A glimmer of clarity lit up my mind.

Me, where is this?

Everything is so familiar and yet so strange.

I opened my eyes and got up. The sunlight outside the window was so bright and dazzling. But its temperature told me that I was still alive.

At this moment, I am lying on a bed, soft and comfortable, with satin sheets and quilts, as smooth as a woman's skin.

I walked out of bed, and a pair of slippers was waiting for my feet on the floor. The brand-new slippers, with the labels just cut off, were still thrown in the trash can next to them.

Isn't this house the same house in Songjiang District, Shanghai that I gave Hao Ling, Li Feina and the others to live in, and where I still kept Xiao Luqi's body?

Isn't this room the same room where Hao Ling slept before?

Where are they?

Hu Haoling, Li Feina, Zhu Junxuan... where are you?

Xiao Luqi...where are you?

I shook my head and seemed to be still a little unconscious. But judging from the situation, I must have been resurrected from a state of suspended animation. The antidote used for resurrection was the bottle that Chen Ziqi inserted into the jade seal and was originally used to resurrect Qin Shihuang.

Suddenly I found a letter on the table. I quickly went over, picked it up and read it.

The handwriting is elegant. Needless to say, it was written by Xiao Luqi.

"Lin You:

When you read this letter, you are already awake.

Five years ago, when my brother, who was extremely tired and in ragged clothes, and you, who were all cold, came back from Xi'an, I couldn't believe what I saw.

He explained the whole story to me, and also used a white thing like a peach core to wake you up. I was very sad to see you with no light in your eyes.

But I know that when you first saw me, I looked just like you who was cold at that time.

My brother said that you are deeply poisoned by mercury and there is no cure. But in the state of suspended animation, you will gradually eliminate the mercury poison and get better little by little. This fact has been proved by me.

However, if your poisoning is too deep, it may take a long time to detoxify.

I told my brother that I want to take care of you. I want to repay your kindness to me.

Since then, I have tested you for mercury levels every week.

The test results this time are very good. The mercury poisoning in your body has been completely eliminated. However, it took five years.

Five years ago, I was still thinking about how I felt and what my mood was when you rescued me and took good care of me. In these five years, I gradually understood.

This is the first time I know how much you can sacrifice for one person. I am moved every day by what you did for me five years ago.

However, when I decided to use the antidote to revive you, I also made a decision.

After injecting the antidote, I will leave.

Once upon a time, I thought that maybe you did this because you had feelings for me.

When you left Wanshou Temple, that decisive look in your eyes told me that you did not love me.

Everything I do is to repay you, so you don't have to feel guilty.

Now, we no longer owe each other anything.

This time may be a coincidence. On this day five years ago, you rescued me. Today, five years later, I say goodbye to you.

Thank you for everything you have done for me.

Goodbye, Lin You.

Xiao Luqi

May 26, 2013”

I read this letter word for word, and I felt a fire burning in my chest, which hurt my heart. Tears rolled in my eyes, turned into two tear tracks, and fell on the letter paper.

*******

Time flies so fast, it has been five and a half years since I first put you in the freezer.

Half a year has passed since you took care of me, saved me, and left me.

Luci, I have something else I want to say to you, so I’ll write it here.

After turning around at Wanshou Temple, my face was filled with tears, but I didn't want you to see it.

I know that I have to accomplish something that may be fatal.

I went to Xi'an and ended my relationship with Chen Ziqi and Dong Yunzhi at the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

Dong Yunzhi wants to take over the property in my hands. To do this, he must let me die.

He saw me with no signs of life, but he was worried that I was faking my death, so he cremated me just to be on the safe side.

But the one he cremated was not me.

Luci, just like the "corpse" your father cremated five years ago, it was not you either.

It was just a mummy.

Wang Yongshun once used mummies and corpse wax to create a fake version of you.

I also made a fake version of myself and asked Dong Yunzhi to send it for cremation.

Among the many doubts, I have already deduced that Dong Yunzhi is sinister and has bad intentions. He may be colluding with Chen Ziqi, and he may be the real mastermind behind the scenes.

Especially since he took me to various social occasions and treated himself as my uncle every time, I knew that he was laying the groundwork for taking over my property legitimately.

I can't let him succeed, and I won't let him succeed.

I used death to escape. In fact, Chen Ziqi was right. Dong Yunzhi was a powerful official at that time, and no matter how rich I was, I was just a commoner. This tradition of inequality between officials and people seems to have persisted for thousands of years.

