The five people walked on the mountain road, and they felt that the mountain road was very rugged, and it was completely the most primitive dirt road.
The soil is also mixed with sharp-edged stones, and every step you take makes your feet feel uncomfortable, especially for white-collar Zhao Xinxin. She wears five-centimeter high heels. It is inconvenient to walk on mountain roads, let alone downhill. The ground is covered with rocks, and there is a possibility of spraining your feet at any time.
Fortunately, it didn't rain. If it rained suddenly, everyone wouldn't be able to complete the mission and just wait for the mission to fail.
Everyone was just like traveling. When Zhang Liang saw an abandoned small village on the roadside, he wanted to go in and have a look, but was stopped by Cheng Yi.
The atmosphere was quite lively at the beginning, especially between Zhang Liang and Zhao Xinxin, who started to get acquainted with each other halfway through.
Zhang Liang has a flamboyant personality. After coming here, he only felt fresh and exciting. He felt that he could soon become a multi-millionaire or even a billionaire. Zhao Xinxin, on the other hand, was seeking a protector intentionally or unintentionally. The two almost hit it off and even flirted a bit. The trend of scolding.
However, after walking on the mountain road for more than an hour, the fresh and exciting feeling of everyone gradually decreased. Coupled with the heat of the weather and the fatigue of walking, everyone became listless.
"I'm so thirsty. Who has water? Let me take a sip." Zhao Xinxin looked at everyone with pleading, and finally looked at Zhang Liang.
"Don't you have any water either?"
"I will definitely give it to you if there is water, but look at me, except for passing through an abandoned small village, where else can there be water? Could it be that you..." Zhang Liang said with a bad smile.
"Hate it, I'm telling you seriously." Zhao Xinxin rolled her eyes at the other party, knowing that no one had brought water, so after confirming, she had no choice but to walk forward without saying a word.
Until this time, no one had any fearful thoughts anymore, only thirst and exhaustion remained.
Cheng Yi walked at the front. He looked at the red sunset that was about to set on the horizon. He calculated the time and said behind him, "Everyone, hurry up and follow. It will be dark in half an hour!"
"I can't walk anymore. It's too difficult for me to walk in high heels. How about we take a break." After walking for another ten minutes and seeing the sun about to set, everyone knew that it was impossible to leave this barren mountain before dark. Zhao Xinxin said again.
Cheng Yi frowned, "We don't know how long this mountain road is. What if time is tight and we can't walk out of the mountain road in five hours? What if there is danger in the mountain?"
"What danger could there be?" Zhao Xinxin raised her eyebrows, pointed at the city that was faintly visible under the mountain, and said harshly, "The city is at the bottom of the mountain. This place can only be regarded as a suburb at best. What danger can there be?"
"Xinxin is right, you are making too much of a fuss." Zhang Liang looked at Cheng Yi provocatively. He had long been dissatisfied with Cheng Yi who was giving orders, but because he had to flirt with Zhao Xinxin along the way, he couldn't care less. Now he has If you get an opportunity, start looking for trouble immediately.
"Brother Cheng, let's take a rest. I'm a little tired too." Gu Siyi looked at everyone's expressions and winked at Cheng Yi.
"Okay." In desperation, Cheng Yi also understood that it was almost impossible to force a group of people who lived a comfortable life in the city to walk such a long way. The consequences of his persistence would only be the outbreak of conflict or even a breakup.
"Wait, there is the sound of water ahead!" At this moment, Tian Kun seemed to hear something. He pushed up his glasses and took two steps quickly with surprise on his face. "Yes, I heard the sound of water. There is a small river ahead. !”
Everyone cheered up and quickly followed Tian Kun toward the hilltop ahead. The mountain road ahead was zigzag, which blocked the scenery behind them. Only by turning the corner could they see the situation a hundred meters away.
Within half a minute, everyone passed by the zigzag road, and their field of vision suddenly widened, and they saw a clear pool of water halfway up the mountain!
"It's a mountain spring!" Cheng Yi was overjoyed. As long as he drank enough water, it would be much easier to walk to the bottom of the mountain! This pool of water is just the right time for rain!
