The dirty little boy led Feng Yu back to his home.

  As they walked, an eerie floral st hung heavily in the air, and maionless faces stared at them, both Feng Yu and the little boy.

  Feng Yu furrowed his brow but didn’t a his disfort.

  When the door opened, Feng Yu immediately noticed that the interior of the house didn’t match the boy’s shabby appearahe home was and orderly, clearly belonging to an ordinary family.

  But why did this boy look like a beggar?

  “Tell me everything you know, iail,” Feng Yu instructed.

  He casually took a seat on a nearby stool, opehe wooden box on his back, and released Xiao Bai, the small white fox, from inside.

  “Big Brother, please, you have to save my sister!” the little boy cried, kneeling on the floor.

  “Calm down first. Tell me the situation, and then I help,” Feng Yu said as he gently pulled the boy up.

  Xiao Bai also nuzzled the boy fly.

  “Big Brother, this all started half a month ago…” The boy wiped his tears and began reting.

  “Half a month ago, our toerfectly normal. But one day, for no reason, strange red flowers began to grow in the homes of the residents.”

  “At first, no one paid much attention. After all, it was just a small flower. Some people even nurtured it carefully, while others simply removed it.”

  “But it didn’t work. The day, the same flowers would appear again. And it was from that moment that everyone iown began to ge…”

  “Go on,” Feng Yu urged.

  “They began to worship the Flod, and formed a follroup, with the family where the first flower bloomed taking the lead.”

  “They made a rule: when the flowers in a household withered, it meant that family had shown disrespect to the Flod and had to undergo the Flod’s sing ritual.”

  “During that period, the st of the flowers filled every home. And during that time, people seemed to lose their minds. They still followed their daily routines, but their personalities were pletely different.”

  “Our family also had a flower, and my family ged too…” The boy sniffled.

  “So, why weren’t you affected?” Feng Yu asked.

  “I… I’ve had a cold for half a month. When I noticed the ges in people, I decided to pull the flower out. But my family looked at me as if I were a monster and tried to stop me.”

  “But I found a ce. One night, I pulled the flower out, and that’s when I saw my parents return to normal, no longer ag strangely.”

  “I told my mother everything, but not long after, the strange flower reappeared. The st filled the air, and my mother ged back to her straate…”

  “I was afraid that if I kept pulling out the flowers, the people who had beeched might find out, so I stopped. After all, those who had undergohe Flod’s sing never came back.”

  “My neighbor, Xiao Zhi, is like that—he never returned…”

  “One day, as usual, I went out to observe everyone and ran into Xiao Zhi. To my surprise, he seemed to have returo his old self.”

  “I asked him if he had pulled the flower out of his house, aold me he didn’t know what had happened. He didn’t uand why he was out oreet; his memory was that he had been sleeping at home.”

  “So, I went with him to his house, and sure enough, the flower was gone.”

  “At that moment, people who had beeched started ing to Xiao Zhi’s house, deg that his family had disrespected the Flod and would undergo the sing ritual after dark.”

  “Xiao Zhi was fused. He said he didn’t know who the Flod was, and that his family had dohing wrong. So, they began to resist, but it was useless. Those people, g to be from the Flod’s group, bound them up. After nightfall, Xiao Zhi disappeared…”

  “Sihen, people have been taken for the sing one by one. I noticed something strahose families whose flowers disappeared seemed to be the ones chosen.”

  “I suspect that the monster, like choosing food, takes the families whose flowers vanish. That’s why today, our family was chosen… Our flower disappeared, and my father hasn’t woken up for some reason. You saw for yourself, there are those people outside our house now. Onight falls, they’ll likely take me and my father to be dinner for the monster…”

  The little boy k again, begging Feng Yu.

  Feng Yu rubbed his forehead, feeling somewhat helpless. Why did people keep kneeling these days?

  “I told you to get up…” He pulled the boy up and patted him down.

  “Why did you make yourself so dirty?” Feng Yu asked.

  “I… I thought the monster might dirty people, so I made myself and my father dirty…” The boy expined.

  “You really are clever…” Feng Yu chuckled. “Well, this monster seems iing…”

  “Alright, don’t worry. You and your father will be fine. Go wash up now.”

  Feng Yu patted the boy’s head.

  “No… I won’t go. I’m afraid that if I myself, the monster will really eat me…” The boy replied.

  “Good boy, don’t trust me? Fine, don’t wash up then.”

  Feng Yu didn’t dwell on it too much. After all, they were strangers, and he had already decided that he would deal with the moonight.

  He found the whole situation rather iing. The monster had used the flower st to charm the eown and turn it into its own private gardeing on one or two people every day.

  When Feng Yu reached the bedside, he saw that the man lying there was indeed filthy. He guessed it was the boy’s doing, a st-ditch attempt for hope.

  Feng Yu couldn’t help but admire the boy. Everyone iown had ged, but he remained normal, notig so maails others missed. It was not something an immature mind could achieve.

  But even with all his efforts, he was helpless. No one could assist him.

  It was a rather hopeless situation.

  “Don’t worry, I won’t let anything happen to you and your father.”

  Feng Yu gently patted the boy’s head again.

  “Big Brother, it’s alright. No matter what happens, I’m grateful to you. You’re the only person who has been able to talk to me normally these past few days. Everyone else…”

  “Don’t worry!” Feng Yu reassured him.

  He suspected that the flower’s st wasn’t very strong. After all, he had been inhaling it siering the tow he hadn’t been affected.

  With this in mind, Feng Yu didn’t bother to avoid the flower st.

  As twilight fell, people arrived at the boy’s house.

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