What the Americans say: “Heads.
A staff with a real person’s head attached to it, with supreme magical power, but it can only be used a hundred times or else… ==Tang Jing’s family had a treasure, which was known to all his friends. It was a staff belonging to the natives of South America. The body of the staff was a plain stick, but at the end of the staff there was a real person’s head shrunken with a medicinal liquid, with a face one and a half inches long and one inch wide, with whiskers and hair, with a slightly blackish skin, and with eyes that were closed.
Tang Jing was a geological exploration expert, and one year, while working in a forested area of South America, he inadvertently saved the life of a native mage, who gave him this. “Don’t despise this staff,” he said, “it will be your good friend, unconditionally loyal to your service; if you are good, it will help you to be good; if you are evil, it will help you to be evil. However, remember that it can only help you a hundred times at most. After a hundred times, I can’t guarantee that anything will happen.”
Tang Jing laughed at this kind of talk. For one thing, he didn’t believe that the staff really had any power; for another, his career was in full swing, and he didn’t need any supernatural powers to help him. However, he couldn’t refuse a gift from someone else, so he said thanks and took it.
He did not take it to heart later, but kept it with him when he worked in South America, and bundled it into the back of one of his traveling bags when he went out.
One night, Don Race was drunk and fell asleep early in the morning. An outlaw climbed into the forest cabin where he was staying and tried to steal his pistol and money. It was within reach when he saw the staff, resting on top of a traveling bag. The two eyes of the head were surprisingly open, shooting out two purple rays. The outlaw was taken aback, thinking that he would quickly take the things and escape. His hand rested on the handle of the gun at the head of Tang Jing’s bed, his other hand holding a knife, ready to greet Tang Jing in case he woke up.
At this time, suddenly felt something touching his legs, looked down, and saw that the human head to his legs, not as small as just now, when it became like a normal human head in general, the eye on the purple light, the mouth opened, like to bite people in general. Thugs were startled, things also dare not take, seize the door and escape.
This matter, Tang Jing is in no way informed, he slept soundly, a sleep until dawn.
Don Jockey didn’t understand what the staff did until after he returned to New York.
He worked for an oil company and was responsible for geological research. At one point, they were faced with a major problem: they had a choice between Area A and Area B. If they developed Area A, they would have to give up Area B; if they exploited Area B, they would have to give up Area A to another company.
It was like a gamble, no one dared to decide whether Zone A or Zone B would produce more oil, and it was a risky business. Tang Jing, based on his experience and feeling, thought that Zone A was better, while several other colleagues thought that Zone B was better, and the two sides had different opinions, which led to a heated conflict.
On this day there was a meeting at Tang Jing’s home, and beforehand those few colleagues visited Tang Jing’s staff and found it very interesting.
After reading it, Tang Jing casually placed his staff at his side and held the meeting.
Like several times in the past, this meeting was mired in non-stop arguments, as if it were a brawl. Tang Jing was bored while listening to the specious opinions of one of his colleagues, and casually picked up the staff to fiddle with it.
Suddenly, “hoo” sound, the human head expanded several times. Become like ordinary people’s head the general size, open eyebrows and eyes, seem to want to choose people to eat the appearance. There is a woman on the seat, fainted on the spot, a few other men are also as colorful as earth, silent. Tang Jing never knew that the staff had such a change, he also stayed a moment.
After half a minute or so, the head shrunk of its own accord, the eyes closed, and everything returned to normal.
Tang Jing apologized to the crowd, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry for shocking you all. This meeting can’t have a result for now, we’ll discuss it next time.”
Surprisingly, those few people lost their fighting spirit completely and said, “Forget it, we might as well act on your advice.” They were as eager to settle the matter and go home to rest.
Tang Jing could not have imagined that a difficult debate would be easily resolved. Speaking of which, it all depended on the staff’s head to bluff them and thwart their vigor. It seemed like the staff was helping him. No wonder its original owner had told him that the staff could help him a hundred times, and that there were probably many other things he could do for him in the future.
He gave the staff a bow of thanks and hid it cherishingly.
Tang Jing is rather flirtatious and self-appointed, and has met many girlfriends. Some of those girlfriends were very nice to him, while others refused to sell out when it came to important moments. One of them, Susu, was just like that, treating him as if he was not there, making his heart itch. As the saying goes, the more you can’t get your hands on something, the cuter you find it. Tang Jing’s pursuit of her inevitably became more active.
