C8 Master's Legacy
After Dean Wang finished speaking, Wu Zhongyuan was not very depressed. He even felt a bit lucky. Although having mammals and birds was worrying, these two types of organisms were always much better than insects and reptiles.
Dean Wang walked to the side of the car and helped Wu Zhongyuan open the door. "Get in the car."
Wu Zhongyuan looked into the car. It was a very expensive Audi. The car was spacious and clean, but his body was very dirty. "I'd better go back by myself."
Dean Wang did not respond. He pulled him into the car and closed the door behind him.
Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan still had something to say to Dean Wang, the driver cleverly lowered the window for him. Wu Zhongyuan stuck his head out and asked, "Dean Wang, what do they do to me?"
Dean Wang knew what Wu Zhongyuan meant by 'they', but there were some things that were not convenient for the driver to know. "At the moment, it does not seem to have any effect. They did not do anything. They have been resting."
Wu Zhongyuan did not ask any more questions. After thanking them, the car started.
Wu Zhongyuan had been in a car before, but he had never been in such a good car. It was not as if he was sitting on pins and needles, but it was true that he was sitting upright. He did not dare to lean on his back as he was afraid of dirtying the passenger seat of the car.
The driver did not speak much. When he asked where Wu Zhongyuan was going, he drove quietly. Half an hour later, he sent Wu Zhongyuan to the entrance of the school.
Wu Zhongyuan thanked the driver and got out of the car with a bag. He walked towards the school in a daze.
The guard on duty was the one who got beaten up last night. When he saw Wu Zhongyuan get off the Audi, he looked at him in confusion and surprise.
Wu Zhongyuan did not pay attention to him. He did not even notice him. He was physically and mentally exhausted and only wanted to go back to sleep.
It was time for dinner. There were people coming and going on campus. When his classmates saw him, they called him from afar and invited him to go to the canteen for dinner.
Wu Zhongyuan waved at them. In fact, he was a little hungry, but compared to eating, he wanted to sleep more.
He could skip dinner, but he had to cancel his leave. He returned to the dormitory, changed into his school uniform, and went to find his form teacher to sell his leave. It was almost dark by then, and the lighting was not good. The form teacher did not notice that he was injured on his head.
After selling his leave, he went to the Little Merchandize Shop and called Lin Qingming's colleagues. Lin Qingming did not have a phone, but his colleagues did. They answered the phone and told him that Lin Qingming had gone back. At that time, he had gone down the well.
After making sure that Lin Qingming was fine, Wu Zhongyuan left the Little Merchandize Shop. Just as he wanted to return to his dorm, he heard someone calling him. It was Huang Ping, who was waving at him outside the school gate.
Huang Ping only had one purpose for coming here. She had been unable to contact Lin Qingming and wanted to know how to deal with the matter. In fact, she was concerned about how Lin Qingming was doing.
Wu Zhongyuan said what he could say, but he could not say nothing. As the saying went, what he could not say was to tell Huang Ping about the things that Huang Ping might have leaked. Huang Ping was beautiful and had good moral character. However, other than being uncultured, she also had another huge flaw. She had a best friend in the factory who had grown up with her and worked together with her. This was something Lin Qingming did not like. In Lin Qingming's eyes, a woman who had a close friend was not mature enough. He could not keep it a secret.
After confirming that Lin Qingming was fine, Huang Ping finally felt relieved. She stuffed the snacks she brought to Wu Zhongyuan and turned around to leave.
Wu Zhongyuan did not want Huang Ping's things, because Lin Qingming did not want him to. Lin Qingming did not even let him tell Huang Ping the phone number of his colleagues in the mine. However, Huang Ping could not see Lin Qingming. She would bring something to please him, her future brother-in-law, every few days. This caused many people to misunderstand that Huang Ping was his girlfriend.
After returning to the dormitory, he finally relaxed. His mind was empty. He leaned over and fell asleep.
He was woken up not long after he fell asleep. The reason was that the classmate who had gone to night self-study had returned. It was noisy.
Although he had woken up, Wu Zhongyuan did not open his eyes. Instead, he closed his eyes and carefully thought about what had happened that day. There was no movement until now, which meant that Floral Shirt really did not call the police. Even if the incident of beating someone up ended like this, his master's grave would still be safe.
The only thing that troubled him right now was his own situation. Before this, he only knew that he was an orphan that was picked up by his master. He also didn't want to search for his own origin, but the things that he experienced today caused him to have a strong desire to search for his own origin.
