"I can't believe you! A grown man like you can also cook!"
"But why doesn't your fried rice come with soup?"
In the bun shop shrouded in darkness, on a wooden table that had been wiped, the little girl was feasting on Zhou Fan's fried egg rice.
When she commented on the egg fried rice and asked why there was no soup, Zhou Fan directly placed a can of soy milk in front of her and specially inserted a straw for her.
The little girl in red was stunned for a moment when she saw this, and without any politeness, she directly put her pink mouth close to the straw and sucked it up.
"Where is my cousin?"
Zhou Fan didn't waste any more time and directly asked the little girl in red.
"She is in Youdu City!"
"Exact location?"
"have no idea!"
"..."
Zhou Fan didn't expect that the little girl would actually pretend to be ignorant, which made his face darken a little, thinking that he might have to use force to get his cousin back.
"After the Lantern Festival is over, I can let you take her away."
"But you have to go shopping with me these days, otherwise you won't be able to find her."
Just when Zhou Fan was hesitating whether to use violence, the little girl's voice sounded just right.
"Is she really my cousin?"
"Then who was the girl I took away from the rooftop last time?"
Zhou Fan did not question whether the other party would refuse to admit his debt or have other demands. Instead, he asked the question he was most concerned about first.
"Is she your cousin? Why are you asking me?"
"Didn't you say that the person you took away last time was your cousin?"
The little girl in red smiled and said casually, without telling Zhou Fan the answer.
Zhou Fan was not satisfied with her answer.
"If you always avoid the important and take the easy, then there is no need to continue the conversation between us."
Zhou Fan frowned and spoke in a deep voice, showing his dissatisfaction with the little girl's answer that always changed the subject and avoided the important point.
"Are you angry?"
"You don't want to know when the sarcophagus will eat you again?"
The little girl in red blinked her big eyes and looked at Zhou Fan, and asked with a smile that deliberately whetted his appetite.
But Zhou Fan remained silent and did not ask curious questions as she wished.
"You are so boring!"
"If it were anyone else who dared to show off to me, I would have crushed him to death!"
The little girl in red curled her lips and said, her seemingly innocent words made Zhou Fan shiver all over.
Good guy, he is really cruel.
And her words also made Zhou Fan suspicious, and he couldn't help but think deeply and suspect.
Judging from the little girl's tone, it seems that because he is not in contact with others, he can occasionally show off to others, and the little girl can accept it without getting angry.
But Zhou Fan had only met the little girl a few times, and he didn't realize that he was special.
The first scene was in the forbidden area of a deserted village. At that time, he helped the little girl and her sister, allowing them to escape.
The second scene is in the mental hospital in Hengshan City. If she hadn't helped open the rooftop door, Zhou Fan would not have been able to escape with the girl who was suspected of being his cousin.
The third scene is in the underground scientific research base of Sakura Country. At that time, he was already about to snatch back the girl who looked exactly like his cousin, but the little girl took him away first.
The fourth scene is naturally in this bun shop. Except for the first time they met, he was full of calculations and may have some kindness to the little girl. The other times the two of them didn't have much interaction.
He looked at the little girl in red in silence. Although he was a little distracted, he had no intention of asking.
"Originally you were going to be eaten by Coffin No. 9, but you were eaten by Coffin No. 3 first."
"Fortunately, you escaped from Coffin No. 3 safe and sound. That coffin will not eat you again because you are not the chosen one."
"But Coffin No. 9 will still eat you after one year. The time starts from when you leave Coffin No. 3."
The little girl in red spoke with a serious face, which made the silent Zhou Fan's brows jump.
As for the cannibal sarcophagus, even if Zhou Fan was lucky enough to escape from the No. 3 sarcophagus, it would be just a fluke.
There was still an acquaintance in Sarcophagus No. 3, but he was almost blind to what was going on in Sarcophagus No. 9.
So if it is true as the little girl said, he will be eaten by Sarcophagus No. 9 in a year, which is very bad.
"Didn't I already escape from the ancient temple?"
"Will the temple be opened again in a year?"
Zhou Fan asked with some suspicion!
"The temple is a temple, and the sarcophagus is a sarcophagus. Don't confuse them!"
"The temple usually only opens once every few decades. It won't open suddenly in a short period of time."
Liu Yutong finished eating the fried rice and leaned lazily on the chair, her eyes rolling around as she explained to Zhou Fan and thought of some crooked ideas.
"The ancient temple has not been opened. Can the sarcophagus come out on its own?"
Zhou Fan asked in confusion!
"Hehe! Don't be afraid. If you want to come out alive from Sarcophagus No. 9, you have to find me and my sister."
"Only if the two of us enter Sarcophagus No. 9 with you, can you escape there alive."
Faced with Zhou Fan's inquiry, Liu Yutong smiled and did not answer his question directly. Instead, she gave him a suggestion.
"You two! Were you brought out of Coffin No. 9 by the old village chief of Liujia Village?"
Zhou Fan suddenly looked at Liu Yutong in surprise and confusion, and asked with some suspicion.
"Anyway, I've told you the method. Whether you can survive depends on whether you work hard or not."
Liu Yutong smiled and did not answer, but instead talked about him.