On this weekend, he didn’t have to work in the afternoon, so he asked Suu to go play tennis. When he came out of the office, he drove to pick her up and then went home to change his clothes.
Soso refused to go to his house on weekdays, but on this day, because of the special circumstances and the fact that it was in the middle of the day, he felt that it didn’t matter, so he went up there.
When Tang Jing was dressing, by coincidence, Susu saw the staff and wondered, “This head is so exquisite, is it real or fake?”
“Naturally, it’s true, it’s made of living heads.” Tang Jing said.
Soo spat out her tongue and took it down for a look. The man’s head was small, but his skin, wrinkles and whiskers, all clear and luscious, carried a sad look.
Susu sat on the sofa to play with the staff, the head suddenly “hoo”, swelling up, and opened his eyes, to Susu eyebrows, Susu shocked, screamed and fainted.
Tang Jing rushed out, shook her, she slowly woke up, saw him, heart relieved, could not help but into his arms. Tang Jing patted her shoulders and back, kissed her lips, she did not refuse, into a tame as a lamb girl.
Tang Jing explained that there was no need to be afraid of the staff, and kept kissing her. Soso is so aroused by the teasing that she is turned on by it. As a result, they spend the day at home instead of playing tennis.
Susu is also puzzled, she does not know why her will is suddenly weak, afterward she reviewed, because after being shocked by that staff, the whole person’s sanity seems to collapse. If someone comforted her at this time.
She would trust him with all her heart and let him do whatever he wanted.
In terms of Tang Jing, he could not imagine that the staff had such a wonderful use. However, he also suspected that Susu this time is intended to be with him, through the staff of shock and into his arms. There are many women like this, they want to take the initiative in love, but do not want to be too obvious, to make use of some external factors in order to facilitate, it will look much more natural.
This was not in line with Suu’s character that often rejected it, but it was not all that unlikely. In order to confirm the power of the staff, he wanted to make another test.
In the oil company where he worked, there was a senior manager, Pang Ruoshang, who was a spinster and had a strange personality, specializing in antagonizing people. Since Tang Jing joined the company, she seemed to have nine feuds with him, often picking his shortcomings. Tang Jing thought: “If I can conquer this woman, I can be sure of the magic power of this staff”.
One day near the end of the day, he told Pang Ruoshang that he wanted to invite her to see a treasure and then have dinner together.
Pang Ruochang readily agreed. He brought her back home and invited her to sit down in the living room. Then, taking out the staff, he gave it to her to view.
“Is this the thing?” Pang Ruoshang was very disoriented and laughed coldly, “I thought it was some kind of treasure, I’ve seen it before in other places.”
“This one is different, you gaze a little longer toward that head and a miracle will happen.” Tang Jing said.
Pang Ruoshang believed him and kept staring at the human head. After about thirty seconds, the head’s eyes suddenly opened and looked at her sternly. Then it suddenly expanded to the size of an ordinary human head, and its eyebrows twitched, causing Pang Ruoshang to scream and faint.
Tang Jing put away his staff and sat beside her, patting her body and saying, “Miss Pang, are you alright?”
Pang Ruoshang opened her eyes, and in her hazy senses, had turned into a little girl, while Tang Jing was the one person she could trust the most. Without hesitation, she threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.
Tang Jingxin said, “It’s already taken effect…”
He explained to her that the staff’s manifestation was accidental and not injurious, telling her not to be afraid.
“That’s not a goblin?” Pang Ruoshang asked, her mind and tone of voice like a little girl’s at this point.
“No, absolutely not.”
“The scene reminded me of the first time I saw a caterpillar in my garden as a child, scared as anything, and a little uncle, fifteen years old, just holding me close and comforting me, telling me it was just a caterpillar.”
Pang Ruoshang said, looking at Tang Jing with a strange gaze, and suddenly whispered, “Kiss me.”
Tang Jing kissed her, which was probably the first kiss for the nearly thirty-year-old woman, and her expression was a bit shy.
“I was wrong about you before,” Pang Ruoshang murmured. She didn’t explain what the meaning of “wrong” was, but she took the initiative to kiss him, showing great passion, and Tang Jing became passive instead.
After that day. Their relationship skyrocketed from “enemies” to “close friends”. Tang Jing has tested the characteristics of the staff, not only to scare the women. And it can uncover their false face and nakedly reveal the passion in their hearts.
