Master didn't answer. I said that was fine.
Next, Chen Hui introduced us to the situation in the Northeast, as well as the legends and circumstances surrounding Ghost Cry City.
Things like how the man Fox Grudge had married in life had the surname Zhang, so that word could not be mentioned.
Nor could one say things like marriage...
Those were all taboo words.
They said that not only inside Ghost Cry City—
Even outside Ghost Cry City, making a fuss over a wedding or mentioning things like the Zhang surname could draw Fox Grudge out and bring about a deadly disaster.
I listened closely, while Master paid no attention at all and simply leaned back in his seat to sleep.
The journey was long, requiring more than ten hours of driving.
We left Qi City, traveled along the Nen River, then headed upstream along the Gan River, straight into the depths of Great Peace Ridge.
We stopped only four times along the way, eating one meal.
From morning until night, at around ten o'clock in the evening.
We arrived at a place called Vast Sky Forest Farm. Only then did we truly stop.
This place had long since been abandoned. If Chen Hui's vehicle hadn't had such high clearance and good off-road capability, we never would have been able to drive all the way to this forest farm.
For more than a hundred li on the way here, we had barely seen a single village.
Now, we stood within the abandoned forest farm.
Red pines, white birches, and other trees surrounded us. The dense woods stood packed together, giving off an exceptionally oppressive feeling.
At that moment, Chen Hui pointed toward a direction in the mountains and woods and said,
"From here, if we walk for about three hours,