Chapter 59
"Old man..."
"I'm just wiping your ass..."
"I hope you don't blame me..."
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[Countdown to return to the examination room: 235 hours, 11 minutes and 35 seconds]
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Chapter 61 The Secret in the Old Man's Study
Chen Jing's idea is very simple.
He only needs to let Bai Aji cooperate with the manipulation of the four corpses and let them walk around the house a few more times to leave more clues that they have been to the old house. After that...
The association will probably be very lively.
"Aji, let them stand aside and wait for me to mop the floor."
Chen Jing found two thick towels in the coal shed outside the door. Although they looked a little worn and even had a few holes, they were still washed clean, as if they had never been stained with dust.
This should have been left when the old lady was still there.
She is the only one who is so obsessed with cleanliness.
"Fortunately, I didn't go into the inner room, but just walked a few steps in the living room, otherwise the workload would be too much..."
Chen Jing carefully picked up the towel, wrapped his feet around his two shoes, and then picked up the mop, and then fully armed to re-enter the door of the old house.
From the entrance in his memory to every place he had stayed, Chen Jing used the mop to mop back and forth several times with rain water.
After making sure that the scene was handled without any omissions, Chen Jing raised his hand and threw the mop outside the door, and then signaled Bai Aji with his eyes to let it start "working".
At this moment, Chen Jing couldn't help but stretch lazily.
It was only a few hours.
I was so tired that I felt like I hadn't slept for a day and a night.
"It's time to get down to business..." Chen Jing turned his head and looked at the study with the door closed. Without any hesitation, he raised his foot and walked in that direction.
That was the only room in the old house that Smith hadn't opened.
There were many coal-like marks on the liver-colored wooden door, which should have been left by the old man not long ago.
Maybe this is why Smith and the others couldn't find the entrance to the study.
"What a mess..."
Chen Jing stood outside the study door and raised his hand to touch the black marks.
But after thinking about it, he took his hand back.
He was afraid of leaving fingerprints.
At this moment.
The four corpses controlled by Bai Aji stood behind Chen Jing.
They were different from the initial state.
Many strange black spots appeared on their skin, and the whites of their eyes were almost invisible, becoming as crystal clear as black gemstones.
Among the four corpses, Zhou Guojian had the most obvious change.
Because his body had been eroded by the poison in Bai Aji's saliva.
The whole body looked a little too bloated.
When Zhou Guojian's body walked, Chen Jing could even hear the creepy sound of water swaying back and forth in his body.
Although Chen Jing was not afraid of corpses, nor was he afraid that these ghosts would suddenly come back to life and attack him, seeing these four things standing behind him... Chen Jing always felt a little uncomfortable and felt that it was not auspicious.
"Don't come in!"
Chen Jing saw Bai Aji peeking out of the door, as if he would run into the house out of curiosity at any time, and hurriedly stopped him.
"The house is small and can't stand your tossing. Wait for me outside the door!"
"Woo!"
Bai Aji seemed a little aggrieved, but Chen Jing could no longer care about comforting him at this time. He had more important things to do.
Calm down.
Chen Jing took out the key given to him by the old man from his pocket.
This was taken out of the iron box in the tomb.
In terms of feeling, Chen Jing felt that the importance of this thing was probably no less than the video in the DV camera.
Inserting the key into the keyhole, Chen Jing looked back at Smith's body.
Although he didn't say anything, Bai Aji standing outside the house obviously understood what he meant.
Soon, Smith's body came forward, like a puppet, and completed a series of actions from turning the key to opening the door under the control of Bai Aji.
The moment the door opened, a burnt smell came to his face.
Chen Jing hurriedly looked inside.
From childhood to adulthood, he was very curious about this closed room.
After all, with that paranoid old man, Chen Jing never had the opportunity to sneak in, and even had no chance to stand at the door and take a look.
Until today.
He had the opportunity to take a good look at what secrets were hidden in this room...
"Is this... a fire?" Chen Jing murmured in doubt. The study in front of him was like a ruin burned by a fire.
