Book 1: Chapter 188
This team was full of problem children. Since we were friends, I was very familiar with their routines, but their behaviors and habits were all varied.
Fatty was a naturalist and often said that he was a cat man. Iughed at him and said that if he was a cat, then he would be Garfield (1). But he actually was very simr to a cat. He wanted to eat whenever he saw food and escape whenever he saw danger. If he saw food and danger at the same time, he would see which one was the closest to him and deal with it first.
But ck sses was a snake man. Even though he liked to mess around, you couldnt treat him like a fool. Whenever snakes are in danger, theyll spit out the food they just ate in order to stay at peak condition. In other words, cats like to mess around when theres danger because their reaction speed is fast enough. But snakes ce top priority on anything that registers as danger. ck sses definitely paid more attention than Fatty.
Liu Sang was a meerkat, since staying alive and watching Poker-Face were his only life goals.
So, when ck sses said that we should discuss it first, I could easily understand what everyone''s thoughts were. Fatty was already thinking about going down, while ck sses probably wanted to ask us to take some measures that Fatty thought were unnecessary. By the time ck sses looked up, Fatty was already untying the rope and saying to him, "Let''s hear what you have to say." But his hands were already reaching out for the grass cover.
ck sses held his hand down. "This whole time, we havent been able to figure out what the historical system behind listening to thunder is. In fact, it''s hard for this group to hide these kinds of clues. The words Jin Tong Sect have never appeared before, but theyve suddenly appeared here now. I figure all those corpses we saw before were Jin Tong Sect disciples, but it''s hard to believe that no texts or rumors have been leaked out. Wu Xie, your Uncle Three experienced so many things in the past, and even you were able to find so many things about the Wang and Zhang families. But youve never heard your Uncle Three mention this kind of thing before. Dont you think its a bit odd?"
Fatty nodded. "Thats why we should go down right now. Based on our experience, its better to just go down and take a look. Well be able toe up with more ideas. Of course, Im not saying we should be reckless."
"Actually, beforeing here, Uncle Two asked me to check out a nearby vige, ck sses said to him. People in this vige have been mute for generations. I stayed there for a while, and I think I discovered something about the vige. Many generations ago, people in this vige thought that they had the ability to listen to thunder. They could talk when they were born, but after the baby heard thunder for the first time, they all became mute. The vigers thought it was God punishing them for being able to understand the thunder."
Fatty pulled his hand free and looked up at the sky. "You mean to say that if you know the secret after listening to thunder, youll be mute?"
"The situation in that vige is moreplicated than you can imagine, ck sses replied. But what I wanted to mention was that people in that vige will die suddenly if they go more than ten miles from the vige. Theyre trapped in that ce and be mute when they hear thunder. If the thunder itself has a protection mechanism that we dont know about, then we may be hurt if we learn the secrets in the thunder. So, if we go down now, we need to discuss it carefully. It wont be worth it if we all be mute."
People couldn''t escape thunder. In fact, everyone would experience thunder some time in their life. I looked at Fatty. It was rare for him to be scared after hearing what ck sses had to say.
"Why didn''t you say anything about that vige before?" I asked ck sses.
He grinned and suddenly looked a little embarrassed, "Hey, it involves a private matter."
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TN Notes:
(1) Garfield is an orange tabby from the famous Americanic strip. Info here.