The paper was yellowed, and the handwriting was illegible but flustered, as if written by someone on the verge of despair. Just the font, you can see the fear and despair of that person.
"What should I do? Brother Chu." Ye Xiangxiang also seemed to be completely scared. She came here to revive her younger brother, but now this piece of paper completely reveals a disturbing ominousness, "It's all Scam, is it all fake here?! The so-called folder is fake, and the world where everyone lives in it is also fake... "
"Calm down." Chu Tianshu said, "With how old this piece of paper is, it doesn't look like it was left recently."
He stroked the texture of the paper, and finally came to the conclusion: "This paper was written at least five years ago."
"Five years ago? How could someone enter here five years ago and write something here..." Ye Xiangxiang was a little incoherent.
Chu Tianshu was silent.
He just looked at the note. The handwriting on the note was so distorted that even acquaintances might not be able to tell who wrote it.
He carefully put away the note. Ye Xiangxiang pondered for a while, and said, "I won't tell other people about this note, so as not to cause panic."
But thinking of the obsolete note, Ye Xiangxiang felt a little relieved. Maybe it was left by some poor guy who was cheated by his teammates.
"The storm outside stopped again." Ruoshui said from the entrance of the cave, "Let's continue walking."
If the water came at the right time, Ye Xiangxiang left with her and everyone who got up. Lin Huai was sitting on the side of the cave, with his head down, and he was sketching something on the ground with his fingers.
A shadow descended in front of him, and when you stepped forward, what you saw was Chu Tianshu.
Chu Tianshu squatted in front of him and asked him, "What are you doing?"
Unprecedentedly, they had the feeling of tentativeness in the villa at first.
"Draw a marinated egg on the ground." Lin Huai said, moving his finger away to show Chu Tianshu.
There is indeed a round thing on the ground. Chu Tianshu saw the back of Lin Huai's fair neck showing when he lowered his head. He put his hand on it and stroked it lightly: "We should go."
"Yeah." Lin Huai said.
"You said this is Wen County, do you remember anything?" Chu Tianshu said.
"I don't think of anything, maybe when I see it, I will think of it." Lin Huai said.
Chu Tianshu let go of his fingers, and before leaving, Lin Huai held his wrist and bit his fingertips lightly.
They stared at each other in the dark cave. Lin Huai's eyes are now flickering blood red, like a lake or a sea of lights. He looked at Chu Tianshu's face buried in the shadows, and said softly, "What did Ye Xiangxiang show you just now?"
"It's nothing." Chu Tianshu said, "A note left by a previous explorer, do you want to read it?"
Lin Huai looked at him for a while, shrugged and said, "Forget it, I'm not good at solving puzzles."
They then left the cave. When walking on the road again, Chu Tianshu thought that it was indeed a distorted note whose handwriting could not be read by acquaintances.
But there was still one person who could read the handwriting on the note.
That's... the man who wrote this note himself!
That is...
Chu Tianshu, myself!
…
The second round of storms was more intense than the first, and it became more difficult to find a path that was only mist in the dense fog. The crowd almost broke into several pieces disguised by fog more than once. Qu Mei couldn't help complaining: "It's really like a folder where things are piled up in a mess, everything is placed in a mess, flying around..."
Fu Liye said: "Well, it is indeed like this in my E drive, all the rar, jpg, mkv, etc. are thrown together..."
"No wonder it's called a folder here, but these fragments are probably the recycle bin after the files were shredded." Ye Xiangxiang joked.
They continued to move forward, somehow, the more they went in this direction, the less and less fog they encountered, and the fragments of living ghosts they encountered were also less and less—on the contrary, more were those who were slightly careless. , it will be transferred to other fragments in different places in the folder.
Qu Mei's other puppet encountered such a situation. He failed to avoid the fragments of the location in the wind, and blocked the blow with his stand-in puppet. The stand-in doll was quickly captured into the fragment, Chu Tianshu suddenly said: "Try to catch it!"
He used props and various methods to fix the pieces there. Soon, they saw the scene - densely covered with dead trees, and in the distance were ruins of bungalows and the like. Qu Mei pressed his temple and said, "My stand-in doll is still in the folder."
"That's right, we can let him explore the way." Ye Xiangxiang said.
The puppet moved mechanically within the area reflected by the fragments. Qiu Ran vaguely saw that the fog over there seemed to be different from this side. For example, the black land seemed to be soaked in blood before it turned black, but there was actually a thin layer of fog in the fog. Hong... Soon, Qu Mei suddenly said: "I feel something is wrong..."
Following Qu Mo's voice, the puppet that was moving mechanically in the fragments suddenly stopped and turned back towards the crowd!
What appeared on its face was a grimace!
That is definitely not Qu Mei's control, but belongs to it—the action of this puppet that should have no will. Seeing the strange and terrifying smile on its face, Chu Tianshu immediately said: "Qu Mei, disconnect!"
Qu Mei immediately disconnected when he was also torn away. But he soon vomited blood from the injury. Fu Liye hurriedly supported him with his elder brother puppet. Qiu Ran panicked and said, "How come...that puppet..."
"Although I don't know what's going on." Chu Tianshu also frowned, "But it looks like it was infected into a ghost after entering there!"
