Chapter 116

After the group entered the village, they gave the villagers food coupons as usual. But the villagers were too afraid to accept them, so the group immediately noticed that something was off. Uncle Three chose this moment to make his appearance. He identified himself and said that he was just curious and would never pursue the matter. He hoped to get to know these people and learn what they were doing.

Uncle Three had a private chat with the leader of the meteorological team. Although the leader was very cautious and hardly revealed any information, Uncle Three immediately understood that they didn’t belong to the organization’s official team. The claim that they were meteorologists was completely false. These people were very mysterious, but this mystery had nothing to do with the huge conspiracy that Uncle Three fell into at that time.

This made him very afraid.

For those in the Mystic Nine, the thousand-year-old struggle between the Wang and Zhang families was the biggest conspiracy that humans could imagine. But at that moment, Uncle Three saw those people and started to realize that there were “other” conspiracies in this world. These “others” were completely outside of anything he had ever known, so Uncle Three was obviously full of curiosity.

The leader of the meteorological team told him that they were chasing thunder. Over the past few years, the thunder that they worshiped had stopped in this mountainous area. They hoped that the ashes of their companions would come into contact with the thunder, at which point their souls would merge with the thunder.

When Uncle Three asked them why they did this, the team leader told him that they always wanted to find out what information was hidden in the thunder. Many of their companions had died during all those years of listening to thunder in the mountains, so in order to commemorate and remember them, they invented this strange ceremony in hopes that their companions could be with the thunder.

At that time, Uncle Three believed that this group was simply engaged in feudal superstition, but when they left, they gave Uncle Three some parting words: we’ll never see each other again, but there will be an opportunity in the future that will be related to your nephew.

Uncle Three had never mentioned me when he was talking to them, so this sentence immediately grabbed his attention. At first, he thought it must’ve been some scheme between the Wang and Zhang families, but as time went by, he found that it was a completely separate matter.

This was the origin of everything.

After that, he began to focus on listening to thunder. He eventually found Yang Daguang, whom he tricked into studying the information in the thunder for him.

I could clearly see many ambiguous statements in Uncle Three’s journal, all of which were related to the meteorological team’s parting words to him. This let me know that a key message had been deleted. I had dealt with grammar for a long time when writing, so I could figure out the possible direction of this key message.

When those people left, they had probably mentioned my death.

Was it true that my death was near?

I took a deep breath, put my hand over my lungs, and pressed down. I still hadn’t completely recovered from the previous dive and felt a slight stinging sensation.

I continued reading. Uncle Three, Yang Daguang, and Chen Wen-Jin went on their first field investigation and tried to collect thunder. After this first investigation, Yang Daguang discovered the thunder’s pattern and became obsessed with researching it. As the research deepened, Uncle Three found that Yang Daguang began to change.

In the beginning, Yang Daguang was following Uncle Three’s lead. He was always very curious about Uncle Three and willing to listen to any of Uncle Three’s commands. But after listening to thunder for a long time, Yang Daguang became another person.

His behavior basically changed from that of a man to a woman.

This kind of creepy change happened so slowly that Uncle Three only noticed a lot of strange details at first. It wasn’t until there was a thunderstorm that Yang Daguang completely became another person.

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Hmmmm interesting. I don’t remember this being in the drama but I feel like the explanation makes way more sense