1

August 3, 2006 was a long and difficult day for Shen Yuyu. She didn't know anything about what was happening in Phoenix Village. After Zhu Fufu went to find Zhong Fei, he never came back. And she's experiencing horror like never before.

After Zhu Future entered the jungle, a huge sense of loneliness enveloped Shen Yuyu. Even though the sun was shining at the top of the mountain, she felt like she was living in a fog of confusion. The fog in her heart didn't know when it would melt. She walked back and forth on the open field at the top of the mountain. Last night's blood rain did not leave any traces on the charred dirt here, Shen Yuyu grabbed a handful of charred dirt, put it under her nose and smelled it, she smelled the smell of gunsmoke. The fierce blood rain didn't wash away the smell of gunpowder left by the firecrackers when the Phoenix villagers sacrificed to the mountain?

There seemed to be singing from the other side of the trench.

Someone singing in a trench?

Thousands of struggles, wind, snow, hunger and cold;

Thousands of miles to fight, poor mountains camping.

gain a wealth of experience in warfare,

Exercise the spirit of hard sacrifice

……

There are indeed people singing, and Shen Yuyu can hear these lyrics very clearly. Shen Yuyu hesitated for a moment, and she walked towards the edge of the trench with a stick in her hand. Because it was broad daylight and under the bright sun, Shen Yuyu was not scared and shivered. When she bravely walked to the trench, she saw a man in a gray cloth hat, gray cloth clothes, and a cowhide belt around his waist sitting in the trench singing. She seemed to have seen this man's outfit in some movies and television, but it was different, these costumes in movies and television were bright, and the outfit of the singing man in front of her was so old and gray, even in the bright sunlight.

What Shen Yuyu saw was the side of the man, the man sang very devotedly, and he was very optimistic.

Who's this?

Why did he sit in a trench and sing such a song? What kind of song is this? Shen Yuyu has never heard of it.

Shen Yuyu seemed to be attracted by this singing person.

In an instant, she even forgot Zhong Fei and Zhu Future, and forgot the danger and fear brought to them by the tip of the plum blossom.

Shen Yuyu said softly, "Who are you-"

The man stopped singing and turned his head towards her, and she could see his face clearly. In the sunlight, it was a vivid smiling face, and although some parts of the face seemed to be plastered with some black pot ash, it still looked so handsome, especially the eyes, bright and lively. He didn't answer Shen Yuyu's question, just smiled at her. It was a smile that made her heart shudder, and she had never seen such a touching smile.

Shen Yuyu wants to get close to him, talk to him, and explore this man's secrets. But before she could get close to him, he vanished into a wisp of pale cyan smoke. Shen Yuyu was very confused, standing on the edge of the trench in a daze, his eyes becoming like water and mist. The midsummer sun shone on her, and she felt warmth, and for the first time after going up the mountain, she felt warmth, and this warmth touched her a little.

The warmth and emotion are so short-lived.

Shen Yuyu's mood was quickly replaced by fear and loneliness.

The warmth and emotion just now disappeared without a trace in an instant. The sun also became cold. It was as if the sky was frosting. Time passed slowly, and there was a blunt knife cutting Shen Yuyu's heart one by one. She always looked at the jungle that Zhu Future had drilled into with a flustered gaze, hoping that Zhu Future and Zhong Fei would suddenly appear and cheer at her happily. If that were the case, she would have pounced as fast as she could, hugged them tightly, and kissed them. At that time, Shen Yuyu would not care about the suspicion and resentful gaze cast by Song Li. Shen Yuyu is often with Zhong Fei, to be honest, from the bottom of her heart, she does like Zhong Fei, but not to the extent of loving him, besides, she knows the relationship between Zhong Fei and Song Li, and has always regarded Zhong Fei as her big brother. However, Song Li didn't think so, she thought that Shen Yuyu was chasing Zhong Fei, so she often gave Shen Yuyu a look. It's useless for Shen Yuyu to say anything to her, is it so difficult to maintain a pure friendship in this world? Originally, Song Li was also going to come this time, but when she saw that Shen Yuyu had joined them, she couldn't come temporarily.

If Song Li comes, will there be only the two of them left at the peak of the plum blossom tip now? And what happens to them together?

Shen Yuyu didn't dare to imagine.

Shen Yuyu was restless.

