Book 1: Chapter 78

Book 1: Chapter 78

"Forget about it. You can carefully recall the memories some other time." Fatty took a hard drag of his cigarette.

I scratched my head, suddenly feeling that the scenery in front of me wasnt as beautiful as before. As we kept walking, I remembered how the tattoo was obviously a map of Banai. But why was it so similar to this island?

Wang Zanghai once built two identical cities. One was located in Yunnan and the other was on the coast. Compared to those two cities, this island and Guangxi were in a symmetrical geographical location with similar terrain. Was this kind of terrain something God drew with a pen?

"Is it a coincidence?" I asked Fatty.

He smiled and said, "Its not like you're busy. You can study and do some research to pass the time."Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

"Don't you have a preliminary conclusion or something?" I asked. "The fact that youre talking like this shows that youve been thinking about it for a long time. Or, do you have inside information?"

"Thats not true." Fatty told me he was surprised when he found out. He glanced at the address, continued looking at the house numbers, and kept talking, "Maybe you can think about it this way. The Zhang family may have studied this island. The Zhang familys ancient building in Banai was built later, but this island has existed since ancient times. Maybe a Zhang family member had been to this island and especially liked it here, so he stipulated that every Zhang Qiling had to have it tattooed on his chest."

I thought about it and realized that it was also possible. The Zhang family did have too many unsolved secrets, after all. Fatty arrived in front of a village house and looked at the house number, "Found it." After he said this, he started knocking on the door while singing, "Im a little flower, Im a little apple (1)."

"Fifty years." The old man's accent was very heavy, but I could still understand it. I continued to cozy up to him, "Have you passed it on? It's a pity that this craft will be lost."

The old man shook his head. "Unfortunately, the things in the sea are almost gone."

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TN Notes:

(1) I think its this weird one from Chopsticks Bros. It could also be Ha Jingjings song Im Your Little Apple but I couldnt find it.

(2) One mao (aka jiao) is equal to 1/10 of a yuan or 10 fn

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I've been trying to get on the remote desktop for 2 hours so here's a bonus chapter I got done in between all my raging lol.