"Why were you in Liujia Village in the first place?"
Shake your head and say nothing!
"Then Liu Shan is still alive?"
Still shaking his head and saying nothing!
"There were still people alive in Liujia Village back then? What happened to the ancient temples and sarcophagi?"
Facing Zhou Fan's successive inquiries, Liu Yutong still shook his head and said nothing.
"Your eyes are so pretty, watery like a girl's eyes."
Liu Yutong, who was silent, suddenly spoke, staring into Zhou Fan's eyes as if he was fascinated.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing! I praise your beautiful eyes!"
"Then what?"
"Gone!"
"..."
Zhou Fan didn't like this kind of half-talk, and he also had some guesses about his eyes.
"You want to know why the enchantress wants ambergris?"
"not interested!"
"If you have this attitude, I'm leaving!"
Liu Yutong was originally interested in Zhou Fan, but she didn't expect that he wasn't interested at all, which made her pouted and said unhappy.
"No, no, no! Then tell me why!"
The little girl still had to be coaxed, and Zhou Fan was really afraid that she would just walk away.
"The burning aroma of ambergris can attract Yin spirits and has the effect of reassuring souls and attracting spirits."
"In a few days, the Lantern Festival will be held. At that time, the water of the River Styx will flow backwards, and the deceased will return as ghosts."
Liu Yutong seemed to be telling Zhou Fan a fairy tale, and he had a look of astonishment on his face.
But he still remains skeptical about the theory of reincarnation and ghosts.
Especially since this is the Cherry Blossom Country, which is rich in all kinds of messy ghost theories, but most of them are made up by people and have no basis at all and cannot be true.
So he remained skeptical about this kind of thing.
"Is the enchantress serious? Who is she trying to summon?"
After a moment of silence, he still asked curiously.
"Seriously!"
"She wants to summon the spirit of her late husband!"
Liu Yutong replied with a smile!
"Dead husband?"
"Yes! Her late husband is said to be named Liu Bainai and he was a swordsman from the Longxia Kingdom!"
"I heard that he died of illness. I don't know the details. If you meet the enchantress, you can ask her."
"..."
Liu Yutong's somewhat teasing words made Zhou Fan's mouth twitch slightly.
He didn't care at all about other people's troubles. He finally drew a clear line with the enchantress so that he wouldn't go and kill her.
"What is the origin of the Lantern Festival?"
Zhou Fan pondered for a moment and asked Liu Yutong curiously.
"This is a long story!"
"This was originally the territory of Long Xia Kingdom, but later due to civil strife, Sakura Kingdom took the opportunity to occupy it and finally took it as its own."
"The lanterns are used to worship the dead souls who have returned from the Styx. Their souls will stir up chaos in the Styx and kill a large number of living beings."
"Later, it was said that a high-ranking monk used a method to suppress the River Styx, and used the Styx Lantern to requiem the souls so that all the souls of the dead could float into the depths of the Styx River through the Styx lamps and be reincarnated."
"Since then, this custom has been preserved, and the River Styx no longer wreaks havoc on the undead and no longer causes chaos."
Liu Yutong seemed to be telling a fairy tale, and Zhou Fan couldn't help but feel distracted.
When he came to his senses again, it was already dark.
Boss Wang and his wife also woke up. After discovering that their son Wang was missing, they both crawled out of the cellar anxiously.
And when the two of them saw the messy, almost ruined backyard, they all froze in place dumbfounded, thinking that they had gone to the wrong place.
"There was a big battle here last night, so it became like this."
"Wang Sheng was also captured by something in the River Styx last night. I will go back to the River Styx later to have a look. His life should not be in danger for the time being."
Zhou Fan walked from a shop not far away and explained a few words to Boss Wang and the other two.
Then he took out a bank card and handed it to Boss Wang to compensate for his loss.
But Boss Wang didn't accept it. Although he was a little sad that his yard and shop were destroyed, he was more concerned about his son Wang Sheng.
The two couples begged Zhou Fan to find a way to rescue Wang Sheng.
Zhou Fan now only speculates that the young man may be in the River Styx. As for whether he is still alive, he is not sure.
So he didn't guarantee it, he just said he would try his best to find it.
After it was completely dark, he followed Liu Yutong and left the bun shop.
The two bought some food along the way and finally came to the Styx River after passing through several alleys.
The so-called Styx is a wide black river.
The water of this black river looks as black as ink, as if it is polluted river water.
The Styx River can be seen as far as the eye can see. The surface of the river is sparkling and there is no wind or waves, making it look extremely calm.
There were many fishermen fishing beside the river, so Zhou Fan couldn't help but curiously asked Liu Yutong beside him: "Are there fish in the river?"
"Yes! The fish in this river is called black fish. I heard it tastes pretty good, but it's completely black and even the fish meat is black. Some people don't dare to eat it."
Liu Yutong replied, jumping up and down and dragging Zhou Fan towards the anglers, pointing to the fish baskets or buckets behind the anglers, as if to say that the dark things inside were snakeheads.
Stepping forward and taking a curious look, Zhou Fan found that the black fish all had sharp teeth and looked extremely vicious. Moreover, they were all black and swimming in the water, so it would be difficult to catch them.