She desperately needed answers.

"The base is about three days' journey away."

"We have indeed found the entrance to the abyss."

"As for how to eliminate the strange entity, I'm sorry, we are still exploring that as well."

Gan Pengpeng's open and honest attitude eased the tension.

"However, you cannot go to our base yet."

Gan Pengpeng's words made Xia Yao's face darken.

"What do you mean? Are you playing us?" After going through all that trouble to find us, what does it mean to not let them go?

"I'm not playing a trick on you, it's a curse on you."

“You shouldn’t have come to this village.”

Gan Pengpeng's face was grim, and his expression was extremely serious.

Xia Yao was about to say that with Qin Tan in their team, they weren't afraid, but Xia Shuang pressed down on her shoulder.

Xia Yao, who understood Xia Shuang's meaning, cooperated without revealing Qin Tan's special status.

Is something wrong here?

Qin Tan asked curiously, "It's just a bit cold here, isn't it? Where did this curse come from?"

Gan Pengpeng glanced at Qin Tan, then took out a short knife and stabbed it into his palm.

The blade sliced ​​through the flesh, revealing a bright red wound.

However, no blood flowed from the wound; instead, it was covered in frost, much like Shen Qing's previous condition.

But looking at Gan Pengpeng, he doesn't seem to be troubled by a curse.

“One of the leaders in our base is a descendant of this village.”

"He told us that before the cataclysm began, the village was corrupted by the abyss, and all the villagers were cursed with a chilling curse."

Very few survived.

The story Gan Pengpeng told is similar to what Qin Tan and the others have found in the village.