Night had fallen.
But it was not especially dark.
It was roughly like eight o'clock on a summer evening.
Jiang Qiao stood atop a small hill, looking out over the silent, strange manor below. There was not a single light, and the buildings were somewhat dilapidated. It looked as though they had been abandoned long ago.
However, the crops planted around the manor seemed to indicate that someone still lived there.
Watermelons.
Corn.
Tomatoes.
There was even cotton...
"┗|｀O′|┛ Awoo~~, my God, this damned place has both watermelons and cotton. All it's missing is a fully automatic harvester." Jiang Qiao complained.
The crops looked healthy enough, but their smell was unpleasant.
It was as though many corpses had been buried beneath their roots.
A stench of rotting corpses.
That alone would have been bad enough, but there were also many scarecrows planted around the farm. They wore straw hats and ragged shirts, jeans, and the like, standing there in the fields.
Most importantly.
They were called scarecrows.
And they really were stuffed with straw.
But on the outside... they were covered in a layer of dry, black human skin!
Skinning and Stuffing with Straw!
A word came to Jiang Qiao's mind.
"These scarecrows have a supernatural aura. They should be evil apparitions." Jiang Qiao stood where he was instead of hurrying down. "That man just now doesn't seem to be here."
"According to what Yang Jing and the others said, crossing the Air Wall takes you to a different place every time."
"Can the same Space Gap also lead to different spaces?"
"If that's the case."
"It certainly makes exploration more difficult."
After observing carefully for a while, Jiang Qiao decided that there should not be any major problems with the melons and vegetables in the fields, including the scarecrows.