"Lin Yuan, this is not her fault, stop talking."
"Jin'er!"
At this time, it was pitch dark around them. They leaned against each other and sat down by the tree. Only in this way could they dispel the fear in their hearts.
Su Jin'er picked up a leaf and played with it in her hand. It was not that she was not afraid. But she knew that fear was useless. Although her legs were shaking and the world in front of her was getting more and more blurred, Lin Yuan sat next to her and held her arm tightly. She could clearly feel her body trembling.
Everyone here should be afraid!
No, that's not right. She suddenly thought of someone, Li Yiqian. Since she came into the woods, she didn't see her feeling scared at all. Is it to cover it up? No, because a person's eyes can't lie.
"Yiqian."
Her voice was particularly loud in the silent night, and everyone was startled by her sudden voice.
"What's the matter?" Her voice was calm and there was no emotion.
"How much do you know about ghost walls?"
"Not much, I just heard a little from my grandfather when I was a child."
"Is there a way to crack it?"
"Do you believe in this kind of thing?"
"Now there are too many things that science cannot explain, such as ghost walls. Maybe they really exist, or maybe they are just hallucinations of the nervous system when people are tired."
Li Yiqian didn't say anything else. No one knew what she was thinking, and no one knew whether the ghost wall really existed or was an illusion, but it was too unbelievable that ten people had hallucinations together.
After resting, the body gradually recovered its strength. Chu Feifan stood up and said, "Let's keep going! Sitting here is not a solution."
"Where to go? We've lost our way." Xu Mengguang said impatiently. For him, it's better to sit here than to walk.
"If we keep sitting here, we'll be easily discovered." Zhang Junsheng also agreed with Chu Feifan, and he stood up and said.
As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
Discovered?
There is no one else here except them, who will discover them?
His words echoed in everyone's ears like a stone that caused a thousand waves.
Everyone stood up and agreed to continue moving forward.
Lin Yuan leaned over Su Jin'er's ear and said, "That Zhang Junsheng is so strange!"
Su Jin'er nodded, "He seems to be hiding something, and he doesn't want to say it."
"He just said there are ghosts here, is it true? There are really ghosts here." Lin Yuan shrank his neck and said timidly, his eyes wanting to scan around from time to time.
Su Jin'er looked at her with some amusement, then pointed at her head and said, "Ghosts are all here."
While speaking, she did not forget to pay attention to the surrounding environment. Chu Feifan and Zuo Yi walked in front with a map. Because they needed to look at the map, Su Jin'er lent them a flashlight. The light of the flashlight illuminated a small area in front, and occasionally shone on the branches, a bit like a human figure flashing in front of everyone's eyes, so there were exclamations from time to time in the crowd, which made them more nervous.
"Can you stop screaming? It's scary. If we're not scared to death by ghosts, we'll be scared to death by you." Lin Yuan finally couldn't stand Xu Lingling's shock and said loudly.
Xu Lingling took Chu Feifan's arm and said, "I'm scared! It's so spooky here. How can I not scream?" She was more confident, as if she was the only woman in this group of people, and everyone else was a man.
Lin Yuan wanted to say something, but Su Jin'er covered her mouth: "Don't talk."
She listened carefully to the sounds around her.
"It seems someone is talking."
At some point, Zuo Yi came to them.
"Yeah, I heard it too."
"And the sound of fire." Chu Feifan said seriously.
In the darkness, you can faintly hear the sound of talking and burning like a dream.
"Over there."
Su Jin'er had already let go of her hand covering Lin Yuan.
"Let's go and take a look."
The group walked towards the place where there was fire. "Jin'er, Li Yiqian is gone." Du Xiaonan said in surprise. She had been following Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan, so she didn't pay much attention to Li Yiqian. When they decided to go to the place with firelight, she found that Li Yiqian had disappeared.
Hearing her voice, everyone stopped and looked at Du Xiaonan with a terrified face in surprise.
"Did she fall behind? Let's wait and see."
"We two have been behind and didn't see anyone fall behind." Zhang Yang said softly.
"Damn it, I want to leave here." After saying that, Zhang Junsheng ran forward desperately regardless of everyone's obstruction. Soon, his figure disappeared in the night.
In just one minute, eight of the ten people were left.
"Don't panic, let's go to the front and take a look."
"We just met a strange woman because we saw the fire. Will we meet something even stranger this time?" Du Xiaonan asked Su Jin'er in fear. She was worried that Li Yiqian had met a ghost, so she disappeared silently. Although she was very scared, she didn't want to show it. She didn't want to be as annoying as Xu Lingling.
