Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

Zhang Heshan's house was much bigger than the child's, and the items in the room, including the utensils and bedding, were of far higher quality than the child's shabby things.

In those days, only a few places could afford electricity, and most lighting was still done by candles and kerosene lamps, but it was different in Zhang Heshan.

It wasn't completely dark yet, but Zhang Heshan's room was as bright as day.

"Wow! So many luminous pearls!" Zhang Shengchun exclaimed, smacking his lips.

The luminous pearl emitted a soft light. Zhang Heshan was curled up in the corner of the bed frame. After not seeing him for a few days, Zhang Heshan's cheeks seemed to have sunken in.

Hearing a sound coming from the doorway, he shrank back like a frightened bird, his expression panicked.

Zhang Shengchun turned to look at Zhang Shengxue: "Aunt Shengxue, what's wrong with him?"

“He has been like this ever since he came back that day. He refuses to let anyone get close to him. No matter who gets close to him, he looks like he is terrified and neurotic.”

Zhang Shengxue looked somewhat helpless. Having lived in the Zhang family since childhood, she had been exposed to all sorts of strange and supernatural things. She never expected that her nephew would encounter a ghost in the family home.

Not only did he encounter a ghost, but he also ended up looking like this pathetic loser.

“In this situation, in order not to upset him, we can only stay away from him and even deliver his food to his door. Fortunately, he is much better in the past two days. Apart from still being afraid of the dark, he is not afraid of people getting close.”

Zhang Heshan recognized the people who came in at this moment. The fear on his face gradually faded, but he still huddled in the corner and refused to come out. He looked at them with some wariness and suspicion.

Zhang Shengxue looked at him: "Heshan, your classmates from the clan school have come to see you."

Zhang Heshan nodded silently, his voice hoarse: "I understand."

After two days of torment, seeing Zhang Shenglin also appear at his home, Zhang Heshan no longer had the energy to dwell on the matter.

“I’ll make you some tea, Heshan. You’re all the same age, so you can talk things out. No matter what it is, it won’t cause any trouble in the Zhang family. You need to overcome your fear.”

In order not to provoke Zhang Heshan, none of the three approached the bed, but watched from a distance in the outer room.

The three sat down around the table. Zhang Shenglin remained silent as usual. Su Xingze and Zhang Heshan were not familiar with each other, so in the end, Zhang Shengchun had to start a conversation.

"Heshan, what exactly happened to you that turned you into this?"

Zhang Heshan had dark circles under his eyes and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't rested in a long time.

“Didn’t you hear?” Zhang Heshan smiled bitterly. “You all think I’m a coward, but you didn’t experience that night and don’t know how scared I was.”

Zhang Shengchun: "Aunt Shengxue said you didn't want to talk about what happened. I heard from my dad that they are now investigating the route you took that night, trying to find out where the problem was, but they haven't found anything yet."

The Zhang family is not afraid of ghosts and gods, but they will not allow ghosts to run rampant in the Zhang family territory.

So far, the investigation has made no progress. The route Zhang Heshan and his group took that day was perfectly normal; there wasn't even a trace of ghostly energy. If one didn't have confidence in their child's upbringing, some might suspect that the child was frightened by some unfounded rumors.

When Zhang Shengchun told Zhang Heshan the results of the clan's examination, he found that Zhang Heshan's body was trembling, his eyes were wide open, and a deep-seated fear was about to overflow.

Fearing he might go crazy, Zhang Shengchun quickly calmed him down.

Zhang Heshan was panting heavily, and it took him a while to calm down.

“Come on, take a deep breath, that’s it, Heshan, you can’t let your fear defeat you.”

With Zhang Shengchun's reassurance, Zhang Heshan gradually calmed down.

“Heshan, you must tell us what happened that day. Only if the clan knows what happened can we help you.”

In the background, Su Xingze glanced at Zhang Heshan, who was huddled at the foot of the bed feeling insecure, and then at Zhang Shengchun, who was clearly guiding Zhang Heshan to recount what happened that day.

