Chapter Sixteen Everything Was Strange

  The story of Xing Cheng Tian is not over yet. The second person to own this scepter was a British nobleman, who, after obtaining it, received the favor of Queen Victoria at that time and was even appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the British Navy. This nobleman sailed the seas with the British fleet's flag, killing anyone he met, and even pirates were afraid of him. Later, a memoir of one of his sailors was auctioned off at an auction house, which I had the chance to see once. The memoir recorded that the captain was completely different from his usual self when plundering ships, and it also mentioned that their captain tied a strange scepter to his knife, which he never let anyone touch.

  Fuhe thought that every time the scepter appeared, it was accompanied by bloodshed and slaughter, which was indeed in line with the tone of Shi Yin's evil god appearance, just like some gods in Chinese mythology represent harvest, while others represent famine.

  Xing Cheng Tian looked at Fu Chuan's distracted expression and asked: "Are you still listening?"

  Fuhe said "Of course I'll listen", anyway it's early in the morning and there's nothing else to do. Fu said "You continue."

  Xing Cheng Tian continued, "Later, in a mutiny at sea, it is said that the captain was killed by his own crew members on board. All of his belongings were thrown into the ocean, including his wife and children, who were also killed by the sailors. When these sailors returned to England, they were put on trial for killing their captain, which in England would have resulted in a death sentence by hanging. However, the sailors' defense was that their captain had gone mad and slaughtered nearly thirty crew members on board. The surviving sailors had no choice but to kill him, or else they too would have been killed and eaten by the captain."

  "Devoured?" Fugui asked Cheng Tian and others, "Those sailors were eaten by their captain?"

  Xing Cheng Tian nodded and said, "The lucky surviving sailors were arrested after returning to England. They told the judge that the captain had gone mad, dug out the hearts of the sailors he killed, and then ate them with champagne, forcing them to eat together."

  Xing Cheng Tian saw Fu Chuan thinking and added: "Shi Yin is also cultivating with a broken heart."

  Fu Chuan and Xing Cheng Tian exchanged a glance, then Fu Chuan suddenly smiled and said: "Continue."

  Xing Cheng Tian told Fu Chuan that the third owner was the white people in the photo, who were American explorers. They found the scepter on a remote island, but it was later auctioned off in Britain. After the auction, they all died accidentally one after another, and no one knew who bought it. For nearly a century, no one had seen the scepter appear again until World War II, when its owner was Hitler.

  Fu Cong suddenly became spirited, he personally admired Hitler very much. A man who led a country to fight against the whole world, although it was said that the war was unjust after defeat, but this is also remarkable. So in Fu Cong's heart, Hitler was a second-rate painter and a first-rate neurotic.

  Xing Cheng Tian spread his hands and said: "You also know what Hitler's final outcome was, right?"

  Fujiang naturally knew, but there were still many doubts that had not been resolved: "But why would Shi Yin be here with a pipa half covering his face." Xing Chengtian said it might not be what they speculated, and the scepter had gone missing again decades ago. Xing Chengtian said it shouldn't be so coincidental to be here.

  Fu Chuan said that it might be possible that it's here, and every time the sceptre appears, it's accompanied by bloody slaughter. Every person who possesses it will eventually become a tyrant. During World War II, Hitler also became brutal because of possessing the sceptre. Xing Cheng Tian said: "When Hitler died, no one knew where the sceptre went."

  "It is the sceptre that chooses people, and once it has used them up, it will ruthlessly abandon them," said Fu Chuan.

  Xing Cheng Tian had one more thing he didn't understand, so he asked: "If your ancestors really appeared in Europe 200 years ago to pursue the Quan Yue, why did they let it disappear again in the end? This is very suspicious."

  Fu Chuan said, "I want to know what's not difficult." Fu Chuan then tied his index and middle fingers together and stepped on the floorboard. "Heavenly virtue is benevolent and upright, please! Please let one of my ancestors from the Fu family come!"

  Xing Chengtian suddenly felt that the entire inn was shaking, and he grabbed Fu Chuan's shoulder with one hand. "This time you invited who to come up? Last time it was someone with a bad temper, this time it's probably another one, making such an shocking entrance."

  Fu Xiang let the criminal Tian close his mouth, and the truth is that Fu's family, a family of demon-slaying and evil-eradicating, has been puzzled as to why every generation of its leader dies and goes to hell instead of ascending to heaven. Xing Tian asked Fu Xiang about this, and he replied that for thousands of years, the Fu family had been slaying demons and eradicating evil, accumulating a heavy resentment from the demonic spirits. This resentment concentrated around the descendants of the Fu family would never disperse. However, each generation of the Fu family's successors were all destined to be yin-yang masters with a righteous energy within their bodies that could counteract this resentment. Nevertheless, when they died, it was like the oil in a lamp had been exhausted, and perhaps because the Fu family's doctor had slain too many demons and killed too heavily, or maybe even after death, the Fu family members couldn't rest in peace due to being disturbed by vengeful spirits. According to the records of the ancestral book, the first ancestor of the Fu family, Fu Shi Yī Ye, made a pact with King Yanluo of the underworld, and as a result, every generation of the Fu family's leader would have to go to the underworld after death to continue serving it by managing the vengeful spirits within. Only when one generation had completed its duty could the previous generation be reincarnated, thus repeating this cycle for nearly a thousand years.

