06 Enchanted
"My dad...is a hero?" she asked in a daze.
"Yes," Wu Youyou nodded, "Uncle Qin Hua is naturally intelligent and has a strong spirituality. He can absorb past information fragments by touching cultural relics. Because of this talent, he was mistaken for being possessed by evil spirits in high school and sent to a mental hospital. Soon after, he was discovered and selected by people from a secret agency and joined the Baishan Engineering Bureau, one of the predecessors of 409. The person in charge of the Baishan Engineering Bureau is the first leader of 409, and his name is Chen Guowei."
Jiang Xi nodded blankly as if he was listening to a story.
"Chen Guowei attaches great importance to Uncle Qin Hua. Although he was asked to join the Baishan Engineering Bureau, he still allowed him to return to the campus and continue his studies," said Wu Youyou. "A few years later, Uncle Qin Hua was admitted to the Department of Archaeology at Peking University with excellent results. Two years later, he met a junior sister, your mother, Aunt Jiang Rou. Uncle Qin Hua fell in love with Aunt Jiang Rou at first sight, but because of his identity, he dared not pursue his love. It was not until the Baishan Engineering Bureau was abolished and he joined the 409th Bureau that he came to Jinling and confessed to Aunt Jiang Rou."
Jiang Xi nodded.
"You know very well about their story, so I don't need to say more," Wu Youyou paused, "Sarah Ancient City is a knot in Uncle Qin Hua's heart. The first time he went there was when he was in college. In the shop of the God of the Underworld, he discovered an ancient spell, and by touching the stone carving of the spell, he felt some incredible power. The feeling made him obsessed with it and could not extricate himself. Since then, he has been cursed and can no longer let go of that place..."
"My mother said the same thing," Jiang Xi said, "She said that my father said that since he saw that spell in the Temple of the Underworld, he has been obsessed with it and can't extricate himself. He is like being cursed, and always dreaming of that place..."
"This is not uncommon," Wu Youyou said, "That spell is one of the three secret words that open the gate of the underworld. These three secret words come from a goddess in the underworld. Three thousand years ago, the goddess of the underworld went to the ancient city of Sara under the order of the Holy King to perform a secret mission. The temple of the Underworld was built by the nobles of the ancient city of Sara at that time according to her order. She engraved three spells in the hall to open the gate of the underworld and release..."
He looked at Jiang Xi and cleared his throat, "Uh... I'm talking far..."
"Can't we talk about these?" Jiang Xi asked.
Wu Youyou nodded.
"Okay, then I won't talk about this anymore," Jiang Xi said, "and then talk about my dad."
"Well," Wu Youyou nodded and continued, "Uncle Qin Hua felt the power of the Underworld through that spell. He was deeply shocked by the power and could not let go of it anymore. And every time he went there, he could see some past clips, but every time he was only a little bit, just like a movie, and he could only watch for more than ten seconds at a time, and then he couldn't continue. But the more this happens, the more you want to finish watching this movie, so every time he goes there, he will keep touching the spell, but those pictures are clips and there is no continuity, so he has been studying for several years and has never seen what it is."
"He didn't tell his mother about these things," Jiang Xi said, "I haven't heard from my mother."
"It's not that he didn't say it, but Aunt Jiang Xi didn't want to tell you. I'm afraid you're curious, so I'll touch the spell," Wu Youyou said, "There's another thing, because of this spell, Uncle Qin Hua did hurt Aunt Jiang Rou's heart."
"What's going on?" Jiang Xi asked.
"Uncle Qin Hua's mind is on spells, and even in love, he can't forget the temple of the ancient city of Sara," said Wu Youyou, "After he chased Aunt Jiang Rou, the two of them had been to the ancient city of Sara. After that, Uncle Qin Hua seemed to have changed his personality. He was obsessed with spells during the day. At night, he threw his girlfriend in love alone in the hotel and secretly ran to the Temple of the Underworld. As a result, he was discovered by the security guard and arrested him. In the end, Aunt Jiang Rou went to the police station and saved him."
Jiang Xi nodded. "It's okay to forget about this once, but Uncle Qin Hua couldn't control it. Every time they travel abroad, he would go to the ancient city of Sara, and then he would do it every time. Even if Aunt Jiang Rou was very angry, he insisted on doing this." Wu Youyou said, "The two of them quarreled a few times because of this, and later Aunt Jiang Rou no longer wanted to go to the ancient city of Sara."
Jiang Xi sighed, "Dad is really possessed..."
"It's indeed possessed," Wu Youyou said, "But this is normal. Once a mortal touches that kind of power, he will basically fall into fanaticism. If he wants to calm down, it will be difficult..."
"It's because of this that he abandoned his mother and me?" Jiang Xi asked.
Wu Youyou shook her head, "Uncle Qin Hua is indeed fascinated by the spell, but Aunt Jiang Rou is his favorite. He can throw his girlfriend in the hotel because of his obsession with research, but he will never abandon his wife and daughter because of the spell. His departure actually has other hidden feelings..."
"What's the secret?" Jiang Xi asked.
"Execute the mission", Wu Youyou said, "After Aunt Jiang Rou became pregnant, Uncle Qin Hua made up his mind to never go to the ancient city of Sara in this life and never touch that spell. But at this moment, 409 gave him an important task, and the execution place of the mission happened to be the Temple of the Temple of the Ancient City of Sara."
Jiang Xi hesitated for a moment, "What is the task? Can you say it?"
"There is a national treasure-level cultural relic that disappeared," Wu Youyou said, "The cultural relic was unearthed from the tomb of King Zhou three thousand years ago. It disappeared in the museum shortly after it was unearthed. In the surveillance video at that time, only a shadow flashed by, and the glass cover broke, and the cultural relic disappeared. A master of 409 used numerology and numerology to predict the whereabouts of the cultural relic. Where do you guess it was?"
Jiang Xi's heart moved, "The Temple of the Underworld in the Ancient City of Sarah?"
Wu Youyou nodded.
Jiang Xi took a deep breath, "I understand..."
Chapter completed!