"Miss Su? What can she do?" I asked.

"I don't know either, but she is of a prominent status after all, and has some connection with the mountain god. Something is worse than nothing. It is better to go and ask her than to be helpless now." Hu Lingshang said.

"I agree. Didn't she say that she was looking forward to you, Zhou Bo, taking us to see her in Bauhinia Cave? We can take this opportunity to say hello and chat about these things. Since she is said to be a witch, maybe she really has some supernatural powers that we can't imagine." Yunwen said.

"Okay, but we may not be able to send our wedding candies. After all, we are now out of money and have nothing to give away," I said.

"If we can't give her candy, we can give her something else. The blacksmith shop also has a fine silver necklace that I designed myself. If we give it to her, I'm sure she will understand our sincerity." Yunwen said.

I nodded immediately. The situation is special now, and I can only give what I have. As the saying goes, the gift may be small, but the sentiment is great. I believe Miss Su will understand my pain, sense my sincerity and not mind.

The plan has basically been decided. Tomorrow Yunwen will go to the Mermaid Coast first to see if she can exchange some food for it. After that, the three of us will go to Bauhinia Cave to seek advice from the nobleman. This is the most appropriate solution we can come up with at the moment.

Due to food shortage, we haven't eaten much for a day. After discussing this, except Lingshang, Yunwen and I may face a night of hunger, and there is no way to deal with it. The workload today is very heavy, and my stomach is already feeling hungry. Even if you roast some insects for me, I can probably finish them in a few bites.

Whether it is meat, potatoes, wild vegetables or rice, they are all gone. Perhaps the only way to avoid hunger now is to go to sleep. After falling asleep, the hunger in the stomach can be temporarily relieved.

Of course, my body doesn't think so. At this moment, I really want to kill a sheep, grill the lamb chops, sprinkle some dry ingredients on it, and swallow it in one bite to satisfy all my appetite. But Yunwen has warned me in advance that I have the desire but not the courage.

coo coo...

Yunwen and I took turns having our stomachs growl and we both smiled bitterly.

There was no way, this was the fact. The three of us washed up and went upstairs to rest. Lingshang fell asleep, but Yunwen and I were so hungry that we couldn't fall asleep. Our stomachs were growling all night and we tossed and turned. Yunwen was better and managed to hold on with her eyes open, but I really couldn't bear it and kept tossing and turning.

Finally, I had no choice but to get up and put on my clothes. Yunwen got up with me and asked quietly, "Where are you going?"

I pointed to my stomach and said, "I did too much work today and my stomach hurts. I plan to look around the backyard to see if there is anything to eat to relieve the urgent need."

Yunwen smiled and said, "I'll go with you."

After getting dressed, we went downstairs together. At this moment, we felt like a mouse couple, sneaking around and searching on that floor again and again. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anything except dust and soil. I was particularly frustrated. These days, I had been reducing my food intake to one meal a day, and I couldn't eat enough every day. The hunger level accumulated day by day, and now I had nothing at all. My body would not agree.

The two of us sat at the entrance of the stairs, neither of us speaking. The hunger had already made us irritable and uneasy. I also thought that without food, those hyena people would certainly be difficult to settle down. After all, we were using them but not feeding them. We could still tolerate it for a day or two, but over time it would no longer be the case. Animals have animal natures, even if they have more human nature, but they are still people transformed from beasts after all.

What about us? What about those hyena people?

"Or, let's go out?" I said to Yunwen.

"Go out? It's freezing outside, where can we go? Besides, aren't you afraid that wolves will covet us and hurt us? In winter, they are much hungrier than us." Yunwen said.

"That's better than starving. Come on, let's go up the hillside and look for the blockhouse and the underground factory to see if there are any canned food left. Or we can go to the beach, at least we can find some shells and stew something to nourish ourselves." I said.

Yunwen wanted to refuse, but seeing how earnest I was, and her stomach growled, she said gently, "Well, I'll listen to you. If you say go, then let's go."

