Chapter 552: The Cursed Ancient City (2)
After saying these words, Adula's father died.
After his body passed away, less than an hour later, he lost all his water and turned into a thin mummy less than half a meter.
At that time, Adula, who was only eleven years old, endured his grief and used the last money left behind in his home to cremate his father.
Afterwards, Adula began his own journey of survival.
I don’t know if there is a curse, but Adula’s luck is very bad.
Although he is very smart and serious in his work, no matter what he does, he has no good results.
He went to the workshop where he worked or worked in other places in Otsuki Country, either an accidental fire broke out, a reckless customer hit the tableware, or was inexplicably extorted by some bad customers. In short, nothing good happened. He worked in less than three or four months, and this must have happened.
Gradually, Adula gradually gained some reputation, but it was not very nice. People called him the lucky Adula in person, and behind his back he called him the cursed by the devil of doom.
Adula was displaced and kept stumbled to the age of seventeen. During this period, he could have more than thirty jobs. Although he was not lucky, because he was smart, he had honed all kinds of skills.
Later, because his unlucky Adullah was so famous that he could not find a job locally and could not make it. In desperation, he began to follow his father's old path, came to the city on the border of the Great Yue Kingdom, and began to become a caravan clerk.
But it seemed that bad luck followed him to the border. In the first few years, he had a miserable life and did not make much money. However, the transactions that traveled through the desert were like this. Some people were lucky and some were bad luck, but no one noticed that this was the bad luck brought by Adula. He let him stay for a few years.
In the end, the caravan where he was still in bankruptcy and disbanded. When he was trafficking goods for the last time, Adula accidentally rescued an old man who was almost thirsty in the desert, and paid for the money to bring the old man to Dayue.
Unexpectedly, the old man turned out to be a rich man of Dayue, with the same identity as Adula's father before. He was a Dayue wizard.
He heard Adula’s miserable experiences told him, and finally felt compassion, saying that he had not had many days to live. Since Adula saved his life, he would share half of the bad luck for Adula and bring the bad luck to hell or the next life.
So he did a ritual for Adula. After this ritual, he didn't know whether it was a psychological effect or a certain way, Adula felt that his luck had improved a little.
If I had to say something, Adula felt that his luck seemed to be half better than before, and at least he would not drag down a team so much.
The mage died soon after, and he left Adula a comparison of money, a sum of money that ordinary people can worry about for half their lives.
After that, Adula did not live comfortably with the money. Because of his own bad luck, Adula developed a strong character and many abilities since childhood. Just like the pounded steel, impurities were knocked out again and again and became steel. He already had his own set. Soon, he organized a caravan and began to trade between the Dayue Kingdom and Kucha Qiancheng.
It's just his luck. After all, it's a little worse than ordinary people. Although trade does not happen every time, all kinds of accidents always happen.
After so many years, Adula has run a trade for nearly twenty years. If an ordinary person had not died for so long, he would have become a rich man. Although Adula has all his skills and familiar routes, he has not made any big money in the end.
At the most, his caravan had almost reached ten thousand taels of gold, but he failed several times in a row or encountered bandits and became two or three thousand taels of gold. Until the last time, he encountered a sandstorm again, and more than four thousand taels of gold goods were buried in the desert, and he still owed a debt of about eight hundred taels of gold.
However, although Adula was really unlucky, over the years, his character and ability have accumulated a good reputation, and he has a group of hardcore brothers. Those brothers did not abandon him, but just waited for Adula to make a comeback and followed him out again. The creditors did not overcome debt. They all knew that Adula was a capable and charming person, and his enemies were just his destiny, so they gave Adula a long repayment period.
But because of his bad reputation, no one is willing to lend him money.
...
Adula said here, sighed and said to Su Peng: "I no longer have confidence in my own luck, so I must be proficient in my abilities. The same chance of my survival is smaller than that of others, so I must have solid abilities."
"Over the years, I have also thought about the source of the bad luck that caused our family, the city in the desert that my father saw, and the sutra barrel that could make people unlucky... I even thought that someone had put our family's blood or hair into the sutra barrel, but in the end, I found that this was not the case."
