C30 Skeleton Society

I felt my hair explode all at once, my heart pounding like a car engine with its throttle stomped. The adrenaline rush stimulated my body's instinct to "fight or run". But then I realized that the man who was winking at me through the window was the Taoist.

Annoyed, I opened the French windows and dragged him in from the balcony.

"What are you doing?" I shouted at him.

"That woman …" Go... Have you left? " The Taoist asked as soon as he entered the room, dragging a huge suitcase with him.

"How long have you been fucking here? How did you get in? " I said snappily.

"San Mao gave me the key, so I was there during the day. When I saw you and that woman come in earlier, I hid out on the balcony."

"Why are you hiding?" I was still indignant and loudly questioned him.

"I... I thought she... It's him … "They sent …" The Taoist scratched his head in embarrassment as he replied.

"They? "Who are they?"

The Taoist flinched at my question and looked around as if there were a ghost in the room that I couldn't see.

"Yuan, let me tell you …" The Daoist lowered his voice and said in a voice that sounded like two rural women playing with each other behind his back, "Yesterday, after you and I finished our call, two policemen came to find me …"

"Huh?" My heart thumped. I immediately thought back to yesterday when I came out of that unknown organization's house. The police had told me to keep it a secret.

"That I'm spreading rumors!" The Taoist said in a lower voice, so that I could not hear what he was saying without trying to catch my breath.

The Taoist continued, "You even came to my house and searched through my research results for the past few years! And guess what? "

"What's wrong?" I asked curiously.

The Daoist slapped his thigh and said: "They didn't touch the other information and only took the research data on the Zombie!"

I felt a chill run down my spine, felt a circle slowly closing, and the truth that I'd been forcing myself not to touch for two days was beginning to emerge.

"Initially, I was still skeptical. Now, the more the government doesn't want you to believe, the more truth is revealed. That year, Zack, the stamp duty, and the most recent license plate restrictions … "Which one of them didn't break the rumor first and then suddenly became real …"

I watched the Taoist's mouth open and close, but my thoughts drifted away, so that I couldn't hear what he was saying.

"Solam!" I muttered three words.

"What?" The Taoist stopped and stared at me.

"Solanum... What's the meaning of the letter you wrote on the back of that piece of paper? "

"Oh …" The Daoist thought for a moment before replying, "That is a word that has been circulating around the Awakened world for a long time …"

"Awakened?"

"Ugh …" "A loose organization, even people like me from all over the world feel that this world is not like how it appears on the surface. The people of this world really want to hide behind this complicated appearance, some people believe that aliens control the Earth, some people believe that we live in a virtual space, just like how the Black Mountain Empire does, and some people believe that Harry Potter is real. There is indeed a wizard kingdom, but we Muggle didn't know that …"

I waved my hand to cut him off. "What about Solam? "What does that mean?"

"A curse... "A demon …" The Taoist muttered in a very low voice.

"What?"

"Do you know about Solomon's treasure?" The Taoist suddenly looked up at me, and I saw an indescribable fear in his eyes.

I thought of the movie "Precious Grab," and I nodded and said, "I know... Sacred Ark? "

"Among the treasures that King Solomon collected from the various countries, there is the Ark of the Covenant that Moses obtained from the top of Mount Sinai. It contains the Holy Orison of the Lord, the God that the Israelis worship the most." The Daoist then spoke in a hollow and confused tone, "This is the most popular legend nowadays …"

"But the truth is far from the truth!" The Taoist continued, "King Solomon is not only a great Jewish monarch. He built Jerusalem as the most important religion in the world today — the holy city of Christianity, Islam and Judaism! However, he also had another identity, and was known as the King of Black Magic! If you really want to compare him with someone, then he's like Voldemort inside Harry Potter! "

"Legend has it that King Solomon obtained the《 Luo Jiai Er Book》 written by the Angel, thus obtaining the ability to freely summon and manipulate demon spirits. After his death, the Magi and Warlocks had written a book containing a collection of black magic that has been passed down ever since,《 The Key to Solomon》 according to the various rules and spells to summon demon spirits that he had passed down."

"Right now, < The Key to Solomon > has already lost all of its effects …" The Daoist waved his hand towards me and said, "Many people even ridiculed it as nonsense. However, according to the research of many Awakened ones, the current popular version has been revised intentionally or not. The real black magic has long since dissipated in the river of time …"

"As for Solomon's treasure deposit, even if it's the research of many authorities, it still proves that it's real!" The Daoist continued, "Legend has it that King Solomon built a vast shrine to store his treasure, which is known as the First Sacred Hall. It is said that he uses black magic and summons many evil spirits and demons to guard this shrine, and imbues his treasure with the strongest curse. If someone breaks the shrine to take his treasure, he will be doomed to eternal calamity!"

The Daoist paused before continuing, "But the First Temple has already been destroyed, and many people even believed that the Temple was just a legend and didn't exist until a while ago, when an article appeared on the dark net."

"Dark Net?" I question this noun I do not know.

"The dark net, also known as the invisible or deep level network, is simply something that ordinary search engines can't find. It's 400 to 500 times more than the surface content of the internet, and many things that aren't allowed by law happen on the dark net, such as the sale of arms, drugs, illegal antiques, and of course black magic …"

I nodded to show that I understood. The Taoist took a deep breath and continued. The writer claims that he used an advanced laser remote sensing technique to discover the ruins of the First Temple, which is in the shape of a hexagram. He then concluded that the First Temple indeed exists, but it is not a place where treasures are buried.

"Seal? Seal what? "

"Solanum..." The Taoist stared at me and spoke slowly.

I suddenly felt a chill.

The Taoist must have seen my dumbstruck expression, but he suddenly smiled and said, "You must have heard about the words Suolam 'from that Skeleton Society woman, right?"