Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 870 - 553: Snatching Food from the Jaws of the Wind_2

Chapter 870: Chapter 553: Snatching Food from the Jaws of the Wind_2

Feng Yi could use this energy field to seek out the past and to look at the things that lay silent in the genes, usually difficult to unearth.

In other parts of the world, regions shrouded in this special energy field would also see objects of the same origin manifest resonance.

Above the vast sea, vortices had already formed and were growing at an astonishing rate.

Invisible energy matter was moving at high speed, acting like a catalyst that wasn’t overtly consumed, yet it could alter certain reaction pathways.

The range of traction and pull was rapidly expanding, with the area of influence extending swiftly.

From the seldom-visited areas of the sea to the densely populated lands.

Zone N7.

Inside a nondescript acquisition station.

With the arrival of fierce winds and heavy rain, the rain streaks and furious thunder filled the station with an edgy, uneasy silence.

There was nothing to do at such times but to wait and pray for the storm to pass quickly.

The old man’s rough, withered fingers clutched a cherished zodiac Copper Coin, his hands crossed as he silently mouthed something in his heart.

Suddenly, it seemed she heard a buzzing sound, long and strange, a metallic resonance.

She opened her eyes.

The light inside was dim, only illuminated momentarily when lightning struck.

The old woman’s gaze shifted as she concentrated and listened for a while longer, then turned to her grandson and asked in a low voice, "Did you hear that?"

Feng Shou paused in the act of rubbing his ears.

"What?" he asked.

"A very strange buzzing sound, it’s still resonating!" the old woman said excitedly, "My prayers worked! The ancestors have manifested!"

Feng Shou: "..."

He took his hand away from his ear, his expression perplexed.

In the dim room, no one else seemed to notice the change in their expressions.

Feng Shou took out the zodiac Copper Coin he was wearing, hesitated for a moment, then held it close to his ear.

After a while, he switched it to the other ear, carefully distinguishing among the continuous sounds of the wind and rain coming from outside.

It seemed... it really was coming from the coin itself!

The special buzzing of the zodiac Copper Coin, as if responding to something.

If only he had heard it, Feng Shou would have thought it was a hallucination. He had just thought there was something wrong with his ears, hence why he was rubbing them.

But in fact, both he and his grandmother had heard it!

What was even stranger was that no one else seemed able to hear it.

Feng Shou asked others nearby, and none of them heard a thing!

One of Feng Shou’s friends even looked at him with sympathetic eyes, thinking Feng Shou had been mentally affected by the disaster.

Feng Shou sat back down and looked at his grandmother.

The old woman had resumed her earlier praying pose, but now her spirits were visibly lifted. To her, this was a sign her faith had been acknowledged, her mental support restored, making the oppressive air feel unblocked!

Without disturbing the old woman, Feng Shou sat in quiet contemplation, full of confusion.

Was it really the spirits of the ancestors manifesting?

Hard to believe, but he couldn’t think of any other explanation.

Clenching his fingers, he couldn’t feel any vibration from the coin.

Or perhaps, it was just beyond the threshold of human tactile sensation.

And beyond the hearing range of others.

Feng Shou felt for the first time a deep sense of the special quality of his own bloodline.

...

On the other side of the continental plate.

A person of somewhat foreign appearance was wearing headphones, browsing emails on the computer in his home study.

At some point, as though he heard a strange sound, he took off the headphones and listened carefully, unable to discern what it was or if it was just his ears playing tricks on him.

Inside the house, in a storage room that usually went unnoticed, from within an old wooden box in a dark corner, the bizarre sound emanated.

...

Across the ocean.

Brother Bao was talking with a subordinate when his speech suddenly paused, his hand covering his chest.

The subordinate exclaimed anxiously, "Brother Bao, what’s wrong? Brother Bao?! Doctor! Call a doctor quickly..."

"What are you yelling for? I’m fine!" Brother Bao lowered his hand and asked, "Did you hear any sound?"

