The man stared at Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, looking them up and down for a long time. Especially after he noticed that Yu Ning's eye color was different from that of ordinary people, he asked vigilantly: "Who... are you?"
Yu Ning looked at the other person coldly and said nothing.
Yu Ning's appearance was different from that of ordinary people. Even under normal circumstances, people were a little scared when they saw him. What's more, at this time, in the quiet forest, strangers met each other, and they were full of vigilance, and the atmosphere was very tense.
Seeing this, Ji Mingxia immediately took the initiative to say, "We are students from Funan County, and we are here for tourism."
"Student? Traveling?" The man frowned slightly and looked at Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning carefully.
Yu Ning's height is taller than most southern men. At first glance, he not only looks outstanding, but his slender figure and stretched bones are also symbols of strength.
Although Ji Mingxia is shorter than Yu Ning, his height is about the same as this man.
A stranger suddenly broke in, and he was a man. Judging from what the naked eye could see, this man could not be a match for Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning.
So he became so alert only after he was surprised.
After hearing Ji Mingxia's words, the man noticed that although Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were both tall and thin, they did look like young boys.
Funan County is just a small county town and there is no university, which means that they are no more than 20 years old.
After realizing this, the man relaxed a little, the expression on his face changed subtly, and he couldn't help but show joy.
Changing his fierce look just now, the man said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning: "So you are high school students from nearby. Hello, my name is Song Yuelin, and I am also here to travel."
As he spoke, he picked up the cloth in his hand and continued to wipe his face carefully. While wiping, he said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning: "What are you still doing? Come here quickly."
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning looked at each other and did not move immediately.
Their reaction seemed to be completely within Song Yuelin's expectations.
Song Yuelin wiped his face slowly until it was clean and free of dirt. Then he slowly folded the cloth in his hand and said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, "Meeting is fate. It's really not easy for three living people to meet each other in this forest and under such circumstances.
"Let's take a step back and say that there are only two of you and I am only one. Don't worry, even if I want to harm you, I can't beat you."
What he said was true, and more importantly, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning now had a mysterious item in their hands. Under normal circumstances, this man could not be their opponent.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning came here just for the blood-red ring, and now that they had finally met someone, there was no need to run away.
The two men, carrying their equipment, walked slowly forward until they reached the front of the commercial vehicle, then stopped.
From a distance, the car is already in tatters, and from a close distance, it is even more horrible.
There were not only countless scratches on the car that looked like they had been cut by a sharp weapon, but also many dents that seemed to have been hit.
Although the glass on the side was still there, it was cracked like a spider web. I was afraid that if it was hit again, it would shatter completely.
The front door of the car was open at the time, and the interior of the car was pitch black, so one couldn't see clearly at all. The only thing that was certain was that the interior of the car had been modified.
Yu Ning had said before that Li You and her friends entered the primeval forest in a seven-seater commercial vehicle.
Logically speaking, there should be seven seats in the car, but at the moment only the front four seats can be seen in the car.
The back half of the car was blocked and the back seats were converted into a trunk.
Because the interior of the car was messy and the light was dim, and the side glass was cracked, which obstructed the vision, unless you got into the car, you couldn't see what was outside if you stood outside.
While Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were observing their surroundings, Song Yuelin bent down, picked up a basin of water, threw the cloth in his hand in and started washing.
The cloth was black and dirty, and its original color was totally unrecognizable. The water in the basin was also completely black, and had a faint fishy smell.
As Song Yuelin washed, he looked at Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning. His eyes lingered on the equipment on their backs for a few seconds, and he said, "Looking at your appearance... you must have just come in not long ago? Did you come in yesterday?"
Yu Ning ignored him.
His appearance is different from that of ordinary people, and his face is cold. When he is not talking, he looks spooky and it seems that he is not easy to deal with.
Ji Mingxia was the opposite of him.
He seemed to have come from another world. It only took him a few hours to fully adapt to the new environment. Although his social skills were not very good, they were definitely much better than Yu Ning's.
Hearing Song Yuelin's question, and seeing that Yu Ning didn't answer, Ji Mingxia hurriedly said, "We just came in today and plan to spend the night here before leaving."
