Chapter 40.3

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“Are we not going to attend the beating three dynasties banquet?”

Lin Xi nervously chewed his nails. His entire person was filled with unease, “Isn’t the whole purpose of this attraction that we have to experience the beating three dynasties banquet?”  What if the other shore is the correct side we should be at?”

As time went by, Lin Xi became more and more anxious and suspicious. He didn’t know which side was the right choice.

“Indeed, we have to attend the beating three dynasties banquet.”

Miao Fangfei said seriously, “But the banquet at the other shore may not necessarily be the beating three dynasties banquet.”

Lin Xi retorted, “The beating three dynasties banquet is held by Mourning Stream——”

“The Travel Services didn’t say which shore it would be held at.”

Hou Feihu said calmly, his black eyes filled with heavy emotions, “What is being held in the Cordoned-off Village is a banquet.”

As if the past was re-enacting itself, Cordoned-off Village held a fetal flesh banquet and invited everyone to come.

If they stayed on the other side, it would be a dead-end for them.

“The ferry has begun to leak.”

Presently, Hou Feihu was more worried about Zhao Hongtu and the others, “Although there wouldn’t be piranhas attacking the ferry this time, there are three one finger long cracks under the ferry. I barely blocked the holes with a medical mask, but I don’t know how long it will last.”

The presence of Yu Hehui may have deterred the piranhas from attacking the ferry. Nonetheless, the ferry’s bottom was cracked. The damage to the ferry seemed to increase as they were approaching end of the attraction.

On the last voyage, the ferry had to carry four adults.

How could Hou Feihu not worry about this?

“Guide III is here. Everything should be fine.”

Even if Miao Fangfei said this, her worry did not dissipate. She stood on the bank, looking forward as if her eyes could penetrate the thick white fog.

“They’ll be safe.”

“Here comes the ferry, here comes the ferry!”

On the other shore, Zhao Hongtu’s sharp eyes caught the faint shadow of the ferry in the thick fog, and he was overjoyed. He neglected his surroundings and was almost bitten by a baby.

“Be careful!”

Xu Chen swung his basket and smashed it. It was a light-weighing bamboo basket. When the basket was smashed, the baby screamed as if it had been scalded and ran around in pain. Its whole body was pale and its limbs were slender like hemp poles, but its abdomen was round like a drum. The thin limbs couldn’t support the body, so it could only crawl on the ground. However, it was very swift.

There was a circle of bloody teeth marks on Zhao Hongtu’s wrist, which was bitten by the baby. Its throat was very thin but it had sharp teeth, just like the hungry ghosts in the legends.

The loud drumming from Cordoned-off Village drew closer and closer after Yu Hehui and Hou Feihu departed. In the dark jungle, a faint fire could be seen. It was green and ominous, like a will-o’-the-wisp.

The banquet was about to begin, but this was not the beating three dynasties banquet. It was actually a “banquet” to eat fetal flesh broth! At the same time, all the babies in the bamboo baskets morphed. Their bodies grew to be like adults, but they looked like ghosts. They chased after the tourists fiercely and bit them. For a time, the people on the shore were in danger of facing an assault from the babies as well as the danger from the “banquet”!

Fortunately, before the green will-o-the-wisps in Cordoned-off Village drifted over, the wild foxes traveling through the forest let out a shrill howl and several dark shadows emerged. The dark shadows were thin and slender, precisely like the “midwives” when they were performing washing on the third day ceremony. Nobody knew if they were foes or friends. Zhao Hongtu and the others, who were on guard, noticed the thin and long shadows fighting the will-o’-the-wisps and stopped them.  They just had to fight with the morphing babies with the help of the shadows!

But the truth was that these babies were a nightmare to deal with. The babies would not be harmed or killed. The bamboo basket was the only thing that could barely affect them, but it wasn’t lethal. They could only do so much against them, but the infants continued driving them towards Cordoned-off Village.

So, Zhao Hongtu was very excited when he saw the ferry coming. They all looked at the stream at the same time. Yu Hean’s face turned pale and his lips trembled, “Hui, Huihui.”

He hurriedly glanced at III-9 and saw that the blackish-gold rope in his hand was still firmly tied to the ferry. Yu Hean’s head was in a mess. Why, why is Huihui on the ferry? Why——

“Elder Brother, get on the ferry!”

Yu Hehui saw the dangerous situation on the shore. He squinted his long and narrow eyes and sighed lightly. He saw that several more fox shadows appeared out of thin air and entangled with the mutant babies. Zhao Hongtu and the others were relieved and hurried to board the ferry, but Yu Hean stood still, his eyes red as he stared at Yu Hehui.

