The group didn't answer Wu Xie; instead, they were each lost in their own thoughts.

As if he had heard something, the young man quickly walked in another direction, and the others followed him quickly, seeing his slightly anxious steps.

Soon, they arrived at a swamp, which was still bubbling, with a small piece of corpse that had not yet completely sunk on it.

"This is..." Wu Xie looked at the corpse and swallowed nervously, but he couldn't finish his sentence.

Although the body was covered in mud, the scar that ran across the eye was still visible.

"Isn't this the blind orange peel guy who kidnapped Lingzi?" Fatty added to Wuxie's words from the side.

Cheng Yu took a tree branch and squatted down in front of the swamp to stir it up. Hei Xiazi pulled him up and said to him, "Your young master isn't in here. Even if he were, you couldn't pull him out with this toothpick."

"You!" Cheng Yu angrily threw away the branch. Of course he knew his master wasn't there; he just wanted to see if his master had left any clues. Cheng Yu then gripped the marbles in his pocket. Forget it, he wasn't going to argue with this blind man!

"What's that?" the young man asked, staring at Cheng Yu's pocket.

“These are your marbles, sir. I picked them up from over there,” Cheng Yu said, taking out a marble and pointing in a direction from the woods.

Wu Xie took out a map and said, "How did they get here? This direction is clearly wrong, but they found their way back! Did they also have a map?"

“That’s a possibility. It’s also possible that Chen Pi Asi took this route when he came here back then, so even if he got lost, he could find his way back after finding the key landmarks,” Jie Yuhua nodded in agreement.

"Let's go back quickly! Maybe we can still find Lingzi. What if he's waiting for us somewhere?" Wu Xie suggested. As for why Chen Pi Asi was in the swamp, none of them mentioned it.

The group walked back, searching for clues besides the bloodstains along the blood-stained mud, when Wu Xie suddenly called out, "Ling Zi!"

"Where is it?" The fat man looked around, and Xie Yuhua pushed the others aside to check, but there was nothing there.

"Strange, I think I saw Lingzi just now, but where did she go?" Wu Xie muttered in confusion.

—Behind the Stone Gate

"Ling Xiao, you'll die a horrible death!"

"You deserved it..."

"Give me back my life!"

"Go to hell!"

Different voices came from all directions, some male and some female. Ling Xiao could tell that they were people who had died directly or indirectly at his hands. Now they seemed to want to tear him apart and end his life at any moment.

Ling Xiao simply sat there quietly, without reacting at all.

"Ling Xiao, my child, come and stay with your mother. Doesn't Xiao'er miss his mother?" The voice turned into Ling's mother's voice again, enticing Ling Xiao to go to her.

Ling Xiao finally reacted. He frowned, but what he was thinking was: Why aren't these guys coming over? He had already stopped moving, but those things were still luring him. Did that mean that these things couldn't be moved? They could only lure him to their side. At first, they tried to persuade him, then they tried to provoke him, and now they were trying to play the family card.

He slowly stood up and walked towards the direction of the woman's voice.

"Baby, come with Mommy. Mommy knows you want your mother's love. Come to Mommy's side. Yes, baby, that's it. Walk faster." The voice seemed exceptionally excited, knowing she was about to succeed.

“Take five more steps, baby, just five more steps and you can come and be with Mommy, Xiao’er. Mommy knows you’re the most filial. You definitely don’t want Mommy to be here alone, right?” the woman’s voice said again.

Ling Xiao stopped in his tracks, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I've found you."

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