The reason why he had such a thought was that before he got on the car, Dean Wang had once said that the two additional genes that he had were mammals and birds. The strange human-shaped skeleton in the coffin also had a bird's beak. If the color was normal, then... A person would never have a bird's beak, which meant that the skeleton was the same as him. They all belonged to an abnormal color, and at the same time, it also meant that this skeleton had some kind of connection with him.
The first thing he thought of was that the skeleton in the coffin was his father, but he quickly denied this idea. Because according to the sequence Dean Wang told him, he had two extra colored bodies. One of the mammals was inherited from his father, while the other was inherited from his mother. However, the corpse in the coffin was obviously the skeleton of an adult male, which eliminated the possibility that it was his father.
However, this corpse was clearly related to him. It was very likely that he was with this birdman when he was very young. Later on, the birdman died for some unknown reason, and his master buried that birdman and adopted him.
Using the birdman to describe that corpse was very impolite, but other than the birdman, he also couldn't think of how to address the other party. Since the two of them were together back then, this meant that the two of them had a very close relationship. Could it be that this bird person was his uncle?
When he thought of this, the image of a woman with a bird's beak couldn't help but appear in Wu Zhongyuan's mind. But he quickly chased this image away from his mind. Firstly, he could not accept the image of his mother. Secondly, if a woman looked like this, perhaps no man would like her.
In fact, it wasn't impossible to determine the relationship between him and that strange skeleton. Science and technology were so advanced nowadays. As long as he dug out that skeleton for DNA testing, there would be an accurate result.
However, he did not want to take this path for now. Dean Wang might be able to explain to the outside world about the abnormal condition of the body. However, if people knew that there was something similar to him, it would arouse the curiosity of the people and the relevant departments. When the time came, he would just wait to be arrested.
The reason why his master had quietly buried that corpse back then was probably because of this reason. He wanted to protect him and not let the world know that he was different from the rest of the world.
There was another detail about the strange skeleton, which was that it was not wearing any clothes when it was buried. This shouldn't have been his master's doing, because his master was a Daoist priest. It was a matter of life and death, and it was impossible to leave the other party's clothes behind.
There was another way to understand his background. That was to ask his senior brother, Lin Qingming, that he hadn't been weaned when he was adopted by his master. When a man was born, he had to drink milk until he was one or two years old. Therefore, not being weaned didn't mean that he had just been born. Lin Qingming was three years older than him. At that time, he should be four or five years old. Perhaps he could remember something.
However, after thinking about it carefully, this method was also rejected by Wu Zhongyuan. Senior brother's mouth was very tight, not to mention the possibility that he knew the truth. Even if he really knew something, he didn't want to say it. Other people definitely wouldn't be able to get anything out of him. It was precisely because he was such a person... That was why he didn't like Huang Ping.
At the end of his thoughts, Wu Zhongyuan flipped over and sat up. He took out the bag from under the bed. This bundle of books was left behind by his master. Perhaps he could find some clues from it.
The college entrance exam was about to begin. The students were busy revising and the school did not strictly specify which time the lights were off. He untied the rope of the bundle of books and read them one by one. The first book was a handwritten scripture of morality. It's been a long time, so there's nothing special about it. He casually put it down.
The second one was a scripture of his father, the West Ascension Scripture. When his master was alive, he did not teach the two of them how to recite the scripture. Therefore, he didn't know if the text in the book was real or not. There was a classmate who was using a computer. He casually recited a sentence and had the other party check it online. It was confirmed to be a scripture.
A stack of books, most of them were Taoist scriptures. The Early Class and Late Class scriptures, they were not the only books. The contents of the books could be found on the computer.
There was also a book about the size of 16, which was Master's medical knowledge. It recorded some of the medical experiences of using dirt to treat illnesses. It recorded when to use rat poop to treat who to treat the Sore Poison. When did you use the knowledge of monkeys to cure the night fright disease of whose child? It was quite thick. It could not be finished in a short period of time.
Apart from these, there were four other books. One of them was the 'Wind Speed Secret Technique', and the other one was the 'Qi Cultivating Bone Strengthening Technique'. The master of these two kung fus had taught them to him and his senior brother without holding anything back when they were alive.
The last two books were hand-written and copied, but the master hadn't taught them. He hadn't even mentioned it before, and the reason why he hadn't taught them... It was very likely that in his master's opinion, the contents of these two books were all feudal superstitious. The first book read the 'Canton 36 Laws' of Feng Shui. The other was the Ghost Character Charms, which were used to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits...