Chapter 26: Yin Sha Stone (Part 1)
“Bro, what are you doing?”
After sitting back down in the rear seat, Su Xiaoxiao, who hadn't noticed Su Xiaofan slam on the brakes, bumped her head against the back of the front seat.
“Brother Gang, Xiaoxiao, wait for me a moment.”
Su Xiaofan turned off the car, opened the door, got out, and ran back to where they had parked just now.
“What is he doing?”
Zheng Dagang and Su Xiaoxiao looked at each other, neither knowing what Su Xiaofan was trying to do.
“Looks like he's looking for something.”
Zheng Dagang stuck his head out of the car window and saw Su Xiaofan searching for something with his phone at the place where they had parked earlier.
“Found it!”
With his phone flashlight on, an excited look suddenly appeared on Su Xiaofan's face as he picked up an inconspicuous little black stone from the ground.
“It really is a little chilly, but how did it disappear so quickly?”
When he first picked up the little stone, Su Xiaofan felt a slight sting in his palm, as if he had suddenly placed a piece of ice in his hand, but then something seemed to warm up on his chest, and the chill in his hand immediately disappeared.
“So the magical artifact really is useful?”
Su Xiaofan noticed the change at his chest and pondered. The chill emanating from the stone in his hand should have been suppressed by the dragon-shaped jade pendant.
He glanced toward where the Wu brothers had left, then turned and ran back to the car, a trace of barely suppressed excitement on his face.
【Repair Value: 3 points!】
【Low-grade Yin Sha Stone, absorbable, absorb?】
Focusing his attention on the little stone in his hand, two lines of information immediately appeared in Su Xiaofan's mind.
What excited Su Xiaofan was that this low-grade Yin Sha Stone, whose nature he didn't know, had actually been identified by the repair system as absorbable.
This information suddenly brightened the heart of Su Xiaofan, who had never known how to increase his repair value. It seemed that besides the King of Han Cauldron at the entrance to Bronze Ware Village, there were other things that the repair system could absorb.
However, Su Xiaofan didn't rush to absorb it. He still had to drive later, and who knew whether anything would happen while absorbing the Yin Sha Stone.
“This thing called a Yin Sha Stone should have come from a tomb. I wonder if I can find one in the antique market?”
Su Xiaofan pondered to himself. From the conversation between the Wu brothers just now, he had already figured out where this Yin Stone came from.
Actually, after Su Xiaoxiao told Su Xiaofan that the mist seemed to have gathered around Wu Chuanpeng, Su Xiaofan had already felt that there should be some object on him.
So when getting out of the car, Su Xiaofan deliberately guided the two brothers a little. After Wu Chuanpeng took out the little stone, information about the Yin Stone immediately appeared in Su Xiaofan's mind.
It had taken all his effort to suppress the urge to pick up the Yin Sha Stone from the ground right then. After seeing the brothers walk away, Su Xiaofan immediately ran back, afraid that he wouldn't be able to find the Yin Sha Stone.
“Bro, what did you go pick up?”
When Su Xiaofan returned to the car, Su Xiaoxiao looked at her brother curiously.
“Hehe, I picked up something good.”
Su Xiaofan laughed smugly, opened his palm, and revealed the pitch-black Yin Sha Stone.
The lights inside the car were off. Under the faint glow of the streetlights along the town's roadside, the Yin Sha Stone in Su Xiaofan's hand seemed to emit a dark, eerie glow. It looked quite strange, instinctively making people feel uneasy.
Moreover, just after Su Xiaofan took out the Yin Sha Stone, everyone could clearly feel that the temperature inside the car seemed to suddenly drop considerably.
“Is this what that man brought out of the tomb? Why did you pick it up?”
Su Xiaoxiao and Zheng Dagang had heard the conversation between Su Xiaofan and the Wu brothers from inside the car earlier. They knew this thing was probably quite sinister, and since it had come from a tomb, they naturally felt repelled by it.
“The mist we saw should have been produced by this thing.” Su Xiaofan explained.
“Then it's definitely not a good thing. Bro, throw it away.” Su Xiaoxiao wasn't actually afraid; she just felt uncomfortable knowing that this thing had been unearthed from a tomb.
“Yeah, brother, objects brought out of tombs can be pretty sinister. You'd better throw it away.”
Zheng Dagang also spoke up from the side. He was especially wary of an object that could cause people to become trapped in a ghostly maze.
“It's fine. Our car has talismans and magical artifacts in it. This thing can't affect us.”
Su Xiaofan laughed. It had been so difficult to come across something that could increase his repair value. Even if he had to throw himself away, Su Xiaofan was unwilling to throw away the Yin Sha Stone.
“That's true. Let me take a look.”
Zheng Dagang reached out, but the moment he touched the little stone, he abruptly pulled his hand back,
“Fuck, why is it so cold, like being pricked by needles.”
Although it wasn't emitting Yin energy, the Yin Sha Stone itself was extremely cold. It was fine without touching it, but Zheng Dagang, who had no magical artifact on him, immediately noticed something different when he touched it.
“Brother Gang, try holding the bell and see.”
Su Xiaofan motioned for his sister to hand the bell to Zheng Dagang. The name Yin Sha Stone contained the character “sha,” which should be the reason for its chilling nature.
“Huh, it's not cold anymore.” Holding the bell in his left hand and touching the little black stone with his right, Zheng Dagang was stunned for a moment. The chilly sensation from before was already gone.
“So this bell really is a magical artifact?”
Zheng Dagang focused his attention on the bell in his hand. Earlier, he had thought Su Xiaofan's 1.2 million yuan had been poorly spent, but now Zheng Dagang no longer doubted the bell's usefulness.