  "Useless, what did you call me up here for?"

  At this time, the inn was already surrounded by smoke and mist, as if standing on a high peak. The old man in white Taoist robes with long eyebrows and beard said he was Fu Chuan's ancestor. Fu Chuan gave him a glance, and he said in a low voice: "Those who can be invited up by me are all my ancestors!"

  Xing Chengtian had a polite and courteous expression, he asked: "Immortal, we only want to know one thing, so we invited the immortal to come up."

  "What's up, speak up." The ancestor of the Fu family let them ask whatever they wanted to ask. He had an appointment with King Yan and hadn't finished playing mahjong from yesterday.

  While saying these, he also asked Fu Chuan to transfer more money to the bank account of Fu's family below. Fu Chuan was annoyed and extremely impatiently took Ji Chengtian's computer in front of him, "Look at the person behind this photo, which ancestor is mine? What did he go to North America for?"

  "That's exactly what I'm talking about."

  He mischievously said, just like an old naughty child, but Fu Chuan's face had already turned dark and gloomy, "Can't you stop mentioning that I'm your ancestor!"

  He hummed and then said, "This is me. I still remember that when I went there that year, I was only thirty years old." Fu Chuan asked him if he had gone to investigate the scepter held by the four white men in the photo at that time.

  She responded in perfect American English, "No."

  It said that when it went to North America, it was to study the magic of the Indians there, and not to investigate the scepter mentioned by Fu Jiangkou. However, it remembered that when it met those people back then, it indeed felt a strong evil aura around them. But that evil aura was different from the one it encountered in China, and didn't seem like the kind of evil aura that could confuse people's minds, which was typical of Eastern evil creatures. Those people looked well-dressed, but it could smell a stench of death on them, as if they were already dead, yet seemed to be living like zombies, possibly without even realizing it themselves. It said that it had wanted to follow them to see what was going on, but its schedule at the time didn't allow for it, so it had to give up.

  It also asked about the people in the photo with Fu Chuan, and Fu Chuan said: "Like you, they've all quit."

  Xing Cheng Tian suddenly thought of something, he clapped his hands and said to Fu Chuan: "That's right, those four people were either lost in their minds after finding the sceptre or they were already dead when they found it, but their corpses were controlled by the sceptre."

  Xing Cheng Tian let Fu Chuan look at the photos on the computer: "Do you see, their eyes are all black. Some people may think it's because of the long years, but you should know that when a person is possessed by an evil spirit, their eyes will become like this."

  At this time, it interrupted and said: "Those few people, apart from having a dead body smell on them, I also saw evil spirits attached to their bodies back then."

  "Is it black? And a pair of crimson eyes." Fu Chuan asked, Zu Zong nodded, then asked if there was anything else, and if not, he would go down. Fu Chuan let him go, but also told him to ask the colleagues downstairs if they knew about Shi Yin's background as an evil god.

  Fu Chuan thought things weren't that simple, so he asked Xing Chengtian to find more information about the evil god Shi Yin. However, Fu Chuan still found it strange: "If the last person who owned it was Hitler, then where did this scepter go in the end?"

  Xing Cheng Tian said, "Is it possible that someone got it in Europe and then brought it out of Europe?" Fu An agreed with this hypothesis, saying, "At that time, World War II had just ended, and there were still sporadic battles in various parts of Asia. Maybe someone brought it from Europe, and for some reason, the scepter drifted into this primeval forest."

  "Now the most important thing is to find that ghost who came to you." Xing Chengtian interrupted Fu Chun, and Fu Chun snapped back to reality. He looked at Xing Chengtian, telling him not to always interrupt when he was making assumptions.

  At this moment, the room downstairs in the hotel was opened, and three or four young girls wearing bikinis walked out of it. Fu Chuan remembered that they were the students from Nai Guo University who insisted on checking in yesterday. Of course, San Yang followed closely behind them, wagging his tail. Xing Cheng Tian patted Fu Chuan's chest and teased him, saying: "You have a successor now."

  Fuhe Dashi said to Xing Chen Tian: "None of your business!"

  "Where's my swimsuit?!"

  Xing Chengtian almost fell from the second floor when he heard this. He pointed at Fu Chuan and scolded: "Both master and apprentice are of the same moral character."

  "Sooner or later I'll let Li Bao know what kind of person you are!"

  The east side of the hotel has a lake with clear water surface, no floating organisms, and birdsong flowers fragrance around, like a paradise on earth.

  Nowadays, university students are having a good time and enjoying themselves, which is exactly what Fudan University likes.

  In the woods, boredom has been getting to Fu Chuan since he arrived here. He's always facing two men, Xing Chen Tian and San Yang. Now that there's finally some tender flesh around, of course, he can't let it go. As the saying goes, a golden boy matches a jade girl, and the jade girl is mine alone!