Midnight Restaurant

Chapter 306 Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Bai Wuji sat upright at this moment, put out the cigarette, sighed and said, "I was also very curious. In the beginning, I really didn't know much about snake people. At that time, I always thought that Nana was my daughter. I thought she might It was Xiao Ling who exorcised evil spirits during her pregnancy and was contaminated with some unclean things. But later, by chance, I got something."

"what?"

"I found something when I went back to a place, a place where I used to live for a long time. Record of eternal life, have you heard it? I gave that book to Sister Lan. At that time, it was just because she was obsessed with magic. You know that she is a dark person, and the art of immortality recorded in that book is basically a sorcery, so I didn't read it much at the time... When I went back to my old residence, I happened to find the copy that Sister Zeng Lan had transcribed. Back up, I found a piece of content in the middle, which implied that there seems to be some relationship between the resurrected soul and the snake man, and they seem to be close relatives in blood."

This paragraph is a bit messy.

What is a resurrected person?
"You said that the person whose soul is scattered and revived is a person who died six or seven times?"

Bai Wuji nodded: "That's right, it's people like me and Sister Lan... To be precise, it should be Sister Lan, because I'm not purely a seven-death person, but half of them."

"why?"

"It's an old thing, but it doesn't matter much, so I won't explain it."

I nodded.

Bai Wuji continued: "So, I guessed at that time that my daughter would occasionally turn into this kind of half-human, half-snake monster, maybe because of my blood. Later, I put down the record of eternal life and started to look up other materials. Sure enough, I knew about snake people, read countless materials, and then..."

Actually, I didn't understand when I heard this, so I interrupted and asked, "Hey, buddy, wait a minute."

Bai Wuji looked up at me: "What's wrong?"

"Even if it's a snake person, there's nothing wrong with it. You see, you work with your sister-in-law and deal with ghosts. It's quite dangerous, right? This child is a snake person. First of all, his ability to protect himself is fine. Secondly, his shape is rather weird. But there are also snake people around me. As far as I know, their snake tails can be retracted, right? This will not affect the life of the child, so I am curious, what are you studying?"

Bai Wuji smiled and said: "Two reasons, one, pure curiosity, after all, it has something to do with me and my daughter's life experience, people will be interested in this kind of secret that has something to do with me, right? For example ..."

As he spoke, he pointed to my eyes.

Well, I have no way to refute it. It was also because of this interest that I sneaked into the owner's studio just now without the owner's permission.

So I nodded and asked at the same time, "What about the second reason?"

"The second reason is that I don't think being a snake person is a good thing... My daughter is five or six years old this year. Kindergarten. Children are not so easy to be obedient. You know my daughter transforms in front of children. How many times? I have dealt with the troubles caused by this kind of transformation. I use the upper body of the ghost to destroy the soul body of the opponent and clear part of the memory. If I make a mistake, I may ruin a person's life... But I can't help it. You can't let people know that my daughter is a monster in people's eyes, right?"

This is a problem.

"But that child will grow up eventually, adults can always control it?"

"Do you know the shadow of childhood?"

I froze for a moment, and wanted to laugh at that time, is this buddy protecting his child too much?What does it matter in those years of children.

Maybe I am a person who is not very good at hiding my attitude towards things, Bai Wuji smiled at me and said: "I know what you think, but we are different, I have a daughter, I raise a child, you No... Hey, no, I remember you seem to have, oh yes, the vampire from last time?"

I have black lines all over my face, are you despising me?

But having said that, hearing him talk about Manman, I suddenly felt uncomfortable for a while, yes, the relationship between Manman and me has never been very good, it seems to be related to childhood.

I'm really not a good dad.

So I nodded: "Okay, I understand..."

Bai Wuji smiled and continued: "However, in fact, this is only part of the second reason. The more important thing is that being a snake is very dangerous. You saw how crazy the family last time was, the Su family." When I knew that the snake people were linked to eternal life, I knew that there would be more people crazier than the Su family. Those were all threats from Nana. Take my daughter away, force her to ask her some ways of eternal life that she doesn't know, and finally even kill her and eat her."

When Bai Wuji was talking, I thought about Manman, and I understood it instantly.

"I'm going, that's going to plunge into time... How's the progress? Can the transformation of the snake man be controlled? Or in other words, seal it forever?" I asked Bai Wuji.

"I'm trying to find a way..."

"Oh, by the way, what about me? You haven't said anything about my eyes yet."

After talking for a long time, I finally brought the topic to the place I am most interested in. I hope this buddy will not distract me again.

I was lucky, Bai Wuji gave me face this time, didn't change the topic, stood up, patted me on the shoulder: "If you are curious, come with me, I just want to ask about your history."

I was taken aback: "Me? I don't have any history."

But I followed Bai Wuji into the studio.

There are a lot of things here, but he didn't show me the extra stuff, and he didn't explain it. He just took out a box from under the table, put it on the table, and opened it. Inside, I saw a big tortoise shell. There are strange patterns engraved on it. If you look closely, this should be oracle bone inscriptions, right?
"I'll go, what is this? I don't understand."

