Chapter Thirty-One Betrayal

  As a result, Huang Daxian was detained after leaving the desert.

  This incident caused a huge stir at the time, as they had been scouting near the border and many people suspected that Huang Daxian was carrying confidential documents to send abroad, while killing everyone else.

  This matter has been going on for a long time, and the investigation and interrogation have been conducted, but in the end, there is no result. In order to avoid more negative impact and spiritual panic, the superior decided to seal off all information related to Huang Daxian.

  Fifteen years have passed since then, and the top feels that everything has passed for so long that no information can be found, and those confidential documents have not been leaked out. So, it was decided to release Huang Daxian.

  Huang Daxian walked out of prison, completely changed. He went to many places but couldn't find Chen Wu. In prison, he kept thinking about one thing - that box.

  Why did Chen Wu say that box was very important?

  A series of puzzles suffocated him, and he even doubted whether he had done something wrong from the beginning. Shouldn't he have knocked Chen Wu unconscious? The fifteen years of prison life was not humanly bearable, what supported him to not commit suicide were not his wife and children at home, but that unsolved puzzle.

  In these decades, he has been preparing to unravel that mystery.

  In 2006 he saw an auction item called the Yuewang Goujian Sword at a bidding conference and bought it back at the highest price.

  No one knew how shocked he was when he saw the sword, and the circular patterns on that bronze sword were exactly the same as the patterns on the black box they had dug up in Tieban River.

  When he saw these words, he felt that something was going to happen, something related to his own destiny, and there were some things he had to do.

  In the same month, he sent someone to look for Chen Wu and finally got news.

  According to the data:

  Chen Wu has been gone for nearly forty years.

  But his son was nowhere to be found. He thought that Chen Wu must have handed the box over to his son for safekeeping, and saw from the information that he had a grandson.

  Then he found Dr. Tang and other relevant personnel, searched the place where they were that year, but did not find that place.

  Huang Daxian searched several times in a row but couldn't find it, so he temporarily gave up the search.

  But things didn't end there, just half a year ago, he saw an article that the famous person was actually surnamed Chen.

  The article made a very clear analysis of some missing person events in the Taklamakan Desert region of China, as well as the distribution of substances in the desert and the dynamics of sand. Finally, at the end of the article, there was also a photo that others couldn't understand, but Huang Daxian took one look and knew it was taken at Tieban River.

  He suspected that the person who wrote this article was Chen Wu's son, and he must have gone to Tieban River with a box. Finally, he immediately took charge of personnel and went there in person.

  Of course, he let Dr. Tang bring a very important person to participate in this action, and there must be no slackness.

  I looked at the old professor with an unshakeable gaze, wanting to find a hint of deception on his face, but it was extremely normal.

  The old professor looked into my eyes and said word by word, "That person is you. At that time, I also participated in the action. The blood on your family's wall was found by a doctor from the hospital."

  Damn it.

  My face turned uglier, and in an instant I was furious, yelling at him: "You son of a bitch, it was you who did it, uttering such nonsense curses."

  The blood letters on the bedroom wall, the blood flowing all over the room, the smell that filled my nostrils, still brings me deep fear to this day, almost driving me to a mental breakdown.

  None of these are important, what's important is that the death of that old beggar has left me with a guilty conscience. If they hadn't done something like this, how would that old beggar have died?

  They will stop at nothing to achieve their goal, even if it means sacrificing human lives.

  The old professor smiled coldly: "That beggar is just a street person who is about to die, he has cancer, you don't kill him, he won't last half a month anyway."

  Although others may die of cancer, it's not up to them to decide the fate of others. They are simply cold-blooded animals who would kill for their own purposes.

  No wonder he has to take a different road from mine.

  And the mastermind behind all this is Huang Daxian. I'd like to beat him up thoroughly, but unfortunately he's already dead.

  "Little brother, if I didn't think you were a kind person, I wouldn't be telling you this. The curse, that's fake. The real curse is what comes after, something you'll never expect... My advice to you is to go back now while you still can, and find the girl in the photo." The old professor started speaking, and when he mentioned the girl, it scared the hell out of me.

  What the heck is this?

  The old professor saw the puzzled look on my face and smiled slightly: "Half of the people in the institute already know that you like the little girl in the photo, and still take a few glances at the photo before going to sleep..."

  Bang...

  I pounded on the car window with my fist and shouted angrily: "Shut up..."

