Seeing this scene, Lu Ye became even more certain that the little boy definitely had something on his mind.
After making sure no one was around, the little boy hung the wooden bucket on the hook, lowered it into the well, and then... started drawing water.
However, when he pulled up the first bucket of water with some effort and took a look, he shook his head in disappointment, poured it out, and then started again...
Very soon, five buckets of water were drawn up in a row. The little boy didn’t take a single bucket away, just kept shaking his head.
"He’s probably not trying to draw water, but to fish something out?"
Seeing this, Lu Ye faintly began to guess.
After all, if it was just to draw water, how could it be like this?
Could it be that this little boy was also here to retrieve that gray tile?
Lu Ye’s heart stirred.
Not long after, that little boy poured another bucket of water back into the well and muttered tiredly.
"It’s over, it’s over, I really can’t get it up."
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded by the little boy’s ear...
"What are you trying to fish out?"
In the middle of the night, suddenly hearing a voice, the little boy was startled by instinct and blurted, "I... I’m trying to fish up a gray thing."
After speaking, he suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly covered his mouth, and his eyes darted around...
Trying to find where the person who had just spoken was.
But after looking around in a full circle...
The little boy did not see any other figure!
In that instant, an ordinary person’s fear of ghosts was immediately stirred up. The little boy visibly panicked, his legs starting to tremble.
"Y-You... who are you?"
The air remained utterly silent, as if the words he’d just heard were completely imagined.
The little boy grew more and more frightened. Just as he was about to drop the bucket and run, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Is this... what you’re looking for?"
The one who appeared was naturally Lu Ye. He held the gray tile in his hand; with the moonlight pouring down from the night sky, an ordinary person couldn’t see it clearly, but could make out its outline well enough.
The little boy clearly recognized it. His expression changed at once, and he stammered, "H-How... how is it in your hand? I clearly dropped it into the well by accident?!"
Dropped into the well?
Lu Ye asked in a low voice, "What’s going on? Tell me, or I’ll tell your parents."
Sure enough, no matter where you were, the fear of that sentence was ingrained in the bones. The little boy panicked immediately and spilled everything like beans from a bamboo tube...
It turned out this gray tile had indeed been dropped in by accident by the little boy.
A few months ago, he had gone with his parents to visit relatives once, in a town called Hongshan, a thousand miles away, a town under Qingshan City’s jurisdiction.
In this world, ordinary people had no cultivation, and the means of transportation were basic. Unlike in his previous life, where a thousand-mile journey could be completed in a few hours,
here it took several days.
So visiting relatives basically happened once a year or once every few years.
The little boy had gone along to Hongshan Town. While the adults of both families talked business and chatted at home, the little boy, who had been to Hongshan Town several times and was somewhat familiar with it, went off to play in the town with the host family’s child.
As they played, the two of them wandered outside the town. The host family’s child said he knew a very mysterious place and wanted to take the little boy to have a look.
Then the two of them came to a cave. Inside, the little boy had found this tile. The pattern drawn on it fascinated him.
In the end, when they returned to Cloud Leaf City, he brought it back with him.
However, a few days ago, while helping the family draw water, he accidentally dropped the tile he kept on him into the well.
At first, losing a toy just felt a bit of a pity. He had tried to fish it out before, but failed every time, and the little boy had been about to give up.
But starting these last few days, his mother at home began saying she’d been feeling unwell lately...
That was when the little boy really started to panic. He didn’t know if it was because he had dropped that thing down there.
Moreover, other elders in the village had also started saying they didn’t feel too well, which completely threw the little boy into chaos.
These days, because he didn’t dare to do it during the day, the little boy had been coming out at night with a wooden bucket, trying to fish it up.
"A wooden bucket most likely can’t sink to the bottom. Even if you try for another half a month, it might not do any good."
After listening, Lu Ye shook his head.
When he’d found this Demon Palace tile that was giving off a sinister Demonic Qi, it had been lying right on the bottom.
"Then how did you get it up? You didn’t go down the well, did you?" the little boy asked curiously.
Did this person actually go down into the well?
"I naturally have my own way." Lu Ye said calmly.
"Tell me about the place where you picked up the tile." Feeling that place might be problematic—otherwise how would a Demon Palace tile show up—Lu Ye planned to go take a look.
A distance of a thousand miles was a long journey for ordinary people, but for Lu Ye, it was only a matter of a single thought.
"That place is really far. How are you going to get there?" At the boy’s age, everything was fascinating to him, and he couldn’t help asking.
"If you keep asking, I’ll go tell your mom in a bit," Lu Ye said.
The little boy was so frightened that he didn’t dare say another word and obediently described the location.
He felt that this big brother looked pretty kind, but why did he keep threatening to tell the parents?
Too scary!
A moment later, Lu Ye said, "Alright, I’ve already fished the thing out. You can head back now."
"Okay then, thanks, big brother. If not for you, I really wouldn’t know how to get it back up."
Nodding, the little boy knew that if he stayed out too long this late at night and didn’t go back, and his parents happened to notice, they really would be worried.
Watching the little boy leave and sensing that he had indeed gone into a villager’s house, Lu Ye finally left Mo Village.
Only a moment later, Lu Ye’s figure had already vanished from Cloud Leaf City. When he reappeared, he was above Hongshan Town.
At this time, Hongshan Town had already fallen into a cold stillness.
With a sweep of his Spiritual Sense, Lu Ye had seen the general distribution of cultivators in the town.
The two strongest were both at the Postnatal Ninth Layer, each just one step away from breaking through to the Innate.
"The cultivators in this town are actually not bad."
Lu Ye was a bit surprised. For such a small town to have two Postnatal cultivators, and both at the Ninth Layer, was quite rare.
In the next instant, Lu Ye directly passed over the town and arrived in a mountain range not far from it.
"For somewhere this remote, those two kids actually dared to come here."