“A treasure like this must be used with care.” He thought.
Remembering that the Venerable Master had said to him that he could only use it a hundred times, he carved a picture on the stick as a token of recognition each time he used it.
In the future, he will hold this staff, in the love field mess, no harm. The United States of America is more casual relations between men and women, some women know that they have suffered a loss, but also only as their own mistakes, and do not pursue. In this way, Tang Jing’s guts will be more and more big.
Once, the World Geologists Congress opened in the United States. Tang Jing was a member of the conference and acted as host to the guests.
One of the geologists from Thailand, Dr. Ko Yong, his knowledge is certainly very outstanding, and more enviable, he brought a beautiful daughter to the United States sightseeing, the daughter’s name is Naiqin, is like a jewel, standing on the side of the father, glittering, so that all the men fell for it.
The first time Tang Jing saw her, he was already lost in his soul. He had offered hospitality to Gao Yong, without fail, for the purpose of Naiqin.
Naiqin is not only beautiful, but also extremely intelligent, and when you talk to her, you know three things by example. Her eyes are big and charming, and she seems to be able to know everything about people. Her sexiness is internal, which is very different from that of western women. Every time Tang Jing met her, he felt more and more impressed. But Naiqin is always beside his father, which is very difficult to do.
The session lasted only ten days, and before I knew it, most of it had already passed.
That night, Tang Jing and Gao Yong father and daughter dinner, take the opportunity to talk about the problem of ghosts and gods, Naiqin seems to be quite interested in this, she believes that there are ghosts in the world, but there is no grudge when the ghosts will not appear.
“Have you ever seen a ghost?” Tang Jing asked.
“No.”
“Would you be scared if you saw a ghost with your own eyes?”
“I don’t think so, because I haven’t done anything bad.” Naijin said with a smile.
“A head cut off from a human body, which after many years is still able to move and scowl, do you think this is a ghost at work?”
“Is that really happening, or are you kidding?” Naijin asked.
“Really, I’ll show you one day.”
Naiqin thought that Tang Jing was just talking casually and didn’t pay much attention to it. The next morning, Tang Jing called, “I’ll take you to see the moving head.”
“Don’t you have a meeting today?” Naijin asked in surprise.
“I have something to take care of outside today, so I won’t be returning to the venue.” Tang Jing made up a set of lies, knowing that Naiqin’s father was giving a long academic lecture that morning, and this was his best chance to approach Naiqin alone.
Naiqin did not immediately agree on the phone and seemed hesitant.
Tang Jing said, “Tell you what, you don’t have to come out, I’ll bring it to the hotel to show you.”
Naijin agreed when he heard that it would be best if he didn’t have to go to an unfamiliar environment.
Eleven o’clock. Tang Jing brought the staff to the hotel to visit Naiqin. Naiqin had proposed to meet at the restaurant, but Tang Jing said that the mysterious object could not be revealed in front of the public, or it would not work.
Naiqin greeted Tang Jing in her room, her room facing the park, the windows were all pulled open, and the earliest sunlight shone in, which made people feel energized, and no one would think of evil thoughts.
However, Tang Jing came prepared, he opened the box in his hand and took out the staff for Naiqin to admire. Naiqin found the little head very interesting. Tang Jing took the opportunity to tell how the natives cut off the heads of people, saying that after a person’s head was cut off, the body would still move. Naiqin was very scared.
Just then, the head of the man swelled up and scowled at Naiqin, who shrieked and fainted and threw the thing on the ground.
Tang Jing sat close to her and held her in his arms. Originally, this thing was something he was familiar with, but somehow, this time, his heartbeat increased, as if doing a very, very blasphemous thing.
Naijin’s cheeks were white and red, and she was simply beautiful without blemish. A few moments later, she woke up leisurely and gazed at him with hazel eyes, with a shy look.
Tang Jing kissed her, she did not resist, like those frightened girls in the past, her mind as if under some kind of restraint, completely unable to resist, and let him carry to the bed, as he wished.
After the incident, Tang Jing had prepared a set of statements to express his infinite admiration for her, he could not help but make this matter, he would like to take her as his wife, and adore her and protect her for the rest of his life.
But just as he was about to speak, Nai Chin stopped him. She said, “I just want to ask you two things. Is this staff yours?”
“Yes.”
“You used to show it to other girls too?”
“There were… two or three.” Tang Jing couldn’t lie in front of her big, clear eyes.