Ji Mingxia said, looking at Song Yuelin, then at the damaged commercial vehicle, and asked with some curiosity: "Your car... isn't it the kind of car that a wilderness survival expert would use, planning to live in the forest for a full month, right?"
Song Yuelin couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, and said to Ji Mingxia: "I just came in not long ago. All in all, I have spent four nights here, and today is the fifth day."
"Four nights?" Ji Mingxia pretended to be surprised and looked at Song Yuelin and said, "Your car has become like this in just four or five days?"
"More than that." Song Yuelin said as he poured out the dirty water in the basin.
He rubbed the cloth he used to wipe his face for a long time but it still wasn't clean. However, Song Yuelin didn't seem to intend to continue washing it, so he just hung the cloth on the rearview mirror of the car to dry.
After finishing all this, Song Yuelin turned around, looked at Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning with a strange expression and said, "My car and I are stuck here. You must think it's very strange, right?"
There was no expression on Yu Ning's face from beginning to end.
As the spokesperson for the group, Ji Mingxia did not hide his emotions and nodded directly.
Song Yuelin stretched out his hand, and in front of Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, rolled up the sleeves on his wrists.
The temperature inside the forest was much cooler than outside. Song Yuelin, like Ji Mingxia and Yuning, also wore long sleeves and long pants.
His exposed skin looked white and clean, no different from that of an ordinary person. But when he immediately pulled up his sleeves, he saw red patches of skin from his wrists to his arms, with abrasions and cuts.
After rolling up his sleeves, Song Yuelin lifted up the hem of his shirt, revealing his chest and stomach, which had several scratches on them, making him look particularly hideous.
Ji Mingxia stared at Song Yuelin's body in amazement.
As an ordinary person who was born and raised in peacetime, I often see the protagonists suffering various injuries when watching TV dramas.
But in real life, apart from the ghost, Ji Mingxia had never seen anyone with so many wounds on his body.
Although these wounds were not deep enough to see the bones, they had cut through the skin and were bleeding. It looked like the wounds were very fresh, and they must have been sustained just today.
A while ago, Ji Mingxia fell in the classroom while trying to help Yu Ning drive away a ghost. His waist hit the corner of the table, scraping a large area of his skin, which was burning and painful.
Ji Mingxia was in so much pain just from the injury in this area.
Seeing Song Yuelin's body full of wounds, although they were not on himself, Ji Mingxia felt pain just by looking at them.
Song Yuelin was showing the wounds on his body. Yu Ning, who hadn't expressed anything, just glanced at him and then turned his eyes away calmly.
Noticing that Ji Mingxia next to him was looking at Song Yuelin's body with an uncomfortable expression, and was obviously not accepting such a scene, Yu Ning immediately reached out, quietly pulled Ji Mingxia down, and pulled Ji Mingxia behind him.
Standing between Ji Mingxia and Song Yuelin, Yu Ning said to Song Yuelin: "What do you want to say?"
Song Yuelin noticed their reactions and seeing that they didn't seem to want to look at it any longer, Song Yuelin stopped and pulled back his clothes and sleeves to cover the bloody wound again.
He said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning: "My car and the injuries on my body are all caused by what happened in the past four days. This forest is not an ordinary forest. Anyone who enters this area will be involved in a terrible escape ghost game.
"Congratulations, you are now also members of this game."
Yu Ning remained silent. After Ji Mingxia was stunned for a moment, he quickly believed what Song Yuelin said.
It turns out that this was the purpose of Li You and others entering the primeval forest. In this uninhabited area, they directly used monsters to form a closed space and started a battle royale
Ji Mingxia originally couldn't imagine how a weak girl like Li You could kill someone.
But if we use the power of the blood-red ring to create such a supernatural event, it can be explained.
However, at this time, he certainly couldn't trust the other party so quickly, otherwise he and Yu Ning would look very suspicious.
Yu Ning stood there motionless with no reaction. Seeing this, Ji Mingxia quickly poked his head out from behind Yu Ning. An expression of disbelief appeared on his face at the right time.
He looked at Song Yuelin as if he was looking at a jerk and said, "Brother, what are you talking about? Are you kidding?"
After Ji Mingxia finished speaking, he quickly looked around, as if looking for a camera.
