Newspaper Boy
Chapter 238 Old Friends and Past Events
In this frightening scene, Zhang Yuanqing once again sensed the "gaze," a terrifying gaze from the unseen world.
Unlike the last time, this time the artifact spirit's gaze contained overwhelming rage, like a god whose inverse scale had been touched by mortals. The strange phenomenon of the strong wind was proof of this god's anger.
An indescribable chill and fear welled up in his heart, and Zhang Yuanqing felt the tension of facing a beast with his bare hands.
The hairs on the back of his hands stood on end, adrenaline surged, and the muscles in his legs and back tightened silently... His body was making a fierce stress response, automatically adjusting to the best combat state.
Not good, the reaction is a bit too much... Zhang Yuanqing could clearly feel the surrounding temperature dropping, as if countless eyes were peeking in the darkness, and the night was dyed with a dangerous aura.
The moment he called out Zhang Zizhen's name, he had violated the rules.
Zhang Yuanqing's mind raced. Although the meaning of the Yin corpse was to serve as cannon fodder, he came to the zoo to get information, not to deliver Yin corpses from a thousand miles away. He had to remedy the situation immediately.
Soon he thought of a way, and whispered, "I am Zhang Zizhen's son, I am Zhang Zizhen's son..."
Accompanied by the mumbling, the howling wind stopped, and the eyes peeking in the darkness quickly disappeared.
The night was dark and silent, and everything just now seemed to have never happened.
It really works... Zhang Yuanqing felt a slight relief in his heart. The artifact spirit has self-awareness, and is a rational being that can be communicated with.
Then, as long as he reveals his identity, it will definitely hear him.
As for why he didn't lie that he was Zhang Zizhen, on the one hand, through the experiment just now, the artifact spirit seemed to judge identity through bloodline, and the Yin corpse was not the real body, so it was difficult to disguise.
On the other hand, the relationship between his father and the artifact spirit was obviously unusual. It would be easy to be seen through by the artifact spirit if he pretended to be Zhang Zizhen, which would anger the artifact spirit and run counter to his purpose here.
"You are his offspring?" A clear, childish voice came, like a cold, aloof girl.
Zhang Yuanqing looked around, and finally found a red-eyed little rabbit in the bushes behind him. It peered through the gaps in the bushes, cautiously and curiously, examining him with coldness and displeasure.
The artifact spirit is possessed in the rabbit? A bit cute. Judging from the voice, the artifact spirit's ideological form is a girl... Zhang Yuanqing tentatively asked, "You, are you the artifact spirit... of this park?"
"You are his offspring?" The little rabbit stubbornly asked again.
"Yes, Zhang Zizhen is my father," Zhang Yuanqing gave a clear answer.
The little rabbit looked at him quietly, as if weighing the truth.
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and said, "I've been here before. You mistook me for him."
Only he and the artifact spirit knew about this.
"It's you, I remember..." The little rabbit's three-lobed mouth twitched, and its attitude softened significantly. "You are that Night Wanderer. His offspring should indeed be Night Wanderers. Where is Zhang Zizhen? "
Its tone has also improved.
If I say that people have returned to The Way of the Extraordinary for more than ten years, will it go berserk on the spot... Zhang Yuanqing decided to play it safe and shook his head, "I don't know. He left when I was very young, saying that he was going to do something big and never came back." .... This was an excuse he adapted from the dialogue between Zhang Zizhen and the Dog Elder in the monkey park, which was in line with the artifact spirit's cognition.
"You don't know where he is either?" The little rabbit's lips moved finely, its voice clear and cold, and its tone turned cold: "What are you doing here? Do you want to gain my trust in the name of Zhang Zizhen, and then snatch me from the puppy's hands? Although you are his offspring, it's not a bonus for me. On the contrary, your mother makes me very unhappy."
"You know my mother?" Zhang Yuanqing's heart stirred.
"I don't know her, but I know that humans only have children with their closest kind, so I'm unhappy," the little rabbit said with good reason.
So you're jealous? Why does an artifact spirit have such a strong possessive desire for its master... Zhang Yuanqing complained in his heart, while looking around, fearing that he would see a curly-haired teddy bear walking out of the darkness.
"No one will come over," the little rabbit peeked at him through the bushes, its voice with the crispness and clearness of a girl, "Tell me your purpose."
