Cataclysm Chapter 71: Grave Relocation 4; Kindred Spirits

Chapter 71: Grave Relocation 4; Kindred Spirits

Translated by Rara of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

The bronze coffin and its lid almost fused together over time, even hammers or steel pipes wouldn’t be able to split them apart. Chen Yang suggested, “Why don’t we use a chainsaw or a metal cutting machine?”

The grave relocation job of the Kou family was given to outsiders, at this point someone whispered, “Won’t this offend whatever inside the coffin?”

Father Kou waved his hand, “It came running to my Kou family’s ancestral tomb, it’s clear that it wants to be opened. And it’s up to us how to open it. Xuanling, go get the cutting machine.”

Hearing this, Kou Xuanling had to run down the hill to get the cutting machine and came back with one borrowed from the town along with a few Kou family’s youngsters. With the two cutting machines, they cut open the bronze coffin while wearing masks. It took a while for the pungent smell filled in the air to subside. When Chen Yang went up to take a look, he saw inside the coffin was a wet corpse lying in dirt black water.

The dirt black water should be some kind of embalming material, when it mixed with the corpse water it produced a pungent smell. The face of the wet corpsed was unclear, but well preserved, the skin seemed to have elasticity. The hair and nails were also preserved, they look as if they could continue growing.

Chen Yang broke a tree branch and stirred the black water twice, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a dark shadow under the wet corpse’s clothes. As he focused on the shadow, it suddenly jumped out. Chen Yang reacted quickly and used a tree branch to block the black snake. The black snake was thrown to the ground and wiggled and was soon cut into two pieces with a shovel.

Kou Xuanling, “Another black snake, is it related to the Griefing Filth ¹? Is it related to Mt Tiewei?”

Father Kou, “Go set up the altar to invite the spirits.” He meant to ask the ancestors about the situation.

 

“What about the bronze coffin and the wet corpse?” Chen Yang inferred from the bronze coffin, the wet corpse and the writing on the coffin lid, “It should be a bronze coffin from the Warring States period, to be able to use a bronze coffin, the identity of the corpse shouldn’t be so low, at the minimum – a princess. But the question is, why does it suddenly appear in the Kou family ancestral tomb range?”

In ancient funerals, a bronze coffin was a high-scale item usually reserved for those of high status. Buried along with the person were lots of funerary objects, mostly expensive treasures. In this case, there must be at least a tomb built specifically for this coffin. Therefore, it was certain that this bronze coffin was dug up from somewhere and then buried here. 

Father Kou pondered for a moment, “Call the police. Report the bronze coffin and the female corpse to the country, maybe we can learn something from there.”

Chen Yang nodded in agreement, “I also agree. Leaving this thing here will serve us no purpose, we can’t sell it and it would be such a waste to burn a wet corpse that could have come from the Warring States Period. It’s better to report it to the country and keep it for research purposes. But we must assign someone to guard it from harming people.”

Kou’s father admired Chen Yang, “Director Chen really lived up to his title, a man of wide vision and big heart.” Then he repeatedly lectured Kou Xuanling to study more from Chen Yang. Kou Xuanling stayed silent, he knew the reason Chen Yang agreed with his father’s suggestion was because this bronze coffin and wet corpse had no value.

Once the decision was made, that night, many experts rushed over to take the bronze coffin and wet corpse away with the hope to shock the world once the research was published. As for the Kou family, after they finished discussing the national award, they continued with the relocation and moved the ancestor’s bones back to the ancestor’s courtyard. The ancestors’ bones were temporarily enshrined in the Taoist temple, and Kou’s father then asked Kou Xuanling to set up an altar to invite the ancestor spirits.

In Taoism, “inviting in the spirit” meant to let the ancestor take over the body, and the ancestor will write down the answers after it is asked questions. The possessed person was not allowed to speak because opening the mouth could force the ancestor to leave the body. First, Kou Xuanling picked up the three incense sticks as they spontaneous self-ignited. Then he kneeled three times and kowtowed nine times before placing the incense sticks inside the censer. He then took two steps back and put his hands in front of his chest and made a gesture. His eyes closed as his mouth read: “Kou family’s 31st generation of descendants respectfully invite the ancestors to descend on my body. Ancestors, please grant me answers.”

