Zhou Xiaoxiao kept crying and shouting outside the door, and she was calling for Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan.
Chen Yang's expression was a little strange. Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't like Lin Yue and Huang Qing and was afraid of the boy, so it was understandable that she didn't call them, but why didn't she call him
What was it about him that made her feel that it was useless to ask him for help
To be honest, most of the time, he thinks he is not hard-hearted and difficult to get along with.
Chen Yang couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. He glanced at the three people who hadn't said anything for a long time, and said thoughtfully: "None of us has seen Zhou Xiaoxiao's body, so it's possible that she's still alive."
Everyone looked at him, then at the wooden door that was still knocking.
"Then why did you come back now?"
"What if it's not her?"
"If it's a monster, and we let it in, won't we be the ones to die?"
There was a noise outside, and the boat captain Cheng Ge came over: "What the hell is he howling for?"
"It's me, I'm a tourist, I'm lost, my companion won't open the door for me, uncle, please help me, help me..."
Zhou Xiaoxiao huddled together and cried until she was hoarse.
Brother Cheng looked at the soft and fragile little girl in front of him, swung the stick in his hand and hit the door: "Open the door!"
Chen Yang opened the door.
Zhou Xiaoxiao was stunned when she saw Chen Yang, as if she had not expected that it was him who opened the door. She lowered her eyes and whispered, "Thank you."
Chen Yang moved aside to let her in and glanced behind her inconspicuously.
There is a shadow.
Others saw it too.
Zhang Yan put the hoe back to the wall, and Zhao Yuan also walked out from the corner silently.
Lin Yue stood in the mess and stared coldly at Zhou Xiaoxiao. Even the shadow did not make her look good.
Zhou Xiaoxiao shivered when she was stared at, and looked at Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan with resentment: "I called you for a long time, why didn't you open the door for me?"
Zhang Yan looked apologetic and Zhao Yuan avoided her eyes embarrassedly.
"I understand. You are afraid because you think I am not a human." Zhou Xiaoxiao wiped the tears from her face. "I am a human. I have a shadow. You can see it."
Zhang Yan hummed, and said gently: "Where did you go? Tell us, in detail."
Zhou Xiaoxiao sniffed and stood next to him.
"After we split up yesterday, I went to the back mountain," she said. "I wasn't that scared during the day, so I went in."
"There I met a young man from the island. He was the best-looking of the people of my age that I had seen. I started chatting with him and trying to seduce him."
Zhou Xiaoxiao bit her lip a little embarrassedly: "Anyway, he is bewitched by me. He answers whatever I ask."
"So what did you ask?"
"Nothing."
Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't notice the changes in other people's eyes and continued, "I asked him if there was anything fun on the island, and he said there was nothing. He also said the island was boring and couldn't understand why we ended up here."
"Then I told him that I heard that Xiaoyin Island is very mysterious."
Zhou Xiaoxiao recalled: "He first asked how that was possible. I asked him to be our tour guide for a while, and as we talked better, he said there was a place on the island that was not particularly mysterious, but so far only he knew about it and no one else had discovered it."
"I asked him if he could take me there, and he said yes, so I went with him."
This time Zhao Yuan couldn't help but blurt out a question, his face showing doubt: "Aren't you very timid? How dare you go alone?"
Chen Yang also felt that it was unreasonable. This girl could really cry. She was already holding back at the dock. How could she have the courage to take risks alone
"Wealth and honor are sought in danger, and the same applies to clues."
Zhou Xiaoxiao knew what everyone was thinking. She sighed, "I thought about the strange ID number with my face in my pocket, the mission world, if I can't get out, I'll die. And,"
"Also, Sister Lin Yue is right. We can't rely on others. We still have to rely on ourselves."
Lin Yue sneered: "What sister? I am an only child."
Zhou Xiaoxiao: “…”
According to Zhou Xiaoxiao, the place the young man took her to was a cave, which was extremely hidden and could not be found without a guide. So she wanted to take a risk and hide in the cave until the end of the mission.
There is no need to say what comes next.
It was simply that the two-day period had passed and he had not returned to the real world, so he ran back in a panic.
Chen Yang looked Zhou Xiaoxiao up and down twice, and asked abruptly, "What's the name of the young man you're talking about?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be called Ah, Ah or something like that..."
