The World Below Surface

Chapter 99

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"You, you guys..." Jin Fugui's hands were unsteady, and he pointed for a long time, not knowing what to curse.

Jin Cancan said: "What's wrong? We will go back immediately."

She moved closer to Jiang Bai, but Jiang Bai immediately avoided her.

Two female students also came out of the woods, with green fluorescence on their heads and faces.

Lu Yanli ignored Jin Cancan's sad look and said, "Mr. Jin, if you still want to survive, you'd better stay away from this thing." He pointed at the green fluorescent light flying all over the sky.

"What's wrong with this thing?" Jin Cancan asked with some fear.

Jiang Bai looked at him as if he was looking at a dead person: "Just a moment, just a moment and you'll know."

‌ for a while

Jin Cancan raised her hand hesitantly.

She suddenly noticed that the skin on her hands was itchy and painful. It was not very obvious at first, but later, the itchiness was unbearable. She couldn't help but stretch out her hand to scratch it, and the more she scratched, the more itchy it became.

The same thing happened to the others. Jin Yuanbao had less on him, and the onset was slower than the others. When he saw the others start to scratch, he was still a little confused.

"Tell me clearly, what's wrong with this thing?" asked Jin Yuanbao.

He stretched out his hand and scratched his neck, only to find that it became more and more itchy.

Under the skin... it seems like something is trying to come out.

There were more and more dots of fluorescence floating out of the woods. Jin Fugui noticed something was wrong and had already walked ahead. He scolded, "Stop talking so much. Hurry up and go back to wash this stuff off."

His expression was really ugly. Jin Cancan didn't dare to say much. She followed behind with her brother, muttering unhappily but not daring to say anything.

The two girls felt a little embarrassed in front of a group of adults, so they just followed behind obediently.

"Jiang Bai." Jin Cancan called Lu Yanli in a low voice, "Can you tell me what this is? Is it dangerous?"

She tried to catch fireflies at first, but later found out that they were not fireflies. She caught them little by little, which was fun, so she caught quite a few. Now her whole body is itchy, and she can't help but regret it. She didn't have so many, and just thought that this thing would be bad for the skin and might cause allergies or something.

Lu Yanli turned to look at her and nodded: "It's life-threatening."

“What?!” Jin Cancan was stunned.

"Stop talking nonsense. How can your life be in danger?" Jin Yuanbao scratched and glared at Lu Yanli, "Cancan, you don't have to listen to him."

"But, but it's really itchy..." Jin Cancan's words were filled with tears.

She scratched harder and harder, breaking the skin and causing bits of flesh to fall down: "It's so itchy... It's really itchy... Am I going to die?"

"Sumei, should we also..." One of the girls started crying.

This itching feeling coming from the bones is so unbearable.

"Don't talk nonsense! It's serious. Let's go back and take a shower and wash it off." Jin Fugui felt very distressed, but he didn't dare to hug his daughter and comfort her at this moment.

Lu Yanli walked away again.

Wash it clean? It doesn't work. After a while, their skin will start to fester. This thing... has already parasitized their bones.

However, why did something that was clearly in the ancient tomb come out

Lu Yanli inadvertently recalled what a male student had said before: schools are built on mass graves.

Where is the source of this thing

Before he could give an answer, he heard screams behind him.

"Ahh—what is this?" Jin Cancan broke down and burst into tears, with green tears flowing from her eyes.

Several long, thin, green mushrooms grew in the palm of her hand.

"Don't pull it out. You can still live a little longer." Seeing that she was about to collapse and pull out the mushroom-like thing, Lu Yanli warned her.

The others were not much better. Jin Fugui and Huo Gang were stunned. The two girls also started crying, and mushrooms appeared on their faces.

Clusters of thin, long, green fluorescent mushrooms scramble to emerge from under the skin and grow unscrupulously on the surface of the human body, absorbing nutrients. They grow more and more, visible to the naked eye.

The oriole screamed miserably.

A mushroom pierced through his eyeball and came out of his eye socket.

