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Due to the unexpected appearance of several pieces of high-value jadeite on this trip, Chu Huai originally planned to fly directly out of the country after leaving.
Some special things cannot be bought in countries with strict controls, and some daily necessities are cheaper to buy in the place of origin, but now that Yu Ke is with him, he has to change his plans.
He can’t seem to get rid of this little attendant, but his space cannot hold living things, and it is still a normal society so he would have to take his small follower together to get some documents for him, otherwise, he can’t travel by plane and train.
Zaoer village is really remote, and driving from the foot of the mountain to out of the village, Chu Huai spent many hours reaching the city in the early morning.
When he saw the modern city for the first time, the feeling in Yu Ke’s heart could only be described as shock.
Since waking up, the things he saw were only limited to everything in the village, but even the backward Zaoer village had surprised him very much.
At this moment, the city was still prosperous even at night, and he realized what it was like to be called to be a fish in the vast sea.
Magnificent high-rise buildings, colorful neon lights, and all kinds of strange vehicles.
Everything is another world for him…
Although the air in this world is filthy, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is not abundant enough, looking at the outside world, Yu Ke can’t express how much he likes in his heart.
Because it’s a feeling of freedom.
Seeing the young man’s shocked expression, Chu Huai was even more sure of his guess in his heart.
No matter how backward Zaoer village is, at least there is a TV, and although people coming out of the countryside of the mountains will be surprised by the novelty of the city, they will never be as completely in disbelief as the boy.
Coupled with the other party’s words full of ancient words before, Yu Ke’s origin is self-evident.
“This is very different from the world you live in, if you don’t want to be caught and dissected for experiments, it’s best to listen to me obediently in the future and talk less in front of outsiders.”
Chu Huai solemnly spoke calmly and explained.
Rebirth is too mysterious, and once this is revealed, their ending is not a joke, even if the government does not study them, but there are many crazy people in this world.
The boy looked so innocent that he for sure didn’t know anything about the outside world, and he wouldn’t know if he was already being sold.
“I know, people’s hearts are sinister, Chu Huai-jun, you said…”
Yu Ke obediently accepted the promise, and although he changed his name, the boy still thought that he was deserving of the suffix ‘jun’..
The young man nodded obediently and agreed, and then he was a little afraid to ask but he did so carefully.
“Chu Huai-jun, what do they do for experiments? Do they cut the flesh and collect blood like Jiang Fangshi to refine medicine?”
When these words fell, Chu Huai instantly frowned.
What does he mean by cutting the flesh and collecting blood to refine medicine? Listening to the teenager’s slightly frightened tone, it was as if he had been abused before.
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He continued to maintain a serious expression and asked casually.
“Yu Ke, what was the world you lived in before? Or where are you from? Where is your hometown?”
Whether it was the inexplicable pity in his heart or the assurances to his future partner, he had to understand more to be assured.
This boy is too mysterious and weird, seemingly weak and ignorant, but in fact, he is powerful.
“I don’t have an ancestral home, I was born and raised in a dungeon, but I heard from my father and uncles that our ancestral hometown is in the East China Sea, it is very beautiful, and there are many of my favorite bright crystal stones, but unfortunately I have not seen them…”
Yu Ke was very dependent and trusted him, and immediately began to explain without any hesitation.
But the problem is that the teenager himself does not know where he is from at all, so his questions were also asked in vain.
Chu Huai was not angry and continued to inquire.
“Then who is Zifang-jun you are talking about? Can you tell me about the me before you came here?”
“Of course.”
Yu Ke is still well-behaved and knows everything about him.
Although the teenager basically knew what to say about him, there is still a large part of the statement that was nonsense to him as the language has no logic at all.
But Chu Huai carefully sorted out and still analyzed a lot of things.
According to Yu Ke’s description, the other party and his family should be the living medicinal materials of those who were obsessed with cultivating and becoming immortals in ancient times. They were captured to let this Fangshi refine pills.
In ancient times, some sects used human flesh and blood as medicine, and Yu Ke also said that people often cut their flesh, collected their blood, and locked them in dark dungeons.
