I have lived in my own ranch since the day I came to town. Even though Boss Dart invited me many times, I have not really lived in the lodge overnight.

Unexpectedly, today, I broke another first time.

Looking at the neat furnishings and clean bedding in the house, and the heavy rain that was about to flood the world outside the window, I couldn't help but feel a sense of time and space dislocation, as if I was trapped in a difficult crack, and even turning my body became a luxury.

The raser in the sky kept rolling, splitting countless silver and white branches. In this small town without high-rise buildings, the sky view on the second floor of the tavern was particularly wide, allowing me to see the gloomy sky at a glance.

I felt a sense of depression, as heavy as the lead clouds on the dome, covering the sky of this remote town and in everyone's hearts. I seemed to see a whirlpool growing in the boundless clouds, twisting and swallowing everything I see...

Seeing me standing in front of the closed glass window and staring at the sky in a daze, after Pablo laid the bedding for me, he sat obediently on the wooden chair beside me and said softly.

"Marcus, it's really great that you can come back... Where did you go during this period?"

Perbri's voice broke my trance, "I...I don't know either...I seemed to have had a very long dream. When I woke up, I was on the hillside of Mount Mades, but as soon as I got off the mountain, I saw my ranch disappearing..."

I really can't explain how I traveled to the wilderness on the planet that was not many light years away to survive, and how I relied on the help of two old bastards to cross the dream gate to return to town. But the medium in the middle was really just a big dream.

I really hope that I am dreaming.

"Dream? But you have disappeared for half a month!" Perbri said in surprise, covering his mouth, "This heavy rain started from the night we parted in the tavern. For some reason, it triggered a large mudslide, destroying many places in the town... From the path, the first one to be destroyed was your ranch, and we all thought you could not escape in your sleep..."

It seems that the day I traveled to the wasteland, the mudslide "walked" to destroy the pasture...

Perbri whispered, stretching out his hand and plucking up the courage to grab my arm, as if to confirm again that the living person standing in front of him was not a dead soul whose resentment had not yet faded.

I patted her hand with a little distress and comforted her: "Don't worry, I'm still alive. Although I don't know what happened, I did escape the mudslide without any harm. Can you tell me what happened later?"

I was eager to understand what happened in the town after traveling through time, and Perbri also hoped to find a channel to release his feelings through confidence, so he said in a trembling voice.

"Boss Dart first arrived at the ranch and told us that we could not find your traces and that we might have died unfortunately. Then he ran to the downstream ranch area and found that Grandpa Muqi's house was left with only a dangerous house that was difficult to maintain in the ruins. Our chicken farm was also leveled due to mudslides. Fortunately, her mother's strange disease made her work and rest the opposite of ours, so she discovered the crisis in time and woke us up and escaped..."

"Perbri, are you talking about Mrs. Lilia taking you out? Then how... how did she die?"

I hesitated for a while, but still said the word "die". Mrs. Lilia's strange disease caused her to have a long-term physical weakness, unstable health, and drowsy for a long time. This time, she happened to escape in the middle of the night. So why did something happen to her?

Perbri's eyes turned red in an instant, tears tickled down her cheeks, knocking down her pajamas and the back of her hands.

"When... at that time... Boss Dart went to save Grandpa Muqi and Mei who were trapped in the house... Mom asked my brother and I to take refuge in Rose Square first, and she was there waiting for Boss Dart to come back before leaving..."

Perbri said sadly, with an expression of regret, "But who knows, my mother seems to have forgotten to take something and returns to the house alone. Boss Dart said that when he rescued Grandpa Muqi and Mei and passed the chicken farm, he saw her mother walking into the house... Then, another mudslide followed one after another... and washed out our house... and my mother... disappeared..."

I couldn't help but remain silent for a long time, only Perbri's sobs were sobbing slightly and continuously in my ears. Mrs. Lilia was actually swallowed by the mudslide that she was careless. Such a story can be called extremely tragic...

"It's okay, Perbri. Since I can survive unexpectedly, I believe Mrs. Lilia can turn bad luck into good luck!"

"Really?" Perbri asked with tears in his eyes and looked up.

I deliberately showed confidence: "Look, I'm standing in front of you, isn't it the best proof?"

Perbri looked into my eyes, and finally a trace of trust flashed, and nodded heavily: "Well... I believe in you, Marcus!"

Then she wiped the tears from her face and continued, "I believe there will be a miracle! If Dad comes back suddenly, it must be God's blessing. I can't cry like this to cause trouble for everyone!"

Upon hearing this topic, I took the opportunity to ask, "By the way, Perbuli, what happened to the tavern? Where is Boss Dart and Lin?"

Perbri said: "After the mudslide, the town was greatly damaged and the original hydropower station was destroyed, so the entire town could only be dark at night... The impact of the famine continued. Boss Dart and Mayor Thomas took a boat to the federal government to purchase supplies and apply for assistance, which seemed to have taken Lin away..."

"The last ship that came back was carrying two people, Mayor Thomas and Dad. They said that Boss Dart was going to seek more support, so he would not come back for the time being..."

Boss Dart took Lin to the Federation and didn't come back? Why does this behavior sound like running away?

"Is Mr. Rhode back then?" I asked.

Perbri nodded: "Dad said that Boss Dart had entrusted him to manage the tavern, so he took me and my brother to live here."

This is also a bit suspicious...

In other words, the man who claims to be Rhode has never appeared with his "good friend" Boss Dart, and the words he said are all his one-sided words. According to my understanding of Boss Dart, he will never leave the neighbors in the town and take Lin away...

I would believe this kind of thing if it were Boss Dick or the promiscuous Jeff!

If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. What is the purpose of this sudden appearance of Mr. Rhode?

"Perbri, do you think something is wrong with your dad..."

Before I could finish my words, I heard a burst of rapid footsteps in the corridor of the house, and a shadow stretched by candlelight appeared at the door.

"Perbri, why have you been cleaning up for so long? Marcus must be tired after encountering so many things. Don't bother with others to rest?"

Perbri had heard my question clearly, but was shocked by the shouts outside the door. She saw a hint of panic flashing in her pupils. She nodded slightly, but raised a finger and gently pressed it on her small lips, signaling me not to speak, then quickly got up and walked out of the house.

"Dad, I'm chatting with Marcus, don't eavesdrop!"

"It's already very late now. If you have something to say, what do you think tomorrow? Go and rest quickly. I took some of my own clothes to change it for him. It's not convenient for you to keep it, so let's go first."

As the steps slowly stopped, the shadow at the door gradually shortened, and finally returned to a person's normal shadow shape.

And the person I doubted is standing in front of me, looking at me calmly.
Chapter completed!