Without a doubt.

Ping’an Ancient Town exudes a sense of eeriness everywhere.

The ghost street that doesn’t exist in reality, the shrine for the dead, the women washing clothes by the river at night.

Yang Jian, Leuk San, Li Jun, and others have noticed something unusual, but they all tacitly chose not to investigate further because they still need to handle the Ghost Lake incident and don’t want to spend too much time and energy elsewhere.

It was already eleven-thirty at night.

Half an hour left until midnight.

“Ah Hong, inform Yang Jian and Leuk San to come here for a meeting; they can’t keep wandering off on their own.”

At this moment, Li Jun showed a rather strong-willed attitude, wanting to gather everyone together.

“Okay.” Ah Hong nodded in agreement without much thought.

Soon.

Yang Jian and Leuk San received the text message.

At this moment, they were still lingering in the shrine, investigating the situation while also searching for the blind old man.

“Looks like we don’t have time to find that person, Li Jun asked us to meet up, saying we need to officially enter the Ghost Lake through the connection point.”

Yang Jian walked out from a corner of the shrine, still holding that paper boat in his hand.

Leuk San stood in the center of the shrine, slowly turning his head: “I’ve found traces, he’s here, he never left this shrine, I’m sure of it, it’s just that everything here has been hidden.”

“Forget it, investigate later after we return, right now we have to deal with the Ghost Lake incident.” Yang Jian turned around and left.

“What a pity, just a little bit short.” Leuk San said.

He seemed to have other paper figures investigating and making progress, just needing a bit more time.

Yang Jian said; “Taiping Ancient Town has been here for so many years, a little while won’t matter, the person guarding this shrine won’t be able to leave, you’re too anxious, it seems that the existence of that paper shop is weighing on your mind, so you want to urgently understand everything here, am I right? Leuk San?”

Leuk San looked at Yang Jian in silence.

“You really want to get to the bottom of your own supernatural matters, I understand that.”

Yang Jian said: “If you want to stay here, it’s okay, I won’t accompany you to linger.”

After speaking, he walked out of the shrine.

The next moment.

He appeared at the abandoned ferry of the ancient town.

Nearby.

Shen Lin, Li Jun, and Ah Hong had already been waiting here.

“Leuk San didn’t come?” Li Jun immediately asked.

Yang Jian said: “I’m not his dad, I can’t control when he’ll come, but even if he does, he might not be of much help, maybe just another paper figure, and I haven’t confronted Leuk San yet, I don’t know what kind of supernatural powers he has mastered.”

These captains are all mysterious, you don’t know what kind of ghost they control until you’ve dealt with them.

Take Wang Chaling for example, a regular person who controls four ghosts, and they are his former parents and grandparents.

“Besides, Shen Lin, I don’t know your ability either, if there’s a chance, I’d like to learn more.” Yang Jian looked at Shen Lin again.

“Captain Yang wouldn’t be interested in me.”

Shen Lin smiled and said; “Because understanding my past is a very dangerous thing, it could cause death, Captain Yang just needs to know that I’m on the Headquarters’ side, and I’m a colleague, a comrade-in-arms with everyone.”

“That’s not necessarily true.” Yang Jian said.

“Time’s almost up.”

Li Jun came over at this moment: “Shen Lin, will the situation you mentioned really occur?”

Shen Lin responded knowingly: “Memory doesn’t lie, I believe it’s true, but when it comes to paranormal matters, no one can say for sure.”

“It’s getting foggy.” Suddenly, Ah Hong reminded coldly.

It was late at night.

A thin fog appeared over the river crossing the ancient town, the fog gathered and didn’t dissipate but gradually thickened.

“Is it related to Feng Quan?” Li Jun looked at Yang Jian.

“It’s not the Ghost Fog, Ghost Fog is much more severe, the previous speculation was correct, this is indeed a connection point to some supernatural place, the appearance of the fog is just a paranormal phenomenon, and this paranormal phenomenon is intensifying.”

Yang Jian’s ghost eyes peered, he saw things distorting within the thick fog, the riverway was no longer a riverway, but an unknown supernatural place was gradually connecting to reality.

Splash!

Subsequently, ripples appeared on the calm river’s surface, accompanied by the sound of waves.

Looking upstream.

At the end of the thick fog on the river, a dim yellow light appeared.

The light flickered unsteadily, revealing upon nearing that it was an oil lamp.

The oil lamp was placed on an old wooden boat.

The wooden boat drifted downstream, empty, but slowly approached the ferry and silently stopped beside it.

This scene was witnessed by everyone.

Eerie,

Incomprehensible.

“Through this boat, we can enter the Ghost Lake.”

Shen Lin said: “But there may be some anomalies along the way, which could pose dangers.”

“Where did this boat come from?” Ah Hong was curious and wanted to investigate the source.

