On the sequelae of suspended animation + voice

Chapter 20: Dark Room

It was dark all around, and Zong Nian was sure that he was locked up somewhere.The faint pain in his abdomen woke him up completely.In the end, I still underestimated the enemy too much. I didn't expect that the opponent had already smeared the drug on his hand. Once he was hit, he would be stunned in a short time.

Zong Nian tried to move his hands, but as expected, he found that his wrists were tied with thick ropes.Fortunately, this is not a problem for him, he only needs to find some gravel on the ground or find a sharp place to wear the rope.He tried to escape like this several times in Qingguangzhuang, but every time he was caught by Qing Changrong, and finally replaced with iron handcuffs.

It should be daytime now, and I don't know how long I have been in a coma.While groping for gravel on the ground, Zong Nian thought about the situation outside.Today is the Treasure Appraisal Conference, and my disappearance may have made my brother very anxious, and I don't know if he will attend on time.

With a flash of inspiration, Zong Nian suddenly figured it out: the man in black didn't kill him immediately last night, but brought him here instead of imprisoning him with shackles. This may be because the other party just didn't want to Let him appear at the convention!

But why?

He was puzzled, but he couldn't find a solution for the time being. At this moment, Zong Nian felt a gap in the wall in the corner, and the break was very sharp.He was eager to escape, and he didn't care that doing so would cause his wrists to be torn by the rough rope, so he freed his hands from the rope after a while.

Being in the dark for a long time, Zong Nian also took a rough look at some of the surrounding furnishings.There were no windows in this room, and he couldn't think of anything else than a dark room, a dungeon, and a room that didn't need windows.

Zong Nian rested on the spot for a while, moving his hands that were extremely stiff due to being tied up for a long time.Not only did this room have no windows, but he had never even seen the door, which made Zong Nian more sure of his guess - this is definitely a dark room that needs to be activated to operate.

Who is that man in black?Will it be a person without a false building?Was it sent by Lu Sen?

No...it won't be Lu Sen.

As soon as this idea came to mind, Zong Nian couldn't help but smile.He trusted Lu Shao inexplicably, and didn't think that the other party would send such a reckless and rude person.

Even a secret room cannot be without candles.Zong Nian searched for the position of the table in the dark for a long time, and finally found a small half of the candle and fire pocket on the table.He hurriedly lit the fire, and the trembling candle flame instantly filled the entire dark room, allowing him to see his true face.

This dark room is not big, and the layout is so simple that it can even be said to be rudimentary. There are only three items in total: a bookshelf, a desk, and a chair.There are some ancient books on the bookshelf, Zong Nian glanced at them, most of them are medical books.

Apart from the candlestick with the candle stuck in it, there is only one inkstone on the table.Other than that it's empty.

Zong Nian had some guesses in his heart.He went to the bookshelf and flipped through the medical books one by one, and there was a small round stamp printed on the title page.Shuangmu was surrounded by a circle—it turned out to be the Lin family's medical book.

In the past few days, he had been listening to his senior brother talking about the Lin family, so he paid attention to it.Unlike Yue Xiao who lamented the downfall of the Lin family, he felt that the backside of the downfall of the Lin family was not as simple as it appeared on the surface—since his family collapsed and died, he always cared about similar things.

This secret room belongs to the Lin family?Or, what is the relationship between the owner of the secret room and the Lin family?

There are countless doubts in my mind, but none of them can be answered.Zong Nian was holding one of the most dilapidated medical books, which was placed in an inconspicuous corner, with the most yellowed footers, and even some damaged pages.But Zong Nian could see that this medical book named "Medicine Forest" was the most cherished by the owner, and the damaged parts were meticulously repaired one by one.

There are many rare prescriptions recorded in it, and Zong Nian intuitively feels that if this medical book is auctioned at the Treasure Appreciation Conference today, it will definitely be one of the hottest items that everyone is rushing to.He continued to scroll down curiously, and unexpectedly saw a few familiar words——

Feign death!

The secret medicine for feigning death that his mother stuffed into his hand before dying.

Zong Nian's heart was shocked, and after roughly reading the text recorded on it, he only knew that the formula of this medicine was very difficult to find, and several medicinal materials had even disappeared.And this prescription is recorded in the Lin family's unique medical books.

Could it be that his mother is still related to the Lin family? !

The more he thought about it, the more confused Zong Nian became.He was lost in thought for a moment, his hand was unsteady, the book suddenly fell to the ground, kicking up dust, this fall was also a coincidence, a page of the book fell out just like that.

Zong Nian thought it was because the medical book was too old and the glue seal had lost its effect. He never thought that after he picked up that page, he would find out that it was actually a fake page, not a real page.

He is very familiar with that method of camouflage, and he uses this method every time Lu Sen sends him a letter.There seemed to be some truth about to come out, Zong Nian settled down, put the paper on the candle and roasted it for a while, only to see that the edge of the paper was split in two as if cut by a sharp knife, reveal the contents inside.