  How did he know I had a girl's photo? The person in the photo is my neighbor who has a crush on my sister, and I like her too, with some impure thoughts in mind.

  "Oh dear... who hasn't been young before? Wanting to do something but not daring to... I still know what's on your computer, kids these days..." The old professor sighed.

  "Have you been monitoring me?" My face turned as ugly as if I had eaten shit, what he said was undoubtedly related to my private life, and no one knew about it.

  Since they managed to write bloody words on my bedroom wall, they must have seen the photo on the bedside table and played with my computer.

  Damn it, actually playing with my computer.

  There are many island country action movies, all kinds of genres.

  What else have they done?

  The old professor's next words almost made me vomit blood: "Don't worry, the surveillance camera at your house has been removed."

  Monitoring.

  Install surveillance cameras in my bedroom?

  So everything I did while watching action movies from Japan was seen?

  Even Laozi taking a bath was seen?

  At this moment, I can no longer be calm, *it's all gone, and yet I've been played like this.

  My hand smashing the glass didn't feel painful, round and round, I was like a madman, loudly cursing: "You damn well get me off the bus, installing surveillance cameras is against the law..."

  The next second, I was pulled back by a force, and Yang was shouting in his mouth: "What the hell are you crazy about..."

  I viciously spat on the car and said, "Why don't you ask him what he's up to... This damn old man is going to drive the car away..."

  He glanced at the old professor sitting in the car and shook his head, saying, "How is this possible? The professor can't drive."

  Seeing that he didn't believe me from the start, I got angry and started scolding him, pointing at his nose: "You'd better pray that he won't drive, this old man has screwed me over..."

  Yu Gang still said very certainly: "He really can't drive..."

  The next second, the car sped away before our eyes, and sand splashed onto our faces. Yu Gang stared blankly as the car got farther and farther away, without any reaction at all.

  "He actually drove away......" Yu Gang muttered, his face full of disbelief.

  "For Pete's sake..." I sat down on the ground, too angry to speak.

  When Xiaohu came back, he excitedly rushed towards us and shouted: "We can eat mutton tonight......"

  Eat mutton?

  Damn it, you're thinking too much, there's nothing at all, and you still want to eat meat.

  "Where's our car?" Lian'er's face fell immediately, she seemed to have guessed what had happened and didn't ask any more questions.

  Instead, that guy suddenly shouted on the side: "What if we don't have a car? This is a desert, not a forest... how can we survive?"

  It made me inexplicably annoyed in my heart, and I blurted out at him: "Can't you just shut up for once...?"

  Xiaoluo pulled at Yu Gang, signaling him not to speak. Yu Gang was very obedient and didn't shout again, but instead looked at me with a puzzled expression.

  I hung my head and didn't even bother to respond to him. The things I thought in my heart, it turned out that all of this was just a conspiracy, and nothing was as I had imagined.

  There is no moving blood.

  No curse.

  No mental illness.

  I was not taken away to a mental hospital.

  But I was just a pawn in Dr. Tang and Huang Daxian's joint plan, they wanted to lure my father out and take them to Tieban River.

  All this had nothing to do with me originally, they just pulled me in.

  What I experienced were all fake.

  It's laughable that I actually took it seriously, I believed in ghosts and curses, and also believed that Dr. Tang saved me.

  I took everything as true, but it was all false.

  I don't know who else I can trust anymore?

  Is that father of mine who is still alive but never comes to see me?

  I don't know how long I can hold on without collapsing, at this rate, it's only a matter of time before I end up in a mental hospital.

  The story of the reconnaissance team, that black box, those dead teammates, a series of events, are all shrouded in a layer of fog, and the true nature is completely invisible.

  Can I still turn back now?

  Grandma and mother never mention grandfather and father's affairs, what is it for?

  But why would Father abandon his whole family for a box?

  I want to know all of this.

  However, now Father is active in this desert.

  As long as I find him and confront him face-to-face, I will have an answer.

  Now that the curse thing is false, I don't have to worry about these things, as long as I can find Father safely.

  "Next time I see that old man, I'll definitely make him die," Yu Gang said as he sat down beside me.

  I listened and couldn't help but laugh and say, "You don't have the ability to mess with him, he's not someone you can afford to provoke. Besides, now we're even having trouble getting out."

  Yu Gang lowered his head, his face filled with helplessness.

  He said, "It's fortunate that old man didn't shoot and kill us."