"Jiang... Mr. Jiang, what should we do with this thing?" In the panic, Jiang Bai's calmness was too inconsistent, and Jin Fugui couldn't help but regard him as some kind of hermit master.

"There is no solution." His voice was very light, but it sounded like thunder in the ears of several people, "He will die for sure."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Jin Yuanbao yelled at him.

The young man ignored the itch on his body and held Jin Cancan's hand tightly to stop her from scratching, lest she scratch her skin again. He tried his best to say, "Cancan, you see, this guy is not a good guy at all. Don't believe what he says."

Jin Cancan just cried and kept shaking her head: "Brother, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to play."

Green liquid dripped from her face, forming fluorescent stains on the ground, dripping all the way.

"It has nothing to do with you. I came here on my own." Jin Yuanbao said, bearing the pain. "Just bear with it. We'll go back and take a shower. We won't play anymore."

Huo Gang couldn't bear it, so he quickened his pace and came to Lu Yanli's side: "Mr. Jiang Bai, do you really have a solution?"

Lu Yanli shook his head: "Yes."

"Then how do you know what this is?" Huo Gang was unwilling to give up.

"I don't know what it is, I just saw it. Once you touch it, it will parasitize in the human body." Lu Yanli looked directly at the other party, "If it is possible, I also know what it is and where it comes from."

He still looked a little pale and frail, but when he met his eyes, Huo Gang couldn't help but take a step back.

This person…

He shuddered.

The group quickly rushed to the dormitory building, even though they knew that a ghost might have followed the three boys back. They had to try to see if it could be washed away.

There was a circle of trees planted outside the playground, and one had to pass through the trees to get back to the main road. Lu Yanli walked in front, and when he stepped onto the road, his pupils shrank.

He said nothing, took a few steps forward, and waited for them to follow.

"Ah—" The girl named Xie Lin screamed following closely behind.

Jin Fugui was startled: "What's wrong?"

As they talked, they had already passed through the woods and looked into the distance, then they all froze in their places. Jin Cancan suddenly got into Jin Yuanbao's arms, trembling all over, not daring to look any further.

There was a long tree-lined avenue on campus, and all the street lights were off except for one that was on. Under that street light, was hanging the body of a boy.

The winter wind was strong, and the corpse swayed gently and slowly turned around.

From a distance, I couldn't see clearly. I could only see the other person's swollen face and a long tongue sticking out of his mouth.

"He... he's dead... dead! What should I do?"

Zhang Sumei comforted Xie Lin: "It's okay, it's okay. Let's not look at him, just walk back slowly."

Lu Yanli saw his face clearly in the dark.

He was the boy wearing glasses among the three boys who returned.

The crowd was in a panic, and even the tallest man, Huo Gang, felt a chill down his spine. Only Lu Yanli watched everything coldly.

Be it the strange fluorescent light or the strangely hanged corpse, it seemed that it was difficult to scare him.

"Now, it's a problem, it's a problem, everyone, be careful, don't bump into it, let's go around it." Jin Fugui was so scared that his legs were weak, but he still had to cheer up and encourage everyone, "It's a problem, we just need to go back."

He was regretting in his heart that he shouldn't have lived in the school just to save a little accommodation fee.

Damn principal, are you trying to kill him

"Don't be afraid, let's go over first and I'll tell the principal." Jin Fugui grabbed Huo Gang with one hand and called the principal with the other.

But no one answered the phone.

Jin Fugui continued to fight in defiance, and this time someone answered the call.

A sweet voice came from the microphone: "Sorry, the user you dialed has died and cannot be answered at the moment. Please try again later..."

"What?" Jin Fugui had never heard such strange words before. As soon as he realized what was happening, he immediately wanted to hang up the phone. The others were also so frightened that they dared not say a word. Jin Cancan and Huang Li also covered their mouths to prevent their sobs from reaching the other end of the phone.

‌ It works, the call cannot be hung up.

