"So that's the case!" Xiaoqiao laughed, showing a very bright smile, "That's great, if I found out earlier, I wouldn't have to run away all the time. I'm really tired from running all the time."
"Thank you, big brother, big sister!" Xiaoqiao called out sweetly, "If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely repay you!"
After Li Qiao finished speaking, his body suddenly emitted a soft and bright light, and then his body became transparent and floated into the midair.
"She's really a ghost..." Shi Yitong murmured.
"Yeah, after letting go of your obsession, you can ascend to heaven." Bai squinted his eyes and looked at Xiaoqiao who floated up, "It's a good thing."
The light from the small body became more and more intense, until finally we all had to close our eyes. With a "swish", Xiaoqiao disappeared into the air.
"If there is an afterlife, I will definitely come and play with my brothers and sisters."
"Wow!" Liang Kaifeng let out a sudden exclamation.
I opened my eyes and was startled too.
At some point, the forest suddenly became brighter, obviously when the sun had not yet set. In front of us is a pile of fragments of human skeletons, as if swallowed by something and then spit out all over the place. Judging by the color, it has been dead for many years.
Not far from the skeleton, we saw the white car. But it's different from what I've seen before. There was a lot of fallen leaf dust on the roof of the car, the paint was almost peeled off, and the exposed iron plate was full of rust.
"This is..." Even Bai was shocked.
"It looks like at least five years... no, no, ten years." Shi Yitong reached out and touched the iron plate of the dilapidated car.
At this moment, my mobile phone, which had been unable to receive a signal before, also lit up. I took out my phone and looked, and the time was 5:45pm.
"Isn't this the time when we first entered the forest?" I was a little puzzled.
"Look!" Su Xiaoyun stretched out his hand and pointed in one direction at this time, "There is a light over there, it should be the exit!"
"Let's go!"
Sure enough, we walked along the bright crack, and within a few steps, we walked out of the forest. It's still great outside, it's not dark yet, and a group of teachers and classmates are waiting outside.
"Great! It's finally out!" Liang Kaifeng cheered, almost dancing on the spot.
Instead, the teacher and classmates who were waiting outside were stunned, and turned their heads to the three of us, "Why did you come back so soon? What are you doing in here?"
"Quick?" Shi Yitong was taken aback.
That's right, based on the current time, less than five minutes have passed since we entered the forest.
"That's a small forest." I quickly jumped out and explained, "I found Liang Kaifeng soon. Teacher, I'm sorry."
"You still know I'm sorry." The head teacher looked very angry with a straight face, "You know you are still messing around like this! It's okay to be unscathed this time, and if you run around like this in the future, who will be responsible if you can't find anyone?" !"
As a result, all four of us were recorded without exception this time. It's just that Liang Kaifeng, who has always been domineering, did not raise any objections this time, which surprised the teachers.
"You guys saved me this time." Liang Kaifeng rubbed his nose and muttered, "My dad said that one should repay one's kindness, without you, I would probably die in that place where no shit is possible. Count how many of you I owe you a favor."
The three of us looked at each other, a little surprised.
"Let's just say it first, I still don't like you guys at all. Every time I meet you, I will be unlucky!" The next second Liang Kaifeng stared at us nervously, "One size is one size, do you understand!"
Leaving those words behind, Liang Kaifeng left angrily.
"Maybe... this rich second generation is not so annoying." Shi Yitong said while rubbing his chin.
"It's really rare for you to say such a thing." Su Xiaoyun smiled.
On the night when I returned to school safely, I went to the old house to visit Wen Jiubai, and told him everything we had encountered in Yanjin Mountain. Wen Jiubai's complexion looks much better than before I left, but his personality is still as annoying as ever.
"... So, that's how it happened." I let out a long sigh of relief and lay down on the clean wooden floor.
"Isn't it good?" Wen Jiubai half-closed his eyes, playing games with his mobile phone.
"What's the matter?" I sat up suddenly and complained, "I almost died there! Are you listening to me?"
"Of course there is." Wen Jiubai said casually while playing games, "But you didn't really encounter any danger, did you? It was just a false alarm."
"Then I almost fell off the cliff."
"That's your problem, you can't blame anyone else."
"You!" I was furious, but I had nothing to refute this guy. Sometimes I really can't figure out what is going on in this person's head at all. Sometimes I feel that he cares about me, but sometimes he acts very indifferent.
"However, even if the monster we saw was fabricated by the ghost of the little girl, it must be true that the three of them were attacked." I thought.
"Affirmative." Wen Jiubai gave me an affirmative answer this time.
"That's very strange." I muttered to myself, "The broken car we saw is indeed the same car in the photo on the news a few days ago. But how did the reporter of that news take the picture What about that photo? Did he break into the forest barrier like us? Then how did he get out?"
Wen Jiubai glanced at me and said calmly, "Who knows. Maybe it's a coincidence."
"Also, what is this monster?" I jumped up and took a piece of paper from the table. Above is the huge black monster I drew from memory. I studied painting for two years in high school, and I don't think my painting skills are too bad.
Wen Jiubai put down his phone, took my painting, stared at it for a while, then shook his head, "I don't know."
I thought my ears had misheard, and asked again, "What?"
"I said," Wen Jiubai put down my painting, "I don't know."
"Did I draw too badly?" I muttered in my heart, and picked up the painting again to look at it.
It seems not.
"No, you draw well. But I don't know what kind of monster this is." Wen Jiubai shook his head.
"No way?" I was taken aback, "I don't know? Is this monster a monster that even you don't know?"
Wen Jiubai seemed to look at me with some amusement, "I'm not a god, nor do I know all monsters. Of course it's normal to have monsters I don't know. This world is much bigger than you imagined. If the world is A circle, the part we understand is just a small point on the diameter. Not only that, such huge monsters must not be the aborigines in that forest. Then, how did they come to that forest I don’t know what their habits are, whether they have left Senli, or not.”
I froze for a while and didn't say a word. Even Wen Jiubai's words made me feel a trace of unknown fear.
Wen Jiubai stood up, picked up the coat on the hanger and put it on, it seemed that he was going to tidy up the medicinal materials in Ji Shitang's room. When he was about to leave the room, he paused again and turned to look at me.
"It may be a coincidence, but it may not be." Wen Jiubai narrowed his eyes, "It may also be... someone wants to attract your attention. Gu Yu."