Book 4: Chapter 15: Transformed Backpack

Book 4: Chapter 15: Transformed Backpack

I walked over and squatted in front of the Tudigong-like shrine while holding my chin.

You know, theres a moment when youre overwhelmed by absolute despair that you suddenly see a glimmer of hope and light. Although its just a glimmer, all the logic and rationality in your heart begins to return based on this tiny base point.

In other words, it was safe here. Although this was a cemetery of the Zhang family and smelled strange, it was probably safe right?

Actually, I didnt dare say it aloud since I didnt know what the basis for Poker-Faces determination was. But the anxiety-like convulsions and contractions in my heart faded a little and my hands had finally stopped shaking.

"In other words, this gives off the feeling of a miniature Zhang familys ancient building," I said. Did these Zhang family members pile their corpses up and put them in the building in order to have a temporary shelter under the great shadow of the heavenly gift? Could these accumulated corpses even resist the heavenly gift?

I never figured out what was hidden at the core of the Zhang familys ancient building since there were too many things inside of it.

What was the logic behind it? So far, these ideas were just pure speculation.

Poker-Face didn't continue to explain, but at this time, I suddenly thought of something. The food we had prepared before we came in wasn't enough to last that long, so what were we eating for so many days? It wasnt like there was anything here in this passage.

"Lets check the supplies," I said to Fatty.

"Didnt we just check them?"

"My dear friend, did we not just receive a heavenly gift?" I tried to inhale Fatty's second-hand smoke but he wouldnt let me. He quickly dispersed the smoke, put the cigarette butt in front of the shrine as incense, and then began to count our supplies.

"The Zhang family finds unexplained areas and explores them. There are so many Zhang family members here, which means that they should have worked hard here for a long time," Poker-Face said faintly. "But they all failed and couldn't leave, so they did this here."

So that's why this area is forbidden. If the Zhang family doesnt understand it, theyll just mark it out. And this isnt the only place. Without a doubt, there are so many secrets hidden beneath the earth.

I took a deep breath, feeling completely free from anxiety at this time. It wasnt because I was feeling energetic, but because I felt ready to collapse.

I looked at the darkness on both sides, spread the equipment out on the floor, and told myself that the dire straits we were in now were as bad as it got. The only thing that made me feel like I needed to put some serious thought into it was the question of why the three of us didnt lose our memories. Was it because the heavenly gift was forcibly interrupted, or was it because the force that gave us the heavenly gift had other plans for us?

Just as I was thinking this, Poker-Face turned on his flashlight and started searching through the cracks in the stones. I knew he was looking for that thing that was supposed to be in the shrine, so I also turned on my flashlight and joined him.

"Stop looking," Fatty called out to us.

When we looked back, we saw that the bag we had dumped out before was now standing on the stone behind us. There appeared to be something in it, and this thing seemed to be alive.

"What brand is this bag? If its transformed, I want to return it," Fatty said.

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TN Notes:

(1) Per Tiffany: It means that Wu Xie used the chargers a lot during those 30 days