Gou Dan was a pitiful child, when I thought about it.
But we had now confirmed that he was someone from decades ago.
He had been a child decades ago, which meant he would be an old man now, old enough to be our grandfather.
Besides, his childhood had been so miserable, never knowing where his next meal would come from. Considering his health and the extreme climate deep in these mountains, it was questionable whether he could even have survived to adulthood.
So he was probably already dead.
Then there were the village ruins we had just seen. They were unlike this abandoned village, where, though no one lived here, at least the buildings and abandoned belongings remained.
Nothing at all had remained of that other village. After it disappeared, the ruins we saw were a sunken patch of ground, with an enormous circular pit overgrown with weeds.
An entire village... as though it had never existed at all.
I wondered whether some natural disaster had struck that place back then, such as a ground collapse, causing the whole village to sink underground and be completely buried.
I had to admit that in this vast world, there really was no end to its wonders.
I had thought that ghosts and gods, life, death, and reincarnation already constituted the whole truth of this world.
But now it seemed we would never see the world in its entirety.
Humanity could never fully probe the mysteries of nature.
"If that had been a ghost village, and Gou Dan a ghost, I could have accepted it."
"But this... this is just too absurd."
Zhuge Ming sighed. "What we saw was clearly a living person, and Chen Mo really did go into that village, yet it vanished just like that. Living people separated by