As he finished talking, the room was silent. Kou Xuanling remained motionless, and the three incense sticks in the incense burner dropped a piece of incense ash. Father Kou used the tip of his finger to pick a piece of incense ash and put it into the red ink, he stirred it twice and then used a brush to put a “red mole” on Kou Xuanling’s forehead.

Soon after, Kou Xuanling whose eyes were still closed started picking up red ink-stained brush on the table as he wrote down on the white paper laid in front of him: Ask. 

The white paper was removed and a new one was laid down. Kou’s father asked, “Ancestor, may I respectfully ask, is the unexpected recent encounter at Kou’s family ancestral tomb related to the ancient tomb at Mt. Tiewei?”

Kou Xuanling wrote on the white paper: Yes.

Father Kou asked again, “Who is buried in the Mt. Tiewei’s Tomb?”

Kou Xuanling wrote on the replacement white paper: Wu of the Zhou, Curse of the Jin.

Father Kou frowned, he didn’t understand what it meant. He had no choice but to put the white paper aside and continued onward, “Is Mt. Tiewei’s tomb a formation?”

Kou Xuanling: Yes.

Father Kou, “What kind of formation?”

Kou Xuanling: The Thirty-Six Guansha Formation.

The Thirty-Six Guansha Formation was created by a fangshi(方士) from the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period. It is believed to be the calamities a human life has to go through in their life. Later on it became known as “Children Guansha”, that is, the calamities children have to encounter before they could grow into an adult. Only when they survive through these calamities could they grow up safely. However, if the 36 Guansha Formation was used as a tomb formation, it would be a very sinister formation. It was such a bloodthirsty formation that if it was used to the extreme, it could even change the country’s fate.

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As the name implied, the formation needed a total of 36 tombs, each buried in a sitting coffin. In each of these coffins were people who were nailed in and buried sitting alive. As they met their demise, their resentment and suffering was deep. Only one of the thirty-six tombs was the main tomb, and buried the real owner. The other thirty-five tombs were all stand-ins for the main tomb to protect the main one from being harmed.

Father Kou, “The bronze coffin dug out within the ancestral tomb, which contains a wet corpse from the Warring States period, did it come from the ancient tomb in Mt. Tiewei?”

Kou Xuanling: Yes.

Father Kou, “The reason? Is it to recreate the Thirty-Six Guansha Formation?”

Kou Xuanling: Yes.

Father Kou frowned, “The Thirty-Six Guansha Formation requires the construction of thirty-five secondary tombs with thirty-five sitting coffins buried inside. If the tomb’s formation at Mt. Tiewei needs to be recreated again, it would need a complete rebuild of the tomb. It will be too difficult to construct such a big project like that.”

Kou Xuanling paused for a moment and wrote on the new paper: Hell article.

Once again, a word that Father Kou could not understand appeared, so he continued to ask, “Who wants to recreate the The Thirty-Six Guansha Formation?”

The hand holding the brush paused in the air for a moment. By the time the three incense sticks completely burned out, and the moment the ashes fell, Kou Xuanling went limp. Father Kou wanted to catch his son, but he didn’t expect someone would be faster than him and came forward to hug Kou Xuanling. It was Lu Xiuzhi.

Lu Xiuzhi’s eyes never left Kou Xuanling’s frail face. Chen Yang poured a cup of sugar water and handed it to him, “Let old Kou drink some sugar water to replenish his strength.” Lu Xiuzhi took the sugar water and personally fed Kou Xuanling, with a very gentle look and action.

When Father Kou saw this, he felt something was off. He pulled his elder brother’s sleeve and secretly asked: “Can you feel something is wrong between Xuanling and his friend?”

Father Kou’s elder brother was the Kou family’s Wulei rank Tianshi. He was an extremely talented man but also extremely impatient with mundane matters. His worldly wisdom of human interaction was limited, especially his eyes for people. It could be said that his heart was as pure as the sun and moon light, all his eyes saw were pure and wholesome relationships. He squinted his eyes at his fifth nephew and his friend, then praised them with a stern face: “Profound friendship, companionship over status, absolute sincerity.”

In short, brotherly love.

Father Kou looked as if he had seen something disgusting: “If you don’t know how to use idioms, don’t use them indiscriminately.” The most striking characteristic of Father Kou’s elder brother was that he clearly did not know how to use idioms, but he always used them in many situations. For example, the idiom of “companionship over status” was used for making friends regardless of their status, it just didn’t seem right to use on Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi’s relationship.

