Return to Zhou's Mansion

  Then I saw Old Man Zhou sitting next to me. He didn't say a word, just stared at me, making my heart feel uneasy and my whole body in a daze.

  I stood up from the chair and shouted "Old Master Zhou", then Old Master Zhou nodded and asked, "Young Master Jiu, do you still remember what happened?"

  I nodded vaguely, and Old Man Zhou just kept looking at me with a speculative gaze, but didn't say anything else. Since Old Man Zhou wasn't speaking, nobody else dared to either. After a while, my legs started feeling numb from standing.

  If I hadn't woken up now and my brain was still in a state of emotional cognition, I might not be able to accept what happened before.

  Three months ago, things have been lingering in my mind, I don't know how I returned to the Zhou family's mansion, anyway when I woke up, I was lying on a chair in the Zhou family's mansion.

  "Little Ninth Master, tell me, how did you come back from the Yunnan-Guizhou border?" Old Man Zhou looked into my eyes and asked softly.

  When asked by Old Man Zhou like this, I was confused and didn't know how I got back. So, I lowered my head and said in a low voice: "I don't remember."

  In the long and narrow cave, I kept crawling without stopping. I don't know how long I crawled for. When I fainted, someone pulled me away. I didn't know who that person was or how I got back.

  "What about those thin men? Why didn't they come back with you?" Old Man Zhou furrowed his brow.

  I recalled everything that happened in the main tomb, and Hei Shu and others were standing there motionless, like a stone pillar. The Ye family opened the golden coffin, and the scene of the explosion, with stones falling down one after another. I didn't dare to think about it anymore, this terrifying memory made my whole body tremble, and I replied shakily: "I don't know."

  Old Zhou patted my shoulder and said, "Little Jiu, don't be afraid. Tell me, what happened after you guys went there?"

  My mind is a complete blank, my brain has already crashed, and I just can't think of what's going on at all?

  Where did they all go?

  Is he dead?

  I can no longer think about it, afraid that I will have a nervous breakdown.

  Then, I slowly calmed down and told Lao Ye everything that happened after I got on the bus, without leaving out a single detail. Of course, what I said only included the parts that I knew myself, because I wasn't clear about what exactly had happened to them either.

  Old man Zhou listened, and I also saw a hint of surprise on his face. After the surprise was deep contemplation. He didn't believe what I said, after all, the people who were traveling together now weren't here, no matter how I explained it, there was no one to prove my words.

  "Did you open the golden coffin?" Then, a hint of fear appeared on Old Man Zhou's face.

  I nodded and looked at him with some trepidation. If they didn't believe me after this, I was out of options.

  After a long time, I saw Old Man Zhou's face becoming increasingly stern. Finally, his gaze fell on the door, and he said in a low voice, "Come in, all of you."

  I was stunned when I saw the person coming in.

  At the entrance, people who came in one after another were almost all those who went to those places at that time. Shou Bo, Zhou Baihe, Gao Dali, of course, there were also Hei Shu and Bai Shousheng.

  Just when I thought they were all dead and was grieving and blaming myself for their deaths, they suddenly appeared.

  The contrast is too great, I can hardly say a word.

  They all had nothing to do and seemed very interested in how I came back from their faces.

  Just now Old Man Zhou's question, wasn't he trying to probe me? They were all hiding there listening, while I alone was kept in the dark.

  Although I'm a bit angry, but more is puzzlement.

  What happened later, I have no impression at all.

  "Didn't you guys bring me back?" I blurted out, and judging from their expressions, they weren't quite sure how I got back either.

  "Xiao Jiu Ye, how did you come back?" Gao Da Li lowered his head, looking somewhat fearful, and the fear in his eyes didn't seem to be fake.

  Is he afraid of me? I caught a glimpse of Gao Dali's expression. I never thought that he would be afraid of me, before, I felt that Gao Dali was very kind, but had never thought that he would fear me.

  "I don't know." Besides these few words, I couldn't think of a better answer.

  To be honest, I want to know more about how I came back than they do.

