At this time, Dong Xie, who was dizzy, suddenly woke up.
He was lying on the cold ground, with a man and a woman standing on both sides.
"Ning...Ning Zhiyuan? Ning Zhidan?"
The man and the woman were clearly brother and sister Ning Zhiyuan and Ning Zhidan.
"W-why am I here? You two?"
Ning Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Dong Xie regaining consciousness and said, "It's good that you're fine. Listen to me, Dong Xie, as soon as we came in, we saw you lying on the ground."
Dong Xie supported his body and said: "I...I will..."
"Why did you fall here? Dong Xie?" Ning Zhiyuan asked with concern: "What happened?"
"I..." Dong Xie raised his hand and suddenly realized...
He just used his ghost-like physique.
The heaviness of his body made it almost difficult for him to breathe.
"Dong Xie, have you just arrived here from the Kingdom of God? Or have you been here for a while? Have you met any other residents?"
When Dong Xie heard this, he shook his head and replied: "No."
Ning Zhiyuan and Ning Zhidan exchanged glances.
Afterwards, Ning Zhidan said: "There's nothing wrong with your actions, right?"
"No, don't worry."
Even though he said that, Dong Xie felt... that he couldn't even straighten his back.
Has the repeated use of the ghost-like physique to suppress the physical body actually reached this point?
"Listen to me, Dong Xie," Ning Zhiyuan said quickly: "After Zhidan and I came to Baifu, we searched many places and found some clues. Something must have happened in Baifu that year, which led to
The subsequent changes happened. What is certain is that... Baifu was once a very ordinary merchant family."
"How did you determine that?"
"We have found some letters, calligraphy, paintings and photos." Ning Zhidan explained to Dong Xie: "The letters were written by the former head of the Bai family, from about the 21st to the 26th year of Guangxu. It mentioned
, the Bai family has been doing various businesses with foreign countries, and its main business is porcelain and silk satin. At that time, there was absolutely no female head of the family. "
"Is there any mention of the Bai family's wife in the letter?"
Ning Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "Almost not."
"Wait a minute..." Dong Xie suddenly thought of something and said, "Guangxu, until the twenty-sixth year? Are there no subsequent years?"
"Yes." Ning Zhiyuan also mentioned something: "Furthermore, because the Boxers were particularly xenophobic at that time, his business with foreigners suffered a lot. I don't know the full name of the head of the Bai family, but judging from the letter, it should be
The word is Xuan Sheng."
Ning Zhidan added: "In his letters, he disdained the reformists led by Kang Youwei. After the Sino-Japanese War, he did not object to doing business with the Japanese. On the contrary, he hated the Boxers for always destroying, smashing, and looting. The last letter was
Written in May of the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the Boxers attacked a Western church in Laishui County, Zhili. They were suppressed by the Qing army. As a result, a large number of Boxers rushed to the rescue and killed the Qing army. The letter was sent to Baifu.
At that time, he was in Tianjin and mentioned his concerns about the intensifying Boxer Rebellion and hoped that the imperial court could suppress the Boxer Rebellion as soon as possible."
"The irony is... the White House was finally destroyed by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces that suppressed the Boxer Rebellion..." Dong Xie couldn't help but feel the irony: "The twenty-sixth year of Guangxu was 1900. In May of this year, the great powers sent
More troops went to BJ and Tianjin...The Gengzi Revolution began..."
Baisha County, where Baifu is located, is located between BJ and Tianjin!
Dong Xie has a very clear understanding of this period of history because he watched the TV series "The Imprint of History" that was aired not long ago.
"The Imprint of History" written by Li Yin vividly depicts this period of history when the protagonist was not yet born, allowing every Chinese to have a deeper understanding of that bloody history.
"In other words, until the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces began, the White House was doing serious business. Then...the key is during the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces..."
When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded, not only BJ and Tianjin, but also the surrounding Baoding, Zhangjiakou, Shanhaiguan and other places carried out brutal and inhumane massacres. They even dared to break into the Forbidden City and plunder. Once they entered the Baifu,
They will definitely kill all the people here and rob all the property here. However, the Baifu, which was invaded by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, did not decline after that.
"'She' was born after that..."
The White House was preserved intact...
Instead, there is a strange doll that can make various kinds of human desires, but it is actually a mansion that absorbs souls.
"Isn't there any other valuable information in the letter?" Dong Xie still refused to give up: "In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, Mrs. Bai should have been pregnant. According to the information I obtained... Mrs. Bai was the head of the Bai family.
I gave birth while doing business in Tianjin..."
"The letter... didn't mention much about this. Judging from the content of the letter, the head of the Bai family is quite chauvinistic and never talks about the affairs of the wife of the family with others."
The day the White House was invaded by soldiers of the Eight-Power Allied Forces...
What happened?
What caused the birth of "her"?
Suddenly, Dong Xie thought of an important piece of information mentioned in the Blood Letter mission.
"The first... doll?"
The so-called dolls can satisfy human desires. But the ultimate purpose of the existence of dolls is to collect human souls.
"Yes...I understand...the original doll!"
Dong Xie looked at Ning Zhiyuan and said, "You still remember the original doll mentioned in the Scarlet Letter mission, right?"
"Yeah, of course."
"If, after Mrs. Bai gave birth, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces broke into the Bai Mansion... without the head of the Bai family, what they would face would be hell. Those beasts can do anything..."
Who can save them at this time?
The Boxers? The Qing army?
Obviously, it's impossible.
To protect the newborn child, Mrs. Bai had only one choice.
Sell your soul...to the devil.
In exchange, Baifu can survive this disaster!
Yes. This is the only way.
That's...the original doll.
What the devil needs is a transit point to enter this world. Therefore, he takes advantage of humans who have fallen into despair.
This is...the birth of "her".
Keep making dolls for humans and collect more human souls to open five entrances to hell.
In the apartment, the residents are given the task of closing the five entrances to hell.
For "her" and the apartment, this is a game in which the world is the chessboard and the residents are the pawns.
To humans, both sides are...evils!
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