Zhang Yuanqing had already prepared his draft, and when he heard the words, he said without hesitation:
"After becoming a The Way of the Extraordinary, I joined the official organization. In a chance encounter, I learned about Zhang Zizhen's status as a Gemini of the Blazing Sun, so I have been secretly investigating, trying to find my father who has been missing for many years.
"During the investigation, I discovered you, and discovered the relationship between the Dog Elder and him. And just today, I discovered that Ling Tuo, one of the Gemini of Shadow, has become the leader of an evil organization.
"I want to ask you about one thing. What exactly happened in 1999? What led to Ling Tuo's death? After the Xiaoyao organization obtained the core fragments of the Luminous Compass, what exactly did they do?"
The little rabbit squatted in the bushes, its red eyes staring at him, without responding.
But Zhang Yuanqing wasn't flustered at all. In his rhetoric just now, he had laid the groundwork for "finding his father" in advance, which was exactly what the artifact spirit desired most.
Besides, as a son, it is justified to look for a missing father, and the artifact spirit must rely on him if it wants to find Zhang Zizhen.
Is there anyone in the world who wants to know "where is dad" more than his son.
Sure enough, the little rabbit's voice said coldly like a girl: "After getting the core fragments of the Luminous Compass, the four of them lived in the park for a while, studying the core fragments all day long. The park was the secret base of the Xiaoyao organization. They usually gathered here to discuss plans. I don't care about the Luminous Compass, and I didn't participate, but I only know that one day, they were suddenly very excited and said some strange things..."
"Strange words," Zhang Yuanqing quickly asked, "What did they say?"
"It seems like... keys, containers, side branches of the sun, etc. In short, they realized how to use the fragments of the Luminous Compass, and then Zizhen told me that he was going to leave for a while. During that time, the zoo had no administrator, but I am a mature artifact spirit, and he hoped that I could learn to suppress the evil myself."
My dad is PU'ing... Zhang Yuanqing complained, and said:
"Where did they go?"
"They entered The Way of the Extraordinary, all four of them went together, saying they were going to unlock the ultimate secret of The Way of the Extraordinary."
Entered The Way of the Extraordinary? Zhang Yuanqing frowned: "Entered The Way of the Extraordinary together... Relying on teleportation props?"
For most The Way of the Extraordinary, entering The Way of the Extraordinary copy is a passive behavior, once a month, led by The Way of the Extraordinary itself. ... Only teleportation props can break this restriction.
"They entered The Way of the Extraordinary through the core fragments of the Luminous Compass," the little rabbit instinctively twitched its pink nose, sniffing randomly while making a cold voice:
"I forgot how long they left, but I will always remember the day they came back, because all the misfortune started from that day.
"They were very embarrassed when they came back, suffering from serious injuries. After returning to the park, the four of them had some kind of dispute and had a big fight, but I don't know the specific content. At that time, the sound was isolated by props. In that quarrel, Zizhen and them broke up unhappily, and then, his body had problems."
"What problem?"
"He was cursed, a terrible curse, the most terrible curse I have ever seen. His body was getting worse every day, and the power of the curse was eroding his life, but Zizhen himself didn't care at all. He became taciturn and often daydreamed alone. One day, he suddenly told me that he was going out to do something, and he came back soon after that, but he also brought back bad news—Ling Tuo is dead. After Ling Tuo died, he moved with me and came to Songhai. He rarely went out from then on, spending every day with me sealing the evil in the zoo, and occasionally going home."
"He seemed to be avoiding something, and the other two never came to the park to find him again... Then, one day, he suddenly told me that Chu Shang was also dead."
"Chu Shang's death seemed to be a big blow to him. He no longer stayed in
The park, often going out, until one day he told me that he was going to leave for a while and asked me to follow that puppy."
"I never saw him again from then on."
Zhang Yuanqing extracted two key pieces of information from it:
First, Ling Tuo did not die in the "action" to unlock the secrets of The Way of the Extraordinary, but after leaving The Way of the Extraordinary.
Second, the core fragments of the Luminous Compass can allow The Way of the Extraordinary to travel through copies, and it may be a key or something. He was a little disappointed. Although this information was important, it did not meet his expectations.
