A few years ago, Zhou Tao fainted on the roadside, and after being sent to the hospital, he learned that he had mid-stage cancer. Zhou Mei, who was taking care of him in the hospital, also fainted and fell into a coma. The test results showed that she was actually in the advanced stage of cancer.
Two cancer patients appeared in one family. Even if the treatment funds were sufficient, the hope of cure was extremely slim, let alone the fact that the Zhou family was from the countryside and couldn’t afford to pay the medical fees of two cancer patients.
The entire Zhou family was in despair, and Zhou Tao and Zhou Mei had the intention to die.
That day, they left the hospital and Zhou Mei took Zhou Tao to McDonald’s which he had always wanted to eat at, then mother and son leisurely walked towards the park.
There was a river on the outskirts. It flowed to a certain point and formed a small circular lake because of the topography.
The government then established a small park at that location. It had an excellent view and was Zhou Mei’s favorite place when she was young.
This was also the place she chose for her and her son to die.
As a result, she did not expect to meet a man who would change their fate.
“That man discovered that we wanted to die and stopped us. That was when he gave us this magic weapon.” Zhou Tao said.
The two mysterious items were still fighting in his body, and Zhou Tao was in severe pain.
Sweat was falling in big drops but he endured it because Ji Mingxia was listening to him carefully, so it was obvious that he was interested in what he was saying.
The more interested Ji Mingxia was, the more leverage he had to negotiate with Ji Mingxia.
Zhou Tao said, “He said the magic weapon could help us and we were to figure out how to use it by ourselves.”
Zhou Mei did not believe this, and rejected the man outright. But Zhou Tao was young at that time, and was at the most curious age.
Although he had agreed to jump into the lake with his mother and drown, he was extremely reluctant in his heart.
So he agreed to take the magic weapon.
As soon as he got the magic weapon, Zhou Tao felt a majestic power pass through his hand and go through his whole body. The long-lost feeling of vitality swept through Zhou Tao, causing him to become obsessed on the spot.
By the time he came to his senses, the man had disappeared. Zhou Tao had been tortured by the illness for a long time, but he felt healthier than ever as he held the magic weapon in his hand!
Zhou Mei had lived for forty years, and was always careful and cautious. She persuaded Zhou Tao to throw away the magic weapon, deeply afraid of being tainted with sin.
Zhou Tao had got hope of survival and tasted the joy of being healthy, how could he let go?
However, Zhou Mei’s concerns were not without reason, so Zhou Tao began to investigate the mysterious man while using the magic weapon to restore health
The man appeared suddenly, and mysteriously disappeared after so there were no clues to go by.
In order to find the man, Zhou Tao thought of a way.
“I pretended that he was my father and asked the park security guard to show us the surveillance footage. After confirming which door he used to go out of the park, we asked the shopkeepers of the small stores along that street to help us find him. His clothing was unique and people had an impression of him, so we quickly determined his approximate location.” Zhou Tao said, suddenly paused.
His voice came out muffled and he said to Ji Mingxia, “Mingxia, can you give me a little push, I’m talking face down and I can’t breathe.”
Ji Mingxia looked at the time, rubbed the ring, and agreed.
He got a broom from the side, and gently touched Zhou Tao’s body with the handle.
Zhou Tao was lying face down, and when Ji Mingxia pushed him, he fell to his side.
Zhou Tao immediately jerked his head up and looked at Ji Mingxia.
Zhou Tao froze for a moment when he saw that Ji Mingxia did not touch him with his hands but pushed him down with a broom. His face could barely restrain itself and he showed a look of exasperation.
“What’s wrong?” Ji Mingxia asked meaningfully.
“No, nothing.” Zhou Tao endured it and lowered his eyes to stop looking at Ji Mingxia.
Ji Mingxia asked, “Where does that man live?”
“After being diagnosed with cancer, my mother and I returned to the county together. We came out of the county hospital that time and went to the park…actually, Park Lake is in a relatively remote location in the county, but that man appeared in a relatively remote …” Zhou Tao rambled on, but the more he talked, the more pained the expression on his face. His body twitched and trembled, and his eyes were a little dazed.
Ji Mingxia listened while holding a broom in his hand and took a slight step back.
At that moment, Zhou Tao suddenly screamed and his body trembled violently.
Immediately after, a coin came out of his spine and few out
The coin was bronze in color. It had vague bumps on the edges, and the inscription in the center was speckled with rust.
At first glance, it looked like an ordinary old copper coin. It was round on the outside and square inside. It was worn out and the value and year couldn’t be made out.
However, it was this ordinary looking coin that was used to control the fate of the entire Banana Leaf Village.
