Chapter 297: About Ti
Clearly, the painting was about the incident that happened that night. Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes. In other words, the little beggar was also by the lake that night. Plus, he witnessed sothing important, or else he wouldn’t co to find them… or rather, co to find Fatty. He didn’t want to alert the others.
“The boy sure is brave.” Fatty glanced at the window. He said with worry as if he could see the boy through the wall, “Isn’t he afraid that Young Master Huang might discover him and kill him? That is a ghost!”
Xia ng stood up and picked up the candle on the table. She placed the leaf on the ground. With the candlelight, she studied it closer. She responded, “That might not be true.”
Fatty was startled, “What do you an?”
“I an… Young Master Huang might not be a ghost.” Xia ng didn’t even raise her head, “He might be human.”
Fatty instantly turned to the Doctor. He rembered the Doctor had said sothing similar, but he had said it before the other travellers. He thought the Doctor was scamming everyone again, so he didn’t pay much attention to it. However, now that Xia ng ntioned it again, there might be a kernel of truth to it.
“Before this, we run on the assumption that Young Master Huang is a ghost. However, the basis for that is that he acts weird. We don’t have concrete evidence.” Jiang Cheng looked at Fatty, “We thought he was floating on the water to perform, but from the looks of things, there might be an elevated island in the middle of the lake. Due to the geography, we didn’t notice it.
“If we have a boat, we can do the sa thing he did.” Jiang Cheng picked up the leaf and shook it, “If this drawing is not a trap, I think we can confirm that Young Master Huang is human. Even though he is human, sothing must have happened to him to turn him into his current form.”
“Love.” Xia ng sighed, “His lover died, or rather, his lover was killed. He couldn’t get over it and beca like this.”
Fatty thought about it and agreed with them. To him, ghosts were supernatural entities. Could three ghosts gather together and row the boat back after the killings? That was… unlikely. Just the thought of it made him want to laugh.
The moon outside was clear. Fatty stood up and looked around. He didn’t notice anything special. It looked like the beggar had left.
After a long day, everyone was very tired. Xia ng went to sleep after studying the leaf a few more tis. Soon, her breathing beca even. Fatty leaned towards the Doctor and stared at the drawing. He whispered, “Doctor, what exactly do you see?”
Jiang Cheng looked up at Fatty. Fatty licked his lips and said embarrassedly, “Doctor, don’t be surprised. After all, we’ve spent so ti together. It’s normal for
to notice things other people cannot. You must have spotted sothing,” Fatty looked at him with glowing eyes, “But you didn’t say anything.”
Jiang Cheng gave Fatty a side-eye. Then, he turned to glance at Xia ng, who was pretending to be asleep. His lips twitched. Fatty understood the Doctor.
Jiang Cheng uttered two sentences. The first was, “It’s about ti.” This was targeted at Xia ng. Before this, Jiang Cheng had already filled Fatty in about Xia ng and the forces behind her so that he could have so basic understanding of them. The Doctor was probably about to confront her.
However, the thing that grabbed Fatty’s attention was the Doctor’s second sentence, “I know… what the crop is.”
The latter half of the hint was, “The half-filled crop can cure the feeling of sadness.” The Doctor found it. Fatty beca excited. This mission gave him a different feeling from the other missions. Perhaps it was the difference in the setting. Every second he spent there was uncomfortable.
Plus, the ghosts and players in this mission were special. Even soone like the Doctor had to distract the ghost to survive. If this continued, they may perish. Plus, Xia ng was unreliable…
Fatty’s face was red from excitent. Just as he was about to ask the Doctor more about the crop, he realised the way the Doctor looked at him had changed.
“Fatty.” Jiang Cheng patted his shoulders and said consolingly, “I’m sorry for the suffering you will have to go through.”
Fatty, “???”
…
Early the next morning, Jiang Cheng was woken up by the noises outside. He turned over happily and assud many comfortable poses. This caused Xia ng who was standing beside the window to frown.
After realising Xia ng was looking at him, Jiang Cheng thought about it and narrowed his eyes. Then, his butt, which was under the blanket, slowly rose to beco a mound.
Xia ng instantly turned away to stop encouraging this pervert. He was sick. She knew that when they did the Little Ravine Village mission.
His ruthlessness and cavalier attitude showed that he grew up without love. He might be attacked when he was a child. This led to his perverted personality.
To deal with the nightmare, she studied a lot of psychology. She understood that childhood upbringing was instruntal in shaping a person’s future.
Most deranged adults were treated violently by their families when they were young. The constant negative stimulus numbed their hearts. Over ti, they beca aloof and twisted. They treated others and themselves in the sa way. That was the scariest thing about them. The man before her was the pri example.
After he tasted the bowl of human blood, his expression didn’t even change. He even finished the whole bowl. If she rembered correctly, he even looked like he enjoyed it.
The scariest thing was… Xia ng tightened her fingers. He seed to have seen through her arrangents. How was that possible?
But if he didn’t, why would he say those things?
“I’ve given you a chance,” Jiang Cheng’s warning echoed in her mind, “Don’t forget that.”
Xia ng shivered uncontrollably.
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