Yu Ke grew up in such a closed and cruel environment, so his mind was reasonable, but he was ignorant of external things.
As for the Zifang-Jun in the other party’s mouth, he heard that he was also one of the alchemists.
But unlike the Jiang Fangshi who used people to make living medicinal herbs, this Zifang-jun seemed to be much more decent.
He was very powerful, he knew how to cultivate, knew of immortal medicine, knew qigong ancient martial arts, etc., he was simply a master who knew astronomy and geography, and also had his own cultivation method.
Since Yu Ke especially had the appearance of joy when he said ‘Zifang-jun’, Chu Huai estimated that there was an exaggerated element in this.
If he was that broad-minded, how could he be that kind of mortal who was obsessed with immortal life and refined pills and medicines?
Shouldn’t a superior person be desireless? How can they be controlled by others?
And listening to Yu Ke’s shy expression, the Taoist priest named Zifang-jun didn’t seem to be like the legendary cultivator who wanted to clear his heart and abstain from the pleasures of life and the like…
“Zifang-jun, you said that you will go out to find the medicinal materials for alchemy, and you will return soon, and when the time comes, we will become relatives, you will take me and my father and uncles to live in a safe place, and we will have a very well-behaved child…”
Yu Ke recalled the past and stared at Chu Huai with a shy gaze.
The boy decided that he was his husband.
Chu Huai didn’t bother to explain, he doesn’t know how many times he had explained it, but the other party was stubborn so he let it go.
As for the teenager’s words, ‘I will give birth to a very good child…’, he completely automatically ignored the words.
It was the other party’s life that made him a little soft-hearted.
Whether it is modern or ancient, there are always those who are crazy, and Yu Ke and his people are typical victims.
In the end, although he has a cold personality, he is a soft-hearted person inside.
“There are no alchemists here, but there are people who do experimental research, and the world will be very cruel in the future, except for me, don’t take random things out and talk nonsense, you understand?” Chu Huai finally instructed again.
“Okay, Chu Huai-jun rest assured, the people here are so weak, I can protect myself without Chu Huai-jun.”
Yu Ke tilted his head, his eyes flashed with a powerful light, and he didn’t understand the cruelty of the outside world at all.
Chu Huai sighed, the people of this world are weak, but the zombies and mutant beasts after the end of the world won’t be.
“A lion fighting a rabbit would still use his strength, don’t despise anyone and underestimate everything, if you are powerful, why were you bullied by your aunt before?”
He poured cold water on his words to prevent the ignorant teenager from being too confident and making mistakes in the future.
“That, that’s because I just woke up, my body has not yet practiced the inner martial arts, and my aunt’s temperament is very fierce, so I haven’t started yet… But after that, I practiced some internal skills, and I didn’t think about her because I was worried that the villagers would find out that my temperament had changed drastically and burn me as a monster, Chu Huai-jun, I am studying everything you taught me!”
Hearing Chu Huai’s tone of voice that seemed to disbelieve his ability, Yu Ke hurriedly explained.
Although he didn’t know how sinister the outside world was, Zifang-jun often told him that it was necessary to be defensive, that being too abnormal would cause disasters, and so on.
When he first arrived in this strange world, all kinds of modern things shocked him in his heart, and after a short period of confusion, he was very careful, fortunately, he was a fool in the village before, and no one cared about the crazy words at the beginning.
“Then you endured her hitting you?”
Seeing Yu Ke’s anxious little appearance, the corners of Chu Huai’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up and want to laugh, but he didn’t like to be too indecisive and patient.
“Ah no, I put a spell on my aunt, every time she hit me it would also hurt her, but my aunt was so stupid to death, and she couldn’t remember how the pain came several times…”
The teenager did not let him down, his anxious expression disappeared, and he put on a snickering smile.
Chu Huai’s eyes overflowed with a shallow smile, and he looked at the backpack behind the young man and asked.
“And what’s in that backpack? A drum as big a bag?”
