Chapter 15: You go yourself

I didn’t care what Xiao Chengqian and Mr. Ge said before, but I couldn’t help but care about this sentence! Even if it was just another disappointment after bringing me hope…

From early summer to now, it has been more than three months since we returned to China. We have been looking for clues to the Ghost Beach, but we have found nothing. I was so frustrated that I wanted to go to the ghost market to buy information, but the ghost market recently held was inexplicably small in scale, and the possibility of buying information was minimal. In addition, I don’t think I can compare my financial resources with the four major powers. The methods I can think of, they can naturally think of.

Everything seems to have reached an impasse, and we have once again fallen into the strange circle of searching.

Although this time we returned to China in a different situation than when we fled in a panic, everything was calm and peaceful, and we even had great freedom, as we were not disturbed when we met with our respective friends and family.

The real location of Guidaowan is the Yellow River, which is a commonly accepted theory in the circle. For this reason, we finally got on the boat we had prepared earlier and drifted on the Yellow River.

The boat was a modified fishing boat. The previous one was called the Penglai, and this one was called the Dream, in honor of Uncle Johnny, and it was our second boat.

“Mr. Ge, are you really not joking?” Mr. Ge’s words shocked everyone. When I turned around, everyone in the cabin stared at Mr. Ge.

“You have been looking for me for two months, and you want me to come on board and tell you a story? Am I that boring? Do you really think I would come on board and tell you a story after knowing that you have been looking for me for two months?” Grandpa Ge looked a little angry, but of course he wasn’t really angry with us. After all, he knew that this half of the story was hard to see how it was related to the Ghost Beach.

But, two months? We were delayed for almost a month each when we returned to China, to reunite with our families and deal with various chores. It was only after everything was settled that we reunited again… Because of the lack of clues, the first thing we thought of was to go to Mr. Ge, the first person in the circle with clues.

However, we didn’t expect that during that time, Mr. Ge had actually disappeared. No one knew where he had gone. Even Jenny, the leader of the group who happened to contact us, didn’t know where he had gone.

“But there’s no danger, hahaha… don’t worry, no one in the circle would dare to touch Ge Quan. He’s the all-knowing man, and everyone has to go to him for information. When you buy information from him, he’s a special being, and if you touch him, you’ll incur the wrath of the masses.” Jenny said this in a carefree manner on the phone, laughing happily. The background sound coming from the satellite phone was a noisy human voice and deafening rock music.

“You ask me where Gui Da Wan is? You think I’m an expert on everything? There are so many places in the world I don’t know about. One day you’ll have to ask me what the Mariana Trench (the deepest trench in the world) looks like and what’s in it. I don’t have the ability to dive down there to see if it’s the entrance to the legendary hell… Young man, you’ll have to rely on yourself, understand? I’m also very curious about Gui Da Wan. Let me know when you find it.” As for the clues, Big Sister Jenny seemed more unreliable than anyone else.

But in the end, she still reminded me, “Chengyi, even though your master and his party have appeared, you should still not put all your hopes on them. I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed.”

“I know.”

“Also, don’t let anything or anyone control you, because that would be a meaningless life.” When Jenny said this, her voice became serious.

I naturally understood the weight of her words and solemnly promised Jenny.

Since we couldn’t find Ge Quan at Jenny’s place and learned that he was safe, we could only regretfully boarded the Dream and began drifting on the Yellow River. It wasn’t until yesterday when we docked that Ge Quan inexplicably contacted us and then appeared in the town where we docked and followed us on the boat.

He didn’t say where he disappeared to, nor did he mention anything else. He looked very tired, and after resting on the boat overnight, he told us the story this morning after eating breakfast on the boat.

If he hadn’t emphasized that it had been two months, I wouldn’t have realized that we had been drifting on the Yellow River for two months.

Time really flies. Thinking of the appearance of my cousin Xiao Chengqian, I was really worried that my master would not be able to wait for me. I was impatient and inexplicable, and I was forced to suppress it… When I was thinking, Chengzhen had already gone over and grabbed Ge’s arm, saying coquettishly, “Ge, you’re not really angry. You know it’s been two months, and we’ve been drifting on the Yellow River for two months. We’ve heard a lot of legends and met a few strange things. It’s scary, after all, not a native of the Yellow River… It’s hard.

Master Ge seemed very used to Chengzhen, and when she acted coquettishly, Master Ge couldn’t stand it. After all, he wasn’t really angry, and his face couldn’t hold back, but he smiled kindly and patted Chengzhen’s head and said, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you! For Chengzhen’s sake, I won’t ask you for money for the news.”

This old fox is greedy for money! I couldn’t help but look at Master Ge with contempt, but he ignored me completely. He just walked back and forth in the cabin for a few steps before saying, “I’ve actually been looking for clues for you for the past two months. You know that I have my own special channels for clues about anything… and the story you just heard is the biggest clue I’ve gotten. Think about it carefully. Is there really nothing in the story that reminds you of Gui Dao Bay?

When he said that, we all frowned and began to think! The story clearly tells of two mysterious corpses, and it has little to do with Guida Bay. The background of the story takes place at a timber transfer station, which has a little to do with the Guida Bay that people in the real world have passed down… But is this the point that deserves our attention?

Obviously not. I was used to touching my cigarette, but Ruoyue knocked my hand away, meaning that I should not smoke in the cabin all the time, affecting the air. However, this unintentional action made me have a flash of inspiration, as if I had grasped a clue.

I was suddenly excited, and I pinched the cigarette case in my hand until it was flat. I couldn’t help but say to Mr. Ge, “Could it be that dream?”

Mr. Ge looked at me, slightly surprised, and said, “What do you think?”

“I don’t know, I just think that Master Liu’s strange dream that night was about the real Ghost Bay?” After saying that, I frowned and realized that my theory was a bit off. The world of dreams is originally a strange and weird thing that exists in the imagination. How could Master Liu dream of Ghost Bay?

But how can this thought that came from the bottom of my heart be explained?

After hearing my answer, everyone looked at me with a somewhat ‘magical’ expression. Mr. Ge also smiled and said, “Chengyi, I really don’t know what’s going on in your head. What I originally wanted to say is that the biggest and most noteworthy point in the story is Lin Jianguo. Don’t you think it’s a bit strange? No one originally knew what he was doing in the shack, but the person who gave me the story told me the details of his worship of ‘evil’ things in the house. Why? The only thing is that he said it himself… So when he said it, he must have said it with some other news.

Grandpa Ge quickly solved our doubts and greatly aroused our attention. As for the story I just mentioned about Liu Er dreaming of Guidaowan, I even automatically ignored it myself.

“So, you young people are so impatient, you don’t even pay attention to these details! I’m too lazy to keep you in suspense. While I was listening to this story, I also learned a short piece of news about Lin Jianguo. It turns out that Lin Jianguo is from the real Guidaowan. After saying this, Mr. Ge stopped talking, and the rest was up to us to digest.

It turned out that the only thing worth noting in the story was Lin Jianguo… I wasn’t surprised because I didn’t have a concrete concept of Gui Dao Bay at all, but the people who knew about it behaved very differently. For example, the knowledgeable Lu Shan was so shocked that he stood up and asked, “Gui Dao Bay is a place where you can only enter, not exit? How could there be people in there? And the people who came out of there also went to the next town?”

Mr. Ge looked at Lu Shan and said, “Unfortunately, I can’t answer your question either. My ability only allowed me to get this information and half of the story. I came to you because I wanted you to try and see if you could get more information and hear the rest of the story.”

“Where should I try?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“The story took place in that town, so you should naturally try to go there.” Mr. Ge said with a hint of meaning.