Walls, floors, ceilings.
All burned black.
Furniture was burned without a single piece left.
The ground was full of dazzling white ash.
Seeing that the study was empty and there was nothing, Chen Jing felt that he must have been defrauded by the old man.
The study is so shabby, why are you still so mysterious? !
What on earth are you thinking, old man? !
Chen Jing sighed in disappointment.
Suddenly, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something from the corner of his eye...
There was something on the threshold.
It was placed on the ground.
It was only 20 centimeters away from him, and he would touch it if he raised his foot slightly.
"Shouldn't the stone tablet be hidden in the study... Why is it this thing..." Chen Jing frowned and looked at the kraft paper envelope on the ground, and many question marks appeared in his mind.
The envelope on the ground was made of the most common kraft paper.
But it seemed that there were more than just letter paper inside, and it seemed that there were other things bulging inside.
Chen Jing hesitated for a moment, and finally let Bai Aji manipulate Smith's body to pick up the envelope and hand it to him.
It's always better to be careful.
There was a folded letter paper and a key in the envelope.
"A key again?"
Chen Jing was quite surprised to pick up the brass-like key with his fingers. After a quick look, he felt that it seemed to be different from ordinary keys.
It was as long as a palm.
The front part was round like a copper stick, and there were irregular saw teeth on the top.
As for the tail of the key...
It was a hollow carved pattern.
I don't know if it was Chen Jing's illusion. No matter how he looked at the key, he felt familiar. He always felt that he had seen it somewhere not long ago.
"Why is this pattern so familiar..." Chen Jing muttered as he turned the key left and right, racking his brains to recall, "It seems to be...hiss!"
Suddenly, Chen Jing took a breath of cold air.
He subconsciously took off the backpack on his back and held it against his chest, then unzipped it and took out the Yellow King Holy Grail from the bag to compare them...
How come the patterns on these two things are the same? !
Chen Jing looked at the key in his hand in disbelief, and then looked at the raised totem patterns on the surface of the Yellow King Holy Grail.
"Is this thing... also a relic???"
Just when Chen Jing was puzzled, the light curtain that was turned off suddenly appeared without warning.
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Hint: "Relic" has been detected, and the target details are being analyzed...
Relic: [Old Relic·Yellow King Courtyard·Key to the Door]
Details: This is an old relic from the Yellow King Courtyard. The user must pay the price of his life to show his devout faith, and then use the key to the door to open the door of the courtyard.
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Chapter 62: Divine Revelation of Advancement to Sequence 2
Yellow King Courtyard.
This term is not unfamiliar to Chen Jing.
When the community in the other world was invaded by the wasteland pollution species, it was Lawrence who finally saved him.
After seeing the "Yellow King Holy Grail", Lawrence said the following.
"This ancient relic is very dangerous. I once saw a totem similar to it in an ancient relic in the wasteland, with the same pattern..."
"Which ancient relic did you see it in?" Chen Jing remembered asking this question at the time, and Lawrence's answer was still fresh in his memory.
"In the depths of the wasteland, a place called 'Yellow King Courtyard' by the local tribe..."
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Yellow King Courtyard...
Chen Jing couldn't help but start to doubt everything he experienced in the other world... and this key, why did it feel like they were all "conspired"?
His awakening sequence was "Deep Space". As a descendant of this sequence, he could use the relics from the "three paths" at any cost.
And the three paths are [Yellow King] - [Luo Yan City] - [Ka Kosha].
"The Holy Grail of the Yellow King comes from the Yellow King Path... and the whistle that summons Bai Aji comes from the Kakosha Path..."
"That is to say..."
"I use this key to open the door..."
"No need to pay the price of life..."
At this moment, Chen Jing's expression was a bit complicated.
Although he obtained another relic that met the conditions for use, and it was a higher-level relic than the ancient relic, he was not as happy as he imagined...
He now felt like a puppet.
Yes, just like the four corpses controlled by Bai Aji.
Being pulled by the strings.