Suddenly, he saw his mother.
It was strange, because he had never seen her face, his mother had been dead when he was born, and it was impossible for him to look at her, even dead.
By the time he was a little older and could remember people, recognise faces and have memories, her mother was long buried.So, for Xu Long, he really didn’t know what his mother looked like.
But standing here, he saw a beautiful woman, quietly doing everything in this house, sometimes she was staring at the window, seemingly looking at the sky and remembering her hometown, and sometimes she was gently stroking her big tummy on the bed, seemingly telling her heart to the child in her belly.
At other times, she sat in front of the desk, writing a suicide note.
Here, obviously there is no her existence, and yet she has appeared in every corner, have stayed, and have done a lot of things.It was as if, at this very moment, one had appeared decades ago, and had watched her days go by like this, day by day.
Perhaps, this is the love element between mother and son, or perhaps, this is the pulse of the earth with some kind of linkage in the two.
The old hall master woke Xu Long up by gently patting him after about a quarter of an hour.
He actually didn’t really want to disturb Xu Long, but there was no way around it, Xu Long had already stayed standing for too long, and even his eyes still had the slightest trace of tears in them.
The old hall master was worried that he was too emotionally involved, thus affecting his health, which was why he had to wake him up.
Back inside reality, Xu Long was also slightly stunned, he was afraid that he himself had not thought that he would actually be so out of sorts.
He slightly returned his eyes to melt away the current embarrassment, and gently smiled, “It’s well preserved here.”
The old hall master did not say anything more, only nodding slightly.
He knew that not saying anything himself at this time was actually the best way to help Xu Long diffuse the embarrassment.
Xu Long took a few steps forward and came to the house above the bed, after which, under the pillow, he took out a wooden box.
The wooden box wasn’t big, about twenty centimetres long, about seven or eight centimetres wide, red in colour and rectangular in shape.
In the very centre, there was a small lock that resembled a unicorn.
“Don’t look at this unicorn lock, but it is only the size of a mere thumb, but apart from a specific key, all forces cannot open it, and all things cannot open it.”
Xu Long laughed, these, he learnt from his mother’s suicide note.
“As for this box, although it’s just a very ordinary wooden one, it’s very resistant, no matter how much force you use, it’s actually very difficult to force it open.”
“Of course, we can’t rule out an absolute expert like Han Sanqian, or someone with special abilities forcing it to destroy it.However, by destroying it, the mechanism inside it will automatically destroy the items stored inside along with it.”
“In other words, it’s impossible to open it if you don’t have the key, and even if you use brute force to completely destroy it, then the items inside will also go up in smoke with it.”
“The only way to want what’s inside, there’s only one way, and that’s to use its key.”Speaking of this, Xu Long was still quite proud of himself, because it was obvious that this key, only he had, and only he, knew how to use this key.
Thinking of this, he gently bent down again and picked up a small key next to his pillow.
The key was so ordinary that, even now, one would not think of it as a key; it was more like a round lump of iron.
“It’s hard to make it into a key, it has to be activated and then automated to look like what a key should look like.”
Any external force could cause it to change its look, and it’s well known that keys that change even a little bit can’t actually open the lock they’re matched to at all.
The finer the lock, the more so in fact.
The old hall master was also well aware of this, which was why he needed to rely on Xu Long at this point in time.
The crowd nodded, all looking at Xu Long, waiting for him to begin!