Ye Tiancheng and the other person waited on one side, while on the other side, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping had indeed just received the letter. However, they had no idea that Ye Tiancheng and the little fox intended to stay there, waiting for their reply.
However, the matters concerning Nie Chongyang and his group had to be recounted from two days prior.
After Nie Chongyang and his companions read the letter left by Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, and sent their reply, they estimated the time and figured that a response wouldn't arrive that quickly. They would check at most once a day, or once every two days, so they went to attend to other matters first.
As a result, they were later discovered by Old Master Cui, and after being taken by Old Master Cui to meet Ah Qing, intending to find lodging at hotels in town with Ah Qing, they encountered several young people who, unafraid of death, had come to adventure in the ruins.
Coincidentally, one of these young people was a deceased relative of Liang Ping.
Consequently, these young people were all taken away together.
They all stayed at a hotel in town, after which Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping summoned those young people to a room, stating it was for a meeting.
These young people repeatedly claimed not to believe in ghosts, spirits, or superstitions. While there was nothing inherently wrong with that, they had, by losing their sense of awe, engaged in extremely self-destructive behavior, the consequences of which would clearly cost them their lives.
However, here, they were stopped by Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping.
But saving these young people once did not mean they would be so lucky every time. Therefore, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping felt that since they didn't believe in ghosts and spirits and were instead ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth, it would be better to let them know fear so that they wouldn't dare to act that way again.
At the very least, in the future, when encountering similar situations, they would know to weigh their own capabilities and cherish their lives.
These people were audacious, simply being calves unafraid of tigers, completely unaware that doing so could cost them their lives. They believed there was no danger in doing so.
So, let them know that doing so was indeed dangerous.
In private, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping first asked the young people to keep it a secret. Although they didn't quite believe these young people could truly keep their mouths shut, it wasn't a big problem. Even if these young people really went around blabbing, it wouldn't matter.
This was because Nie Chongyang and his group had no intention of using normal means to scare these young people.
When the time came, even if these young people were indeed gossips and spread the word,
Even if they themselves wouldn't believe it, outsiders who heard these stories would only think these young people were fabricating nonsense and wouldn't take it seriously.
Even if someone did take it seriously, would they have the ability to come to Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping to verify it?
That was naturally impossible.
Therefore, after making the young people promise to keep it secret, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping truly, without any reservation, directly told these young people about their origins, even producing their identification cards, work permits, and smartphones, among other things, as proof.
It wasn't to reveal all the truth.
Firstly, they couldn't be so honest as to reveal everything. Secondly, it was also because Nie Chongyang and his group themselves were not entirely clear about the current specific situation.
However, having learned from Ye Tiancheng's side that reversing time was not an easy feat, the possibility of them directly returning to the past was infinitely close to zero.
But, when they spoke to these young people, they only needed to say that they were people who had accidentally returned from the future to the past. That was enough; there was no need to explain other matters too clearly.
These young people were stunned after hearing what Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping said.
Putting aside the identification documents, such things could be forged. However, the smartphones produced by Nie Chongyang and his group, which were far beyond their current technology, seemed to prove some points.
After their shock, these young people were quite agitated.
After all, this was living time travel. They didn't know all the complex details; which young person wouldn't be excited to hear this? They even started actively asking about future matters.
Regarding these, Nie Chongyang and his group briefly mentioned them, without painting a rosy picture. To scare these young people, they directly spoke of the drastic changes that had occurred in the outside world in the years they were from, such as the resurgence of spiritual energy, which had actually led to the compression of living space for ordinary humans.
Moreover, the living environment for ordinary humans had become increasingly dangerous and difficult to survive in.
While ghosts, spirits, and superstitions were indeed to be disbelieved, some strange and inexplicable existences were also real. For example, he and the little fox had already confirmed that the ruins where these young people had adventured earlier were such an existence.
Regardless of whether it was true or not, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping would say so to these young people.
In addition, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping also proved to these young people that those magical powers did indeed exist.
They themselves had already begun cultivating, and with the talismans from the little fox, and with the intention of making these young people afraid and hoping to teach them a lesson, they did not just give an ordinary demonstration, which scared these young people into being both curious and terrified, crying out in alarm.
