"From today on, you are a guest of my Bai family."
"Yes...ma'am!"
"You must call me 'she'. This is true at all times."
This is a memory that gradually awakens in Ninety-nine Green's mind.
It turns out...she was once a guest of the Bai family.
There was no one in the long and narrow corridor at this time.
Then, a door in front of her... suddenly opened slightly.
Not long after, a wrinkled hand opened the door.
Green saw an old woman with wrinkles on her face, who looked to be in her seventies or eighties, opened the door and walked out.
She held a white lantern and slowly walked along the dark corridor toward the green.
In the room at the end of the corridor, all the shelves are densely packed with various dolls.
Ninety-Nine Green was sitting among a large number of dolls.
Lu opened her eyes slightly, and then she saw the old woman.
She had some vague memories of the old woman.
This old woman was once a nun of the Bai family.
But she should have been from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible for her to still be alive today.
She speculated that she came to Bai's house in the apartment... no, during the execution of the Scarlet Mission in that hell inn.
It seems that this was once the place where the Blood Letter was executed.
After the instructions written in blood were completed, she became the guest of the Bai family.
What is the reason for this? The purpose of coming to China that year was to refine the elixir for the shogun, and by making a wish in her apartment, she refined the elixir that would allow her to live for three hundred years.
Thinking about it carefully... it seems that it has been almost three hundred years since the Qianlong period.
She has been constantly switching between doll and human forms, and her memory and consciousness are in a state of chaos.
The old woman stared at Green with her chaotic eyes, and then said: "That's almost it. All the harvested souls will be dedicated to 'her' by us."
Midori recognized the voice.
She once heard this voice and said to herself...
ungrateful!
"Why do you say I'm... ungrateful?"
Lu has no memory of this. How long has she been a guest in the Bai family? What ungrateful things did she do during her time as a guest?
However, the old woman seemed unable to see Midori at all, and continued to answer the question: "But the distance is not enough for 'her' to wake up..."
"Answer me...why do you call me ungrateful?"
Midori blinked... just for a moment...
The old woman has disappeared.
There was only...a doll on the ground. The doll looked like an old woman, and it was very similar to the old woman just now.
Midori picked up the doll.
Holding the doll, she began to think crazily about what was missing in her memory.
Her physical body was locked on the 30th floor of that apartment for a long time, imprisoned together with the Demon King. While she relied on the clones generated by the projection to move, her memory was constantly being split.
Lu is sure...she has not retrieved all her memories. Some of the most important memories are sealed in the Bai family mansion.
She glanced at the doll on the nearby shelf and in her hand...
In this place, the boundary between living people and dolls almost does not exist.
"Baisha County...Yanyao Town...and..."
She constantly fished out fragments of memory from the gaps in her memory.
"besides……"
Deep in her memory, she gradually began to have an impression of a name again.
Subconsciously telling myself that this name is very important.
After probably several minutes, she finally remembered the name.
She could only be sure that this name belonged to a man.
A man who once had a very important position in the Bai family.
His name is... Li Ruochu!
"Who is this guy?"
Lu couldn't remember the name of anyone in the Bai family, only this person's name...
She remembers it very clearly.
At this moment, she suddenly felt a little wet on her hands. When she lowered her head and looked down, she found...
The old woman's puppet actually shed bloody tears from her eyes!
next moment……
Midori himself also turned back into a doll.
Then...
A pale hand stretched out, picked up the dolls of Green and the old woman, and then placed them on the shelf at the same time!
…
Mizhen was so tired that she fell asleep in the car.
It's been a long time since she had a good night's sleep.
She really wants to dream.
Only in dreams can she see her brother Mi Tian.
Recently, she discovered something. It seemed that she could mentally receive the emotions transmitted from the sky. Through this emotion, she could feel...
I am getting closer and closer to "her".
That terrifying evil spirit that cannot even be named.
She suddenly opened her eyes.
