Chapter 346: Lake

The projection of consciousness can traverse dimensions, cross space and time, and exist within the cracks; however, even the most intelligent human cannot control their will and spirit at will.

If there is someone around you who can do this, then perhaps you should congratulate them for being "favored" by an Alien God who possesses the ability to control space and time.

Wang Han asked Li Yuning how to return to the Forest Cabin, and Li Yuning told him that for people like them who had already been to the Forest Cabin, returning was actually very simple.

As long as you keep calling out to the Forest Cabin in your heart and hold onto the thought of wanting to return to the cabin, the cabin will respond to your plea; your dreams will take your consciousness back to that place, and your moving physical body will arrive at that mist-filled forest at some moment.

Li Yuning's explanation reminded Wang Han of his first time entering the realm of the Forest Cabin; at that time, he seemed to have wanted to find the Forest Cabin because he wanted to solve the trouble he was in, and while driving his car with this thought in mind, he soon arrived in the Mist Forest where the Forest Cabin existed.

However, if anyone who calls out to the Forest Cabin gets a response, then why couldn't those Mysterious Investigators of the Xuanmi Group find that mysterious place that is like a "Peach Blossom Spring"? Is it that the shopkeeper is unwilling, or are there other specific conditions that must be met?

Wang Han suppressed the doubts in his heart, took a deep breath, and then focused all his attention on driving the car, lightly pressing the gas pedal, and slowly moving straight ahead.

"We're here."

Not long after the car drove out, Li Yuning's voice sounded beside Wang Han. Wang Han was startled by the sound, and just as he looked at Li Yuning, his gaze was quickly drawn to the scenery outside the car window beside her; it was exactly the scenery of the Forest Cabin's Mist Forest.

Wang Han parked the car, his face full of bewilderment. He had clearly been watching the scene ahead the whole time, yet he had failed to notice the changes in the surrounding scenery. It was only Li Yuning's reminder that made him realize he had actually driven to the territory of the Forest Cabin.

"Don't just observe with your eyes; learn to feel with your heart." Li Yuning patted Wang Han's shoulder, wanting to resolve Wang Han's confusion, but her words undoubtedly deepened Wang Han's contemplation.

Feel with the heart?

What counts as using the heart, and what counts as feeling?

After getting out of the car, Wang Han walked toward the lake, but after a few steps, he found that Li Yuning was heading in the opposite direction, toward the Forest Cabin. He was stunned on the spot and called out to her: "Wait, aren't we going to find that river?"

"Do you really dare to go over there like that?" Li Yuning stared at him as if looking at a fool, and Wang Han's face flushed red for a moment.

Indeed, the river water that can contain the souls of all the dead in this world... it really sounds very dangerous.

Thus, Wang Han followed Li Yuning into the Forest Cabin.

"Boss Brother!" As soon as she entered the door, Wang Han was startled by Li Yuning's reaction. This girl, who was usually unflappable in the face of anything, suddenly seemed to have cast off her shackles; she shouted like a little girl, then excitedly walked quickly through the aisle between the shelves filled with dangerous Abnormal objects, and hugged the white-clothed young man resting on the chair from behind.

Wang Han shivered all over, his scalp tingling; gritting his teeth and hunching his shoulders, he walked through the aisle with an awkward gait and arrived at the cabin's counter, seeing once again that smiling, approachable, yet somewhat strange Cabin Owner, the boss Lin Ling.

Seeing Li Yuning clinging to Lin Ling without any fear—though she did not act coquettishly, her movements and tone carried a sense of acting spoiled—what was eerie was that, despite the two being of similar age, it looked more like a little girl's reliance on an elder.

Lin Ling turned a blind eye to Li Yuning, seemingly accustomed to the other's hands-on behavior, completely unaffected as if he hadn't felt it at all; he just looked at Wang Han and said with a smile: "We meet again. May I ask if there is anything else you need?"

"I..." Facing that smiling face radiating affinity, Wang Han always felt subconsciously bewitched and wanted to pour his heart out to the other party, "I want... I heard that the lake at the entrance of your shop, the water of that river, harbors the souls of all the dead in this world. I want to find someone inside it."

"I see." Lin Ling understood.

Li Yuning said: "That's what I told you just now."

Lin Ling's gaze only then shifted to Li Yuning, and he smiled: "You should know that you currently have no trading capacity."

"I will have it very soon!" Li Yuning said earnestly, patting her chest to indicate.

Lin Ling just smiled, then called out to someone behind Wang Han: "Wei Jiang, then I'll have to trouble you."

"As you command." A low voice sounded behind Wang Han. Wang Han was shaken to his core; he slowly turned his head and saw a burly man in red clothes. He was so frightened that he retreated several steps, hurriedly trying to distance himself from the other party.

He heard the voice right in front of him, almost as if it were spoken right behind his head, but the eerie thing was that he hadn't felt any breathing at all. The exhalation of the other party's speech should have been able to blow onto the back of his head, yet the voice, like the person, seemed more like it had appeared out of thin air.

Facing Wang Han's reaction, Wei Jiang still wore a peaceful and slightly honest smile, saying to Wang Han and Li Yuning: "Please come this way, you two. Walk with me, and I will take you to find it."

Wang Han felt like an ox burying its head in hard work; he didn't know the goal, just following beside Wei Jiang and Li Yuning, walking with them, his heart always filled with confusion, not knowing what to do.

The moment Wei Jiang pushed open the cabin door, Wang Han felt his eyes play tricks on him. He seemed to see the red ghost mask on the door move, a red light flashed across Wei Jiang's body, and immediately after, a blue light swept past behind them; however, Wei Jiang and Li Yuning, who were walking in front, acted as if they hadn't seen it.

Wang Han looked back, filled with curiosity, and was dumbfounded to see another Wei Jiang standing inside the doorway, smiling at him as he cast his gaze over, then slowly closing the door.

"How can this be?" Wang Han wanted to open his mouth to ask what was going on, but seeing the two people walking in front chatting and laughing, he couldn't say a word, as if he were the only abnormal one in this world.

Led by the red-clothed Wei Jiang, they walked past the few Gui Liu and Locust Trees at the cabin entrance and arrived before the lake, whose eerie colors even the mist could not conceal.

The color of the water was hard to describe, even impossible to accurately depict. At a glance, it was colorful, but upon closer inspection, it was a grotesque color that was both chilling and intoxicating; it was a "beauty" composed of squeezed souls one after another.

Wang Han knew he shouldn't pay attention to it, but he still couldn't help being drawn to the lake water, as if something were seducing him to walk toward it.

"Don't go, you'll die." Just as Wang Han had unknowingly taken three steps and was about to fall into the water, Li Yuning grabbed his clothes, "Don't look at it, just keep your back to it like this. Look at the cabin; just listening... should be enough."