Feng Guang was completely stunned.
Si Jia paused for a moment, then said, "Perhaps all the children in this town wear the same longevity lock."
Who are you kidding? Even if the longevity locks are the same, they wouldn't be engraved with the same name!
She moved her lips, but it took her a long time to utter a sentence, "Sijia, you don't need to say that to stop me from being scared... because... because I'm panicking right now!"
When she finished speaking, she threw herself into his arms, not caring whether he would push her away or not, she just held on tightly.
He could feel her fear; he had never imagined she was so strong.
She buried her head in his chest. "You said...you said that the skeleton has been there for ten years, so what is this You'er we see...?"
This was a difficult question to answer. He wasn't good at comforting people with white lies, but he could imagine how terrified she would be if he told her the answer she was afraid of.
“Sijia… there’s something wrong with everyone at this inn. If You’er really is… that kind of person, then his mother, the innkeeper, and even the coachman who brought us here, aren’t they also…”
“It’s not just them,” Si Jia added. “It’s everyone in the town, and the opera troupe too. They’re all the same.”
"Why... do you say that?" If it were people from the town, she could understand, since they only come out at night. But Chen's group, didn't they come in from outside?
"Master Chen and the others also smelled of alcohol, just like the alcohol that the townspeople drink every night."
Feng Guang doesn't understand wine and doesn't like drinking, so she doesn't know much about it. Even if a jar of fine Nu'er Hong wine and a bowl of Erguotou wine are placed together, she can't taste the difference. But Si Jia is different; he is very sensitive to smells.
She felt a little wronged. She was clearly very sensitive to smells, and she remembered his scent, so why couldn't she smell the alcohol?
Her ability to easily remember the scent of her target is probably one of the ways she has a cheat code...
She herself didn't believe what she said.
After composing herself, she asked timidly, "You mean they're in cahoots?"
“They shouldn’t be working together,” Si Jia calmly analyzed. “If they were, the child’s remains wouldn’t have been found in Master Chen’s room. However, there’s no doubt that they are the same kind of people.”
What do you mean by "the same kind of people"? They're all ghosts, aren't they?
Feng Guang trembled. "What do we do? Are they trapping us here to eat us?"
"As of now, I haven't discovered their motives yet. Perhaps... Your Highness can guess their motives."
She blinked. "Why do you say I could guess?"
Si Jia was silent for a moment, then said, "Although this town is strange, we haven't been able to detect any hostility towards us yet. As for the way out... don't worry about that. We'll be able to leave naturally after tomorrow."
Tomorrow will be the third day they agreed upon.
Feng Guang couldn't understand where his confidence came from, and strangely enough, she believed his inexplicable confidence. "So... should we continue looking for You'er, or go back to the inn?"
"Let's go back; we won't find anything by searching outside."
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
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