50: Chapter 50: Backyard Cottage, Bronze Coffin, Golden Tortoise, Mystery!

[Ding!]

[Does the host wish to select the Top-grade Lightning Spiritual Root?]

The System's voice flashed by.

Chu Xiao immediately blurted out, "No, I want the mysterious small green bottle. No matter what you say, I want the mysterious small green bottle! That's the one!"

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the mysterious small green bottle. Would you like to extract it immediately?]

The System's voice flashed by.

Chu Xiao said, "Extract immediately!"

As the words fell, a green light appeared out of thin air. Wrapped within this green light was a palm-sized green bottle. One could faintly see liquid flowing inside, like nectar.

The bottle's body was archaic, looking as if it were carved from jade, yet it possessed a gem-like translucence, appearing quite extraordinary.

In reality... it felt quite like a beer bottle.

"Is this the Dao treasure worth one hundred thousand pleasure points! It truly is extraordinary!"

Chu Xiao gripped the mysterious small green bottle. It felt warm and textured in his hand, yet cool to the touch, as if it had been chilled.

However, there wasn't much liquid inside; it appeared to be only seven or eight drops.

"Let me test its effects first!"

Chu Xiao flipped out the window and came into the yard, looking around. The old man had planted many trees and plants, and they were all precious varieties.

This made Chu Xiao somewhat hesitant. He didn't know which one to use for the experiment.

"That's right! I remember the old man seems to have collected a very strange piece of dead wood that he treasures dearly! This green bottle has the power to bring plants back to life! If I make that dead wood sprout, he'll be thrilled to death when he returns!"

As Chu Xiao spoke, he returned to the room. The villa was large; the place where the old man, Chu Jianghe, lived was a separate cabin in the backyard, which housed the treasures he had collected over half his life.

He passed through the villa and arrived at the backyard.

He found a key.

He opened the door.

A rush of earthy smell instantly made Chu Xiao frown. Upon sniffing carefully, he realized this earthy smell was actually mixed with a trace of blood, very foul, as if something had gone moldy.

"How long has it been since the old man opened the door to ventilate! It's too stinky!"

Chu Xiao muttered to himself, frowning.

He turned on the light.

The dim yellow light illuminated this seemingly unremarkable cabin.

The ground was covered in dust; it was clearly a long time since anyone had cleaned it.

In this room, all sorts of strange objects were piled up, some even sealed with talismans, which made one's heart creep out.

In fact, Chu Xiao hadn't been to this room many times. The last time he came in was when he was eighteen. At that time, as soon as he entered, his grandfather scolded him, and he was so angry that he never came back.

"What is the old man doing!"

"What kind of stuff is he collecting!"

Chu Xiao was quite speechless.

His gaze fell inadvertently on a stone. The stone was dark red, and its surface not only had talismans stuck to it but was also bound by several chains. It was also drawn with some particularly strange symbols, looking very much like some kind of incantation.

But these were not the most important things! The most important point!

Chu Xiao looked inside the stone through X-ray Vision. Inside, there was actually a Golden Tortoise, and clinging to the Golden Tortoise's body was a long, thin Golden Snake.

That Golden Snake seemed to be able to see Chu Xiao, raising its head and baring its fangs at him repeatedly.

"What's going on? Did my eyes deceive me?"

Chu Xiao swallowed hard. Thinking he had seen wrong, he quickly rubbed his eyes and looked into the stone again, instantly stunned on the spot.

The stone was about a meter long and half a meter high; it was hollow inside, accumulating some transparent liquid.

And in the liquid, that Golden Tortoise was submerged, also raising its head to look at Chu Xiao.

One person, one tortoise, one snake. They locked eyes!

"Damn!"

Chu Xiao was so scared he took a step back, stumbling and bumping into a coffin. The coffin stood against the wall, entirely cast from bronze, its surface covered with a layer of mottled rust, also bound by chains and plastered with talismans to suppress evil spirits.

A coffin! An ancient bronze coffin!

Judging by the era, it could probably be traced back to the Qin or Han Dynasty!

Under the enhancement of his X-ray Vision, he saw that lying inside this ancient bronze coffin was a lifelike woman. Her skin was snow-white, her lips red as blood, wearing a golden crown and a red robe. Her nails were an inch long, sharp and pointed, and her hair was also dark red, extremely eerie.

"This... a zombie? Or a mannequin?"

Chu Xiao swallowed hard and took a few more steps back. He stared at the woman in the ancient bronze coffin, unsure of what exactly she was.

If it were a corpse, why was it so lifelike? But if it wasn't a corpse, why would the old man place such a mannequin in an ancient coffin?

Just then. Clatter! Clatter! Clatter! It sounded like chains being dragged and hitting the ground.

The sound came from underground.

Chu Xiao felt his calves trembling; his brain's CPU was fried. He wanted to call his grandfather right now and ask for clarity.

What exactly was going on with the things in this room!

He lowered his head and looked down.

With this look, he was stunned again.

It turned out that under this room, there was a large basement. In the basement, it was also piled with many strange objects, mostly stones, coffins, and even some living creatures.

To be precise, those living creatures were all sealed inside the stones.

"This isn't scientific!"

"The stones are sealed; how can there be living things inside!"

"No, I even have a System; why should I care about science or not?"

Chu Xiao muttered to himself. He looked again at the Golden Tortoise inside the stone beside him and found its eyes extremely intelligent, as if filled with spiritual charm.

What exactly were these things! Why did the old man collect such things, and how many things was he hiding from him! Was his grandfather really the same grandfather he knew!

Questions flashed through Chu Xiao's mind one by one. He couldn't figure it out; his understanding of the world was instantly shattered.

However, he didn't panic. After all, he was a person who possessed a System!

The only thing that puzzled Chu Xiao was who exactly his grandfather was, and what his purpose was for collecting these things.

Why had his grandfather never mentioned it to him? What had happened to this world?

"System! System! This couldn't be because of your upgrade, could it?"

Chu Xiao asked quickly.

Thinking it over, he felt this possibility was very high.

System upgrades would cause irreversible changes to the world; did it refer to this kind of change?

[Ding!]

[This System does not have the authority to answer this question!]

The System responded coldly.

Chu Xiao frowned, bolstered his courage, and walked into the depths of the room. His gaze swept over every item, and the more he looked, the more amazed he felt.

The things in this room were all beyond the normal scope! They were not within the range that science could explain!

Just then. Sizzle~ Sizzle! Sizzle! An extremely harsh sound came from inside that ancient bronze coffin.

Chu Xiao steeled himself and looked. He saw the female corpse wearing red clothes had actually opened her eyes and was staring at him, her sharp, pointed nails constantly scratching the inner wall of the ancient bronze coffin.

The sharp, harsh sound was the sound of nails scratching against the coffin wall!