Global Exploration: Starting from Decrypting Chernobyl

73: The true face of the fisherman! Ferrying people alive!”Just rubbing?”

”You’re already at the door and just rubbing? Are you still a man?”

”A real man!”

”Should explore the most dangerous secret realms and defeat the most vicious enemies.”

”Just this little bit of danger...”

Wu Tian curled his lips.

”You’re scared?”

”...”

”Boss...”

The fat man’s chubby face twitched uncontrollably.

”I’ve noticed you don’t usually talk much, but when it comes to tricking people, you can say anything!”

”Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

The fat man looked desperate.

”To use your Dragon Country’s saying...”

”Boss, please be a human!”

Slap!

Wu Tian slapped the latter’s forehead.

”When did you learn so many fancy things behind my back? Quickly shut your stinky mouth, grab your gun, and follow your master in. We’ll work together as master and disciple!”

”Let’s find out!”

”...”

”I don’t really want to...”

Bang!

Wu Tian kicked the fat man through the open doorway.

”Less nonsense!”

...”Rustle...”

Wu Tian held the yue king sword, which emitted a faint red glow, tightly in his hand, while Zhang Meng and Wu Tian nervously held their Sterling submachine guns. The three of them, back to back in a triangular formation, stepped into the Peach Blossom Garden.

”Boss...”

The fat man bumped Wu Tian with his back.

”We’ve reached the Peach Blossom Garden, but where’s the entrance?”

”Do you have any idea?”

”Yes.”

Zhang Meng, on the other side, nodded while cautiously observing the dense black peach forest.

She explained to the fat man beside her.

”Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty actually had a detailed record in his essay ’the peach blossom spring.’”

”It says...”

”During the Taiyuan period of the Jin Dynasty, a Fisherman of Wuling made his living by fishing. He followed a stream, oblivious to how far he had gone... When the forest ended and the stream originated, he found a mountain. The mountain had a small opening, and it seemed as if there was light.”

”Although all the peach trees here are black, there are still mountains and streams.”

”As long as we walk through this peach forest, we should find a stream.”

Zhang Meng analyzed calmly and collectedly.

”Finally, as long as we follow the stream.”

”We’ll find the entrance!”

”...”

”That’s right!”

Wu Tian smiled and nodded.

”Zhang Meng is right, at the end of the peach forest, by the water, in front of the mountain!”

”There, we should find the entrance!”

”Hmm!”

The fat man nodded and closed his mouth.

He nervously continued walking through the peach forest.

Although Zhang Meng wasn’t as nervous as the fat man, she was close.

Her lips were tightly pressed, the muzzle of her Sterling submachine gun was held level, and her index finger rested on the trigger, ready to fire at any moment!

...”It’s getting tense!”

”Before, I told my mom I was watching a study live stream. My mom not only slapped herself but also watched with me. Now...”

”Ever since the Host started exploring the Peach Blossom Garden.”

”My mom not only slaps me once every minute on average...”

”Even our tablet has been smashed three or four times by my mom!”

”Wuwuwu...”

”I won’t say anymore, my jaw hurts a bit.”

”I’ll ice it for half a minute!”

”My heart aches for the person upstairs...”

”My heart aches for the person upstairs...”

”I have to say, the fear the Host brings me is truly deepening layer by layer. Let me guess...”

”The next wave will be directly seeing ghosts?”

”Bullshit!”

”Misfortune go away (always smiling)!”

”Evil spirits disperse (all wishes come true)!”

”Full of righteousness (blessings as vast as the East Sea)!”

”Great luck and prosperity (Winner Winner Chicken Dinner...)”

”Hmm?”

”It seems like something strange has snuck into the upstairs...”

...”Why aren’t you talking?”

They had walked for a long time. Apart from a few initial exchanges where the three of them roughly determined the direction of the entrance, seven or eight minutes had passed.

Zhang Meng and the fat man were both silent, following closely beside Wu Tian!

In fact... Wu Tian even felt that Zhang Meng and the fat man’s bodies, pressed against his, were already soaked with sweat!

He started to feel a little anxious.

”Emmmm...”

Wu Tian secretly thought, it’s not good to let them be so tense.

Should he say a few more words to lighten the mood?

He acted on the thought.

”Ahem...”

”Fatty, Zhang Meng?”

”Hmm?”

”What’s wrong?”

Wu Tian’s sudden voice made Zhang Meng and the fat man’s bodies instantly tense, and they responded in a low voice.

”Uh, nothing much...”

”I was just thinking if you two are making a mountain out of a molehill. There’s no danger here, you don’t need to be so tense.”

”If you stay tense for too long, you’ll lose the ability to fight back if danger arises!”

”...”

”It’s okay, I have good physical fitness, I’m used to it!”

Zhang Meng replied in a muffled tone.

”Hmm!”

”You don’t need to worry about me, Boss!”

”My body is also good. Being nervous can even help me lose weight, haha...”

”Being tense is good!”

Wu Tian: ...”Well then!”

After thinking for a moment, Wu Tian continued.

”I’ll tell you some little-known facts about this Peach Blossom Garden. Maybe curiosity and listening can help you relax!”

”How about it?”

”Then...”

Zhang Meng thought for a moment, then nodded.

”Then you tell us.”

”Okay!”

Wu Tian chuckled.

Then he began to speak slowly to the two people beside him...”Hehe...”

”Actually, before I came, I did a lot of research on this Peach Blossom Garden. Many of the little-known facts I analyzed myself, for example...”

Wu Tian blinked.

”Tao Yuanming wrote in the very first sentence: A Fisherman of Wuling made his living by fishing. He followed a stream, oblivious to how far he had gone.”

”Hiss...”

Wu Tian stroked his chin.

”You tell me...”

”This Wuling Fisherman made his living by fishing, he should know that there are more fish in rivers than in small streams, right? Why would he fish along a small stream?”

”Moreover...”

The light in Wu Tian’s eyes slowly became strange.

”He was a local Fisherman, so he must have been very familiar with the local water system. So tell me...”

”Why was he oblivious to how far he had gone?”

”...”

”Because he had a little to drink?”

The fat man asked tentatively.

”No...”

Wu Tian gently shook his head.

”Because...”

Zhang Meng pondered.

”That day happened to be the season when the fish were migrating back, and there were more fish in the stream, so he was only focused on fishing and got lost in the complex water system!”

”That’s not it either!”

Wu Tian still shook his head.

”...”

”If it’s neither this nor that, then you tell us!”

”What is it exactly!”

”Hehe...”

Wu Tian chuckled, his voice low.

”Actually, that Fisherman was a ’person’ possessed by someone from the Peach Blossom Garden. His purpose was to ferry more solitary individuals...”

”Into the Peach Blossom Garden!”

”Moreover, I also speculate!”

As the expressions of the fat man and Zhang Meng grew increasingly grim.

”The soul residing in the Fisherman’s body...”

”Is probably in the driver right now!”

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