vrcanaries Chapter 372 Eyes
Chapter 372 Eyes
Holy crap! Is this guy crazy?
Although Gao Wen didn't say anything, his eyes still conveyed this meaning to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun shrugged, pointed to his head, and shook his head helplessly.
Li Wu felt his head throb even more. "Should we give you some space to talk alone?" He looked at Gao Wen, implying that they were willing to excuse him if he wanted to discuss things with Yan Xun privately.
"No need." Gao Wen waved his hand dismissively, and just as he was about to say something, he saw Lou Yanchuan standing to the side with an annoying smile on his face. "He's no good."
"He can't listen."
Li Wu didn't speak, but silently looked at Lou Yanchuan, signaling him to get lost.
Lou Yanchuan wasn't annoyed. He pushed back his chair and stood up. "You two can talk slowly."
Before leaving, he glanced at Yan Xun one last time, "Really not going to reconsider?"
"Why don't you go and find out about that mysterious person behind the ancestral hall?" Yan Xun said.
Lou Yanchuan's expression remained unchanged. Seeing that Gao Wen was still grinning at him, he deliberately walked to Yan Xun's side and patted his shoulder affectionately, "I know, Seventh Concubine."
After Lou Yanchuan left leisurely, Gao Wen immediately rushed to Yan Xun's side. "Brother, let me check." He said suspiciously, feeling around on Yan Xun's shoulder. "I suspect he put a listening device on your shoulder."
Yan Xun slapped Gao Wen's hand away. "What did you want to say by sending Lou Yanchuan away?"
Seeing that Yan Xun wouldn't let him examine him, Gao Wen could only sit down dejectedly in the chair next to him. "I just suddenly remembered..."
“Yesterday at the ancestral hall, I saw something.”
"what?"
“I peeked through the crack in the door into the ancestral hall,” Gao Wen said, glancing at Li Wu and Yan Xun, “...and saw a face.”
“That face was suspended in mid-air, its eye sockets were dark and empty.” He said, looking at Yan Xun. “Actually, I wanted to ask you yesterday if you saw the face of the thing enshrined in the ancestral hall?”
As he was talking, he noticed that Yan Xun and Li Wu were both staring at him.
"...What?" Gawain asked, puzzled. "Did I say something wrong?"
“No.” Yan Xun and Li Wu exchanged a glance, and they could see that the other’s eyes also understood.
"But it seems we've discovered what Gao Ruiyun has hidden in the room."
Seeing Gao Wen's blank expression, Li Wu recounted their previous speculations and Yan Xun's findings. After listening, Gao Wen immediately looked at Yan Xun and asked, "You mean, you suspect that Master Gao is enshrining the eyes of that thing in his room?"
"To hide this thing, he actually swallowed its eyes?!"
At this point, Gao Wen couldn't help but click his tongue, "No wonder Master Gao looks so sickly. How can he be healthy if he eats this stuff every day?"
Yan Xun wasn't concerned about Master Gao's health; he just felt that the Gao family was strange in every way.
A well that mysteriously appeared in the back courtyard, a mysterious person in the dilapidated courtyard, and a blessing banquet that takes place once every 30 years.
"Master Gao said that the esteemed person would only visit the Gao family once every 30 years to attend a banquet." Li Wu recalled the background of the dungeon. "If the esteemed person is satisfied, the Gao family will enjoy wealth and honor; otherwise, the family will be ruined and everyone will be infected with a strange disease."
“But that banquet 30 years ago was the ‘or’ in ‘yes or no’,” Yan Xun said. “That official didn’t attend the banquet, so it’s impossible to say whether he was satisfied or not.”
Yan Xun rested his chin on his hand, looking at Li Wu and Gao Wen, "Could this be related to His missing eyes?"
"Or we should investigate the records of banquets held by the Gao family over the years."
Yan Xun told the two people in the room about how Master Gao's father had obtained the secret medicine at the last banquet, "Gao Ruiyun said that his father's health was also very poor, as if the Gao family was cursed."
"It was only by chance that I received a secret medicine from that esteemed person at a banquet 60 years ago, which led to some improvement."
"However, the effects of the secret medicine are limited. He did not descend at the banquet 30 years ago. Without the secret medicine, Master Gao's father's health gradually deteriorated. In order to ensure that the great one would descend this time, he encountered bandits when he went out to find offerings 5 years ago."
Yan Xun always felt that there was something strange about the Gao family's affairs.
If the eyes of the one in the ancestral hall are truly missing and are inside Master Gao's stomach... then rather than saying that the Gao family genuinely worships this "god," it would be more accurate to say that the Gao family has imprisoned Him.
Li Wu understood Yan Xun's meaning. "I will check the records of the banquet held by the Gao family and the results."
His identity is that of Master Gao's first wife, so it's relatively easy for him to find out these things.
"And what about me?" Gawain pointed to himself.