ATBWSTBP Chapter 24
by VolareJin Mo sprinted towards the intersection after retrieving the beaded bracelet from Liu Cai’s house.
When he arrived, Xiao Feiwu, Xu Jiahao, and a hired man named Li Chao had already been searching for about ten minutes.
“How is it? Did you find it?” Jin Mo shouted from afar.
“Not yet!” Xiao Feiwu said as he parted the weeds to look.
Xu Jiahao shouted from the other side, “Could it have been blown somewhere else? Should we expand the search area?”
Jin Mo tilted his head back and felt the wind direction.
“This month, it’s mostly southwest wind, so let’s look in that direction!” Jin Mo pointed southwest.
“Okay!”
“It’s good that it hasn’t rained these past few days!” Xiao Feiwu muttered.
“I just don’t know if it’s been blown into Piggy River?” Xu Jiahao raised his head and glanced at the Piggy River not far away.
Everyone fell silent!
Jin Mo secretly prayed in his heart, “Please don’t!”
Liu Cai limped towards them and became anxious when he saw them searching in the south.
“Hey, don’t go that way, I threw it in the farmland over here!” he shouted at Jin Mo and the others.
Upon hearing this, Jin Mo and the others quickly retreated.
“What did you say?” Jin Mo yelled at Liu Cai from a distance.
“It’s not in the weeds over there, it’s on this side of the road! I was walking and looking, looked for a long time, didn’t find anything, thought it was trash, and threw it away!” Liu Cai pointed to the opposite side of the national highway.
“Didn’t you say you threw it in the weeds earlier?” Jin Mo angrily shouted at him.
“I… I remembered wrong! I was dizzy from being beaten at the time. I thought about it carefully on the road just now, and I should have thrown it in the cornfield over here!” Liu Cai shrank his neck and said softly.
Jin Mo gritted his teeth, glared at Liu Cai, and followed Xiao Feiwu into the cornfield by the road.
A dozen minutes later, Xu Jiahao exclaimed.
“Found it!”
Jin Mo was so excited that he broke a corncob and almost tripped.
“What is this?” Xu Jiahao spread out the paper, dumbfounded.
Jin Mo reached out and took it.
There were three pieces of paper in total, densely filled with the words “Little Mo.”
Layer upon layer!
Xiao Feiwu’s mouth was slightly open, his eyes full of disbelief.
“Jin Baiyan, how… how bored would you have to be to write so many ‘Little Mo’s,’ layered on top of each other!”
Xu Jiahao held the paper, sometimes facing the sun, sometimes squinting, sometimes looking straight on, studying it for a long time, and finally sighed and returned the paper to Jin Mo.
“I can’t find any secret message. Your own brother left it behind, so you can slowly figure it out yourself!”
Xiao Feiwu grabbed Xu Jiahao.
“What do you mean? There’s a secret in this paper!”
Xu Jiahao glanced at him and gave him a disdainful look.
“Otherwise?”
“No, I don’t understand. What does Jin Baiyan want to tell us? Can’t he just say it directly? What’s the point of making it so complicated?”
Xu Jiahao snorted twice.
“If he could say it directly, why would he hide it?”
Xiao Feiwu’s throat choked, and he had nothing to say.
Jin Mo held the paper, looking left and right, up and down, also at a loss.
“I’ll study this slowly when I get back,” Jin Mo folded the paper and put it in his pocket. “Brother Feiwu, you arrange the matter of watching the boat here. Later, have the company send a container over to be stationed by the river. It’ll probably take three months!”
“Okay!” Xiao Feiwu nodded. “I’m not good at mental work, but I’m good at physical work!”
Xu Jiahao couldn’t help but laugh and almost got kicked by Xiao Feiwu.
“Then I’ll go back to the inn first. I have to study the riddle my brother left behind!” Jin Mo said as he turned and walked towards the car.
Back at the inn, Xu Jiahao went to find a restaurant for Xiao Feiwu and the others, while Jin Mo took out the paper and began to study it.
As time passed, Jin Mo’s head ached more and more.
In order to find his brother’s riddle, he even used a magnifying glass to examine each name, to see if there were any special messages mixed in.
He looked until his head was spinning, but he couldn’t find any clues.
“Ah!” Jin Mo shouted, holding his head.
Brother, what exactly did you hide in the paper?
Jin Mo reached out and scratched his head violently.
When Xu Jiahao came in, he saw Jin Mo with messy hair, acting crazy, and almost burst out laughing!
“Laugh my ass! If you laugh again, I’ll pluck your feathers!” Jin Mo was very agitated, showing signs of going berserk at any moment.
“I’ve never used my brain so much in my life! I’m afraid that before I find my brother, my forehead will go bald! Sigh!”
Jin Mo stood up and threw himself into the bed.
His body bounced a few times and finally settled down.
“Your brother wants to give you clues so you can find him, but he’s also afraid of you finding him. He must be very conflicted, so he left behind such an unsolvable riddle!”
Xu Jiahao picked up the paper and casually glanced at it, but found nothing, so he had to put it down and turned to walk towards his own bed.
“Haste makes waste! There’s no use in being anxious!” Xu Jiahao said faintly, lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
Jin Mo was like a dead fish, not saying a word for a long time.
He was indeed anxious, which was why he had gotten into a dead end.
The paper was densely packed, with layers upon layers of his name, too many to count.
How could his brother hide the answer in these words, making him look for it one word at a time!
That would take until the Year of the Monkey!
“My direction is wrong!” Jin Mo buried his face in the pillow and muttered.
Xu Jiahao hummed in agreement. “But, seriously, I really admire your brother. Writing so many ‘Little Mo’s,’ how long would it take? His hand must be about to break!”
Jin Mo’s body trembled non-stop, and wisps of laughter leaked from between the pillows.
“My brother… is my brother, doing everything so…”
“Extraordinarily gifted!” Xu Jiahao smoothly finished the sentence.
Jin Mo’s laughter became even more demonic.
Xu Jiahao couldn’t help but laugh along “Hehehe”.
“I used to think that this might have been left behind by my brother’s second personality, but now I don’t think so!”
“My brother’s second personality doesn’t appear for very long, so he shouldn’t have had so much time to write so many words!”
“So, I think…”
Jin Mo turned over, face up, eyes staring at the ceiling, pausing for a moment.
“It must be a conspiracy between the two personalities!” Xu Jiahao said directly. “Your brother’s first personality doesn’t want you to find him, and the second personality really wants you to find him. In the end, the two reached a consensus, leaving behind an unsolvable riddle. Whether or not you can solve the riddle and find the clues depends on how persistent you, his younger brother, are!”
“Your brother probably doesn’t have much confidence in you!” Xu Jiahao added.
Jin Mo’s smile froze upon hearing this.
Yes, he had hurt his brother too deeply in the past three years, so much so that his brother had no confidence in whether he would find him!
Even leaving clues was a matter of fate!
His brother didn’t directly give the clues to Liu Cai and ask him to keep them, but instead threw them out casually like trash, with the intention of leaving it to fate.
If he wanted to find him, he would naturally get the clues in the first place. If he didn’t want to find him, then the clues would eventually turn to dust and remain in the weeds.
But what exactly is hidden in this paper?
Jin Mo’s head started to ache again!
His heart also had a feeling of shortness of breath!
His heart was probably damaged by all this!
Jin Mo muttered to himself as he gently massaged his heart.