Chapter 11: The Mysterious Skeleton
A terrible scream echoed through the woods, and after only a second or two, the woods were quiet again, as if everything had been an illusion just now.
A layer of blood splatters poured into the river, and from time to time there were strangely shaped and terrifying piranhas jumping back and forth.
Although we all hate Chen Ming, we are still shocked and sad when a living life dies in front of our eyes.
There are piranhas in the river, and the river water is not to be thought about.
I had to find another way out.
We left the piranha-inhabited river and found a random place to rest along the way.
I've been saving water for almost three days, but I only have half a bottle of drinking water left.
My throat was burning, but I knew I couldn't drink it yet. I licked my lips and swallowed and foamed, as if that would quench my thirst.
In the afternoon we disagreed about what to do next.
Zhang Xinyu and I thought that we should go to find a water source, otherwise we would definitely not survive the sixth day.
Cui Shiyu believes that there is not much water left now, and he may not be able to find a water source if he continues to look for it, but will consume more water because of excessive exercise. We can rest in place for a day or two, and maybe in a day or two we can find the ghosts and kill them.
There are two paths in front of us now, one is the more risky one, which is the path I have chosen, and this path is very risky, because if you continue to look for it, you may not be able to find a water source. The second is the path chosen by Cui Shiyu, which is not very risky, but it relies on some luck.
The two of us had a fierce quarrel, Cui Shiyu snorted coldly and said, "Let's go our own way, you take your Yangguan Road, and I take my single-plank bridge." ”
Guo Mengqi persuaded on the side: "Shi Yu, we are separated now, isn't it the wish of the ghost?" ”
"And what do you say you want to do?" Cui Shiyu frowned slightly and asked.
At this time, Zhang Xinyu came up with an idea, he took out a coin and said: "Why don't we toss a coin, we will stay on the front, and we will go to find a water source on the negative, how about it?" ”
I said, "I'm fine." ”
Cui Shiyu also nodded.
Zhang Xinyu flicked his fingers, and the coin flew into the air, and the coin kept spinning and spinning in the air, and finally fell to the ground.
I immediately turned my gaze to the coin, thinking to myself that I must not end up with such blood standing on the ground.
Reverse side!
Seeing this, I looked at Cui Shiyu with a smile and said that we had agreed before, and we were not allowed to regret it.
Cui Shiyu nodded indifferently.
So we continued to look for water, but unfortunately we couldn't find a new source of water after walking for more than an hour.
I sat on the ground a little lost, and Cui Shiyu sneered on the side: "Yo, thanks to you, we can delay for less." ”
Hearing this, I frowned and said, "I said Cui Shiyu, I didn't find you so snarky before, is this your nature?" ”
Cui Shiyu sneered: "You're right, this is who I am." ”
In the evening, because of the experience of Li Qing last night, we were divided into a group of two people to keep vigil, because there were only five people left, so we simply had a group of boys and a girl.
First of all, Zhang Xinyu and I were in a group, and then Xu Xue, Guo Mengqi, and Cui Shiyu were in a group, each group lasted two hours.
At night, the bright moonlight sprinkled on Guo Mengqi's face.
Guo Mengqi smiled at the corner of her mouth, as if she had a beautiful dream.
In her dream, she seemed to have come to a heavenly kingdom, without the pain of lack of water, nor the pursuit of evil spirits, nor the pressure of death.
It's so beautiful here, Guo Mengqi thought to herself, just stay here.
Guo Mengqi never wanted to wake up again.
The dark night is the most unrelenting moment, Zhang Xinyu and I have eyes like falcons, always keeping an eye on the surrounding environment, even if there is a little wind and grass, we will not miss it.
But it was in this situation that Guo Mengqi died under the noses of the two of us!
Zhang Xinyu and I looked at Guo Mengqi, who was already dead, with gloomy faces, her neck was twisted.
Cui Shiyu looked at Guo Mengqi with a pale face, you must know that when she was sleeping, she and Guo Mengqi were almost next to each other.
