Gou Ming was startled, and at the same time, the imperial guard in his chest began to emit a slight heat, as if to warn him that something had been awakened from the darkness.

Something seemed to be writhing in the blurred shadows in the distance, but the dim candlelight made it impossible for him to see.

Gou Ming wanted to force himself to focus all his attention on the basketball in his hand, but his mind involuntarily began to pay attention to the changes around him.

Phew! Phew!

The eerie atmosphere made Gou Ming subconsciously speed up the frequency of dribbling.

The sound of basketball slapping and echoing mixed in, gradually making Gou Ming a little confused, whether it was the sound of a basketball, or the sound of his heart beating, or something else.

Creak!

At this moment, there was a strange noise, it was the rubbing sound of rubber and wooden boards!

Gou Ming's face changed instantly.

He didn't move a step, so the sound was definitely not coming from him!

This sound is just the beginning.

Soon a second footstep sounded, followed by a third, a fourth......

This was followed by the sound of the fabric rubbing.

In the darkness, these sounds were amplified, and even if they were mixed with the sound of a slapper, Gou Ming could still be heard clearly.

The sound of footsteps and grinding began to converge in one place.

But in the darkness, Gou Ming couldn't see anything, and he could only rely on his not-so-keen sense of hearing.

With the appearance of these strange sounds, the temperature of the omamori continued to rise, and the flame of the candle became more and more insignificant, and now it could barely shine within the circle with a radius of 1.8 meters.

The inside and outside of the middle circle seem to be separated from light and darkness, becoming two different worlds, one yin and one yang.

In the darkness, the footsteps became dense and urgent, and the grinding of the fabric gradually became louder.

Gou Ming's mind involuntarily appeared with the picture of the basketball team warming up before the start of the training camp.

But if you change the background of the picture to a pitch black, a group of people who can't see each other gather together for a run...... No matter how you think about it, it's a little infiltrating.

After a while, the sound of running suddenly stopped, and the whole basketball hall was only the sound of hooking and slapping balls.

'Gone...... ’

Gou Ming was a little confused, but just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, there was a sound of ropes and rollers sliding.

It seems that someone is hanging up a makeshift barricade, and someone is moving a cart with a basketball.

Followed by......

Woohoo!

A series of basketball beatings rang out.

Gou Ming can hear it clearly, this is definitely not the sound of his own ball!

Crash!

Syllable!

Then there was the sound of basketballs brushing over the net and striking iron, as if someone was practicing shooting in the dark.

Dada! Phew!

Chirping~!

Crash!

The sound of a quick run, the sound of dribbling, then a pause, and soon the sound of a basketball passing over the net, this is someone practicing a pull-up jump shot.

Bang!

Slam dunk!

Syllable!

Hit the board!

All kinds of voices sounded around Gou Ming, far and near.

Sometimes Gou Ming can even feel a 'person' speeding past him, blowing air currents, so close that it seems to hit him at any moment.

However, it was pitch black outside the middle circle, and Gou Ming could only see vague shadows flickering past him.

What's even more weird is that except for the sound of basketball, shoes, and clothes, these 'people' have no communication during the whole process.

I don't know how many 'people' surrounded Gou Ming in the dark, silently practicing basketball.

Gou Ming is like watching a shadow puppet show through a black veil while mechanically slapping a basketball.

Woohoo!

The sound of the basketball outside the center circle seemed to echo the sound of him slapping the basketball.

The dim candlelight shone diagonally on Gou Ming's face, revealing a wooden, eerie face.

That's when the unexpected happened!

The mechanical, boring slapping action, coupled with the eerie atmosphere around him, made Gou Ming involuntarily in a trance.

This distraction immediately went wrong!

Syllable!

Accidentally, the basketball smashed on his own foot and bounced off.

Except for the sound of the bouncing basketball constantly jumping on the floor, all the other sounds around it disappeared at once!

In the silence, only the basketball let out a series of clatters! sounds.

Just after the other voices disappeared, Gou Ming felt as if there were more than a dozen strange eyes in the darkness focused on him at once, which made him feel creepy.

Soon even the sound of the basketball was gone.

Poof! Poof!

There was silence all around, and Gou Ming could even hear his own heartbeat clearly.

In the silence, the guard in his chest continued to heat up. A drop of cold sweat slipped down Gouming's forehead.

Almost subconsciously, Gou Ming reached into his pocket and pinched the corner of the notebook.

The cold touch came along the fingertips, and Gou Ming's nervous mood was relaxed, and a sense of peace of mind arose.

At this moment, a strange arm suddenly stretched out from the darkness.

The arm was almost twisted, and the surface of the skin was covered with bloody mouths, like open baby mouths, and blood was constantly dripping from them. Blood seemed to flow from the mouth, and the skin surface of the arm took on a terrible dead gray color.

I saw that this hand was holding a basketball, slapped it twice, and then stretched it out directly in front of Gou Ming.

Hook Ming's throat rolled, and the only thing he was glad for at the moment was that the other party didn't seem to show any hostility for the time being.

Gou Ming carefully took the basketball from the ghost's hand.

Swish! The ghost hand retracted suddenly.

Call!

At this moment, a dark wind blew from nowhere, and the candle suddenly went out all at once!

All around, there was darkness.

Gou Ming stood in place, motionless. He almost had an accident just now, and now he didn't want to stimulate the other party more and more.

Time passed slowly, and there was silence in the basketball arena, and the shadows that had made the previous sound seemed to have all disappeared.

Is it over?' ’

As soon as this thought arose in Gou Ming's heart, a hand reached out from behind him and grabbed his shoulder!

The white light came out of nowhere, piercing the darkness in the basketball arena.

Only then did Gou Ming realize that there was a circle of 'people' around him unconsciously.

It turned out that they didn't move just now, but they kept staring at themselves in the dark.

One by one, they were wearing blood-stained basketball uniforms, and they looked extremely miserable.

Some have their heads crooked to one side, some have twisted their hands and feet at strange angles, and some have their intestines rotten and their heads bleeding.

They were like this, staring at Gou Ming and the basketball in his hand one by one......

At this moment, Gou Ming suddenly felt that his thoughts were in a trance, and then the world began to spin.

Soon, he didn't know anything.