Tomb Raider: Invincible Double Pupil, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Chapter 153 Why Do I Lose My Memory

Xu Feng thought for a moment and continued, "In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the King Wannu of the north led his people to invade the northeast region and established the Dongxia regime. By chance, the King Wannu discovered the secret of the Zhang family's longevity. He arrested many members of the Zhang family and eventually learned the secret behind the Changbai Mountain Bronze Gate."

"Although the Zhang family is very powerful, they are still unable to fight against King Wannu, so they can only move south to Banai to avoid disaster."

"After countless experiments, King Wannu finally achieved immortality with the help of centipedes."

"This method is that the previous Wannu King brings the next Wannu King into the bronze door together. The centipedes in the body crawl out of the previous Wannu King's body and eat the previous Wannu King's corpse. The centipedes carry the previous Wannu King's memory into the new Wannu King's body, thus achieving another kind of immortality."

"But when it came to the 14th Wannu King, the lifespan of the symbiotic centipede was about to end, and the 14th Wannu King could no longer achieve immortality through the symbiotic art with the centipede, so the 14th Wannu King decided to build a giant ancient tomb on the bronze door, which is the Cloud Top Palace."

"King Wannu captured Wang Canghai, the most famous architect in the Central Plains at the time, to build the Yunding Palace. He was so crazy that he wanted to bury the entire tribe and Wang Canghai on the bronze door when the ancient tomb was completed."

"I didn't expect Wang Canghai to be so cunning. Not only did he leave a secret passage for himself when building the ancient tomb, he also took advantage of the opportunity to enter the bronze door and spy on the secrets behind the bronze door. At the same time, he also knew the existence of the Zhang family."

"After Wang Canghai escaped from Dongxia, in pursuit of immortality, he established the Wang family to resist the Zhang family, and began a centuries-long battle with the Zhang family for the art of immortality."

"Wang family?!"

Zhang Qiling frowned, as if recalling something.

After a while.

He said, "Go on."

Xu Feng nodded: "In order to maintain the purity of the Zhang family's bloodline, they have always intermarried. Over time, there has gradually been a distinction between the inner family and the outer family, as well as a distinction between high and low status."

"Those who marry within the clan and keep their blood pure are called inner clan members."

"Those who intermarry with outsiders and thus have impure bloodlines are considered outsiders."

"In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a serious upheaval within the Zhang family. The clan leader at the time, Zhang Ruitong, married a woman from another clan and had children with her. This violated clan rules and was discovered by the five clan elders. After discussion, they decided to execute Zhang Ruitong."

"Later, Zhang Ruitong's clan left Zhangjia and moved to Changsha, Nanhu."

"Due to the Zhang family rules, the Zhang family has a core secret over the years, and only the clan leader knows this secret."

"Everyone in the Zhang family knows that this secret is related to immortality. No one can resist such a temptation. In order to compete for the position of patriarch, the various branches of the Zhang family began to fight among themselves."

"This internal struggle dealt a huge blow to the Zhang family and became the main reason for the Zhang family's decline."

"It is said that in your Zhang family's ancient building, there is a floor full of boxes, and the boxes are all filled with human hands. It is said that because of that internal strife, the Zhang family suffered heavy casualties, so they were unable to bury the dead in time, and could only symbolically cut off a hand to complete the burial."

"You can imagine how brutal that internal struggle was."

"As for you, you originated from the baby in the dragon-patterned jade box."

Zhang Qiling was stunned: "I am the baby in the dragon-patterned jade box?!"

He had seen the silk cloth and knew King Mu of Zhou's plan and the existence of the baby in the dragon-patterned jade box.

Xu Feng shook his head: "You are wrong, you are not that baby."

"King Zhou Mu's plan is to open the dragon-patterned jade box three hundred years later."

"But the Zhang family's ancestral precept is that the jade box should not be opened until three thousand years have passed! The holy child in the jade box is the new patriarch of the Zhang family. He will lead the Zhang family on the path to true eternal life."