It was fortunate that although Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping could not yet create barriers, they had the sound-insulating talismans drawn by the little fox. With these, they did not have to worry about the hotel's soundproofing not being good enough to let people hear the commotion in their room.
This was because these young people were constantly shouting and howling here.
With such commotion, even if the soundproofing of the hotel room was excellent, some sound was bound to leak out.
In such a situation, if someone passed by or happened to be in the next room and heard such noises, they might misunderstand.
Then, Liang Ping said something even more frightening.
It was Ding Yijie who first asked Liang Ping, asking him, "You told me before that you and I are relatives. Is that true? Do you really know me, or did you just happen to know me and are trying to bluff me?"
Liang Ping replied to Ding Yijie, "When you saw me before, didn't you also say that I looked somewhat similar to your paternal uncle?"
Ding Yijie stroked his chin.
"That's true. Similarities wouldn't be a coincidence, otherwise, it would be too coincidental. So, are we really relatives? Then what is our generational relationship?"
Liang Ping told Ding Yijie, "You are about twenty years older than me, but we are of the same generation. We are indeed relatives. If we calculate it, we can be considered cousins, but I only happened to know you. In fact, I haven't contacted you; I've only seen your photos."
"The first time I saw your photo and knew of you was at your home, where I saw your memorial portrait."
As soon as this was said, Ding Yijie was greatly shocked, and a chill ran up from his feet. Ding Yijie's other companions also felt a chill and wanted to ask what was going on.
Ding Yijie anxiously asked, "Wh-what exactly is going on? Did something happen to me?"
Liang Ping looked at Ding Yijie and said, "I don't really know what happened to you. Your family is quite tight-lipped about it, but your parents were very sad, especially when they saw your memorial portrait during festivals, they were in great pain."
"When I visited relatives with my family, I saw this situation, and that's how I remembered you."
"As for what happened to you, I didn't know before. However, due to this coincidence, I have guessed some things, which is why I advised you not to stay there and risk it, and to think more about your family."
Ding Yijie looked at Liang Ping in shock, not knowing how to react.
Liang Ping told Ding Yijie that when Liang Ping knew of him, Ding Yijie was around Ding Yijie's current age. Since Ding Yijie was not dead at his current age and had coincidentally come to such a dangerous place, it was imaginable how something had happened to him.
These words were even more persuasive than all the previous words from Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping, making these young people begin to fear from the bottom of their hearts.
They could fear nothing else, but how could they not fear hearing about the real possible future death of someone around them?
The other young people also anxiously inquired about their situations.
Liang Ping told them, "I haven't contacted your families, only the Ding family. However, I did hear a word or two from the Ding family, saying that Ding Yijie had gone on an adventure with friends to a very dangerous place, and as a result, none of you returned alive."
At this point, they truly couldn't help but be afraid.
Someone questioned, "Could it be that you don't want us to go to that place, so you deliberately made up these words to scare us?"
At this moment, Nie Chongyang, who had been listening for a while, spoke up, "Although we definitely want to scare you, and scaring you is one of our objectives, what Liang Ping said is not false."
"If you really don't believe in evil, you can just go and try that place. Speaking of which, the future may not necessarily be changed. Perhaps you will still be guided back to your original trajectory. If it were someone else, they might not bother with you."
"If it weren't for our special identities, no matter the circumstances, we couldn't just watch you get into trouble. I dare not say that from my personal perspective, I would necessarily care about your lives."
With Nie Chongyang having said this much, those young people dared not speak further.
At this moment, Liang Ping asked Ding Yijie again, "Are you willing to go home now?"
Ding Yijie's emotions were somewhat low and complex, but after hearing what Liang Ping said, he still nodded.
He was not unafraid of death, nor did he not care about his family.
However, he was also a little worried. Ding Yijie said, "I am willing to go home, but you said before that the future may not necessarily be changed. If I go home like this, will something happen?"
Liang Ping pondered for a moment.
After thinking about it, he said, "This kind of opportunity is extremely rare, and there are no precedents to follow, so it's really hard to say. However, I think that once you pass the date when you would have died, perhaps nothing else will happen."
This kind of conjecture was considered quite reasonable.
Liang Ping pondered, thinking that this might be similar to Lin Yanqin on Ye Tiancheng's side, who was first stabbed and then caught in a fire, these two death tribulations being closely linked.