“……” Lucifer pursed his lips: “It’s not what I thought.”

“So what are you thinking?” Jiang Lu asked curiously.

Lucifer couldn’t help but complain: “I thought it would be a story about being isolated and laughed at in a martial arts school, but then working hard to become the best in the school, and finally having greater ambitions because of some deep hatred or responsibility, and finally achieving success. I didn’t expect… um… to be so simple.”

“Nervous.” Jiang Lu shrugged. “Normal people don’t encounter so many dramatic things. Do you really think that the last school will suddenly show up some school beauties or school bullies to show off in front of me for no reason?”

“At least I’ve read a lot of your novels, and they’re all like this…”

“Well…how should I put it? Actually, the people around me at that time were pretty nice. The seniors knew that I was impotent and still took me to watch adult videos. I am very grateful that they treated me as a normal person.” Jiang Lu recalled with some emotion.

“…I don’t really understand.” Lucifer replied reluctantly.

“And then…”

Not long after, Jiang Lu brought Lucifer to a massage parlor again.

The massage parlor is quite old and cannot be compared with the high-end and luxurious foot massage parlors nowadays, but Jiang Lu still feels very familiar with it.

“This was also the place we often came to play at the martial arts school. It was also the fifth point.”

Jiang Lu has now confirmed that the places where the monster went back and forth completely overlapped with his life trajectory in Huangquan.

“Even though I was already a cripple, Sister No. 86 would still comfort me gently and soothe my wounded heart. It’s not an exaggeration to say that she is my white moonlight. In my eyes, she is like Xiao Xun’er to Xiao Yan.”

“Hey, hey, hey, don’t make such a weird analogy. These are two completely different things, okay?” Lucifer, who was deeply influenced by Chinese novels, had naturally heard of the famous name of Emperor Yan. He found it difficult to accept Jiang Lu’s analogy: “Apologize to Xiao Xun’er!”

However, Jiang Lu had no intention of apologizing. He was just deeply immersed in his almost forgotten good memories and couldn’t extricate himself.

“I don’t know if she got married later, and whether she would meet someone who treats her well. If she is happy, then the other person is probably a simple, kind, and never-dating man whom she met through a matchmaker after working in a big city for a while and returning home to build a house with a loan…”

“Where on earth do you get all these stereotypes?!”

Lucifer covered Jiang Lu’s mouth to prevent him from saying anything cold and hurtful:

“Okay, okay, where is the last point?”

Jiang Lu seemed to have foreseen something. He sighed and said, “If that is really the manifestation of the ancient artifact, then I think this last point hides its secret. The real body of that thing… may be in my house.”

Chapter 465 Jiang Family Courtyard

Jiang Lu didn’t know what the true identity of the ancient artifact was, but he had a hunch that it might have an inseparable relationship with him.

The manifestation of the ancient artifacts in the spiritual realm, and the points of travel back and forth all coincide with Jiang Lu’s childhood life trajectory. This is really too coincidental, and there is almost no second possibility to explain such a coincidence.

what is that?

Could it be something I carried with me as a child?

Or is it some creature that always stays with you?

Jiang Lu has lived a wealthy life since he was a child. His parents gave him many good things. He also raised many pets, including animals and plants, and he kept many of them with him. But he had no idea what they were.

But it didn’t matter, because his intuition told him that he would know the answer soon.

Because just as he expected, the last turning point in the spiritual realm was in his home, or to be precise, his childhood home.

This is a large mansion located on the top of a high mountain in the center of Huangquan City. Halfway down the mountain is a forest park.

There was no one living in the house anymore. There was no light at all in the rows of magnificent buildings. The heavy wooden door, like a city gate, was tightly closed and covered with dust. It seemed that no one had cleaned it for some time.

“Is this your home? It looks older than the royal palace in Yinjing City.” Lucifer did not think much about it and just thought that this was one of the palaces built after Jiang Lu became famous.

“Of course it’s older than that.” Jiang Lu smiled slightly, “inadvertently” showing the confidence of being a rich second-generation: “This is the ancestral home passed down from my ancestors. It existed before Yinjing City was built.”