Uncle Kou grunted: “All but mere mortals.”

Father Kou: “… I will just ignore you.”

Chen Yang overheard their argument and ended up with an odd expression on his face. Pestle and mortar? Pestle .. mortar … No, how did he end up with such a dirty image? That was just a very innocent idiom, let it go! Chen Yang covered his eyes and tried to wake his senses up inside his mind, he shouldn’t let himself be dirty by Du Shuo. It was obviously a normal idiom, used to describe friendship regardless of status, it was such a pure idiom! How could he think of that aspect? Even so, there was nothing wrong with pestle and mortar, no one ever said the pestle must pound the mortar?

…He still felt so dirty. Chen Yang took a few deep breaths, and shook the idiom out of his mind. He felt that his pure self had died, leaving behind a dirty goblin being corrupted by old Du. Chen Yang sighed and as he looked up, he saw Kou Xuanling just woke up and Liu Xiuzhi immediately gave him the sugar water to drink. He couldn’t hold back but gave a few coughs.

Kou Xuanling was puzzled: “Chen Xiaoyang, what’s wrong with you?”

Chen Yang said as he coughed: “No. Ahem, I just think you two are really… I just think you two are really… Profound friendship, companionship over status ——” The smile froze on his face.

Uncle Kou looked at Chen Yang with satisfaction in his eyes and felt that this junior is worthy of respect. Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi were puzzled: “Companionship over status doesn’t sound very fitting.”

Uncle Kou’s spirit was brought down as he looked at his fifth nephew with displeasure. Lu Xiuzhi did not say anything, but he could feel Chen Yang’s expression was not right. But being a single old man for so many years, his mind didn’t reach that conclusion, at least he didn’t reach Chen Yang’s dirty realm. Therefore, he didn’t think that deeply.

The idiom incident was soon cast aside. Chen Yang took out the two pieces of papers that the Kou’s ancestor just wrote down. One wrote “Wu of the Zhou, curse of the Jin”, the other was “Hell Article”. 

Chen Yang said: “I don’t know what the first one means, but the second one from [The Origin of the World] manuscript, Volume 2 [Hell Article], there is a mention of Mt. Tiewei: [Among the four big continents and among the 80000 small islands, across many great mountains and the Mt. Meru, there is an immovable mountain wall named Cakravāḍa, one as strong and indestructible as Vajra. Outside of this iron enclosure there’s another as important, Mt. Tiewei. Between the two mountains there is great darkness and no light, even the great Sun and Moon can’t cover entirely. Standing between the two mountains is the Eight Great Hell]. Cakravāḍa’s other name is Tiewei Mountain, and [At the edge of the world is the small Tiewei Mountain, and outside of the small Tiewei Mountain is the big Tiewei Mountain]. So if we compare that small Tiewei Mountain in legends to the Mt.Tiewei in this town, and the big Tiewei Mountain to Mt. Bijia, then between the two mountains is the Eight Great Hell. Is there a possibility that the Eight Great Hells is where the Thirty-Six Guansha Formation is located?”

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Kou Xuanling: “It is possible.” He picked up another piece of paper. “So, what does “Wu of the Zhou, curse of the Jin” mean?”

Chen Yang shook his head: “I’m not sure.”

Father Kou and the others were not sure either. Uncle Kou wanted to show off his knowledge, but he spent half of the day staring at the sentence and still couldn’t explain it, in the end, he forced out a literal explanation: “Look at this, “Wu of the Zhou” combined with the fact that the ancient tomb at Mt.Tiewei is most likely from the Warring States period, I believe it means the Wu is from the Zhou Dynasty. “Curse of the Jin” could mean “The curse of the Jin states”. At that time, the Jin state and the Zhou had a bad relationship and often fought.”

The crowd glanced at Uncle Kou with oblique eyes, and Uncle Kou became irritated: “Try to explain it yourselves. Not like you guys are able to anyway.” 

Lu Xiuzhi took the paper in Kou Xuanling’s hand and said: “Uncle’s words are correct.”

Uncle Kou was happy: “Listen to him, the fifth nephew’s brother is very knowledgeable.”

Chen Yang thought: So quick, he already called him Uncle without a surname.

