When I woke up, it was already noon. I touched my side and found Yunwen was gone. I immediately got up and saw that Yunwen had just come back. She looked a little wet and there were water drops on her face. I guessed that she had just gone to wash her face and clean the wounds on her body.

I also simply went to a nearby water source to drink some mountain spring water and wash myself, and then the two of us followed the original route back to the post station.

After traveling for several hours, we passed a dense forest of monkeys and vaguely saw some birds daring to live there. It seemed that once the evil spirit had dissipated, the hostility had decreased, and everything was gradually returning to normal. Then we passed by a dangerous forest. Fortunately, we saw wolf feces, but no wolves, so the journey was relatively smooth. When we arrived at the post station, it was almost evening and the sun had set again.

The biggest hardship after all this trouble was that we couldn't fill our stomachs. Yunwen and I were both starving. When we got back to the house, we saw the steamed buns that had been left overnight and started to eat them without thinking too much. Let's fill our stomachs first. Yunwen was thoughtful and wanted to heat up the dishes so that we could eat together. I went to the tunnel entrance near the left fence to call back Yingchun and Bailu.

Yunwen also took advantage of this transition time to feed Sanfu with fodder. Sanfu was frightened, but the gorillas did not attack him last night, so he was not injured.

I shouted a few times into the tunnel, and then I heard Bai Lu's response. Not long after, the two sisters came out of the tunnel. When they came up, I also lent a hand.

"Brother Zhou Bo, when Yingchun and I were about to hide in the tunnel, we clearly saw you fall to the ground. Then those gorillas took you and sister Yunwen away. How did you escape? Also, will those gorillas chase us again? Do we need to continue hiding in the tunnel?" Song Bailu asked me after she came up.

"No, their sacrifice has ended, and their leaders are all dead. It is unlikely that they will do such abnormal things again. We can talk about the details while eating later," I said.

"That's great, that's great! I'm almost starving to death after staying in that dark tunnel for a whole night. Let's eat something quickly. If you don't come back, my sister might really make me hide in there and starve to death. I'm such a coward." Song Yingchun said immediately.

Bailu glared at Yingchun, but was too lazy to care. Everyone was starving and didn't have time to worry about so many things.

Afterwards, we returned to the dining table. All the charcoal from last night was covered and extinguished by the soil, so we had to start a fire again. While the sun was still strong, Bai Lu used the old method and used her farsighted lenses to focus the sunlight to generate heat, which caused the hay to burn. She then burned some charcoal on the ground and put it on the earthen basin on the dining table. She then placed a stainless steel pot on the basin, poured water into the pot, and put some wood veneer strips on it. She used the steam to heat up last night's leftovers one by one.

High temperature can slightly disinfect and sterilize the food, making it much safer to eat.

After heating up the dishes, everyone can finally sit around the table and continue to enjoy the unfinished food from last night. Although the taste is not as good as when it was just out of the pot, the aroma of sesame oil can still be tasted. It is mellow and delicious, with the unique aroma of stir-frying, and is extremely appetizing.

While eating, Yunwen and I recounted what happened to us last night. I also told them about the bizarre situations, such as the nine-tailed white fox suddenly waking up and taking away the Yinshi Pot, and the fact that I used the Tianshi Talisman. I felt that what I said was unrealistic, as if it was a heavenly book, so I didn't expect Bailu and the others to be completely convinced.

I thought Bai Lu would question it, but she didn't doubt it at all. She said, "Yingchun and I also heard about the [Erosion] in the underground passage last night. That thing is really weird. It is a magic weapon used by evil witches."

"How do you know about this? Or did you hear about it?" I asked.

Bai Lu was a little embarrassed, so Yingchun answered for her: "My sister is very timid. After sealing the entrance to the tunnel, she was afraid that the gorilla would come, so she took me all the way forward. My legs were sore from walking, and she didn't listen to me even when I told her. We kept walking until we reached an abyss. She saw a staircase leading down, so she took me down without hesitation. When we got to the bottom, there was a wooden man standing there in a weird posture. He told us."

