Chapter 205: Absolutely Must Not Be Leaked

Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Absolutely Must Not Be Leaked

"Uncle, wait! There’s another cave inside, with someone sitting in it," Gu Nuan Nuan said, quickly grabbing Zhang Wei Qiang’s arm.

’Are you kidding? If I let Uncle leave now, how am I supposed to give the storage bags to him and Grandpa?’ So, feigning fear, she tugged on Zhang Wei Qiang’s arm and whispered, "I ran in just now and took a look, but it was so creepy that I didn’t dare to look closely and just ran right out. The cave inside is set up just like a house. There’s a screen, a table, stools, and a bed—all made of beautiful stone carved with pretty patterns."

"Someone actually lives in a place like this?" Zhang Wei Qiang found it hard to believe. "Then why didn’t he say anything when you ran in? Could it be..." A faint suspicion formed in his mind, but he hesitated, afraid of scaring Gu Nuan Nuan if he said it out loud.

"It’s true, I’m not lying! The person is just sitting there, not moving at all, like he’s asleep. Uncle, why don’t we go take another look?" Gu Nuan Nuan relentlessly urged him on. "I also saw something on the table inside, but I was too scared to look closely and just ran out. I even think that person might be a dummy."

"A dummy? What makes you think that?" Zhang Wei Qiang asked, finding it strange.

"He’s too good-looking, and he wasn’t moving. But it was creepy when I was alone, so I didn’t dare to look for long." Gu Nuan Nuan patted her little chest, a look of lingering fear on her face.

"So you were too scared to look alone, but you’re not scared with your uncle, huh?" Zhang Wei Qiang looked at her with amusement as he untied the rope from his waist and secured it to the stone wall.

"Of course! Why would I be scared when my uncle is here?" Gu Nuan Nuan said with a sycophantic grin.

"Even if you’re not scared, don’t go in yet. I’ll go check first. You just wait here obediently for me." Zhang Wei Qiang didn’t overthink it and decided to investigate, but he was still hesitant about taking Gu Nuan Nuan with him, afraid it might frighten her.

"No way! I’ll be scared here by myself. I want to go with you!" Gu Nuan Nuan quickly latched onto her uncle’s leg, shaking her head furiously.

"Alright, fine, you can come. But stay behind me and try not to be scared." Zhang Wei Qiang glanced into the cave. Seeing that there was still no movement inside after all this time, his suspicion grew stronger. Then, looking at Gu Nuan Nuan’s expression that said she wouldn’t give up until he agreed, he thought for a moment before finally nodding and instructing her.

"Okay, okay." As long as he let her follow, that was all that mattered. Gu Nuan Nuan nodded repeatedly, looking exceptionally well-behaved.

Zhang Wei Qiang chuckled and had Gu Nuan Nuan follow behind him. As he turned into the inner cave, the first thing he saw was the Jade screen. He froze. He wasn’t "unworldly" like Gu Nuan Nuan; how could he fail to recognize the extraordinary nature of this twelve-panel screen, with each panel carved from a single piece of Jade with exceptionally exquisite patterns?

He stopped and called out several times, "Excuse me, may we come in?"

After waiting in silence for five or six minutes and hearing no response, he called out again, "If no one answers, we’re coming in."

He waited a little longer before carefully leading Gu Nuan Nuan inside. The first thing he saw was the person sitting there, so lifelike that even though he had been prepared, he couldn’t help but jump in fright—

He could tell the difference between a real person and a stone carving. But this person really was just as Nuannuan had said; he didn’t look like a real person at all. ’Isn’t he too good-looking and too young?’

After observing carefully for a long time, Zhang Wei Qiang finally approached and confirmed that the person had no signs of life, rather than just being asleep as he had guessed. He frowned at the corpse before him, wondering how this person could have died and remained uncorrupted and odorless without any apparent preservation.

Looking around, although the furnishings were simple, everything from the screen to the white jade bed, table, and stools suggested that this person’s identity was anything but simple...

’Who could this person have been?’

’And why is it so brightly lit in here when there’s no visible source of light?’

Just as Zhang Wei Qiang was racking his brain, completely unable to make sense of it all, Gu Nuan Nuan let out a gasp filled with surprise. He jumped and spun around, asking nervously, "Nuannuan, what’s wrong?"

"Uncle, there’s so much stuff in here!" Gu Nuan Nuan said, holding up the two storage bags from the table and handing them to Zhang Wei Qiang.

"How can a bag this small hold a lot of stuff? You must be confused." Zhang Wei Qiang glanced at the two bags, took them, gave them a squeeze, then lightly tapped her on the head with a laugh.

"Uncle, just focus your mind and try to look inside," Gu Nuan Nuan said, too excited to rub her head where he’d tapped her, as she showed him the correct way to open it.

Skeptically, Zhang Wei Qiang did as Gu Nuan Nuan said and looked again. He let out a soft "Huh?" The astonishment and shock on his face were impossible to hide.

"You can take things out, too! You just have to think about taking them out," Gu Nuan Nuan said to Zhang Wei Qiang with a mysterious smile. To show off, she took the items out of the storage bag in her hand, instantly piling them high on the table, then put them all back in the next moment. Like a child with a new toy, she took them out and put them back, took them out and put them back...

After she had done this two or three times, she saw Zhang Wei Qiang follow her example and take the items out of his storage bag. Only then did she pick up the Jade Scroll from the table and hand it to her uncle. "Look, there’s writing inside this, too."

Zhang Wei Qiang was still reeling from everything he was seeing. Her words gave him another jolt, and he immediately took the Jade Scroll and tried to read it. This time, however, he naturally couldn’t see the contents. After trying for a long time and failing to see anything inside, he had to give up. He turned to Gu Nuan Nuan and asked, "That’s strange. Can you really see words in here? Why can’t I see anything?"

"I really can see them," Gu Nuan Nuan lied with a straight face. She then had Cao Cao read it aloud, and she repeated the contents, word for word.

Cultivator... sect disciple... traveling across interstellar space...

Every single one of these concepts was beyond Zhang Wei Qiang’s comprehension. With a complicated expression, he turned to look again at the person sitting on the white jade couch. He felt that only something like this could possibly explain all the strangeness.

"Uncle, what should we do? Should we report this to the police?" Gu Nuan Nuan asked, her eyes darting around as she tested the waters.

"Of course not," Zhang Wei Qiang replied, shaking his head reflexively. His first thought was that if they reported this, they wouldn’t be able to keep these two magical bags. Then he considered that even if they did hand everything over, would certain people within the Alliance really believe them?

’At that point, our family would probably never have a moment’s peace. If things went wrong, our family’s lives could even be threatened...’

He couldn’t help but shudder, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

’No. Not a single word of this can ever get out. Absolutely not.’