Bai Junjun glanced at the children behind her, all with faces full of panic and unease, and sighed helplessly in compromise, "Then let’s rest first, and we’ll investigate the situation tomorrow."
As soon as she finished speaking, the children visibly breathed a great sigh of relief.
Bai Junjun then climbed up the tree to construct a temporary camp.
She repeated the process above, splitting wooden planks from the trunk, laying them flat across the branches to create a floor, erecting walls, and then weaving a thatched roof out of vines.
When a simple treehouse was completed, she cast down a vine ladder for everyone to climb up.
With the living dead below, Bai Sasa didn’t dare to look for food, and of course, she didn’t want Bai Junjun to go either.
Bai Sasa’s tantrum clearly showed she was genuinely frightened.
Bai Junjun, with no other choice, could only let everyone drink the Water of Flora to get through the night and wait for the sunrise to catch birds for food.
Xiao Shan and Bai Lingyu were very well-behaved, thinking it was no big deal to miss a meal.
After all, they would rather go hungry than allow their elder sister or Brother Fox to take any risks.
So the group climbed up into the treehouse.
Naturally, the treehouse was not as comfortable as the tree hollow they had once lived in, but it was enough to provide shelter from the dew for one night.
The few of them were not demanding about their surroundings, and after lying down and drinking the Water of Flora heavily, they prepared to rest.
Bai Junjun, Li Wenli, and Xiao Yu, having used their Special Abilities today, soon felt drowsy after drinking the Water of Flora.
Xiao Shan, still a child, closed his eyes when he saw the others sleeping and fell asleep not long after.
Only Bai Sasa was left tossing and turning restlessly.
After witnessing such a terrifying scene, it would be impossible for anyone to act as if nothing happened after seeing a living dead.
Thinking to herself, Bai Sasa silently hugged Bai Junjun’s arm, trying to draw some warmth and encouragement from her elder sister.
Bai Junjun, muddled with sleep, felt Bai Sasa’s clinginess and vaguely patted her head before continuing her sleep.
The dew grew heavier as the night deepened, the moon climbed high on the branches, and the cold lunar light cast a strange grey hue over the dark jungle.
Despite it being Midsummer, Bai Sasa still felt chills coming in waves.
She did not know when she fell asleep, but in the state between sleep and wakefulness, she returned to that ghostly village, the shadowy figure still ringing the bell in waves. Suddenly, as if sensing something, it stared directly at her.
A pair of crimson eyes made contact with Bai Sasa’s gaze, and before she could even scream, the shadow charged at her like lightning, its grotesque face poised to tear at her neck.
Bai Sasa woke up with a start, her eyes snapping open.
What she saw was a canopy of vines, and it took her a moment to realize she had just been dreaming!
Looking at her elder sister sleeping sweetly, Bai Sasa let out a sigh of relief.
Now, terrified by her nightmare, she was breaking out in cold sweat, and her hands were trembling uncontrollably.
Mouth parched and tongue scorched, she quietly got up to have some Water of Flora to calm her nerves.
However, it was during this moment of drinking water that she suddenly noticed the vine ladder at the entrance swaying rhythmically, not as if moved by the wind.
Recalling how they had climbed up the ladder last night without pulling it up, Bai Sasa’s scalp tingled with numbness.
She watched the continuous swaying of the ladder, a terrible premonition growing in her heart.
Even though intuition told her not to look, her body moved involuntarily toward the front.
Bai Sasa slowly edged her way to the entrance, peering out cautiously.
And then she saw it—a dark figure slowly, step by step, climbing up!
"!" Bai Sasa was utterly stunned.