Lu Xiuzhi: “Everyone must have heard the idiom of “A jade blood, a red heart”, I assume? It refers to an official of the Zhou dynasty, Chang Hong, who served and stayed loyal to the Zhou Dynasty without reward. After his death, his blood was turned into jade, hence the term “A jade blood, a red heart”. Chang Hong was good at alchemy and in order to revitalize the Zhou Dynasty, he onced used Gods and demons to force the other vassal states to meet at the imperial courts. When the war hungry Jin state attacked the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty killed Chang Hong to appease their anger. Later, the Jin state was divided into several small states, including Wei and Zhao, and finally annexed by Qin. It is said that a disciple of Chang Hong set up the Thirty-Six Guansha Formation in the territory of the Jin to take revenge, and the disciple buried his nine-year-old daughter in the main tomb. As the state’s fate was destroyed, the Jin state fell apart and the territory was occupied by Wei and Zhao one after another. Later the two countries were also destroyed by Qin.”

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“I thought it was a legend, but it turns out to be true.” Lu Xiuzhi returned the paper to Kou Xuanling, and received Kou Xuanling’s carefully hidden admiration. Kou Xuanling’s expression was a little proud: “Ah Zhi, you really know a lot.”

Lu Xiuzhi smiled lightly: “I’ve read a lot of books.”

Uncle Kou squeezed between the two and pushed Kou Xuanling out of Lu Xiuzhi’s embrace. He pulled Lu Xiuzhi and said: “I also like to read, I am the most book nerd person in the Kou family. We must have a lot of common topics to discuss.”

Uncle Kou quickly saw Lu Xiuzhi as if he was his long forgotten friend, as if he and Lu Xiuzhi are the only cultured people present. He wished he could talk and burn the midnight oil with Lu Xiuzhi, but Kou Xuanling had pulled Uncle Kou back and asked Father Kou to control him.  “Uncle, don’t think you can do whatever you want just because auntie is not here.”

Uncle Kou glared, thinking his fifth nephew was being selfish. But Uncle Kou was afraid of Aunt Kou, only in front of her did he not dare to speak in idiom. Thus, Lu Xiuzhi was spared, and Kou Xuanling quickly pulled him and ran away. Uncle Kou was upset and mumbled to himself, but ended up getting beaten up by his other brothers.

Chen Yang watched the whole drama and felt that the Kou family was full of joy. He smiled and went back to his room, washed up and ready to go to bed when he suddenly found that something was wrong. He sat up and searched Baidu to confirm his suspicion. 

Cakravāḍa, Eight Great Hells, and The Origin of the World were all Buddhist teaching, but Buddhism was not introduced to China until the Han Dynasty. The ancient tomb at Mt. Tiewei was built during the Warring States period, before Buddhism existed. The River’s Guardian Beast first appeared in the Qin and Han dynasties, which was more consistent with the time of the introduction of Buddhism.

Chen Yang got up and sent a message to ask Kou Xuanling about the River’s Guardian Beast in the pond. Kou Xuanling told him through voice message: “We also suspect that the River’s Guardian Beast was also carried from the underground river in Mt. Tiewei. Mt. Bijia also has the underground river system, which connects several mountains, including Mt. Tiewei. But Mt. Tiewei compared to Mt.Bijia is at a lower position, if it was carried by the underground river system, it would be against the stream. I’m still wondering who is responsible for all this.”

Chen Yang told Kou Xuanling what he had found: “… Maybe the previous guess was in the wrong direction. But if this explanation was wrong, the puzzle will continue to pile up. Can you ask your “good brother” if he knows the answer?”

Kou Xuanling: “…Why do you put on the tone when you mention “good brother”?”

“It’s only an emphasis.” Chen Yang said calmly: “Do you not like it?”

“It’s okay, but it feels a bit strange. But I can’t tell what’s wrong with it, so I’ll ask Ah Zhi.” Kou Xuanling went to ask Lu Xiuzhi and soon got the answer to reply to Chen Yang: “He said he didn’t know either. Why don’t you ask “your” Director Du?”

Chen Yang: “Why did you deliberately add in “your”?”

Kou Xuanling froze for a moment: “I also don’t know.”

Chen Yang bared his teeth and sighed in silence: Old Kou didn’t know he also bent that way now. He said: “My old Du is very busy, he didn’t have time to come to the world of the living to learn about the situation. Even if I ask, he may not have the answer. So what do you think?”

