Chapter 17: Once Upon a Time in the Valley of the Lost Soul
"Bai Yuxuan?!"
The people in the door shouted in surprise, and Bai Yuxuan was also extremely excited, and suddenly the two hugged each other tightly.
The man moved the door out of the way, Bai Yuxuan took a peek into the house, and sure enough, there was also a person in the room who got up from the stool excitedly and walked over quickly.
Bai Yuxuan and the other person also hugged tightly before speaking.
"Why are you here? Come out with me. ”
It turned out that these two people were Lu Zhentian and Zhou Xiwei, who had been missing for a long time.
Bai Yuxuan hurriedly pulled the two of them and prepared to go outside.
"Wait a minute!"
At this time, another person came out of the house and said in a deep voice.
Bai Yuxuan turned his head to look, and suddenly his scalp exploded suddenly, and he almost turned around and was about to run outside.
"Don't run, don't run."
Lu Zhentian and Zhou Xiwei hurriedly stretched out their hands to stop Bai Yuxuan and motioned for him to go into the house.
Bai Yuxuan looked at the faces of the two of them seriously, and did not see any signs of abnormality or coercion.
So he was skeptical, and walked into the house step by step.
Then Lu Zhentian and the black-haired monster who didn't know why they were friends or foes also walked in.
Bai Yuxuan raised his eyes and looked at the furnishings in the room, which was unusually simple.
A bed, a cupboard, a table, four low stools, and nothing else, and all the furniture is made of wood, and the lines are unusually rough.
Bai Yuxuan casually found a stool to sit down, and the other three also sat down.
Bai Yuxuan looked at Lu Zhentian and Zhou Xiwei, and saw that there was nothing abnormal in their faces, and even a faint smile on the corner of their mouths.
Then he stared at the black-haired monster, and the other party kept his head drooping, never looking at Bai Yuxuan.
After everyone was silent for more than ten minutes, Lu Zhentian was the first to speak out to break the silence.
He turned to Bai Yuxuan and said to him, "You should be seeing him for the first time, you might as well raise any questions you have." ”
Lu Zhentian pointed at the black-haired monster and smiled at Bai Yuxuan as if he had pointed at it.
Seeing Lu Zhentian say this, Bai Yuxuan no longer hid it, and he asked in a deep voice.
"Are you a human or a ghost?!"
Bai Yuxuan asked what he felt was the most critical question at the beginning.
Because if the other party is a human being, then even if you don't know the details of the other party, at least as long as you are a human being, you have weaknesses.
If the other party was not a human, some kind of savage or other monster, Bai Yuxuan would feel at a loss as to what to do, because the unknown was often the source of all fear.
The other party finally raised his head, and I don't know if it was the hair or the beard that was intertwined, blocking most of his face, making it impossible to see his expression.
"People, people like you."
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then he said lightly.
The words are clear and fluent, and the tone is strict and steady, which is indeed what humans say.
Seeing that the other party said that he was a human being, Bai Yuxuan finally spit out his tightly held breath.
"What about you...... How did you end up like this?! And, were all those animal carcasses out there caused by you?! ”
Bai Yuxuan continued to ask tightly.
This time, instead of answering immediately, the other party lowered his head again.
Bai Yuxuan also sat upright and didn't move, he waited for the other party to adjust and then spoke by himself.
After a few minutes, the other party raised his head, and a wry smile appeared on the corners of his mouth, which was not hidden by his beard.
"Listen to me tell you a story." The other lowered his voice a little more, and then spoke.
"Twenty years ago, I was just twenty-five years old, and I was a forest ranger in the Caowu Mountain Scenic Area."
"Twenty years ago, Caowu Mountain was already very famous, and whether it was a weekday or a holiday, there was an endless stream of people who came to play."
"At that time, the Valley of Lost Souls was not completely closed, but there was a sign that said 'No Entry', and you must have seen it when you came in."
"Ordinary tourists who know a little about this place will not rush in recklessly."
He somewhere found a wooden bowl, took a sip of the liquid, and continued.
"Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, and when I was just three months old as a forest ranger, something happened."
"One day, there was a group of people who came from unknown places and asked to enter the Valley of Lost Souls. There were about a dozen people in that group, men and women, and even two foreigners. ”
"They claim to be some kind of foreign scientific expedition team, and they need to go into the Valley of Lost Souls for scientific investigation. Since nothing major had happened at the time, we only symbolically persuaded us. ”
"In the end, of course, they won't listen to us, and still insist on entering the Valley of Lost Souls, and we didn't continue to persuade them, so we had to let them do their own thing."
"Unexpectedly, because of our permissiveness, it led to the next disaster!"
There was a rare fluctuation in his tone.
"They all went in, and we all thought they would leave on their own in a few days."
"Ten full days passed, and on the afternoon of the tenth day, there was finally movement."
"Someone came out of the Valley of Lost Souls, but only one person. We both saw that something was wrong with him, and I went over and asked him where the rest of the people were. ”
"He didn't answer, but kept shouting: 'Devil! Devil! You're all going to die! The devil will kill you all!! He seemed to have gone completely insane. ”
"As I continued to inquire about the whereabouts of the others, he seemed to finally understand what I meant, but the words that came out of his mouth made me shudder."
"'Dead! They're all dead! The devil will kill everyone who enters the Valley of the Lost Soul! ’”
"Just when I wanted to ask further, he tore his face with both hands, and his eyes, ears, and nose were torn off by himself."
He threw the gouged out eyeball into his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp, and at the same time kept laughing weirdly, and he fell to the ground and died soon after he lost so much blood.
"At that time, we reported the matter to the scenic spot safety management committee, and later notified all our rangers to enter the Lost Valley to find out the rest."
"The Caowu Mountain Scenic Area is still relatively large, and there are more than 30 rangers. But seeing that person die so weirdly, it can be said that no one wants to enter the Valley of Lost Souls. ”
"Later, many people would rather quit on the spot than go in, and finally they were told to let the rangers go in voluntarily, and in the end only me and another 23-year-old ranger were willing to go in."
"Maybe it was because we were all young at the time, and we weren't afraid of anything. But not long after entering the Valley of Lost Souls, I regretted it. ”
At this point, his words came to an abrupt end.
"The story I'm going to tell next may change your perception, are you sure you want to keep listening?"
Bai Yuxuan didn't speak, just nodded silently.
The other party didn't seem surprised, but with a weird smile on his lips, he continued to speak.