About half an hour later, Li Na came back. Her face was pale, her hair was wet, and she looked frightened. As soon as she returned to the room, she immediately got into bed, her whole body shaking violently.
An Qian was on the other side of the kang, observing for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you? Are you sick?"
Li Na didn't answer.
Anxi thought she didn't want to speak, so she turned around and continued to do her own thing.
Unexpectedly, after a while, Li Na suddenly spoke, her voice a little hoarse, "I just ran into a strange thing..."
An Qian paused and immediately asked, "Are you talking about encountering a strange ghost like Lin Dawang did last night?"
Li Na hummed, was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "Do you think we should go to the small temple in the village, and then..."
"Are you going to pray?" An Qian helped Li Na complete the sentence, "Aren't you afraid that there is something wrong with the statue of the god?"
Anxi was not surprised when Li Na encountered a White Walker. The White Walker was like an oppressive worker, spinning around to scare people.
I just didn't expect Li Na to go directly to the statue of the gods to pray for blessings. Even Lin Dawang's stupid mind knew that he couldn't drip his own blood randomly in the dungeon.
"...Even if there is any problem, it is better than being killed by that thing." Li Na paused and continued, "Actually, I have encountered it once before, but that time, it just looked at me from a distance. I didn’t take it to heart, but this time... it actually rushed over and pinched me."
Li Na said, lifting the quilt and pulling down her collar, revealing the red mark on her neck.
An Qian didn't care about Li Na's experience, but instead cared about another question, "It actually has an entity? Or did it take form when it touched you?"
White Walkers are ghosts and are generally untouchable, but some White Walkers can be touched under certain circumstances.
If the White Walkers in the village can be encountered, then Anxi has a way to deal with them.
Unexpectedly, after An Qian asked this question, Li Na was stunned for a moment, and then changed her words: "No, no, I said it wrong. It didn't pinch me, it manipulated the curtain cloth to pinch me. It has no entity, and the props should be right It’s useless…”
Li Na once again detailed the circumstances of the accident.
An Qian stared at her without emotion. She always felt that Li Na was deliberately hiding something.
However, before An Qian could continue asking, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Fang Qianyao walked in: "Oh...? Are you all back?"
Behind her was Wu.
It seems that today's activities are over and everyone is back.
"Baby!" Wu rushed in, knocking over Fang Qianyao in front and falling to the ground.
Wu held Anxi's cheek with trembling hands, and his eyes became moist: "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have let you leave my sight."
"Don't be too nervous..." Fang Qianyao stood up from the ground and patted the dust on her pants, "Even if you are always by her side, something will happen to her. This is a certainty."
"you!"
When Wu heard this, he turned his head and glared at Fang Qianyao, his eyes about to spit fire, "Stop using your human things to disgust me, you will be played by the destiny in your mouth because of your incompetence."
When Fang Qianyao heard Wu's words, her expression did not change at all. Instead, she nodded: "Yes, it is indeed because I am too weak. But, there are a few people... Oh, sorry, you are a ghost. I mean, there are a few others Individuals or ghosts can be so powerful that they defy the laws of heaven.”
"Even you, there must have been things you couldn't do about since you were young, right? Don't stand and talk without pain in your back. Don't think that everyone just stands and waits to die because they are afraid. There are too many things that have not changed despite your efforts. These things consume people’s energy, wear down their will, and plunge them into despair.”
Fang Qianyao rarely said a long string of words. Although he still had the same lazy and careless tone, he contained some indescribable emotions.
Wu listened, his eyes flickering, as if he was recalling something, and he couldn't reply for a moment.
"Okay, what are you talking about?" Anxi said, stopping the fate-themed debate between the two of them.
Wu immediately turned his attention back to Anxi and gathered around her anxiously.
An Qian herself was injured, but she still wanted to comfort Wu. After some kind words and persuasion, she finally drove Wu back to the room on the right.
Li Na had already lay back down during their argument.
Fang Qianyao was sitting by the bed eating snacks. The conversation just now didn't seem to have much impact on her.
Anxi called her and asked her to go with him to the kitchen to boil water for a bath later.
There was the sound of burning vegetation in the kitchen. An Qian and Fang Qianyao sat silently in front of the stove, watching the flames dancing in the stove.
After sitting for a while and boiling two pots of water, An Qian couldn't hold it in anymore and spoke first: "Xu Ming just told me something about you."
"Yeah." Fang Qianyao responded, "He is just a gossip."
An Qian nodded: "It's a little bit, but he is quite nice. I can stay in the same room with Wu for so long without any problems."
Fang Qianyao replied, "Yes." Then the two of them were speechless again.
An Qian thought for a moment, then got straight to the point and asked, "Actually, after listening to Xu Ming's story, I remembered the question I asked you before. That is, what would you do if one day you calculated Xu Ming's death?"
"It's the same answer as before." Fang Qianyao replied.
She didn't look back and stared blankly into the stove: "Don't do anything, because it's all the same and nothing can change it."
An Qian asked: "Then why did you remind me of the bloody disaster yesterday?"
"The bloody disaster is different." Fang Qianyao waved away the vegetation ash coming from the stove, "The bloody disaster can be weakened if you are careful, so there is nothing wrong with reminding you."
An Qian replied: "That means that the so-called way of heaven actually has loopholes. As long as the loopholes are found, the outcome of the matter will be completely different."
Listening to An Qian's words, Fang Qianyao fell into silence. After a long time, she muttered: "... maybe."
Then, without responding, she silently stuffed a handful of corn stalks into the stove, and the flames started to flicker. Her face was dimly illuminated by the firelight.
At night.
The moonlight is hazy and the shadows of the trees are dancing.
Lin Dawang's house was still lit tonight. What happened yesterday frightened him. He stayed in the yard tonight until he was too sleepy to stay any longer before returning to the small house.
The atmosphere in the room between Anxi and the three of them was very gloomy because of all the talkable and unspeakable topics today. They turned off the kerosene lamps early and each lay down in their own places to get sleepy.
It's a bit cold tonight.
Anxi wrapped her quilt tightly and stared at the ceiling with her eyes open, mentally sorting out the clues she had obtained.
The first is Wang Cuizhu and Zhang Baohai’s family.
Assuming that the child is Zhang Baohai's biological child, then Wang Cuizhu may not be having affairs as Jiang Wenwei said.
Following this logic, Zhang Baohai would have no reason to kill his wife, daughter, or attack Jiang Wenwei.
But Jiang Wenwei did have injuries on his body, but the location of the wounds did not match what he said.
Zhang Baohai may have really attacked Jiang Wenwei, but it was for other reasons than Jiang Wenwei's suspicion that he was having an affair with Wang Cuizhu.
Second is the White Walker in the village.
It's unclear whether this strange ghost was transformed by Wang Cuizhu and Zhang Baohai's family.
And judging from what Li Na said today, this strange ghost is very likely to have an entity.
Does this White Walker have special abilities, or...not only is the story told by Jiang Wenwei false, but even the White Walker is not real?
Anxi suddenly felt that she had found a new breakthrough.
Is it possible that Jiang Wenwei, Yuanyuan and other villagers are all lying, and that the whole village is setting up a huge scam?