The surroundings were empty, with nothing but dense branches of trees.
Ji Mingxia looked around and after making sure that there was no one nearby, he returned his gaze to Song Yuelin: "Are you guys recording a show? My friend and I are just ordinary people. We are here purely for tourism and we don't want to get involved at all."
Yu Ning's reaction made Song Yuelin a little unhappy.
But fortunately, there was a relatively normal Ji Mingxia next to him.
Ji Mingxia's reaction perfectly met Song Yuelin's expectations.
He spread his hands helplessly and said, "I guessed you wouldn't believe me, so I showed you the wounds on my body. I'm sure you can tell if there's anyone nearby or if they're recording a show. It's up to you to believe it or not. I've said before, meeting is fate, I'm just telling you the truth out of kindness."
Song Yuelin said in a low voice: "Young people, you must have watched a lot of those bloody movies such as battle royale and escape games. You know very well how the cannon fodder died. If you don't believe me, you can go back. If you can find the way back, I will kneel down and apologize to you. I am even willing to transfer 200,000 yuan to express my gratitude."
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning certainly couldn't believe Song Yuelin's words so easily.
The two pretended to be students who suddenly broke in, and after making each other laugh at nonsense, they turned around and walked back the way they came.
Seeing this, Song Yuelin followed them as if he was strolling in the garden.
Ji Mingxia originally wanted to leave with Yu Ning and secretly discuss how to deal with Song Yuelin next.
Unexpectedly, he followed me.
With Song Yuelin following him, Yu Ning secretly took off the ring to prevent the red light from appearing again and knocking out the barrier.
Returning to the location of the barrier again, without Yu Ning deliberately controlling the mysterious object, he walked back and forth near the barrier like an ordinary person.
The fact was indeed as Song Yuelin had said, this area was surrounded by a barrier, and without the use of mysterious items, no matter how hard they searched, they could not find the way back.
Anyone who entered the barrier was trapped in this isolated area and unable to leave.
Yu Ning was not talkative, so Ji Mingxia was forced to continue acting as the spokesperson.
He didn't believe it, and walked back and forth several times. Finally, he looked at Song Yuelin with a "shocked" face and said, "Why is this happening? Why can't we find the way back?"
Song Yuelin reminded: "Look at your phone again."
Ji Mingxia lowered his head, reached into his lower pocket, and pulled out a pile of dried fruits and melon seeds.
Seeing Song Yuelin staring at him expectantly, Ji Mingxia hesitated for a moment, then quickly changed his pocket and continued to search, and as a result, he took out several chocolate chips and spicy dried tofu.
Song Yuelin stared at the snacks in Ji Mingxia's hand, the expression on his face could hardly be suppressed.
He swallowed quietly, and looked at Ji Mingxia with a slightly gloomy look.
Ji Mingxia still had his head down, groping in his pockets for his cell phone.
At this moment, Yu Ning, who was standing next to him, reached out and helped Ji Mingxia unzip the side of the backpack, took out Ji Mingxia's cell phone, and handed it to him.
"I had forgotten about it and placed it here." Ji Mingxia said, whispered "thank you" to Yu Ning, then reached out and took it.
Under Song Yuelin's gaze, Ji Mingxia turned on the screen of his mobile phone and studied it carefully. Only then did he realize that his mobile phone had lost signal without him noticing.
Ji Mingxia clearly remembered that when he and Yu Ning got off the SUV, the driver was still connecting to the Internet through his mobile phone and playing the latest music. There was definitely a signal at that time.
It's just a ten-minute walk away, the signal can't just disappear like that.
The only possibility is that the mysterious object caused a problem with the magnetic field, causing the signal to disappear. Not only could people not get out, but even mobile phones were unable to contact the outside world.
"What the hell is going on..." Ji Mingxia's hands were trembling. He raised his head in disbelief and looked at Song Yuelin and murmured.
Song Yuelin looked at Ji Mingxia's "collapse" with satisfaction. He sighed, and took Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning towards the business car. As they walked, Song Yuelin patiently explained to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning.
"A few days ago, I went into the primeval forest with my friends like you did. Unexpectedly, as soon as we entered, strange things happened one after another..."