“Let me try.” Su Xiaoxiao found it amusing and reached out to snatch the Yin Sha Stone away.
“It doesn't hurt, just feels a little cold.”
Unlike Zheng Dagang's reaction just now, Su Xiaoxiao didn't feel any stinging after taking it. Her palm simply felt extremely cold.
“Hmm? Could that jade Buddha my sister is wearing also be a magical artifact?”
Su Xiaofan's heart stirred as he thought of the jade Buddha he had given to Su Xiaoxiao. However, his sister wore it around her neck, so he couldn't see or touch it, making it impossible for him to determine.
“Where did Dad find all these things?”
Su Xiaofan was also somewhat puzzled. Could it be that magical artifacts were so rare in China because they had all been taken away by foreign devils back then, making them more likely to be encountered abroad instead?
“This thing really is a little sinister.”
Watching Su Xiaoxiao play with the stone, Zheng Dagang shook his head and said, “Xiaofan, why are you keeping this thing? I've heard old people say that some objects with heavy Yin energy can bring disaster to a family.”
After mixing around in the antique market, he might not know much about international affairs or major national events, but strange tales and supernatural stories were certainly plentiful.
Not to mention Zheng Dagang, even Su Xiaofan often heard stories about someone buying an object unearthed from a tomb and then having their whole family suffer bad luck.
“It's fine, Brother Gang. My house has a protective magical artifact guarding it. I'll take it home and study it, then throw it away.”
Su Xiaofan chuckled and came up with an excuse. Throwing it away was impossible, but he hadn't planned to keep it either. Once he got home, he would absorb the Yin Sha Stone.
Actually, with the dragon-shaped jade pendant protecting him and the bell magical artifact at home, if the Yin Sha Stone couldn't be absorbed, Su Xiaofan would even have planned to keep it at home as an air conditioner.
“Yeah, you'd better throw it away as soon as possible. This definitely isn't a good thing.”
Zheng Dagang said, “I'll call Uncle Jing tomorrow. He knows a lot of people and should know what this object is.”
“Looks like I really need to ‘throw it away’ ahead of time.”
Hearing Zheng Dagang's words, Su Xiaofan scratched his head. He didn't know what the Yin Sha Stone would turn into after being absorbed. What if Uncle Jing was interested in it and he couldn't produce it anymore?
However, Su Xiaofan didn't stop Zheng Dagang from calling Uncle Jing. He also wanted to know exactly where this Yin Sha Stone came from and where he could obtain one.
More than an hour later, the car arrived at the residential complex where Su Xiaofan lived.
Zheng Dagang had also gotten quite a scare today. After dropping the Su siblings off at the entrance of the residential complex, he drove away.
“Xiaoxiao, this thing might be unclean. I shouldn't take it home either. Better throw it away.”
When he and his sister reached the artificial lake in the residential complex, Su Xiaofan threw the stone he had picked up when getting out of the car toward the lake. The surface of the lake splashed, and the stone disappeared from sight.
Su Xiaoxiao quite agreed with her brother throwing the stone away. Although she wasn't much affected by the thing, as a girl she naturally had little fondness for objects unearthed from tombs.
After a whole day of running around, both Su Xiaofan and his sister were exhausted. They returned home and went into their respective rooms.
Hearing Su Xiaoxiao talking to her classmates over video in her room, Su Xiaofan took a shower first, then pulled the Yin Sha Stone from his clothing pocket.
“Ordinary people really can't keep this thing around. If they keep it for too long, they'll definitely get sick.” Just during the short time he had spent showering in his room, Su Xiaofan already felt that the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped considerably.
Although he didn't know exactly what the Yin Sha Stone was, the character “sha” in its name alone made it clear from the literal meaning that it wasn't a good thing.
【Repair Value; 3 points!】
【Low-grade Yin Sha Stone, absorbable, absorb?】
Looking at his pitiful three points of repair value, Su Xiaofan gritted his teeth and confirmed in his heart: Absorb!
“Hmm? This thing seems to have changed a little.”
After confirming, Su Xiaofan stared intently at the Yin Sha Stone in his hand.
On the surface, the Yin Sha Stone seemed unchanged, but Su Xiaofan, who had been staring at it, noticed that the layer of shine on the originally glossy black stone had disappeared.
“How did it turn into dust?”
After about four or five seconds, the surface color of the black Yin Sha Stone actually turned gray. Su Xiaofan curiously touched the gray little stone with his hand, and it immediately turned into powder.
“Luckily I ‘threw it away’ in front of my sister just now!”
Su Xiaofan secretly congratulated himself. If someone asked him to produce this thing again later, he had no way to turn this powder back into a Yin Sha Stone.
He found a small bag, put the powder in his palm into it, and then eagerly focused his attention on his mind.
【Absorbed low-grade Yin Sha Stone, remaining repair value: 13 points!】
“Ten points of repair value?”
Seeing the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan was happy, but also somewhat worried.
He was happy that he had finally found a way to increase his repair value, but what worried him was that the Yin Sha Stone was clearly not something commonly found everywhere, and he had no idea how he would find more in the future.
Moreover, one Yin Sha Stone only increased his repair value by 10 points, which was also somewhat lower than Su Xiaofan's expectations. He would need to find at least four more low-grade Yin Sha Stones before he could repair the jade pendant magical artifact on his chest.
After encountering the Yin Sha Stone today, Su Xiaofan also learned the function of magical artifacts. They really could ward off misfortune and evil.
If he had enough repair value, Su Xiaofan would definitely repair the damaged mid-grade magical artifact his father had given him first. After all, over the past few years, he had either been involved in car accidents or struck by electric shocks, and things had never gone particularly smoothly for him.
(End of Chapter)
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