"Sorry, the user you dialed has died and cannot be answered at the moment. Please try again later..." Over and over again, the voice became louder and louder. Jin Fugui hardened his heart and even gave up the card. He took a deep breath and threw the phone away.

The voice broadcast is louder.

"Sorry, the user you dialed has died. We are unable to contact you at this time..."

"Stop talking! Shut up!" Jin Fugui yelled in the direction where he threw the phone, his chest heaving violently. He didn't dare to imagine, what should he do if a ghost really haunted him

The mechanical female voice showed no sign of stopping, and it became louder and louder, and the speed of speech became faster and faster. In the end, everyone could hear her sharp and cold voice.

"Sorry, you are dead. Please call again later." The last long beep seemed to announce the end of life.

"What should I do? She's got her eyes on me..." Jin Fugui grabbed the few hairs on his head in pain, "She's got her eyes on me... What should I do?!"

Jin Cancan gritted his teeth, shook off Jin Yuanbao's hand, and ran quickly in the direction where his father threw the phone: "Dad, I'll help you answer this call!"

She ran too fast, and Jin Yuanbao grabbed her and let her slip away. Jin Cancan cried as she ran, "Dad, you and brother must live well."

“Cancan! Don’t mess around!” Jin Yuanbao’s eyes were bloodshot.

It worked. Jin Cancan had already picked up the phone: "Are you making a fuss? Come find me if you can! I'm not afraid of you! Isn't it just a ghost?"

"I'm not afraid of you!"

Jin Cancan was still crying, her head and face were covered with green bacteria. She viciously said her last words in this world.

Then, a pale hand stretched out from the phone screen and grabbed her wrist.

Then, the hand pulled her hard and dragged her into the screen.

The phone fell to the ground with a click, and the person who answered the phone disappeared.

In full view of everyone, the ghost killed a man.

“Cancan!!” Jin Yuanbao rushed over, but could only watch Jin Cancan disappear on the spot. He burst into tears holding the phone in his hand.

Jin Fugui beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Cancan..."

Huo Gang felt bad too. He wiped his face with his hand and pulled himself together: "Boss, shall we go back? The ingot is still there."

The young man was still crying. He cried so hard, like a child, letting out all the grief in his heart through tears.

"Cancan..."

The phone screen suddenly lit up, and then a voice came from the phone.

"elder brother?"

Jin Yuanbao was stunned.

This voice... is Chanchan.

"Cancan? What's wrong with you?" He hurriedly picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

"Hmm? I'm fine." The girl's voice was full of smiles. "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"No, I am, I thought you... Well, I am no problem."

Jin Fugui stood there in a daze.

After a while, he swallowed his saliva and poked Huo Gang: "Is Yuanbao... possessed by evil spirits?"

What is he saying into the phone

Huo Gang shook his head hard.

Everything that happened tonight was beyond his expectations. He had never thought that such a thing would happen.

His eyes turned to the oriole.

The other party had not spoken for a long time and had just been following them. Now he was shocked to see that half of the flesh on his face had fallen off, revealing the frightening white bones, and the eyeball of one eye had fallen out of the eye socket like a thin mushroom, swaying back and forth.

The two girls had been huddled aside, not daring to say anything. They held back their anger and tried to be nice.

"Old Huang? Oriole?" Huo Gang called him, but the other party turned a deaf ear and slowly walked forward.

Huo Gang didn't dare to touch him, fearing that he would get stained with this thing, so he could only keep calling him: "Huang Li! Where are you going?"

Huangli walked forward about a hundred meters and came to a street lamp. He raised his head and looked up.

A rope loop hung from the top of the street lamp, just in front of the oriole.

The oriole obediently put its head through the rope loop, and the rope immediately tightened, pulling him up.

Gradually lift your feet off the ground.

The oriole struggled, grabbing at his neck with both hands. But the more he grabbed, the tighter the rope became. He struggled for a long time, then his thrashing legs calmed down, and his hands dropped down, unable to move.

There was a fluorescent glow on his face, which was clearly visible to others. The eyeball of his other eye was bulging outward, and the tongue sticking out of his mouth had grown to an abnormal length.

