Rebirth: The Time-locked Girl
Chapter 394 Shence Army Tiger Tallies, command the entire army! [2 more updates]

Chapter 394: 394 Shence Army Tiger Tallies, command the entire army! [2 more updates]

"Gah?!"

The cries of the Qingyun Pendant suddenly stopped.

"Another of its kind has appeared? And it recognizes you?" the Jade Luan Pin was also somewhat surprised. "Qingyun, can you see what it is?"

"I-I-I can speak, but I’m not x-ray-eyed. Her Royal Highness the Princess didn’t see anything, and I definitely can’t either," Qingyun Pendant said doubtfully. "Could it be an antique I used to know?"

"You’re mistaken, I don’t know you." The voice came again, slightly embarrassed, "it’s just that when you mentioned none of the forgeries here could compare to you, I knew you must be the Qingyun Pendant that accompanies the Lord Prince Yan."

Qingyun Pendant was furious: "You’re tricking me, you deceive me! What’s your origin, state your name quickly!"

"Me?" The voice turned despondent. "I don’t know what I am. I seem to have forgotten many things; I don’t even know where I am, I..."

At this point, the voice began to sob.

"Ah, ouch." Jade Luan Pin spoke disdainfully. "That’s too much of you, making someone cry."

"I-I-I mean no harm!" Qingyun Pendant panicked. "Don’t cry, please don’t cry."

The voice continued crying, breathlessly, "I really have forgotten many things. I only remember a lot of people stepping on me; I don’t know who they were; I only know it hurt a lot..."

Ye Wanlan naturally heard this conversation, her expression turned stern.

Could it be that cultural relics lost their memory when scattered and abandoned?

The longer they stayed away from Shenzhou, the more memory they lost, becoming numb and turning into soulless relics?

"Don’t cry!" Qingyun Pendant awkwardly consoled, "With Her Royal Highness the Princess here, even if you have suffered a great injustice, Her Royal Highness will seek justice for you!"

The crying indeed diminished, and the voice, still choking, said, "Her Royal Highness the Princess? How long has it been, where is this Royal Highness? Even though I have lost my memory, I’m not a fool."

Qingyun Pendant: "..."

Alright, I’m really the silliest one!

"Forget about this foolish Qingyun Pendant," Jade Luan Pin said soothingly. "Then do you know where you are now? Tell us, and Her Royal Highness can come to find you."

"Where I am..." the voice stammered and stopped crying, "It’s very dark around me. I can’t see anything; there are many forgeries like me beside me. I don’t even know where I am, wah—"

As it spoke, the voice began to sob again.

"Her Royal Highness," Qingyun Pendant cried out anxiously, "what should we do? We must find this friend and bring it back."

Ye Wanlan calmly examined the carpets on both sides and finally fixed her gaze on a crude stall.

The stall owner was a middle-aged man dressed in tattered clothes, with a large black bag beside him.

"Miss Ye?" Xiang Shaoyu noticed Ye Wanlan’s focus. "Could it be..."

Is it really there?

He had said it offhandedly, yet Ye Wanlan actually managed to find an authentic piece?

Ye Wanlan paused and then started to communicate with the stall owner.

What surprised Xiang Shaoyu even more was that she began with a fluid string of Northern Lands language.

The Northern Lands language is among the most difficult languages to learn in the world because of its pronunciation patterns, which are quite tongue-twisting.

He had struggled with the pronunciation when learning it.

The stall owner was clearly surprised that someone with an Eastern face could speak the Northern Lands language more fluently than a native speaker, and seeing Ye Wanlan’s blue eyes, naturally thought her to be of mixed race.

This made the transaction much smoother.

Ye Wanlan pointed to the black bag, indicating that she wanted to take away all the antiques in it.

The stall owner was very pleased and gave her a fifty percent discount.

Both parties thought the other was a fool.

"I’ll do it," Yan Tingfeng bent down and picked up the bag. "Let’s go to the hotel first."

Xiang Shaoyu nodded. "Yes, for safety, I booked the Wan Guo Hotel under the Wanguo Group."

Wanguo Group is the world’s largest corporation, steadily holding the top spot among the Fortune 500, with industries spread across the globe.

Xiang Shaoyu is a diamond VIP of the Wanguo Group, enjoying extremely high priority.

The Wan Guo Hotel ensures the personal safety of all its guests and provides a bodyguard team.

After arriving at the hotel, Ye Wanlan opened the black bag and poured out everything inside.

Upon seeing this, Qingyun Pendant was dumbfounded: "There are so many identical items, how can we tell them apart?"

Ye Wanlan was not in a hurry.

Even if the replicas could look identical on the outside, many small details could absolutely not be replicated.

She patiently threw the replicas back into the bag until only an object resembling an iron artifact was left on the ground.

