"Then you'll just have to keep looking here, it just so happens that I haven't seen a single person here for decades, so talk and chat with me." The old man couldn't help the smile that appeared on his face.
"Didn't you just go out to buy something?" Chen Ge glanced at the rubbish he had packed up.
"That's different, if you weren't here today, I definitely wouldn't have gone out, I only went out for a spin every other week before. Always inside this stone room, sooner or later I'll turn into a psycho."
The old man rolled over and continued, "Some years ago, there were still some people who tried to break in and I was able to tease them for fun, but now I don't come across them anymore."
"Amuse them?"
Chen Ge raised his head and looked towards the cave entrance, seeing a field of tired white bones, he felt a cold wind blowing at his back.
"It's not forbidden to tease." The old man shook his head.
"By the way. Didn't the former chief of South Vietnam even come in, and I followed his back to get here in the first place." Chen Ge suddenly remembered what had happened earlier and spoke up.
"He also just stood on the entrance of the cave, and historically, except for cultivators with the Ninth Turning Yuan Shen, others were not allowed to approach. This is a rule handed down from our ancestors." The old man turned over again and looked at Chen Ge.
"It seems that thanks to the Nine Turning Yuan Shen inside me, otherwise I'm afraid I would have died there." Chen Ge pointed to the pile of white bones at the entrance of the cave and said with some heart palpitations.
"Not necessarily, with your strength, it's impossible to break in hard, but I can't stop you either, so you might be able to escape with a serious injury." The old man surveyed Chen Ge for a moment and said.
"Seriously injured ......" Chen Ge felt that the old man was getting more and more outrageous, so he stopped answering the question.
"By the way senior, I have one more question." Chen Ge wanted to smoke and touched his hand to his pocket is even. But suddenly he touched the sea heart map, so he hurriedly spoke.
"Ask it." The old man said indifferently.
"This sea heart diagram." Chen Ge drew out the Sea Heart Diagram and walked up to the old man, "I saw the Phantom Dragon Island on the Sea Heart Diagram before, but it kept moving and only lasted less than a minute before it disappeared, and I haven't seen it since then."
"You want to ask me what's going on, and also how to make the Sea Heart Map reappear, and then from that map, determine the exact location of the Sea Heart Map, and better yet, find out how to get on it?"
The old man picked up the Sea Heart Map and looked at it twice, then casually tossed it to the side.
"That's right!" Hearing the old man say all that was on his mind, Chen Ge nodded his head excitedly. Then waited in peace and quiet.
"I don't know." Who would have thought that the words that came out of the old man's mouth would make Chen Ge feel incomparably depressed.
"I thought you knew." Chen Ge retrieved the Sea Heart Diagram. It was carefully put back into his pocket again.
"I'm just a watchman here, not an encyclopedia, so how would I know these things." The old man sat up. From the side of the bed he took out an iron box.
From it he pulled out cigarette paper, pinched up a handful of tobacco and put it on, rolled it up and then sealed it with his spit before stuffing it in his mouth, "Got a light?"
"Yes." Chen Ge fished out his lighter and lit a cigarette for the old man before smoking one himself.
"But even though I don't know, from listening to what you said, I feel that this Phantom Dragon Island is not some ordinary place. And it should be hard to find, I really don't know if your grandfather really found it in the first place." The old man puffed on his cigarette and said in a lingering voice.
"If only I had known, ah." Chen Ge exhaled a mouthful of smoke. Slowly, he said.
"Then keep looking." The old man stretched out his hand with the cigarette clutched in it and pointed to the bookshelf next to him.
Chen Ge held his cigarette in his mouth, walked to the front of the bookshelf, and continued to start rummaging.
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On the other hand, while Chen Ge was still searching for the records left behind by the Hai Dong tribe, far away in a secret base in the fringes of South Vietnam. Liang Lu had been locked up here for three days.
She was kept inside an unlit, almost entirely dark prison, which only had about four or five square feet of space. Step forward and feel the cold iron bars.
"Time to eat!"
An impatient and noisy voice came from the distance.
Soon after the words fell, Liang Lu saw the glow of a torch, and it was with this faint light that she was able to see her surroundings.
She was indeed inside a very small prison, and the surroundings seemed to be constructed in the same way. But it seemed that only herself was locked up here.
Liang Lu had never heard any other people, and she had never seen these people bringing food to other locations.
As she thought about it, a somewhat worn lunch box was thrown in.
"What am I in for?" Liang Lu asked, mustering up the courage to ask.
It wasn't long after being sent home by Bai Xiaofei. She had received orders from her father to go back to South Vietnam one more time, saying that she wanted to give Uncle Guo a surprise, which was inside her pocket, wrapped in an envelope.
But when she arrived in South Vietnam, just after she got off the plane, she was held from behind and pressed a wet towel against her mouth with a deadly pressure, even though she struggled hard to break free, and by the time she woke up again from the ecstasy, she was here.
And the envelope and other things on her body were long gone. All that was left was a suit of clothes for herself.
"Little girl, I warn you not to ask what you shouldn't ask, or your little life may end up here." A gloomy voice rang out.
"You're a Chinese?" Hearing this voice. Liang Lu felt a little surprised, "Am I in China or in South Vietnam?"
"If you ask again, you might not be able to save your little life." The other party didn't say any more flying words at all. It left straight away.
Liang Lu called out a few more times, but got no response.
Helplessly, she could only find the lunchbox in the dark and eat the not-so-tasty things inside, which were difficult to eat to a certain extent, but if she didn't eat it, she would really die here.
After taking a sip of the water she had been given in the lunchbox to fill her stomach for the time being, Liang Lu began to think about why she was here.
But no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't understand how this could have happened.
Anxiety and unease filled her heart, and she suddenly thought of Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei. Although it would be dangerous to follow them around and not take care of herself as a young lady of a big family, she had always been safe no matter what.
In her heart, Liang Lu knew that even if either Chen Ge or Bai Xiaofei had been with her, she would not have ended up in the situation she was in.
Now that she was locked up here, she didn't even know if she was in China or South Vietnam, much less exactly what the other side was, and the only thing she could do was to stay inside this small space.
After the man had served the meal, he returned the way he had come. He went up through a flight of steps and what he could see was that the reason it was dark was because it was completely underground.