Chapter 39 - I
Seeing that he didn’t believe him, Mu Ci felt a little anxious, so he had no choice but to face Wu Ming’s strange look and continue: “When I was twenty years old, I went on a tour in the south of the Yangtze River. On the way, I met a young Taoist priest who suddenly fell ill and passed out. On the roadside, I took him back to the carriage and gave him some emergency medicine before he was rescued. This person was Wu Zhushan.”
“Later, before he said goodbye, he gave me a jade pendant and said if there was any disaster in the future, the jade pendant could save my life…”
When Mu Ci said this, he suddenly thought deeply, with a different look on his face—the day he jumped into the well and crossed over, he was wearing the jade pendant. Still, when Ji Yunshu reached out and touched it, it fell off Mu Ci’s waist and was caught by Ji Yunshu.
Could it be said that his ability to travel to modern times was due to that jade pendant?
It was a pity the jade pendant was not in his hands now, so he couldn’t confirm it.
When Wu Ming heard what he said, his eyes gradually became complicated. He stood up without saying a word and pulled out an old book from the bottom of the bookshelf.
This book was older, so someone had to be careful when turning the pages, as it was easily broken. Still, Wu Ming flipped through it without any concern, and a lot of dust and paper scraps fell during the process.
Finally, Wu Ming listed and pressed his finger on a certain place on the page. He saw handwriting on it, written stroke by stroke: In the Fengli years of the Yi Dynasty, Zhushan traveled to the south of the Yangtze River to visit Xuanhua hermits. On the way, something unexpected happened. He developed a taboo disease and was saved by a noble man. I calculated with my fingers that there would be a bloody disaster later, so I gave him a jade pendant as a token of gratitude.
This book was a biography passed down from generation to generation of the Wu Ming family. Of course, it had been renovated many times, but the records in it were all true and reliable. Moreover, this book had never been published outside the family. Even within the clan, only men could read it. There was no possibility of leaking it to outsiders.
But Mu Ci actually told this story without any flaws, unless he was really the person involved.
Although Wu Ming was born in a Taoist family, he received a good four-year college education and was basically a materialist. At this time, his jaw dropped at the success.
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Everyone had seen time-travel dramas, but who actually seen people who have time-traveled?
Wu Ming stared at Mu Ci’s long hair tied behind his head. He was extremely confused for a moment, and his face looked like he had been constipated for three days.
“Wait, wait a moment… You, let me digest it first; I can’t accept it for a while…” Wu Ming stood up holding the table, “That jade pendant, do you still have it in your hand? Give it to me.”
Mu Ci’s eyes darkened, “No more, someone tried to stop me when I jumped into the well, and accidentally pulled the jade pendant away.”
“In other words, it was the jade pendant that opened the space-time channel, and you were able to come here?” Wu Ming scratched his hair, and his slightly curly blond hair was even more disheveled.
Mu Ci looked at him and for no reason thought of the golden retriever he had seen on the roadside.
“Jade pendant, jade pendant…” Wu Ming muttered, flipping through the endangered but extremely precious family biography in his hand, and suddenly his eyes lit up, “Ah, I found it!”
Mu Ci curiously looked over, he saw a rough pattern of a jade pendant painted on the upper left corner, with a line of words written next to it: ‘relieve worries, relieve people’s worries, comfort people’s hearts, alleviate people’s difficulties, connect the sky and water, flow the earth and rivers, connect the past and present. Today, it has been handed down from our ancestors, but its effectiveness has never been seen.’
There was also a line of small red words written in red pen below: It had been given to the destined person.
It was probably written after Wu Zhushan gave the jade pendant to Mu Ci.
Mu Ci’s eyes paused for a long time on the words connecting the past and the present, and then slowly said: “Does this word mean that you can travel through time and space?”
Wu Ming was worthy of being a college student with more than ten years of education. At this time, he had done some psychological construction for himself and reshaped his world view in just a few minutes.
His attitude had changed from ‘this man has a broken brain and I have to find a way to send him to the hospital’ to ‘he may really have traveled from ancient times’.
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He was too frightened now and had calmed down abnormally. He even accepted his roommate’s words and found it a bit funny.
“It should be so. Connecting the past to the present can probably open the channel of time.” Wu Ming couldn’t help but cursed excitedly, “Fuck, wormholes, this is something that many scientists have not researched, and I actually encountered it.”
“It’s connected to the sky and flows through the earth’s river.” Mu Ci ignored Wu Ming’s unreasonable excitement. He rubbed his fingers and thought carefully, “Earth’s water refers to rain, right? The earth’s river…”
Mu Ci suddenly recalled that day. The details included a hazy drizzle falling from the sky, and the cold water in the ancient well behind him. The well water also led to the underground river. Was this the earth river?
Only if these conditions were met, the power of jade pendant could be stimulated?
If he found the jade pendant, could he use it to return to Yi Dynasty?
This bold guess made Mu Ci’s fingers tremble a little, and his voice became hoarse when he spoke again, “Can this jade pendant… be used twice?”