By noon, Zhu had not returned. She pulled out her phone and tried to call him, only to remember that there was no signal at all. Shen Yuyu angrily threw his phone in the tent. Irritability, fear, loneliness, anticipation...... She had mixed emotions.

Shen Yuyu sat in the tent, took out the MP3 from his bag, put the headphones on his ears, and suddenly heard the song "Our Love" by the Fei'er band:

Once our love has passed, it will never come back

Until now, I have been silently waiting

When you start to seek the freedom you want

Let go of our clenched hands

Take away my love and the sky

I was overwhelmed and I thought I would understand

Our love, our love

When I walked to the end of time alone

Memories pass by me

Take away your love and smile

I can't afford the last bit of heartache

……

Shen Yuyu closed his eyes. In fact, she should have taken out the MP3 and listened to it a long time ago, and it was better to have a time with music no matter what. Shen Yuyu even thought that when he was listening to the songs of the Fei'er band, Zhu Future and Zhong Fei suddenly got into the tent and said to her: "Yuyu, we just went to catch a hide, and now our game is over, we are going down the mountain." Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Shen Yuyu's face. Somehow, Shen Yuyu likes the songs of the Fei'er Band very much, as long as she listens to the songs of the Fei'er Band, her mood will be cheerful. When she is depressed, she often goes to a karaoke parlor called a cash box very close to the school to sing, singing the songs of the Fei'er band, and she is happy when she sings.

Shen Yuyu listened, and hummed the song of the Fei'er Band in his mouth.

Suddenly, the MP3 song came to an abrupt end! There was a rustling sound. Shen Yuyu opened his eyes and looked, the MP3 electricity is still very sufficient, what's going on? Shen Yuyu turned it off and turned it back on, and there was still a rustling sound in the earphones. This MP3 is still newly bought, why is it broken? Shen Yuyu anxiously patted the MP3 with his hand, and said to himself: "Could it be a fake!" Without music, Shen Yuyu's mood was immediately destroyed. Shen Yuyu turned off the MP3 again and turned it back on, and it was still a rustling sound. She was so annoyed that at that moment, the sound of gunfire came from her headphones, as if it were a recording of a war scene from a movie. How can there be such a sound? MP3 doesn't have FM radio, otherwise she would have thought switched to the radio.

Shen Yuyu was extremely surprised, snakes, blood rain, withered and blackened hands, and men singing in the trench...... What does all this have to do with the sound of gunfire coming from the headphones? Shen Yuyu was about to turn off the MP3, the gunfire stopped, there was a dead silence in the headphones, she was stunned for a moment, and a hoarse voice sounded in the headphones, like a person in a desperate situation was saying something. Shen Yuyu couldn't understand the words coming from the MP3, it was a voice from another netherworld? There was a grim smell of death in his voice......

2

The dark muzzle of the gun was aimed at Zhu Future's eyebrows.

Zhu Future also heard two "chirping" sneers, which made him creepy, and his heart seemed to be pressed under the iceberg of the Arctic Ocean. His breathing grew heavy, too. Did Zhong Fei die under this mysterious gun? Will he be pierced by the cold bullets fired from this gun? Who is this monster looming in the fog? Could he really be the legendary wild man? So where did the gun in his hand come from? …… Many, many questions were spinning rapidly in Zhu Future's mind, and in the end, his mind was empty.

Zhu Future trembled and said, "Who are you?" ”

The ugly man made a muffled sound in his throat.

Zhu Future didn't know what he was talking about.

One of his hands reached for the dagger at his waist, and the other was still burning and aching, but, because of the strange man, he didn't seem to feel the pain, and his mind was all about the strange man. The strange man spotted the hand he had reached for his waist. He aimed the muzzle of the gun at Zhu Future's hand stretched out to his waist, and Zhu Future's hand stopped, not daring to move. No matter how fast his hand is, it is not as fast as the bullet, besides, Zhu Future's hand is not necessarily fast, he just wants to make a bold Yibo, and the sharpest weapon on his body is the dagger, not the stick.

Minutes and seconds passed.

What else is in the thick fog, or whether this strange person has any accomplices, Zhu Future has no idea.

The strange man slowly approached him.

Zhu Future leaned against the tree, and there was no way out.

He gasped as if disaster was coming, and he smelled a strange smell that must have emanated from the strange man. Zhu Future was helpless at this time, and his heart was terrified to the extreme. At this time, he was not thinking of anyone else, but Shen Yuyu, who was still alone on the top of the mountain. If she saw this strange person, she would definitely faint in fright, Zhu Fufu's heart suddenly swelled with sadness, what a sad thing it was for her not to be able to protect Shen Yuyu. He even had a kind of out-and-out concern for Shen Yuyu, and he didn't know if he was already in love with her.

