Chapter 179 - Murals of the Bushmen (2/2)

However, Wen Guanjing just takes the piece of jade. He explains to her, “This one belongs to the Wen family and I cannot call the shots… As for the Universal Sack and the Jade Map, they are souvenirs for cultivators who have been to the secret land. Sister Lin, you can keep them.”

“I heard that you have been abroad these years. Now that you come back, why do you come to R City instead of taking a good rest?” By saying “rest”, Lin Luoran actually means “cultivation”. She is surprised to find that he has not made any progress since their farewell three years ago. Wen Guanjing is greatly valued by the master of the Wen family and the so-called “Minister Chen” and he is the best one among the young generation, so he should have a good Taoist root…

Speaking of his experience abroad, Wen Guanjing gets excited. He says in a mystic tone, “Sister Lin, you will never know what I have found these years abroad.”

Lin Luoran turns to him. Wen Guanjing looks for something in his Universal Sack. Lin Luoran looks at him with expectation but just sees him taking out a laptop. If there is anything special with this laptop, it is the latest model of IBM.

“Your gift to me?”

Wen Guanjing answers, “Yes, I have a gift for you, but no, not this laptop.”

He opens the laptop and asks anxiously, “Sister, have you watched the movie The G.o.ds Must Be Crazy?”

That is a cla.s.sic movie and Lin Luoran watched it when she was in university. It is so special that she can even remember the story clearly today.

“The one about Bushmen?”

The movie was made in the 1980s. It tells an interesting story of the Bushmen, who live in the desert in Africa, got confronted with modern civilization. Although they were just 600 kilometers away from the modern city, the Bushmen had no idea of modern civilization. They drank water from tree roots, tree sap and the dewdrop on the leaves in the morning. They lived on hunting and there was no fight or conflict between them. It was a pure, happy and peaceful tribe. However, their life changed one day, when a plastic bottle dropped from a plane by accident…

Lin Luoran is mostly impressed by the language used by Bushmen, which she cannot understand at all. However, how is this movie connected with Wen Guanjing’s gift?

The laptop is turned on quickly. Lin Luoran looks at the screen. It is a picture in the desert with someone standing in front of some colorful murals. The murals are carved in the rock with beautiful colors. They are very eye-catching.

However, why is the picture familiar? Lin Luoran thinks very hard and realizes that she has seen the picture before — isn’t that the still photo of the TV series Heroes? The painter who predicts the future with his murals in the desert?

Wen Guanjing is not a strange person who will call her back just to show her a still photo… She looks more carefully and sees Wen Guanjing’s hand shaking.

“This one is just a foreshadowing. Sister Lin, are you aware that the Bushmen are also very good at recording history with murals apart from hunting and tracking? This picture was firstly shot at the Kalahari Desert in Africa…”

Saying this, Wen Guanjing clicks on a coded picture. Lin Luoran glances at it casually but gets surprised at once.

Is that…?

Wen Guanjing clicks on the mouse and shows multiple pictures of similar scenes with a little difference. She can tell that the pictures are telling the same story. Different pictures provide different angles and different pieces of evidence.

Lin Luoran doesn’t say anything. She looks much more serious than Wen Guanjing.

There are less than ten pictures and she finishes looking at them soon.

Lin Luoran turns to Wen Guanjing, hoping to get a “no” from him. However, Wen Guanjing nods his head solemnly.

“Sister, this is the most precious thing I have got abroad… The Bushmen who can draw pictures have given me a lot of pleasant surprises.”

Lin Luoran breathes out slowly. It is not really a pleasant surprise for her, but it really shocks her — if something happens once, it can be fake, but if it happens again in Africa, what does it mean?

Will it be what they have been expecting for?