Since we are playing hide-and-seek with a ghost, we can no longer get together.
There were seven people in Song Yuelin's group, but now there are only five left.
After summing up the experience and rules, in the face of life, everyone finally chose to go their separate ways and hide alone within a limited range. In the end, who will be found and who can survive to the end depends entirely on their own abilities.
The ghost first appeared near a business car. Then two people died in succession. Everyone thought it was unlucky and stayed away from it.
Song Yuelin did the opposite. After making sure that everyone had run away, he returned to his home. After hiding every evening, he would sleep in the business car at night.
Everyone thought that this was the ghost's lair and the most unsafe place. However, the most dangerous place is actually the safest place.
According to Song Yuelin, ghosts usually don't search around commercial vehicles carefully.
Today is the fifth day they have been playing hide-and-seek.
When Song Yuelin finished speaking, they returned to the vicinity of the business car again.
I checked my phone and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, with only an hour left until dusk.
Song Yuelin had been hiding in the forest for many days and had gained plenty of experience. After preparing all the equipment he would need next, he started the commercial vehicle, unplugged a socket strip from the car, plugged in a small electric stove, took out a mini milk pot, poured in water, and while waiting for the water to boil, he took out a piece of red and yellow meat.
While waiting for the water to boil, Song Yuelin deftly cut the meat into thin slices. When the meat was about 70% cooked, Song Yuelin expertly sprinkled various seasonings on it.
The milk pot was not large and the electric stove had good power, so Song Yuelin finished the dish in just about five minutes.
A strange and rich meaty aroma slowly wafted out from the milk pot.
Ji Mingxia can’t cook, but at least he has eaten a lot of delicious food, so he has some good eyesight.
Song Yuelin cooked very quickly, and Ji Mingxia was some distance away from him, so he couldn't see the whole process clearly. But from what Ji Mingxia saw, Song Yuelin added peppercorns, salt, chopped carrots and other seasonings while cooking the meat.
Sichuan pepper removes the fishy smell, carrots have their own sweetness, and salt enhances the flavor.
In this cold forest, the aroma of such a stewed, fragrant and warm food is hard not to attract attention.
Seeing that the meat was cooked, Song Yuelin turned off the electric stove. He took out the knife and fork and placed them aside as if he was eating Western food, then took out a black pepper seasoning bottle and ground it on the spot and sprinkled it on the meat.
After finishing everything, seeing Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning looking at him, Song Yuelin smiled at them and said, "I am a food blogger on the live streaming website, and cooking is my best skill. But conditions are limited now, so I can only make do with what I have."
Ji Mingxia praised him, "You are indeed a professional. I didn't expect you to bring some dried meat. It looks quite special."
"It's horse meat. I wanted to cook it for everyone when we had a barbecue at Quanzhuang." Song Yuelin saw Ji Mingxia looking at the meat in the pot. He cut off a small piece of meat and said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, "Do you want to try it?"
Ji Mingxia was stunned for a moment. For a moment, he really wanted to eat some hot meat.
But he was not stupid. Under such circumstances, how could he accept Song Yuelin's food
"No, thank you." Ji Mingxia said, and then asked, "Would you like to try some of our food?"
"The meat is enough to fill us up." Song Yuelin also rejected Ji Mingxia and said, "Then let's hurry up and eat. Avoiding ghosts requires a lot of energy. We can't survive if we don't eat enough."
After he said that, he lowered his head and started eating with relish.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning went on a trip together and were well prepared. Their backpacks were full of food. There was a large bag of snacks that Yu Ning prepared for Ji Mingxia, which he carried on his back. He took them out every now and then and placed them in front of Ji Mingxia.
Although Song Yuelin's meat was delicious, the food that Yu Ning prepared for Ji Mingxia was also good, sandwiches + milk, and dried fruits after the meal to relieve the greasiness.
In a blink of an eye, more than half an hour passed. As soon as Song Yuelin finished eating, he immediately seized the time, grabbed his things, and went into the bushes.
He walked for a while, and seeing that Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning had not caught up, he quickly turned back and said, "What are you still standing there for? Come here quickly. I have checked the whole area. We can only go further in. There is an area with dense vegetation ahead where we can hide. Other places are very dangerous."
