It had been so long that he had not yet experienced his first death, had not obtained the notebook that changed his destiny, and was still living an ordinary student life on Earth.

Walking home at dusk.

The setting sun casts its brilliant golden afterglow, shining on the stream by the roadside. It is so breathtaking that it is impossible to take your eyes off it.

"A strange pattern full of kindness? Is it awakening the softness in my heart, or something else?"

Li Mo thought quickly and did not completely sink into the gentle memories.

And thinking itself is enough to prove that this strange phenomenon is by no means a trigger for the law of death.

"I can still think and choose to leave. There is no unnecessary compulsion."

"The thermometer is honest. It's plummeted to over 30 degrees below zero and is still dropping. This means there's indeed a strange entity ahead that I can't contend with. But the truth is, if it's truly that powerful, I should have been within its attack range long ago. Or is there something I've neglected that hasn't triggered its attack pattern?"

"It's a headache. The last time I saw the thermometer drop so much was when Guiqi's true form appeared before me."

Li Mo shook his head, feeling at a loss for the first time.

He tried to connect the pseudo-man with the strangeness of the creation of the golden stream, but the result could not be said to be no connection at all, but only to be less connected than the relationship between himself and the pseudo-man.

Apart from living in the same forest, there is no more direct relationship involved.

"Retreat, or continue forward?"

Li Mo stood there and talked to himself.

"go ahead."

After half a second of hesitation, Li Mo made a decisive choice.

He had already made up his mind in the haunted house that no one could escape forever, especially him.

Li Mo quickened his pace slightly, and the path he walked along left golden footprints of the same color as the stream, emitting a faint glow in the dark night.

Not long after, Li Mo's reflection appeared in the stream behind him, as if it was Li Mo from just a dozen seconds ago, taking the same and unique steps.

After more than ten seconds, the same phenomenon occurred again.

Li Mo's reflections appeared one after another in the stream, moving in unison towards the depths of the bamboo forest, holding in his arms a little girl who had fallen asleep due to exhaustion.

The stream flowed downwards, and Li Mo was very aware that his altitude was gradually decreasing.

After walking for a long time, the ground finally became firm and flat.

The bamboo forest has also turned into a cherry blossom forest, with falling cherry blossoms colorful and fragrant.

Pink petals fall into the stream and float away into the distance along with the clear water.

The ground beneath my feet became much softer, and the thick soil was covered with gorgeous petals.

"arrive."

Li Mo did not reach the end of the stream before a building appeared in front of him: a cave.

But that didn't surprise Li Mo. This strange phenomenon was always accompanied by some strange obstacles.

It's like the man from Wuling discovering the Peach Blossom Spring.

When the forest reaches its source of water, there is a mountain with a small mouth, as if there is light.Convenience boat, enter from the mouth.Very narrow at the beginning, talented people.After dozens of steps, it suddenly became clear.

Li Mo walked into the cave, which was much larger than the small cave in Peach Blossom Spring, but Li Mo was not in a hurry to enter.

Instead, he turned his gaze to a tomb at the confluence of the cave entrance and the stream.

"Who would build a tomb next to a stream? The water will carry away the silt, and the tomb will soon be unrecognizable."

"Was this a bad idea from an enemy?"

With curiosity in his heart, Li Mo walked forward and leaned over, wanting to see the name of the great enemy carved on the tombstone.

"...a trick?"

Li Mo frowned slightly. There was no one's name carved on the tombstone, but it "took care" of everyone's name.

Unlike traditional tombstones, which have the name of the deceased and the identities and names of other family members written on them, there is no such thing as an epitaph.

Just a simple sentence:

——To me who has come here.

Li Mo stood up and scanned with the thermometer for a long time. The thermometer only returned to a normal temperature without warning when it was near the grave.

"Strange things...why did I suddenly remember my previous experience with supernatural events?"

The empty memorial tablet, the disappeared corpse, the ghost bride buried alone, the empty ninth room...

Li Mo seemed to have never truly discovered... his "final whereabouts" in those memories.

The corpse in the auditorium was just what Guiqi left behind after restarting time and space, not his final destination in his memory.

That’s not right. It seems that there is, but it was digested by the Cocoon of the End and only a head was left.

and many more……

“Where did my head go in the end?”

"Where's Kiana's head after she traveled through time and space?"

Li Mo suddenly woke up and realized a blind spot that he had never noticed.

That is all the self in my memory, never buried completely according to normal rituals.

Why have I never seen myself after my strange resurrection?

Li Mo turned his gaze back to the grave.

He had a vague urge to dig up the grave. His intuition told him that as long as he did so, he could indirectly confirm one of his incomplete guesses.

"If I'm not mistaken, even if there is a coffin in this grave, there is no body at all."

"I don't know why, but I always feel like something is approaching that I'm powerless to resist. I've had this feeling since returning from the Weird Bud World. Mei's behavior has also become very strange. She's like a madman who's exhausted and out of breath but still insists on running wildly, completely ignoring her own physical and mental feelings."

As Li Mo spoke, he placed Karen against the wall at the entrance of the cave.

"I have to find a way to figure it out. That thing is so closely connected to me, and Mei doesn't want me to notice it."

"It took two missions before they told me. That's too slow."

"What is she hiding from me? Aren't we best friends? We swore to trust each other completely..."

Li Mo decided that he must dig up the grave today to find out what was inside.

"If the thermometer had given a warning, I might still be nervous, but if it showed normal, then I would have to plan."

"Please forgive my rudeness and disrespect..."

