After everyone got in the car, Allen and Zheng Wei gathered the people inside the car and sat together.

“What’s up? Have we arrived already?” Martin yawned. He had just been woken up by Allen.

“Zheng just found out something,” Allen said. “He thinks you all need to hear it.”

“What’s going on?” Everyone was curious, and all ten pairs of eyes looked at Zheng Wei. Zheng Wei briefly repeated what Landon had said earlier.

“Oh my God!” After listening to Zheng’s story, everyone took a deep breath and showed expressions of disbelief. “This is too scary.”

“Martin, I can’t believe you didn’t tell us about this,” Diane turned to Martin.

“Don’t look at me like that,” Martin said somewhat annoyed. “I just found out too.”

“Come on, bro.” Jin didn’t believe Martin’s words. “That’s your grandmother.”

“Forget it, you all know it anyway.” Martin stood up, frowning.

“I didn’t know I had a grandmother until the lawyer showed up. I haven’t seen her before neither does my mother know about her. She always thought she was an orphan.”

The others remained silent. They grew up together and had some understanding of each other’s family situations. Martin was telling the truth.

“Why?” Ellie didn’t understand. “If your grandmother was still alive, why didn’t she contact you all these years?”

“Who knows?” Martin shrugged indifferently. “As Zheng said, maybe everything that happened scared her and gave her psychological problems. She no longer trusts anyone, including her own daughter, just like in TV dramas.”

Although Martin acted like he didn’t care, those who knew him could hear the dissatisfaction in his tone. Martin had seen his mother cry because of her parentage, so he had some resentment towards the grandmother who abandoned her own flesh and blood.

Martin couldn’t understand his unseen grandmother’s thoughts, but he was also very curious. That’s why he proposed to travel to this remote farm. Martin wanted to go to the place where his grandmother had lived, to see what kind of person she was and why she could heartlessly abandon her own blood and never meet them.

“What about now?” Zheng Wei looked at the people in the car and asked, “Now that you know what happened on the farm, what are your thoughts?” Zheng Wei secretly hoped they would turn back.

The car fell silent, and everyone looked at each other without speaking.

“Zheng, what do you mean by asking this?” Martin didn’t understand. “Do you want to go back?”

“I think we should be careful, after all, what happened on the farm is too unusual,” Zheng Wei said. “If we go back now, it might be a good idea.”

“Am I hearing this right? Zheng, are you planning to go back?” Martin looked at Zheng Wei in shock, as if he was looking at a hamburger with legs.

“Are you scared?” Martin exaggerated his expression. “Come on, that was forty years ago. Are you scared of something that happened forty years ago?”

“I…” Zheng Wei opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say. He was scared, but he couldn’t say why.

“Oh, come on.” Martin rolled his eyes. “It was just a murder case. What’s so scary about it?”

“You can’t say that,” Allen’s eyes flicked back and forth between Zheng Wei and Martin. “The case hasn’t been solved yet, and the killer hasn’t been caught. It really makes people uneasy.”

“If the killer is still alive, he’s probably too old to move now. Martin’s grandmother has lived there for forty years without incident, so nothing will happen to us either,” Jin shrugged and disagreed with Allen’s statement.

“But…” If possible, Zheng Wei still wanted to persuade them to go back.

“Zheng, it’s nothing.” Martin interrupted him, “It’s just a death, it happened so long ago, we’ve come this far, we can’t turn back now.”

“Come on, bro.” Seeing that Zheng Wei still looked uneasy, Martin sneered, “Are you afraid of a house where someone died?”

“…”, You would be afraid too if you knew the truth.

“Oh, you’re such a scaredy-cat.” Seeing that Zheng Wei didn’t deny it, Martin walked over and patted his shoulder. “You’re still as timid as when you were a kid, do you still believe there are monsters under the bed and need to hug a teddy bear to sleep?”

Hearing Martin’s ridicule, Zheng Wei’s facial muscles twitched, but he still didn’t say anything.

“Don’t worry, little Zheng, there are no monsters in this world.” Martin made a face at Zheng Wei.

“Martin.” Diane looked at Martin dissatisfied. “Zheng is just worried.”

“Okay, sorry, Zheng, I was just kidding.” Martin immediately stopped laughing, but his mouth was still stretched wide.

“Here’s the deal, Zheng, we’ll vote by raising our hands. If there are more people who are as scared as you, then we’ll go back.” Martin raised his eyebrows and looked at Zheng Wei.

“Come on, everyone who wants to go back, raise your hand.” Without waiting for Zheng Wei to object, he shouted to the people around him. No one moved, no one raised their hand, including Zheng Wei.

“Bloody stories are the most inspiring for creativity.” Jin drank his beer and mumbled, “After hearing this, I want to go to that farm even more.”

“Yes, although terrible things happened on the farm, I’ve come all this way, and I don’t want to go back.” Ellie shrugged.

“I also want to go see it.” Diane smiled apologetically at Zheng Wei.

“Don’t worry, dear, I’ll protect you.” Martin hugged Diane’s shoulder and planted a kiss on her face.

“Okay, sorry Zheng, I was just kidding.” Martin immediately stopped laughing, but his mouth was still stretched wide.

“Here’s what we’ll do, Zheng. Let’s vote by raising our hands. If there are more people who are afraid like you, then we’ll go back.” Martin raised his eyebrows and looked at Zheng Wei.

“Come on, everyone who wants to go back, raise your hand.” Without waiting for Zheng Wei to object, he shouted at the people around him. No one moved, and no one raised their hand, including Zheng Wei.

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