A name popped into Chen Yang's mouth unconsciously: "Awu?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhou Xiaoxiao shouted excitedly, "It's him! A Wu, it's A Wu!"
The next moment she realized something was wrong: "How did you know?"
Chen Yang said: "He brought us food today."
Zhou Xiaoxiao was stunned: "Is that so."
Chen Yang looked at her calmly: "When you were not here, A Wu didn't even ask us. It didn't seem like he knew you."
Zhou Xiaoxiao dodged her gaze for a moment: "Maybe he's embarrassed."
Chen Yang saw a hint of embarrassment in the moment she dodged.
Vanity was dealt a heavy blow.
Seeing that no one was talking, Zhou Xiaoxiao said with a stern face, "Let him deliver the food tomorrow. You can watch me talk to him then."
Several people thought, let's take a look.
Zhou Xiaoxiao's black hair was disheveled, her delicate clothes were a little dirty, and there was mud and grass on her shoes.
After washing my face, the dark circles under my eyes became heavier, as if I hadn’t closed my eyes for a long time.
It was consistent with her description of the torment she had experienced in the cave.
No one cared about the mess in the yard. Zhang Yan was telling Zhou Xiaoxiao what had happened on the island. What would happen next if the curse could not be found out
Zhou Xiaoxiao was so scared that she broke down and cried, Zhao Yuan also wiped away tears, and the two were ridiculed by Lin Yue.
The despair in the room was suffocating.
Chen Yang didn't get involved. He leaned against the boy and asked in a low voice, "Do you believe what Zhou Xiaoxiao said?"
Teenager: "Ugly, too noisy, I didn't listen."
Chen Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He really didn't feel any danger of being an illegal resident.
"Do you think there's something wrong with your aesthetics?"
The young man turned his head and looked at him for a moment with dark eyes: "I don't think so."
Chen Yang: “…”
"We may have to go to the cave that Zhou Xiaoxiao mentioned later. Do you want to go?"
Before the boy could speak, Chen Yang said quickly: "Go ahead. At worst, you can just walk slowly. If that doesn't work, I'll carry you. I can't trust anyone else. I have a bad feeling that something is going to happen if we go there."
Chen Yang's voice became softer and he talked to himself.
The young man said, "If you are afraid, don't go."
"That won't do. We need to find clues and complete the mission." Chen Yang touched the rusty long iron and rubbed the pointed end with his fingertips.
As Chen Yang expected, Zhang Yanguo was really asking Zhou Xiaoxiao about the location of the cave, wanting her to take them there.
Zhou Xiaoxiao ate the big round cake left over from their dinner. It was cold and hard, hurting her throat. "Now?"
She swallowed the cake with difficulty and said incoherently: "How about tomorrow? I'm tired and sleepy, and my legs are sore. I really can't walk anymore."
The air in the room seemed to be sucked out, making it suffocating.
Zhou Xiaoxiao noticed something, threw away half of the cake and stood up from the bench, clenching her hands in grievance and helplessness: "I've said so much, you still don't believe me?"
No one spoke.
"Okay! Okay, okay!"
Zhou Xiaoxiao was so angry that she was shaking all over and yelled at the top of her lungs: "I'll take you there now, I'll take you there, okay?"
Zhang Yan asked Chen Yang, who was always calm, "Together?"
Chen Yang nodded.
Zhang Yan stood up and said, "Let's go, the sooner we go the sooner we can return."
Everyone told Zhou Xiaoxiao how to get back to Li Dafu's house from the stone cave, and then how to get back to the stone cave from Li Dafu's house, taking the original route.
Zhou Xiaoxiao seemed to know that they wanted to see the traces she left along the way. She walked and sobbed, and Tang Seng muttered to herself as he recited the scriptures.
"You will believe me after you visit the cave."
"We agreed that as long as we survived here for two days, we could return to the real world. Why is that not happening again?"
"If I had known I would not have hidden myself. I should have come back to meet you yesterday so you wouldn't have suspected me."
"I hid in the cave for one and a half days and two nights. I didn't dare to close my eyes to rest. I pinched myself when I wanted to sleep. I also stared at the face on my ID number to scare myself. I was going crazy..."
