is now much better than before. She recalled what she said to her mother last time and she knew what her mother meant.
Sangque thought about it slowly and was surprised by the idea.
Sang Wan nodded, "I'm worried about this too."
In fact, she was not perfect in front of Yan Daozi at the beginning. Yan Daozi was so cunning and tested her again and again. His brain was still working well, but he still could not confirm that she was the daughter of Jiuge leader who the ghost theater troupe was looking for.
"Woof!" The general called out in response, his voice loud and clear, as if he was interrogating a prisoner with Sang Wan.
It is their world that has put the Gui Dynasty in dire straits.
"Mom, are you saying that He Buning would suspect that I am his sister because of the gambling ghost? What if the gambler didn't attack him at the time, but my father whom I have never met?"
Is it because her biological mother didn't know whether to stand on the side of the Gui Dynasty or the modern world, so she let her explore from the beginning, experience it herself, and finally make her own choice? Sang Wan continued, "Actually, this is good for both Xia Chan and you. I can understand your biological mother's approach. As long as Xia Chan continues to remain innocent, you can have your brother to protect you, and you will not be killed in the cradle by He Bu Ning and others because of the conflict between the two worlds. Everything can be eased. You have the opportunity to become stronger and have the right to choose."
Sang Que nodded thoughtfully, "Actually, I have thought of a way to remedy this. If there really is the power of Empress Wu protecting me and covering up for me, then maybe I can continue to deceive people, but I have to be the bad guy."
The realization of the contradiction between the two worlds had a great impact on Sang Que. She needed more time to verify her and her mother's guesses.
But after that, what should she do? Throw away the money and forget about everything? Or continue to hold the money and take on the mission of her predecessors? Sang Que didn't know.
(End of this chapter)