The water pool is not far from the mountain road. There is a creek no more than three meters wide up the mountainside. There may be a spring somewhere on the mountain, so it keeps gurgling out and forms a water pool in the low-lying area here.
After walking for more than an hour, everyone was already dry and thirsty. They no longer cared about their appearance and quickly ran towards the mountain spring.
"Wait a minute!" However, just as Cheng Yi ran towards the pool quickly, Gu Siyi suddenly shouted from behind.
"What's wrong?" Only Cheng Yi turned around in shock, while the other three ignored him and ran straight to the pool to drink heavily.
"You..." Seeing that the two of them were already drinking water, Gu Siyi sighed before she could speak, walked up to Cheng Yi, and whispered, "You guys, don't you think it's weird to have a pool here? ?”
"What's so strange about this? It's normal to have streams and pools on the mountain, right?" Cheng Yi asked doubtfully.
"It would be normal in reality, but this is the reincarnation space! What is our mission? It is to get down the mountain alive, which means that we are likely to encounter life-threatening dangers! And in this place where we are thirsty and tired Sometimes, a pool of water suddenly appears here, and I always feel something is wrong.”
Cheng Yi's expression suddenly became serious, "Then you mean there's something wrong with the water?"
"I don't know, I just feel that we shouldn't get close to this pool, but they have already drank it." Gu Siyi said helplessly.
"But without drinking water, we can't make it to the bottom of the mountain, right?" Cheng Yi frowned.
"Then you drink well, I can bear it for a while." Gu Siyi shook her head.
Cheng Yi hesitated for a moment, then he looked at everyone who looked the same and saw no difference at all. In the end, he couldn't resist the temptation of the pool water and started drinking heavily.
While the two of them were talking, everyone was already drinking to their heart's content. They all filled their stomachs with water before giving up completely. Even Zhao Xinxin no longer cared about her image and just drank.
"Eh..."
Tian Kun was also full of joy. In order to drink more freely, he simply took off his glasses. But while he was drinking, he suddenly seemed to hear a shrill female voice coming from the front, like a voice from a big opera singer. The voice was long and ethereal, making it difficult to tell whether it was an auditory hallucination or an illusion.
Tian Kun subconsciously raised his head, squinted his highly myopic eyes and looked forward, only to see dozens of meters away, there seemed to be a woman in a blue robe standing in the center of the pool with her arms spread wide. Most of the woman's body was He was submerged, with only the upper part of his chest exposed, his back turned to everyone, and he kept making high-pitched and long notes.
"Is someone taking a shower?" Tian Kun was stunned, subconsciously touched the glasses at his feet, and quickly put them on to take a closer look, but after putting them on, he found that the woman was nowhere to be seen.
"Take a bath?" Cheng Yi heard Tian Kun's voice and couldn't help but look at the center of the pool, but saw nothing. He patted Tian Kun on the shoulder and said with a smile, "What are you thinking about? , there is not even a village in the wild mountains, how can anyone be taking a bath? "
"No, I really saw it." Tian Kun suddenly felt something was wrong. He stood up and looked towards the pool with a panicked expression. However, the pool was crystal clear. Where was the woman taking a bath
"You kid, you must be dazzled!" Zhang Liang finished drinking the water, wiped his mouth roughly with his sleeve, and smacked his lips.
"I..." Tian Kun wanted to defend himself, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't wear glasses at the time. Maybe he was really dazzled and saw wrongly...
Gu Siyi on the side suddenly felt her heart sinking when she heard Tian Kun's voice. She frowned and looked towards the pool with a glint in her eyes.
"Hills, mass graves, abandoned villages, pools..." Gu Siyi murmured in a low voice.
Suddenly, as if she thought of something, Gu Siyi's pupils suddenly shrank, and she felt a cold breath suddenly hit her. Goosebumps all over her body rose one after another, and her hairs stood on end!
She took a deep look at everyone and moved back calmly, as if she wanted to stay away from everyone.
…
No one took this matter to heart. After drinking enough water, everyone sat by the pool and rested for a while. They watched the sky darken little by little, turning from light blue to dark blue, and finally turned into solid indigo. Then he got up and continued walking down the mountain.
