Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Even if you didn’t know the age of a white jade turtle this big, if you could find a way to get it on the black market and sell it at a low price, it would still get you at least hundreds of thousands.
They worked hard in the body recovery team to salvage bodies. Every time they went into the water, they never knew what kind of accidents they might face. The monthly salary was only a little higher than that of an ordinary job.
Faced with such a huge windfall, who wouldn’t be tempted?
Although Zhang Zi turned his face away, it was not because of guilt or remorse, but because he did not want others to see the ugly expression on his face.
Human beings were sometimes just so contradictory, they sometimes feared ghosts and monsters and were extremely afraid of death. But when faced with huge temptations of benefits, they could completely ignore the possible risks and even risk their lives to keep the money they had obtained.
Just like Zhang Zi, if Jiang Lan hadn’t repeatedly questioned him, he might still have held the idea that as long as these turtles didn’t kill him, he could take Zheng Yu’s white jade turtle for himself after he left the village and live a rich and good life.
It was not that he was not afraid of death, it was just that his greed overrode his fear.
Jiang Lan no longer even wanted to punish such a person. If he still didn’t know how to repent, and his greed continued to grow, his fate might be even worse than Zheng Yu’s tragic death.
Death was indeed scary, but sometimes, death was a relief while living was atonement.
Jiang Lan stood up and stopped looking at him. He stood with Ying Qiao, waiting for news about Zheng Yu’s jade turtle.
Captain Guan stood at the back door, smoking one cigarette after another.
The turtles were still staring at Zhang Zi with eager eyes, as if they were watching him to prevent him from escaping.
About an hour later, Guan Shui and Wang Qing came back together. Guan Shui took a white jade turtle from the back seat and carefully placed it in front of the turtle group.
These silent turtles made short calls again. The two big turtles in the lead looked at Guan Shui, as if they were trying to remember his appearance. Guan Shui took a step back, feeling uneasy. The other big turtles just looked at him and did nothing. They quickly picked up the white jade turtle and put it into the water.
After they entered the water, a larger turtle crawled out of the ditch. This turtle was different from any other turtle they had seen before, and it was also much larger. It had a thick neck, strong limbs, and a pair of particularly human eyes. It crawled towards Zhang Zi with a clear goal.
The other turtles became agitated for a moment, their webbed feet slapping the mud and water, making a sound, as they surrounded Zhang Zi.
Zhang Zi, who had not dared to say a word, stepped back in fear on his elbows when he saw the turtle, but was pushed forward by the group of turtles that surrounded him.
The big turtle stared at him with its two small eyes, as if waiting for something.
Zhang Zi looked at the others for help: “I have already returned the things, why haven’t they left yet? Please help me, help me…”
Jiang Lan said: “The things have been returned, but you haven’t repented or apologized.”
Zhang Zi choked, his lips trembled for a moment, and finally he bent down and lowered his head, saying over and over again words like “I’m sorry”, “I know I was wrong”, “I’m not a human”, “Please let me go”.
It was unknown how much genuine regret there was in his words, but his attitude was very humble.
The turtles stared at him steadily. After he started slapping himself, the leading turtle finally stretched out its neck and cried out, then turned around and crawled into the ditch. The turtles followed it and left in an orderly manner.
Zhang Zi almost cried with joy when he saw this scene. His legs were swollen and blue, and he could only crawl in the paddy field with his hands. His shrewd face was distorted: “They let me go, right? I’m okay, right? I’m not going to die, right?”
He looked at Captain Guan and his apprentice, both of whom turned their faces away. He then looked at Jiang Lan without giving up.
Jiang Lan said coldly: “You can take care of yourself.”
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Wang Qing, who had once again witnessed an unnatural event, hurried over and asked Jiang Lan in a somewhat unfair tone, “Are you really going to let him go like this?”
As a policeman, although he insisted on punishing crimes with the law most of the time, occasionally when he encountered a situation where the law could not judge, he hoped that the other party’s retribution would be more severe.
Guan Shui had already explained the whole cause and effect when he asked him for help. When he learned that Zheng Yu died tragically but Zhang Zi did not receive much punishment, he still felt a little indignant in his heart.
Jiang Lan patiently explained: “It wasn’t me who let him go, it was those turtles who let him go.”
Wang Qing looked stunned.
Jiang Lan smiled and said, “Do you know that animals in nature are actually very sensitive to death? Many animals, especially scavengers, can judge the target’s state by its smell. They can tell that the target is about to die, and then follow the target, hoping to get a hearty meal after the target dies.”
“These turtles let him go because they saw that Zhang Zi would not live long.”
Wang Qing opened his mouth wide and muttered, “But didn’t you say these turtles are not spirits? Are ordinary turtles really so magical?”
“Animals are often more perceptive than humans, and smarter than humans think.” Jiang Lan winked at him. “And what you call becoming a spirit is actually just another state of life after the animals have started practicing. Although these turtles haven’t started practicing yet, they may become spirits in a few decades or hundreds of years.”
