Ye Tiancheng said he was bringing the Fatty and the Little Fox for barbecue at the farm stay, so he indeed arranged for a barbecue. He rented some barbecue tools from the farm stay owner and bought some fresh ingredients, then they could do it themselves.
After further observation, Ye Tiancheng discovered some other suspicious points.
The tourists with children seemed to be fine. They appeared to be genuine tourists, visiting the place to enjoy themselves, not for any other peculiar purpose.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed reasonable. A simple statistic would show that if people had ulterior motives, they probably wouldn't bring their children to such a place. Those whose hearts weren't completely rotten wouldn't bring children to do such things.
Or perhaps, there was no value in doing so, which led to this outcome.
Ye Tiancheng could only comfort himself, thinking that either the situation wasn't that serious, or the danger level wasn't that high. Otherwise, if there were major accidents here every year, it would have been sealed off long ago, how could it continue to operate?
While barbecuing, the Little Fox helped Ye Tiancheng. The main barbecuing was done by Ye Tiancheng and the Fatty.
Both of them were quite skilled. Originally, only the Fatty had high skill points in this area. Later, in order to go out and collect fragments of the Fuxi Qin, Ye Tiancheng's skills also improved, and they were quite good. Only the Little Fox was not good at cooking, so he was only suitable for odd jobs.
The Little Fox had no objections. He didn't feel tired doing errands.
Halfway through the barbecue, Ye Tiancheng suddenly felt that barbecue couldn't be without drinks, so he asked the Little Fox to run an errand to buy some drinks. The Little Fox had no objections and went to do the errand.
The farm stay sold drinks. Although they were more expensive than outside, there was still a limit. And it was just a temporary solution, the price was not to an unbearable extent. So the Little Fox bought things from the farm stay.
The Little Fox found the freezer selling drinks and pondered over it. He picked out a few bottles, took beer, soda, and juice, had them all packed, paid the money, and hurried back to Ye Tiancheng.
He carried several bottles of drinks as he walked back. There were too many people here, and it was quite crowded. The Little Fox struggled to walk back, but was squeezed by people, causing the plastic bag carrying the drinks to break. The drinks started to fall out one after another, rolling all over the ground.
What a disaster! The Little Fox quickly bent down to pick them up, and repeatedly called out to the people around him. Even if they didn't help, he had to let them know he was picking things up, so as to avoid stampedes in the crowded place. The most serious thing was that if a stampede occurred, he would be the first to be trampled.
The Little Fox didn't want to experience such a tragic death, being trampled to death or something like that.
The Little Fox quickly retrieved most of the drinks. Finally, seeing only one bottle of juice left, he quickly reached out to pick it up, and suddenly felt a chill all over his body. It was as if some chilling gaze had circled him, and a wet, sticky tongue wrapped around him and licked him.
He felt a wave of nausea. In that moment of delay, the juice was picked up by someone else.
The Little Fox reacted and looked at the person who picked up the juice. That person was holding his juice and was about to hand it to him.
Their eyes met for a moment.
The Little Fox took the juice from the person's hand and hugged it. After all, the plastic bag had been torn open, and there was nothing to pack the drinks in. He could only hug the drinks he had picked up again.
After securing the drinks this time, the Little Fox looked up at the person who helped him and said, "Thank you."
After handing over the drinks, the person slowly withdrew his hand after the Little Fox took the items. Hearing the Little Fox's thanks, he shook his head and said, "You're welcome. Be careful, there are many people here."
The Little Fox nodded, said goodbye to the person, and before turning away, he couldn't help but look at the person again.
The person didn't seem to have any other intentions. He seemed to be simply doing a good deed, handing a drink to the Little Fox. After accepting the Little Fox's thanks, he turned and left. The Little Fox, who couldn't help but look again, only saw a back.
But it was precisely because of this that the Little Fox became even more suspicious.
He felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him. The Little Fox had a hunch that this was not simple, so he lowered his head and tried to search his memory. Since he couldn't stop the person, the Little Fox walked back while trying to recall where he had seen such a person.
The Little Fox felt that seeing the person felt familiar, and seeing the back felt even more familiar.
He vaguely felt that this was a remarkable clue, very worth investigating. After thinking hard for a while, as he walked, he suddenly raised his head sharply, and finally remembered why he felt the person looked familiar, and why the back looked even more familiar.
No wonder, no wonder he felt that way.
The Little Fox thought to himself that last night, by the window of the guesthouse room, he saw the guesthouse owner, Mei Mei, supporting a man as he walked in the middle of the first floor, passing through the guesthouse building. The person he found familiar was that figure at that time, the figure of that man.
Because he saw it from a distance at the time, he couldn't see the face clearly. So when he got closer, the Little Fox would only feel familiar and couldn't immediately identify that the man's identity was suspicious.
On the contrary, when he was far away and could only see a figure, the Little Fox could then match this man with the figure of the man in his memory.
The Little Fox thought that his guess was probably correct. This was truly a remarkable clue, very worth investigating. If he hadn't had a good memory and remembered this matter, he would have accidentally missed it.
After all, it was just a blurry glance at night last night, and it was difficult for ordinary people to remember such a thing, and only to identify a vague outline.
The Little Fox could feel that his guess was definitely not wrong. He saw this man last night. Everyone has an aura, so the Little Fox could recognize him. This was definitely the man he saw last night.
But why would this man appear here, and even help him with a small favor?
This was too strange, wasn't it?
The Little Fox fell into deep thought. When he came back to his senses, he knew that he had to hurry back to tell Ye Tiancheng about this matter, and then they could analyze it together. This was probably a significant breakthrough related to their investigation.