The Ancestral Legacy Begins in the Wild West

Chapter 141 A magnificent and colorful ancestral experience: life story, rewards, and psychic links.

"You said you'd go to the heavens and the seas, and you really went to space—" Zhang Chang'an stared at the last image in front of him, speechless.

However, since the display was already complete, the special space around him slowly disappeared, and he returned to the sofa in his rented room.

However, he didn't stay on the sofa for long and immediately got up and went back to his room.

He rented this apartment after receiving the proceeds from his trip to London. The housing prices in Guangdong are well-known, and even though he is unlikely to be short of money in the future, he did not make a move casually.

Since he's the only one there, and there's a large space in the photography studio for him to work with, there's no need to rent a large house.

However, although this place is not a duplex or a large single-level apartment, it still has a complete kitchen, living room and bathroom, making it very spacious for him to live alone. The facilities are also very good, including a computer that is no less than the one in the studio.

As the machine started up, Zhang Chang'an sighed helplessly, saying that his Zhang family really didn't support idlers. They went from deserts in the west to cowboys, from island nations to fighting against the shogunate, from the Caribbean to being pirates, and even rode rockets into space.

Although he had already looked through the restored biographies of his ancestors, there was a fundamental difference between these biographies and the previous ones: they presented many elements in the form of paintings.

So although the accompanying text is short, it contains a lot of information. After a quick glance, if you look at it again, there are still many details waiting for him to discover.

Although the special space had disappeared, the biographies of those individuals were preserved in the family genealogy and could be accessed at any time. Zhang Chang'an then decided to delve deeper into the matter.

"This Chao Sheng Gong from the Age of Exploration, although from a very early era, seems to have come into contact with quite a bit of whale oil technology, perhaps because he was at sea. Although he sank to the bottom of the sea, there are quite a lot of metal parts in this scene."

Zhang Chang'an pondered, then focused his gaze on the bottom of the screen: "However, the focus of his experience shouldn't just be these early technologies. What's at the bottom of this screen is definitely some kind of sea monster."

Just as the West has its Dagon followers, and the Mississippi River can nurture mystical beings worshipped and revered, the ocean is even more so.

This ancestor of the Age of Exploration was in the largest scene, but unfortunately, he had the fewest details, so there wasn't much to search for. He only needed to take a few more glances to basically determine the tone of his life.

Similar to this is the post by the Lord of Eternal Night, which says he is a member of some secret unit. However, a secret unit existing in a spacetime rift is not information that he can easily find.

And the biggest problem here isn't even this: "What kind of people are on both sides? It's true that military equipment wasn't perfect during WWI, but are you going to throw away your guns and turn into werewolves halfway through the battle? And are those German soldiers on the other side? Or is it a zombie unit of elite snipers?"

Looking back at the battle now, Zhang Chang'an still finds it utterly absurd.

He can only find conspiracy theories or fantasy works online.

Similar to the previous two, there is also the Duke of Qinghe in the west. Zhang Chang'an is quite familiar with his life and the western region itself, and the information in the picture is also very clear.

"That girl must be the great-grandmother who knew how to use an Indian bow but cut off her own arm to raise money for revenge. There's not much else to say, except for that monster from the Gobi Desert—"

"Wendigo, a cannibalistic monster in Native American legend, is transformed from humans who eat their own kind."

Their appearance is often described as a troll standing 20 to 30 feet tall, with bones and a heart made of ice, and features such as sharp teeth and claws. Occasionally, antlers are added.

Sure enough, besides bandits and guns, the West also possessed many mysterious forces such as witchcraft and monsters.

After looking at these three, and then turning to the remaining two, there's more to explore in depth.

"The French Revolution - Chinese - The ancestors of Zhang Lan during the French Revolution, although they were of the same generation as Chao Sheng Gong during the late Age of Exploration, that is, the late 18th century.

However, it is not entirely normal for Chinese people to participate in navigation. Before the invention of things like ironclad warships, Chinese navigation technology was already world-leading. After all, one of the key elements of ocean voyages, the compass, was transmitted from China.