“Nature is indeed amazing.” Wang Qing thought seriously for a while and said with emotion: “Our vision is still too narrow.”
Like what happened today, even if it was posted online, it was estimated that more than 90% of people would not believe it. Netizens who did not believe it could find a hundred reasons to prove that the video was staged or synthesized. Even if it were him, if he had not experienced several unnatural cases in a row, his first reaction when he heard it would probably be that it was fake.
Ignorance was bliss, which was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Ignorance limited people’s horizons and could make people become arrogant and conceited without them realizing it.
Just like humans were accustomed to considering themselves the best of all creatures, and as the only intelligent creatures, all other creatures were automatically seen as inferior.
But in fact, the wonders of the earth had not yet been fully explored, and human beings were just a group of passers-by in the earth’s long life of billions of years.
“But at least a small part of human beings have realized that this kind of blind arrogance is not good,” said Jiang Lan.
He suddenly thought of the monster tribe in ancient times.
At that time, the monsters were worshipped as witch gods and regarded themselves as the masters of the world. They were powerful and could do whatever they wanted. The situation of the human race at that time was roughly the same as that of animals today.
The monsters regarded weak humans as ants. Humans could be food, playthings, believers… In short, they were never regarded as equal beings by the monsters. Even the lowest-ranking monster among the monsters could easily eat humans.
The monster race at that time probably never thought that they would face a great catastrophe one day. The great monsters fell, and the monster race gradually declined. The powerful forces gradually disappeared, and the high and mighty witch gods also became weak and powerless.
But now, humans were slowly following the old path of the monsters. A small number of people had realized their previous blind arrogance and were trying hard to make changes. Jointly establishing the Monster Management Bureau with the monsters was the first step for humans to change.
He just wondered if in ancient times, were there any great monsters who were aware of the monster race’s situation? And did they try to make changes?
Then Jiang Lan shook his head again, thinking that he was thinking too much.
Regardless of whether any great monster had anticipated the future decline of the monster race, the current situation was a foregone conclusion.
Perhaps the great monsters who had realized this had made efforts but failed, or perhaps they had succeeded, and the current situation was the best situation after the efforts of their ancestors.
Seeing him pondering and shaking his head, Ying Qiao couldn’t help but ask, “What are you thinking about?”
Jiang Lan pondered for a moment and said solemnly, “I just feel that I was born too late and was unable to see the prosperity and magnificence of the monster race in ancient times.”
He was not lying to Ying Qiao. In ancient times, he was in a daze most of the time, with only one word in his mind: eating. Now when he thought back, he felt that there was a veil over the distant memories. He needed to try very hard to recall the old things.
His answer was too jumpy. Ying Qiao was silent for a moment, tapped his forehead with his fingers, and said helplessly: “There was nothing good about the ancient times.”
A group of big monsters just kept fighting each other.
Very boring.
Jiang Lan strongly agreed: “It’s pretty good now.”
There were so many delicious foods and various entertainment facilities. He was so happy.
It was very easy to become addicted to games and delay cultivation.
They sang in unison, and Wang Qing beside them always felt that he was blocked by an invisible aura. Seeing that the two were about to leave him and get in the car, he suddenly remembered that he had other business to attend to, and hurriedly stopped Jiang Lan with a thick face and said, “Wait a minute, it will only take a few minutes, I have something I want to ask for your advice for.”
Jiang Lan then stopped and looked back: “What’s the matter?”
Ying Qiao next to him pursed his lips in dissatisfaction and gave Wang Qing a cold look.
Wang Qing: ???
He touched the back of his neck where the hair stood on end for some reason and started talking to Jiang Lan about serious matters.
“The day before yesterday, I received a call from a primary school saying that someone always came to the school at night to play pranks, turning on the lights and fans in the classrooms in the middle of the night, or moving the pictures on the corridor walls, and even knocking over the students’ desks… The school security guards watched for several nights but could not find the pranksters. So they called the police.”
Wang Qing frowned and said solemnly, “Because it’s a school, we were worried that it would affect the safety of the students, so we went to the school yesterday evening to wait and watch, ready to catch the mischievous person. But in the end, we found nothing…”
“And I found that this might not be a prank, but rather a haunting.” When he talked about haunting, his voice unconsciously became lighter:
That night, Wang Qing was on standby with his colleagues. He was in charge of the classroom where the incident often happened. As a result, he waited until midnight and saw no one. Instead, the lights and fans in the classroom turned on by themselves. He was startled and rushed out of the classroom instinctively. He also found that the portraits of celebrities hanging in the corridor were all looking in the same direction.
He was so frightened that he broke out in a sweat, but he didn’t dare to say anything. He then came to ask for help as soon as he got the chance.
The author has something to say:
Longlong (disdainfully): What’s so interesting about the ancient monsters? Just look at me.
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