Zhu Future suddenly roared, pulled out the dagger, opened the barrel of the gun pointed at him with one hand, and pounced on the strange man.

The strange man also let out a strange scream!

A dull voice rang out, and a man fell to the ground!

It was not the strange man who fell to the ground, but Zhu Future, he threw himself at the strange man, the strange man dodged nimbly, and hit Zhu Future on the back of the head with the butt of his gun, and Zhu Future fell to the ground full of rotten and fallen leaves, unconscious.

The weirdo put the gun aside and crouched down.

He grinned, snatched the dagger from Zhu Future's hand, and stuck it on the belt around his waist. The weirdo was shirtless and footed, with only a boar skin around his waist. He had long unkempt hair, and there were insect corpses and grass roots stuck to it.

The weirdo still gurgled in his throat, as if talking to himself.

The strange man then rummaged through Zhu Future's body, and he searched for a mobile phone in the pocket of Zhu Future's waterproof suit. The weirdo looked at his phone, it was a strange thing in his eyes, maybe he had never seen a phone before. The strange man's face changed slightly, obviously annoyed that he couldn't figure out what the phone was. He suddenly put the phone on a fast rock and smashed it hard until it was smashed to pieces! The weirdo grinned, grabbed the smashed phone, and threw it out of the fog.

He took the satchel from Zhu Future's body, took out the bread in it, put it under his nose and smelled it, grinned, put the bread on the side of his mouth, stretched out his tongue and licked it, and then gently took a small bite, feeling that it tasted good, and took another big bite and chewed it vigorously. The weirdo put the bread back in his satchel, slung it over his body, and chuckled twice.

The strange man stood up and looked at Zhu Future.

There was a terrible glint in his two little eyes.

The strange man picked up the gun from the side, pulled the bolt, pointed the muzzle of the gun at Zhu Future's temple, and hooked the index finger of his right hand on the trigger.

As long as the strange man pulls the trigger, a bullet will shoot out of the chamber, and the bullet will mercilessly penetrate Zhu Future's temple.

The strange man didn't shoot, just stabbed Zhu Future in the head with the muzzle of the gun, and then put the gun on his back. The strange man sighed and pulled Zhu Future's hands, his strength was surprisingly large, and Zhu Future's limp body was carried on the shoulders of the strange man like a sack.

The strange man let out a low roar.

He carried Zhu Future's body and ran out, and disappeared into the vast fog after a while.

3

Zhong Fei's throat was on fire.

He felt an unusually thirsty thirst, his lips blistered, his face swollen, and his wound burned and ached, and it was hot to the touch.

Water, water, water –

Where is the water in this cave?

Zhong Fei struggled to stand up, the large bag on his head made him feel like he was carrying a heavy stone on his head.

In the dark cave, there seemed to be some silent spirits wandering around. Those dark spirits control the cavern, making it full of cold weirdness. Zhong Fei had no way to talk to these spirits, he didn't know where they came from and why they were imprisoned in this hellish cave.

Zhong Fei turned on the flashlight, and those souls hid in the light of the flashlight, retreating into the dark corners of the deep cave. Zhong Fei felt that he was going to die of thirst, that he was going to become a wandering spirit in the cave and a new skeleton, and that if anyone entered this cave in the future, he also didn't know who his bones were called. This thought made him despair. He didn't know how long he had been in the cave, and he was tormented by the slow flow of time, and how terrible it was.

Water, water, water –

Zhong Fei flashed his flashlight and walked deeper into the cave. He hoped to find a stream of water in the cave. As long as there is water, he will be able to hold on, and if he holds on for one more minute, there will be hope for one minute. Zhong Fei suddenly saw a thin stream of water oozing from the stone wall of the cave. Like a drowning man, he suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, rushed over, threw himself on the cold stone wall and sucked desperately, even the moss on the stone wall sucked into his mouth and swallowed it into his throat together.

There seemed to be a person standing behind Zhong Fei.

He felt it, but he didn't care too much, and still sucked desperately at the water from the stone wall, along with the slippery moss.

Zhong Fei felt that he was gradually sobering up.

The blood that is about to clot in the body slowly flows through the blood vessels.