Not to mention the 18th century, for more than 15 years, there were Chinese people on the galleons that set off from Fujian, passed through the Philippines, and then arrived in Manila, Mexico.

But the French Revolution was a completely different story. At that time, France was struggling to survive, and overseas trade was severely hampered: "Would it be possible for only a few individuals to be active in France?" Zhang Chang'an found relevant information: "In 1702, Huang Jialue, a native of Putian in Fujian province, settled in France and became the royal family's language expert. He translated a large number of domestic documents into Latin, as well as Chinese textbooks. This was seventy or eighty years before the French Revolution—"

"People from Putian, that's not surprising. They probably went to Meizhou Island to ask Mazu before they left, and Mazu didn't shake her head."

His family, the Zhang family, are from Guangdong, and some places here are indeed very similar to some people in Fujian.

The question is how he got there, which is just the smallest mystery surrounding this ancestor.

According to Zhang Chang'an's deduction, the prison in the picture he was in was very likely the Bastille, which stored a large amount of gunpowder and weapons and was used by the royal family at the time to imprison political prisoners.

The fall of this place marks a crucial juncture in the French Revolution. The question is, if this is indeed the place, does it mean that his ancestor was a political prisoner of France?

"What have I done?!"

Zhang Chang'an pondered, focusing his gaze on the last point of doubt in the picture: "The Philosopher's Stone is not a stone in the literal sense, but a kind of unchanging substance that often appears in solid, liquid or powder form."

The color is mostly blood-red; in alchemy, it symbolizes the completion of a great work, with core functions including alchemy and the preparation of elixirs of immortality.

This naturally refers to the red liquid in the flask in Zhang Lan's hand. According to the data, before the French Revolution, alchemy had begun to transform into modern science and had encountered some suppression, but it still existed, and there were even people secretly researching it in the Royal Academy of Sciences.

"So, this isn't just a revolution, it's also closely related to alchemy; it even led to the Philosopher's Stone—"

Zhang Chang'an lingered here for a long time in order to prepare for any eventuality.

Previously, the Age of Exploration, zombies, werewolves, and even Wendigos—American monsters—were all popular elements in popular culture.

Zhang Chang'an doesn't really need to understand this in detail. The main reason is that if their technology, like the steam technology using whale oil, is different from the real history, then only by entering that period of history can he discover the specific doubts.

Alchemy is different. Although there are many derivative works, it is far removed from the actual historical situation.

"The last time I came into contact with this kind of thing was when I watched Fullmetal Alchemist and went to an internet cafe with Fan Ge and the others for an all-night session, using the Poison Man."

He naturally has a lot of knowledge to learn.

At the same time, he also checked the last drawing one last time.

Ling Huan Gong, who has some connection with aerospace, is the only one whose life story is presented in photographs, but the details that can be unearthed are indeed the fewest.

No one appeared in the scene; the spaceship had already disappeared into a white haze, making it difficult to discern any details, and even the blurry outline of the planet was unclear.

However, being a pioneer in aerospace, this experience was indeed a bit too outrageous, so he naturally paid extra attention: "The caption said he went to the Soviet Union, so does that mean it was during the Cold War? But it also said he often saw ghosts and monsters—what does this record mean? It's impossible for something like aerospace to be related to the supernatural."

Zhang Chang'an pondered casually as his gaze swept across the starry sky in the picture, when suddenly he was drawn to some of the details.

In the starry sky, the side closer to the rocket launch pad, rather than the distant planet, appears to be a dark expanse twinkling with stars.

However, Zhang Chang'an clearly found something different about the stars among those scattered stars.

It wasn't a distant star, but a strange, spherical object floating in the night.

That's not entirely true, after all, the pale thing clearly had incredibly soft hands and feet pressed tightly against its sides, and a large mouth that was slowly opening, about to extend its scarlet tentacles.

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While Zhang Chang'an was still in shock, he suddenly saw a brand new notification: "You have discovered hidden information about his life, unlocking the ancestral ability of Zhang Linghuan: [Spiritual Connection]."

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