Hearing this, Wang Chen and Yao Ruyi finally understood the origin of the curse of Gelin Village.
While listening to Zhang recount the tale, they felt somewhat afraid.
But after hearing everything, they became somewhat skeptical.
It's not that they found the story absurd, but rather they thought that the curse posed no real threat to their lives, including Yao Ruyi's and Bai Ruyan's.
In the story told by Zhang, among the four people who entered the mountain, only the first one died under unclear circumstances; the others were all killed by wild beasts, which could hardly be considered a curse, at most a disaster or calamity that people can understand.
After all, the contents of the stele, while verging on the fantastical, didn't correlate much with the actual situation.
Although the stele recorded the claim that entering the mountains would lead to death, not every death in the mountains could be attributed to the curse, right?
That simply makes no sense.
