"And then?"
Lin Chen pressed.
The door Aunt Guo had mentioned was clearly not the one he had discovered, but another one. The Teleportation Gate Bai Feifei and he had come out of was not in the room he and Guo Xiang had visited before.
That meant this door was most likely the Teleportation Gate Xueqing Island's first owner had used to bring Bai Feifei and the others in.
"For the next few days, every time he finished working in the fields, he would go inside to take a look. I asked him what exactly he was doing in there, and he said that place was very strange and told me to go have a look too. I thought it was too bizarre. I thought Old Guo had been bewitched and told him not to go in anymore, but he still kept going."
"Every time he went in, he stayed for over an hour. He kept it up for half a year. When I saw him come out, nothing major seemed to be wrong with him. He just looked more haggard, so I thought he was simply too tired."
"I never expected that a year later, he would suddenly be diagnosed with multiple organ system failures throughout his body. Then, less than a month later, he was gone."
As Aunt Guo spoke of her grief, tears still welled up in her eyes.
Lin Chen knew he had touched on her pain and hurriedly apologized. "I'm sorry, Aunt Guo. I brought up something sad."
"Hehe, it's fine. You're my future son-in-law. There's nothing wrong with letting you know these things."
Aunt Guo was quite open-minded.
"Don't worry. I won't mention it to anyone. But I may have to go to that place, because I might only find the answers to many