Kou Xuanling,  who was silenced for a long time, asked: “What’s your idea?”

Chen Yang: “Sneak into the enemy camp to gain intelligence, then destroy their scheme from the inside.”

Kou Xuanling: “Grave digging?”

Chen Yang: “Be a little subtle, would you? It’s so clear the difference between you and Uncle Kou.”

“… Chen Xiaoyang, you’ve been very naughty lately, you better watch out.”

Chen Yang replied with a “bleh” emoji, logged out of the chat with Kou Xuanling and re-sent what happened to Du Shuo, asking for the reason.

t/n: The “bleh” emoji https://inews.gtimg.com/newsapp_match/0/9900637095/0

 

Du Shuo replied to him: [ I don’t know.]

Chen Yang immediately picked up his spirit: [ You don’t know anything too? ]

Du Shuo: [ I have not been there to understand, how do I know the situation? ]

Chen Yang: [ I thought you knew everything. ]

Du Shuo: [ You want to go to the tomb at Mt.Tiewei? ]

Chen Yang: [ Yeah. I want to go in and see what’s going on here ]

Du Shuo: [ Be careful. If you need something, call me. And if something happens, push Lu Xiuzhi in front so he can cover for you.]

Chen Yang was interested: [ You know Lu Xiuzhi? ]

Du Shuo: [ No, I don’t, but I’ve heard of him. He hides himself very deep, but he can handle anything that comes out of the tomb. ]

Chen Yang: [ Who is he? ]

Du Shuo did not reply, Chen Yang started sending dozens of pleading 🥺 emoticons with a bunch of sweet words, enough to fill a bucket. Only when Du Shuo felt satisfied enough did he tell him the identity of Lu Xiuzhi. He even added in a conservative guess too. Chen Yang could only see the first sentence and was already quite shocked.

“Totally didn’t expect ah.” Chen Yang shook his head repeatedly, feeling very incredible. After the shock, he sighed: “Another old cow that eats young grass.”

The next day when the sun was at its peak at noon, Chen Yang, Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi appeared at the foot of Mt Tiewei fully prepared. The three of them secretly sneaked away from the Kou family, as the elders had unanimously decided to find a feng shui site to bury the bones of their ancestors first, before solving the tomb of Mt. Tiewei. After all, the tomb at Mt. Tiewei had existed for a thousand years already, they didn’t have to solve it right away.

As they gathered, Chen Yang couldn’t help his eyes but fell on Lu Xiuzhi. Even though Lu Xiuzhi was right beside Kou Xuanling, there was almost no presence. 

Gathering close, Chen Yang could not help but fall on Lu Xiuzhi. Lu Xiuzhi with Kou Xuanling so close, almost no presence still. Chen Yang finally knew why he felt familiar with Lu Xiuzhi. It was because his presence was as weak as Du Shuo. It was as if there was a layer of fog over them, and they could easily control this fog. If the fog faded, no one could ignore them.

Kou Xuanling said: “We should sneak into Mt.Tiewei through this small path.”

Lu Xiuzhi smiled next to him and asked: “Why?”

“We are not the only ones who want to go to Mt. Tiewei to check out the situation. My cousins and sisters must also have wanted to sneak in, which means my father, uncle, and several other uncles were all outside, ready to catch them one by one.” Kou Xuanling was proud: “I had guessed that they would block the path to Mt. Tiewei. That’s why I picked this time at noon, when the sun is at its peak and Mt. Tiewei is not so cloudy. My father and the others should be on their way back for lunch so there are less people now. And I know a small path that they don’t know about.”

Kou Xuanling led them to hide and watch from a distance, and as expected, he saw his cousins sneaked into Mt.Tiewei, only to be shooed down like a dog. “See?”

Lu Xiuzhi patted Kou Xuanling’s head but quickly took his hand away. It was fast enough that Kou Xuanling did not have much reaction. Lu Xiuzhi laughed: “Ah Xuan is the smartest.”

Chen Yang’s mouth twitched, a line floated in front of his eyes: grandfather x descendant love, all moral is lost.

Kou Xuanling led the way to a small path and entered Mt. Tiewei. Mt. Tiewei was well covered in tree shade. Although it was noon,  the deeper they went in, the gloomier it appeared since the sun couldn’t fully reach in. The forest was very quiet, no bird chirping could be heard. 

