"Yes, you're right about that," Xiao Shu said, patting his shoulder from behind. Wang Jue immediately grabbed his hand in return and said without looking back, "Don't cry like that anymore. A real man doesn't shed tears easily; if the sky falls, a friend is here to catch it. Losing Xiao Yu isn't the end of the world; we'll just go find him again."

"Alas! You've only told half the story," Xiao Shu sighed.

"Heh, you've only told half the story too. I'm very clear about the situation in the city. Your heartless blood relative brother and the Guardian of the Fountain of Youth are currently engaged in a battle to seize living people. Am I right about that?" Wang Jue turned, winked at him, and added with a touch of humor.

But Xiao Shu couldn't manage a smile. He let out a long sigh. "I don't know why things have turned out this way. Everything was fine before. Everyone had their own world, content with their own happiness. Suddenly, it became like this."

"You don't know the reason for this problem, but I did overhear a snippet from your uncle," Wang Jue said, walking over to the doorway curtain, lifting it slightly, and glancing outside. Seeing no one around, he returned and continued, "Many years ago, the two great families guarding the Fountain of Youth and the Sea of Lost Souls had a very good relationship. They jointly entrusted the Monkey Clan living by the Fountain and the Sea to manage matters concerning the Peach Blossom Pool and the Sea of Lost Souls. The Monkey Clan has always been diligent, working like daily sanitation workers, scooping fallen leaves and branches from the Pool and clearing out the various pieces of floating debris that often appeared in the Sea of Lost Souls."

"Until one day, a monkey dove into the stone house in the middle of the Sea of Lost Souls and brought back a fishing net. They intended to use the net to deal with the Lost Souls Fish, netting them up to roast and eat. But that net wasn't for catching fish; it was for scooping up the wandering souls that had fallen into the Sea of Lost Souls after completing their missions. The first soul they pulled up was Bai Huaqian. The leader of the Monkey Clan, following an ancient ritual, placed Bai Huaqian's soul into the body of a young monkey. Your father, Li Tai Zheng, learned of this, and so he found a magic treasure in the Reflection Villa that could transfer the souls of the lost into the living—that was the album Xiao Yu snatched from Xiao Hao at the beginning. He personally taught Li Xiao Hao how to transfer the souls of the lost from the monkeys' bodies into living people, using these souls to replace the ordinary souls of normal people. Thus, this project of creating the undead began."

"Xiao Hao originally intended to use Xiao Yu as the third vessel to hold another soul salvaged by the Monkey Clan, but Xiao Yu managed to escape halfway through. That's why the story of forcibly sending him to the mental hospital happened later. After regaining the album, Xiao Hao converted Ah Mang and others. The Guardian of the Fountain of Youth discovered that the power of the undead was growing stronger, so they took out their own net, dredged up the unjustly deceased souls from the Sea of Lost Souls, and granted them the Life-Death Pact. The undying needed to kill ninety-nine people, and the undead also required zombies, so the entire city descended into chaos, leaving traces of slaughter everywhere..."

"Who is the Guardian of the Fountain of Youth? And what is their connection to the Ming family?" Hearing this, Xiao Shu suddenly interjected. Xiao Hui, startled by the sudden question, involuntarily trembled, her hand holding the scissors to apply tape to Old He shaking. Wang Jue saw her face turn pale, stopped speaking, and simply said gently, "I'll go find Xiao Yu with you. Two people are safer than one."