“Just like the supernatural bus, no one knows.” Yang Jian said.

“Right at midnight, let’s board, we’re heading to the Ghost Lake.” Li Jun said, taking the lead and stepping onto the wooden boat.

A person of his size stepped onto the boat.

The boat was remarkably stable, not shaking at all.

“Let’s go.” Yang Jian didn’t back down; since he came, he naturally wouldn’t act like a coward.

He carried the long spear and boarded the ship.

Shen Lin was silent, just smiled slightly and also boarded.

Ah Hong followed closely behind.

However, even after they boarded the ship, it remained docked at the pier, unmoved, and did not drift downstream, still anchored at its original spot.

“Yang Jian, let me use that long spear of yours,” Li Jun said.

“Why?”

“Of course, to row the boat,” Li Jun said, “Or are we just going to keep sitting here waiting?”

Yang Jian said, “This thing is not for rowing the boat, it’s a supernatural item.”

“In my memory, this boat doesn’t need human control; it will advance along a certain route, but I don’t know why this time is different from what I remember,” Shen Lin said.

“Because taking the boat requires payment; without money, the boat won’t take us.” Suddenly, Leuk San’s voice emerged from the shore. He was late but still arrived in time.

“Payment? It shouldn’t be traditional money,” Shen Lin squinted his eyes; “Some specific supernatural item?”

“Correct,” Leuk San said, “This is new information I’ve acquired.”

The reason for his tardiness was due to being delayed by some matters.

“Without that special currency, the boat can’t take us to Ghost Lake,” Leuk San stated.

“Special currency?”

Yang Jian’s heart tightened as he immediately thought of the seven yuan bill he had left in his possession.

“You mean this money, right?” he said, pulling it out and showing it to others.

“This is…” The others stared at the colorful bill in Yang Jian’s hand.

Clearly, it was a counterfeit bill.

As fake as a seven yuan bill could get.

It wasn’t meant for spending on people, more like something burned for ghosts.

“How do you have such money?” Leuk San was startled, “And it’s even a large denomination seven yuan bill.”

“Encountering strange things often enough brings odd items into your possession, nothing strange about it,” Yang Jian said, “Do you study paper money?”

“I know a bit, but how this currency came to be, I don’t know. I only know that paper currency has some special uses and the larger the denomination, the rarer it is. Typically, it comes in three, four, and seven yuan denominations. Seven yuan is the largest denomination, and there are very few left existing now,” Leuk San explained.

“In certain situations, you must have such money; without it, the boat can’t carry us to Ghost Lake.”

Leuk San said as he jumped aboard, “Let me borrow the money for a bit.”

Yang Jian frowned but handed him the seven yuan bill.

Leuk San took the money and immediately lit it on the oil lamp at the bow.

The paper money instantly burned.

A cold wind swept up, swirling the paper ashes into a whirlpool.

The air was thick with the smell of ashes, but everything soon scattered, all the ashes disappeared, blown away to some unknown location.

The old black wooden boat began to bob gently.

The ship left the pier and drifted slowly downstream.

“The boat moved.”

Li Jun’s expression tightened, “As Leuk San said, payment is needed for the ride.”

“Yang Jian, here you go.” Leuk San said, handing the paper money back to Yang Jian.

The bill was now smaller, as Leuk San burned a ring of it.

However, the remaining smaller note had transformed.

No longer seven yuan, but three yuan.

Identical to the three yuan note Yang Jian received from the mask stall earlier.

“Seven yuan became three yuan, meaning four yuan was spent? Yet we have five people, and spent four yuan, it doesn’t add up.”

Yang Jian didn’t mind paying the boat fee, casting his gaze over the others, the change was odd.

“Not everyone needs to pay the boat fee; the boat can’t demand payment from ghosts. Perhaps one of us five was judged as a ghost,” Leuk San stated.

“Who was judged as a ghost?”

Yang Jian squinted his eyes, looking at Li Jun and Leuk San, then Shen Lin.

Anyone of Captain Level is peculiar; it’s possible any of them could be judged a ghost.

“That I don’t know,” Leuk San said.

No one knew which of the five was truly the ghost.

“Since the boat has moved, there’s no point dwelling on this.” Li Jun said, “We should be cautious now; there are too many strange things here.”

The group spoke no more, leaving the eerie topic behind.

The boat floated downstream, swaying leisurely.

But the people aboard felt no shaking, the boat was extraordinarily stable.

Moreover, as the boat left the pier, they noticed thick fog enveloping the river surroundings, buildings appeared faintly visible, but peculiar contours were unfamiliar, not belonging to Taiping Ancient Town.

The surroundings grew increasingly unfamiliar.

Even the small river widened, surpassing any widths seen before.

This change didn’t occur suddenly, but gradually evolved as the boat drifted.

In just over ten minutes.

They realized they were on a strange, eerie river.

This was no longer reality.

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