As soon as the copper coin emerged, Zhou Tao was like he had been drained of his vitality. He began aging at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Zhou Tao’s body went limp and he became a terminally ill waste on the spot.
But he still looked at the copper coin with anticipation.
Although he told Ji Mingxia his general experience of getting this coin, he had deliberately concealed many details.
For example, when the man took out the magic weapon, he didn’t give Zhou Tao the chance to change his mind.
As soon as he agreed, the magic weapon flew out of the man’s hand and automatically fell into his hand.
This magic weapon had an automatic recognition function. Once the person is selected, it will drill into a part of the person’s body and etch itself deep into the bone marrow.
In the beginning, this copper coin etched itself in his palm.
The copper coin was related to longevity, and when it recognized Zhou Tao as its master, Zhou Tao’s eyes got a unique function.
In Zhou Tao’s eyes, the longevity of each person was like a white light enveloping the person.
The more vitality in the body, the healthier the person, the longer life and the brighter this white light.
Zhou Tao could select the “food” according to the brightness of the white light.
His first test subjects were the two Vietnamese boys visiting Banana Leaf Village.
Banana Leaf Village was a rural village and most young people do not stay there. Most of the long term residents are the elderly, women and children.
In such a situation, the two young and strong Vietnamese boys stood out in the crowd.
Zhou Tao had just got his treasure and he couldn’t wait to find someone to experiment with.
Taking away other people’s vitality and using it to nourish his own body was simply exciting. In a moment of ecstasy, Zhou Tao directly sucked those two people to dry.
It was his first time to kill and Zhou Tao panicked. But soon, he could not care about the corpses because the copper coin growing in his hand had embedded itself into his body as he absorbed longevity.
Although the copper coin wasn’t a living thing, it was as if Zhou Tao could feel its thoughts. After absorbing longevity, the copper coin was like a fierce beast meeting meat and it couldn’t be satisfied with that.
Zhou Tao needed to extend his life with the help of the copper coin, and the copper coin also needed to evolve and become stronger with the help of its host.
In order to continue living, Zhou Tao made up his mind and decided not to give up.
Corpses were horrible, but nothing was as important as his life.
Zhou Tao and his mother disposed of the two bodies, and to their relief, the matter was eventually treated as an unsolved case.
After that, Zhou Mei supervised Zhou Tao so that he wouldn’t suck the longevity as before. They adopted a gradual approach and little by little, ate away the villagers of the entire Banana Leaf Village.
However, the longevity of the villagers in Banana Leaf Village was limited.
The entire village, including friends and relatives, numbered only a few hundred.
Most of them were old men and women, and a careless move could kill them and expose the mother and son.
Part of the longevity went to Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao, and the rest went to the copper coin. Three parties were sharing it and the demand outweighed the supply.
Especially the copper coin. It seemed magical, but it was actually sinister. A few years down the road and the copper coin finally rested on his spine. Whenever the longevity is not enough, the magic weapon would attack him.
In order to make everyone in Banana Leaf Village to be his obedient food, he promised not to lay hands on the villager’s relatives. However, Zhou Tao knew he was going to die if things continued the way they were.
Just when he was thinking of giving up, Ji Mingxia came back.
If the light on the old men and women of the Banana Leaf Village was like a firefly, the two Vietnamese boys were light like a bright lamp, then Ji Mingxia’s was like a blazing sun.
Zhou Tao spotted Ji Mingxia as soon as he entered the village.
Ji Mingxia walked past the supermarket door and Zhou Tao’s eyes and the entire mini supermarket was illuminated by the light from his body.
The copper coin at his spine was so hungry and thirsty that it kept buzzing and trembling, urging Zhou Tao to suck him.
So Zhou Tao had his eyes on Ji Mingxia from the moment he stepped into the village.
He was sure that as long as Ji Mingxia fell into his hands, he and Zhou Mei would no longer need to suck the longevity of others. Ji Mingxia was enough for them to live on for a hundred years.
So from that day, they prepared to make their move and kill him.
Even the cautious Zhou Mei couldn’t resist the temptation Ji Mingxia brought, while Zhou Tao was impatient and couldn’t wait to take action.
Unexpectedly, Ji Mingxia turned the tables at the last moment!
The moment the blood-red ring bound him, Zhou Tao realized why Ji Mingxia was different from others!
It turned out that they all had magic weapons and were of the same kind!
After realizing this, Zhou Tao immediately thought of a way to save himself although he was bound by the blood-red ring.
The coin could automatically recognize its owner, and it had immediately moved to Ji Mingxia as soon as he was useless.
He was bound by the blood-red ring and the copper coin was forced out of his body, so he was sure that the copper coin wanted to go into Ji Mingxia’s body!
Meanwhile, Ji Mingxia still had another magic weapon on him.