It seems that today's so-called visit was not something the teenagers decided on a whim.

Seeing Zhang Shenglin's completely unsurprised expression, Su Xingze puffed out his cheeks, poked the child, and whispered a question to him.

"You knew all along that they weren't just visiting their classmates?"

Zhang Shenglin nodded. The family could not find the ghost that Zhang Heshan and the others had encountered. The four teenagers who had encountered the ghost were also hostile to anyone who approached them and were unwilling to say what had happened.

Unable to find the cause, the villagers were also worried.

Considering that the four of them spend more than half of their day at the clan school, are of similar age, grew up together, and have a close relationship, perhaps the four teenagers would be willing to tell their classmates about it.

The martial arts instructor reminded them of this again at the end of the training session, and the little merman didn't know because he hadn't gone to the training ground.

The clan adopted the principle of voluntariness in doing this. Everyone knew about the grudge between Zhang Shenglin and the four people. He was not originally required to come along, but the little mermaid seemed very interested in this matter, so Zhang Shenglin came along.

and……

Zhang Shenglin lowered his eyes to look at the little mermaid beside him.

The day Zhang Heshan and the others got into trouble happened to be the first time the little mermaid went to the clan school with him and witnessed the malice that Zhang Heshan and the others showed him.

Although thinking like this might be a bit narcissistic, Zhang Shenglin intuitively felt that the little mermaid's words that day made him realize that the four of them encountering the ghost was probably the little mermaid's way of getting revenge for him.

Under Zhang Shengchun's reassurance and persuasion, Zhang Heshan finally agreed.

"That day, after our training ended..."

Zhang Heshan and Zhang Jueshan are of similar age, and their fathers have a good relationship, so they have played together since childhood.

After training that day, seeing that it was still early, none of them wanted to go home right away, so they went to the back mountain together.

It was called the back mountain, but it was actually just a small hill. The group spent some time on the back mountain before preparing to go home, but at that moment they suddenly discovered that the Zhang family's land at the foot of the mountain was gone.

They couldn't find their way back, and they all panicked.

It got dark very early that day. There was no moon in the sky, not a single star in sight, only dark, heavy clouds that seemed to press down on them.

The surrounding trees were twisted and deformed. They wanted to escape, but they discovered that the mountain behind them was alive.

Looking back, the rocks I had passed by had turned into flat ground, and the trees I had climbed to gaze into the distance had transformed into countless slippery, venomous snakes.

They ran through the woods, and amidst their rapid breathing, Zhang Heshan was horrified to discover that there was another breathing sound between them.

He swallowed hard, mustered his courage to look at his companions. Everyone around him looked familiar; there were no strangers. He could call out each person's name and even recall what he had experienced with them.

But this is what terrifies Zhang Heshan the most. There were four of them when they entered the mountain, but why are there now five? What is the extra one?

Zhang Heshan pretended not to notice and held his breath, trying hard to find a way out.

The forest was so dark that not a single ray of light could be seen. Perhaps realizing they were missing, Zhang Heshan heard someone calling his name.

The voice calling his name was familiar; it was his family. As the voice drew closer, Zhang Heshan was pleasantly surprised to see someone approaching with a torch.

Overjoyed, he immediately shouted, forgetting about the extra person, and followed his family members who had come looking for him back to the Zhang family ancestral home.

Nothing happened along the way; it was as if everything in the mountains and forests was just his imagination.

On his way home, the buildings and plants on both sides of the road looked both familiar and strange to him.

When he got home, his family was very concerned about him, but he couldn't help feeling a chill run down his spine. He looked at his family surrounding him and couldn't help but tremble.

Familiar people, familiar places, why was he so terrified?

It took Zhang Heshan a while to realize that none of his family members had skin.

No, those weren't his family members; they were humanoid creatures formed from a cluster of twisted, indescribable insects.

When he came to his senses, he was no longer at the Zhang family's house. Everything around him was made up of endless, twisted creatures, and those creatures seemed to have discovered him...