When he got into the car just now, he wanted to ask, cause he didn’t know what was in the bag, and the teenager had to carry it tightly behind him even in the car, and not put it down.
“It’s all my precious things.”
Yu Ke smiled and opened the bulging backpack to show him.
Chu Huai followed and looked at it.
He thought that the backpack was luggage, and it should contain clothes and the like.
As a result, there were many clothes in the backpack, but not much, most of them were animal bones, jade, and several bottles of mineral water that looked like it was mixed with something, a lot of strange things.
Didn’t this little guy say that he learned the internal skills of Taoist art? Why does this look more like evil magic…
“What are these things for?”
Chu Huai didn’t hold back his curiosity.
“It’s used to place spell talismans, the heaven and earth aura here is too thin, and I can’t cultivate for a short period so a few days ago, I watched the sky at night and found that a catastrophe was going to occur here, so I collected some fierce beast bones and blood, so that it is convenient to place spell talismans to protect yourself, Chu Huai-jun, these are all taught to me by you, you are really powerful…”
Yu Ke smiled and said this in a serious tone, a serious explanation.
Saying that the last look at his gaze was like in that cartoon, adoring starry eyes.
Although he knew that the other party praised and admired someone else, being looked at by the young man with such eyes, Chu Huai still had an indescribable throbbing in his heart.
But even something that is thought by a vicious cult of the world, no matter what kind of person Zifang-jun in Yu Ke’s story is- Chu Huai is afraid that things are not as simple as what Yu Ke had said.
But no matter who he is, thousands of years from ancient times to the present have passed and he has long been turned into a handful of loess.
Yu Ke’s ability is good as long as it is useful, the end times are too dangerous, and the more means to save your life, the better.
Staring at the boy with a smile in his eyes, Chu Huai involuntarily reached out and touched the other party’s head, before putting away his thoughts and driving seriously, looking for a place to stay.
Yunnan is a tourist area, but fortunately, it is not the peak season for travel recently, so hotels are still easy to find.
According to Chu Huai’s plan, he did not care about the accommodation conditions and wanted to find a small hotel that did not need to be registered.
But when he looked at the teenager around him, he found a hotel with the best grade.
He got what he paid for, a good hotel room is very different from ordinary hotel facilities, the interior is beautifully decorated, the home appliances are complete, and it is very comfortable to live in.
Yu Ke has not seen many modern things and is curious about everything.
When he saw that there was still a TV in the room, he immediately went up to fiddle with it in excitement.
Although he has also seen a TV in Zaoer village, the people in the village are very careful to use protection and not let children touch it, he is a famous fool in the village, and people will not let him enter the house for fear of him breaking things.
He is very curious about the TV that can show pictures.
Chu Huai watched him clumsily looking for switches everywhere, like a curious baby, and his mouth was still strangely nagging ‘How is this chicken different from the village’s?’, and couldn’t help but smile and take the remote control to help him turn it on.
As soon as the TV was turned on, before the channel was tuned, a voice replaying the news came from inside:
“Next, we continue to report the recent high-profile ancient tomb incident in the northwest desert, according to archaeologists’ multi-day research, it has been determined that the ancient tomb was built during the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, but the architectural style is very different from the general Qin Dynasty tomb. There is great research value…”
“But unfortunately, the tomb robbers accidentally opened the ancient tomb mechanism, causing the entire tomb to collapse, and our archaeologists only found a few corpses of corrupted thieves inside, and a small number of burial objects such as utensils…”
With the reporter’s report on the TV, Chu Huai’s heart slowly sank.
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Well, based on how the coronavirus thing started a lot of anti-Asian racism outside of China (especially in the US), I can imagine that if foreigners/Westerners found out that the apocalypse was started from inside China (even if the tomb robbers were mainly foreign), then wouldn’t the post-apocalyptic world be filled with a ton of rampant anti-Asian racism? Even if it’s just a rumor outside of China that the apocalypse started because of a Chinese tomb, how many Trump-esque leaders and gossip mongers would be birthed later because of that… maybe author-sama didn’t think in that direction.