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  Influenced by the emotional state of the blonde man, the expressions of Jiang g and the rew more serious, even Ran, who usually appeared casual, involuntarily became much more reserved.

  "What happened a few days ter?" Jiang g asked calmly.

  The blonde man pressed his lips together, then drank deeply from his cup. The woman serving him, either lost in thought or scared by the blonde man's expression, failed to refill his gss.

  "A few days ter, the person responsible fuarding the forest's edge suddenly barged into my home, excitedly tellihat the people who had gone missing earlier had returned."

  "Returned?" the Fatty asked, his eyes widening.

  Jiang g gave him a gnce, and the Fatty immediately fell silent.

  "Yes, they returned," the blonde man paused, then tinued, "No matter how you look at it, this is a huge blessing for the town. The elderly have their children back, the women have their husbands again, and the children... have their fathers."

  "That night, we held a wele feast iown for the returning warriors. It had been a long time sihe town was this lively, everyone brought out their best wine, and the men vowed not to return home until drunk."

  "While drinking, they shared the stories of what happened after they ehe forest."

  From this point on, the blonde man's memories became somewhat unclear. Perhaps it was due to his own dition, or perhaps the men who had returned from the forest had distorted memories.

  In any case, acc to the blonde man's recolles as the town mayor, the hunters entered an unusually heavy rain soon after entering the forest, which triggered a fsh flood.

  At that time, they were in a low-lying area with very little space to take cover. The flood came rapidly and violently, sweeping away anyone who couldn’t evade it. After the flood receded and they ted their numbers, they discovered one person was missing.

  That person was a very young huhough experienced, and one of the leaders of the group.

  The bond among the townspeople was deep; they had been pying together since childhood, so naturally, they couldn’t just abandon him. Even though they knew he had little ce of survival, they followed the flow of the fsh flood to search for him.

  No, to be more accurate, they were looking for his body.

  The ces of surviving after being swept away by a fsh flood were almost ent, especially deep in the mountains.

  What they o do was recover the body for burial.

  If they could actually find it.

  At this point, they had already given up hope of finding the other missing people because, based on the weather, they had likely entered a simir disaster, and their ces of survival were slim.

  However, to their surprise, following the floodwaters led them to a pce they had never been before.

  This was deep in the forest, where they discovered a giant stone sb.

  The stone sb ure white, with strange glowing lights shimmering on its surface.

  It was clear that the stone sb had been buried under dirt before, and had only been uncovered due to the fsh flood.

  To their astonishment, they found fruit trees he sb, and the fruits were incredibly sweet. A small stream wound around the sb, its water clear enough to see fish swimming below.

  The meedly discussed the mysterious nature of the stone sb, leaving the townspeople stunned.

  They became so absorbed ione sb that they fot their initial purpose of searg for people.

  It was no wohey were so ied in it—today's os no longer provided for them like they once did. Food from the sea was being harder to find, and the ued discovery of this straone sb seemed to offer a remedy for their resource scarcity.

  Especially sidering it was a good source of water, it seemed that migrating there might not be a bad idea.

  Without much discussion, they unanimously decided that the day, the hunters would lead the way, and everyone would go into the forest to take a look.

  That night, the blonde man, as the mayor, drank too much wine in his joy. As a result, he was carried away before the ba was even halfway through.

  Lying in bed, he was awoken by someone shaking him urgently, calling his name in a low voice.

  When the blonde man opened his eyes and saw the person, his previously foggy mind became instantly alert, and his hair stood on end.

  The person squatting in front of him was covered in mud, with only two bloodshot eyes staring directly at him. Despite his disheveled appearahe blonde man immediately reized him.

  It was the young hunter who had bee away by the fsh flood!

  But... wasn’t he supposed to be dead?

  Could it be...?

  As the blonde man trembled in fear, uo speak, the young man who had bee away by the flood spoke.

  "Mayor," he said, his voice choked with tears, "We entered the fsh flood, and everyone in the group died except me!"

  "What?!"

  Upon hearing this, the Fatty's heart likely leapt to his throat. If the men who returned were telling the truth, then the young man in front of them was a ghost!

  But if the young man was telling the truth, what were those men out there at the feast?

  However, the Fatty quickly realized that the young man who had sneaked into the blonde man’s room was telling the truth. He was human.

  Otherwise, seeing the pale blonde man, the Fatty would never have had the opportunity to tell this story.

  A cold chill ran down his spine as he thought about the strange and terrifying creatures outside. But what scared him more was the white stone sb the blonde man had mentioned.

  In Su Xiaoxiao's reting, there had also been a strange white stone sb.

  And around it, piles of white bones.

  Moreover, those bones could e to life and attayone roached.

  The things Su Xiaoxiao and her brother entered were likely the same beings the men from the forest "returned" as, in the blonde man’s story.

  What were they?

  Ghosts?

  The Fatty thought for a while but couldn’t figure it out. They didn’t match his typical image of a ghost; instead, they seemed like eerie entities driven by some primal instinct.

  It seemed like something deeper was trolling them, but the Fatty couldn’t make sense of it for now.

  As for what happened after that night, the blonde man did not mention it, but from his eyes, it was clear that something signifit had ged iown after that night.

  Because his words were, "I brought the remaining men from the town..."

  Remaining...

  "Finally, we found the stone sb," the torchlight flickered across the blonde man’s sharp face, casting shadows. His voice was hoarse, as though he had swallowed sand. "The area around the stone sb was a barren wastend, not a bde of grass grew there. The dark red soil seemed to be soaked in blood. Oone sb..."

  He paused, then suddenly looked up, his eyes as red as though they were about to bleed. "Layer upohere were the corpses of townspeople! Men, women, children... everyone who had gone missing was there!"

  (End of the Chapter)

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