"The Lin Family Ancestral Hall contains prohibitions left by the ancestors from generations past. Only those of the Lin bloodline can enter; not just outsiders, even a fly can't get inside."
Perhaps because of this anomaly, Lin Hang grew wary and fished out of his pocket...
A mini Peach Wood Sword!
That Peach Wood Sword was just the size of a pinky finger, truly very mini.
After hearing what Lin Hang had said, it was like the fog in my mind had been lifted, revealing a corner of the truth, "None of you should enter the ancestral hall later. I will go in alone to take a look."
In my dream, it was also in the pitch-dark ancestral hall. I saw my mom and Lin Huan, both beheaded inside the hall.
I saw... that helpless... snake-bodied... girl...
If this dream had just been a normal nightmare, that would have been the end of it.
But the dream coincided with reality, and that snake-bodied girl looked at least about 40 to 50 percent similar to Lin Xinmei...
"You want to go in alone? You, of all people, with such a timid nature, willing to take the lead??"
Yu Longting felt something was amiss and stopped in his tracks in front of the huge outer gate of the ancestral hall, pulling me to his side, "Su Wan, something's off with you. Do you know something?"
"I... what could I possibly know? I'm just..." I found that I couldn't even tell a convincing lie in front of Yu Longting, but before seeing the truth for myself...
I didn't want to tell Yu Longting about this thought, this idea was too absurd, too cruel.
I could only hope that my guess was wrong...
Yu Longting narrowed his eyes, his expression amused, "Let me guess, is there an old lover of yours inside? Lin Huan's old lover? Or your mother's old lover..."
"..." I was utterly speechless, his speculations getting more outrageous by the second.
There wasn't much time left, the moon was about to rise to the highest point in the sky.
I quickly kissed Yu Longting on the corner of his mouth, "Nobody's lover, just trust me this once. I'll go in first to have a look."
"Stay safe," Yu Longting murmured, only uttering four words.
Then, as if by magic, he pulled out a thick stack of charms from the narrow sleeve of his shirt, giving them to me, "Throw these out if you encounter danger! Do not allow yourself to get hurt!"
"Uh, okay." I felt as if I was holding a stack of toilet paper; those powerful talismans that were now in my hands as if they cost nothing.
Even if I threw out only half of them, they could blow up the entire thousand-square-meter ancestral hall.
I glanced at my watch. Just walking to the ancestral hall had taken fifteen minutes, and there were only fifteen minutes left!!
Standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall, I took a deep breath.
I pushed open the heavy door adorned with brass studs with all my strength. Inside, the light of candle flames flickered, and a solemn aura rushed over me.
The threshold was unusually high; even at my height of a meter sixty-seven, I had to lift my legs high to get over it.
After clumsily clambering in, the faintly trembling shadow on the floor tiles caught me by surprise, making my heart suddenly contract.
It was indeed a person... truly a person...
My legs turned to jelly, but I scrambled over there as quickly as I could, "You... you..."
When I could see the face of the person on the ground, my voice got stuck in my throat, unable to make a sound.
"You... who are you?" A girl around seven or eight years old was crawling on the ground, her eyes, wide with pure terror, looked up; she could only lay flat on the ground in the manner of a fish because she didn't have legs, her lower body was a snake tail.
I tried to calm my rapid breathing and knelt beside her, bending down to ask gently, "You... are you Tangtang?"