C57 (2/2)

At that time, neither Hai Yang nor Zhu Yingqiong had any thoughts of returning. If I were like the monk, then perhaps nothing that happened later on would be able to happen.

Then, they returned to the Sakyamuni Army camp. They waited there for two days, but did not see us return, so Fourth Uncle knew that we had definitely entered deep into the miasma, and got searched by the monks.

The monk brought the attendants of the Sakyamuni Army camp and searched the Wild Mountain for three days. They even found an ancient city, but they couldn't find any trace of us. They didn't even know that the underground entrance was right underneath the ancient city and had even exchanged blows with the Beastmen a few times.

Fourth Uncle was starting to get anxious. He told the monk to continue searching the mountain and then left the Wild Mountain with an assistant.

”Where did the Fourth Uncle go?” I asked the monk in bewilderment.

The monk sighed, ”Actually, long before the old man was kidnapped by the British, Charles came to Fourth Master to discuss about cooperation, but the Fourth Master rejected him, and thus the British placed all their hopes on kidnapping the old man. After that, the Fourth Master originally wanted to settle the matter themselves, but they did not expect that you would disappear as well, so the Fourth Master left the Wild Mountain to find Charles to discuss cooperation, and asked him to bring his people up the mountain to help.”

I suddenly realised, all of the foreigners that we were looking at were all Charles's men.

Only then did they start to enter the underground. The route was similar to the ocean, but the ocean was swept in by the dark river, while the Fourth Uncle and the others, who had the advantage of numbers of people, followed the dark river and slowly found their way in.

That's why they took a while to arrive at the Anti-wall and found us. The reason they were also wearing the clothes for the Japanese Army, aside from protecting themselves from the cold, was because they wanted to confuse the gazes of the people who were secretly attacking them.

The people who attacked them should be the same as the people who imprisoned us, but whether or not it was Hu Guangzu, we can't be sure for now, because they haven't caught him yet.

Fourth Uncle and the rest didn't know that we were imprisoned on top of the city walls. It was only because we met them on the Anti-wall that the gunfight broke out, and it was only because a few foreigners heard us shouting that they caught the attention of the Fourth Uncle. That was why they broke open the door and saved us.

The road to the deepest underground outside the Anti-wall had already collapsed, and the people from the Fourth Uncle and Charles were trying to find a way to open a path, so we were temporarily stationed underneath the Anti-wall. My heart was still filled with many mysteries and questions I wanted to ask the monk, but the monk shook his head and said that there were many things that he did not know, so he told me to go ask the Fourth Uncle myself.

After we finished eating, Fourth Uncle entered the tent and looked at me with an extremely gloomy expression. He stared at me with his eyes and sighed after a long while, ”You little brat, if something really happens to you, how are you going to account to your father?”

Amongst the four disciples of the old gramps, Fourth Uncle had the best relationship with my father. After there was no news of my father's visit to Myanmar, Fourth Uncle even treated me like his own son.

I told him what happened after we left and asked urgently, ”Fourth Uncle, is there any news from the old man?”

Fourth Uncle shook his head, ”You should take care of yourself first. The old man is more intelligent than anyone, even if we die, he might not die. Just you wait, we'll find him eventually.”

After Fourth Uncle finished speaking, he started to ask if there was anyone who had come to ask us questions or that something strange had happened after we were imprisoned. He asked a very detailed question, and only after replying did I ask the Fourth Uncle, ”Who exactly are those people? Why did you imprison us? What is their goal? ”

Fourth Uncle was silent for a while, as if he had made some sort of decision, before he said: ”Their main goal is to imprison you, and as for Yov Dahai and Zhu Yingqiong, because these two are different from Ji Xiang and David, it's not easy for them to disappear, so they locked you up together, and their goal is to observe you!”

”Observe me?”

I'm a bit confused. I'm not an alien, and I'm not a special species.

In the end, he slowly said: ”Sanjin, there are some things that I have yet to understand. Some things I have told you you and you wouldn't understand, and I don't know where to start either.

After saying that, the Fourth Uncle left. My instincts told me that there were still many hidden secrets behind this entire matter, but I was unable to find out the reason. I was extremely anxious in my heart, just how many secrets was this damn Wild Mountain hiding?

After a few more hours, I felt that my body had recovered quite a bit and that my fever had subsided, but I was still very weak. I could only lie in my tent and heard joyful shouts coming from outside.

I tried to lift myself up to look outside, but just then, the tent flap opened once more and a white foreigner in his eighties, who looked like he was holding a walking stick, walked in.

This old man was wearing a Tang suit and holding a walking stick. His body looked even weaker than mine, and his face was pale and devoid of blood. He was filled with an aura of death, as if he was about to die.

He walked into the tent and sat down by himself. Seeing my surprised expression, he smiled, then spoke to me in pure Chinese: ”Hello, I am Charles!”