"This Holy Child is the Zhang family's faith. They place their hope for eternal life on the Holy Child."

"But after the Zhang family waited for three thousand years, they took out the jade box and found that the baby inside had died."

"The Zhang family's faith is shattered!"

"Eternal life has been the pursuit of the Zhang family for thousands of years. The destruction of their faith is almost devastating to the Zhang family. In order to prevent the Zhang family from falling apart, several elders of the Zhang family found the son of the Tibetan doctor Bai Ma and asked him to replace the Holy Child."

"You are the son of the Tibetan doctor Bai Ma."

Zhang Qiling looked a little dazed: "Tibetan doctor Bai Ma?" "Yes, Tibetan doctor Bai Ma is your mother."

"Mother?"

Zhang Qiling clenched his fists unconsciously.

A little bit.

His deep voice sounded: "How is she?!"

Xu Feng sighed: "She's dead."

After hearing this, all the muscles in Zhang Qiling's body tensed up and an indescribable aura began to emanate from him.

Xu Feng could understand Zhang Qiling’s feelings very well.

He hesitated.

In the end, he was not told that his mother could be resurrected.

According to the original novel, Bai Ma was buried under the ice. Later, the master of the Lama Temple brought her out and gave her the medicine Cang Hai Hua, so she did not die, but it cannot be accurately said that she is still alive.

She still has one chance to wake up.

But she can only wake up for three days, and then she will die completely.

If he could find a magical object like the jade figurine that could bring the dead back to life, he could help Zhang Qiling resurrect his mother.

for a long time.

Zhang Qiling took back his breath and said, "Let's continue. Let's talk about the Zhang family."

Xu Feng nodded: "After Zhang Ruitong died, his descendants moved to Nanhu. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Ruitong's grandson Zhang Qishan gained a firm foothold in the military and political power center of Changsha, and continued to make new contributions, and later became a founding hero.

"In order to fulfill his grandfather and father's long-cherished wish to regain the secret of Zhang Chang's longevity, Zhang Qishan revealed the secret of Zhang Chang's longevity to the person in power at the time. With the help of the person in power, he successfully established an organization dedicated to finding the secret of longevity."

"At the same time, Zhang Qishan also used the order of the person in power and the bait of "whitewashing" to take advantage of the Nine Gates. He organized the largest and most brutal tomb robbery in history at Mount Siguniang, causing the loss of all the elites of the Nine Gates. Then, in the name of protecting the Nine Gates, he carried out a major purge of the Nine Gates."

"The Nine Gates have since fallen into decline."

Zhang Qiling frowned: "What does this have to do with me?"

Xu Feng looked at him: "Because you also participated in the tomb-robbing operation at that time, Zhang Qishan knew that without you, he could not enter the Zhang Family Ancient Building, so he found you and invited you to join this operation."

“In fact, Wu Sanxing recognized you a long time ago, but he didn’t know whether you really had amnesia or faked it, so he simply pretended not to know you and kept testing you.

"Why do I lose my memory?!"

"This is a problem with your Qilin bloodline."

Xu Feng explained: "As far as I know, the purer the Qilin bloodline of your Zhang family, the stronger the physical fitness, but there are also sequelae, that is, amnesia. This kind of amnesia may be accidental, sometimes intermittent, and sometimes regular."

"You are timed. You will lose your memory every once in a while."

Zhang Qiling was silent for a moment, then asked again: "Is it the Zhang family's duty to guard the bronze door? What secrets are behind the bronze door?!"

Xu Feng: "To be honest, I don't know what secrets are hidden behind the bronze door. Maybe it is related to immortality, or maybe it seals a terrible disaster. No one can tell."

"As for your Zhang family, before I saw the silk cloth of King Mu of Zhou, I always thought that what I just said was the history of your Zhang family. But after seeing the silk cloth of King Mu of Zhou, I am now confused and don't know what is true and what is false."

Zhang Qiling fell silent again.

(End of this chapter)