Chapter 1: Jibu Yinuo

Shi Yuan didn't know how he ran out of the house, he only knew that when he came back to his senses, he was already running fast outside, the sweat on his forehead was rolling down in large drops, and his throat was stinging like fire, but he didn't dare to stop, he didn't know where to run, and he almost fell down many times in a panic. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Brother Shi Yuan."

Shi Yuan, who was running desperately, almost hit a man head-on, and when he heard the sound, he finally stopped. He fixed his eyes on Tu Xue'er, and at this time he had already run some distance.

"Brother Shiyuan," Tu Xue'er ran towards him and stopped in front of him, "Where are you going?" ā€

"I ...... I'll go to town. ā€

"To town? I'll go with you! ā€

"No way!"

"Why?" A trace of anxiety flashed in Tu Xue'er's eyes, as well as imperceptible fear.

"I'm not going to play."

"It's okay, I'm not going to town with you just to play."

"Then ...... you" Shi Yuan's palpitations calmed down slightly, and he asked Tu Xue'er suspiciously.

"Brother Shiyuan......" Tu Xue'er hesitated a little, she turned her head to look at her house, and then glanced at Shen Han's house, "I always feel that I am inexplicably a little scared." ā€

"Scared?" Shi Yuan was taken aback, and thought, could it be that Tu Xue'er also felt something?

"Well," Tu Xue'er nodded, "I don't know why, but I always feel that Brother Shen Han and Aunt Liang are different from before, and every time I see them, I will unconsciously become afraid." Also, my house, I also feel that something is wrong, sleeping there alone at night, always my heart beats so badly, sometimes I can't sleep all night, and I get scared when I think of being the only one in the whole house......"

"Did you ever feel this fear before?"

"No," Tu Xue'er shook her head, "I used to be fine, but recently, I suddenly had these feelings." Brother Shi Yuan, I'm so scared, I really don't want to stay alone in this house anymore. Just let me go with you! ā€

Tu Xue'er said and spoke, her expression was already full of undisguised anxiety and fear, and in the end, there were tears in her eyes.

Shi Yuan believes that what Tu Xue'er said is not false, but this time he went to the town, not to play, it may be full of danger, Shi Yuan did not plan to take Tu Xue'er there, first, he considered that Tu Xue'er might put Tu Xue'er in an unnecessary dangerous situation, and second, Shi Yuan was also worried that Tu Xue'er would bring him trouble.

"Brother Shiyuan, just take me there, I beg you." Tu Xue'er saw Shi Yuan's thoughts and became even more anxious.

"Cher, I'm really not going to play, this time, maybe there will be danger."

"I'm not afraid, Brother Shiyuan, with you by my side, even if there is danger, I won't be afraid. Brother Shiyuan, I won't cause you trouble, just take me there. ā€

Shi Yuan was silent. He could feel Tu Xue'er's anxiety, and he knew that she was really scared.

A thirteen-year-old girl whose parents went out to work and was home alone in this eerie village of Dark Raven Ridge really shouldn't be ruthlessly left behind.

"Brother Shi Yuan...... Seeing that Shi Yuan didn't speak, Tu Xue'er cautiously tested.

"Well, I'm not going to leave you alone, but there's another guy going to town with me, and if he doesn't agree, there's nothing I can do." Shi Yuan sighed and said.

"Good!" Tu Xue'er immediately became happy.

Shi Yuan took Tu Xue'er and came to Luo Yasen's house. After a little explanation, Luo Yasen did not express any objections.

"Shi Yuan, I just found something, you can take a look." Royasen said.

On the back of the page I just got, there are some red marks.

"What is this?" Shi Yuan became vigilant.

"Take a closer look."

Shi Yuan observed carefully and finally saw it clearly.

It was a diagram of red lines, a clock face with a line around the clock face on the outside of the clock face, with an arrow.

"What do you think that means?" Royassin asked.

"Hmm...... Combined with the word 'town' on the back of the page, this should mean spending twenty-four hours in Gravel. What do you think? ā€

"Well, that's my opinion, too."

"Then we can go?"

"Yes." As he spoke, he got up and walked out.

From Raven Ridge Village to Gravel Town, you don't need an hour by car.

When we arrived at Gravel, it was just after two o'clock.

"We're in Gravel, what should we do?" Royassin asked.

"I don't know."

"Have you thought of the meaning of 'Ji Bu Yinuo'?" Luo Yasen asked again.

"I don't have any definite ideas yet, but I think 'Jibu Yinuo' should mean a promise, so it may mean that we have to keep our promises during our time in Gravel."

"Isn't it easy? If we are afraid that we will not be able to keep our promises, we should simply not say anything, or can we just stay in the car and not go out, as long as we don't talk to people, there will naturally be no problem of breaking our promises. ā€

"That being said, but, I don't think, it's not that simple."

"Anyway, let's try it first. Just stay in the car, no one goes out, and it's best that the three of us don't say anything to each other, so as not to accidentally say any promises. ā€

"I actually have an idea."

"What thoughts?"

"Do you remember Tang Juan's name that you saw on the tombstone on the hillside?"

"Hmm. It looks like a pharmacy clerk is here. ā€

"Yes, it's a pharmacy here in Gravel, I'm going to check it out, maybe it will help us."

Luo Yasen didn't speak, and after thinking for a while, he finally nodded.

"Alright then, let's go over together."

The three of them got out of the car and walked in the direction that Shi Yuan pointed out.

Not far behind them, a pale-faced man appeared silently, the man's eyes seemed to be infected, both the pupils and the whites of the eyes, were covered with a layer of black, but the color of the pupils was darker. His pale face was out of place on the street, and on this sunny summer afternoon, he was like someone from another world, as if a human figure had been cut out of a black-and-white photograph abruptly pasted on a color photograph.

As Shi Yuan and the three of them continued to move forward, the white man also kept following him, but his limbs did not move, they just kept disappearing and emerging, and the distance between him and Shi Yuan and the three of them never expanded, nor did they shorten.

Regarding the appearance of this white man, Shi Yuan and the three of them didn't seem to be aware of it.

When he finally stood at the door of Xinyao Pharmacy, Shi Yuan's heart once again had a strong feeling of strangeness. He was well aware that he had been here, and he clearly remembered that he had found Tang Juan's tableau card on the ground, but he didn't know what that meant.

It wasn't the tableau cards on the ground that disturbed him, but the bloodstains around them.

It doesn't look like it's dripping on the ground, it's not splashing, it's not splattering, it's not the marks left by the bubbling blood of a person lying on the ground.