“Old Bro Yu, let’s go.”

When Wang Pengpai saw that Yu Hean refused to board the ferry, he pushed Yu Hean. Yu Hean was stubborn and took another step back, “No, there can only be four people in a ferry.”

Only four people could go back. Huihui had to go back.

He would rather die here.

“Elder Brother.”

The look in Yu Hehui’s eyes was filled with melancholy. He understood what Yu Hean meant, but—

Yu Hehui looked at Wang Pengpai and their eyes met. Wang Pengpai also sighed. He said “I’ll have to offend you”, and finally carried Yu Hean directly up the ferry! His action startled everyone. As everyone knew, Yu Hean was also a tall and tough man. It was unimaginable to think that he could be carried by Wang Pengpai!

“Put me down, put me down!”

Yu Hean was also stunned for a moment. He saw Wang Pengpai carrying him to the ferry and struggled desperately. But Wang Pengpai was like an iron tower King Kong. He just carried Yu Hean steadily.

The moment he got on the ferry, Yu Hean couldn’t move. He remained immobile, and his eyes were wooden. With his back to the crowd, Yu Hean’s eyes were lax and stared at an unknown part of the ferry.

Until a cold hand rested on his shoulder.

“Elder Brother.”

“Sob, sob——sob, sob, sob——”

Yu Hean suddenly burst into tears. He buried his head in his knees. Crying so sadly that he was out of breath.

He got on the ferry, but Yu Hehui was still on the ferry.

A ferry could only transport four people, and one ticket could only go back and forth once.

Unless Yu Hehui was not a living person.

Now, Yu Hean could no longer deceive himself. His brother, Yu Hehui, whom he had been looking for ten years, was really dead.

“Elder Brother…”

Yu Hehui’s tone was laced with sadness and loss. Yu Hean felt the ferry was violently shaken by the huge waves. His voice was choked with emotion. Yu Hean gnashed his teeth, and several of his sobs were offkey.

He couldn’t cry. He couldn’t cry on the Mourning Stream.

Yu Hean wiped his face roughly but he couldn’t stop his tears. He looked at his brother squatting in front of him, like a dog wet in the rain. Yu Hehui wanted to get close, but he was afraid that Yu Hean would be sadder and didn’t know what he should do.

Yu Hean hugged his brother in his arms, buried his head on his brother’s shoulder, and couldn’t stop his tears from flowing in his heart.

Yu Hean’s spirit was gone. He instantly looked as if he had aged several years.

His younger brother, Huihui, was still so young.

“Come on, pull the ferry!”

Yu Hean stopped crying and the big waves disappeared. All the people on board were wet by the waves. Xu Chen took off his glasses and squinted at the shore. His voice was trembling, “They fell into the water!”

They saw that the mutated babies had broken free from the fox shadows and had rushed towards them. After encountering the waters of Mourning Stream, their strange bodies collapsed and split apart, turning into thousands of silver-white piranhas with sharp teeth, and swam quickly towards the ferry. No wonder the strange fishes in the stream were so keen on fetal flesh. It turned out that they had previously been humans who had drunk the fetal flesh broth!

“The ferry is leaving, everybody hold on!” Wang Pengpai shouted and rowed hard with a bamboo pole. He made use of the lingering waves lapping on the boat to let the ferry avoid the first wave of piranhas’ assault. Wei Xun also jumped onto the ferry. Like Yu Hehui, the tour guide was not a person in this attraction, and those rules were not effective on him.

The ferry could only carry four people, but it was currently carrying six people and it swayed towards the other bank of the stream. Wei Xun looked at Cordoned-off Village in the distance. He saw that Pingping’s bloody figure was still in the sky over the village, and her eyes seemed to be looking at Mourning Stream in the distance.

Wei Xun had a clear understanding of the situation. Of course, he knew that Pingping was not looking at him, but at her children. It was 7:45 p.m., and the grand banquet was about to begin. Cordoned-off Village was very lively. It seemed that countless people had come from all directions to Cordoned-off Village to enjoy the fetal flesh banquet.

But they had no idea it would be a dead end for them. This was merely a reenactment of the previous year’s incident.

Wei Xun diverted his gaze and continued to ponder as he held the blackish-gold rope in his hand. Just then, Wei Xun recalled the agreement he had signed. Party A should pay for his necessary props, goods, and expenses.

He thought that this rope was very necessary now!

But Wei Xun still couldn’t see the specific function of the rope. Wei Xun conjectured whether it was because he hadn’t joined An Xuefeng’s tour party, or because he was now “III-9”, not Wei Xun.

