Volume 1 Chapter 7: The Mysterious Skull Necklace

  "What's wrong with you?" I asked.

  The staff member leaned in close and whispered, "He's a blind man, mumbling to himself, specializing in swindling money here. Who knows where he gets the energy at his age? He comes here every day, it's really unknown how he manages. You mustn't be deceived. If he weren't Tibetan, fearing another ethnic issue would arise, they would have driven him away long ago."

  This manager is quite kind-hearted.

  Considering this point, it's not difficult to do something for him. However, this old man is quite interesting, he's blind, and in a way, similar to me - if I take off my glasses, aren't I almost the same as being blind?

  Is he good at swindling money? Then I'd like to try it out, how will he swindle me.

  I thanked the manager and walked over to the old man.

  The manager behind me shouted several times, but I pretended not to hear it.

  "Old man, what do you want me for?"

  "Little donor, is there something unpleasant happening today?"

  Won't be, this old man is really blind or fake blind, could it be that he's pretending and has already seen the wound on my face.

  "No, I'm in a good mood today." I turned to face the old man and took a closer look at his eyes. It turned out that they weren't closed, but were actually blind, with no eyeballs left, and the upper and lower eyelids stuck together, looking almost like they were closed from afar.

  "Haha, is that so? You must be thinking now, this old man really is a blind fool, right?"

  My god, how did you even know what I was thinking? And yet you call me a cheater. I think that administrator is the real cheater.

  "I had an unpleasant thing today, how did you know?"

  "Hehe, this is a secret that cannot be revealed."

  Dizzy, isn't it what all high-ranking officials say? Maybe he himself is also muddled. The blind cat bumped into a dead mouse and now his heart is rejoicing: Today I finally guessed right for once.

  I decided to probe him again: "Then what did I encounter that didn't go smoothly?"

  "You're trying to provoke me, a blind man? Well, you've been beaten up by someone, and quite badly at that. But before that, you also beat up someone else, who was hurt much more severely than you."

  It's great, it's really great.

  "I unconsciously repeated what I just said: 'How did you know?'"

  After asking, even I myself know the answer: Heaven's secret cannot be revealed.

  "Little donor, the affairs of the world have causes and effects, and the effects are bound to have causes. The cycle of cause and effect is a natural principle that has already been determined. However, planning is in heaven's hands, while success is in human hands. Remember, actual power decides everything, but actual power doesn't come from fighting and killing. In all things, use your brain more often; otherwise, you're no different from animals. I have something to give you to make up for your congenital deficiencies. As for whether you can succeed or not, it still depends on yourself."

  The old man stretched out his hand, the old man's hand was very large, in the palm of his hand, there was a black and shiny chain, one end of the chain hung a skull head the size of a coin, the skull head was also black and shiny, with empty eye sockets, sharp teeth, as if it would tear people apart at any moment.

  "Take it away, this originally belonged to you."

  After listening to the old man's words, my hands seemed to be out of control, and both hands respectfully brought the necklace over, while feeling an unusually familiar feeling towards this necklace, especially the skull head, as if a long-lost relative had returned to my side.

  I bowed deeply to the old man three times, turned around and left. All the way, I kept repeating the old man's words in my mind: "Strength is not just about fighting and killing, think more and act less, otherwise you are no different from animals."

  It wasn't until I arrived at my uncle's residential area that everything familiar in front of me made me come back to reality.

  What's going on with me? Did I just have a dream or something? No, I look down and see that the skull necklace is still clutched tightly in my hand.

  Why did that old man want to give me something? It seemed like he said something like this originally belonged to me, why did he say those words to me. Is it true that this thing really originally belonged to me?

  I gazed at the skull necklace in my hand, its cold black glow evoking infinite terror, yet I felt an unparalleled warmth within, a desire to possess it forever and keep it by my side.

  It's already past five in the afternoon, I put the skull necklace into my pocket and returned to my uncle's home.

  Luckily I came back a step earlier, I quickly changed my clothes, but the wound on my face couldn't be covered up. A piece of flesh was gone from my left cheek, and a lot of blood had seeped out, but it had all coagulated on the surface. It was burning with pain, and both sides were swollen a lot. I hid in my bedroom, I won't be able to eat dinner tonight, or else I'll definitely be found out.

  Before long, Aunt came back and saw the shoes I took off at the door. She knew I was back and called out: "Tianyu, are you back? What do you want to eat?"

  "Aunt, I've already eaten with my classmates at school, I'm not hungry anymore."

  "How can you eat at school? The food there is so unhealthy."

  "My classmate is treating me. You go ahead and I'll do my homework."

  To be honest, my aunt's family has always been very good to me, never treating me like an outsider. My aunt is really beautiful, a 40-year-old who looks like she's in her early thirties, taking great care of herself. With my aunt and cousin being two big beauties at home, one mature and charming, the other pure and elegant, it's really a feast for the eyes, but the temptation is also imaginable.

  I took out the skull necklace, which was made of an unknown material, and it was black and shiny. Even in a room without sunlight, it emitted a cold black light. The eyes of the skull were dark and empty, but I had a strong feeling that there was a sharp gaze emanating from within, a gaze that should have been terrifying, yet I felt so familiar with it. Had I seen this gaze somewhere before? And despite the emptiness of the skull's eyes, I didn't feel any revulsion towards the gaze they emitted; instead, it seemed to inject me with a surge of power, filling me with a sense of grandeur.

  How did this happen? And that strange old man, why did he say it was originally mine? No matter how hard I think about it, it's useless.

  I put the skull necklace under the pillow and lay on the bed, thinking about what happened during the day again.

  I've already skipped five classes, I don't know what these stupid teachers are thinking, they wouldn't think that I, a student who usually behaves well and listens to the teacher, would dare to talk back to them and even fight with my classmates, and skip class without asking for leave.

  Damn it, a rabbit in a hurry will even bite people, let alone humans.

  I don't know how Jing Qiang is doing, won't be beaten by A Fei, Wang Dong and those few rascals' fight?

  I swear in my heart that if they dare to touch a single hair of Qiangzi, I will not let them off even if I die, and I must take revenge on them.

  I moved my body a bit and it hurt to death, I had been strolling around for the whole afternoon, my body was very tired, thinking about it made me fall asleep.

  I had a strange dream.

  The protagonist's life is about to change, let's see how Long Tianyu becomes stronger step by step. Support Xing Hun, the following plot has beauties and schemes. But my work doesn't have many collections, for the convenience of reading, collect it, everyone.