Global Exploration: Starting from Decrypting Chernobyl

59: A glimpse of the truth! A slap in the face at the speed of light!”Boss... Miss Zhang Meng...”

”What are you two talking about?”

”Why do I feel like the atmosphere is a little off?”

”...”

Bang!

Zhang Meng gritted her teeth and punched Rice directly in the stomach.

”What’s off?!”

”Ouch~”

Rice immediately rolled his eyes and dry-heaved again!

”No...”

”Nothing...”

If the contents of his stomach hadn’t already been thrown up, he probably would have vomited again from Zhang Meng’s punch!

”Alright!”

”Stop messing around for now.”

Wu Tian took the yue kings heroic sword from Zhang Meng’s hand.

He frowned, looking at the dark and deep night at the foot of the mountain, and whispered to Zhang Meng and Rice behind him.

”I wonder if, when we encountered those Villagers just now...”

”Did you two notice two details?”

”...”

Zhang Meng and Rice exchanged glances.

Then they shook their heads awkwardly.

”We were both just panicking, so we didn’t really pay attention...”

Zhang Meng said, lowering her head.

Wu Tian’s mouth twitched!

”Alright then...”

”I’ll tell you, and you listen.”

”Let’s analyze it together!”

”First point...”

Wu Tian said in a low voice.

”Just now at the restaurant, that young man came in and said he was there to buy ’food,’ and he also said that if he didn’t eat ’food,’ he would die!”

”I didn’t pay attention at the time...”

”Until I defeated the young man’s soul and ran out of the shop, I clearly heard the Villagers chasing behind me shouting...”

”Kill them!”

”They killed the Shopkeeper, so we’ll have nothing to eat, and we’ll all die!”

”You two say...”

A glint flashed in Wu Tian’s eyes.

”They, like the Shopkeeper, must have been possessed. Do they need some kind of nutrient to survive?”

”Flesh and blood?”

”Or the souls of others?”

”...”

Zhang Meng and Wu Tian were stunned.

”Now that you mention it, it’s really possible!”

”But...”

”This is a bit outlandish!”

Zhang Meng scratched her head.

”Could it be that everyone in the village has turned into people like the Shopkeeper?”

”What exactly did they go through?”

”Is all of this related to the Peach Blossom Garden?!”

”Probably so...”

”This is my second point!”

Wu Tian nodded solemnly!

”Did you two notice...”

”Forget it!”

Wu Tian waved his hand.

”I don’t need to ask to know you didn’t notice!”

Zhang Meng: ... Rice: ... Wu Tian continued.

”Including the young man who came into the shop to buy ’food,’ and the Villagers who have been chasing us relentlessly, every single one of them, without exception, is under forty years old!”

”Do you know...”

A strange light flashed in Wu Tian’s eyes.

”What does this mean?”

”What?”

Zhang Meng was confused.

”Could these people all be tourists who came here before?”

Rice blurted out suddenly!

”You got it!”

Wu Tian’s tone was low!

”I’m sure...”

”These tourists did die, but they were reborn in the Peach Blossom Garden in another way, which is...”

”Possession!”

”Hiss...”

Zhang Meng’s eyes lit up, and she nodded sharply.

”Now that you say it, everything makes sense!”

”Tourists are lured to the Peach Blossom Garden to be possessed by the ’souls’ within, and then these ’souls’ use these bodies to move around in this village!”

”But...”

”If that’s the case, another problem arises!”

Zhang Meng said with a frown.

”Why can these people only stay in the village, and only obey the Shopkeeper’s command!”

”What is the ’food’ they talk about?”

”What makes them die if they don’t eat it?”

”...”

After a long while, Wu Tian sighed softly.

”I don’t know...”

”These things...”

”Perhaps we’ll only understand once we enter the Peach Blossom Garden!”

”Right now, we’re still just on the outskirts.”

”The truth is too far from us!”

...Bang!

Zhang Meng slammed her fist on the ground, letting out a muffled thud!

”Damn it!”

”At first, I really thought the Peach Blossom Garden was just as Mr. Tao Yuanming described it in his writings: a peaceful and prosperous, idyllic paradise, a pure land that everyone yearned for!”

”But now that I see it...”

Zhang Meng’s expression was grim.

”There are quite a few tricks involved here!”

”No!”

”The more I think about it, the more I can’t sit still. I’m leaving tonight, and tomorrow I’m going into the Peach Blossom Garden to drag out all the lonely spirits and evil ghosts inside!”

”And whip their souls on the cliff!”

Wu Tian: ... ”What are you rushing for? Even if you can get in, do you have the ability to whip souls?”

”...”

”Isn’t that what you’re for...”

”...”

Wu Tian’s mouth twitched.

”Don’t talk nonsense. If you set off now to find the Peach Blossom Garden, it’s nighttime. Can you even see?”

”Besides...”

Wu Tian said irritably.

”The bottom might be full of those possessed people, and we can’t get the inflatable raft out!”

”...”

”Not necessarily, boss!”

Rice stroked his chin and interjected.

”I remember an old saying in Long Country, ’the darkest place is under the lamp’!”

”It means the most dangerous place is the safest place. Maybe that small shop is empty right now?”

”Get lost!”

Wu Tian rolled his eyes.

”Do I, a genuine Long Countryman, need you to explain it to me?”

”Have you never heard of the drowned knowing how to swim, and the scared bold ones?”

”Stop talking nonsense to me...”

”Rice has put forward a rather pertinent suggestion. He still has some understanding of Long Country’s allegories. Perhaps following Rice’s idea and returning to the small shop might actually allow you to retrieve the inflatable raft and weapons.”

”Tonight, the moon is bright and the stars are clear. Perhaps it’s a good time to set off and search!”

”However, getting the inflatable raft into the water might take some effort!”

”Five Senses + 5!”

”Strength + 5!”

”...”

Wu Tian’s face darkened.

He immediately started cursing in his mind.

”Narrator-kun, do I owe you something?”

”You just love to undermine me, don’t you?”

”...”

”What I said is all honest truth, Host, you’re getting agitated!”

”You’re about to lose it!”

Wu Tian: ... ”Ahem...”

Looking at Rice, who had lowered his head for saying the wrong thing, Wu Tian coughed awkwardly twice.

He changed his tone.

And directly affirmed Rice.

”Actually, Rice, your suggestion is very pertinent. I also believe that ’the darkest place is under the lamp’ is a very useful classic philosophy!”

”Let’s go!”

”Tonight, the moon is bright and the stars are clear. It’s a good time to set off!”

”We’ll go back to the small shop to get the house!”

”...”

Rice scratched his head, looking at Wu Tian with some confusion and asked!

”Boss...”

”Isn’t it the drowned knowing how to swim?”

”...”

Wu Tian’s face darkened, and he replied irritably.

”Not only do I know how to swim, I can also dive, how about that?”

”Now I won’t drown, right?”

”But you can still drown while diving...”

Rice scratched his head.

”Pfft...”

Zhang Meng, following behind Wu Tian, couldn’t help but burst out laughing!

”Hahaha...”

”Here’s an honest person, come and bully him!”

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