"What is this?" Qingyun Pendant was curious. "It looks a bit like a tiger, but it’s not."

Qingyun Pendant didn’t recognize it immediately, but Ye Wanlan identified at first sight what this oddly shaped object was—

The Shence Army Tiger Tally!

Ye Wanlan’s expression turned solemn.

It was the tiger tally that could command the Divine Strategy Army!

The Shun Dynasty, Shenzhou’s first great unified dynasty, had a military strategist who invented the tiger tally.

Crafted from materials like jade or bronze into the shape of a tiger, split into a left and a right half, the break includes a male-female buckle to join the two halves into one.

In Shenzhou, "right" is supreme, thus the left half is kept by generals, and the right half is held by the emperor, thereby controlling military power.

Yet, the Shence Army Tiger Tally in her hand was incomplete, containing only the right half.

Yes.

The Divine Strategy Army was the only Jianghu Sect that could be mobilized by the Imperial Court, and its right tally was given to Yan Wang Hejia by Ning Zhaozong.

Thus, it made sense for the right tally to appear in the Northern Lands, both logically and emotionally.

But why it would appear in such a counterfeit market, one predominant possibility was that due to the many antiques plundered in those years, the small tiger tally might have been lost during transportation.

Otherwise, given the historical significance of the Shence Army Tiger Tally, it would certainly be treasured in a museum.

"Wait, it looks familiar!" Qingyun Pendant suddenly yelled. "Tiger tally! You are the Shence Army Tiger Tally!"

A faint voice asked, "What is the Shence Army Tiger Tally?"

"Done for, you’ve really lost a lot of your memory," Qingyun Pendant said, alarmed. "Your Highness, what can we do now?"

Ye Wanlan spoke gently, "Don’t be afraid, I will take you home, and you will surely remember everything then."

"Go...home?" The Shence Army Tiger Tally sobbed cautiously, then asked, "Is... Shenzhou still alright?"

"It’s fine," Ye Wanlan smiled. "Skyscrapers everywhere, just as bustling as the capital of Northern Lands."

"And...there are no more wars in Shenzhou now?"

"No, there are none. Peace reigns over the land, and the people live in security and contentment."

"Wah—" The Shence Army Tiger Tally couldn’t hold back and burst into tears again. "Your Highness, I miss you all so much. I’ve always missed you, but, but I know I can’t go home..."

It didn’t know when it left Shenzhou; by the time it realized, it had forever left its homeland.

On the road, it had suffered grievous abuse, still painful to this day.

It had thought of returning, but it not only couldn’t move, its memory was gradually fading, and its senses were dulling.

This caused the Shence Army Tiger Tally to panic uncontrollably.

It feared that one day it would become like its other brothers and sisters, becoming truly inanimate, unable to speak, unable to feel.

Yet, it couldn’t stop any of it, only able to forget more things day by day.

Until today—

It heard the voice of its kind!

Suddenly, it felt its senses becoming clearer, the fog that had obscured it for a long time gradually dispersing.

Yet, it had lost too much memory to recall past events.

"Jade Luan, don’t you think its personality and its function are way too mismatched?" Qingyun Pendant muttered, "It is, after all, the tiger tally commanding the eight-thousand-strong Divine Strategy Army. How come it’s sobbing so delicately?"

Jade Luan Pin huffed, "You’re the Jade Pendant of Lord Prince Yan, but you haven’t matured with him either. You speak more than anyone!"

Qingyun Pendant: "..."

"It’s likely because the left tally is missing," Ye Wanlan pondered for a moment. "I wonder where the other half of the Shence Army Tiger Tally is. Can you sense it?"

The Shence Army Tiger Tally shook its head. "I... I can’t sense anything now."

Ye Wanlan fell silent.

If the left tally couldn’t be found, then the incomplete Shence Army Tiger Tally wouldn’t bring any new historical insights, and she couldn’t ascertain what the Divine Strategy Army had encountered in that battle.

"Don’t rush; take your time recovering," Ye Wanlan smiled slightly, repeating, "Don’t worry, I’ll take you home."

She placed the Shence Army Tiger Tally together with Qingyun Pendant and Jade Luan Pin, to perhaps accelerate the tiger tally’s recovery.

Ye Wanlan walked out of the door; Yan Tingfeng and Xiang Shaoyu were both waiting for her. She nodded, "There indeed is a genuine article, it’s the Shence Army Tiger Tally."

"The Shence Army Tiger Tally?!" Xiang Shaoyu was taken aback.

He had never imagined it would be such a precious item.

Ye Wanlan whispered, "Yes, but we only have the right tally; the whereabouts of the left are unknown."

"The left tally?" Yan Tingfeng was slightly startled.

Palace Master Shui Yunqing of Taiyi Palace had personally handed the left tally to him.