"Shh."
Gao Ming closed his eyes and listened. His senses far surpassed those of ordinary people. His ears twitched slightly as he heard drums and cheers deep within the Dense Woods.
"The wedding procession is just ahead. We finally caught up with them."
Faced with the prospect of confronting the Fortune God's followers, Fu Shu wavered. He had spent so long imprisoned in the Xi Residence's cellar that he had an instinctive fear of the Fortune God and Madam Xi.
"The Nightfolk from the Xi Residence are going to the Joy Temple to marry Madam Xi. Once they enter the bridal chamber, the Fortune God will return in full, bearing all the joyful qi from every nightmare." Fu Shu recalled the details for a moment. "Similar wedding rituals have already taken place eight times, and the Fortune God grew stronger with each one. This is the ninth. Once the wedding ritual ends, it should have the best chance of becoming an Unspeakable."
"Dreamfold Town's Fortune God is just a monster you people fed with countless nightmares. Becoming an Unspeakable won't be that easy." Gao Ming had already made a mortal enemy of it. He certainly didn't want it to become an Unspeakable.
"Feeding the Fortune God had nothing to do with me. That was all Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals. I'm on your side now," Fu Shu corrected him.
Gao Ming couldn't be bothered with those details and slipped deeper into the Dense Woods.
Fortune Paper and ribbons used for weddings were everywhere, eerily intertwined with dead trees and corpses, as though this sinister forest were a ghost god's bridal chamber.
The man-eating man-bears had yet to appear, but danger lurked everywhere. Gao Ming made as little noise as possible, moving deeper into the woods like a feral cat, until he spotted