After walking in the direction pointed by the palace lantern for an unknown amount of time, Su Mu noticed that he was walking on a mountain road again.

She didn't stop, but she couldn't help but start reconstructing the road map along the way in her mind.

First I went down the mountain, made a circle, and now I went up the mountain again...

Isn't this coming back?

Bai Ye, who was walking beside him, also had the same confusion, "This route doesn't seem right. Are we walking in a circle?"

He stretched out his hand and made gestures in the air.

"The mountain road here is very similar to the mountain road before."

This was something Su Mu didn't notice.

She held the lantern and walked around with Bai Ye, and found that the two mountains were indeed very similar.

It's almost the same.

But if they really went back the way they came, what was the reason for the octagonal palace lantern to guide them back through a detour?

Su Mu, who couldn't figure it out, shook his head and said to Bai Ye, "It's better to go up and have a look first."

Perhaps the answer can be found on the top of the mountain.

The two of them quickened their pace, and soon they saw the top of the mountain.

Walking in the direction pointed by the palace lantern, in front of you is a small wooden house that is exactly the same as before.

"Not the same one."

The moment they saw the wooden house, Su Mu and Bai Ye made a judgment.

They looked at each other and saw the same dignified look in each other's eyes.

The same terrain, the same wooden houses.

Is it hinting at something?

With this doubt in mind, the two of them cautiously approached the wooden house and knocked on the door.

The sound of fingers tapping on the wooden door sounded one after another, but the wooden door did not open for a long time.

Bai Ye turned around and was about to ask Su Mu what he thought, when he saw his temporary partner raised his leg and kicked the wooden door.

With merciless force, he kicked open the door lock, revealing the true contents of the house.

He was so reckless that Bai Ye couldn't react for a moment.

He was stunned for a while, watching Su Mu walk into the wooden house, and then suppressed the doubts that had just come to his lips.

Now is not the time to care about such trivial matters, it is more important to find clues.

Bai Ye, who was in a complicated mood, cleared his throat and followed him in.

The furnishings in the room were beyond their expectations.

There are no traces of human existence, no daily necessities, and even only one room.

It was so empty that it felt eerie.

It was in sharp contrast to the bustling little wooden house on the top of the mountain.

There were only two items in the wooden house, which were a square table and a notebook spread out on the table.

Su Mu walked over with a lamp in hand and cast his eyes on the notebook. After reading two lines, he realized that this should be a collection of stories written by someone himself.

She held the lamp in one hand and kept a watchful eye on the other. If she couldn't free her hand to turn the pages, she asked Bai Ye who was beside her to help, and the two of them flipped through the contents of the notebook together.

Slowly, their expressions changed.

Because as they flipped through the notebook, familiar stories began to appear in front of the two of them.

Some of them were unknown to the two of them, but were recorded in Bai Ye's notebook, and some were things they had only experienced, such as the weirdo with the skin and Granny Hu, whom Su Mu had the most complete memory of.
Chapter completed!