The two magic weapons will fight and Ji Mingxia will definitely become like him. He would also suffer the pain from the backlash of the two magic weapons!
Zhou Tao looked at Ji Mingxia with excitement, hoping that Ji Mingxia would be rolling all over the ground in pain in the next instant.
However, a shocking scene occurred.
As soon as the copper coin left Zhou Tao’s body, it happily flew towards Ji Mingxia.
Its speed was so fast that it flew in front of Ji Mingxia in the blink of an eye.
But the moment it touched Ji Mingxia’s skin, the copper coin paused and immediately backed up.
Then, the copper coin disappeared the next instant.
Zhou Tao was stunned for a moment and even blinked his eyes in disbelief, thinking he was blind.
The copper coin immediately etched itself on his body as soon as it touched his skin. The feeling of flesh and bones being cut open was extremely painful.
His hand was swollen and purple as soon as he touched the coin. What was even more terrifying was that the copper coin engraved into the flesh looked elegant and sinister.
But at the moment Ji Mingxia’s hand was still normal.
Zhou Tao looked at Ji Mingxia’s white hand in confusion.
There was no sign of the copper coin, and it did not return to his body ……
If the copper coin did not grow into Ji Mingxia’s body, then where did it go?
Thinking of this, Zhou Tao couldn’t help but look at Ji Mingxia.
Ji Mingxia looked calm, so Zhao Tao looked at the blood-red ring on Ji Mingxia’s finger, and his face gradually became white.
He had lost the copper coin, and the energy from being bound to the ring. His trump card was useless and he was now reduced to an ordinary person, a fish that Ji Mingxia could slaughter at will.
On the other end, Ji Mingxia looked at his hand and although he was calm on the surface, he was actually very shocked.
He had expected Zhou Tao to have a trump card so he had always remained guarded.
When the copper coin flew out of his body, Ji Mingxia was also ready to use the ring to defend himself.
But as the ring got closer to him, a mysterious feeling inexplicably rose in Ji Mingxia’s heart.
He felt as if he could control this copper coin.
He had never touched mysterious items except the blood red ring.
In his concept, mysterious items were a dangerous thing.
When Yu Ning first got the ring and wanted to give it to him, his first reaction was to instinctively reject it.
If it wasn’t Yu Ning that had put the ring on him, Ji Mingxia would probably have jumped up in fright when it returned to his finger earlier.
So even if he had a feeling that he could control the copper coin, Ji Mingxia was extremely reluctant, and it was in that instant that a thought flashed through his mind.
He did not need this mysterious object nor did he want to have any contact with it. This thing had sucked away the village’s longevity to prolong Zhou Tao and Zhou Mei’s life, it was too evil.
Grandma Ji had aged dozens of years because of this thing.
If possible, Ji Mingxia would rather it be destroyed and the longevity of the villagers returned.
It was also at this time that the copper coin touched his hand. A burning sensation inexplicably leapt out of his hand and the copper coin, as though feeling the danger, immediately flew back, and eventually disappeared.
Zhou Tao looked horrified and Ji Mingxia also secretly surveyed the surrounding area, but ultimately, he did not come to any conclusion.
He was astonished, but he was expressionless on the surface.
In order to stall for time, he let Zhao Tao talk a lot of nonsense. According to his estimation, the police should be arriving any time soon.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia looked at Zhou Tao whose face was white and looked like a lost soul: “You followed the man, so did you find him?”
Zhou Tao froze and turned his head to look at Ji Mingxia.
The longer the copper coin was not with him, the faster Zhou Tao’s internal diseases began to flare up and his face was becoming more and more ugly.
Ji Mingxia raised his hand. The scarlet light of the blood red ring almost stabbed Zhou Tao’s eyes and Ji Mingxia asked: “Where is the approximate location of that man?”
“In the …… orphanage.” Zhou Tao felt a crisis as soon as he saw the ring. He no longer had the copper coin to protect his body, and his plot against Ji Mingxia had failed. He cowered for a moment, and finally decided not to make a fool of himself any longer. “He lived at the county orphanage. He was there for only a few days, I don’t know anything after that…… “
“The county orphanage?” Ji Mingxia froze.
Because of Bao Guangyuan’s narration, Ji Mingxia thought that the man would only appear in gloomy and scary places.
For example, abandoned residential buildings, cemeteries, crematoriums and the like ……
Unexpectedly, it was at the county orphanage?
Yu Ning’s face inexplicably flashed in Ji Mingxia’s mind.
If he remembered correctly, Yu Ning …… came out of the county orphanage, right?
Could this man be a plot character that had something to do with Yu Ning?
Ooooh~ 👀
Omg omg I’m intrigued