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  “Mr. Pei,” Zh, walking on the fgstone road, turned his head and asked with i, “Which path do you think we should take?”

  Pei Qian, leaning on a walking stick that the vilge chief had given him, the delicate carvings on the wood and the rare mooad design on the handle, squinted his eyes and smiled faintly. “Since Mr. Zhou has already made a decision, why bother asking?”

  “I’m not as capable as you young folks. The future belongs to someone like you, Mr. Zhou, who is both virtuous and talented…”

  “Ahem.” Jiang g coughed twice forcefully, then rubbed his throat, making it seem as though he had a sore throat, and not for any other reason.

  Pei Qian couldn’t be bothered to respond to Jiang g.

  After that, the group walked to a pce with a pleasant view, where they could see a small stream winding around the vilge.

  The water was clear and the flow was gentle. Various smooth pebbles, polished by the water, y at the stream’s bottom, and occasionally, a few fish swam leisurely by. It looked quite soothing.

  Pei Qian leisurely observed the sery in front of him, seemingly fetting the current crisis.

  Zh, too, gazed into the distahe boundary between the mountains and the forest became increasingly blurred because of the backlight, and the distant mountains and rivers seemed te into a single line.

  In that moment, the tense survival game they were in seemed to diminish a thousandfold, turning into an unspoken leisurely journey.

  The two of them were subtly peting in private, as if the one eared more posed, more rexed, and less ed in that moment, would have a higher ce of survival.

  Pei Qian occasionally ented on the nearby mountains and rivers, saying that, based oerrain, there must be a grand tomb in the mountains. Even if it wasn’t for an emperor, a minister eneral would not be impossible.

  He theioned how he had traveled with his mentor to many pces and seen many great mountains and rivers, but few had sery better than this.

  Zh smiled faintly. “Well, it seems Mr. Pei hasn’t traveled much. In pces like Yunnan, Guizhou, Si, and Shaanxi, such sery is hardly remarkable.”

  Pei Qian wasn’t offended. Slowly, he leaned his wooden e against a tree and stood on the slope, his silver hair fluttering slightly in the breeze. “Youngsters look at feng shui as wind and water, but at my age, I ’t see the wind and water anymore. When I look at it, it’s all about the essence of the ndscape.”

  Pei Qian stood in the wind, exuding an air of someone who seemed isoted from the world, like a poet who’s sober while everyone else is drunk.

  The two were initially just passing time and po wait until the sun was at its peak before doing something more serious, but with each exge, they found themselves getting unusually serious.

  By the time they left, the sun had already reached its zenith, and the warmth of the sunlight was f.

  The three of them, with perfect tacit uanding, turned back, choosing a path that circled around the vilge to avoid a ter with Xiaomeng’s team.

  Of course, they didn’t mention this to anyone.

  Back at the familiar yard, the three of them went straight to the abandoned building.

  At this moment, they felt the strangeness of the building even more strongly.

  Standih the structure, even the warm sunlight no longer felt f. Instead, it gave them an inexplicable chill.

  Zh felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

  Ben Fu, who had died on the first night, had disappeared his building.

  Aerday evening, Jiang Zhongyi had also been killed after entering the building, his death being horrific.

  Acc to Pei Qian’s recolle, the vilger who had preteo deliver food mysteriously ehis building and never came out again.

  At this point, all the clues to the deaths seemed to point toward this mysterious building.

  They had been waiting, waiting for the sun to be at its highest before expl it.

  Although it was a bit risky, the situation had already exceeded their endurance, and this task was different from previous ohere was no clear time limit mentioned.

  This was an escape mission without a time limit.

  But from another perspective, this also indicated the difficulty of the task.

  Moreover, there were no newers in this mission.

  There was a real possibility of plete annihition.

  All of these factors were f them to explore the building, which clearly had something wrong with it. They had already mentally prepared to lose one person.

  As for who that person would be, it depended on their individual abilities.

  They hadn’t chosen to cooperate with the three women for reasons everyone uood.

  Based on the clues they had so far, it seemed the ghost’s target was focused on men. Initially, there were 5 men and 3 women. Now, the numbers were even.

  Even Li Lu, who had a leg injury and had bee alone in a room, hadn’t been threatened.

  Sing the women along to explore wouldn’t dilute the risk. Moreover, they would also have to share the clues they had gathered, which was uable.

  Zh, with a serious expression, stared at the window, which looked dark even in the daylight, and whispered, “Are you ready?”

  “Ready,” Pei Qian nodded coldly.

  “Mm-hmm!” Jiang g grunted.

  The three of them chose the window farthest from where Jiang Zhongyi had fallen in the evening before. After using Pei Qian’s walking stick to clear the broken wood around the window, they each climbed in.

  Zh, surprisingly agile, nded almost silently.

  ei Qian. Although he was older and not as nimble as the younger ones, with Zh’s help, he mao nd smoothly.

  But wheuro assist Jiang g, they found he was gone.

  The two immediately panicked. Pei Qian, who was closest to the window, stretched his o look outside. After a while, he finally spotted Jiang g, crouched uhe window, silent.

  “What are you doing?” Pei Qian snapped, but didn’t dare make too muoise, causing his old face to turn red.

  Jiang g remained silent.

  It wasn’t until several seds ter that Jiang g cautiously peeked his head out, quickly sing ihe window. Upon seeing that everything was normal, he stood up, dusted himself off, and elegantly climbed through.

  After nding, he casually said to the stern-faced Zh and Pei Qian in a low voice, “I was afraid the ghost would suddenly appear and cut off our escape route.”

  (End of the Chapter)

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