I hugged her immediately. Now that she supports my decision, I am really happy from the bottom of my heart.

She patted my back, comforting me.

Carrying the Golden Sword, we left the courtyard, rode on the dog days, and went out in the middle of the night. The temperature outside was almost below zero, and the wind was freezing. I was so cold that my face turned pale. Even though I was wearing the thickest clothes I had, I couldn't stand the wind and my body was shivering.

We reached the top of the mountain. Since Sanfu was a dragon horse with the ability to fly, we quickly flew to the top, flew over the orchard area, passed the water pond area, and arrived near the blockhouse. We let Sanfu stop and tied the reins to a tree. Then I lit the Golden Que Sword and planned to explore the dormitories behind the other blockhouses to see if there were any cans left.

The second dormitory building was obviously reserved for female soldiers. The door was designed to be shorter, so I had to bend down to get in. There were cobwebs and dust inside. After we went in, we came to a dark corridor. Yunwen followed us in, but she looked obviously scared. After all, this place was eerie and scary, just like something out of a horror movie, and we chose to come at night.

The second building was obviously much smaller than the first one. There were hanging ropes in the corridor with some clothes, socks and some special objects hanging on the ropes. We started searching room by room as we walked through the corridor. We opened the first room and searched around. Apart from some clothes and moldy and smelly soaps and biological products, there were really no canned foods.

The second room was similar to the first one, with those things in it, but I saw something special on the table, it was a special metal, tungsten gold in color, and looked particularly hard. The strange thing was that it was always buzzing. I pressed it with my fingers and it stopped buzzing, but when I let go, it immediately started making a strange buzzing sound again, vibrating non-stop.

"What the hell is this?" I muttered.

Yunwen pulled the drawer of the table, but unfortunately it was locked. However, for Yunwen, all the locks are just decorations, because her heart is the Yangshen Wood, which has the ability to coordinate the spirits of all things. Its function is to authorize.

With her authorization, the lock seemed to come alive and opened automatically. Inside was a pile of information and a file bag. The file bag contained many photos, including group photos and individual photos. It was obvious that these were left by a blonde foreign beauty. In the photos, although she was wearing a field military uniform, she was obviously not a member of the military camp. Her demeanor and expression did not look like one.

"She is a European scientist named Lora Brown. This is a photo of her and her project team. The document says that they are responsible for studying the principles of this magical island. They want to know where all these weird things here came from. The name of the project is 'Research Project on the Correlation between Extraterrestrial Civilization and Mysterious Island', and it's called the 'Tianque Research Group'." Yunwen said, looking at the English materials.

"I originally thought that everything here was created by aliens, but now with things like the nine-tailed fox, ghosts and monsters, and the forbidden dragon, I no longer think that is the case. It is too real. Maybe we are too narrow-minded and wonder if there really are monsters and demons." I said.

Yunwen shook her head and said, "Perhaps you are right, but Ms. Lola has a different view from you. She believes that all the demons and monsters here are related to one thing, that is, there is a special mysterious substance on this island, which can control fantasy and reality, so this island is another dimension that intersects with our current latitude."

"What do you mean? I don't understand." I said.

"The monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the legendary antelope witch, the dead city, the sea curser, the ghost ship, the evil dragon, these are only things that exist in the records, but they all appear on the island. Don't you think it's strange? Some things appear in the fantasy latitude, and half of them are real, so we live in a place where there is no boundary between truth and falsehood." Yunwen said.

"So this means we are experiencing a real dream?" I asked.

Yunwen nodded, then she pointed at the metal that kept making a buzzing sound and said, "It is part of the mysterious substance, the creator of the dream. If it moves, it means that those things that are both real and fake are still continuing. If it doesn't move, it means that everything has stopped."

"No wonder there are so many abnormal things. Are the dragon seekers real?" I asked.

Yunwen sighed and said, "He was kept in the dark just like us, so he never found the 'dragon'."