Three days passed in a flash.
The day of the Yellow Springs Opera arrived.
Mei Sijun had already sent everyone the location of the Southern Branch Troupe. Qin Manjiang had not gone there ahead of time to investigate; he did not know about the others.
He simply felt that the place had already become a property under the Mei Family's name. If anything was going to happen, it would have happened long ago.
Perhaps a recent change was precisely why an Ultimate Game like this had only surfaced now.
At seven thirty in the morning, after getting up and washing, Qin Manjiang and Nie Yunzhen took a taxi to the western outskirts of Fu City, following the address Mei Sijun had given them.
The road was rough and uneven the whole way, with not a soul in sight. Wind howled around them, and barren mountains stretched as far as the eye could see, as though they had entered another world.
No wonder the Mei Family had left it unused. The place was simply too desolate. Even without ghosts, it would not have been comfortable to live there.
The taxi driver said nothing throughout the trip. Once he dropped them off at their destination, he immediately hit the gas and left.
After they got out, Qin Manjiang checked Mei Sijun's directions. They said to find a river first, then follow it downstream for a while.
Qin Manjiang and Nie Yunzhen walked one behind the other through the morning mist. Before long, they found the river.
The river had no name. It was neither wide nor swift, with nothing distinctive about it. Yet here on the riverbank, where hardly anyone ever came, they found footprints.
Were those theirs?
Qin Manjiang did not like investigating in advance, but that did not mean the