“Ah?” Lucifer was a little surprised: “So you are actually considered a noble in the underworld?”

“You can say that, but we usually call them landlords here. To put it more nicely, we can also call them aristocratic families.” Jiang Lu scratched his head: “You look like you find it unbelievable?”

Lucifer sighed and said bluntly: “Because in my opinion, nobles are generally well-educated, and I don’t see those qualities in you.”

“The people in my family do fit what you said.” Jiang Lu shrugged, “But it doesn’t matter to me. Besides, I think that not bullying others when I was a kid was the best upbringing I’ve ever had. Otherwise, have you ever heard of any noble being expelled from school where the parents beat up the child instead of the principal?”

“Two different things…”

Jiang Lu was too lazy to explain anything. Time would prove everything. A truly kind person would not emphasize his kindness all the time.

After jumping over the high wall and into the courtyard, a sense of familiarity hits you.

However, Jiang Lu soon discovered something wrong. There was a gap on the east wall that was supposed to be closed, and two steel wires protruded from the east wing and extended down the mountain.

Jiang Lu walked into the east wing curiously, only to find that there were several cable cars parked inside. The cable cars, made of cast iron, were already mottled in many places, and the pulleys hanging on the cables had rusted and fused with the cables. It looked like they had not been moved for a long time.

“Take the cable car to and from school? So awesome?” Lucifer exclaimed in amazement and shook the cable car with his hand.

It didn’t matter that there was a flash, a person suddenly jumped out from inside.

Seeing two more people outside, the man was horrified: “I’ll leave right away, right away!”

This was a very sloppy man. Through the window of the cable car, one could see some trivial daily necessities placed inside. At this moment, he looked very scared, as if he had some psychological trauma.

Jiang Lu grabbed him by the back of his collar and asked him with a frown, “Who are you? What’s going on with this cable car?”

Lucifer glanced sideways. It turns out that this cable car was already there.

The man realized something and asked cautiously, “You…are not ghost soldiers?”

“I’m from out of town, and happened to pass by here to take a look.” Jiang Lu said evasively.

“I was so scared. I thought it was the ghost soldiers.” The man breathed a sigh of relief, then complained with a sad face: “I am a homeless man. I am nearly 40 years old. My parents just passed away and I was fired by the company. I filed a lawsuit, but not only did I become the defendant, I also owed the company a lot of debt. My wife ran away with someone and divided up the house. From then on, people kept asking for debts. I really had nowhere to go, so I thought of coming here to deal with it for a while and avoid the limelight. When I saw you, I thought my whereabouts had been discovered and the creditors were looking for the ghost soldiers to take my life…”

“I didn’t ask you that.” Jiang Lu waved his hand, not interested in listening to a story he had heard eight hundred times before: “I asked you why it became like this, even the cable car is here.”

“Well… you guys really look like you’re from other places, or you haven’t been to Huangquan City for a long time. This place has been like this for a long time.”

The man looked at the two of them and explained:

“I heard from the old people that ever since the original owner of this house became the Lord of the Underworld, the house has been inexplicably vacated and no one lives there. Then, someone developed the Jiang Family Courtyard into a scenic spot, calling it the Former Residence of the Lord of the Underworld. The cable car was installed at that time.

Later, something happened to the Yin Lord, and the current Yin Emperor came to power. Many things that were previously promoted became topics that could not be discussed, and then the Yin Lord’s former residence was also used as a typical example of a crackdown, so it was abandoned and became what it is today.”

After hearing this, Jiang Lu was suddenly a little dazed and confused.

Although he never returned to the underworld for various reasons after becoming the Lord of the Underworld, he never expected that his happy hometown would become like this.

My parents would occasionally send me letters, so how come they were no longer at home after I left? Where did they go?

Seeing that Jiang Lu didn’t say anything, the homeless man might have felt a little embarrassed, so he asked for something to talk about:

“Come to think of it, the roads leading up from the park should be blocked. Where did you get up from? Did you climb up along the cable like me?”

“Did you climb up here?” Jiang Lu raised his eyebrows: “You are such a ruthless person.”

