"This small town is strange, and so are its residents," Nan Feng said quietly.
"What's strange about it?" Long Yuan had not noticed anything unusual. "I think it's perfectly normal. The townspeople are very welcoming, and the food that auntie made earlier was delicious too."
"This town is like that ship. It can't be sensed."
Before approaching the town, Nan Feng had not sensed its existence at all.
Only after entering the town did it materialize within his perception.
As for the townspeople...
While Long Yuan had been eating, Nan Feng had taken a walk around town and discovered that the residents all seemed to be missing something.
But Nan Feng could not say exactly what they lacked.
"Speaking of strange, I noticed something odd too," Long Yuan said.
Nan Feng nodded. "Let's hear it."
"The little girl in this house is only four or five, but the way she talks and does things makes her seem like someone in their teens or twenties." Long Yuan pondered for a moment. "How should I put it? It feels like putting the soul of a twenty-year-old into the body of a four- or five-year-old."
Soul... body... Nan Feng rested his chin on his hand and fell into thought.
A few minutes later.
"Bathy bathy, so happy happy~"
An off-key song drifted over from the neighboring courtyard, accompanied by the splashing of water.
Nan Feng raised an eyebrow slightly. "Someone next door is taking a bath."
Long Yuan nodded. "I could tell."
Nan Feng teased, "Want to go take a look? Maybe you'll find some clues."
Long Yuan's expression stiffened. "How could I do that? I'm a good kid. How can I peep at someone bathing?"
Nan Feng laughed. "You can tell from the voice that it's a man. What's there to be