The more sober you are, the more frightened you are.

He turned, and in the light of a flashlight, he found a skeleton standing in front of him, his head and skull close together.

A chill emanated from the hollow eye sockets on the skull.

Will there be a terrible krait snake crawling out of that hollow dark eye hole?

Zhong Fei's heart was bubbling with cold.

Death is not terrible, but the panic and despair that precedes death are terrible. It was in this extreme panic and despair that Zhong Fei saw the skeleton stretch out his hands and squeeze towards his neck. He also heard a subtle call, as if it were the call of death. Zhong Fei felt like he dodged the skeleton's outstretched hands, and used all his strength to fly up and kick the skeleton to the ground. The skeleton fell to the ground with a heavy fall, the skeleton of its body falling apart, and the skull rolled towards a dark corner.

Zhong Fei was short of breath.

He felt that death might not be far off.

Will he be able to defend himself against a single skeleton, or from all the skeletons in the cave? If all the skeletons lying on the floor of the cavern stood up and lunged at him. Zhong Fei couldn't imagine how much courage he needed to survive in this death-filled cave, and he didn't know how long he would survive.

After the problem of thirst was solved, hunger invaded his body like a disease. His intestines were tangled together with hunger, twitching every nerve in his body. Zhong Fei, who had never experienced hunger, felt the cruelty of hunger for the first time, and this indescribable pain and torture made him realize the preciousness of food. If he could get out of this death cave alive, as long as he found that Song Li had peeled off the steamed buns and thrown them into the swill bucket when she was eating steamed buns, he would definitely slap her in the face! But now he is so hungry that he really doesn't have the strength to think about Song Li, and Zhu Fufu Shen Yuyu and them.

He leaned against a stone wall again, slowly slumped on the ground, and pressed the flashlight, he knew that sooner or later the battery of the flashlight would run out, and the light was as important as water and food, and he could not let himself lose the light prematurely. He covered his stomach and tried to control the rapid peristalsis of his stomach.

Suddenly, he heard a strange sound.

The strange sound seemed to make the spirits in the cave and the bones tremble, and he could sense the fluctuations in the air.

It was a dull gunshot......

4

After Shen Yuyu heard the cold sound coming from the headphones, she quickly took off the headphones, rushed out of the tent, and threw the headphones down the mountain along with the MP3, she really couldn't stand it. The voice Shen Yuyu heard was: "Give me a shot, give me a shot, I really can't do it, I saw the face of death-"

Shen Yuyu muttered, "I have to get out of here, I have to get out of here-"

She became crazy.

Shen Yuyu got into the tent, desperately packed up her things, then got out of the tent, put on her backpack, picked up the stick that Zhong Fei had made for her, and walked down the mountain. She didn't dare look back at the lonely orange-red tent on the top of the mountain.

She said in her heart: "I'm sorry, Zhong Fei; I'm sorry, Zhu Future! After I go down the mountain, I must ask the village chief of Datou to bring people up the mountain to look for you as soon as possible! I really can't stand it, I can't stay for a moment! I'm not a brave person, and I'm not curious anymore. I'm going home, going home—"

Shen Yuyu walked down the path to the top of the mountain, the path led to the jungle, she thought, as long as she walked along the path and climbed over a few mountains, she could reach the chain bridge, and after arriving at the chain bridge, she would walk out of the dangerous area, not far from Phoenix Village.

It's easy to think about, but it's hard to walk. First of all, the dense fog in the jungle made her unbearable. As soon as Shen Yuyu entered the jungle, a fog as thick as white paint rushed towards her, and Shen Yuyu suddenly entered the dense fog jungle from the sunny mountain top, as if she had been submerged in the long water. Her nervous heart rose to her throat, as if she would spit it out if she coughed lightly. There were so many unknowns in the fog that she didn't know how to deal with them.

Shen Yuyu's hand clenched the stick, which became her only weapon to strengthen her courage.

She gritted her teeth and said to herself: "Shen Yuyu, you are the bravest girl, if something appears, you will fight it to the end!" Victory must be yours! ”

But when she said these words, her heart was so weak that she was still bubbling cold, and the pores of her body were shrinking. Shen Yuyu walked forward along the path step by step, her eyes didn't dare to look around, she just stared at the path under her feet with her eyes, for fear that the path that was not obvious in the first place would suddenly disappear and make her lose her way. Shen Yuyu had just walked out of the road when there was a problem.

