Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 44 - 41 Is this you_1
Chapter 44: Chapter 41 Is this you_1
Chapter 44 -41 Is this you_1
Seeing a swarm of mosquitoes flying towards Xue Lin, Feng Yi took another two steps in that direction.
As Feng Yi approached, the mosquitoes originally flying towards him hesitated for a moment as if unwilling to leave, then flew away.
The three mosquitoes on Xue Lin, either having had their fill of blood or forced to abandon their feast midway, also took off, only to be quickly caught by Feng Yi.
Wiping the blood from his palm with a tissue, Feng Yi looked at Xue Lin.
By then, Xue Lin had finally come to his senses, scratching the mosquito bites and calmly applying ointment from his bag, before continuing his melancholic and wistful talk about the sad stories associated with this house.
“Back then, I had a dog, a gift from a friend. It’s not very convenient to have a dog in the city, and I had some minor conflicts with my family, so I bought this house. Although it’s too close to the river, humid, and infested with mosquitoes, it was the only place on sale at the time, so I bought it.
“Actually, this house is quite nice, located at the corner of the community. It’s mosquito-ridden but scarcely populated. I hardly meet anyone when walking the dog, and we would play frisbee, right over there on that grassland.”
Feng Yi followed the direction of his gaze.
A vast expanse of weeds, almost as tall as a person, name unknown. That area, close to the river, wasn’t part of the community property, so the groundskeepers usually skipped it unless the homeowners strongly requested maintenance, otherwise leaving it to grow wild.
“I still remember, the temperature that day was much like today’s. I took it outside the community to play frisbee, and didn’t leash it while playing. I threw the frisbee and got a phone call just then. I heard the dog bark twice in the midst, but I didn’t pay attention because I was on the phone. After the call, when I went out to look for the dog, it was gone…”
As he spoke, Xue Lin seemed to be sinking back into his pool of sad memories, forcing Feng Yi to interrupt. Since he had the intention to buy this house, he needed to clear up some doubts.
“How could the dog just disappear all of a sudden?”
From what Xue Lin implied, although the phone call wasn’t brief, it wasn’t excessively long either, and he had heard the dog bark twice, was it stolen?
Upon Feng Yi’s inquiry, a look of regret filled Xue Lin’s eyes, “I don’t know, the property surveillance didn’t cover that area. I called the police, and also looked privately. But the dog vanished as if into thin air. No other cameras captured any suspicious people or the dog.”
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“Someone found some traces by the river, suggesting the dog might have been dragged under by something. At that time, there were rumors around the community about crocodiles or huge pythons in the river. More people moved away, and those who stayed didn’t come near this area.
“Later, a patrol team cracking down on illegal fishing passed by. Hearing about the incidents, they came to check but found no signs of illegal fishing in this section of the river, nor any crocodiles or pythons. They even deployed underwater detectors but found nothing of use.”
Feng Yi found it strange, “It’s impossible for a dog to just disappear without reason.”
“Exactly!” Xue Lin said, his face full of regret, “I should have watched it. Why did I throw the frisbee towards the river? Why did I let it get close to the water!”
Of course, Xue Lin’s heartbreaking stories about the house didn’t end there. He continued to recount the sad memories it held for him, such as, after losing the dog, he got a cat, which ran away to someone else’s home in less than two months, abandoning him. Or the time he tripped over a snapping turtle while running outside the community and broke his leg, leading his family to forcibly bring him back home…
But Feng Yi was most concerned about the dog losing incident that Xue Lin had just mentioned. He wanted to ask more details, but Xue Lin was immersed in his own world, talking to himself.
As for the inside of the house, since it hadn’t been lived in for a long time, many important things had already been moved out. The furniture left behind had suffered various degrees of damage due to the long neglect and the high humidity. It was still somewhat usable.
Feng Yi was inspecting the house when Lu Yue drove up.
