Xia Lan told a lie that was both true and false, he did come to White Deer Town to find someone, but this person was not a strange person in the mouth of the bald boss at first, but after hearing about the mysterious behavior of this strange person, Xia Lan was undoubtedly very interested.

Because his subconscious instincts tell him that this weirdo is likely to be related to the person he is looking for.

He decided to stay in White Hart Town for a month.

Regardless of whether the other party appears within a month or not, he will go to the Misty Forest.

The church watchman had cautiously warned him that the toxins in Nina's body would only be suppressed for three months at most, and he chose to risk a month of his instincts, thus illustrating the facts.

He wasn't sure he could find the mysterious man in the treacherous misty forest.

He had no choice, he was dead left and right, so why not try to bet on that glimmer of hope?

July is hot, August is not young, the season is approaching early autumn in a blink of an eye, the heat is gradually disappearing, the weather is beginning to become cool and pleasant, the golden and full crops in the fields are about to usher in a grand harvest, and the depressed and deserted Bailu Town on weekdays is lively.

Xia Lan waited in White Deer Town for a full twenty-seven days, but the strange man never appeared in these twenty-seven miles.

He was a very patient man, so he was and is now, but not everyone had the same patience as he was.

Joanna came out of a nervous breakdown half a month ago, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

When she came to her senses, she found Xia Lan as soon as possible.

She asked Xia Lan two questions, two questions that made Xia Lan silent.

Why was Nina poisoned? Did it have something to do with the medicine he gave?

Why did he stay in White Hart Town and refuse to enter the Misty Forest to find the person who rescued Nina?

The second question is still explainable, but what about the first?

The madness of women's hysteria is often incomprehensible. Once Xia Lan told the truth. Who can imagine what the consequences will be?

So Xia Lan could only be silent. He only told Joanna one thing, and he would go to the Misty Forest alone in half a month.

But Joanna's answer to him was to go along.

He couldn't stop Joanna's decision, because Joanna was already "crazy" in his eyes.

After this incident, the relationship between him and Joanna fell directly to the freezing point, and there is a foundation for trust between people, if you can't even do the most basic honesty, how can you talk about trust? Joanna's trust in him is more like a dependence, not at all unconditional trust, in her heart. Nina is always the first place in life, and no one can compare to the existence, but now Nina is dying because of his poisoning, you can imagine what kind of rift it will cause in the relationship between the two.

At this point, maybe he could just walk away, but he couldn't.

Every time this idea came to his mind, he was very bitter and hesitant, as if two diametrically opposed voices were arguing violently, the one in favor was cold and realistic, and the other in opposition was earnestly persuasive, although they disagreed. Each of them has a reason to insist, and the result is determined by the true thoughts of the individual's heart. It is clear that in the end opposition prevailed.

Unlike Joanna, who is closed all day, Xia Lan, who frequently hangs out, makes most of the town know him, thanks to the bald boss's big mouth, the townspeople know that he is the strange person who came to find the mysterious whereabouts of the previous years, and they don't even bother to trouble him with the patrol team in charge of security.

In fact, Xia Lan often goes out for three reasons, one is to look for mysterious strangers, the second is to listen to the things of the Misty Forest, and the third is to avoid unnecessary trouble and embarrassment caused by meeting Joanna.

As for the harvest that always happens, there is a lumberyard near the edge of the Misty Forest, and there are quite a few intrepid lumberjacks in the town who often cut down logs, perhaps because their ancestors have lived here for generations, so they know the Misty Forest better than anyone else, so that there is not a single person who has disappeared in the Misty Forest all these years.

According to Xia Lan's inquiry, the fog in the misty forest is sometimes light and sometimes thick, and it is always safe to enter at the right time, provided that it cannot go too deep, once you feel unwell or the situation is not right, you will leave immediately, and the slightest delay may be life-threatening.

Coincidentally, three days later was the thinnest fog in the Misty Forest.

One day, two days, three days.

Three days have passed, and the mysterious strange man still hasn't appeared.

Xia Lan was disappointed and lost the bet.

And it's time for him to hit the road.

Early in the morning, Xia Lan just walked out of the door and saw Joanna waiting outside the door, she wrapped the unconscious Nina in a cloth sheet, her expressionless pale face was full of loneliness, she was telling Xia Lan with her actions that she would die with Nina even if she died on this trip to the Misty Forest.

Is this what is called motherly love? It's really a heavy mother's love.

Xia Lan thought to herself, but the person had already walked downstairs to the lobby.

"Mr. Stranger, are you going to go?"

The bald boss yawning looked surprised when he saw him and Joanna.

"Yes, because I don't have time to wait any longer." Xia Lan nodded at the other party.

"That's a shame." The bald boss sighed, as if lamenting the loss of a big customer. "Where are you going next? Will they be back? ”

"I don't know, maybe we'll meet again in the future." Xia Lan didn't say where she was going, she simply coped, and walked out of the lobby after paying off the house bill.

In a moment, the guy in the shop brought the carriage, and when Joanna's mother and daughter got into the carriage, Xia Lan drove the carriage away slowly.

The bald boss stood at the door, watching the carriage move all the way to the west, and suddenly he realized something, the west led to the misty forest, and there was not a single town or village on the way, did they go the wrong way?

Xia Lan didn't go the wrong way, but the bald boss never thought that their end would be the Misty Forest.

Driving on the deserted streets, holding the transparent ball given by the church watchman in his hand, Xia Lan couldn't figure out what it did for a long time, did it have to be in the Misty Forest to use it?

"Can you show me what you have in your hand?"

A strange voice suddenly sounded next to the driver's seat of the carriage, and following the sound, I saw a mysterious person wearing a gray hood sitting next to Xia Lan at some point.

Xia Lan's eyelids jumped, and she casually handed the ball to the other party.

The mysterious man took the ball and played with it for a long time, saying, "Do you know what this ball is?" ”

"I don't know." Xia Lan shook her head and said, "I only know that it is a token, a token that guides me to someone." ”

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ps:Due to the working environment (located in the Gobi Desert oil field),The code word can not be guaranteed,Time cannot be guaranteed,The network cannot be guaranteed,So the update will be greatly delayed,It may be released in late March,There are about 15 chapters or more,I hope to support the readers can understand more,Purely when the time comes, read it in one breath。 (To be continued.) )