Gao Ruosong and I walked side by side on the side of the road at night, the busy cars on the side of the road whizzed past us, the sound of the horn sounding like a cry as the car left, and the high and low tones kept repeating in our ears.

"Wakamatsu, I said, how could you make such a bet? The bicycle is faster than the subway, and of course the subway is faster. I said casually.

Wakamatsu, who was silent on the side, heard what I said, lowered his head and smiled, and said, "Everyone says so, so I also think that the subway is faster, but Huang Qi doesn't believe it, because we haven't taken the subway yet." ”

"Haven't you all sat down?" I asked, somewhat surprised.

"yes, haha." Wakamatsu touched his head embarrassedly.

The street lamps reflected the shadows of the two of us, overlapping deeply and shallowly, like several ghosts following behind us, constantly changing their shapes as we moved.

"Ah, Wu Chao, this side is about to turn." Gao Ruosong suddenly stopped, pointed to the grass on the side and said.

The road we are walking on is the main road in the city, and we can go straight all the way without turning to the entrance of the N Dalinghu Campus. If you're riding a bicycle, you must follow this path the fastest.

"Over here? Are you sure? I asked worriedly as I looked at the dark grass and saw no sign of anyone passing by.

"Well, I'm sure, it must be this way." Gao Ruosong's determined expression didn't look fake, but looking at the black grass with no end in sight, I flinched a little. I began to wonder if it was a wise decision to help him find his missing classmates.

Seeing that I was slow to act, Ruosong turned around and said, "Wu Chao, why don't you go home first, I can do it alone." He probably saw my concerns, and pulled a sincere smile on his hard face, and I believe that the person with this smile will not be a bad person.

"It's okay, I'll help you find it." With that, I gritted my teeth and followed him into the black grass on the side of the road.

The main road is surrounded by trees to keep out the weeds behind the road. The main road was newly built several years ago, spanning the two districts of N City, and was erected on the basis of the original rural area, so the trees should have maintained their original rural appearance after that.

It wasn't until I stepped into the bushes that I realized how simple I was. Originally, I thought that there was a rural road behind this, but who knew that the people living in the countryside had already moved out, and there was no other light source around except for the street lights shining in from behind. As I kept moving forward, the light gradually left me, and finally only a faint moonlight remained, and I could faintly see the road under my feet.

I took out my phone and looked at it, it was already ** o'clock, and due to the remoteness of the place, the signal was gone. Gao Ruosong, who was walking in front, did not mean to stop at all, and still maintained the original speed and kept moving forward, as if Huang Qi was not far away. I couldn't see the road ahead clearly, so I could only follow him one after the other, and the uneasiness in my heart gradually developed.

"Wakamatsu." I saw that he had not spoken for a while, and the surrounding area was a little frighteningly quiet, so I couldn't help but call him. My throat, which I hadn't spoken for a long time, was itchy and my voice became muffled, and I was startled by the sound of my own speech.

"What's wrong?" He didn't look back, the voice coming through his back, ethereal in the silent field.

"It's nothing, I just think it's just the two of us on the road, it's weird and scary." I said casually. I tried to identify the marks on the ground, except for the grass we stepped on, there were almost no other marks, Huang Qi should not have chosen this path to go, why did Gao Ruosong lie to me?

"Wu Chao, are you scared?" Wakamatsu, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, looked back at me in a daze, and his expression was extremely stern.

I was a little overwhelmed by his question. Indeed, I was scared. The moonlight shone on his thin face, and for a moment I felt the light penetrate his body and hit the ground straight onto the ground. I rubbed my eyes, I guess I was too nervous to see it wrong.

"Haha, you're really scared!" He suddenly laughed, and his miserable face, which was still white just now, immediately became angry, "You're all at work, and you're still scared!" ”

It turned out that he was just scaring me and causing me to break out in a cold sweat. Looking at his squinted eyes with bad intentions, I gave him a roll of the eyes, walked around him and walked straight ahead.

"You don't scare me, do you know that I'm the editor-in-chief of "Persona", how can I be afraid of this kind of thing."

"Persona?" He was a little puzzled, this time it didn't seem like a fake.

"That's right, it's a hunting magazine that is popular all over the country, and is a hunting magazine for men, women, and children! Don't sue me that you haven't seen it. This time it was my turn to put on a proud expression and look at him condescendingly.

He kept repeating the name of Persona, and finally raised his head and shook his head, indicating that he hadn't read it.

"Hey, you're in college, and you don't know my magazine. Forget it, I'll give you a copy another day. I waved my hand and continued, "Oh yes, does Huang Qi have any characteristics?" For example, what is he wearing, and what is his bicycle like? ”

"Oh, thank you. Huang Qi, like me, was wearing a blue school uniform, the bicycle was black, and the base was wrapped with red thread, which his mother put on him, saying that it was for safety. Gao Ruosong said while thinking.

I nodded, searching for red, blue, and black objects. But everything in the moonlight was covered with a faint blue-gray color, making it impossible to distinguish clearly.

"Ahh Wu Chao! Look! Wakamatsu, who was walking behind, suddenly patted me on the shoulder, pointed ahead and shouted excitedly, "Bicycle!" Huang Qi's bike! ”

"Where?" I looked in the direction he was pointing. What appeared in front of me was still dense grass, black and crumpled together, like a black cloth covering the earth, what a bicycle, I didn't see.

