Chapter Thirty-Nine

  "Don't——" A loud cry, Cheng Zihan jumped up from the bed, his forehead still dripping with cold sweat, and his clothes had long been soaked in sweat.

  The dim light made her small face pale, her chest heaving constantly as she panted heavily.

  Cheng Zixi rubbed his eyes and sat up from bed, looking at Cheng Zihan in confusion, "Sister, what's wrong?"

  Cheng Zihan turned around and looked at Cheng Zixi with a somewhat stuck brain. Earlier, was she dreaming?

  No! It can't be just a dream!

  It's impossible for a dream to be so real, if it wasn't a dream, then how did she get back? She clearly remembers...

  Thinking of that scene, Cheng Zihan still felt a chill run down her spine, fearing that tomorrow the villagers would discover the corpse in the bamboo forest, such a frightening and terrifying corpse...

  Cheng Zihan didn't dare think about the consequences, picked up the alarm clock on her bedside table and took a look, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning.

  She fainted for six hours. What exactly happened during these six hours? How did she get back home and change her clothes to sleep in bed?

  Cheng Zihan tried to summon Mangcang, but there was no response at all.

  She looked around and didn't see any sign of Tian Can either, she started to get anxious.

  "Zixi, where's Tiancan? Have you seen him?" asked Cheng Zihan urgently, grabbing onto her shoulder.

  Cheng Zixi looked at Cheng Zihan with a bewildered expression and shook her head.

  Cheng Hai was not there, Li Lan had already fallen asleep. Hearing the noise in the room, she woke up and saw that Cheng Zihan and Cheng Zixi were both awake, so she asked, "Zihan, Zixi, why are you two still not sleeping so late?"

  Upon hearing Li Lan's voice, Cheng Zihan hastily got down from the bed and climbed onto hers, "Mom, where is Tian Can? Where did he go? Why isn't he here?"

  Cheng Zihan is really anxious in her heart now, and she doesn't know what happened to the silkworm. Why hasn't it come back? Is it injured? Is it very serious?

  Mangcang didn't react either, let alone Qin Kexiu. This guy has been busy with something lately and often disappears without a trace.

  "Tian Can?" Li Lan was taken aback at first, then reacted and realized who Cheng Zihang was talking about. "His dad came over tonight and said he just happened to be back this way with some business, so he took him back home for two days."

  Tian Can's dad? Mang Cang? Has he come tonight?

  "What time did he come?" Cheng Zihan was really puzzled in her heart and couldn't help but ask another sentence.

  "It was around 10 o'clock, wasn't it? You were there too, weren't you? How can your memory be so bad?" Li Lan looked at Cheng Zihan with a puzzled expression.

  Ten o'clock. That should be less than half an hour after the incident.

  It seems that Tian Can was taken away by Mang Xiang and may have suffered serious injuries. I don't know where they are now.

  Cheng Zihan stopped talking, nodded slightly, and lay down with a somewhat absent-minded expression.

  The dim light swayed back and forth, making Cheng Zihans heart also flutter with uncertainty.

  One night she was tossing and turning, unable to recall what had happened after she fainted.

  The next day, she got up in a hurry before five o'clock.

  When I arrived at the riverbank, I found that the water had inexplicably risen and even flooded the bamboo forest. Now it's impossible to go there anymore.

  It was just one night...

  Looking at the river below, Cheng Zihan was a little distracted.

  Unfortunately, the water is too deep now, she can't get close to the bamboo forest at all and can only wait for the water to recede.

  Some people returned home in low spirits.

  It's almost six o'clock, and Li Lan has also gotten up early to prepare breakfast. After eating, she will go down to work in the fields.

  Seeing Cheng Zihan coming out from outside, he couldn't help but ask, "Zihan, so early in the morning, where are you going?"

  Recently, this child has been acting strangely, and Li Lan vaguely feels that she seems to have changed, becoming more and more like the person from back then.

  Thinking of him, Li Lan couldn't help but sigh. Unconsciously, it had been almost eight years, and Cheng Zihang was also eight years old.

  "No, I wanted to go up to the dam and take a look, but the water suddenly rose today." Cheng Zihan was startled awake by Li Lan's voice, and responded lazily, then walked into the house with her head down.

  "Flood?" Li Lan repeated Cheng Zihan's words, looking up at the big dam at the door. It was only April now, how could there be a flood?

  Tian Can is gone, and Cheng Zihan's mood is also very low. He has no appetite to eat anything and spends the whole day worrying.

  Why can't she get in touch with Mangcang? The Tree Spirit Space seems to have been closed as well, and she can't even enter.

  Cheng Zihan thought about it more and more, feeling afraid, could something unexpected have happened to Tian Can?

  Thinking that she couldn't even protect Tian Can and instead let him get hurt while protecting her, Cheng Zihuan felt a pang of guilt.

  Looking at her own hands, the fingers were slender, but due to long-term sun exposure, they appeared somewhat dark and rough. Cheng Zihans skin was not fair, but rather dark and thin, with only a pair of bright eyes standing out. Among a group of children, she seemed too ordinary.

  I am still too weak after all.

  While Cheng Zihuan was worried about the situation of Tian Can, he suddenly heard a commotion outside. The neighbors next door all rushed out of their homes and ran to the top of the dam. Before long, the top of the dam was crowded with people.

  Li Lan touched her hand, looked at the dam with a puzzled expression and muttered to herself, "What's going on? Why have so many people gone up there?"

  As she spoke, Li Lan had already put down what was in her hand and hurriedly followed him upstairs.

  Cheng Zihan hurriedly followed up.

  A large number of people have gathered on the embankment, and everyone is pointing and discussing.

  "Look, this corpse wasn't here in the morning, but it's out now in the afternoon."

  "It's really true. And it even doesn't have a head, and the skin on its body has been stripped off, so cruel."

  "You said that the water rose as soon as it got up today. It has never been tried here for decades to rise in April."

  “……”

  Listening to their gossip, Cheng Zihang also understood what was going on. It seemed that the several corpses had floated up last night.

  Cheng Zihan glanced through the crowd, and saw that the five corpses had been dragged up by someone, now neatly placed on top of the embankment. The skin on their bodies had been stripped off, and their skulls were all gone.

  Cheng Zihan took a glance, and her heart felt a wave of nausea. She was about to turn her head away when she suddenly saw that one of the corpses seemed to be clutching something in its hand. The object looked very familiar, causing Cheng Zihan's heart to jolt violently.

  Isn't that the jade pendant on Tian Can's body? How did it end up here?!

  A terrible thought made Cheng Zihuan's whole body cold and unable to move for a long time.

  Digression

  Today a certain someone was being cheap and wanted to take apart the computer to clean out the dust. As a result, the dust wasn't cleaned, but the computer was broken instead.

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