  Gao Dali seemed to have mustered up his courage and opened his mouth cautiously: "You're not already..."

  "Enough..." Zhou Baihe stopped him, his voice cold, and his eyes also carried a few points of chill.

  "Xiao Jiu has just woken up, let him rest well." Old man Zhou furrowed his brow and gave the order.

  I was wondering what Gao Dali wanted to say, why did he look so scared? And Old Man Zhou had already given the order, I couldn't be lenient.

  Then, Shou Bo took me back to the room. As soon as I stepped into the room, I was flipped over and slammed onto the floor. When I came to my senses, a small, icy knife was already pressed against my neck. The cold temperature scared me so much that I didn't dare move.

  "Thin Uncle..." I had just shouted out, when the Thin Uncle who was pressing down on me interrupted my words with a disdainful expression: "Don't try to get close to me, you may have fooled everyone else, but you can't fool me. Tell me, how did you come back?"

  I was almost crying with a long face, and I was so suffocated in my heart that I couldn't describe it in words.

  Am I cursed to have fallen eight lifetimes? Having gone through life and death, I finally woke up, only to be threatened with a knife again. Am I destined to live this kind of life?

  Qiu Bo, in my impression, is like a kind old lady on TV and in orphanages. Before, I didn't do anything either, nor would I let him hold a knife like this. This isn't a joke, it can be fatal.

  Apart from when I was desperately fighting with Ye's family in the main tomb, I had seen Shou Bo wearing such an expression. Now, this expression was actually directed at me.

  I couldn't help but wonder what had happened inside after I fainted.

  The look of great fear on his face was not pretended, and he was also the most inexperienced person among them. If the others were not experienced enough, they would have been confused too.

  "Qiu Bo, put the knife away first, it looks scary. Whatever you have to say, just say it properly, why do you need this thing?" I looked at my brightly polished knife with a shocked and worried gaze, my whole body trembling uncontrollably.

  It's not that I'm not afraid, but in the tomb, seeing terrifying animals, I've never been so scared before. That feeling of helplessness is like being trapped on a deserted island, with an acquaintance holding a knife to my neck, and that unspeakable feeling is the most unbearable.

  I must admit, compared to Qi Xie's indifference, I fear Su Bo's cold-bloodedness even more.

  Looking at him suppressing me, I feel that he is not like the thin uncle I know, as if he has become a different person. Maybe he really will cut down with one knife, and I will die in vain.

  "Cut the crap, I saw you sneaking around the golden coffin. How did you get back?" Thin Old Man's face sank, as dark as a lump of coal.

  I was in the golden coffin, didn't everyone know that? At that time, I and Xiao Shou Hou, Yan Ye, rushed in together.

  "I really don't know how I got back, as soon as I woke up, I saw Old Man Zhou." Heaven and earth can testify to this, it's the truth, even if you gave me ten guts, I wouldn't dare lie.

  Qiao Bo's hand exerted a force on me, an icy temperature tightly attached to my neck, scaring me so much that I was covered in sweat.

  "I... I..." I stuttered and couldn't say a complete sentence.

  It seems that Shoubo is not giving up easily.

  As soon as I looked up, I met Siu Bo's fierce gaze. I panicked and hastily said, "I had a map in my hand, but I fainted and don't know who brought me back."

  I hope the map can divert his attention. As it turned out, when Qing Bo heard these two words, he looked gloomy and introspective, as if in thought. Finally, he let go of his hand, lowered his head, and said to me: "You really followed the map?"

  As I saw the knife leave my neck, I took a deep breath and looked at Shoubo seriously: "I don't know how that map ended up in my hands either, but I really don't know how I got back. Heaven and earth can testify, if I'm lying, may thunder strike me."

  Finally, Shoubo pulled me up from the ground and then looked around the room saying "What do you think?"

  "There's something wrong with that map. This time, we were too careless." Zhou Baihe's voice, it was only then that I saw Zhou Baihe sitting rigidly at the table, his eyes cold and staring at me.