It was an old letter, and it could be seen that it had been a while, but the ink on it was still clear.There were only a few lines on the letter, which were neatly written in handsome lowercase letters—the handwriting that Zong Nian would never forget.

The letter reads:

Agong:

I already know Patriarch's plan.

Now the entire Feixingwu has been turned into fish and meat, I am the one who killed Cunjian, no matter what happens, I will face it together with him.It's just that Ji Zhi is still young, so I beg you to let him live because of the 20-year sister-brother relationship.

I know you blame me for being ungrateful, and I don't ask you to forgive me now.I just ask you to tell the patriarch that Gong Ying will repay his kindness of nurturing with his own death.

Gong Ying's last pen.

Zong Nian stretched out his hand and gently brushed the yellowed and brittle paper, especially staying on the two words "Ji Zhi" for the longest time.He rubbed it for a long time, not even wanting to move his fingers away.

Once Feixingwu was destroyed in a fire, the fire burned everything he had, and he didn't even get the chance to see things and think about others.On the day when he was arguing with his parents to pick up the characters for him, it was his mother who took him into the study, held his hand, and led him to write the three characters "Zong Jizhi" on the paper stroke by stroke. superior.Those three characters were crooked, and he felt a little ashamed, but his mother re-wrote them next to those three characters, and comforted him softly: "Our Ji Zhi's handwriting will definitely be better than your mother's."

He has been hiding that piece of paper in the pear box next to the bed in a precious way to encourage himself to practice calligraphy.

only……

Surprised that his eyes were moist, Zong Nian took a deep breath and suppressed the soreness.He is no longer a weak and immature child.After calming down, Zong Nian unceremoniously folded the old letter and put it in his arms.

After reading this letter, he can already be sure that the person who tied him here must be Shadow Bow who is a twin with his mother.

This also explains why the other party just locked him up and didn't kill him directly.And with the other party's status and means, it is impossible to throw a person for no reason into such a dark room where important things are hidden.

After thinking about it, Zong Nian realized that the other party did it on purpose to let him find these clues about the past.

From the content of the letter, we know that the twins were adopted by the same person in Wuwanglou and carefully taught since childhood. However, after becoming a guardian, Gong Ying left Wuwanglou because she wanted to marry her sweetheart and retired.

This Patriarch... should be the Patriarch of the Lin Family, that's right.These Lin family medical books are enough to prove this point.

Just why is the Lin family associated with the Wuwanglou known as the Demon Sect? !If Zongnian remembered correctly, his senior brother told him that the Lin family was founded to help the then martial arts leader defeat the Demon Cult.

Maybe this has something to do with the "Patriarch's plan" mentioned in the letter, but Zong Nian didn't figure it out for a while, so he put this issue aside for the time being.

Zong Nian suspected that there were other clues hidden in other books, but even if he read it again, he found nothing, so he had to give up.

Shadow Bow locked him here probably for the purpose of protecting him, and was afraid that he would not appreciate it, so he put the old letter here so that he could get a glimpse of the truth.

This just shows that at today's Treasure Appreciation Conference, the Lin family is likely to do something, and Shadow Bow does not want him to participate in it.

But how could Zong Nian obediently wait?

Now that he already knew that the Lin family was probably the mastermind behind all these turmoil, how could Zong Nian allow himself to be obediently protected and let the other party continue to do evil?At least the truth was right in front of him, and he couldn't just let it slip away like this.

And Lu Shao... I don't know if he knows that Wuwanglou has a relationship with the Lin family.

Once again firm in his determination, Zong Nian felt that his whole body became urgent.The first thing to do is to get out of this dark room.

It is not that there is no dark room in Feixingwu. In a dark room like this, the switch is usually made into an inconspicuous object in the room, so as to confuse the audition.The room was almost clean, and he had touched all over the bookshelf just now.Then the only possibility of the switch is only there.

With a confident answer in his heart, Zong Nian almost immediately stretched out his hand and pressed it to the only inkstone on the desk.Sure enough, when the inkstone between his fingers was touched by him, there were faint traces of movement.Zong Nian's heart moved, and he turned his hand along the trace. With the rotation of the inkstone, the sound of the organ's sound also sounded in the room.

Just now it seemed to be shot in one piece, but suddenly a crack appeared, a heavy stone door was slowly turning, and light also rushed in through the gap opened by the door, piercing Zong Nian could not help but narrow his eyes slightly .

After the stone gate was fully opened, Zong Nian, who had seen the sun again, walked out directly.He wasn't worried that there were guards outside the door, because he had already seen what it looked like while waiting for the door to open.

This dark room is hidden behind the study.

The author has something to say:

Crying and crying, I couldn't catch up with the daily watch.No Hi Sen, there are not many comments, I feel abandoned by the whole world, and the small theater is on strike!

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