"Mommy, will we hunt ghosts? I have runes."
Lucas took out some yellow papers with runes drawn on them.
Nicole couldn't help but laugh. She stretched out her hand and gently tapped his forehead.
"Do you think we are filming a movie? Where did these come from?"
"The old lady in the farm house gave them to me. She said that these can ward off evil spirits."
Lucas pouted and said.
Nicole and Blair couldn't help but be stunned.
"The owner of the farmhouse? Why couldn't I tell that she was a witch?"
Trevin smiled and said, "Mrs. Green, she is not a witch. Since the Day of the Dead is coming, we have
this tradition here. We will take some papers with runes on them along the way to expel ghosts and
ward off evil spirits. It can be considered as a kind of psychological comfort and also a custom."
"I didn't even notice it if you didn't tell me. Indeed, the Day of the Dead is coming."
Nicole sighed.
It had been more than half a year since she returned from the United States, and her relationship with
Samuel had stabilized. However, she did not expect that there would still be so many tribulations
ahead.
Nicole touched Lucas’ head and said, "Did you say thank you to that old lady?"
"Of course, I am a polite and cultured child."
Lucas said proudly.
They arrived at the back of the cave while talking.
This place was a bit gloomy. The weeds around were very tall, and they almost covered Nicole's waist.
She couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"There can't be anything dangerous in those weeds, right?"
"Don't worry. We have pills."
Nicole forced a smile.
Suddenly, Blair discovered something.
"Come over and see if this place has been dug up."
Hearing this, Nicole hurriedly walked over with Lucas in her arms.
The weeds here had already been mown. There was a small soil mound. It seemed that it was made
not long ago, or....
"Could this be Johnnie's grave?"
Nicole guessed.
Trevin thought carefully and said, "It should be. I heard from my parents that it was in the shade behind
the mountain. Because he was not from this town, he could only stay here. As for the people in our
town who died, they were buried in the direction of the sunrise."
"It's a newly-made mound."
Blair squatted down and reached out to touch the soil.
Nicole suddenly felt nervous.
"Can it be that Samuel was buried inside?"
"Impossible! Samuel was strong, how could he be buried in the ground by others?"
When Lucas finished speaking, he noticed Nicole's sharp gaze. That gaze was somewhat angry.
He quickly covered his mouth and whispered, "I'm sorry, Mommy. I mean I don't think Samuel would be
harmed."
"Nothing is absolute in this world. Don't let arrogance and confidence cloud your judgement."
Nicole felt extremely nervous.
"I have to dig into this. Otherwise, I can't be at ease."
After Nicole finished speaking, she crouched down and started digging with her hands.
"Mrs. Green, we have a shovel."
Seeing Nicole like this, Trevin couldn't help but be moved.
Only then did Nicole remember that Lucas brought many things when he went out. Fortunately, she
didn't stop him.
"Give it to me."
"I'll do it. If there is a living person buried in it, you may hurt him."
What Blair said stunned Nicole. Then she stood aside, but she couldn't calm down.
Could it be Samuel?
Logically speaking, Samuel was so strong, so he shouldn't be buried. However, Nicole couldn't be
absolutely sure.
Blair seemed more of a pro.
After a few minutes, Nicole saw the corner of someone's clothes. When she saw it, Nicole couldn't
control herself any longer.
"Samuel!"
She suddenly pounced over and started digging crazily.
Not long after, the person was dig out from the ground, but it was not Samuel, but Johnnie.
Johnnie's limbs were tied by Samuel's shirt, almost suffocating.
At this moment, he finally got out. He was panting heavily, like a fish out of water.
Nicole and Blair were stunned.
Lucas let out a sigh of relief.
"I've told you that Samuel wouldn't be buried so easily."
Nicole grabbed Johnnie's collar and anxiously asked, "Where is Samuel? Where did you take
Samuel?"
Johnnie had just gotten a breath of air, but soon he suffocated again.
He shouted in pain, "Look at me! Do you think I could do anything to him? He was such a demon!"
"Let me ask you again. Where is Samuel?"
