Chapter 11: A Mysterious Disappearance
At dusk, Li Sijia, who had finished shopping with friends, walked alone in a remote corner near the campus in order to take a shortcut. Li Sijia lowered her head and played with her mobile phone while walking. Unaware of the danger behind her, little by little......
"Ahh All that was left on the ground was a mobile phone that was still flashing on the screen.
"Obediently, where did this Sijia go? People who are usually so active in eating, have eaten here, and still haven't come? Fang Xiaoqian waited for Li Sijia at the entrance of the school cafeteria, muttering to herself.
At this moment, Ye Ting happened to also walk towards the restaurant, and saw Fang Xiaoqian standing at the door with an anxious look on her face, and felt puzzled, so she stepped forward and asked.
"Why? Who will you look at at the door? You can't wait for me, right? Ye Ting, who has always been serious, rarely smiled and joked with Fang Xiaoqian. If it was in normal times, Fang Xiaoqian would have already provoked him. But right now, Fang Xiaoqian really didn't have the heart to amuse him.
"Go, go, stay where it's cool!" An ominous premonition struck, and Fang Xiaoqian impatiently pushed Ye Ting who stepped forward away.
"Huh? What's wrong with you? It's rare that I took the initiative to find you, and you still pushed me away? Don't you want me to be emotionally attached to you? "On weekdays, it was he Ye Ting who rejected her, but he didn't expect him to eat a closed door for the first time today.
"Instructor Ye-" A male classmate shouted as he ran over from a distance and took the things in his hand to Ye Ting.
"Qi Hao? What happened to you? Qi Hao is a male classmate in Fang Xiaoqian's classmate, who is tall and handsome. Fang Xiaoqian looked at Qi Hao, who was running a little panting, and asked with concern.
"Instructor Ye, I found a mobile phone, I don't know whose mobile phone fell into the abandoned yard over there at the school?" After Qi Hao finished speaking, he took the mobile phone to Instructor Ye first, and then pointed in the direction of the abandoned courtyard with his finger.
Fang Xiaoqian looked at the mobile phone, very familiar.
"Huh? Isn't this Li Sijia's phone? How could such a careful person leave a mobile phone in a ruined yard? Something must have happened? Fang Xiaoqian looked at the phone and said to Ye Ting.
Ye Ting looked at the phone, and unlocked the phone in two or three clicks. Then, I heard an "ah" scream from the phone and the sound of the phone falling to the ground.
"It's her voice! Qi Hao, where did you just pick up the phone? Fang Xiaoqian grabbed Qi Hao's arm and asked in a hurry.
"No, the ruined yard over there! Let's go, I'll take you there!" Qi Hao didn't say a word, turned around and took the lead and ran forward, Fang Xiaoqian and Ye Ting followed closely behind.
The group of three soon came to this dilapidated courtyard that had been abandoned for many years. Under the refraction of the afterglow of the sunset at dusk, this remote and silent abandoned courtyard looks eerie.
A gust of cold wind blew, and Qi Hao couldn't help but shiver. grabbed Fang Xiaoqian's arm tightly with one hand, and her uncontrollable long legs kept trembling.
Seeing this, Ye Ting on the side somehow felt that the two of them were like this, which made him look uncomfortable. So, he strode forward, pulled away Qi Hao's hand that was holding Fang Xiaoqian's arm with one hand, and raised one foot and kicked Qi Hao's leg lightly.
"You're still a manly husband, so daring? Go, stand back for me, follow me! After Ye Ting finished speaking, he waved his hand at him and motioned for Qi Hao to stand behind him. Immediately, Ye Ting turned around and took Fang Xiaoqian's hand.
Fang Xiaoqian was only looking for Li Sijia and didn't care too much about these details, so she let Ye Ting hold her hand.
They first looked around, and then began to scrutinize the corners of the broken courtyard. The yard was overgrown with weeds, and swarms of mosquitoes fluttered wildly above their heads, each clump almost as tall as a person.
There were two or three openings of various sizes in the courtyard wall of this dilapidated courtyard, and the bottom hole was just big enough for a person to enter and exit. One end of the cave is outside the school, and the other end is the abandoned and broken courtyard on the campus. Therefore, some students who return to school late because of greed for fun often choose to go back and forth from this broken yard in order to save trouble and do not want to walk around the main gate in a big circle.
"Well, that's where I picked up my phone." Qi Hao pointed to the place where the mobile phone was found, turned his head and said to Ye Ting and Fang Xiaoqian.
Ye Ting squatted down and looked at the location where the phone landed, there were indeed traces of the phone landing, Qi Hao did not lie.
"I wondered, why do you have such a yard on such a beautiful campus? Why doesn't anyone care? Fang Xiaoqian looked at Ye Ting and Qi Hao suspiciously.
"It's not that no one cares, it's that no one dares to care!" At this time, Qi Hao was kicked by Ye Ting just now, and he was not as nervous as when he first entered the courtyard.
"Why doesn't anyone care?" Fang Xiaoqian asked.
"I don't know, I'm just listening to other people's legends. said that this courtyard is very evil, and it is fine during the day, but at night, you will see inexplicable points of light, and you will hear some strange sounds......" Qi Hao told Fang Xiaoqian what he had heard.
"What the hell? That's phosphorus powder, phosphate powder spontaneously combusted! Fang Xiaoqian interrupted Qi Hao's words and corrected his wrong statement.
