This headache comes on quickly and goes away quickly.
After the images in Rong Zi's mind faded, the discomfort in her head gradually lessened as well.
After a while, she frowned and glanced at the spirit tablets in front of her.
Could it be because of these memorial tablets?
Could those corpses in the picture be these people?
If so, who is that woman?
"Why aren't you moving?" Seeing Rong Zi standing still, Gui Ke stepped forward and asked her in confusion.
Bringing her thoughts back, Rong Zi turned to look at it and suddenly asked a question.
"Let me ask you something: how did all these people die?"
The turtle shell was taken aback by her question.
After a moment of silence, it replied, "Died in battle."
Rong Zi wasn't too surprised by this answer, and then asked, "And you, how did you die?"
This time, the tortoise shell remained silent, seemingly unwilling to answer the question.
Rong Zi recalled another equally horrific scene that had flashed through her mind when she was outside the stone gate, and pressed on, "Was he killed to save a woman?"
Seemingly surprised by her question, the tortoise shell paused noticeably.
It flew up to Rong Zi and asked in return, "Why do you ask that?"
Rong Zi hesitated for a moment, then truthfully told it the images that flashed through her mind.
"When I first saw the two Xuanhuo Turtle stone sculptures outside the stone gate, a scene flashed through my mind. In the scene, a woman was surrounded by many people, and a Xuanhuo Turtle protected her with its own body and sacrificed itself to save the woman."
Although the scene was strange and unfamiliar to her.
But for some reason, she felt that the woman and the fire turtle in the picture must be real.
At first, she thought the fire turtle in the picture was Cai Niu.
But the moment she saw the turtle shell, she knew that the Xuanhuo Turtle in the picture must be a different turtle altogether.
After hearing Rong Zi's words, the tortoise shell reacted somewhat excitedly, asking urgently, "Have you already...?"
Before he could finish speaking, a loud 'boom' was heard, and a muffled thunderclap suddenly struck down from the sky.
Rong Zi looked up and saw that the sky, which had been clear just moments before, had suddenly turned into a stormy, overcast sky, as if a storm was about to break.
She frowned, speechless, and said, "Why is it thundering again? Is it going to rain?"
Because her attention was focused on the dark clouds overhead, Rong Zi didn't notice that the tortoise shell in front of her trembled twice the moment the thunder sounded.
Rong Zi ignored the dark clouds overhead and continued to question the tortoise shell.
"Go on, what have I already done?"
The tortoise shell glanced warily at the sky, then changed the subject and replied, "It's nothing."
"How can you say there's nothing? You clearly had something to say to me just now." That's a really fast change of expression!
Seeing that Rong Zi was determined to get to the bottom of things, Gui Ke directly changed the subject and suddenly said something.
That's not me.
Rong Zi was taken aback by its inexplicable words, "What do you mean it's not you?"
"The Xuanhuo Turtle you saw is not me."
"If it's not you, then who is it?" Rong Zi was somewhat surprised, having successfully changed the subject.
Suddenly a possibility occurred to her. She hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Could it be... your wife?"
At the blood pool, the tortoise shell said that the entire pool of blood and essence belonged to it and its wife.
His wife also died.
It's the kind where the soul is completely annihilated...
This time, the turtle shell did not deny it.
Rong Zi pondered for a moment, then asked in a slightly deep voice, "So, what I saw was all real?"
If the previous scene was real, does that mean that everything that appeared in her mind just now was also real?
After all, the woman is present in both of these scenes.
Thinking of this, Rong Zi moved closer to the tortoise shell and continued to ask, "Since it's true, then let me ask you, who is that woman?"
Boom!
Another rumble of thunder sounded.
Rong Zi looked up and saw lightning flashing overhead. Lightning bolts streaked through the dark, heavy clouds, as if they could strike down at any moment, which looked rather terrifying.
What's wrong?
All thunder and no rain?
Upon seeing this, the tortoise shell shook even more violently than before.
It flew to Rong Zi's shoulder and hid under her hair, whispering to her, "Don't ask anymore."
Rong Zi gave it a strange look.
Why can't I ask?
It seems to be quite wary of this thunder?
The tortoise shell replied somewhat helplessly, "Because no matter how much you ask, I can't tell you."
Rong Zi fell silent after hearing this.
She glanced at the tortoise shell huddled on her shoulder, then at the lightning and thunder overhead, narrowed her eyes, and pointed to the sky.
"Is it related to this lightning?"
Boom... Boom!
As soon as Rong Zi finished speaking, the thunder above her head thundered even louder, and lightning almost struck her head.
Seeing this, her eyes flickered slightly.
It seems the thunder didn't appear out of thin air, nor was it a sign that rain was about to fall...
The tortoise shell patted Rong Zi with its body, nervously advising, "Really, don't ask anymore. The answer you want to know, you need to find it yourself."
Rong Zi: "..."
Isn't this just teasing her?
Rong Zi looked up at the sky, "If I keep asking, is it really going to chop me up?"
As if in response to her words, amidst the rolling dark clouds, a bolt of lightning struck down menacingly towards her.
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