Chapter 46

Not long after, Yao Shunyu also woke up. It took him a long time to fully understand the current situation. Too many things had happened in this short half-day.

Yao Shunyu wasn't too surprised about Li Bai's true identity; he had noticed some clues during the mission.

Looking at the night sky above, and the two paper figures with painted eyebrows and eyes, a question remained unanswered in Jiang Cheng's mind. Since the Daheitian (Great Black Sky) driven by Dr. Zhou was dead, why did this world still exist? They still hadn't found an exit to leave.

Also, although the old man and the others were powerful, and the plan of the whole conspiracy was fairly rigorous, Jiang Cheng still felt that something was missing. He couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.

Suddenly, Wu abruptly looked up towards the mountainside. He saw two balls of fire lit up there, and the flames were constantly moving in their direction.

Two people with torches. The only people Jiang Cheng could think of were the old hunter couple.

When the old Yao couple tottered into the courtyard gate, supporting each other, they were immediately caught by Fatty Tang Qisheng, who was lying in ambush behind the door.

Seeing Old Man Yao's face, Fatty's expression twisted with anger. "Damn you, you old bastard, you dare to come back?!" He raised his fist to beat him. This old guy must have taken a lot of benefits from the Night Watchers.

Old Man Yao was frightened, and dropped the torch on the ground. "Aiyo, what... what's going on? You... you..."

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng waved his hand, and Fatty released Old Man Yao, whom he had been holding like a chick. "I don't want to talk nonsense. I'm asking you, what's going on with the altar in the woodshed?"

Old Man Yao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. "Hey, you're talking about that. That's the altar where my family worships Daheitian."

"I'll be damned..." Hearing Old Man Yao admit it so frankly, Fatty clenched his fists, ready to avenge the brothers who had died. "You killed good people and used human lives to worship Daheitian, I... I'll beat you to death today!"

It must be said that Fatty's appearance was the most intimidating of the group. His tall figure could fit Old Man Yao and his wife inside him. Frightened by Fatty, Old Man Yao was immediately stunned, and the next moment he exclaimed, "What? Murder? You... you must not talk nonsense. I'm just an honest and law-abiding hunter, how dare I kill anyone!"

"Still pretending with me, you really won't shed a tear until you see the coffin!"

Under the escort of the crowd, the group came to the woodshed in the backyard. Fatty took the lead and kicked open the door, but the scene in front of them stunned everyone. Four skinned roe deer corpses hung from the beams of the woodshed, one of which only had its upper body left.

In the corner of the woodshed was a dilapidated altar that had been destroyed. The lump of mud representing Daheitian had been smashed to pieces.

"Aiya, my Mountain God grandpa! Are you foreigners crazy? How... how dare you smash the altar of Daheitian!" Seeing the scene in front of him, Old Man Yao collapsed instantly. His legs went weak, and he fell to the ground, crying loudly, looking even worse than if he were mourning.

Jiang Cheng turned to look at Wu. If anyone among them could explain the current situation, it would be him. But soon Jiang Cheng realized that the surprise in Wu's eyes was no less than his own.

Wu abruptly turned around and went to the kitchen. When Jiang Cheng and the others arrived, Wu had already come out of the door with a gloomy face.

Fatty Tang Qisheng rushed in, and after a moment, he stumbled out of it like he had lost his soul. "Roe deer head! It really... it really is a roe deer head."

"If it's not a roe deer head, what else could it be? You foreigners, you... you really are... Aiyo, my Mountain God grandpa!"

Back in the front yard, the pit where the four corpses had been buried was still there, and the air was still filled with a lingering smell of blood. Jiang Cheng grabbed a tool and threw it to Fatty. "Dig up the pit!"

Working together, everyone moved quickly in such a strange atmosphere, but after completely digging it up, Tang Qisheng loosened his hand, and the tool fell to the ground. Looking at the empty bottom of the pit, he almost collapsed. He climbed out of the pit, punched Old Man Yao in the face, then straddled him and strangled his throat with both hands. "You bastard! Where did you take the corpses? What's your relationship with those people? Tell me! If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!"

Old Man Yao's eyes rolled back from being strangled. Old Man Yao's hunchbacked wife, who was controlled by Zhu Jie, cried so hard that she couldn't catch her breath. "Aiyo! Old man, why did you bring back these plague gods! There are no such people, only you people came to our house, right?"

Everyone was stunned by these words. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Old Man Yao broke free and crawled up to find his hunchbacked wife. The two hugged each other tightly, looking extremely pitiful.

"You said that only we came to your house?" Jiang Cheng confirmed again, "The seven of us?"

"Yes, that man and woman were still unconscious at the time. We gave you medicinal herbs to heal you." Old Man Yao looked at Li Bai and Yao Shunyu with a face full of entreaty. "You... you can't repay kindness with revenge!"

For a time, everyone couldn't help but feel dazed. Suddenly, everything they had just experienced became false. There was no ambush, no corpses, no conspiracy, not even... even Dr. Zhou and the old man didn't exist. Things had completely entered another incomprehensible extreme.

Wu opened his palm and stared at the strange halo in his palm. Jiang Cheng reacted suddenly. Wu had taken the doors of Dr. Zhou and the other three. So, if Wu could summon the weirdness in those four doors at this moment, wouldn't that prove that Dr. Zhou and the others were real, and what Old Man Yao said was false? That everything they were facing now was just a bigger deception.

But after waiting for a long time, Wu's palm was still empty. Wu looked at Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Cheng could fully feel the entanglement and complexity in his eyes.

Gone...

Those four doors, along with the weirdness in those four doors, had all disappeared.

"What... what are you going to do?" The hunchbacked old woman trembled. "We don't have any money, but we still have some fur goods at home that can be exchanged for money. Take them all if you want, just don't harm me and my old man. Our lives are hard enough, please have mercy and let us live."

As she spoke, Old Man Yao and his wife sobbed. Looking at the pitiful appearance of the two old people wiping their tears, it was really unbearable.

Accompanied by the sound of a blade being drawn, Wu pulled out the knife with his backhand. The clear blade light illuminated the terrified faces of the two old people. Wu grabbed Old Man Yao and slammed him against the wall. This almost took half of his old life. Then he grabbed him and brought the blade closer to his chin. "When I peel off your skin, you won't think about lying to me again."