After listening to what she said, I was also surprised. I had only heard about this wizard from Jiao Ba, but I had never seen him in person. When I looked at this painting just now, I also thought this man was weird.
Especially the things he was holding in his hands clearly had an evil coldness to them when they looked at them, especially the red beads, which looked like they had been soaked in human blood. They made everyone feel uncomfortable when they looked at them.
"Almost. Although I'm not completely sure, there are at least eight copies. The first is the clothes this man wears. It's closer to a Taoist robe, but it's not quite a Taoist dress. It has the feeling of being both good and evil.
It's a special robe, probably handed down from a lesser-known sect."
"The second thing is what he is holding in his hand. This is very important. The beads in his left hand are probably not good things. I remember seeing something similar to this kind of beads in a metaphysics book before. They were also blood red.
, probably symbolizes death, but I can’t remember the specific explanation.”
"There is also the Zen staff he holds in his right hand. This is very important because this Zen staff is 100% made of an entire human leg bone. Although I don't know what this thing is for, I recognize it.
Leg bones, this is absolutely unmistakable.”
"Which normal person would use a human leg bone to make a Zen staff? That's why I think he is more like a wizard, a so-called dark warlock. In short, he gives me the feeling of being very evil." Jenny said in detail.
She said it once, her eyes were firm but her expression was ugly. I didn't expect that she understood her quite well. She had a wide range of contacts with this woman and knew a little bit about everything.
In fact, her explanation was similar to what I had thought before, but I never thought that this Zen staff made of bones would actually be made of human leg bones. When I think about it carefully, I hold it in my hand.
Touching human leg bones, goosebumps appeared all over the body. It was simply too cautious.
"Which sect is he from? This man is definitely not that simple. Even if he is not a wizard, he is not a good bird, he is just a bastard. He actually uses human leg bones to make a Zen staff. What a shame for him.
Come on, you have the shamelessness to hang your own painting here as a commendation. It makes me fucking sick when I look at it." I cursed fiercely, and the more I looked at the man in the painting, the more angry I felt.
It's simply unforgivable.
"Okay, stop scolding and save some energy." Jenny patted my arm, signaling for me to calm down.
I took a deep breath and said, "I didn't mean to scold him, but I just couldn't help it. I just saw something wrong with the Zen staff, but I didn't expect it to be made of human leg bones. It's really unlucky.
It’s a good thing he figured it out.”
"In our hands, it might be bad luck, but in his hands, it's just a magical weapon. Okay, let's not think about it. I'm just thinking about it. You said... these two underground palaces, except for this painting
Except for the different characters in the coffins, everything else is almost exactly the same, but why are the two coffins empty? There is no body in either coffin? What is going on? Where did the body go?
"Jenny's eyes moved back and forth, seemingly thinking over and over again.
"Have you ever thought that maybe... there is no body in this coffin at all?"
It suddenly occurred to me that maybe...the two people who were supposed to be buried in the underground palace might not have died at all. If they had not died, there would definitely be no corpses in the coffins. But this thought of mine,
It's a bit too extreme and not very common sense. To put it bluntly, it's a bit incoherent.
"There are no corpses? This... how is this possible? Since the underground palace has been built, the coffins have been placed, and even their portraits have been hung, how can there be no corpses?" Jenny still didn't understand.
What I mean is that she should analyze it according to normal logic.
"It's very simple. I think... they may still be alive, so there is no body in this coffin. Do you understand this time?" I said calmly with a calm face.
"Alive? Are they still alive? Zhongyi, are you dreaming? Even if I don't know which dynasty this wizard comes from, it is obvious that he is definitely not a modern person. There is also the Ming Dynasty eunuch named Liu Qian. Let me ask.
How could people from the Ming Dynasty survive to this day? Isn’t this simply impossible?” Jenny sneered, and then dismissed my point with a wave of her hand.
"Why is it impossible? We have experienced so many impossible things along the way, but haven't they all still happened? There is nothing that can be explained by common sense and science, right? Besides, this corpse can
What about corpse transformation? Why can't people live forever?" I asked her intentionally, wanting to see her inner point of view.