"In fact, those scary things come from our imagination and the pictures we see on TV. We haven't seen them in the real world, so as long as we don't think about them, we won't be afraid." Chu Feifan's voice rang in the black wind.
Although he didn't point out what those things were, everyone knew that he was right. They had never seen them in reality, and they were afraid only because of their imagination. Thinking of this, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but even so, people would feel afraid in the dark because of their instincts.
After standing there for more than ten minutes, they still didn't see Li Yiqian's figure, nor did they see Zhang Junsheng who ran away because of fear. Finally, everyone decided to keep going forward, maybe they could meet them, although the probability was almost zero.
As they got closer and closer to the fire, they heard more voices, and there seemed to be many people here. They gradually approached and found that there was a basin in front of them, and the faint fire came from there.
"It seems to be a village, why are there still people living here?"
"They seem to be holding some ceremony."
"No way! They are not a nation that has not been liberated yet, using people to sacrifice to the sky?"
"It shouldn't be." Su Jin'er shook her head. They didn't see the altar or the people tied up.
"Look there!" Du Xiaonan pointed to a large stone surrounded by a group of people and said. Although the distance was a bit far, the torches in those people's hands almost illuminated the sky.
"It's Zhang Junsheng." Chu Feifan said in a low voice.
Everyone took a deep breath. Zhang Junsheng ran away by himself, but he was caught by these strange people. What would they do to him? Everyone was constantly making various guesses in their hearts.
Su Jiner moved cautiously and said, "Let's go down and take a look."
Zhang Junsheng was now tied up and lying on the big rock, looking at the sky with desperate eyes. Maybe he was regretting his rash departure.
The torches made crackling sounds, forming a strong contrast with the cold waning moon and dim stars in the sky. Perhaps it was because autumn was coming, they couldn't help but shiver and rubbed their arms subconsciously.
If they knew what they would see next, they didn't know if they would choose to go down to the basin. When they saw an old man holding a knife and walking to Zhang Junsheng, everyone was so nervous that they didn't dare to breathe. Everyone was thinking about what they would do next.
The old man held the handle of the knife with both hands, and the blade emitted a cold light in the moonlight.
"Ah——"
A scream pierced the sky and rang in everyone's ears. The girls covered their mouths and eyes in fear. They knew that Zhang Junsheng was dead, killed by those strange people.
Su Jin'er opened her eyes wide and looked at the cruel scene. The old man held a warm heart with blood on his hands, and blood beads fell from his fingers one by one. Tears fell in big drops, and finally she couldn't stand the churning in her stomach anymore, and she vomited while covering her chest.
"Ah——"
Su Jin'er opened her eyes, and what she saw was not the fire all over the sky and Zhang Junsheng's bloody heart. Although it was still a little dark around, she looked up at the white sky. It turned out that they were too tired last night and fell asleep while resting under the big tree. She was a little scared. When did she fall asleep in such a place?
She wiped the fine beads of sweat on her forehead. Fortunately, everything last night was a dream, but that dream seemed too real! Thinking of everything in her dream, she turned her head to look for Zhang Junsheng. She was relieved when she saw Zhang Junsheng sleeping against another tree. However, seeing his frown, he should be dreaming. I don't know if he is having a good dream or a nightmare. I hope it is a good dream!
She looked at everyone sleeping without missing a single one, and finally let go of her heart. She stood up and observed the surrounding environment. They had been circling around this place last night, and then rested here when they were tired, and fell asleep. Fortunately, there was no accident, otherwise she would never forgive her negligence.
Chu Feifan frowned deeply, his face was full of fear, his eyeballs moved gently under his eyelids, and then he opened his eyes.
Su Jiner squatted down and asked him with a smile: "Awake, did you dream?"
Chu Feifan rubbed his still dizzy head, smiled embarrassedly and said: "Well, I haven't had such a terrible dream for a long time, where is Zhang Junsheng?"
Su Jiner was stunned. Why did he wake up and look for Zhang Junsheng! Did he also have a dream about Zhang Junsheng? A series of questions arose in her mind.
When he saw Zhang Junsheng still sleeping soundly and Li Yiqian was also there, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although he knew it was a dream, a dream that was too real would make people scared.
"Did you have a dream about Zhang Junsheng?"
Su Jiner still asked the doubts in her heart.
Chu Feifan was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly. Then he told Su Jiner his whole dream. After listening, Su Jiner broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out that they had the same dream.