Chapter 188

This team was full of problem children. Since we were friends, I was very familiar with their routines, but their behaviors and habits were all varied.

Fatty was a naturalist and often said that he was a cat man. I laughed at him and said that if he was a cat, then he would be Garfield (1). But he actually was very similar to a cat. He wanted to eat whenever he saw food and escape whenever he saw danger. If he saw food and danger at the same time, he would see which one was the closest to him and deal with it first.

But Black Glasses was a snake man. Even though he liked to mess around, you couldn’t treat him like a fool. Whenever snakes are in danger, they’ll spit out the food they just ate in order to stay at peak condition. In other words, cats like to mess around when there’s danger because their reaction speed is fast enough. But snakes place top priority on anything that registers as danger. Black Glasses definitely paid more attention than Fatty.

Liu Sang was a meerkat, since staying alive and watching Poker-Face were his only life goals.

So, when Black Glasses said that we should discuss it first, I could easily understand what everyone’s thoughts were. Fatty was already thinking about going down, while Black Glasses probably wanted to ask us to take some measures that Fatty thought were unnecessary. By the time Black Glasses looked up, Fatty was already untying the rope and saying to him, “Let’s hear what you have to say.” But his hands were already reaching out for the grass cover.

Black Glasses held his hand down. “This whole time, we haven’t been able to figure out what the historical system behind listening to thunder is. In fact, it’s hard for this group to hide these kinds of clues. The words “Jin Tong Sect” have never appeared before, but they’ve suddenly appeared here now. I figure all those corpses we saw before were Jin Tong Sect disciples, but it’s hard to believe that no texts or rumors have been leaked out. Wu Xie, your Uncle Three experienced so many things in the past, and even you were able to find so many things about the Wang and Zhang families. But you’ve never heard your Uncle Three mention this kind of thing before. Don’t you think it’s a bit odd?”

Fatty nodded. “That’s why we should go down right now. Based on our experience, it’s better to just go down and take a look. We’ll be able to come up with more ideas. Of course, I’m not saying we should be reckless.”

“Actually, before coming here, Uncle Two asked me to check out a nearby village,” Black Glasses said to him. “People in this village have been mute for generations. I stayed there for a while, and I think I discovered something about the village. Many generations ago, people in this village thought that they had the ability to listen to thunder. They could talk when they were born, but after the baby heard thunder for the first time, they all became mute. The villagers thought it was God punishing them for being able to understand the thunder.”

Fatty pulled his hand free and looked up at the sky. “You mean to say that if you know the secret after listening to thunder, you’ll become mute?”

“The situation in that village is more complicated than you can imagine,” Black Glasses replied. “But what I wanted to mention was that people in that village will die suddenly if they go more than ten miles from the village. They’re trapped in that place and become mute when they hear thunder. If the thunder itself has a protection mechanism that we don’t know about, then we may be hurt if we learn the secrets in the thunder. So, if we go down now, we need to discuss it carefully. It won’t be worth it if we all become mute.”

People couldn’t escape thunder. In fact, everyone would experience thunder some time in their life. I looked at Fatty. It was rare for him to be scared after hearing what Black Glasses had to say.

“Why didn’t you say anything about that village before?” I asked Black Glasses.

He grinned and suddenly looked a little embarrassed, “Hey, it involves a private matter.”

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TN Notes:

(1) Garfield is an orange tabby from the famous American comic strip. Info here.