"." Zhang Xinyu said with an ugly face: "It's really evil, doesn't it mean that ghosts appear as entities?" I haven't even seen a ghost in the past three days, and this ghost stick is just an ornament? ”
Cui Shiyu quickly regained his composure, and said with a skewed shoulder: "Maybe this ghost beating stick is just an ordinary stick, it is useless at all, it is just a means used by the head teacher to fool us." ”
"But the head teacher doesn't have to be like this." I said suspiciously, "If she really wants to kill us, the people in our class will already be dead, so why go around in a big circle?" ”
"The head teacher is a ghost, do you believe in nonsense?" Cui Shiyu sneered: "Give you hope first, give you despair, maybe she likes to do this, who can understand the ghost's thoughts?" ”
I frowned, is it really like Cui Shiyu said, the head teacher is simply playing with us?
In less than three days, three people have died, except for Chen Ming, Li Qing and Guo Mengqi were all killed by ghosts silently at night. And I haven't even seen a ghost yet, and I think I'm really a failure.
",." Zhang Xinyu took the ghost beating stick, waved it indiscriminately, and scolded angrily: "If you have the ability, give it to Lao Tzu, I have to kill you as a dog." Come out, what kind of ability is it to hide in Tibet! ”
Now you can't blame Zhang Xinyu for going crazy, a living person was killed silently under his nose, who can stand it? can kill Guo Mengqi under his nose, which means that it is not very difficult for a ghost to kill himself quietly.
Now the morale is obviously low to an extreme, although you have a ghost stick in your hand, but you can't even see a ghost, hit the hair?
"Don't be discouraged." A cold voice rang out.
Zhang Xinyu stopped waving his hand and looked at Xu Xue in amazement.
"It's not that I'm discouraged, but... Hey, Xu Xue, aren't you afraid? Zhang Xinyu asked.
"Calm down." Xu Xue said seriously: "I'm afraid it's useless." ”。
"Xu Xue is right, let's calm down first." I say.
"Okay." Zhang Xinyu nodded.
Now we are extremely tired, both physically and mentally, but Guo Mengqi's body is next to it, maybe the ghost is hiding in some dark corner, so we can only hold on.
I glanced at my phone, three o'clock. It's really getting up earlier and earlier these days.
After a while, there was a sudden rustling sound in the woods.
We immediately looked vigilantly in the direction of the sound, and the lights of several flashlights also shone in the direction from which the sound came from.
I saw a bunch of huge ants crawling on the ground, and I am afraid that the size of a person's finger belly is probably the size of a person's belly, and at a cursory glance, there can be no less than hundreds.
This scene really scared our souls, and the plants that could move before, the ferocious piranhas have made us understand that we should not underestimate the creatures in this woods.
Zhang Xinyu kicked on the fire, and a large number of branches that were still burning on it flew towards some ants, and suddenly, the sound of zila la was endless.
But there were still a large number of ants in the back, so I picked up my backpack and dragged Zhang Xinyu as I ran, saying, "Don't run yet." ”
The ants did not chase us, but in our horrified eyes, they densely climbed on top of Guo Mengqi's corpse, and in a few breaths, Guo Mengqi's corpse was only a skeleton.
I don't know how long we ran, but we felt that it should be impossible for the ants behind us to catch up, so we stopped.
"It's a dog." Zhang Xinyu panted and said, "There are such big ants, I have never seen them in my life." ”
We've seen a lot of weird creatures these days, umbrella trees, giant petunias, ferocious piranhas, huge ants, and I suspect that this place is not Earth at all.
But now is obviously not the time to think about this, our top priority now is to survive, only by living, can we be qualified to think about other things.
......
During the day, our opinions diverged again.
I still think we should go and find water.
"Since guarding or not guarding can't stop ghosts from killing people, then why do we have to keep it?" Zhang Xinyu's emotions were obviously very excited.
"Walking around will only make you die faster." Cui Shiyu rubbed his forehead and said, "I don't want to worry about this issue with you anymore, let's go our separate ways, Xue'er, let's go." After that, Cui Shiyu took Xu Xue's hand and made a gesture to leave.
However, Xu Xue didn't pay attention to her, but said, "I agree with Ye Yan's idea. ”
At that time, I was happy in my heart, Cui Shiyu's pen, this face hurts, papapa!
