At the end of the road was a village and he saw it half an hour later. This place was no longer in the territory of Bailu Town. It was very remote and Xia Lei had never been here before.

A lean dog was barking fiercely at Xia Lei’s Chevrolet Suburban car. However, the dog quickly ran away when Xia Lei pressed the horn. In front of him, Yelena rode the electric moped on an even smaller road on a hillside. Xia Lei could no longer drive the car up the road at this point. He got out of his car and started to climb up the hill.

Yelena still didn’t stop, and she soon disappeared on a small, shady road. Xia Lei had climbed about a few hundred meters upwards when he saw a farmhouse dwelling. There were several green-tiled buildings, a courtyard wall, and a bamboo forest in the back of the house. There was also a denser forest further back from the house.

The door of the farmhouse was locked tightly and the paint on the planks of the door had almost peeled off completely. Some of the planks had been painted black, some parts were white, and other parts were red. The colors didn’t look bright at all, which gave off the feeling that...