The old man said with a stern expression, "Haha, it seems that there are really some experts among you. You can even know about ginseng fruit. Yes, it is this ginseng fruit that allows me to live till now."
"You must be very lucky to live forever, right?" Jenny bravely interjected.
"Hahaha..." He looked up to the sky and laughed, but this hoarse laugh was not a very proud laugh, but on the contrary, a helpless, even involuntary laugh.
"People...can't defy heaven. Birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature. Once a person becomes immortal, he will be punished by heaven." As the old man spoke, he stretched out his hand.
When I saw his hands, I was so frightened that I almost couldn't speak. His hands were like chicken feet. The entire back of his hands was wrinkled. They were even scarier than skin and bones, but the ones on his hands were...
The nails are seven or eight centimeters long, and the color of the nails is actually black, which makes people shudder.
"Oh my god, this is so terrible." Jenny whispered behind me.
"How did you become like this?" I only heard Jiao Ba say that once a person goes against nature, he will be punished by heaven, but I didn't expect it to be like this.
The old man shook his head and said, "It's just people's greed. God's punishment for us is that we need blood. Only blood can keep us from aging. Even if we can live forever, if we don't drink blood, we will become
What I look like now."
I couldn't believe what this old man said. This was somewhat similar to the state of a vampire in legend, but it was also very different from a vampire. It seemed that immortality was really not a good thing. I could tell from his expression.
When he came out, he seemed to regret being immortal.
"Since you can live forever, why do you want to harm other people? All the evil spirits on this island and the so-called curse of the undead are also your work, right?"
The old man seemed to be reminiscing, and said with his eyes closed, "Yes, everything on this island was arranged by me, but I have never harmed anyone. It was you who had to go to the island yourself, and I did not force you to do so."
That’s what it does.”
"I have been cursed by the undead on this island. What consequences will this bring to me?" I asked calmly.
"This depends on your luck." The old man slowly opened his eyes, seemingly calmer than me.
I knelt down and exposed the black palm print on my foot and said, "Look at this palm print. I don't want this thing to be with me all the time. Can you help me get rid of this curse?"
The old man chuckled and said, "Everyone has his own destiny. Whether you can break this curse or not depends on yourself. I can't help you."
"You...what do you mean? You designed this curse, and now you tell me that you can't undo it? Are you kidding me? I beg you, old man, please help me undo it. I don't want to be Ying.
Die young." I immediately got a little angry, but finally I stopped it. Now was not the time to offend him.
The old man sighed and said, "Not every poison has an antidote. I can't help you, but... you don't have to worry too much. Curse is like a disease. It may not need treatment, and you will be fine."
, but once it occurs, it will also make you miserable."
"I was killed by you. Why did you design it if you couldn't solve it? You made this island like a hell on earth. You said you have never harmed anyone, so where did the dead bodies at the foot of the mountain come from?
Really?" He was so angry that I started to point fingers. This old guy, I really wanted to stab him with a knife.
"Do you know why I did this?" He looked at me with wide eyes. I was shocked and quickly shook my head to express my confusion.
"Forget it, let me tell you. In front of hundreds of people, I was originally a Taoist monk..."
It turns out that all the things happened were beyond my expectation. Hundreds of years ago, in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, this old man was just a Taoist monk, not a so-called wizard.
Later, he fell in love with a woman in the village. The two of them were in love, but Taoist priests are monks after all. As long as they are monks, they should not have these worldly distractions, but people often cannot control their emotions.
After they had several affairs, the woman became pregnant, so the matter could no longer be concealed. Later, people in the village found out about it, and both the woman and the Taoist priest were arrested. The root of the matter lies here, feudalism
In a society that has long been feudal, a woman who becomes pregnant before marriage is regarded as something ominous by the pedantic villagers.
He actually used fire to burn her alive. When the Taoist priest heard the news, he went completely crazy.
, Anger made him lose his mind. In order to take revenge, he turned himself towards evil. Later, he used sorcery to kill the entire village in one night, avenging this bloody sea of revenge.
But at that time, he also knew that his sin was serious. He did not choose to escape, but went to the Yamen to surrender. But needless to say, the result was that he was sentenced to death, but he did not die. On the day of execution, he was actually
The man was saved, and someone executed his death sentence on his behalf using the simplest method of swapping packages.