Li Mo first saluted three times sincerely in front of the tombstone, and then... "bang" kicked away the soil in the upper half of the grave.

It would be too slow to plan by hand without any tools, and he didn't like that inefficient method.

First remove the surface soil, then use your hands to scrape off the soil on the coffin and you can open the coffin directly.

This is called - courtesy before force.

Li Mo used his hands to repeatedly wipe away the dirt on the coffin, and finally found the expected black coffin. It was made of the same material and type as the black coffin in the Guiqi world...

"What a coincidence?"

Li Mo hesitated for a moment, then grabbed the coffin lid with both hands.

Li Mo opened the coffin easily in a dead state. When he looked inside again, he showed a look of astonishment.

"No?"

Li Mo remembered the words on the tombstone - To me who came here.

Do you want me to lie down in it, Tomato?

"Although I really want to swear, forget it. Fortunately, this is just a joke. I hope... this is just a joke."

Li Mo smiled bitterly, turned around and honestly closed the coffin lid, then filled the soil back up to form a small hill.

As for that inexplicable tombstone, experience told Li Mo that it would be best not to touch it.

There might be some law that will kill you if you touch it.

Li Mo picked up the sleeping Kallen. In his memory, Kallen and Otto had been running around in the primeval forest for a long time. Otto didn't bring much food with him, and most of it was digested by Kallen.

Even so, Karen still didn't eat enough. After running in this winding terrain for several days and nights in a half-full state, her physical energy was too much.

Coupled with factors such as blindness and her father's missing whereabouts, she fell completely into sleepiness, and all the little noises made by Li Mo were ignored.

Li Mo raised his head and looked at the cave. There was a faint light inside.

It is almost the same as what is recorded in Peach Blossom Spring.

Although the teacher always emphasized Tao Yuanming's yearning for a beautiful pastoral life and his disgust for the pursuit of fame and fortune in officialdom when teaching this lesson.

But I still couldn't resist the teenagers' fantasies about bizarre ghosts and gods.

When Li Mo was in school, he heard some conspiracy theories about Peach Blossom Spring from his classmates.

"The houses are well-maintained."

In ancient times, wars were frequent and it was unlikely that houses in the countryside could be planned neatly, so it was unlikely that houses would stand in an orderly manner.

In Chinese custom, the dead are given priority, so cemeteries are typically neatly planned to show respect for the deceased. So, is the "formidable" appearance of the buildings a reflection of the Peach Blossom Spring's flawless architectural design, or is it simply a massive cemetery?

"At the beginning, it is extremely narrow, but only then can you understand people. After walking for dozens of steps, you will suddenly become enlightened."

It is very narrow at the beginning, and it becomes wide after walking dozens of steps, which is consistent with the structure of the tomb. Of course, it may just be a coincidence.

"After leaving, he found his boat and followed the path, marking it everywhere. When he arrived at the county, he went to the governor and told him what had happened. The governor immediately sent people to follow him and search for the places marked, but they got lost and could not find the way again."

After the fisherman went out, he couldn't find it even after marking it. Perhaps the people in the Peach Blossom Spring were actually dead, and how could a living person find the place where the dead were?

"How about I write an article called 'The Origin of Cherry Blossoms' after I get out, one with a bit of suspense." Li Mo joked. Fortunately, he had studied it seriously in school. If this time it was really related to the Peach Blossom Spring, he would have some understanding of it. It would just depend on whether the situation inside was correct.

Li Mo carried Karen into the cave entrance, looking down at Karen from time to time on the way.

"Sleeping so soundly. Do all members of the Kaslana family look the same when they sleep?"

Her soft white hair fell on her shoulders, the tip of her nose was red from being blown by the cold wind for too long, her lips were slightly open, revealing her tiny teeth.

Li Mo pinched Karen's little face. Her beautiful sleeping face always made Li Mo think of another white-haired ball.

"Karen Kaslana, when you wake up, the world may change dramatically. Cherish the only good sleep you have now."

"I have a feeling the night won't be too peaceful once we get inside..."

The cave was silent.

When Li Mo walked into the cave, the cherry blossom forest outside had changed its appearance. The golden stream turned dark, and the corpses of humans and animals were wriggling in it.

The stench filled the air.

The countless beautiful and colorful pink cherry blossoms turned into white paper money flying all over the sky, and fell to the ground, turning into smelly copper coins.

Several human teeth appeared near the cave entrance, embedded in the wall.

However, on the plain tombstone, there was a blank memorial tablet and a brazier.

White paper money fell into the brazier and burned fiercely, as if to commemorate the dead.

There were shadows nearby, and many people appeared.

just like……

The cave is the entrance to the coffin.

What Li Mo stepped into was actually the road that led to the grave.

----

Changkong City.

"Decided?"

Mei leaned against the wall. Dazzling sunlight streamed in through the window lattice, making the floor sparkle like golden quicksand, spreading out to fill most of the room.

In the shadows, with heavy circles under his eyes, as if he had not rested for several days and nights, he half-opened his eyes and stared thoughtfully at Shigure Kirara who was packing her luggage.

"Although there won't be too many side effects if you pass through the strange cave at the right time, no one can guarantee that you won't get lost if you do it for a long time."

"I'm not worried that Li Mo will get lost there. It's impossible for him to get lost. Even if he touches the wall, I have a way to rescue him."

"But you're different. You're just... an ordinary person, unbound by any laws. The fighting power of a living person is meaningless to strange laws. You should be very clear about this."

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