"For so many years, I have never stopped inquiring, and finally I found some clues. It turned out that the thing my father got was a very famous thing. Someone once obtained it in the Great Moon Kingdom. This kind of thing is called the 'Doom Magic Tool'."
"Dord magic weapon?"
After hearing this name, Su Peng couldn't help but ask. Adula's story really gave people a deep impression. It was simply a tragic history of struggle.
"Yeah, that's the name."
Adula nodded and said, "I found some ancient books from the Great Moon Kingdom, which recorded the stories of this doomed magic weapon... Those doomed magic weapons are not necessarily non-shuo buckets, and their functions are also different, but they have a consistent function, which is to bring bad luck to those who use it."
"As long as this kind of doom magic weapon is used, it will be determined by the master's breath. The doom magic weapon itself will have a certain function of reducing doom and has many special abilities. However, once it leaves the master, the master will suffer various disasters and die like a curse."
"I don't know anyone else. The reason why I found this clue was that when my father died, the changes in his body were the same as those of the owners of the doom magic weapons recorded in ancient books after losing the magic weapons. Moreover, this kind of doom may be passed down for many generations."
"It's because of this. Although I have money before, I have never wanted children. I'm just afraid of passing on my bad luck to them... So I've never got married and have always been alone."
"As for where the doom magic weapons were spread, I have also conducted a twenty-year investigation and finally found some clues... Those doom magic weapons come from the ancient city of Forest Prison you mentioned."
When Su Peng heard this, his face moved and said, "Are you sure it is from the Ancient City of Forest Prison? How much do you know about this city?"
"Not too many, just scratched with scales."
Adula shook her head and said, "Actually, about four or five thousand years ago, the Western Regions were not like this. At that time, although there were deserts between the Western Regions and the Great Moon Kingdom, there were many oasis... Kucha Gan City was not yet built at that time, and I couldn't find records here, but the Great Moon Kingdom has a history of five or six thousand years. I found some records of ancient books in the Great Moon."
"Four or five thousand years ago, among the large and small oasis in the Western Regions, there were many tribes or small countries. Some of them were perhaps as big as Kucha Gancheng, but could be self-sufficient. The largest oasis was as big as one or half of the Central Plains, which was enough to establish a country."
"The Ancient City of Senzhu is a tribe called the Qingzhu tribe. However, it was not closely related to the Central Plains at that time. Although some tribes had the knowledge of building cities, their customs were extremely barbaric... They practiced semi-slavery in the whole people. In the city, all those who rule others belonged to the king, with no merchants, no civilians, only slaves."
"They set a strict rank for slaves. Every slave with a higher level can dominate the next level to a certain extent, but will definitely be dominated by the rulers. However, because of this system, except for the bottom-level slaves, every slave at the upper level has certain power, which is still stable."
"But this Qingzhuo tribe reproduced very quickly, with a total of about hundreds of thousands of people, occupying the largest and most fertile oasis here... But suddenly, four or five thousand years ago, disappeared into history overnight."
"The author of the ancient book I found didn't know what happened. I just knew that the last record before the Qingzhu clan disappeared was to build an ancient city called Senzhu. But no one knows where and what the ancient city of Senzhu is.
"And those oasis have quickly turned into deserts in a thousand years. People today don't even know where the Qingyu tribe lived in those days."
"I saw the symbols on the sutra barrels from the portrait of the misfortune sutra barrel left by my father, which were the same as some unique symbols of the Qingzhu clan recorded in ancient books. Only then did I guess what my father saw in the desert at that time, perhaps the illusion of the ancient city of Senzhu. Those people might be the disappearing Qingzhu clan."
Adula said at last.
After hearing this, Su Peng nodded slightly and kept thinking.
Su Peng felt that what Adula said was logical, and it should be facts.
The doom that Adula described that can be passed down and the illusion that Adula's father saw in the desert made Su Peng think of another thing.
Chapter completed!