"My head hurts so much. I'm going to see a psychiatrist when I get home. My family is rich, but what's the use? How did I end up with something so horrible? That ghostly ID number killed me."
"I have completed my mission this time, but next time, I will definitely go insane..."
"Woo woo woo..."
It was dark. Zhou Xiaoxiao led the way, treading on rotten leaves and broken branches with a crunching sound. She cried as she walked and occasionally screamed when she tripped over a vine. It was hard to imagine how she got back alone.
Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan walked side by side behind Zhou Xiaoxiao, Lin Yue followed a few steps behind, and at the end of the team were Chen Yang and the young man.
Chen Yang found that the boy could keep up with him with crutches, and he was quite comfortable with it, and his breath was even smoother than his. He was surprised and said, "You use the crutches very smoothly."
Lin Yue, who was walking in front of Chen Yang, pushed back a few thorns, but he didn't see them being pushed open by his crutch.
It was already difficult to walk in the mountains, and the path Zhou Xiaoxiao led was even more complicated. The dense branches and leaves were bent down, and most of them had to bend over to pass through.
When they stopped, several people felt sore in their backs.
Deep in the woods, many unknown plants either stretched across the ground or towered into the clouds, blocking the light of dawn. It was dark and a little cold.
The temperature here is much lower than outside and it's cloudy.
Chen Yang scratched his goosebumped neck and asked, "Where's the cave?"
"It's right in front, follow me, we'll be there soon," Zhou Xiaoxiao turned her head and waved, "Hurry up, come here!"
Everyone suddenly stopped and looked behind her, their expressions changing again and again.
Zhou Xiaoxiao also looked over, her eyes widened and her face turned pale.
"Yellow, yellow... yellow-green?"
"Heh--bah!"
Huang Qing spat on the bushes at his feet: "Fuck, am I a ghost? I scared you like this."
With Zhou Xiaoxiao there first, Huang Qing’s appearance didn’t cause such a big commotion.
Huang Qing looked even more disheveled than Zhou Xiaoxiao. His hair was dirty and looked like he had rolled in a mud pit. His face was covered with bruises and there was a large, horrifying bruise on his chin. His clothes and pants were torn in several places and both hands were covered with abrasions.
One arm was still hanging limply, as if it was dislocated.
Huang Qing also confessed his own affairs.
He said that he accidentally slipped and fell when he was looking for clues in the mountains yesterday. When he was looking for a way out, he accidentally discovered a cave. He was in pain all over and had no strength to go back, so he simply hid in the cave.
Later I thought that I could just hide a little longer until the mission was over.
But when the time came I was still on the island, so I had to find a way to go back and reunite with everyone.
This is similar to the second half of Zhou Xiaoxiao's experience.
The injuries all over his body were consistent with his description.
Chen Yang looked at Huang Qing: "Where is the cave you mentioned?"
Huang Qing pointed: "There."
It was a very small hole, and a lot of the plants that were covering the hole had been pulled down and fell miserably to the ground.
Lin Yue turned on the flashlight on her cell phone and walked into the cave. Zhang Yan held his breath and went in with her. Soon, they both came out safe and sound.
"The cave is very small," Zhang Yan said. "It only takes about ten steps to walk from the entrance to the bottom of the cave."
Chen Yang looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao again: "Where are you going to take us?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao's lips trembled as she stretched out her finger, pointing to the same position as Huang Qing: "... that one too."
"But that's not right," she murmured with a pale face, "I didn't dare to sleep in the cave. I kept my eyes open the whole time. I didn't see Huang Qing at all."
Huang Qing roared angrily: "Bullshit!"
"I haven't left the cave since I entered yesterday. I'm sure I'm the only one in there. This woman is lying."
Zhou Xiaoxiao screamed piercingly: "You are lying!"
Chen Yang moved closer to the boy, looking at Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing, and said in a dry voice: "So, the two of you hid in the same cave for thirty or forty hours, but you didn't know each other existed."
"But the cave is very small. If two people hide together for such a long time, they will definitely find each other."
Huang Qing stared at Zhou Xiaoxiao with his bloodshot eyes. Zhou Xiaoxiao trembled violently and took a few steps back.
It was eerily quiet all around.
Who of these two people is lying