After saying that, he carefully took the trekking pole, pushed aside the grass, and walked deeper into the forest.
Ji Mingxia turned to look at Yu Ning and asked for his opinion. Yu Ning whispered, "Follow him."
After Yu Ning said this, Ji Mingxia was immediately relieved. The two of them finally followed slowly, carrying their equipment.
Song Yuelin led the way ahead, and Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning only needed to follow the path he had walked.
He was right. The further in you go, the more lush the vegetation becomes.
According to physical measurement, the distance between Ji Mingxia, Yu Ning and Song Yuelin was no more than 30 meters. However, because of the layers of trees between them, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning could no longer hear Song Yuelin's voice. Even the sound he made in front of them was very small. If they did not prick up their ears and listen carefully, they could not feel his presence at all.
Ji Mingxia looked at the time. It was still half an hour before five o'clock. As they walked, Ji Mingxia couldn't help but lower his voice and said to Yu Ning, "Do we really want to hide with him? I feel like he's plotting something..."
Yu Ning whispered, "The ring covers a large area. Looking for someone in the forest is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If the other party hides deliberately, we may not be able to find him even if we find him next month. Following Song Yuelin, we will have more clues."
"So what he just said is true?" Ji Mingxia said.
He could tell that something was wrong with Song Yuelin, but he had no way of digging out more secrets based on the existing information. Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning with some curiosity, and was almost impatient to know Yu Ning's analysis.
"It's half true and half false. Most of the ghost and hide-and-seek rules are true, but there are logical loopholes. A lot of details should have been changed." Yu Ning paused for a moment, "Also, we have found the second person."
"The second person?" Ji Mingxia looked around in surprise. "Did you see someone? Where did you find him?"
"We all saw it." Yu Ning said.
The serious expression on his face gave Ji Mingxia a bad feeling. Ji Mingxia guessed, "Is the second person... already dead?"
The two people known to have died are a man named Shi Wei and another named Lu Liang.
What Yu Ning was talking about was definitely not these two.
Ji Mingxia tried hard to recall.
According to Song Yuelin's oral narration, the other two characters that appeared were Zhou Li and Meng Xinyi.
Judging from their names, Lv Liang and Shi Wei should be males, while Zhou Li and Meng Xinyi are females.
Including Song Yuelin and Li You, there are a total of six people that Ji Mingxia knows about so far.
was a seven-seater commercial vehicle, and there was a person whose surname was not yet known. Yu Ning guessed that the second person who died and was witnessed by Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning was definitely not the seventh person without a surname.
Li You is holding a ring in her hand, so the probability that it is her is very low.
Ji Mingxia said: "That is to say... the deceased is most likely Zhou Li or Meng Xinyi? Two girls... We haven't seen any women along the way."
Not to mention women, even items related to women were completely missing.
Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning in surprise, totally unable to understand how he came to such a conclusion.
Yu Ning whispered, "The piece of meat that Song Yuelin cooked was bright red in color, and the fat was yellow."
Ji Mingxia nodded: "Yes, he said it was horse meat."
The red meat that Ji Mingxia eats most often are pork and beef, and he rarely eats mutton.
They live in the south, and have never even seen horse meat, let alone eaten it.
Mammalian meat contains myoglobin, which causes the meat to be red in color. Although Ji Mingxia had never seen horse meat, he knew that horses were mammals, so there should be nothing unusual about the meat.
"Most mammals can break down the carotene in their bodies very well and convert it into vitamin A, but vitamin A is colorless, so the fat of pigs, cattle and horses that we commonly see is mostly white." Yu Ning said, "But humans cannot convert the carotene in their bodies very well, and the broken down carotene cannot be deposited on the fat... So generally speaking, only human meat will show the coexistence of red meat and yellow fat."
Ji Mingxia stared at Yu Ning blankly, all that flashed through his mind was Song Yuelin's skillful cooking moves.
The aroma of cooked meat seemed to still linger in his nose. Ji Mingxia felt a chill on his back and a feeling of dizziness rushed over him. He almost vomited.