It hasn't changed much. So, I can only pretend to be quail again and deceive Dong Yunzhi. This is perhaps the most helpless way and the only way.

There are too many helpless realities that cannot be changed immediately if we want to.

Did you know? Luci, the first time I went to the morgue of the Chest Hospital, I saw a mummy, and the second time I entered the morgue, I found a strange cabinet with a lot of corpse wax.

When I found out that your father had signed the corpse release form, I guessed that Wang Yongshun must have forged a fake version of you.

In the underground secret room of Chen Ziqi's West Palace Villa, I saw a map of China with many thumbtacks on it, divided into different colors.

The green thumbtacks and white lines represent Kangcheng, Dayu's Tomb, the sand dune platform where Qin Shi Huang died, and Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum.

The red thumbtack represents the place of origin of the "fake corpse" in Chen Ziqi's hand. The thumbtack stuck in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, originally represented you, but I risked my life to pull it out.

As for the blue thumbtacks distributed in Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, after some research, I found that these places have one thing in common, that is: these places have a strange thing called a hanging coffin. In the hanging coffin,

They are all weathered mummies.

The mummy pretended to be you was obtained by Chen Ziqi from a hanging coffin.

So I asked Dr. Wang Haidong from China Agricultural University to borrow the name of his school's research team to go to these places to inspect, and found an opportunity to steal a mummy, which I picked up on a private plane.

Jiang Jupeng of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is responsible for researching the method of pressurizing corpse wax, seeping into mummies, and making a dummy that looks like the real thing.

The experiment was successful. But Jiang Jupeng almost suffocated me to death when he was taking an impression of my face...

Your brother Xiao Keming, together with Yang Tao, Zhao Chen and Zhu Junxuan, took a private plane with me to Zhangjiajie and then went to Jishou to attend the auction.

When Liu Sili drove to pick me up, the car that had been "following" me was actually my friends. I deliberately wrote the scene to be scary, but as careful as you are, you will definitely think: Since Chen Ziqi

The flight from Jishou to Xi'an was an ordinary civil flight, which meant that he didn't have a private plane at all. How could he be following me by such a coincidence?

When I was threatened with death by Wang Sansan at the auction, I pretended to faint, and the security guard who helped me up at that time was Yang Tao who was wearing makeup.

After pretending to bid and sell the Zichen sand tires to Chen Ziqi at a very high price, I returned to Zhangjiajie with them and transferred to Xi'an by plane.

I have already guessed that Chen Ziqi probably recruited some people from Dadula's organization and brought fake dead thugs with him to Xi'an to help him. But he didn't know that the entire bottled water market in Xi'an had already been established at that time.

In my hand, no matter what kind of water he buys to drink, the people in the Dadula organization under his command will burst into tears.

And the car containing the fake dead thugs was knocked open by Zhao Chen when I went to investigate the changing of the guard at Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum. All the fake dead thugs inside were cleared away by her flying legs.

So when I returned to the entrance of the Women's Hotel, the car and the people in it were gone.

Zhao Chen is a girl, and I didn’t let her take risks with me in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. But she also has her own mission. Before we entered the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the person who told us through the intercom that there was something unusual in the joint defense team and asked us to speed up the pace was Zhao Chen.

Chen.

My friends are all very helpful, especially your brother, Xiao Keming. His code name is Xuanwu, which is cool, right? He is carrying that big backpack, which contains the mummy pretending to be me.

When I was injected with the fake death drug by Yang Tao, he and Zhu Junxuan took the mummy out of the cave first. Dong Yunzhi took the mummy and cremated it.

The last words I heard were actually the intercom function in the gas mask Yang Tao was wearing, which directly transmitted the sounds outside the cave to my ears, which was actually still in the tomb at that time.

After that, I don’t even know how your brother escaped from the cave with my real “corpse” and how he wandered back to Shanghai. At that time, I was completely asleep. I was asked to fake my death.

The medicine was exactly the last third of the test tube I stole from Chen Ziqi's underground secret room.

In any case, I am still alive now. The mummy not only prevented Dong Yunzhi from being cremated for me, but also served as a crossbar, allowing us to successfully descend to the second step of the waterproof dam using the slow rope.

Therefore, no matter who this mummy was during his lifetime, I would like to thank him.

If you ask me, why did I have to give the fake pupil to Chen Ziqi, why did I have to end it with him at Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum, but almost got himself trapped there?
To be continued...