It's completely dark...
Fortunately, although it was getting late, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it happened to be a full moon day, and the moon above the head was as bright as the sun. With the bright light of the moon, everyone could move forward without any difficulty, but the distance was slightly longer. The further away you go, the visibility drops off dramatically.
However, I don’t know why, when the sky started to get dark, Cheng Yi suddenly felt a faint uneasiness. This feeling was vague and uncertain, as if there was something lurking in the darkness. He followed the crowd from a distance, constantly using his lifeless eyes. Watch yourself feel.
Cheng Yi walked at the front of the team and looked behind him uneasily, but could only see the five people behind him and a dark silence.
That’s right, it’s dead silence!
Cheng Yi frowned, feeling something was wrong, but suddenly his pupils shrank suddenly, and an indescribable chill came out of his body. He counted them carefully, and yes, there were five people! Including myself, there are six people!
Among the crowd, an extra person appeared out of thin air!
Subconsciously, Cheng Yi immediately looked at everyone's faces, as if he wanted to distinguish who was not in his team, but when he saw everyone's appearance clearly, he felt like he had fallen into an ice cave. Everyone's appearance was unexpectedly... It's me!
Just when Cheng Yi's whole body was numb and cold and almost unable to move, a warm and tender hand suddenly pulled him. At the same time, a force came, and he was pulled out by that hand!
Cheng Yi almost screamed in fright, but when he looked closely, he saw that it was Gu Siyi who was pulling him and running away!
"You... where did you go just now?" Cheng Yi asked in surprise.
"I've always been by your side, but it's like you can't see me!" Gu Siyi replied as she ran. In the end, the two of them escaped and hid under a big tree. At this time, Gu Siyi gasped and said, " You must have had some kind of hallucination, right? I saw the three of them started to fight each other, and you were about to join in, so I pulled you away."
"Hallucination?" Cheng Yi was stunned, "Do you know what I saw?"
"Yes, because I already know where this is." Gu Siyi also had fear in her eyes, but it was much better than Cheng Yi who was stimulated by the scene just now.
"What, do you know where this place is?" Cheng Yi was overjoyed. As long as he knew where this place was, there would be hope of leaving!
Seeing Cheng Yi's eager face, Gu Siyi just smiled bitterly. She pulled back her scattered hair and said with a bitter expression, "What that person said is true. We are indeed not in the real world, because this is "Mountain Village" The world of "Old Corpse"..."
"How is that possible..." Cheng Yi was stunned, and was about to deny it, but when he thought of the pool and the familiar scenery everywhere, it was like an enlightenment, and he suddenly understood everything!
No wonder, that pool always feels familiar as if it has been seen somewhere before!
As a person born in the 1980s, it is impossible for him not to have watched the real-life classic and famous Hong Kong horror film. That horror film can be called a Hong Kong masterpiece, and the ghost in the film is a Cantonese opera actress who was framed to death by her husband, so it is full of Resentment, and her killing method is to make people hallucinate, and then kill other people or commit suicide. Anyone who drinks the pool of water with her body will be affected by her resentment!
In other words, that pool is the key to passing the level!
Thinking of this, Cheng Yi took a deep breath and forced his pounding heart to calm down. Nothing he had ever experienced in his life was as weird as today. "I understand. If this is the case, then I can live as long as I don't be affected by hallucinations." Have you walked down the mountain?"
Gu Siyi lowered her head after hearing this and shook her head, "It's very difficult..."
"Why?" Cheng Yi was anxious, "I believe in my willpower, as long as you are willing to help me, because you didn't drink the pool water!"
But Gu Siyi just shook her head, seeming to fall into some kind of despair. Cheng Yi didn't give up, he directly pulled Gu Siyi's shoulders, trying to force Gu Siyi to raise her head, but Cheng Yi suddenly discovered that Gu Siyi's hair seemed too dirty and messy...
So wet, as if it had just been fished out of the water...
"Eh..."
A low and strange singing voice came from under the bowed head in front of him. Cheng Yi's hands trembled, and he felt an indescribable tremor spread throughout his body, and his heartbeat suddenly stopped...