My Father Is Definitely Possessed-Chapter 99 - 94: Encounter with a Supernatural Incident?
When leaving, Xu Muhai repeatedly urged to ensure Li Hengsheng’s safety.
Just now, Yang Tiantian indeed didn’t see a village in the distance, but now there it was. Yang Tiantian found it somewhat suspicious.
However, it might just be that she was careless earlier.
The two of them walked for a while, and the village became clearly visible.
A rugged path led to the village entrance, the road gradually becoming easier to walk. At the village gate, there was an old yellow cow, chewing on dry grass and turning its head to look at the two of them arriving, seemingly not curious about these two suddenly appearing strangers.
"Senior sister, it seems this is the place." Li Hengsheng looked at the rows of houses in the village. Many houses already had smoke rising, indicating that people were cooking.
"This is the only village nearby, shouldn’t be wrong."
Yang Tiantian sensed the surroundings but didn’t find anything amiss.
Just then, an elderly man walked out from the village, carrying a basket of herbs. His steps were shuffling as he walked to the village entrance and placed the herbs on an ox cart.
He wiped his sweat and suddenly noticed Yang Tiantian and Li Hengsheng’s arrival.
"Who are you?" The old man hunched over, approached, and curiously asked, "Are you disciples from Dao Mountain?"
"Old man, we are disciples from Dao Mountain. We heard there was something strange in your village, so we came to check it out." Li Hengsheng scrutinized the old man before him.
"That’s great, you have finally come." The old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face crinkling together.
Yang Tiantian, as she usually did, observed the old man’s details, even such areas as the wrist and tiger’s mouth.
Indeed, he was an ordinary person with no cultivation, which made her feel a bit more relaxed.
"How should we address you, elder?" Yang Tiantian stepped forward and asked.
"What a lovely girl." The old man laughed and said, "I am the village chief of Pengfei Village, just call me Uncle Peng."
"You’re finally here. Several young men from our village went into that cave and haven’t come out yet. We don’t know what happened to them." Uncle Peng said with a worried look, "Their mothers are crying their hearts out. Two of them are sick."
"Uncle Peng, please take us there now." Li Hengsheng said, "Tell us about the cave on the way."
"Alright." Uncle Peng placed the herbs onto the ox cart and then said, "This way, follow me, and I’ll take you to see it."
The three of them left from the other side of the village, heading into the deep mountains.
On the way, Uncle Peng spoke about the mysterious cave, and the two listened while also scanning their surroundings.
"Junior brother, be careful," Yang Tiantian whispered as a reminder.
"Hmm." Li Hengsheng slowly replied, "Even though there is smoke in the village, apart from Uncle Peng, we almost didn’t see anyone. Logically, it’s cooking time, yet there’s no one fetching water or anything. Also, on our way into the mountains, we could hear insects and birds, but now the sounds have significantly lessened. When something is uncommon, there’s usually something odd."
What Li Hengsheng said made Yang Tiantian’s eyes light up, and she smiled, "Alright, junior brother, I thought you weren’t alert at all. Not bad, you have some skills!"
"Anyway, be cautious." Li Hengsheng also felt that since seeing this village, things had become somewhat strange.
Uncle Peng continued to speak to himself, leading the two further and further away.
Finally, in front of them appeared a cliff, and below the cliff on the mountainside, they could see a pitch-black cave.
"That’s it." Uncle Peng pointed towards the cave and said.
The two approached to look at the dark cave, which seemed like an ordinary cave, with no special aura inside.
There wasn’t even a scent of blood inside.
"Be careful, if there’s danger, come out quickly," Uncle Peng said worriedly.
Yang Tiantian and Li Hengsheng exchanged a glance, then leaped to a narrow platform on the opposite mountainside.
"Junior brother, walk behind me." Yang Tiantian stretched her neck and then went in first.
Li Hengsheng didn’t insist on being ahead and followed behind Yang Tiantian into the cave.
Inside the cave, it was quiet.
Only the sound of water dripping onto the ground could be heard.
"No wind is blowing through; this cave should be a dead cave." Yang Tiantian touched the stone wall beside her with her hand and looked at her fingers.
"Something’s off," Li Hengsheng suddenly seemed a bit strange.
"What’s off?" Yang Tiantian turned back to look at Li Hengsheng.
Li Hengsheng thought for a while but couldn’t pinpoint it exactly. He just felt something was off but couldn’t figure out what it was.
"Let’s keep going. Just be extra cautious. If something happens, leave quickly," Yang Tiantian cautiously instructed Li Hengsheng.
"Okay." Li Hengsheng and Yang Tiantian continued walking forward.
Drip, drip.
Another drop of water fell.
Li Hengsheng reached out his hand to catch a drop, still feeling the cool sensation.
They continued walking a long, long way without seeing any traces of anything.
No Spirit Beasts.
No wild beasts.
Not even the feeling of a Secret Realm.
More importantly, as they went deeper, their expressions grew heavier; it seemed there were no signs of people having come inside.
Weren’t there several villagers and disciples from Dao Mountain who had come in?
Why were there no traces of human activity?
Was Uncle Peng deceiving them?
Was Pengfei Village also deceiving Dao Mountain?
As they pondered, they found that in front was a dead end.
They had reached the end of the cave, where there was nothing.
Just emptiness.
Only a stone wall.
The two were dumbfounded, was this really the end?
Looking around, it didn’t appear to have a secret passageway.
