Nan Xian was stunned—she only had three in her hand!
"Completing this special mission will grant you the ultimate clue to unlocking the secrets of Gu magic. Do you wish to accept the mission?"
She glanced down at the prescription in her hand and nodded vigorously: "I accept!"
**
Nan Xian didn't expect that the special mission site would be in the forbidden forest.
On her first day in the village, Ajiao mentioned the forbidden forest to her while they were chatting.
She said that a long time ago, there was a lame old man who lived in that forest. He was always tinkering with strange and unusual things and claimed that he wanted to revive the art of witchcraft.
He later poisoned himself to death, and his body was not discovered until half a month later.
People considered that forest to be unlucky, so over time they called it the forbidden forest and forbade children from entering it. Only occasionally would people from the village pass through it when they went up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs.
There were many mosquitoes in the mountains, so Nan Xian put on protective boots, grabbed a snake-catching stick, and set off with the cameraman.
As dusk fell, the light grew dimmer the deeper they went into the woods. Nan Xian held a flashlight in one hand to illuminate the path, and used a snake-beating stick in the other to clear away the weeds blocking her way.
As they drew closer to their destination, the abandoned hut, Nan Xian was about to quicken her pace when suddenly—
She stopped alertly and made a shushing gesture.
A few birds chirped in the air.
"Did you just hear the bell?" she asked in a low voice.
The cameraman looked around and shook his head.
Nan Xian frowned slightly; she seemed to have just heard a faint bell sound.
Gillian wears a bell on her body, which she hears every day and is very familiar with.
Could it be that I've been listening to it too much, causing auditory hallucinations?
As it grew darker, she stopped worrying and continued walking towards the cabin.
"jingle--"
Nan Xian suddenly stopped—this time it was definitely not a hallucination!
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