At the next piece of debris, Chu Tianshu sent a robot into it. There was white mist floating inside, and the robot turned left and right inside, but nothing happened.
"It doesn't seem to be a problem with the fragments?" Fu Liye said.
"I think it might be because robots have no brains, and haunted robots don't sound too scary." Ye Xiangxiang said, and simply sent his little paper man to follow.
Paper figurines seem like the perfect haunting material. But the little paper man and the robot wandered together in the white mist, but none of them turned into a ghost. Just when everyone was wondering, Lin Huai, who had been silent all this time, spoke.
"The red mist is because of the red mist." Lin Huai said, "In the fragment that Qu Mei explored at the beginning, there was red mist... It was red mist that changed its nature."
"Blood mist... Yes, the power of ghosts is indeed blood-colored." Ye Xiangxiang suddenly turned pale, "Is it true that if we accidentally walk into the blood mist, we will be the same as the puppet just now..."
Before you know it, get killed, or turn into a monster
"I think it's good for Brother Lin to be like this now." Fu Liye said, "Maybe we will become stronger when we go in."
Lin Huai glanced at him, and said, "If you go in, the possibility of becoming a monster that can only kill will be higher."
Fu Liye choked for a moment and stopped talking.
Everyone continued to walk, Qiu Ran quietly asked Lin Huai, "Mr. Lin Huai, do you know something?"
Lin Huai paused, but did not speak.
Qu Mei still fell powerlessly into the arms of the puppet. Fu Liye felt that the road suddenly became a little strange. At this moment, Ruoshui stretched out his hand and shouted, "Look at that mountain!"
There was a slight wind blowing again, and what appeared in front of everyone was an extremely shocking scene!
Everything that appeared in front of him seemed to have been sliced by extremely weird things, presenting a strange sense of plane. And every place on the nearby mountain seemed to be made of square blocks, and pieces were forcibly extracted from it. The ground is also extremely steep, and it is more than a foot thinner than the place I walked just now, just like...
"... It's like a war happened here." Ruoshui murmured.
This place is really weird and full of horror, but except for the word "war", no one can better describe the desolation that happened here like skinning and peeling bones. They walked on it carefully, and the thick fog on both sides became less, but when Qu Mo passed by a piece of fog, he heard the wailing sound inside.
"what-"
"what-"
It was an extremely terrifying and bloody wailing sound, as if all the memories and resentful souls who were slaughtered here many years ago were left here, hovering continuously in the sky. Qu Mei was about to retreat quickly, but saw Lin Huai approaching the fog.
"you… "
Lin Huai turned a deaf ear, he heard voices in the fog.
After gradually digesting the black shadow, his ears became much more sensitive than before, so he could hear the wailing sound inside.
Many of those wailing sounds are not languages that humans can understand, but the languages used by ghosts.
"It hurts... it hurts... it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!"
"Don't want to be smashed, don't want to be deleted..."
"He's cutting us up..."
"That kid... that horrible kid..."
"There are two roads here." Ruoshui said, "One goes to the left and the other goes to the right. Ye Xiangxiang, which way should we go?"
"Two? There shouldn't be two roads here?" Ye Xiangxiang was also dumbfounded, "The map says there is only one road here..."
She looked up at the two roads, as if one of them had automatically cleared the fog with their arrival. In the end, she bit her lip and said, "Well, the others will wait here, and Brother Lin and Brother Chu will go explore the way."
Others agreed.
Two men and one woman continued to move forward. Follow the road on the right, the farther you go, Ye Xiangxiang always feels that the path is getting higher and higher. The good news is that the wind and fog have become less, and she feels that her heart is getting more and more stable. At this moment...
"Hanging, cliff?"
What appeared in front of the three of them was the cliff. Ye Xiangxiang looked at it at a glance, and only saw something in the shape of a dark pit, opposite the pit, far away, like the other shore with dark trees...
Ye Xiangxiang vaguely felt that the mist on the other side was a little red. She should leave, but curiosity made her look down the cliff, she said: "It's all dark, inside..."
The next moment, she stopped breathing.
"Inside, inside... let's go, let's go!" Ye Xiangxiang shouted.
The thing protruding from the cliff finally began to rustle. It's not a bottomless darkness, but...
Hundreds of thousands, millions of fragments of ghosts that were cut up from unknown sources!
All the spooky debris piled up in here, like a mass of pitch-black moths, making it less like a deep canyon than a mass grave for burning or doing something to them...
It's a mass grave belonging to ghosts! !
Ye Xiangxiang grabbed Chu Tianshu's arm and was about to run. But before she took a few steps, she found Lin Huai standing on the cliff. There was no wind blowing his black hair, but he looked down quietly, as if he was about to fall...
"Lin Huai, you..." Ye Xiangxiang said suddenly.
And Chu Tianshu walked towards Lin Huai step by step, reaching for his arm.
"They're calling my name."
Lin Huai looked flat, and suddenly said a terrible word.
He silently stared at the silent, terrifying mass grave that belonged to ghost fragments. There was silence in the mass grave, but he could hear voices that seemed to come from many years ago.
"They are calling me..." Lin Huai said in a sleepy voice, "Take them out..."
He stretched out his slender fingers like a butterfly with wings spread.
Pale, scary, phototropic... Butterflies.