"woke up?"
Li Yin, who was sitting in the driver's seat, handed Mizhen a plastic bag: "I bought it nearby, let's eat some first."
This is Yanyao Town, where the Bai family is rumored to be. However, inquiries about the Bai family here have yielded no results.
"I feel..." Mizhen raised his hand and pointed at his head, "Through Mitian, I can have some sense of 'her'."
"But... there is no way to know the exact location... We searched separately from Yin Ye and Yin Yu, but it did not improve the efficiency..."
The two were silent for a long time.
At this moment...
"Oh, speaking of it..." Mizhen suddenly said: "Today seems to be the day when the first official trailer of "The Mark of History" is released?"
"I almost forgot." Li Yin still has this thought, even though this is a TV series adapted from his novel.
"Calculating the time, we can already watch it. Anyway, the trailer only lasts three minutes, so let's just watch it."
"Oh well."
Li Yin put his phone in front of the car and opened the video website.
As a key tribute to the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China this year, this TV series is an epic drama with a plot from the early 20th century to the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea. The actor Zhang Shuming is the popular actor Gu Nanyi.
"Nowadays, the main hype on the Internet is that "Mark of History" and the live-action version of "Beast Soul Continent" will be broadcast at the same time." Li Yin is actually annoyed by this kind of entertainment industry hype, "Because the heroine of "Beast Soul Continent" is Zhuo Yiyi.
"
Gu Nanyi and Zhuo Yiyi have a high degree of favorability among the people. These two dramas were broadcast like this, and it can be said that they bought a lot of hot searches. Of course, "The Mark of History" is a serious drama, and it has caused even more repercussions.
Much higher.
After clicking on the trailer...
"fire!"
In the video, a group of Westerners aimed artillery at the city of Beijing.
Then, a narration came from the video: At the beginning of the 20th century, at the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was corrupt and incompetent. The Eight-Power Allied Forces used the Boxer Rebellion as an excuse to attack Beijing from the Tianjin Concession...
"Speaking of which..." Li Yin suddenly realized something: "This place is very close to the place where the Eight-Nation Allied Forces attacked Beijing."
City Z is very close to Tianjin and Langfang. This was probably where the Eight-Nation Allied Forces set their sights back then.
"M...Mizhen?"
Mizhen stared at the video of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Austria, Italy, his eyes wide open, and his pupils continued to expand.
Immediately afterwards, she did something that Li Yin could not believe.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
She let out a scream!
As she wiped her feet, the phone screen immediately shattered completely and the screen went completely black.
"Mizhen, you...what's wrong with you..."
After a long time...
Mizhen recovered.
Li Yin clearly remembered that this was not the first time Mizhen had such a reaction.
The same thing happened when she first met Dong Ning.
Now think about it, through Mi Tian as a medium, she has been mentally influenced by "her" since then.
After about five minutes, Mizhen finally regained consciousness.
She also felt incredible when looking at the phone with its screen completely shattered.
"I don't think your phone screen can shatter with just a scream. It's not ultrasound." Li Yin said with a stern face: "Mizhen, you're afraid..."
"It's 'her'... I can feel some consciousness from 'her'."
"You only had this reaction when you saw the Eight-Nation Allied Forces..."
"It's not just because of the Westerners," Mizhen analyzed: "It's not the first time I've seen foreigners. The key is not 'foreigners', but the Eight-Power Allied Forces."
"She" and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces?
No matter how I think about it, I feel like it has nothing to do with it.
The direct consequence of the aggression of the Eight-Power Allied Forces was the signing of the "Xinchou Treaty", which plunged China into the abyss of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
It was precisely because of his familiarity with this humiliating history that Li Yin wrote "The Imprint of History".
"Perhaps the Bai family... was once attacked by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces..."
"Could it be that..." Li Yin came up with a conjecture: "That 'she' turned into an evil spirit because she died at the hands of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces?"