But he was lucky enough to survive. In the old man's words, he always called the person who saved him "sir". In order to repay this master's life-saving grace, he chose to follow him all the way to the end.
Later, this gentleman led his team to go to sea several times, and the Taoist priests followed him all the way. In fact, when he said this, I already knew who the gentleman he was talking about was.
Although he did not say the name of this gentleman, I can easily think of it. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was no other person besides Zheng He who could lead many expeditions to the sea. So when he said
At this time, I was already very sure that this gentleman was Zheng He.
This small island was accidentally discovered when Zheng He went out to sea for the fourth time. The small island at that time was not what it is now. Instead, it had beautiful mountains and clear waters, with birds singing and the fragrance of flowers. It could be said to be a paradise on earth and a land.
A paradise that cannot be found anywhere in the world.
Zheng He fell in love with this place at that time. After that, he left some people to live here. There were men and women. They lived a happy and comfortable life on this island, passing on their family members here, and living a life of peace and tranquility from generation to generation.
Disputes, days without war.
Until the late Qing Dynasty, the Manchus discovered this place when they went to sea and began to lead troops to attack it. The Ming Dynasty people who lived here at that time wanted to protect their homeland.
They started a bloody battle with the Qing soldiers who landed on the island. In this war, both sides suffered almost countless casualties. It was not until all the Qing soldiers who landed on the island were killed and the ships they came here were destroyed.
It's completely over.
At this time, almost all the Ming Dynasty people living on the island were killed. This bloody war led to the destruction of the entire island. This Taoist priest stayed on the island at the time and witnessed it with his own eyes.
This brutal fight.
It's just that he didn't participate in the war at that time. The people who lived here thought he was dead, so they built a mausoleum for him. No one knew that he was immortal because this war took place in the Ming Dynasty.
It only happened a hundred years after the Chao people came to the island to live.
He witnessed all this on the mountain. It was not until the end of the war that he came down from the mountain. Countless people died in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Their corpses were scattered all over the island, almost like a river of blood. The original beautiful island
The island looks almost like hell on earth.
He did not know the names of most of the Ming Dynasty people who died at that time, but in order to commemorate these dead people, he buried them at the foot of the mountain. This is what we found at the foot of the hillside on the left after we landed on the island.
The large cemetery that was discovered.
At that time, they had no names, so they had to use numbers instead. The first person buried was number 1, the tenth person was number 10, and so on until all the dead Ming Dynasty people were buried.
That's why we see on the tombstone that there is no name at all except the number. All this was done by this Taoist priest.
As for the dead bodies of the Qing soldiers, they were on the other side of the hillside. He dug a huge deep pit and threw all the corpses into the pit, just like mass graves. He filled it with soil and it was over.
This is why so many Qing Dynasty corpses crawled out from the hillside on the right when the corpses transformed later. This is the reason why the corpses from both sides will continue to fight to the death when they meet. All of this is
It stems from the bloody fight before.
In fact, the entire island at that time was full of the smell of death. This is why we couldn't see the sun at all after we landed on the island. It was just like what Jiao Ba said, it was because there were too many dead people.
Yes, it’s caused by too much Yin energy.
After the normal and bloody fighting ended, the Taoist priest realized the seriousness of the matter. In order to prevent others from landing on the island, he would rather go against nature and use evil magic to turn the entire island into a hell.
The soul-stealing grass, the dead souls under the black water, the red monsters, and the terrifying skink lizards all came from his evil magic. It was he who used the curse of the undead to turn the entire island into what it is today.
The purpose is to prevent anyone from landing on the island again.
After he finished saying these words, I understood, but I still had many questions that I didn't understand, "I see, then your eldest son should be Zheng He. During the Ming Dynasty, he was able to lead troops to sea several times.
There is no one else but him."
After I finished speaking, the old man just looked at me with a strange look and did not answer. I asked again, "But I don't understand why the Qing soldiers attacked this island? There is no gold or silver here."
Is the treasure just because of the beautiful scenery here?"
"This is not what you should know. I have already said everything I can say. You should leave as soon as possible." The old man stroked his beard again, but looked elsewhere.
"Haha, even if you don't tell me, I can actually guess that the reason why the Qing soldiers attacked here is because there are some secrets here? For example, Zheng He's tomb is buried here?"