Zhang Haike and I were sitting in the corner of a Starbucks. He came to Hangzhou on a business trip, so he was quite busy. The overseas Zhang family’s properties in Hong Kong had been preserved to this day. The story of how they became wealthy was like something we’d only see in a TV … Continue reading Chapter 4 – Ways To Make A Living
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Chapter 3 – Notes About Our Leisure Time
I helped organize the Zhang family’s annual party. Since we would have to pass through Shanghai after departing from Yangcheng Lake on our return trip, I had the sudden idea of taking the Zhang family members to Disneyland. I had been thinking about how to be a good event organizer the whole time and was … Continue reading Chapter 3 – Notes About Our Leisure Time
Chapter 2 – The Research About The Southern Archives
The archives system is a special system that was called “volumes” in ancient times and “archives” later. The names are different, but the function is the same. If there’s such a thing as the Southern Archives, then there’s definitely going to be the Central, Eastern, Western, and Northern Archives. The emergence of the archives system … Continue reading Chapter 2 – The Research About The Southern Archives
Chapter 1 – The Profile Of The Members In Perak
(This is Wu Xie’s POV) People in the Zhang family always acted in a secretive manner. It was rare for them to have someone like Little Brother Zhang who had his own legends in the South Sea. It was because of how he acted in the South Sea that many legends about the plague god … Continue reading Chapter 1 – The Profile Of The Members In Perak
Chapter 10 – The Desire To Eat People
After seeing these hallucinations, Herman drew the map himself and then let the people from the Royal Academy of Sciences take gonka. For a total of seven days, there were about twenty people who reported the incident to their superiors. Everyone was terrified of what they saw in the illusion. After that, the Royal Academy … Continue reading Chapter 10 – The Desire To Eat People
Chapter 9 – Gonka
Zhang Haiyan looked at Wade. Only creatures like lizards blinked vertically. It was absolutely impossible for humans to blink vertically. “Why do you want to find these kinds of people? Are they valuable?” The Europeans’ appetite had long been enlarged by the diamond mines in the Borneo rainforests. Even though the cost of funding expedition … Continue reading Chapter 9 – Gonka
Chapter 8 – Gadflies
The air was filled with the sound of buzzing gadflies, the edge of the rainforest was very wet, and the ground was full of mud puddles that would never dry up. The trees here were all perennial yellow eucalyptus and banyan trees with huge trunks. Wade’s tent had been erected next to one of the … Continue reading Chapter 8 – Gadflies
Chapter 7 – The Huge Secret In The Rainforest
It was the face of a snake, but its eyes were incredibly long and thin. It didn’t look like facial makeup or other masks. It looked like the face of a real snake. “What is this?” Wade looked at him in horror as Zhang Haiyan slowly climbed down from the tree with a strange, reptilian … Continue reading Chapter 7 – The Huge Secret In The Rainforest
Chapter 6 – Wade’s Past
When Wade was about sixteen, he realized he was different from other boys. At that time, he weighed almost a hundred and twenty kilograms, but he was only half his peers’ height. His younger cousin who was staying at their home already looked like an adult. A poor relative from the country would always have … Continue reading Chapter 6 – Wade’s Past
Chapter 5 – Dirty Faces
Zhang Haiyan pressed Madison’s knife down when saw that Wade’s musket had been placed on a branch close to him. In fact, there were a lot of broken logs in the logging yard. “Can he speak Chinese?” “No,” Madison said. Zhang Haiyan patted Madison. “Put the knife down.” “Why?” “There are certain rules in this … Continue reading Chapter 5 – Dirty Faces