Lu Yue hadn’t planned on coming; he was busy with many matters, but, fortunately, things were going smoothly, and there were no emergencies that day, so he stopped by to take a look. He wasn’t worried about Feng Yi; he was worried about his own scatterbrained cousin.
However, the moment he stepped out of the car, Lu Yue felt the urge to turn around and get back in.
“It’s not even evening yet, and there are so many mosquitoes! Mistake, I didn’t bring mosquito repellent!”
While complaining, Lu Yue waved his hands to ward off the mosquitoes around him.
“You’ll get used to it,” Xue Lin said.
“God, ‘get used to it’ my ass,” Lu Yue thought to himself, screw that, I’m never going to “get used to” this place!
Grumbling, Lu Yue looked around and couldn’t help but say, “It’s not just ‘remote’, right? This is practically ‘in the wilds’!”
Smack!
Lu Yue slapped his arm.
He missed the mosquito, but his arm turned bright red from the swat.
The day wasn’t over yet, and the mosquitoes were already this aggressive? Wouldn’t it be even more despairing when night fell?!
Looking at the wild grass on the riverbank not far away, which was nearly as tall as a person, Lu Yue shuddered as the wind blew.
“Can anyone even live here?”
Lu Yue tried to put himself in that scenario, imagining living here… He felt nearly suffocated, and goosebumps began to pop out all over.
Lu Yue asked Feng Yi, “Do you really want to buy a house here? Living in such a place, aren’t you afraid something like a specter might suddenly pop out?”
Feng Yi: “…I’m brave, not afraid.”
After he spoke, Feng Yi smelled something, walked into the yard, and then plucked a snake over half a meter long from the knee-high weeds.
Xue Lin, with an unsettled look in his eyes, calmly said, “It should be some kind of water snake, not very poisonous.”
Feng Yi also said, “Yeah, the poison isn’t strong.”
Lu Yue, already stunned: “…”
Xue Lin added, “Put it in a bag for now, and later we can give it to the property management to deal with; they’ll release it at a designated spot.”
Feng Yi: “Then I’ll just take it directly to the property management now.”
Xue Lin: “No need to rush; what if you find another and have to make another trip? Here, use this bag for now.”
Xue Lin dug out a burlap sack and handed it over.
Feng Yi calmly received it and bagged the snake.
Lu Yue: “…”
This TM is a snake!
A live snake aah!!
Don’t talk about a snake with the tone you’d use for an earthworm aahhh!
“Why is there a snake in this yard!” Lu Yue asked stiffly.
He only liked snake-like patterns, not real snakes, which he didn’t like and even feared a bit.
Xue Lin looked at him disdainfully, “With this kind of environment in the area, isn’t it normal to have snakes?”
His gaze shifted to Feng Yi, his brow furrowed as if he was contemplating a difficult problem.
Lu Yue wasn’t focused on mosquitoes anymore but stared at the surrounding bushes, worried another snake might dash out and bite him on the leg.
At the same time, Lu Yue wondered if he was overreacting. His cousin who studied arts was calm about it, and his junior, Qing, handled snakes as if they were earthworms without a care, was he being too cowardly?
But “scenic beauty” in Lu Yue’s heart was definitely not this kind of wild environment! Mosquitoes everywhere, and you even had to be wary of snakes entering your own yard! He wouldn’t live in such a house even if it were given to him for free!
Thinking of Feng Yi’s remarkable sense of smell, Lu Yue decided to ask if Feng Yi could detect the scent of any snakes nearby. Since he could smell shed snake skin, surely he could detect it on a live snake as well! Otherwise, how did he grab it with such precision just now?
Lu Yue was about to ask, when suddenly someone shoved him to the side with some force.
Xue Lin, with his phone in hand, shoved the screen almost into Feng Yi’s face.
“This is you, right?!”
Feng Yi’s eyes focused on the photo on the phone—
One hand holding a small Qing dragon, with a mask, sunglasses, and a fisherman’s hat.
Dammit! How could you recognize someone from this?!