"Wooden man? Telling you these things on his own initiative? This sounds even weirder than the nine-tailed white fox waking up after being dead for nearly a month." I said.

Bai Lu sighed and said, "It's like this. Rather than calling it a wooden man, it's more like a special phonograph. It's a man made entirely of wood. Yingchun was very excited when she saw it. After studying it for a while, she discovered that a wooden gear had fallen off. Yingchun laid it on the ground and reinstalled it. Then, I don't know how this girl fiddled with it or what the principle was, but the wooden man started to move, opened his mouth, and began to tell some rumors."

"It's not particularly complicated. It's just that a gear fell off, affecting its operation. After I installed it, I connected its power source. It's the same principle as the waterwheel outside. The power of the waterwheel drives the gears to rotate, and it dances, then opens its mouth and makes a sound. Inside is a sound composed of very fine and varied string sounds. When the frequency of fluctuations becomes faster, it seems like it can speak some fluent words." Yingchun said.

"So what did it say?" I asked.

"It's all ancient texts, saying that [Yin Xie] is an extremely evil thing. If it appears in the world, all living things will be devastated. It also says that its evil spirit will affect the surrounding things. If we are lucky enough to hear this, we should evacuate here early. It also says that after this thing was found that year, the people in the Milong Camp changed their personalities and killed each other. Even the chief and deputy envoys could not stand each other. In the end, the chief envoy Li Mufeng took the thing away alone and disappeared without a trace, and the matter was dropped." Bai Lu said.

"Did you say where it was found?" I asked.

Bai Lu and Ying Chun looked at each other and said, "It's in that abyss of the tunnel."

After these words were spoken, Yunwen and I felt cold all over and had a sense of foreboding.

Yingchun wanted to continue to say something, and just said: "It asked us to go west..."

Before he could finish, Bai Lu interrupted him rudely and said, "Learn your lesson and don't deal with ghosts and monsters, so that peace can be maintained. Well, the moon is so round tonight and the scenery is so beautiful, why don't we enjoy the moon and relax instead of talking about this?"

"Well, today is Mid-Autumn Festival, so let's not talk about these things. Sister Bailu, can you make mooncakes? How about we eat mooncakes and enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Yunwen also said at this time.

"My sister is absolutely right. I will go prepare the materials right away." Bai Lu said with an awkward smile.

Afterwards, Bai Lu and Yun Wen were busy for a while. They took flour, mixed it with water and sesame to make dough, made a few dough balls, let them rest for a while, and then found a bowl to put dried flower petals in, and soaked them in sesame oil. Since there were no kidney beans, sugar, etc., the filling had to be made as it was. Finally, they wrapped the dried flower petals with the dough, and then used another layer to wrap it. They made the water-oil dough, and then pinched it into an oval shape.

Afterwards, Yingchun carved a word "Fu" and some decorative patterns on wood, and used them as a template to print on the dough. She then lit the blast furnace that was used for smelting iron, put in wood chips, put the printed dough in it and baked it for about a quarter of an hour. Then she took it out and it became a simple desert island version of mooncake.

After making a few, everyone ate mooncakes in the moonlight and admired the moon, enjoying the rare moment of surviving a disaster. Although the mooncakes didn't taste very good, it still felt good to be able to join in the festive atmosphere and connect with the civilized world.

However, I don’t know if the three girls who were talking and laughing at the moment were feeling a little uneasy like me, especially when I thought about the nine-tailed white fox that was still missing and it took away the Yinxie Pot. Then I heard what the Song sisters said, which made me feel worried.

In addition, the Yinxi Pot was hidden in the abyss under the post station. It was probably hidden for about the same time as the Jinque Sword, but it was discovered five hundred years earlier. It is said that it will affect the surrounding things. What will happen if it has affected them for a thousand years?

I hope I'm just overthinking it.