The subordinate looked bewildered, "Brother Bao, what do you mean?"

"Never mind, it’s nothing."

Brother Bao quickly gave a few instructions and ended the conversation.

Alone, Brother Bao took out a necklace with a zodiac coin pendant from under his collar.

He was all too familiar with this kind of sound; he had heard it when he was verifying the authenticity of the zodiac coin!

Although he didn’t know what had happened, he decided to immediately go and pay homage to his ancestors!

...

Yang City.

Feng Jing was in his room reading a bedtime story, completely ignoring the argument of his parents outside.

Before Old Man Feng passed away, those two were always fighting. After his death, they fought over the inheritance, and they continued to fight over other matters even after the inheritance was settled.

It was the norm at home, and Feng Jing had grown used to it; he just wanted to grow up fast and then go work at the Ancestral Factory!

He had heard that working in that factory could make one a lot of money, and it was his elder brother’s factory, after all!

The bedtime story didn’t sink in as his thoughts wandered elsewhere.

When he caught a peculiar sound, Feng Jing looked around in confusion, ultimately fixing his gaze on one spot.

He got up to lock the door and then reached under the bed to pull out an inconspicuous little cloth bag, opened it, and took out a zodiac coin.

A shiny, golden new coin.

It was given to him by his brother at Old Man Feng’s funeral. He had asked for it himself.

At this moment, he was certain that the sound he heard came from this zodiac coin!

His eyes widened in surprise.

"Wow!"

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Had it become sentient?!

The creator of this coin, his brother, what kind of monster was he?

Was he a copper coin spirit with a snake’s tail?

When would I be able to transform?!

His thoughts were racing and surging like an untamed river.

...

In a well-visited temple.

After Old Man Feng’s death, the Feng Family brought the zodiac coin he had clutched before his death to this place, paying a high price for a Mage to dispel disasters and drive away evil spirits.

The dealings with the zodiac coin and other related matters were known only within the Feng Family; they concealed the truth from outsiders, not wanting Feng Yi’s attention, and holding the attitude that family scandals should not be made public.

When they approached the Mage, the people of the Feng Family from Yang City merely said the item was filled with negative energy and needed purifying. For this, they spared no expense in refurbishing the temple and building a dining hall.

The relatives who had finally inherited Old Man Feng’s estate now cared little about this expenditure! Spending it here made them feel at ease, as if it were a removal of misfortune with money!

Feng Yi’s uncle, now the head of the Feng Family, had even shown considerable sincerity, visiting multiple times to plea with a certain Mage to take action.

The Mage they beseeched, aside from being of high repute, might even be a relative by blood if one traced back a few generations; there was a slight familial connection.

The Mage himself hadn’t sensed any negative energy from the zodiac coin the Feng Family had brought, but as the Fengs were so earnest, he could not bear to refuse despite his attempts to persuade them otherwise, and thus he undertook this weighty responsibility.

They had shown their sincerity, so of course, he had to follow through with his services.

Chanting scriptures to ward off evil and suppress calamities required multiple sessions, not just a day or two’s work.

As evening fell, after a moment more of chanting, the Mage was ready to conclude his duties for the day.

In front of him, the Buddha statue sat in meditation, gazing upon all living beings with a faint smile, serene and mysterious.

The Mage chanted with closed eyes.

At a certain moment, he heard a buzzing sound, and his consciousness blurred.

Looking forward, the candles seemed to dim, as if a light brighter than the sun was shining down.

He could vaguely see a colossal figure behind the Buddha statue. The upper part of the figure was indistinct, but he could make out part of the body, which resembled a standing snake.

After an indeterminate amount of time, when everything had disappeared, the Mage, who had stopped chanting long ago, looked pensively at the zodiac coin before him.

Evil spirits?

Where could such an evil spirit come from?

The owner of this coin must be a person of great destiny!