“That’s enough.” Naiqin was silent for a moment and said, “Go back, I will give you a letter.”
Tang Jing was filled with joy, thinking she belonged to him.
After he returned home, the shocking news suddenly came in the afternoon that Naiqin had jumped from the eighteenth floor of the hotel where she was staying and fell to her death on the green of the park.
When Tang Jing received the news, he was almost frozen. Ever since he was born, there has never been a blow as deep as this one, and the loss of his life coupled with his guilt made him see a grayish-black color in front of his eyes. He didn’t dare to see Naiqin’s father for fear of being blamed by him.
Surprisingly, Gao Yong did not look for him, at nine o’clock in the evening, the hotel had a boy to send two letters, said Dr. Gao Yong ordered to send.
Tang Jing received in his hand, his heart fluttering, a letter is Naiqin’s statement, Tang Jing first opened, it reads.
“Mr. Tang Jing.
I had the misfortune to do that wrong thing this morning, which I will regret for the rest of my life. I already have a lover in China, and I once swore that I would get married when I returned this time. Unexpectedly this morning’s incident, so that I feel ashamed of him, but also have no way to explain, this may be the sins of it.
Naiqin.”
Tang Jing read the letter, hot tears, Naiqin did not have a word of accusation, which makes him more sad, each sentence is like a heavy hammer in his body.
Then read the letter of Gao Yong, is extremely simple: “because of the daughter’s funeral, do not want to stay in this sad place. Tomorrow afternoon to return to the country, I would like to tell you.”
There was no accusation in his words. Tang Jing believed that Naiqin did not tell the truth to his father, and she still took care of him when she was dying, which was such a thick character.
From that day on, Tang Jing was so demoralized that he went to the bar room every afternoon to get drunk until late at night, when he went home drunk, and when he wasn’t drinking, he seduced young women and intensified his use of that staff. It’s like a blood-stained murderer who wants to kill a few more people to dull the memory of the first kill. The result is a deepening of guilt and a state of semi-collapse.
One day, he counted the slashes recorded on his staff and was a hair shy of a hundred. “This is the last one, I’m going to do it right.” He thought.
He was in another firm, a new acquaintance of a female staff, specializing in the purchase of petroleum products, quite good-looking. This day he asked her to his home, as usual, to show her the small head.
But he didn’t realize that the head had actually helped him a hundred times… The first time was when South America was patronized by thieves.
The woman procurer took the staff and looked at the head on it for a long time, but no change occurred, and she said, “You’re lying when you say this head will move!”
“No, maybe it will take a little longer today.” Don Jockey brought the staff back and observed what was wrong with the head.
Just then, the human head suddenly opened both eyes and revealed a smile to Tang Jing. Tang Jing couldn’t help but smile at him. Strangely enough, this smile was like a cathartic, the man kept laughing, gradually bursting out into laughter, Tang Jing also laughed loudly and wildly, the female buyer watched and was very surprised, she thought that this man was probably about to go crazy.
The laughter between Tang Jing and the head of the man grew louder and louder, the head of the man’s laughter gradually like a bird whimpering, like a beast screaming, while Tang Jing laughed so hard that he bent over and stumbled, tears streaming down his face. The female buyer was so scared that she hid in a corner, covering her ears and wanting to cry.
Just then, an unthinkable thing happened. Tang Jing’s head suddenly flew up into the air, and the head on the staff also flew up into the air, and the two heads kept fluttering and laughing wildly inside the room, about twenty seconds later, the two heads fell down again, but switched their positions, Tang Jing’s head landed on the staff, and the staff’s head landed on Tang Jing’s body. The laughter stopped in a flash, and Tang Jing’s head stared angrily, but it could not change its fate, the staff had become his body. The native’s head occupied Tang Jing’s body, stood up, and paced around the room, hesitant. He picked up the staff attached to Tang Jing’s head and walked out the door.
The buyer’s wife, who had been watching the drama, was so stunned that she could not speak. It was only after a long time that she was able to get up, call the police and describe what had just happened.
Three constables arrived and examined the scene; they did not believe what the purchasing woman had said and thought she was insane and talking nonsense.
A year later, the staff somehow found its way back into the hands of a South American native mage. He gave it to an engineer who had contributed to local construction.
“This staff can help you a hundred times, but don’t be greedy and use it more than a hundred times!”
The man thanked and took it.
A small, low-browed, drooping head on that staff was none other than Tang Jing.