Arc 3.24 Xiao Yao

Arc 3.24 Xiao Yao

Xiao Yao was still a little dazed about what Xu Xin had told him earlier. Well, he is not new about curses and fairytales but this is a modern world after all.

"I was cursed."

"Cursed? Are you serious?" Xiao Yao asked with disbelief.

Xu Xin looked at Xiao Yao with a little bit of displeasure seeing him look at him like he had a few screws loose.

Noticing Xu Xin glaring at him, Xiao Yao quickly apologizes and lets the other continue without interrupting him, not wanting to earn the other's ire.

"I once entered a General's tomb and happened to accidentally intrude into a forbidden chamber where I saw two coffins lying together side by side. The first coffin was made of gold and green jade while the second one was also made of gold but white jade. The corpses lying inside those coffins were no ordinary people just by looking at the coffin."

"Then, what happened next?" Xiao Yao could not help but curiously asked.

"What happened next is that, I opened the white coffin and white smoke came out. After that, when I woke up, I found myself inside the coffin. When I got out, I found out that the other coffin made from green jade was gone replaced by pictured images on the wall."

"What does it say?"

"I don't know."

Xu Xin shook his head helplessly, he smiled wryly.

"But, that was only then. A few years later, I only realized what those pictured images meant. I was cursed."

"What kind of curse? You don't look like you are though."

Xiao Yao looked Xu Xin over but he did not find anything suspicious or could depict him to be a cursed person. He is curious just what kind of curse was put on him.

Xu Xin only faintly smiled and did not recount any further details about what his curse was about. It seems like he does not want to talk about it.

Knowing that he did not want to talk about his curse further, Xiao Yao stirred away from the topic at hand.

"So, the thing you are looking for is a way to break the curse?"

"Yes." Xu Xin replied.

"What are you looking for?" Xiao Yao questioned.

Xu Xin was silent for a while, thinking, he looked at Xiao Yao for a minute before telling him.

"Dragon's tear."

'Dragon's tear? If a phoenix's tear could cure any illnesses, a dragon's tear could break curses. But, does it even exist?'

[Host, Xiao Xiao thinks that Host should just tell the mysterious person that he should just wait in the next life. I bet my rainbow-colored underwear that he would die in this life unable to find the dragon's tear. A phoenix tear is priceless because they rarely shed tears. What more a dragon! Dragons never cry so how could there be a tear!]

'Say, do you even have the heart to tell him that?'

[......]

'I thought so.'

[But Host, there is no actual dragon, right?]

'If there are mummies rising from the grave and start attacking people, can't there really be no dragons? History even recorded that before there were humans on the face of the earth there were dragons!'

[Wait. Weren't it dinosaurs?]

"Dragons, dinosaurs, it's the same!"

".....ao!"

".....o Yao!!"

"XIAO YAO!!!"

"YES?!!!!" Xiao Yao roared.

"Why are you yelling?!" Chen Qiao asked.

"Because you were also yelling at me, so I did the same. I thought you deaf." Xiao Yao rolled his eyes.

Chen Qiao was left speechless and stupefied. 

He felt his brain short-circuited. 

His IQ dropped a few levels down.

"Xiao Yao..."

"What do you want?"

Xiao Yao did not give him a chance to speak a full sentence and immediately tossed him a question.

"Well, I came to ask if you already found a way out of here since you had been staring at this wall for quite some time now. I thought that you found the hidden door." Chen Qiao awkwardly explained.

He stole a look at Xiao Yao who was nodding his head incessantly without looking at him. Xiao Yao then turned towards him with a big mocking kind of smile.

"Since you are so capable, why don't you do it yourself."

"Wha?!"

Chen Qiao looked as if he had eaten shit as he watch Xiao Yao's back getting further away from him. 

He scratched his head not knowing why he was treated that way. How did he earn the other's ire?

'Who said I was looking for the "hidden door"? I was just recalling our conversation from before. Who said I was in a daze!! Your sister!!!'

[Host, why do you look so affected? Xiao Xiao don't get you.]

'I also don't get myself!!' Xiao Yao retorted.

[Oh~ Is this the Legendary "mood swing"? But that only happens when your pregna--!]

'Xiao Xiao, continue your words and you'll eat my fist and feet when I get back in the System space! Ahhhh!!!!!!!!'

[Xiao Xiao has gone offline.]

"Evil and kindness come hand in hand. As day and night can never only have one."

Xiao Yao read the blurred carvings on the wall one by one. He felt as if, the words written on the wall had a deeper meaning behind them.

"I can't read the rest. The markings are obscured. It's been a long time, the markings here had been ruined." Chen Qiao sighed in regret.

"What does this mean? Is this some sort of clue?" Old Bai wondered.

"Hmm..."

Xiao Yao was also stumped along with the others about what the words meant. 

He tried to read the obscured words carved on the wall so that he could complete the sentence but it was too hard since the markings were already unrecognizable.

"What's this?"

Unbeknownst to the group gathered in front of the wall with markings, Leng MianMian together with Fei Chen found a protruding stone with a beautiful precious stone rooted on top of it.

"Wow. So beautiful!" Leng MianMian could not help but exclaim.

"Do you like it, MianMian?" Fei Chen asked.

Seeing her eyes shine, Fei Chen helplessly thought of a way to dig the precious stone out of the stone.

Since she likes it, he will definitely get it for her.

There is no harm.

What can a little stone the size of a fingernail even do?

"MianMian, move to the side a little. I'll dig it for you." Fei Chen said while taking out a foldable shovel.

"Brother Fei, you are injured. No. I'll do it. You better sit there and let me do it."

Leng MianMian quickly took the shovel on his hands and helped him sit on a stone on the side. She raised her hand as a sign for him to not stand up and let her do the rest.

Fei Chen just looked at her helplessly and let her do as she wished.

Leng MianMian then faced the stone with the precious stone. With a burning determination, she raised her shovel high up in the air.

"I got it!"

Xiao Yao exclaimed in excitement when he finally deciphered the markings on the wall.

Though it was obscured by time, with his mystic eyes he was able to piece the words together again.

"What does it say?"

"Well, it said here that, "Evil and kindness comes hand in hand. As day and night can never only have one." It was the first paragraph. The second one was, "Paths are chosen. Two paths are open. Indifference leads to life. Greed leads to death."

"What does it mean?"

"It means, in front of us there are two paths. One leads to death and the other leads us out of here."

"How?" A member from the Old Bandit's group could not help but ask.

"By...."

Clang!!!

*Small Earthquake*

"Ahhhh!"

"What's happening?!"

"An earthquake!!"

'Anyhow, should I just lie down and die in this world?'

*Big Earthquake*

Xiao Yao could not help but sigh in a mix of helplessness and anger as the ground he was standing on fell apart.

With a shout, they all fell down.

"Fuck the FL/jinx!!!!!"