Deal
Alvin liked how straightforward Zhang Qiang was being. He smiled and waved a hand. "Actually, I'm not sure...
"Qin Emperor told me some secrets about the Dragon Talismans, but even he doesn't know where the others are."
Alvin hesitated, thinking over what Qin Emperor had told him the day before. Then he said to Zhang Qiang, "It's not necessarily limited to emperors from before the Qin Dynasty. Qin Emperor said that Zou Yan, one of the Alchemists, developed the Five Phases Theory further and forced the descendants of the Deities to pass things down according to his logic...
"In other words, later emperors might have had Dragon Talismans, too."
Zhang Qiang shook his head. "The Five Phases Theory lost its influence after the Han Dynasty.
"When Wang Mang came to power, he even changed the logic of the Five Phases Theory, switching it from overcoming to generating.
"After the Han Dynasty came the late Jin Dynasty, and then the Sixteen Kingdoms, when everyone did as they pleased. That was when the Five Phases Theory fell into complete chaos.
"If there really were Deity descendants protecting the rise and fall of dynasties, things wouldn't have ended up like this."
Alvin looked at Zhang Qiang curiously. "You actually know your history?"
Zhang Qiang glared at him. "I went to college, too. What's wrong with knowing a little history?"
As he spoke, Zhang Qiang's Communicator suddenly rang. He pulled out his computer and read the message from Headquarters, then slapped his thigh. "I knew I'd seen this somewhere..."
Zhang Qiang looked at Alvin excitedly. "We have two Dragon Talismans. One was excavated from a great Yin-Shang tomb, and the other from a great Xia Dynasty tomb.
"But the reason I remembered them was the video Old Hu sent back from his expedition