"Zhongyi, I know everything you said, but... But these are two different things. If a person lives forever, it goes against God's will. This is simply an act against heaven. From ancient times to the present, no one has
You can achieve immortality, how could you think of such a thing?" Jenny looked at me with a very strange look, not contempt, but a speechless expression.
"Actually... I didn't want to believe it at first, but now that I think about it, I have to believe it. Do you know what the doll fruit we ate is?"
I remembered what Jiao Ba had said before that this fruit was probably an ungrown ginseng fruit. When I thought of the legend that could lead to immortality, I was not only shocked, but I also had a sense of hope that there might be something hidden on this small island.
We just haven't found the grown ginseng fruit yet.
"I don't know, does that have anything to do with this matter?" Jenny asked with a puzzled expression.
"It has a lot to do with it..." I probably told her everything Jiao Ba told me that day.
After Jenny heard what I said, she looked shocked. She glanced at the painting, thought about it carefully for a moment and then said, "Listen to what you said, maybe it is really possible. If this person can really live forever, it would be terrible.
Okay, then tell me...who is the person in this painting?"
"I don't know who he is, maybe..."
When I just said this, I suddenly thought of a person, that shriveled old man. I said, why do I have a feeling of déjà vu? It turns out that it was this old man I was talking about. Yes, the man in this painting gave me the first impression.
At first glance, he looks a lot like that wizened old man.
Especially the clothes he wore were very similar to the clothes worn by the man in this painting. They were all cloak-like clothes, but I just didn't see the Zen staff and blood-red beads in his hand.
But the long, messy hair is quite similar, but the age of the man in the painting doesn't quite match that of the old man. There's quite a difference. But on second thought, this painting may be hundreds of years old.
Completed before.
He might have been a little younger at that time, and a few hundred years later, he might have become what he is today. This is just my personal guess, and it's all based on first impression.
"Zhongyi, what's wrong with you?" Jenny saw that I suddenly stopped mid-sentence, she reached out and touched me and asked.
I looked at her and said, "I suspect... the man in this painting is the shriveled and mysterious old man."
"Ah? Could... could it be him?" Jenny's face suddenly turned pale, which showed that she was extremely scared.
"I don't know if it's true or not, it's just a guess. I've never told you. In fact, that wizened old man followed us all the way from the jungle to this cave. I saw him several times along the way.
But I never dared to tell anyone." I recalled the scenes of seeing the old man these few times in my mind, and when I thought of him, I felt an inexplicable sense of fear.
"Oh my god, why didn't you tell me earlier? He...he wouldn't be around us, right?" Jenny said, looking back and forth with the spear in her hand, almost breaking out in cold sweat.
"Don't get excited. He shouldn't be here. Don't worry. We've checked everything, don't scare yourself."
I grabbed her, but I told lies. In fact, how did I know whether he was here or not? The old guy was elusive and more scary than a ghost. Who knew when he would suddenly appear, but I
Otherwise, I'm afraid Jenny's spirit might not be able to bear it.
Jenny took a few deep breaths and said, "I have never seen that old man, but every time I hear you say it, I feel very scared. This desert island is simply not a place for people to live. You think he can be here?"
How terrible it would be to survive."
"Yeah, not to mention people, animals and plants can't survive in this hellish place. That old man was the first person I saw on this island, and he was also the only one. Now that I think about it, there are many places where he wants to
It's beyond ordinary people, such as speed, it's so fast that I can't even imagine it, and it can disappear in an instant, which is definitely not something ordinary people can do."
I remembered that day when I was talking to Jiao Ba on the shore, when I accidentally saw this old man, he disappeared from my eyes so quickly that I couldn't even see his movements clearly.
.
"Oh my God, this is really a big trouble. If he is really a wizard who has lived from ancient times to modern times, it will be terrible. If he wants to kill us, we are no match for him at all. Even Jiao Ba will probably be able to stop him.
I can't help him." Jenny's eyes were full of fear, and sweat had begun to form on her forehead.
I slowly held her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, it's okay. If he wanted to kill us, he should have done it long ago. He just followed us along the way and didn't hurt us. I don't know him either."
What do you want to do, but I always feel like he wants to convey some kind of message to me."