After going to the West, Sun Tianqi pinned his hope of curing Ban Nu on Western medical skills. Soon after getting off the ship, he joined the Taiping Chamber of Commerce under the introduction of his colleague Deng Yingying.
The Taiping Chamber of Commerce, a Chinese chamber of commerce in both England and Magnesium, was born in the mid-19th century. It was a Chinese association that appeared in the West after 1860. Similarly, it was also a Chinese association in the West that resisted foreign discrimination and protected property and personal safety overseas. mutual aid association.
He joined the Taiping Chamber of Commerce because he and his companions were not familiar with each other in the West, so they could only join the Taiping Chamber of Commerce to keep warm. After that, while working for the Taiping Chamber of Commerce, they contacted doctors and hypnotists in the West, and through him they saw When you arrive, consult these doctors about the condition to find out what is happening that turns a living person into a bloodthirsty monster without being poisoned.
Although Western medical skills at that time were superb, they could not cure diseases out of thin air. Only through precise examination with various instruments could we find the reason why Ban Nu became bloodthirsty. It was impossible to judge Ban Nu's condition just by describing it. The situation of the crossbow.
After hearing the news, Sun Tianqi understood that unless Ban Nu was sent to the West, it would be impossible to even find the cause of her symptoms, let alone cure her.
Just when he was worried, Sun Tianqi remembered the Southern Tour Chronicle mentioned by the ancestors of the Wanyan family. Among them, it was clearly mentioned that the Xuan Shu Iron Coupon recorded the whereabouts of the Yin and Yang Fish Pendant. These two items were left by King Wen and King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty. The jade pendant has extremely magical power and can attract the power of ghosts and gods to work for itself.
If Ban Nu's illness cannot be solved with medical skills, then the only thing left is witchcraft. After all, she was punished by the Wushan God to become bloodthirsty. Perhaps, using the power of the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant, she can attract the power of ghosts and gods. , to break her curse.
After wanting to understand this, Sun Tianqi already knew that he should put all his hopes on the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant. This was easy to say, but when he actually did it, he found it extremely difficult.
First of all, he had only heard the story of the ancestor of the Wanyan clan who went south with the Jin army from the elders of the clan. As for the whereabouts of the southern tour chronicle, he had no clues.
The only thing he knew was that this ancestor of the Wanyan family once buried the iron coupon in the mysterious book that recorded the Yin and Yang fish pendant in the tomb of a certain concubine in the Northern Song Dynasty. Once they occupied the south, they could put the tomb in it. Take out the iron coupon of Xuan Shu.
Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and the Southern Song Dynasty battle lines were also drawn along the river. After the peace negotiation in Shaoxing, the relationship between the Jin and Song Dynasties gradually eased, and Wanyan ancestors no longer had the opportunity to take away the Xuan Shu Iron Coupon. As for the From then on, until the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongolian Kingdom, they never came back. The Jin Kingdom was still unable to break through the river defense line, and could not reach the tomb of the concubine.
Sun Tianqi didn't know who the concubine was, but he vaguely remembered that she was one of the harem concubines sent back by ancestor Wanyan from the Kingdom of Jin for a grand burial. Based on the historical books of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was basically certain that she was Empress Zhu and Concubine Hu of Qinzong of the Song Dynasty. .
Excluding the fact that Queen Zhu’s mausoleum is not located along the river, the only one left is probably Princess Hu.
From this, Sun Tianqi determined the tomb where the Xuan Shu Iron Coupon was kept, and took the people back to Jiangyong County.
At this time, Jiangyong County was punished by the local government because of the birth of Tianfei. Everyone was living in misery. They were born in Dengying and couldn't do too much. They were just pretending to be gods in the local area. They heard that Tianfei was punished. After sinking into the pond, he used the theory of fish and ghosts in the lake to let the people fish out the bones of the concubines and bury them, which was considered as fulfilling the benevolence and righteousness of fellow Taiping soldiers.
After that, Sun Tianqi only asked Deng Yingying to stay in Jiangyong and find every way to find the tomb of Concubine Hu. Unfortunately, the Hu family was extremely cautious about this and never revealed a trace of information. If it were left to other families, he would have found Hu Taifei's tomb. The family was tied up and tortured to extract confessions.
He thought that the Hu family had produced a concubine who led the people to fight, but he could not act rashly and harm his fellow Taiping families. He could only be accommodating to the Hu family, and would always focus on secret visits and never use force. At the same time, he continued Investigate Ghost Fang Zong's actions behind the scenes to see if there is any breakthrough.
After Yue Guanchao and others went to Jiangyong County to investigate Nushu, he took advantage of the opportunity of the chaos in the old Concubine Tian's soul to trick the Hu family into giving the location of Concubine Hu's mausoleum so that they could open the tomb and take out the iron coupon of the Xuan Shu.
After that, just recently, his informant in Wushan informed him that Ban Nu had woken up, and he showed up in Wushan County.
Everyone listened to Sun Tianqi's words and realized that being able to maintain the same goal for thirty years was considered to be the most sincere act. Although he had not been with Ban Nu for the past thirty years, he had already exhausted all his efforts to find a way to rescue her, which was worthy of him. Ban Nu’s thirty years of crazy and obsessive dedication.