At this time, Lucifer asked with some concern: “Since it was developed, someone must have come in and renovated it all. Are the things still there?”

“It’s hard to say.” Jiang Lu shook his head: “Let’s go in and take a look.”

Having said that, Jiang Lu was about to walk towards the main house.

The homeless man saw that the two men ignored him. He was curious about what they were doing but didn’t dare to ask more. He wanted to ask them not to reveal their whereabouts but was too embarrassed to ask, so he could only stand there at a loss.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Jiang Lu waved his hand to tell him not to worry: “I won’t tell anyone that you are here, so just stay here peacefully.”

The homeless man breathed a sigh of relief and showed a grateful expression to Jiang Lu.

“So generous?” Lucifer smiled and said, “After all, this is your home. It was okay before, but now there’s a stranger under your nose. Won’t you feel uncomfortable?”

Jiang Lu disagreed: “If you think so, it only shows that we have different views on aristocratic cultivation.”

Lucifer was speechless for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

Chapter 466 Exhibition Hall

Although the houses in the Jiang family compound are not tall, even the highest point of the main house is only five or six meters high, but the area is very large, covering the entire top of Huangquan Mountain.

Jiang Lu sighed along the way, recalling the past, when he played with sand here, when he climbed trees to pick fruits there, making people feel that his childhood was very fulfilling.

But more importantly, I lamented that I didn’t realize at the time that my family was so rich. It was not until I lived my life again and grew up in an orphanage that I realized how rare the life I took for granted before was.

However, although he felt emotional, he did not think that the orphanage was so bad. It was the same place where he was born and raised. There was no distinction between high and low. They were all life experiences and new experiences, and they were all worth remembering.

After walking for a while, Jiang Lu brought Lucifer to the main house.

Pushing open the dusty door covered with cobwebs, the light inside finally came back to light.

then.

“Hold!”

Jiang Lu angrily kicked away the water bottles and plastic bags piled by the door:

“Who threw so much garbage in my house?!”

Seeing this, Lucifer comforted him: “Calm down, hasn’t this place been transformed into a scenic spot?”

But Jiang Lu didn’t accept it: “That’s what makes me even more angry. If it’s turned into a scenic spot and I don’t manage it properly, isn’t that just wasting my family’s fortune?”

After a pause, Jiang Lu looked around: “Speaking of this, where is my family’s foundation?”

The colorful bottles and jars in the main house that Jiang Lu remembered, and the pearls and agates that he later found out were very valuable, had long disappeared. Except for the plaque with family mottos hanging right in the center, there was nothing here that Jiang Lu was familiar with.

Although these things are very similar to the originals, and the level of these imitations is so advanced that they can even fool many experts who specialize in antiques, they cannot fool Jiang Lu. He does not understand antiques, but he knows that this is different from what he has seen and touched since he was a child.

The tables, chairs, screens and curtains were nothing like what he remembered.

There is no doubt that the Jiang family compound is actually just an empty shell, and the valuables have either already flowed into the market or have been taken away by certain people.

“This is a bit strange.” Lucifer said to Jiang Lu in a serious tone, “If your family was ruined like this after Emperor Yin usurped the throne, it would be fine, but the man just said that the project of renovating the scenic area started when you were still in power. Logically speaking, you were at the peak of your career at that time, and your status in the underworld was supreme. No one should dare to do this.”

Indeed, this is unreasonable. Even when Daqing was at its lowest point in history, it was not until the Eight Vajra invaded that the people of Daqing dared to lead the way to rob things in the garden. But back then, Jiang Lu was at his most prosperous period. Who would dare to steal his ancestral home?

This person is definitely not an ordinary person.

Jiang Lu and Lucifer thought of the same person at the same time.

“Nyarlathotep?”

“That should be it.” Jiang Lu scratched his hair in annoyance. “There is no one else except him. I’m afraid he wanted to find antiques and found my house. Then I don’t know how he took control of my house. He pretended to develop a scenic spot as a cover while digging deep inside.”

“But what about your parents? They’ve been doing this for so long, and you haven’t heard anything about it?”

Lucifer blamed:

“If you go home more often, can this happen?”