Chen Yang: “Which direction is the tomb?”

Kou Xuanling scratched his chin: “The ancestors did not record it.”

Chen Yang: “So we have to find it ourselves?”

Kou Xuanling took out the compass and feng shui book from his backpack. He handed the feng shui book to Lu Xiuzhi: “Help me interpret these mnemonic chants, I’ll find the direction.” Then he looked up to Chen Yang: “I brought the tools.”

Chen Yang quietly looked at Kou Xuanling and blinked. He smiled reluctantly and chose to swallow back the crude words. He sighed, “Feng shui techniques can find ancient tombs, but only when their locations are considered prosperity in feng shui. We need to look for the right dragon, the right sand, the right water, and we must also find the real central point. That central point must be an auspicious point, even if you find it, it may be a false point. Not to mention that what we need to find is a tomb of the Thirty Six Guansha formation, which contains 35 secondary tombs and one main tomb. I thought you had a map.”

“There is no map.” Kou Xuanling said innocently: “I said before that my ancestors have very few records about the tomb, there are only a few words. Since Mt. Tiewei isn’t that big, I think it won’t be too difficult to find it via fengshui.”

Lu Xiuzhi took Kou Xuanling’s compass, after adjusting the direction, he said: “I’ll find it. No matter whether the ancient tomb itself is an auspicious point or an evil point. Even if it’s an evil point pretending to be auspicious, it won’t be able to be separated from the three elements: dragon, sand, and water. Using water as the main source, we can use it to trace back the ancient tomb. Didn’t we find the River’s Guardian Beast in the pond at Mt.Bijia? That River’s Guardian Beast is likely to go upstream through the underground river system. The tomb might have been sealed, but the builder will usually leave an exit. The exit is mostly located in the underground river system, we can follow through there.”

Chen Yang: “Ok.”

Lu Xiuzhi quickly found the main river of Mt. Tiewei. Ahead of them along the river was a half-meter high extremely narrow cave. The water flowed out of it, and it was too deep to see the bottom. For such a narrow cave, the only way to get in was to float along the water or use the raft throughout the journey. It would be very cramped and one had to crouch onto themselves. It would send fear to people and cause them to retreat.

Kou Xuanling: “Do we go in by water?”

Chen Yang picked up a stone and threw it into the water, the sound of the water was muffled: “The water is very deep, and I do not know if there will be black snakes inside. There might be Griefing Filth’s egg in the water too, so let’s go in by raft.”

Kou Xuanling was surprised: “Do you want to make a raft now?”

“No need.” Chen Yang took a few steps around and dragged out a bamboo raft two meters long and one meter wide from behind a big rock: “The tomb raider who was parasitized by the Griefing Filth bought it before, and hid it here.”

Kou Xuanling helped him drag the raft out and push it into the water: “How did you know he bought the raft and hid it here?”

Chen Yang smiled gently: “I brought his diary and map.” After that, he jumped on the raft and took out the diary and map from his bag.

Kou Xuanling jumped on the raft while helping Lu Xiuzhi to stand firm, he shouted: “You have the diary and map and still let me find the tomb’s opening by myself?”

“I was just given you a chance to express yourself.” Chen Yang met Lu Xiuzhi’s quiet eyes and smiled gently and harmlessly. He deliberately held himself back to test Lu Xiuzhi, Kou Xuanling may not see it, but Lu Xiuzhi understood right away.

Lu Xiuzhi expressionlessly averted his gaze.

Chen Yang took out his cell phone and found no signal: “If there is already no signal here, then there is even less signal inside.”

Kou Xuanling took out his own phone and said: “I don’t have a signal either.”

Chen Yang tried to send a message to Du Shuo, and successfully sent: “Luckily, I can keep in touch with Brother Du.” Kou Xuanling came up and asked: “Why is it that you and Du Shuo can still contact each other without signal?”

“Last time in Jinshui High School, due to the signal problem, the message was sent intermittently. Afterward, our old Du thought this was a big problem, so he opened a special line.”

“What special line?”

“The special line from hell to the living world.”

The author has something to say:

Why do I find the term “mortar and pestle” friendship to be really dirty? My pure soul has been contaminated by “the white liquid”.

In addition, I always feel that Chen Xiaoyang and Old Kou are always competing on whoever gives the most dog food.

 

 

 

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