The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 847 - 841: Dead or Not?

Chapter 847: Chapter 841: Dead or Not?

Xiao Jinyan stared blankly at Fusang Mountain rising from the earth, unable to hear a word anyone else was saying.

He knew that this trip had cost them Jin Zijin, and now he was the Xiao Family’s sinner.

The Xiao Family’s years of restrained behavior seemed utterly meaningless.

"General Xiao," someone said urgently, "please give the order to weigh anchor!"

Everyone was anxious, but without a word from Xiao Jinyan, they dared not initiate the process themselves.

The sun had just risen, and they saw many red objects moving toward them across the sea, causing astonishment among those who had never seen such a thing.

Someone exclaimed loudly, "Look! What are those things?"

Those who saw the small red furry-like spheres immediately stiffened.

Some were dead bodies floating, being tugged up and down by fish in the sea; others were alive, struggling intensely. If they didn’t get to shore soon, it looked like they wouldn’t have much chance of survival.

Those items were the dreaded red-haired rats.

"It’s those rats!" they exclaimed in surprise.

But how could those rats be appearing on the sea?

Someone shouted, "Could it be that their burrow broke open and seawater flowed in, causing the rats to swim up to the sea from the hole?"

If that was the case... someone boldly suggested, "Perhaps General Jin hasn’t died, maybe he swam out too."

There, with a face as gray as death, Xiao Jinyan’s eyes suddenly lit up with hope, but just for a moment, before deflating again like a punctured ball.

He waved his hand and said, "He’s a landlubber with no chance of survival."

Yet one soldier wouldn’t give up, saying, "General Jin can’t swim, but maybe some of the others in the cave can. They could have helped him swim up." He pointed in a direction, "All these rats came from over there. Let’s go look there. Even if the people are dead, maybe we can find bodies that surfaced. Look, many rat corpses have floated up."

Hearing this, Xiao Jinyan’s hope was rekindled.

Right, since the bodies of the rats had surfaced, even if his cousin had indeed drowned, his body might also still be out there. Dead or alive, they had to find him. If he really drowned in the sea, he couldn’t let his cousin’s body feed the fish.

The rat corpses attracted a lot of fish, and standing on the beach, Gu Youyou couldn’t help but remark, "Eating these irradiated rats, I wonder if there will be a bunch of mutated fish coming out."

Searcy, curious, asked, "What do you mean by ’irradiated’ fish?"

Gu Youyou replied, "Haven’t you said those two pearls came from a meteorite? I think so too. So, those strange things in the cave must be caused by extraterrestrial objects. These rats ate the water from that lotus pool and turned out like this. And the rock above isn’t ordinary rock which is why the grass growing there is so strange."

Gu Youyou was distracted, so she briefly explained to Searcy, who still only partially understood.

This cave wasn’t new to them; people had been here thousands of years ago.

If she wasn’t mistaken, the people from the Dao Sect took the Youying Pearl back then and also took quite a few Yin Stones, nurturing the Youying Grass.

And an ancestor of the Imperial Family took the Zhuzhao Pearl and created the Flame Pool.

Of course, perhaps they hadn’t taken the stones—it could be that just with these two pearls, after thousands of years of radiation, their surrounding environment had transformed to what it was now.