"I thought you had left Wushan a long time ago, but I didn't expect that you have been with me for more than thirty years."
Ban Nu has been crazy for thirty years. When he woke up, he found that Sun Tianqi had been paying attention to him in Wushan for decades. Apart from being moved, he also felt a little bit lucky. If he was still not awakened, then he would have to wait forever.
Sun Tianqi sighed: "At that time, if you hadn't informed me of Guifang Zong's conspiracy in advance, I might not have been able to get out. Since I had no choice but to leave you, how could I not care about you? If I had been When I have nothing to do, I will come to Wushan in disguise. Here you can climb up high and look far away, and you can directly see Chaoyun Villa. I can't find a way to cure you, so I can only stay with you in this way."
"Since it was a curse from Ghost Fang Zong, how could you suddenly wake up?"
Sun Tianqi's eyes were extremely concerned. He was afraid that this was another conspiracy of Gui Fangzong, and he was also afraid that Ban Nu's sobriety would be short-lived and would disappear soon.
Ban Nu looked confused and shook his head: "I don't know yet. It was these people who used shadow puppets to wake me up."
"So, how did you feel at that time?"
Sun Tianqi asked again.
Ban Nu thought for a moment: "When I was crazy, my memory was blurry. There was only one sound in my mind, which was turning into a beast and killing people with bloodthirsty. Apart from that, there were no pictures or sounds. Apart from these sounds, maybe I There is still a trace of sanity left, but whenever I try to recall my previous memories and identity, my head will feel extremely painful as if I were holding a needle. It seems that something is frequently preventing me from recalling my previous experiences."
"After I saw these shadow puppets, it was like there was a kind of magic power, which kept tearing apart the barriers in my mind and put all my memories in. Only then can I fully recall my memories, and everything I experienced became clear. , and I woke up."
Xu Xiake listened to Senior Ban's words and nodded towards her: "My guess is good. It's probably Gui Fangzong who placed certain memory restrictions on you."
"Memory restriction?"
Everyone became curious.
"Yes, memory restriction."
Xu Xiake explained: "Memory ban, just like talisman ban, can block all memories and reason of a person. If a person is compared to a can filled with water, then memory ban is to take out the water in the can. It can even contain dirty things that don’t originally belong in the jar.”
"The situation of the seniors in the corresponding class is that while Guifang Zong sealed her memory, he also used hypnosis and restraint to pour into her the soul of a beast that did not belong to her. In this way, although she still looks like a human being, in fact, her mind and consciousness are different. Zhi is already a beast and no longer belongs to humans.”
"I think this is the only way to explain her state. These shadow puppets are a type of ancient witchcraft. They have the function of accommodating souls. It is likely that the consciousness in her body was absorbed by the shadow puppets. Of course her original memories came back along with her reason."
"Really? Is this memory restriction really that powerful?"
Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes, disbelief written all over his face.
Xu Xiake puffed up his cheeks and explained: "I don't know if the memory restriction is strong or not. Judging from the special abilities of the Guifang family, since they can spread consciousness among the descendants of the family, they can probably implant some consciousness into a living person. , is completely achievable. The purpose of the restriction itself is to prevent the host from cracking it. Unless it is unlocked from the outside, they may not be able to break through it even if they rely on themselves for thousands of years."
Song Siyuan listened to his explanation, coughed a few times and retorted: "I don't think so. You still remember the Guan Luoyin we saw, which used hypnotic techniques. If the reason and memory of the senior class were blocked I woke up, it was probably because someone used hypnosis to tamper with the memory and set a memory anchor."
"No, I can understand tampering with memory, but what is the memory anchor?" Yue Guanchao had already been knocked unconscious.
"To use a metaphor."
Song Siyuan took out the letter paper on the table and drew three stacked grids: "All human memories are drawn on this paper. The bottom grid represents her original memory, and the second grid represents Gui Fangzong's revised version of the paper. The beast's memory, in order to prevent her from finding the underlying memory, added a lock on top of these two layers of memory, and this lock is the anchor point."
She paused and her tone became mysterious: "Once the senior class wants to regain her sanity, she will encounter this anchor point when looking back at her memory. She wants to break through the anchor point and retrieve her memory. This anchor point will work, allowing the original revision The anchoring memory floods into the mind and is replaced by a beast-like memory. The external manifestation is bloodthirsty and madness. The harder you try to recall the past, the more serious the external madness may be."
"The role of shadow puppets is equivalent to forcibly using the memory of her experience to attack this memory anchor point. Until the anchor point is broken by the underlying memory, the two memories merge with each other. This allows her to regain her memory and regain her sanity at the same time. .”
Xu Xiake and Song Siyuan each had different opinions, and they all sounded like the same thing. Everyone didn't know how to explain it, so they looked at Ban Nu.
She shook her head: "We can't guess the secret technique of Guan Fang Zong. Even if I can watch Guan Luoyin, I can only use it. I don't know how Guan Luoyin is formed and what the connecting scenes are. I still don’t know anything about it.”
Since the analysis could not yield any results, he could only change the subject. Yue Guanchao asked again: "Brother Sun, since you have been investigating Guifang Zong for so long, do you know his details?"
Mentioning this point, Sun Tianqi nodded seriously and said, "It's basically clear, the origin of Ghost Fang Sect!"