"I don't know. He was poisoned, so he probably has already died when you find him. That was a
special poison I made myself. After so many years, I've finally avenged him!"
After Johnnie finished speaking, he laughed crazily.
After hearing that Samuel was poisoned, Nicole was completely shocked.
"Are you insane? Samuel had no enmity with you, why did you poison him?"
"No enmity? He was the child of Alice and that man! He deserved to die! If it were not for this child,
Alice wouldn't have canceled the engagement with me back then!"
Johnnie said excitedly.
Nicole was suddenly stunned.
"What did you say? You said that Alice was pregnant before she left here?"
"Right. The reason why she would survive was that she sneaked out that night and went to meet that
man. Otherwise, how could she have avoided the disaster in the town?"
Nicole's eyes narrowed when she heard what Johnnie said.
"You should have died when that happened in the town. So did you fake your death?
"Yes."
At this point, Johnnie did not conceal anything.
"I was poisoned. I wanted to die with Alice, but I didn't expected that Alice had an anti-poison vaccine in
her. I was about to die, but my adoptive father didn't save me because of what I did. I still remembered
him viciously cursing me. From then on, I started hating him. He had arranged the engagement
between Alice and me, but his daughter had broken off the engagement. He did not help me then, and
he even cursed me when I was about to die. No one in the town treated me as their fellow. Although I
grew up here, they all thought I was an outsider. Alice cheated on her, but they did not reprimand her.
Wasn't there a rule in the town that they couldn't marry an outsider? Why could Alice do this? Was it
because Alice's parents were the leaders here?"
The more Johnnie spoke, the more excited he became, and he coughed repeatedly.
Trevin frowned. Obviously, this was different from the version he had heard from his parents.
Blair stood there coldly, protecting Lucas behind him.
Nicole listened to this and suddenly said, "You brought outsiders to destroy the town, didn't you?
Because at that moment, you began to hate the people in the town, your adoptive parents, and even
Alice."
"Yes!"
Johnnie admitted.
"I was dying. They buried me here. Even if I died, I couldn't be buried with my clansmen. They didn't
treat me as their clansman. If that was the case, why should I treat them well?"
"Didn't you come looking for the Blue Star Herb? It was a magical thing. It saved my life, but it also
prevented me from getting married and having children in this lifetime."
Johnnie's eyes were filled with resentment.
"Why Alice could have descendants even if she had an affair? Why would I end up like this? It was not
fair! After Alice was cured by her adoptive father, I hid in this cave and watched her sneak out of the
cave to meet that man every day. I even saw them making love in the cave. She was my fiancée! She
got pregnant less than a hundred days after I died!! Do you know how I felt when I saw she tell the man
she was pregnant? I wished I could rush out and kill that man!"
The more Johnnie spoke, the angrier he became.
On this point, neither Nicole nor Blair had the right to make comments.
Nicole looked at Johnnie and asked, "Where is Samuel?"
"Find him yourself!"
Johnnie even started laughing like a maniac.
Nicole was extremely anxious, but she also knew that if Johnnie did not tell them anything, even if they
searched the entire mountain, they might not be able to find Samuel.
Trevin suddenly asked, "Mrs. Green, are you looking for Blue Star Herb?"
"Yes."
Nicole felt so regretful now.
If she didn't have a sore throat, Samuel wouldn't have come here to look for the Blue Star Herb and
have ended up like this.
If something really happened to Samuel....
Nicole's look Johnnie changed.
That gloomy and eerie gaze made Johnnie involuntarily tremble.
"What do you want to do?"
"You'd better pray that Samuel is fine. Otherwise, I'll cut off your meat and feed it to the poison insects
here. You wait and see."
What Nicole said not only scared Johnnie, but also shocked Trevin.
However, Blair knew that Nicole could really do it.
Samuel's safety was Nicole's bottom line. Once something really happened to Samuel, Nicole might go
insane, let alone do such crazy things.
"Alright, let's hurry up and find Samuel."
Blair hurried to say.
Trevin paused for a moment and said, "If you're here for the Blue Star Herb, I think I might know where
Mr. Green is."
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