If it was the latter……

Wei Xun quietly put the rope into his pocket, with the nameplate between his fingers, ready to stick it to the rope. But just then——

“The ferry is sinking!” Zhao Hongtu exclaimed. He crazily tried to plug up the hole in the bottom of the ferry with all sorts of things, “The ferry is leaking!”

The people who were glad to have left Cordoned-off Village because they had made the right choice were nervous again. Wang Pengpai was rowing the ferry and hence, he couldn’t help out. Xu Chen and Zhao Hongtu divided their tasks. One blocked the holes while the other scooped the water out. But there were too many cracks, and the whole ferry had many holes. Even if Yu Hean contributed the old cowhide, he couldn’t stop the stream from pouring into the ferry and sinking it gradually.

“Don’t panic, we’re already in the middle of the stream.”

Wang Pengpai estimated the distance and had an understanding in his mind, “Be careful of piranhas!”

No attraction tourists experience would be absolutely safe. The tourists estimated that the ferry would completely break apart when it reached the shore or a distance from the shore. The tourists had to find a way to get ashore without being bitten by the crazy piranhas.

“Hiss!”

The fish had squeezed their way onto the ship through the gaps. Xu Chen and Zhao Hongtu had been bitten, and bleeding marks covered their hands and legs. The battered ferry, on the other hand, provided some protection. It was far preferable to swimming in piranha-infested waters. Now, Xu Chen and Yu Hean were scooping water and sealing the holes, while Zhao Hongtu killed the piranhas that rushed in. On the other hand, the silver fishes were slippery, could conceal themselves well, and there were a lot of them. There were always some fishes that went out of their way to bite Xu Chen and Yu Hean.

“Whoosh!”

The piranhas swimming towards Yu Hean were chopped into multiple pieces in mid-air as a result of the strong wind. Yu Hehui shielded his elder brother while seeing the piranhas surge onto the sinking ferry. His green irises had now taken up more than half of his eye, and an unseen, frightening aura emanated from him, yet the piranhas had only withdrawn slightly. They then attacked and bit down on the passengers even more aggressively and viciously.

These fishes have long gone mad. They knew that they could never leave Mourning Stream. Naturally, they forsook their lives, wanting to keep the tourists in the stream with them forever.

“Hiss.”

The color of Yu Hehui’s irises grew darker and deeper. He smelled the subtle scent of blood. Yu Hean was bleeding. A piranha had bitten Yu Hean’s ankles at some point. Its sharp teeth had pierced through his skin and flesh, but Yu Hean’s face didn’t show any pain. He was still trying his best to scoop water out. From the time when Yu Hehui was young to when he was older, his elder brother was always unafraid of tough jobs being handed out to him. Although their parents had disagreed, Yu Hean had secretly done odd jobs to pay for Yu Hehui’s college tuition fees.

He was filial to his parents and loved his brother. There had never been a better elder brother than him.

But now, his brother had embarked on this terrifying tour to find him.

And because of Yu Hehui, he had got very upset.

“Elder Brother.” Yu Hehui whispered. His voice was very low. It was almost inaudibleso inconspicuous in the considerably turbulent waters, but Yu Hean immediately looked back at him, worried and nervous.

“What’s the matter, Huihui? Elder Brother is here.”

“Nothing.”

Yu Hehui smiled and looked at his elder brother’s eyes that were gradually showing his surprise. His image reflected in his brother’s eyes started to change. The countless times he had felt reluctant, depressed, and pained in his heart were finally hidden in the bottom of his heart.

He had expended huge efforts and made a deliberate plan to see his eldest brother again. He should be satisfied.

“Oh?”

Wei Xun sat up straight and looked at Yu Hehui with burning eyes. Wei Xun’s originally absent-minded eyes lit up.

Everyone couldn’t take their eyes off Yu Hehui because he had turned into a huge white fox.

Beautiful and elegant, noble and mysterious. The fox’s fur was as white as the first snow, and its green fox eyes appeared akin to emerald. The size of the fox’s body was shockingly humongous, just like a fox fairy described in the legends. The fox was so beautiful that it would cause one to lose their breath. At last, the white fox looked at Yu Hean with a tender gaze. It purred lowly in its throat like a a young fox, and then lightly jumped into the stream.

“Huihui!”

Yu Hean exclaimed and rushed to the side of the ferry. Xu Chen hurriedly grabbed him for fear that he would fall into Mourning Stream. But the next moment, even Xu Chen’s eyes showed his shock.

The ferry left the water. The holes no longer leaked water, and no piranhas could surge onto the ferry.

The huge white fox carried the ferry, and its beautiful pure white long hair floated in the black stream. It was not afraid of the rough waters and the crazy biting of the piranhas. It carried the ferry and swam to the other bank.

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