"?"

Hearing this reply out of the blue, Hu Ma felt a mix of surprise and joy.

He was delighted that his calls throughout the night hadn't been in vain. He had finally received a response at the end. As long as there was another transmigrator in this place, things would be much easier.

Arriving in an unfamiliar place, unfamiliar with the people and the land, and knowing nothing, it was reassuring to have someone here who understood the situation. Even if he couldn't get much help, it would be good to get some useful information.

What surprised him, however, was that this fellow's response was a bit different from others. Judging from the sound, it seemed like he didn't want to be found?

"You...are you hiding here?"

Hu Ma paused for a moment, smiling, and said, "Judging from the sound, you don't seem too happy to be found, brother?"

"I'm not hiding. I was born here and have always lived here," the transmigrator with the codename Monkey Wine slowly replied, his voice with a unique laziness. "But I don't like being called by other transmigrators..."

"Alas, every time I'm sure this is a real world, and I've almost forgotten everything from my previous life, ready to live a good life here, you guys come along, disturbing my peace, and reminding me of the things I just forgot..."

As he spoke, his voice sounded a bit distressed, "I'm already depressed..."

"I can't figure out whether our world is real or this world is real anymore..."

"..."

"There's someone like this?"

Hu Ma felt a bit strange listening to him.

The transmigrators he had encountered, including the others, seemed to be able to adapt to their identities very well, and their emotions were stable. How could there be someone so confused?

Did he eat too much *hei taisui* (black *taisui*)? Can't distinguish between the real and the fake world?

"Do you think I'm being boring? Do you think I shouldn't put my energy into this kind of thing?"

Hu Ma was being polite and didn't say it directly. He didn't expect Monkey Wine to take the initiative to say, "I don't want to think about these things either, but these problems are real, aren't they?"

"I've also analyzed the reasons why others don't think so much. Maybe they're all relatively superficial, but I'm different. I'm a graduate of a prestigious university, and I even took the doctoral exam..."

"So I've cultivated a habit of logic and seeing the essence of things since I was a child."

"For example, when I first came to this world, I thought it was fake."

"But in order to find evidence of its falseness, I studied a lot, observed a lot, and found more and more that this world is real, even if it has so many phenomena and powers that violate scientific common sense, it is still a real world."

"Everything in it can form its own logic, only in the underlying rules, there is some kind of mysterious distortion..."

"Since this world is real, could it be that the world in our memories is fake? Could it be that everything in the previous life was just a dream?"

"...I've told other transmigrators about these things. They are real problems!"

"But they don't understand me, and even think I'm crazy, probably because they have lower education and aren't very smart..."

"..."

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "By the way, what's your education level?"

"Huh?"

Hu Ma was suddenly asked and panicked a little, and hurriedly said, "That's not important!"

"Brother, I just came to Huoziling. I have some things I want to deal with, so see if it's convenient for you..."

"..."

"Don't say it!"

Before Hu Ma could finish, Monkey Wine suddenly interrupted him, "If you say it, I can't help but want to help you, because communicating with transmigrators can also make me feel a sense of reality."

"But if I cooperate with transmigrators, I always can't help but doubt this world, and when I think that this world may be fake, I can't help but want to study something..."

"But the things I study in this world seem to be taboo..."

"For example, a woman born on an *yin* month, *yin* day, and *yin* hour is best for raising *fei'e gu* (flying moth *gu*), but it is necessary to use precise surgical techniques to transplant the half-grown *fei'e gu* into the other party's uterus, and then seal her seven orifices with mercury, nail her *mingmen* (Gate of Life) with coffin nails, and then use blood *taisui* to nourish her body..."

"...If it is in a false world, this is just normal research, but if this is a real world, am I going too far?"

"..."

"?"

Hu Ma was confused by him. Isn't this a bit too much?

This is simply cruel, isn't it?

"So I have been troubled by such problems."

Monkey Wine seemed to know what Hu Ma was thinking and said to himself, "This world seems real, and the people living around me are my relatives and clansmen. I can't verify these ideas on them."

"Even the prisoners who are captured are all living people. I can't experiment on these people with those anti-human things to cultivate *gu* worms..."

"But after contacting the transmigrators, I can't help but feel that this world is fake..."

"If it's just a fake world, then as long as I can prove my ideas, it doesn't matter what I do..."

"..."

"Hiss..."

Hu Ma suddenly felt a sense of retreat. Maybe he shouldn't ask this transmigrator for help?