"There's a ghost... There's a ghost in the school..." Huo Gang muttered to himself and slowly backed away.

"It's a ghost... It's a ghost!" His voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he let out a scream that was not something a human could make. Then, he pounded his head with both hands and squatted down, crying and laughing.

“Ghost… Hahahahahahaha there is a ghost… No, there is a ghost, hehehehehehe…”

Perhaps because the blow was too great, Jin Fugui just turned his head and took a look.

"Huo is crazy." He turned around and continued to comfort his son, hoping that he would put down his phone and go back to the dormitory with him.

No one paid any attention to Huo Gang, so Huo Gang tried to pull Lu Yanli, but he dodged. He looked up at the sky stupidly.

“Hahahahaha… So many ghosts…” He pointed into the air and said, “So many ghosts… So many fireflies!”

"Catch bugs...fireflies!" He jumped up and stumbled deeper into the forest, chasing the increasingly dense glow of light.

The two female students huddled together, shivering.

They were completely unable to walk, and the severe pain tortured them to the point where they were almost unconscious. They could only vaguely see a person approaching them.

Lu Yanli had two more knives on his wrists. He flicked his wrists and the knives cut their throats and stabbed them hard into the sand.

Should I thank those people for taking my knife away

The two bodies fell down, and something strange happened. Green blood splattered on the ground. Green fungi also grew wildly, and even the blade was covered with green fluorescence.

Lu Yanli said: "I want to go back. Now, shall we go?"

Jin Fugui is still advising Jin Yuanbao, please listen carefully.

It was not until Lu Yanli said it again that he realized that he was asking himself.

Only myself and this mysterious young man were left.

It is impossible to save the gold ingots.

When the cold wind blew, Jin Fugui suddenly came to his senses.

"Let's go... Let's go, please, don't leave me." Jin Fugui took a last look at his son and followed Lu Yanli with heavy steps.

On the other end of the phone, Jin Yuanbao laughed regardless of what Jin Cancan said.

"Okay, this is the Emperor's Festival, right? I'll sing it for you, and you don't need to cry anymore."

Lu Yanli heard Jin Yuanbao say this in a hoarse voice, and then he began to hum softly.

Jin Fugui and Lu Yanli's expressions changed drastically.

Jin Fugui: "Yuanbao! You can't just sing casually during the Emperor's Sacrifice!"

Lu Yanli turned his head suddenly and stared at the gold ingot.

No, it won't be wrong.

The song that Jin Yuanbao is singing now is exactly the song he has heard before, sung by the female star named Lan Zhiyu!

Jin Yuanbao couldn't hear the voices of others, and just continued to sing. His mind was full of thoughts about coaxing his sister who was unhappy, and he couldn't hear his father's angry scolding.

"Go away! You can't listen to this song!" Seeing that he couldn't persuade his son, Jin Fugui turned around and shouted at Lu Yanli.

Without him saying anything, Lu Yanli ran away.

Jin Yuanbao was still singing. Before he knew it, he put his phone aside, stood up, and started singing to the moon that would suddenly pass through the dark clouds and the green fluorescent light that would float softly in the night.

A white hand stretched out from the phone screen.

Then, a figure slowly crawled out from the screen of the mobile phone.

The two bodies hanging on the street lamp swayed in the wind, and the rope broke, and the two bodies fell down.

They stayed on the ground for a while, and their hands and feet gradually became mobile.

The crazy Huo Gang ran out of the woods again chasing the light, slowly came in front of Jin Cancan, and stopped.

The two dead female students on the ground had their hands and feet broken...

"What exactly is the Emperor's Festival? Where did you learn this song from?" After running away, Lu Yanli finally couldn't help but ask.

Jin Fugui said fearfully, "The Emperor's Sacrifice. Of course it's a sacrifice to the Emperor. Do you remember the story? The Emperor wanted to be immortal, but people will die anyway, so he wanted to be resurrected. To come back from the dead, this is the Emperor's Sacrifice."