The cold, childish voice inadvertently added vicissitudes and etherealness: "In fact, over the years, I have often thought that he may have returned to The Way of the Extraordinary, but the puppy told me that he just left, and there is no evidence to prove that he is dead. What's your name?"
Zhang Yuanqing was so engrossed in listening that he didn't react for a moment. After hesitating slightly, he replied, "Zhang Yuanqing!"
"Zhang Yuanqing..." The little rabbit stared at him: "You will find him, won't you."
"I will," Zhang Yuanqing nodded.
After carefully digesting the information, he suddenly remembered the content of the recorded dialogue in the monkey park, and immediately asked, "I found out that the things detained in the park involve the secrets of The Way of the Extraordinary. Can you tell me about them?"
"That was a wrong exploration," the little rabbit squatted obediently and said, "They entered a relic, where there were evil spirits from ancient times sealed. I heard Zizhen say that they are beast souls who refuse to die, full of resentment and malice, and only animal bodies can carry them. So he used the materials brought out from the relic, and almost emptied his pockets to ask someone to create this prop and integrate me into it, refining it into an artifact spirit."
"Wait, what does 'integrate me into it' mean? Weren't you an artifact spirit born in the park?" .... "I am a rule-based prop myself, good at sealing."
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly realized and thought to himself that no wonder you are so dependent on Zhang Zizhen, but not close to the Xiaoyao Trio. It turned out that you were the dead father's prop from the beginning.
"What does it mean by 'beast souls who refuse to die'?"
"They are the souls of the dead in a war in ancient times, and you should know about that war."
Why would I know? Zhang Yuanqing thought.
"There is an unyielding and immortal will in the park, and it wanders in the depths of the park, always roaring unwillingly: %¥#. Zizhen said that this sentence is..." The little rabbit stared at him, "Xuanyuan!"
Zhang Yuanqing didn't react at first, but after a few seconds, he exclaimed, "Emperor Xuanyuan?!"
The little rabbit did not respond.
Damn, so the language that sounds like a Leather City dialect is the dialect of ancient times? What that ancient war god shouted was Xuanyuan, the legendary Yellow Emperor?
In this way, the identity of the ancient war god's obsession in the zoo is... Zhang Yuanqing's mind conjured up a famous mythological and historical figure.
Following Nuwa, two more legendary figures have been confirmed as The Way of the Extraordinary—the Yellow Emperor and Chi You.
Looking back, the skill description of the ancient war god is a bit like the legendary Chi You, especially the Lord of the Mist... According to legend, Chi You was dismembered and beheaded by the Yellow Emperor, which is consistent with the incarnation of the unyielding will I saw... So Chi You is the ancient war god, no, that's not right, that's just a resentment after death, I don't know how terrifying the main body is...
So this war is the Battle of Zhuolu? I remember that historians have not yet found the location of the Battle of Zhuolu, could it be included in the Sumeru mustard seed? ... Or, did it happen in the Sumeru mustard seed itself?
Upon hearing the secret, Zhang Yuanqing's thoughts seemed to explode.
At this time, the little rabbit said in a clear and childish voice, "Go back. I won't reveal tonight's meeting to anyone, including the puppy. If you find Zhang Zizhen, let me roll back to see me."
After speaking, the rabbit turned around and was about to jump away.
"Wait!" Zhang Yuanqing made the classic "Ziwei, wait!" gesture of retention.
The little rabbit stopped and looked back, "What else is there?"
"I want to know who the other Gemini of Shadow is?" Zhang Yuanqing said.
The known Gemini are Zhang Tianshi, Chu Shang and Ling Tuo. The identity of the last one is very mysterious. It is said that outsiders have never seen the true face of this person.
Outsiders don't know, but the artifact spirit of the zoo must know.
Zhang Tianshi and Chu Shang have returned to The Way of the Extraordinary, and Ling Tuo has become a fallen one. What is the fate of the last member?
Is it to return to The Way of the Extraordinary like the first three, or to become a fallen one like Ling Tuo.
"I promised him not to reveal his identity, but since you are Zizhen's offspring, it won't hurt to tell you," the little rabbit said, "His name is Wangshi Wuhen."
A bolt from the blue!
Zhang Yuanqing was stunned on the spot! .
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