"Does a rich woman like knot-tying?" Chen Qiang asked.

"Well..." Huai Yi hesitated, then said, "There are indeed those who like it, Chen Qiang, I can vouch for that."

"Hurry up, we still have a ways to go," Zhao Xingguo urged, feeling uncomfortable with a night watchman getting involved.

Even if they made it out alive, if the other party wanted to deny them their due, there was really nothing these few of them could do.

"Little friend." Pi Ruan walked over quickly, took the little boy's hand, gave him a gentle hug, and whispered a few words in his ear with a smile.

"Don't take what happened just now to heart, and don't hold a grudge against Uncle," Pi Ruan said, ruffling the boy's hair. "Uncle is a man of his word."

It wasn't clear if he had been scared silly by Pi Ruan's earlier kidnapping, but the boy was still trembling uncontrollably, looking at Pi Ruan as if he were a monster.

"We have things to do, I wish you a good journey." The leading man gave them a shortcut, saying that if they followed it, they would see the entrance to the mine in about half an hour.

Jiang Cheng and the others said their goodbyes and left, but this time the team had one more member: Pi Ruan, who refused to leave. Jiang Cheng was worried about him running into trouble if he went down the mountain alone.

In the end, Lin Wan'er made the final decision, telling Pi Ruan that he could stay, but he had to follow orders and keep his mouth shut.

"Understood, Boss Lin." Pi Ruan nodded and bowed. "I know the rules. Consider this me buying in. If there really is gold, I'll provide the manpower and equipment. I don't want much, just 50%."

"Heh." Fu Fu, carrying her black bag, said, "Aren't you afraid of having the life to take it, but not the life to spend it?"

"Which girl has such a foul mouth? Didn't your family teach you how to speak?" Pi Ruan retorted, hands on his hips.

Not even a few minutes had passed before Jiang Cheng suddenly stopped and said that he had left something in the previous tent, and turned around to go back to get it.

"Doctor Jiang." Pi Ruan quickly walked up to him, wearing a smiling face. "Let me go back with you, it's always better to have someone with you in these deep mountains."

Jiang Cheng looked at Pi Ruan for two seconds. "No need." He turned and left.

Pi Ruan took a few quick steps, looking like he still wanted to try to persuade him, but Fatty came over and grabbed him, saying, "Brother Pi Ruan, the doctor is faster alone, don't join the fun."

In a few breaths, Jiang Cheng's figure had already disappeared.

Pi Ruan looked in the direction where the figure had disappeared, a flicker passing through his eyes.

Near the tent, the man was directing everyone to clean up the traces, and some traps had to be reset. Seeing Jiang Cheng returning, the man was a little surprised. "Why are you back?"

Jiang Cheng didn't even look at him, and went straight to the boy.

When the boy saw Jiang Cheng return, his face was filled with fear, and he kept looking behind Jiang Cheng.

"What did that person say to you just now?" Jiang Cheng asked bluntly.

He had seen Pi Ruan whisper something into the boy's ear while hugging him, and at the same time, the boy seemed to wilt like a frost-bitten eggplant, never daring to say another word.

Hearing this, the boy's body trembled, and he shook his head quickly. "No, I don't know."

Jiang Cheng frowned slightly. He had only come back to trick the boy, but he didn't expect that there was indeed something fishy going on.

In all honesty, he still trusted Pi Ruan relatively well, after all, they had been together for a long time.

But the experiences of the recent period could not help but make him cautious.

Most importantly, after the middle-aged man's assessment, the Fatty he had always suspected was not a problem.

The middle-aged man had sent Jiang Cheng the information about Fatty's identity.

After a brief review, he didn't find any problems.

But if Fatty was not the problem, then whose eyes were always lurking around him...?

A long time ago, Jiang Cheng had a feeling that some of the people he encountered in the Nightmare Assault seemed to be very familiar with him, as if they had contact with him in real life.

They understood his habits, and even his judgment when encountering problems.

There were not many people who could understand him to this extent, he could count them on his fingers, and Pi Ruan barely qualified.

Chen Qiang's words had served as a reminder.

Sometimes, outsiders could see things clearly.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng squatted down, looking at the boy in front of him. The boy's eyes were filled with fear, and his hands were twisted together, looking uneasy.

"No matter what that person said, you can ignore it. I can help you," Jiang Cheng said very seriously. "But if you don't cooperate, I'll call him back now and tell him that you told me everything."

"No, don't!" The boy broke down all at once, crying and saying, "I didn't say anything, you're lying!"

Jiang Cheng didn't waste time with him and pretended to turn around and walk back. But the next second, the boy burst into tears, grabbed Jiang Cheng's sleeve and said, "He told me to keep my mouth shut, or he would kill my whole family!"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng frowned, but the leading man was stunned. First, he glanced at Jiang Cheng, and then comforted the boy, "Don't be afraid, Uncle Feng is here, I won't let him hurt you. What exactly happened?"

The boy finally calmed down, and then began to tell what had happened before. "At first, I was watching him with Uncle Liu Er and Brother Qian. Before long, Uncle Liu Er asked me to pick up some firewood nearby."

"But when I came back with the firewood, I saw Uncle Liu Er and Brother Qian lying on the ground outside the tent."

"Someone was tying them up with a rope, with their back to me."

There was no doubt that this person was Pi Ruan, but hearing this, apart from the fact that Pi Ruan being able to knock down two guards was a bit strange, he didn't find anything that could scare the boy like this.

"And then?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"And then..." The boy seemed to recall the scene at that time, and his face turned pale. "And then..."

The boy suddenly raised his head, staring into Jiang Cheng's eyes, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins. "He had his back to me, I... I saw something fall from his body, a big piece, but then, he picked it up again, and then I noticed that his hands... his hands were covered in blood!"

"I couldn't help but take a step back, breaking a branch under my feet, making a sound."

"He found out!"

"He turned his head suddenly, his face... his face was rotten!" The boy's voice was shrill. "Half of his rotten skin was falling off his face, his nose was hanging on his lips, and yellow pus was flowing from his eyes, and white bones were visible near the eye sockets!"

"Just now... just now he picked up his rotten face!"

"He was still using his hands to stick it back on his face!"

"He's not human!" The boy grabbed his face, leaving bloody marks on it. "He's a ghost! He's a ghost!"

"Rotten Face Ghost!"

The boy almost couldn't cry anymore. "He didn't want to kidnap me, he really wanted to kill me to silence me, you... if you had come one step later, he would have killed me!"