I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 374 - Chapter 374 Chapter 370 Xiaocaos Drifting Diary

Chapter 374: Chapter 370 Xiaocao’s Drifting Diary Chapter 374: Chapter 370 Xiaocao’s Drifting Diary In the moment he turned around, Drilling Mouse felt a sudden, intense pain in his chest, as if something had been wrenched out of his body.

Drilling Mouse staggered two steps back.

It seemed as though all his strength had been drained away.

Thud–

Drilling Mouse’s legs gave out, and he knelt down in the sandy ground…

Drilling Mouse raised his head, looking ahead.

On the camel’s back, where he had just groomed its fur, sat a tall Wild Man.

In the Wild Man’s hands was a dripping heart…

“Wait!”

“Heart?”

Drilling Mouse was horrified.

He looked down at his own chest…

That was his heart!

In the next second!

Drilling Mouse collapsed powerlessly onto the sandy ground.

His eyes were wide open.

But there was no light in them…

He died with his eyes open!

The tall Wild Man opened his mouth and took the Drilling Mouse’s heart in his teeth.

With one bite, juice splattered everywhere.

The tall Wild Man closed his eyes in pleasure.

Cang Luan leaped from the camel’s back and pounced on Drilling Mouse’s corpse, greedily sucking the warm fresh blood flowing from the wound.

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Beneath the thief’s tunnel!

At the edge of a pitch-black pool, a groan was heard as a human-shaped creature unsteadily stood up, wading through the dark water, crawling towards the shore.

The creature sat at the water’s edge, trembling as it pulled out a waterproof bag from its pocket and took out a kerosene lighter from the bag.

Clink–

The kerosene lighter was ignited.

Revealing Fang Xiaocao’s pale face.

“Cough cough cough…”

Fang Xiaocao coughed violently.

She reached out a finger to probe her throat.

Gag–

Fang Xiaocao vomited a mouthful of river water.

Along with the river water, out came a lively little fish fry.

“Cough cough…”

“That was a close call…”

Fang Xiaocao wiped her wet face.

Shaking, she took out a piece of super-concentrated fuel from the waterproof bag and lit it with the kerosene lighter in her hand. The flame from the burning fuel offered her a trace of warmth.

Under the light of the fire, Fang Xiaocao surveyed her surroundings.

This was a pool hidden deep underground.

Surrounding her were wet and slippery rocks.

Not far from the pool, there was a decayed wooden door, leaning crookedly to one side. Having regained some strength, Fang Xiaocao got up and took off her backpack.

The backpack still had a waterproof layer and filled with airbags to cushion impacts, acting like a lifebuoy in the water. Otherwise, Fang Xiaocao, having lost consciousness, could have possibly drowned.

Fang Xiaocao took out a change of clothes from her backpack, dried off the river water, and changed into dry clothes, feeling somewhat better.

After looking around, Fang Xiaocao decided to explore beyond the wooden door.

To leave this place, apart from the underground river beneath the pool, there was only this door. Fang Xiaocao had no other choice.

Fang Xiaocao gnawed on the tough jerked meat as she walked towards the wooden door.

The jerked meat, uncooked, was as tough as wood; biting into it felt like filling one’s mouth with sawdust, but no matter how unpalatable, Xiaocao had to force herself to eat it, or she would die.

Now, her strength was severely overdrawn, and she was in a state of hypothermia; if she didn’t replenish food in time to gain energy from it, she wouldn’t last much longer.

Holding a glow stick, she walked into the darkness beyond the wooden door and was greeted by a smell of decay.

Mixed within were wafts of a rancid odor.

Extremely pungent!

About two hundred meters down the dark path,

the restrictive, narrow corridor came to an end.

The sight before her eyes suddenly opened up.

It was a stone chamber!

At the center of the stone chamber was a stone coffin.

One half of the stone coffin’s lid was askew on the body, the other half propped on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Xiaocao’s heart immediately lifted, and she drew out several hidden weapons, moving her feet slowly towards the stone coffin.

