56: The supplies in the backyard! The same kind appeared!

“...”

Zhang Meng was startled!

“After your analysis, it really seems to make things reasonable!”

“It’s just that…”

Zhang Meng frowned.

“If it’s really as recorded in this diary, and both blood sacrifice or being alone can enter, then why would the Shopkeeper perform a blood sacrifice every week?”

“Did he fail?”

“Or was it for some other purpose?”

“And…”

Zhang Meng seemed to grasp a flaw, her eyes slightly bright as she spoke.

“Besides blood sacrifice, one can also enter if alone. Why would this Shopkeeper choose the more risky blood sacrifice?”

“…”

“Perhaps… it’s for power!”

Wu Tian rubbed his chin and said.

“Power?”

Zhang Meng was a bit confused.

“What power?”

“You wouldn’t know, you were unconscious just now, but that Shopkeeper possessed very powerful strength. If I hadn’t been able to restrain him, I really don’t know who would have won!”

“…”

Zhang Meng rolled her eyes.

“Restrain?”

“We’re all human, how can you restrain him?”

“Uh…”

Wu Tian had no choice but to scratch his head and tell Zhang Meng the truth.

“This Shopkeeper might not actually be human!”

“He was possessed!”

“…”

Zhang Meng’s eyes widened, looking at Wu Tian with disbelief.

“Possessed?!”

“Are you kidding me? It’s 2021 now, this is a scientific society. Possession only appears in TV shows or novels!”

“Are you sure you didn’t see wrong?”

“Why would I lie to you?”

Wu Tian rolled his eyes.

“Damn it, his soul could even leave his body to fight me. Otherwise, why do you think his corpse looked like it had been dead for a long time?”

Zhang Meng: … Wu Tian continued relentlessly.

“And, why did I just say that his soul was scattered by me!”

“Did you think I was exaggerating?”

“I was telling the truth!”

Zhang Meng: … “Hahahahaha, Miss Zhang Meng is dumbfounded. Do you think the Host did the right thing?”

“Too tragic!”

“I want to write ten thousand 'tragic' characters on Miss Zhang Meng’s long, shapely thigh!”

“Upstairs, are you sure you’re writing…”

“Not touching?”

“Honestly, this is genuinely scary!”

“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes just now, even if you beat me to death, I, like Miss Zhang Meng, wouldn’t believe it one bit!”

“Poor Miss Zhang Meng…”

“She knows martial arts, rock climbing, shooting, history, and believes in science!”

“But in the end…”

“She was baffled by a possessed Shopkeeper and a ghost-slaying Host!”

“Upstairs is brilliant!”

… “Re-… Really?”

After a long while, Zhang Meng looked at Wu Tian with a half-believing expression and asked.

“Sigh!”

“Do I need to lie to you about this?”

“…”

“That’s true…”

After a two or three second pause, Zhang Meng sighed.

“It seems this world is still too vast, and our knowledge is still too limited. What we haven’t seen doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!”

“Alas…”

“Today, I’ve truly learned a lot!”

“Alright, stop agonizing.”

Wu Tian patted Zhang Meng’s shoulder.

“No matter what, as long as I’m here, none of these things will be able to get close!”

“Let’s keep looking!”

“Mm…”

Zhang Meng glanced at Wu Tian and nodded lightly… “Besides the two inferences above, I only remember that we entered Zemeng Creek by raft. The good thing is that my raft wasn’t damaged on the return trip, and I also collected a few guns left behind by my teammates.”

“I put them all in the backyard!”

“My descendants, if you have the chance…”

“Please help me find the truth!”

“However…”

“I still hope you don’t go. That place is the nightmare of my life!”

… All the information, all the notes, ended here.

Useful information, besides what was previously obtained about the Peach Blossom Garden.

Wu Tian and Zhang Meng also learned that there was a raft in the backyard, as well as several guns!

This… was undoubtedly a godsend!

“Come on, let’s go see if the raft is still usable!”

“If it is, we’ll be in luck!”

Zhang Meng’s eyes lit up as she pulled Wu Tian towards the backyard… Suddenly!

“Clang!”

A sound of a hard object hitting the wooden door of the small shop rang out.

Like a clap of thunder, it was exceptionally clear in the quiet countryside!

“…”

“Who’s there?”

Wu Tian turned his head, his cold gaze fixed on the dark doorway!

Zhang Meng’s body trembled slightly, and she also looked towards the doorway.

“Rustle…”

Footsteps approached.

A fair-skinned young man slowly walked in from the doorway with his hands behind his back, and under the dim candlelight, he smiled shyly at Wu Tian and Zhang Meng inside the shop.

“I’m looking for the Shopkeeper!”

“Is the Shopkeeper here? I want to buy some dinner!”

“…”

Wu Tian glanced at the Shopkeeper and the driver lying behind the counter out of the corner of his eye.

He gently shook his head.

“The Shopkeeper is asleep.”

“Buying dinner so late? Didn’t you cook at home?”

“Mm…”

The young man nodded.

“No one was home today, so I didn’t cook. That’s why I came to buy some food.”

“That’s too bad.”

“The Shopkeeper is asleep, you’ll just have to make do for the night!”

“…”

After he finished speaking.

Wu Tian stopped walking with Zhang Meng and instead sat down at the table where theFat Man was sleeping.

Wu Tian originally thought that with things said to this extent, the young man would leave.

He didn’t expect!

“Is that so…”

The young man thoughtfully rubbed his chin.

Then he directly lifted his foot and walked into the shop!

“Then I’ll go wake him up. I’m really too hungry. Without him, I’m afraid I’ll starve to death tonight!”

“…”

“That wouldn’t be good, would it?”

Wu Tian immediately stood up, blocking the young man’s path.

“The Shopkeeper is already asleep.”

“You still want to wake him up? That’s not very polite, is it?”

As he spoke.

Wu Tian’s brows slowly furrowed.

Because it wasn’t until he got closer to the young man that Wu Tian realized that the young man’s scent seemed somewhat similar to the former Shopkeeper’s—a scent that was… somewhat damp and dark!

“You’re lying!”

Suddenly!

The young man’s gentle expression instantly vanished.

It was replaced by an extremely ferocious look, and he instantly pulled out his right hand from behind his back, a sharp bone-cleaving knife pointed directly at Wu Tian’s glabella.

“The Shopkeeper doesn’t need to sleep at all!”

“Who are you?!”

“Where’s the Shopkeeper?”

“…”

“Heh heh…”

After a long pause!

Wu Tian sneered and extended two fingers to push away the gleaming bone-cleaving knife, his tone filled with coldness.

“So, you and the Shopkeeper are of the same kind?”

“And!”

“Are you sure you want to point a bone-cleaving knife at me like that?”

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