"Lin Xue … Is this the mysterious old man you were talking about?"
"When did I say that he was a mysterious old man?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes. "I only said that he has something unusual."
"Even if he's just an NPC that takes care of a mysterious item, he should have something special about him … This appearance …"
In front of us, an old man with dark skin, wearing a dirty shirt and gray pants that were rolled up to his knees was holding a large bowl. He was slurping noodles as if he hadn't eaten in his entire life. From time to time, he would scratch his hairy legs. It seemed like he was completely immersed in his noodle world and didn't notice our arrival.
"Don't underestimate this old man," Lin Xue said softly. "Gu Zhengfeng used to be the most famous grave robber in China. The number of graves he robbed was more than the number of supermarkets you've visited. He almost never returned empty-handed. Unfortunately, he touched something he shouldn't have touched during his last grave robbery. He was chased by someone he couldn't afford to offend. In the end, he had no choice but to hide in this place to escape."
"Is that so …" I studied the sloppy old man who was struggling with noodles in front of me. I didn't expect him to be such a powerful person.
Lin Feng moved closer and said mysteriously, "That's not all. I heard that on the second day he hid in this exiled town, his enemy choked to death on a Four Happiness Meatball …"
"Brat, you came here today to make things difficult for me, didn't you?" The sloppy old man had already slurped the last noodle into his mouth. He glared at Lin Feng and shouted. It turned out that he had heard our conversation, but he didn't want to talk to us.
"No, no, no!" Lin Feng cupped his hands and chuckled. "Today, we are here to ask for your help. Can we talk in the house?"
"Stop talking nonsense." The old man held the large bowl and poured the noodle soup into his stomach. Then, he wiped his mouth and said, "You won't let me leave. How can I object when I'm in your territory?"
Following behind the old man, we entered the seemingly ordinary mud house.
What I saw inside took me by surprise.
The small room was filled with old bottles and tools that I couldn't identify. I didn't even have a place to walk. Even the walls were hung with dirty artifacts. The room wasn't bright to begin with, but these artifacts that had been polished by the river of history made it even darker. When I entered this room, I felt like I had stepped into a tomb that had just been excavated.
"These are the things that caused me to become like this." The old grave robber walked through the 'junk' on the ground with ease. "But I still can't bear to throw them away."
"Anything here should be worth a fortune, right?" Shallow Shallow carefully stepped over an old jar that looked like it would shatter into pieces at the slightest touch.
"Don't you dare touch these things," Lin Xue whispered. "Otherwise, Old Gu will come after you. When he first came to this town, he donated two hundred and twenty-seven artifacts and all of his property. He also made a request that no one was allowed to touch the rest of these things until his death."
The old grave robber's hearing was good. Lin Xue's whisper didn't escape his ears. He laughed and said, "After I die, you can do whatever you want with these things. But on the day of my death, I hope to lie in this pile of treasures. Old Gu has dug up countless graves of nobles. When I die, I want to be like them. I want to lie in this pile of treasures!"
Hearing the old man's words, all of us could only roll our eyes at the sky. There was nothing we could do.
"All right, have a seat." After a long and arduous walk, we finally reached the only empty space in the room. The old man pulled out a few chairs that looked like they were about to fall apart and asked us to sit down.
Sitting in the middle of these treasures, we suddenly felt like we were having a meeting in a tomb …
"Tell me, did you come to me for that thing?" The old man seemed to know why we were here.
"That's right," Lin Xue answered straightforwardly.
"It's not that I can't give you that thing." The old man's eyes flashed. His sloppiness seemed to have disappeared, and he seemed to have regained the spirit of a capable grave robber. "If I hadn't been greedy and brought it out, I wouldn't have ended up like this. To me, it's a jinx. However, I can't give it to you that easily. You know my rules."
At this moment, I finally understood that what Lin Xue wanted from this old grave robber was the thing that had almost brought him a fatal disaster. At this moment, even I was curious about that mysterious item.
Lin Xue didn't seem to care about the old man's rules. She pushed Shallow Shallow, who was curiously observing the antiques, forward and said, "This is Xu Feng's daughter, Xu Shallow Shallow. If what you said is correct, then this girl has the right to activate that thing. How about taking it out and giving it a try?"
"Hey!" I thought that Lin Xue wanted Shallow Shallow to do something dangerous, so I couldn't help but stop her.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt your sweetheart. I just need her to cooperate with me for an experiment."
The old grave robber looked at Shallow Shallow from head to toe. Then, he laughed and said, "Hey, the daughter of the missing man? Her father is a materialist. He doesn't even want to believe in your superpower. He even scolded me. Why? Is his daughter willing to believe in this nonsense? Wait here, I'll go get it for you … "
After the old man stood up and went to the back to look for the mysterious item, Shallow Shallow and I asked together, "Uncle Xu (Dad) came here too?"
"Yes," Zheng Yiming answered us this time. "Because the historical site that they were going to explore was a little special, we arranged for a few key members to come here before we left. We hoped that they could obtain the important item from Gu Zhengfeng. Fortunately, Mr. Xu successfully resonated with that item. However, we didn't expect that Mr. Xu not only didn't believe in our words, but he also criticized our suggestion as pseudoscience. He even scolded the grave robber, Old Gu …"
Shallow Shallow looked at us embarrassedly. She seemed to have expected her father's stubbornness.
After listening to Zheng Yiming's description, I became even more curious about the mysterious item that they were talking about. "You said that the item could 'resonate' with Uncle Xu? And as Uncle Xu's daughter, Shallow Shallow could also 'resonate' with him? What exactly is that item? "
"Take a look and you'll know. There's one thing that I'm sure of. It's a mystical item that's even harder to explain than the power of us metahumans."
Right at this moment, I heard noises behind me. The old grave robber had come back with the item.
"This is it?" I looked at the inconspicuous item in the old man's hand in surprise. It was a palm-sized hexagonal metal plate. I didn't know what it was made of, but there was a layer of rust-like dark red dirt on its surface. I could vaguely see some incomplete symbols on the surface of the metal plate. Other than that, this item was no different from a garbage dump.
This item that looked like a piece of broken metal was the mysterious item that people had been bragging about?
Just as I thought that I had been tricked by an old man who liked to play tricks on people, Pandora's voice came through the mental link. "This is an Ethereal Beacon!"
"What?!" I was shocked. "Pandora, you recognize this item?"
"An Ethereal Beacon. It's something that members of the Imperial Army use for emergency teleportation to evacuate from the battlefield. At the same time, it can also be used as a navigator for small-scale space warps. I have a similar device. To a Schilling Warrior, an Ethereal Beacon is an extremely important item … How could this world have …"
Just then, something happened at the scene and interrupted the mental conversation between Pandora and me.
Following Gu Zhengfeng's instructions, Shallow Shallow placed her left hand on the black metal plate that Pandora had called the 'Ethereal Beacon'. Immediately, the metal plate let out a faint buzzing sound.
"How is that possible?!" Pandora's shocked voice came from my mental world. I had never seen her so emotional before. "How could something from the Xiling Empire resonate with a carbon-based life form?"
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