"I know you don't understand." As he spoke, Bai Wuji pointed to one of the sections and said to me: "This is almost the earliest record of the snake man, and this section is a legend, the earliest known era when the snake man was discovered. Legend, about the snake man."

"What do you mean? Tell me about the legend. I can't understand it. I can't read all the Chinese characters. You let me recognize oracle bone inscriptions..."

Bai Wuji smiled, and then began to tell the story on the tortoise shell.

In fact, it's not a story, it just records a legend about the origin of the snake people. It is said that there were no snake people in this world. The first snake people came from outside the sky, but they were not aliens who came to earth on flying saucers.In the records, he is a person wearing a black battle armor, holding a long knife, and the world changes color with every gesture, and the devilish energy surges, like a demon god descending into the world.

I raised my eyebrows. Is there any armor in this age of oracle bone inscriptions?How did this buddy translate, animal skin?
The color of the sky and the earth also changed, and the demonic energy surged... Didn't it catch up with the cloudy sky and the sandstorm?So the things recorded by ancient humans are too fantasy, can you believe it?
That's right, I listened carefully, but in fact, I kept complaining.

At this time, Bai Wuji finally got to the point: "... most of this record is nonsense, but there is a piece of nonsense, I didn't realize its value until you told me, your eyes. This is this paragraph, probably It means that the eyes of the demon god are different from ordinary people. The left eye is purple with electric glow, the right eye is blood red, and the eyes seem to be burning with flames. The left eye can trigger thunder and lightning, and the right eye can make the earth crack, and burn from the cracks in the ground. There was a raging fire...the right eye of the demon god can shoot red light, and anyone who touches the red light will be wiped out, what did you think of?"

As he spoke, Bai Wuji suddenly looked up at me.

Fuck, isn't that what happened the day I stared at the murderous ghost to death, and was wiped out by the red light in my eyes...

Bai Wuji smiled at this moment, and lowered his head to point to another paragraph: "...the right eye of the demon god can be understood as the eye of destruction, but the left eye is even more powerful and magical. It represents rebirth! It is said that it can bring people back to life. Human flesh and bones..."

"Hey, don't mention the words 'life and death, human flesh and white bones' in front of me, I don't like to hear it." I shook my head quickly.

Bai Wuji smiled: "Really? It sounds like a story, tell me when you have time."

"Is it interesting to expose people's scars... Hey, let's continue, what's the matter with the left eye? Bringing people back to life? Then this must have nothing to do with me, my left eye can't do anything."

At this moment, Bai Wuji put down the turtle shell and looked at me: "I can't do anything, or have I not developed it yet?"

"Then it can't be said that I have something to do with this demon god, how many generations have passed, and the genes have all degenerated, how can it be possible that the ability is exactly the same?"

"No, I'm not saying it's related, I'm just suspicious, maybe it's you."

Really, I couldn't even get up.

How can this group of people say that it is me when they look at a person with similar characteristics?The previous leader of the cult, because he could fix evil things with his eyes like me, said it was me... well, maybe it was really me.But you can’t see someone who looks like me, so let’s just say it’s me?
"It's too groundless. Besides, how tired have I been in the past? Comeo appearances back and forth."

At this time, Bai Wuji said something that surprised me: "I didn't say, this is your past."

I was taken aback: "Then what do you mean?"

"Look at this..." As he said that, Bai Wuji took out another big turtle shell. There was no text on it, but there was a picture: "...the wind and clouds are surging around this picture. Although the people in the picture are rough, they can probably see As for the armor and the long knife, I guess it is the demon god in the previous record, so now, what do you see in his other hand that does not hold the knife?"

I looked down and saw that it was square, but I couldn't see what it was.

Brick?
"How do I guess, the ghost knows what the ancients thought."

"There is a record saying that the thing in the left hand of the demon god will glow, there are people inside, and there are strange words, what do you think it looks like?"

I was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, I raised my head and raised my eyebrows almost at the same time as Bai Wuji: "Mobile phone?"

It's too much, this is too much.

Dare I fall into a ghost, the loss of my loved one is not enough, I have to travel to the ancient times when there are no computers, mobile phones, or air conditioners in summer, right?No, worse than ancient times, oracle bone inscriptions, what era is this?Sorry, I'm illiterate, I really can't tell the difference.

At this time, Bai Wuji continued to say: "...this demon god came to the mortal world. Although he is called a demon god, it should be because this guy has a scary aura. He didn't do anything bad. The eyes of resurrection can save lives and heal the wounded. But the person he saved, although he was resurrected at that time, a strange change occurred not long after, I think you should have thought of it. He turned into a snake, half snake, half human, That is the earliest snake man in the legend."

Speaking of this, Bai Wuji was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and looked at me: "So, now you understand why I am so surprised by your eyes?"

I nod, I understand.

And realized a horrible thing, he took me for the person carved on the turtle shell, didn't he?I'll go, then this guy, won't kill my "snake ancestor" in order to turn his daughter back into a normal person?

(End of this chapter)