Book 3: Chapter 28: Beginning to Understand

Book 3: Chapter 28: Beginning to Understand

I didnt know what Poker-Face meant by that sentence, but I didnt have time to ponder it as I reflexively answered the phone.

"Sorry," I said to the person on the opposite end, "We didn't get to finish our conversation yesterday. Im afraid Ill have to trouble you again."

But as it turned out, I didn't hear the words I had been expecting to hear. Shen Qianjue was a very polite person, so she should have immediately said that it didnt matter. But I didn't hear those words at all. Instead, I heard the sound of someone taking a deep breath and then she said, "Oh my God, its finally a person talking."

I was stunned for a moment before I managed to ask, "What's wrong?"

Its true that I didn't get to finish talking to you yesterday, but do you really have to go so far as to scold me for not being human?

"What happened to you?" Shen Qianjue asked. At the same time, I heard another woman's voice behind her say, "Don't ask any more questions. It has nothing to do with you."

"Its a senior. You have to be a little more polite," I heard Shen Qianjue say to the woman behind her.

"I didn't get to finish hearing your story yesterday, I replied. Thats why I wanted to call you back today. Nothing happened." I didnt want to tell her about everything that had happened last night.

"Between yesterdays phone call and when you picked up just now, your satellite phone called us more than sixty times," Shen Qianjue said. "Every time we answered, there was a terrible voice that kept talking on the other end."

I paused, "Someone called you back?"

"There was no satellite, so I don't know how they managed to call us. It's too scary. Plus, what the voice was saying was also very strange."

I looked at the two beside me and asked, "What did it say? Whose voice was it?"

"Im sorry, Shen Qianjue said to me. My friend isnt very normal. Ill tell you all the details."

I turned the volume up and listened to Shen Qianjue continue yesterday's narrative as our horses walked on.

After she retreated to the edge of the coffin and saw the information on it, she immediately knew that there wasn't a human inside of it.

After grave-robbing for so long, we had come across a lot of so-called monster coffins. The ones buried in these coffins werent people, but animals. There were also many strange things that we had never seen before. All of these things were collectively called monsters. But as it turned out, none of these things were in this coffin. Instead, the thing in it was even more bizarre and strange.

When she looked at what was written on the coffin, she was completely blindsided and didn't believe it at all.

The thing buried in this coffin turned out to be a dish, but the ingredients in this dish were very special. As soon as Shen Qianjue saw it, she immediately wanted to vomit.

She began to realize that this octagonal coffin wasnt actually a coffin, but a food box that was meant to preserve an extremely complex and cruel dish.

The information said that this dish was called "Wanshi Liuxia (1) and it needed to be stored underground for thousands of years before achieving its best flavor. The food box was full of children and a type of strange bird. The picture was indescribable, but when this food box was opened, the contents would surely be horrible.

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TN Notes:

(1) Can mean something like Rose-tinted clouds at sunrise/sunset drifting through the ages.

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