"How did you know that?" Lu Yanli had never thought that there was such a secret behind Lan Zhiyu's song.

"In an ancient tomb." Jin Fugui no longer hid anything from him. He didn't know why he told all the secrets to this young man when he faced him.

"It's not the ancient tomb I dug. That tomb is very old. It is said that a god is buried in that tomb!"

Lu Yanli said coldly: "Didn't you say that gods might be dead?"

"No one knows, right? It's just a legend. Some say it is dead, while others say it was originally dead but later came back to life." Jin Fugui panted as he ran.

"Are you still planning to go back to the dormitory?" Lu Yanli planned to leave school. Even though it was dangerous at night, it was better than going to school.

"Yes, let's go back to the dormitory. The principal told me that it's safer in the dormitory. The school has hired a master to do something. If you fall asleep, they won't come to you."

"But, when you called just now, the voice on the other end didn't say that."

Jin Fugui was also wondering, and after a pause, he said, "Just hold on to this night, and we can go out during the day. You can't leave this school at night."

As they were talking, they arrived near the dormitory building.

‌Their steps all stopped.

In front of the dormitory building, a row of figures stood there in an orderly manner, as if waiting for something.

Hearing their footsteps, the people in that row all turned around and looked at the two of them.

The dead Jin Cancan, Huang Li... and the crazy Huo Gang were all there!

Looking under the light, everyone's face was pale and their lips were bright red, like a paper figure.

Jin Fugui's heart and stomach trembled: "What, what should we do? How about we run away?"

Jin Cancan grinned, revealing a row of sharp, white teeth: "Dad, where have you been? We've been looking for you for a long time."

After that, she looked at Jiang Bai again, with a blush on her face: "Jiang Bai, where did you go just now?"

But there was no girlish shyness in her eyes, but rather cold and undisguised malice.

Why don't they go in? Is the dormitory really safe

Instead of moving forward, Lu Yanli took a step back so that he could escape at any time.

At this time, another girl came down from upstairs, apparently going to the bathhouse.

"Hey? What are you doing standing at the door?" The girl felt strange, opened the door and waved at them, "Come in."

A row of people turned their heads to look at the girl, which made her feel uncomfortable: "What are you doing? Why are you looking at me like that?" She rubbed her arms and said, "If you don't come in, I'll close the door."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Yuanbao walked forward slowly and stood at the door.

He lowered his head and smiled at the girl, revealing a mouthful of sharp white teeth.

"Run." Lu Yanli stretched out his hand and pulled the gold ingot, then he reacted and followed the other person to escape.

The dormitory building is no longer safe. Now where should they go

Not long after they escaped, a girl's scream was heard in the dormitory building.

Lu Yanli and Jin Fugui shuttled through the campus late at night. They avoided the dense woods that were emitting green fluorescent light and walked on the main road.

They could hear loud wails coming from the dormitory building.

as well as…

There was a loud "boom".

Lu Yanli looked back in disbelief.

There was an explosion in the direction of the dormitory building, and a sea of fire surged.

Is it your future self again

Lu Yanli knew what was going on and ran faster. Using the bright flames from the sky to identify the direction, he dragged Jin Fugui towards the school gate.

"Oh no! There was an explosion at the school too."

Among the mission members, someone was responsible for keeping a close eye on Jiang Bai, a suspicious person. Naturally, after Jiang Bai was sent to school, their target of observation became the school.

Jiang Yu and his men held a meeting overnight.

"Why did the school explode? Could it be related to Jiang Bai?"

It was basically certain that Jiang Bai was not the murderer, as there were no items in his bag or on his body that could be used to make an explosion. Moreover, they had all seen the man who made the explosion with their own eyes, who looked exactly like Jiang Bai.

"The most important thing now is whether Jiang Bai is alive or dead. He must have many secrets. It would be a pity if he died like this." Di Ying said.

Lin Chuyang's brows jumped when he heard about the explosion.

No way, you want to blow yourself up too