Sure enough, Cui Shiyu's face was blue for a while and white for a while.
Zhang Xinyu smiled and said, "See, people don't agree, if you want to go, go by yourself." ”
Cui Shiyu didn't seem to have any intention of being alone, she said with an ugly face: "Since Xue'er has said so, then so be it." ”
My water has bottomed out, and there are nearly three days left, and in this situation it would be fatal to not drink water for three days. So if I can't find a water source today, I'll have to venture to the river where there are piranhas.
After walking all morning, I didn't find anything, although it was dangerous, but I had no choice but to go to the river where there were piranhas.
Because Zhang Xinyu had a high fever.
After Li Qing's death, Zhang Xinyu put his coat on him. Under the pressure of lack of water, exhaustion, cold, death, and fear, Zhang Xinyu, who was very thinly dressed, couldn't hold on after all.
He had been holding on to it before, and we didn't notice anything unusual about him, and after walking all morning, he couldn't bear it anymore and fell to the ground with a thud.
I put my coat on Zhang Xinyu's body, and touched Zhang Xinyu's forehead with an anxious expression, and found that it was hot.
"It burned badly." I looked at Xu Xue and Cui Shiyu, and said decisively: "We have to go to that river." ”
"What?" Cui Shiyu exclaimed: "There are piranhas in that river." ”
"Then you have to find a way to get some water, Zhang Xinyu will die without water in this state." I said solemnly.
After getting along for the past few days, I found out that Zhang Xinyu is a person who values love and righteousness, and I have long regarded him as my brother, how can I let him die without my eyes?
As soon as Cui Shiyu was about to speak, Xu Xue silently walked to my side, seemingly supporting me by default. Seeing this, Cui Shiyu could only swallow the words in his mouth dissatisfied.
"Brother, can you still go?" I asked softly.
"Yes!" Zhang Xinyu staggered to his feet.
"Why don't I carry you?"
"No, I'm not so pretentious, let's go."
Fortunately, the river was not far from us, and I helped Zhang Xinyu to walk slowly in the direction of the river.
Halfway through, a shocking thing appeared before our eyes.
It was a skeleton.
Xu Xue looked at the corpse silently, and after a while, she interrupted my thoughts: "Cui Shiyu, come with me." ”
Xu Xue glanced at me a little embarrassed, and then said, "Ye Yan, let's go out for a while and come back immediately." ”
"Hmm." I nodded and instructed, "Stay safe, and shout for help if you're in danger." ”
After Xu Xue left, I looked at this corpse, and then thought, could it be that there are other people in this forest besides us?
It's impossible, this hellish place is deserted, I even suspect that this is not the earth, how can there be human bones?
Case... So where did this skeleton come from?
Thinking about this, I feel as if I see a glimmer of light called the truth, but it's still close, it's still close to me being able to catch it.
My brain was racing fast, and my homework said that there would be a ghost coming after us, and this ghost would appear as a physical entity, but we hadn't seen a single ghost so far, and there was another human skeleton here...
What the middle-aged uncle said flashed in his mind, and seeing is not necessarily believing.
At this moment, it seems that a drop of clear water is dripping on the waterhole of truth, stirring up ripples on the water surface.
I understand!
"Zhang Xinyu, let's go." I picked up the ghost beating stick and shouted at Zhang Xinyu: "Xu Xue is in danger!" ”
A cold wind blew through the trees, and the leaves rustled.
Two girls stood in a wood, one after the other.
"Hurry up." Cui Shiyu urged.
"What about Cui Shiyu?" Xu Xue stopped and said a word for no reason.
"Huh?" Cui Shiyu said in a daze: "Xue'er, what nonsense are you talking about?" Am I not right here? ”
"I mean..."Xu Xue turned around and said coldly, "Where is the real Cui Shiyu?" ”
The cold wind stopped blowing, the leaves stopped shaking, and the whole forest was like a picture, with only bright colors but no sound.
There are just a weird smile on the corner of "Cui Shiyu's" mouth and a bright knife in his hand...