Gao Ruosong ignored my looking around, and ran towards the black grass in front of him, looking excitedly as if Huang Qi had already appeared in front of him.

"Hey! Wakamatsu! Slow down! Be careful! Before I could react, he had already run out for a long time, and the tall figure had merged with the darkness of the grass and disappeared in front of me.

Really, such a big child, I don't know how to walk slowly at night. I complained, so I had to follow Wakamatsu's footsteps and run forward.

The black tree image is a giant standing in the grass, moving slowly backwards with the rhythm of my running. I shouted Wakamatsu's name as I ran, but I couldn't hear any response. My heart beat faster, and the feeling of fear spread from my heart to my whole body, and the tense muscles almost made my whole body spasm. Because of this, I started to run faster and faster, farther and farther, and more nervous as I ran.

"Wakamatsu!" I began to shout his name without hesitation, "Gao Ruosong! Are you up front! ”

The only thing that answered me was the sound of the wind whistling in my ears and a few lonely insect chirps, and I was terrified, where the hell is this, where has Gao Ruosong gone!

"Ahh Suddenly, my feet slipped, and I lost my center of gravity and fell into a big pit. The dense woods blocked the only moonlight, and I couldn't see the road under my feet, so I fell here.

Rubbing my body that had been hurt by the fall, I was about to stand up, and the moment my hand supported the ground, I felt like I had touched something hard, and the cold touch spread all over my body from my fingers, and I couldn't help but tremble.

I quickly pulled out my phone and looked at what I had just encountered through the faint backlight.

This is...... A skull...... Is it?

The backlight went out immediately, and I swallowed, turned on my phone again, and carefully studied what was in front of me.

Really a skull! He was wearing a blue student uniform and a black metal object next to him. The faintly revealed red told me that this was the Huang Qi bicycle, so the person in front of me ......

"Takamatsu !!!" I was screaming almost with a cry, my trembling voice echoing through the clearing, like a ghost. How could this bet-on-joke freshman bring me to a place like this?! I was so scared that tears were in my eyes, and seeing this scene in the middle of the night deeply stizzed my nerves, and I felt like I was about to collapse.

A strong white light suddenly shone on my face, and I quickly blocked the dazzling light with my hand and shouted, "Gao Ruosong! Where are you going! ”

"Girl?" An old voice came from the place where the light source came, I didn't expect this person to be Gao Ruosong, and I was stunned for a moment.

"Girl? Is that you? The voice continued to ask, gradually drawing closer to me. Only then did I see clearly that the person with the flashlight in front of me was an old woman.

"It's me!" I shouted, as if I was grasping at a life-saving straw, and I exerted all my strength.

Hearing my response, she walked slowly towards me and pulled me up from the ground. I patted the dust off my body and thanked her.

"Mother-in-law, there are human bones here!" I suddenly thought of the unidentified object I had just touched, and the fear came back to me again.

"Where?" My mother-in-law was also a little frightened when she heard my words, and hurriedly took a flashlight and took a picture behind me. "Girl, you are wrong when it is dark." My mother-in-law smiled kindly and patted me on the back as if comfortingly.

Wrong? I immediately turned around, and the glare of the flashlight could see what was on the ground. The thing I thought of as a skull was a big rock, the blue school uniform was a discarded blue plastic bag, and the black metal object didn't exist at all.

I breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and my heart finally calmed down, but when I thought of Gao Ruosong, I asked nervously, "Then have you seen a boy in a blue school uniform pass by here, so tall?" ”

I tried to geek, but the old woman shook her head.

"I heard your voice just now, so I quickly ran out to look, but I didn't see any boys."

I was silent, where did Gao Ruosong go, and I was kind enough to help him find Huang Qi. Today's students are really unreliable.

"Girl, why haven't you come home so late, what are you doing here?"

"Oh, I'm looking for someone." I hurriedly replied, "Where is this?" ”

"Here, it's the countryside of Linghu District!"

The countryside of Linghu District? I froze in place. Gao Ruosong and I started from the city, and it took less than an hour at most, even if we took the subway, it was impossible to reach Linghu District so quickly, let alone the remote countryside here! I turned on my phone and looked, there was still no signal, and the time was close to eleven o'clock.

"Girl, if you don't dislike it, go to my house and sit down, it's not safe to stay outside so late." My mother-in-law said, looking at me with some concern.

Although it's not good to live in someone else's house, but now that you run out to take the subway, maybe the subway will be suspended. The old woman didn't look like a bad person, so she went to sit and pass the long night, and when the first subway was running, I hurried back and left this hellish place.

With this in mind, I followed my mother-in-law to her house. The mother-in-law pointed to the lighted room in the distance and said that it was her house, and she lived alone now. I looked at the small room that stood stiffly in the clearing, and it was very abrupt, it seemed to be isolated from the world, and it was lonely there.

"Mother-in-law, why do you live alone in such a place?" I asked casually.

When she heard my words, she smiled helplessly and said, "I'm not a local, I'm from a foreign country." I've lived here since my son, who was in college......"

I didn't have the heart to listen to what she said later, my mind was only on those few words.

After the death of his son, who went to college......