He had encountered quite a few transmigrators now, some were lying low, some were radical, some were ruthless...

But now, it seemed like he had encountered someone who was a bit abnormal?

"Forget it, tell me!"

But at this moment, Monkey Wine suddenly said again, "I didn't want to pay attention to you, but since we've already chatted, if you don't say it, I'll feel itchy."

Hu Ma was shocked, "What kind of mentality is this?"

"Do you think my mentality is complicated and incomprehensible?"

Just as Hu Ma was thinking, Monkey Wine said, "Actually, my mentality is very normal, just like a former girlfriend's status. You know you'll regret it if you open it, and you won't take the initiative to find it, but once you accidentally swipe to it, you can't help but click in..."

"Hiss..."

Listening to his rambling appearance, Hu Ma was a little scared.

But after thinking about it carefully, he still took a tentative attitude and slowly thought, "I haven't thought of any specific goals yet, but I just want to ask, do you know about the witch people here?"

This Monkey Wine was not normal. Let's not talk about the specifics first. Let's ask for some information if we can...

"I remembered things from my previous life when I was seven years old, and I'm twenty-nine now..."

Monkey Wine heard this and slowly replied, "I have lived here for so many years. I see them as soon as I open my eyes. Do you think I know them or not?"

Hearing his words, Hu Ma's heart moved slightly. There was a chance...

It seemed that Monkey Wine was originally a witch person in this world, and his status was not low, so it was just right to ask for information.

Originally, he didn't plan to ask too much at once, but facing such a strange person, he was slightly silent for a moment, and then slowly said, "Then..."

"In Huoziling, there is a blood meat mine specially used for cutting *taisui*. It was originally the property of the Qingyi Gang, but now it belongs to the Red Lantern Society. It used to be at peace with the witch people here, calling each other brothers, but now, it has been inexplicably surrounded..."

"They don't say why, and they don't say what they want to do, but they have already killed several people."

"Have you heard about this, brother?"

"..."

Monkey Wine was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then sighed softly, "I know. The one who surrounded the blood meat mine is a *da wuxian* (Great Witch Sage) among the witch people."

"He used the Twelve Doors Row Formation in the Witch Alliance's methods. It's very powerful. Once it's sealed, if outsiders want to break this *gu*, they need to pass twelve levels in a row. If they fail any level, the person trying to break the *gu* will die."

"So once the blood meat mine is sealed, it becomes a dead end, able to enter but not able to exit, the most dangerous."

"..."

"*Da wuxian* (Great Witch Sage)?"

Hu Ma's heart couldn't help but move. He didn't expect to ask such an important thing. He hurriedly said again, "Then, why did he seal this blood meat mine? Do you know the reason?"

"There must be something he wants in the mine."

Monkey Wine slowly said, "The witch people's art of raising *gu* comes from their ancestors. Long before the appearance of *taisui* flesh and blood, it had been passed down by word of mouth for many years."

"But *Taisui* Lord came into the world, affecting all the methods and inheritances, and the witch people are no exception. Some people have long discovered... for example, me, some *gu* worms that need to be raised with specific human blood can be replaced with *taisui* flesh and blood, and it will have the same, or even better effect."

"Some witch people need things in the blood meat mine from time to time, but the witch people are poor and can't afford good blood meat, their manpower is weak, they don't know how to light the stove, and they can't hire someone to guard the night, so they can't occupy the blood meat mine."

"But fortunately, the *gu* refining items needed by the witch people are mostly different from what ordinary people need. What is poison to you is a treasure to me. Picking up some scraps is enough, so they don't interfere with each other."

"But if something that the witch people want appears in the blood meat mine, they will get it at all costs."

"..."

"As expected..."

Hu Ma took a low breath and slowly asked the most important question, "Since that's the case, do you know the weakness of the witch person who sealed the blood meat mine?"

"...Don't worry, brother, I can also exchange it for equal information."

"Perhaps, if I owe you a favor, it's no problem to help you a big favor in another place afterwards."

"..."

After this sentence was asked, Monkey Wine was silent all of a sudden.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "I do know his weakness, but if I tell you, this thing is not right..."

Hu Ma was stunned and said, "Why?"

"Because the one who sealed this blood meat mine is me..."

Monkey Wine sighed and said, "Although we are both transmigrators, is it not appropriate for me to tell you my weakness and let you deal with me?"

(End of chapter)