[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

Going north all the way, it has been five days since I returned to Zhang's house.

As news of the patriarch's assassination spread, the Zhang family fell into unprecedented chaos.The Zhang family, who had already lost their belief in longevity, couldn't find the meaning of continuing to suffer from regular amnesia and being driven by the memories engraved in their minds from birth to fulfill their mission.

However, because of the coercive power of "Heavenly Grant", they cannot get rid of this fate.Therefore, some members of the Zhang family began to try to find the first group of people who tried to achieve eternal life, and began to trace the origin of the giant bronze door that hides the ultimate world.

As for the position of the head of the Zhang family, which is most directly related to maintaining the beliefs of the Zhang family and fulfilling the mission of the Zhang family, no one is willing to take it.

Although Nan Xing rescued her grandparents, but because they were unwilling to return to the Zhang family, the Zhang family still reached the day when they could no longer choose the next head of the Zhang family.

Nan Xing and Zhang Qiling, as survivors of the incident in the ancient city of Sizhou, were interrogated by the Zhang family for a day.

The answers of the two people closely matched: they were in a coma due to excessive blood loss, and they did not go deep into the layer where other Zhang family members touched the patriarch's bell and hallucinated and killed each other, so they survived.When they woke up and searched, they only saw corpses on the ground and two gloomy wooden boxes.

Such rhetoric completely wiped them out of this matter.The Zhang family has always been vigilant and will not believe it easily.

So the two took out the two gloomy wooden boxes.

The Zhang family knew what it was at a glance.

Just as the head of the Zhang family had expected, because of the pair of boxes, Zhang Qiling and Nan Xing gained temporary safety.

At the same time, due to the death of a large number of Zhang family members in the ancient city of Sizhou, those Zhang family children who were adopted by them, who were too young, were all scattered to other Zhang family members for adoption.Those who are older are arranged to go out into the wild.

Under the current situation of the Zhang family, there are very few Zhang family members who are willing to adopt these children.When going out to the wild, the children who can come back already have the ability to act independently, and those who can't come back, don't need to make plans for them.

This is undoubtedly the most efficient processing method today.

Nan Xing was also included in the list for this release.

This is not a difficult task for her, and she can also take this opportunity to go to Mengding Mountain to see if there are any clues.

Because Zhang Qiling was not old enough to be released into the wild and was a key person related to the gloomy wooden box, he was naturally adopted temporarily by someone with a higher status in the family.

The night before departure, both of them packed their luggage in silence in the room.

An oil lamp was lit behind the two screens in the room, and the figures of the two were reflected on the screens, swaying slightly with the trembling of the lights.

Nan Xing put the last piece of equipment into the bag, glanced at the screen, and said slowly: "Brother, this time, I will go to Mengding Mountain to see if there are any clues. As for the archives..."

"There is me." Two simple words, but loud and clear.

Nan Xing paused, then hummed and said, "Be careful in everything."

"Ah."

"When I come back, I will be able to act independently. At that time, I will move into a separate house." Nan Xing walked out of the screen slowly, sat down at the table, raised his eyes, and looked at the swaying lamp shadow over Zhang Qiling, "Today , it should be the last night we live here together."

"According to the Zhang family's practice, when you come back, you should live in Tinglan Garden." Zhang Qiling took out a blueprint from his bag and walked out of the screen.

The expression on Nan Xing's face was a little blank. In the past three years, she seldom learned about Zhang Jiazu's precepts and those rules, so she only felt that Ting Lanyuan was very familiar, but she couldn't remember when she heard it.

Zhang Qiling went straight to Nan Xing and handed her the blueprint.

Nan Xing accepted it suspiciously, and opened it to see the detailed floor plan of the entire Zhang family.

"This is Tinglan Garden," Zhang Qiling pointed on the blueprint, "This is where I will move to next."

"You want to move to Tingtao Garden? Isn't that the place where we were interrogated yesterday?" Nan Xing asked.

"En." Zhang Qiling responded lightly, "That's the closest place to Tinglan Garden."

It is said that it is recently, but in fact, there is a lake in the middle.

Because Tinglan Garden is located on a small island in the center of the lake, while Tingtao Garden is located by the lake.

The reason why Tingtao Garden is named Tingtao is because half of the house is suspended above the water, so you can hear the sound of the lake.

"To go to Tinglan Garden, we can only go by boat." Zhang Qiling said.

"It's not that the Zhang family has no money. Why don't they just build a bridge? It's too much trouble to go back and forth."

Zhang Qiling glanced at Nan Xing, was silent for a moment, and said: "Tinglan Garden is the place where the most pure unicorn blood woman in the clan lives. The last person who lived here was Zhang Shengwan."

Nan Xing froze in place, his mind buzzing like thunder.

If you don't understand the purpose of Tinglan Garden at this time, you are a fool.The daughter of the Zhang family who lives here will marry the head of the Zhang family in the future.That's why they are alone on the island in the center of the lake.

Tinglan, the orchid on the small island, is isolated from the world.

"I'm actually just a mixed blood. Where did the woman with the purest unicorn blood come from? It's just an excuse to put me under house arrest." The corners of Nan Xing's lips raised slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes. Run away."

"When you appeared ten years ago, the Zhang family already knew that your unicorn blood is far purer than other women in the clan."

So the Zhang family really intends to make her the wife of the next patriarch?

She knew that Zhang Qiling was promoted to the position of patriarch in the previous life not long after, but in this life, with so many changes, she is not sure whether the patriarch will still be him.

Before today, she had never wanted to see him being pushed into that position again, but at this moment, she was a little afraid that the person in that position would not be him.

"...Brother," Nan Xing suddenly realized something, "How do you know this?"

Zhang Qiling looked at her, the dim light of the oil lamp illuminated his young and handsome features, his eyes were as calm and clear as the cold spring water in an ancient well.

"Zhang Shengwan told me."

"Why...why did she tell you this?"

"There is a secret road from Tinglan Garden to Tingtao Garden. Only she knows the location of the secret road and how to open it." Zhang Qiling lowered his eyes, gestured on the drawing, and said, "On this lake, But if there is even a slight disturbance, it will be known by others. Therefore, the secret path was built at the bottom of the lake."

"The information about the secret path is all in this picture." Zhang Qiling stood up as he spoke, "You will naturally understand when you arrive at Tinglan Garden."

After Zhang Qiling finished speaking, he turned around and walked back towards the screen. Immediately afterwards, he tightened his wrist, and looking back, Nan Xing lowered his head, but his hands were tightly clutching him.

"...Brother," Nan Xing lowered his gaze, his voice was hoarse, "I don't want to live in Tinglan Garden, I..."

I will not marry anyone else. The only person I will marry in my two lifetimes is you.

Nan Xing didn't continue talking, and the room suddenly fell into silence.

The air suddenly became thick, and even breathing became difficult.

Zhang Qiling looked down at Nan Xing. She was sitting at the table with her eyes lowered all the time. From his angle, she could only see her slender eyelashes, which were trembling slightly at the moment.

She was restraining her inner emotions, and he could see that what she was going to say next was what she wanted to express the most, but for some reason, she didn't say it.

Nan Xing tried his best to suppress the turbulent emotions in his chest, after a long while, he finally let go of Zhang Qiling's wrist, and whispered: "I will come to you from the secret path to discuss the clues I found from Mengding Mountain."

Immediately afterwards, she stood up and smiled at Zhang Qiling, "I'll go to bed first, and you should go to bed early, and you have to get up early tomorrow."