There was no corpse inside the stone coffin, just a few jade carvings with delicate craftsmanship scattered about.

One of the jade carvings was a vertical pupil, carved from a solid blood-red Blood Jade.

Just one look into this Blood Jade eye made Xiaocao feel momentarily disoriented.

Xiaocao was greatly alarmed in her heart!

She quickly averted her gaze, determined not to look at that jade eye again.

At the same time, a big question mark arose in Xiaocao’s mind.

She had seen this jade eye before!

But it wasn’t the actual object she had seen; it was an oil painting, and when she saw the painting, just like today, she felt a bit of discomfort, only not as strongly.

She had seen the oil painting in Gemini’s notes.

Gemini did not elaborate on the function of the vertical pupil in the notes, only labeled a name and scribbled a few sentences.

“Blood Jade Ring!”

“Sir Crow Horn, born with a single eye, congenitallyIncomplete. Upon mastering his craft, he ascended to White Jade Capital to excavate the essence of the Blood Jade, carving it into an eye to replenish what he lacked, and those who acquire it can obtain abilities unfathomable to gods and spirits.”

For Gemini’s few words, Xiaocao had specifically looked up several key terms.

Who is Sir Crow Horn?

Zuo Ci, styled Yuangfang, known as Sir Crow Horn, a famous Taoist priest from The Late Eastern Han Dynasty, renowned as an Immortal, particularly adept at Illusion Technique. It is said that he could command ghostly gods, and the “Book of The Later Han” mentions that he had an innate grasp of spirituality.

Coincidentally, records mention that Zuo Ci was blind in one eye, which aligned perfectly with what Gemini wrote.

As for the jade ring and White Jade Capital, in ancient times, these were used to refer to the moon, of which White Jade Capital was also considered a dwelling place of Immortals.

Thus, Xiaocao tried to interpret the meaning of Gemini’s words, surmising that Zuo Ci had once gone to the moon, mined a fine piece of Blood Jade, and made it into an artificial eye to replace his blind eye. Since the jade came from the moon, it was called the Blood Jade Ring.

“Could this be Zuo Ci’s artificial eye?”

Thinking of these things, Xiaocao murmured.

Whether Immortals existed in ancient times, Xiaocao did not know, but hypnotism and other supernaturally-tinged abilities mediated by the spirit did exist–she herself was versed in them. As to whether Immortals were real, aliens, or perhaps time travelers, Xiaocao had no idea.

Since Zuo Ci genuinely existed in history and there were so many legends about his Illusion Technique, they must be true.

That’s what Xiaocao believed.

As for whether Zuo Ci had ever been to the moon, or whether White Jade Capital was home to Immortals, Xiaocao didn’t care at all. If forced to give an opinion on the existence of Immortals, she would say they existed, but most likely, these Immortals were people from the future.

Look at the miraculous abilities attributed to Immortals; future humans seem more credible than aliens.

What are the quintessential abilities of an Immortal?

Divination and foreknowledge, of course!

For people from the future, that would be trivial.

If Xiaocao set up a fortune-telling stall right now, with Hot Noodles to help, she too could become a Divine Calculator.

“No wonder it’s causing mental discomfort; it’s a personal item of an Illusion Master, most likely a medium Zuo Ci used for casting illusions and hypnosis.”

Xiaocao mumbled to herself.

This item, of little use to others, could at most be considered an antique, but for Xiaocao, it was tantamount to a divine artifact that could elevate her hypnosis skills to new heights.

With these thoughts, greed arose within Xiaocao’s heart, and she reached out to grab the Blood Jade Ring.

Just as Xiaocao’s hand was about to touch the Blood Jade Ring, suddenly a roar of “ao” came from above. Startled, Xiaocao looked up and saw in her upper left, there was a hole, and from that hole, a figure covered in long hair leaped down, heading straight toward her…