As night fell, the wind in the courtyard seemed to be blowing harder than when I first entered. The whirring wind roared in my ears, and it seemed to be mixed with a strange scream, which was even more terrifying.
As Qi Hao said, an inexplicable point of light appeared. At first, it was a small glowing dot, and then it became a clump of small dots of light, and these little dots of light hovered around them.
Ye Ting looked at these small points of light very strangely, so he stretched out his hands to catch these small points of light flying in front of him. The small point of light was caught, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a firefly.
"Qi Hao, this is obviously the light emitted by fireflies, and it is not the inexplicable point of light you said in your mouth at all." Fang Xiaoqian pointed at the fireflies and said to Qi Hao.
"Don't talk! Be quiet! Ye Tingyu stopped Fang Xiaoqian, and looked at the firefly in his hand seriously. He always felt that there was something unusual about these fireflies.
"Xiaoqian, take a closer look at this firefly, does it seem to have a word on it?" Ye Ting said, showing Fang Xiaoqian a firefly in his hand.
Fang Xiaoqian took the firefly and observed it carefully, and sure enough, she saw a faintly visible word "rescue" on the back of the firefly.
"Look at this handwriting very much like Li Sijia's, could it be that she wrote it on the firefly?" Fang Xiaoqian guessed.
"Go, catch a few more fireflies! See if there are any other words? Ye Ting said as he reached out and grabbed the firefly.
Sure enough, a few words were found on several other fireflies. Together, it is a sentence:
"Help, I'm in the Underground Tomb!" Fang Xiaoqian read word by word.
"Underground tombs? No wonder there is always a gust of wind here, could it be that there are really underground tombs? As soon as Qi Hao heard that there was an underground tomb, he quickly crossed his hands and hugged his arms, with a frightened expression on his face.
Ye Ting took advantage of the light of the street lamp outside the courtyard wall to look at the dilapidated courtyard that had been abandoned for many years. The yard is not very large, but it has a range of 200 square meters. There is a dilapidated adobe house in the courtyard, which looks like it has been many years old.
With a "creak", Ye Ting pushed open the broken door of the adobe house. The room was even more dilapidated, and a cold wind struck again.
Ye Ting took out the lighter, and by the light of the lighter, he squatted down and looked at it carefully on the ground. Seeing this, Fang Xiaoqian also squatted down and followed his gaze. Qi Hao was standing behind them, still holding his arms with his hands crossed, with a frightened expression on his face.
"What are you looking for?" Fang Xiaoqian asked.
"I'm looking for the entrance to the catacombs." Ye Ting replied to Fang Xiaoqian's words while touching the ground paved with stone slabs with his hand.
"How can you conclude that the underground tomb is in this courtyard and not somewhere else?" Fang Xiaoqian questioned.
Li Sijia was able to leave a word on the firefly, saying that she was in the underground tomb. It shows that the fireflies flew out of the underground tomb, and it means that there must be a small hole in the underground tomb! Ye Ting patiently explained to Fang Xiaoqian.
"What do you mean, we just need to find this little cave to find the entrance to this underground tomb?" After listening to Ye Ting's words, Fang Xiaoqian suddenly realized.
As Ye Ting said, he really found an inconspicuous hole in a stone slab. A firefly just flew out of this small hole, Fang Xiaoqian hurriedly reached out and grabbed it, and found the word "Jia" on this firefly.
"It seems that the man is under this stone slab." After speaking, Ye Ting tried to lift the stone slab. This slate is very strange, but the slate that is not big is as stable as Mount Tai.
"Qi Hao, come here and give a hand!" Ye Ting instructed Qi Hao, who was standing behind them, and motioned for him to come over and carry the slate together.
"One-two—" The two of them lifted it vigorously, and the slate seemed to move slightly.
After a few times, the two of them were tired and lay on the ground. Fang Xiaoqian saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart. I want to reach out and help too. But they all said in unison that this is not the hard work that women should do.
"One more person has more strength, haven't you heard that unity is strength? Count me in, let's move that slate out of the way together, try it first? ”
After listening to Fang Xiaoqian's words, Ye Ting did not object again. Now, saving people is important, and this is the only way to go. So, the three of them began to move the stone slab together.
I saw Fang Xiaoqian stuff a finger into the small hole, and secretly lifted the side of the stone slab with a little luck.
Seeing that Ye Ting and Qi Hao both widened their eyes, they looked at her strangely. Fang Xiaoqian reacted, afraid that they would be suspicious of her, so she hurriedly said:
"What hysteria do you sow? Hurry up and take a hand? Hearing Fang Xiaoqian's shout, the two of them hurriedly took hands on one side, and under Fang Xiaoqian's secret luck, the three of them moved the stone slab together.
After the slate was removed, I saw the entrance. It's not so much an entrance as a bottomless black hole.
"This cave is slippery, how can I go down?" Qi Hao glanced at the black hole, and his two long legs began to weaken again.
"Jump!" Fang Xiaoqian and Ye Ting actually replied in unison.
As soon as the words fell, Fang Xiaoqian and Ye Ting glanced at each other, the two of them grabbed Qi Hao one by one, and the three of them jumped and jumped down the bottomless black hole together.
Then a scream of "ah" came from the depths of the black hole......