Shen Ye was not an atheist. He had always believed that there was something in the world that we could not see. He had just never seen it before, but he had heard of many supernatural events. However, he had never heard of a shadow disappearing.
Seeing Shen Ye's dejected expression, Bai Xuan took Shen Ye's hand and comforted him with concern: "Ye, it's okay if you don't have a shadow. Look, you're perfectly fine, aren't you? There's no difference!"
Just as Bai Xuan said, apart from being extremely tired, Shen Ye doesn't seem to have any other problems right now.
However, he felt it was normal to be tired; anyone would feel tired after walking for several hours on mountain trails, right? So he stopped worrying about it.
The two quickened their pace, hoping to find Master Huang as soon as possible.
Shen Ye knew that he most likely couldn't find his shadow again, but he refused to give up, thinking that heaven wouldn't be so cruel as to play tricks on him.
At noon, under the blazing sun, as he passed a small bamboo grove, Shen Ye vaguely heard very soft laughter. The laughter seemed to be right next to him, yet also seemed to be very far away.
“Xuan.” Shen Ye stopped and looked at Bai Xuan.
Bai Xuan was walking behind Shen Ye when he suddenly stopped, catching Bai Xuan off guard and almost causing her to bump into him. Fortunately, Bai Xuan had good balance and didn't fall.
"What happened? Why did you suddenly stop?"
"Did you hear anything?" Shen Ye asked, straining his ears to listen to the sounds around him.
"What was that sound?" Bai Xuan asked, frowning, looking completely bewildered.
"Laughter! A woman's laughter!"
After hearing Shen Ye's words, Bai Xuan quieted down and listened intently to her surroundings. After several seconds, she looked at Shen Ye again and said, "No, where did the laughter come from?"
"Can't you hear me?" Shen Ye asked incredulously.
"I can't hear anything, there's nothing there. Night, could you have misheard?" Bai Xuan asked, somewhat bewildered.
Shen Ye strained his ears to listen carefully again, and indeed there was no laughter, because this time he heard a woman crying!
Yes, it was crying!
It was the sound of a woman crying!
The crying was eerie, as if it came from a thousand miles away, and it was also faintly mixed with some...
A sound that was hard to describe in the still night!
A chill ran down her spine, and she turned to run. Just then, Bai Xuan suddenly shouted in a panic, "Ye, look at the river!"
When Shen Ye looked into the river in the direction Bai Xuan was pointing, he was so frightened that he almost jumped out of his skin.
The once crystal-clear river was now not only blood-red, but also covered with countless coffins.
These coffins are clearly very old; most of them are rotten and decayed, and some even reveal the corpses inside.
Moreover, Shen Ye discovered that the water, which had been flowing continuously, had now stopped flowing.
The entire river seems to have turned into a stagnant pool. What exactly is going on?
Bai Xuan was also stunned by the scene before her. Her eyes widened and she stood there motionless.
From the moment he set foot on this land, Shen Ye had felt that this desolate place was strange, but he never expected it to be so bizarre.
At midday, under the blazing sun, the blood-red river water quickly emitted a foul, fishy odor, almost causing the two to vomit.
The surroundings were so quiet that not even the chirping of insects or birds could be heard. Even the eerie laughter and crying that Shen Ye had heard earlier could no longer be heard. The surroundings seemed to have fallen into a deathly silence.
"What should we do?" Bai Xuan had never seen this situation before.
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