"It seems like we’ve been played," Yang Tiantian said angrily. "Is that Uncle Peng pulling our leg?"
Li Hengsheng felt along the surrounding stone walls, curious to see if there was some hidden space or something similar. However, just a few steps in, he suddenly stepped on something.
Looking down, he found a golden dagger on the ground.
The dagger was very beautiful, with intricate patterns that made it look quite valuable.
Instinctively, Li Hengsheng picked up the dagger.
"Huh?"
Li Hengsheng suddenly frowned, feeling as if something had bitten his finger.
"What happened?" Yang Tiantian noticed Li Hengsheng’s groan.
"I..." Li Hengsheng shook his hand and said, "I picked up a..."
Li Hengsheng extended his hand, intending to show Yang Tiantian the dagger, but to his shock in the next moment,
his hand was empty.
Where did the golden dagger go?
It had clearly been in his hand just now. Looking down again, he found it wasn’t there either.
Was he seeing things?
"What?" Yang Tiantian looked at Li Hengsheng in surprise; there was nothing in his hand.
"It’s nothing," Li Hengsheng assumed he had just seen wrong, but an unsettling feeling grew stronger within him.
"Senior Sister, I have a feeling we shouldn’t stay here much longer. We should leave quickly," Li Hengsheng’s heart was pounding, sensing that something bad was about to happen.
Yang Tiantian felt the same; although she had been through countless life-or-death situations before as a hunter, she had never experienced such an eerie feeling.
She decided to find Uncle Peng and ask what was going on as soon as they got out.
The two of them retraced their steps and walked out of the cave successfully, only to find that Uncle Peng, who had been guarding the opposite side, had vanished without a trace.
"That old thing actually ran away," Yang Tiantian said in annoyance. "Let’s go, find him in Pengfei Village! I’ll see how I don’t tear apart his old bones."
Looking at Yang Tiantian’s puffed-up face, like a child who didn’t get their candy apple, Li Hengsheng couldn’t help but find it amusing.
But he was also curious about what exactly was going on, so he followed Yang Tiantian back to Pengfei Village.
On the cliff.
The young girl slowly closed her eyes.
She leaned back.
The dark shadow hurried forward to support the girl, "Protector, are you okay?"
"I’m fine," the girl extended her hand, and the little fox climbed back up as well.
"It’s just exhaustion," the girl continued with her eyes closed. "Rest assured, Bishop, that young man is doomed; even immortals couldn’t save him. Also, inform the Bishop to help me come up with a reasonable explanation for the Ji family."
"Understood," the shadow quickly nodded.
"Inform Blood Leaf to clean up this mess. It wasn’t easy for the Longevity Sect to insert him into the Dao Mountain Ancient Land, so we must not expose ourselves. It wouldn’t be worth it to expose Blood Leaf over one young man," the girl said softly.
"Rest assured, Protector, Blood Leaf will protect himself," the shadow replied. "He has been hidden in the Dao Mountain Ancient Land for a long time and has always been cautious. Protector, you should rest well here. According to Blood Leaf, that young man has extraordinary insight; when he roars, he should be a good ’key.’ I’ll go retrieve him now."
"Don’t worry, he won’t survive. You go ahead, but be careful of that girl," the girl’s voice was weak.
The wind rustled the leaves, and after the rustling sound, the two disappeared from the cliff.
When Li Hengsheng and Yang Tiantian made their way back to Pengfei Village, they were completely shocked by the scene before them.
"Where’s Pengfei Village?"
Yang Tiantian looked in disbelief at the wasteland in front of her.
This was indeed the location of Pengfei Village, but now all that was there was an abandoned village.
The houses had long since collapsed, leaving only ruins and broken walls, with many places showing signs of fire.
It was completely different from the village they had seen before.
The old yellow ox at the village entrance was also nowhere to be seen.
"What on earth happened here?" Li Hengsheng was equally incredulous, as if he were seeing two different worlds.
Just then, Li Hengsheng saw a sturdy hunter passing by in the distance, carrying a wild rabbit.
"Uncle," Li Hengsheng quickly called out to him.
The hunter, hearing someone call out, glanced at Li Hengsheng in surprise. "Young man, what’s up?"
"I wanted to ask, is there a village around here called Pengfei Village?" Li Hengsheng pointed to the nearby distance.
"Oh, Pengfei Village, yes, there was," the hunter said. "But half a year ago, on a rainy night, lightning struck the houses and a great fire burned the entire village to the ground."
"That fire was particularly fierce at the time; it’s said that all 130 residents of the village didn’t survive. It was terrible," the hunter shook his head.
Li Hengsheng’s gaze went blank upon hearing this.
Pengfei Village had ceased to exist?
It had burned down in a fire six months ago?
"We fell into an illusion," Yang Tiantian walked up behind him, her face heavy. "Everything, everything was an illusion."
"An illusion?"
Li Hengsheng suddenly remembered feeling uneasy in the cave.
He finally realized what had been wrong.
"It was the drops of water."
Li Hengsheng murmured, "The drops of water in both locations fell to the ground with identical rhythm and timing, completely without deviation. How is that possible! So the cave was fake too."
"Never mind that, let’s return to the sect first and find out what’s really going on," Yang Tiantian decided to thoroughly investigate this strange mission once they got back.
"Alright."
Just as he said "alright," Li Hengsheng’s face changed suddenly.
He collapsed directly to the ground.