The appearance of this problem made Shen Yuyu stunned all of a sudden, and he became six gods and no master.

There were three paths branching off under her feet, and three paths led in different directions. When they went up the mountain, Zhang Datou told them that there was only one path up and down the mountain, so why were there two more? Because of the thick fog, Shen Yuyu couldn't tell which path led to Phoenix Village. Shen Yuyu can't tell the difference between southeast and northwest.

How so?

Shen Yuyu's mind was also filled with a thick fog.

She stood there, not knowing how to choose the path beneath her feet. In fact, many times, people can't choose the road to take, only out of the distance, only to find that this road is not their own to go, but it's too late, life is so short, many people lose the courage to choose the road again, have to go to the dark one by one, depressed for life.

Crystal tears fell from Shen Yuyu's eyes.

She didn't dare to set foot on any of the paths, because every path might make it impossible for her to return to Phoenix Village, but would lead her into an even more dangerous situation. How could three paths in different directions suddenly appear in this psychedelic ghostly jungle? Hell, hell. Now, Shen Yuyu believes in Zhang Xiuxiu's words even more, she regrets not listening to Zhang Xiuxiu's words, if she stays in Phoenix Village and doesn't go up the mountain with them, then there will be nothing.

There was a faint sound of roaring in the thick fog.

Like the roar of a desperate and angry person, or like the roar of some animal after it is hungry...... Shen Yuyu felt that something was approaching her, as if something terrible hidden in the forest smelled her and was walking towards her step by step. A gust of wind blew, and the jungle made a rattling sound, and Shen Yuyu flinched, thinking that she had no ability to get out of the tip of the plum blossom and reach Phoenix Village.

Shen Yuyu cried, crying in despair.

She wept and turned around and walked up the hill.

Shen Yuyu returned to the top of the mountain, and the sun was like rain, hitting her body. Shen Yuyu cried loudly. No one heard her cry. There was no one to comfort her. Zhong Fei and Zhu Future are far away from her, as if they are in two different worlds from her.

Shen Yuyu was tired of crying and had no strength, so he felt hungry.

The hunger and fear are the same as the loneliness and fear.

Shen Yuyu got into the tent, took out bread, ham and sausages and other food from his backpack, and placed them in front of him. She wiped her eyes with a tissue and muttered, "I'll eat, I'm going to eat!" When I'm full, I'll have the strength and I'm not afraid! She remembered the three paths that had suddenly appeared in the jungle, perhaps they had been conjured up by being dizzy from hunger. Shen Yuyu realized at this time that he hadn't eaten for almost a day. Shen Yuyu didn't care much, picked up the bread and stuffed it into his mouth. In a few moments, she nibbled on a loaf of bread, and then, she picked up another ham sausage, which she couldn't wait to put in her mouth.

Shen Yuyu choked.

She was teary-eyed and her mouth was wide open.

Finally, swallowing the ham sausage stuck in her throat, she was out of breath. She gently smoothed her hand on her chest, and it took a breath to recover. Shen Yuyu took a sip of water and felt more comfortable. Then she ate again, and now instead of gobbling it up, she ate little by little, and drank water without stopping.

Shen Yuyu found that when he was eating, his fear disappeared.

She was pleasantly surprised by this discovery.

She could eat here all the time, waiting for Zhu to come back and them back. It seems like a good idea, in this desperate situation. Usually, Shen Yuyu is afraid of getting fat and always controls her appetite, but now, she can't control it so much, being able to live and not being afraid is the most important thing, and she won't think about anything else.

Shen Yuyu couldn't hold it anymore before he stopped.

She fell asleep when she was full. Shen Yuyu was indeed too tired, and the constant frightening made her tired. Her head rested on her backpack and lay there, her eyes not opening in a few moments. When she fell asleep, everything outside the tent seemed to have nothing to do with her. Shen Yuyu slept very soundly, without nightmares and no one to disturb him.

If you can sleep like this, it should be a very happy thing.

When Shen Yuyu woke up, he found that it was already dark. She was awakened by a loud thunderclap. Shen Yuyu sat up suddenly, her frightened eyes widened, and she shouted loudly: "Zhu Future, Zhong Fei-"

No one answered her.

She turned on the flashlight only to find that she was the only one in the tent, and then remembered that after Zhong Fei disappeared, Zhu Future went to look for him, and he has not come back yet, and there is no news.

Shen Yuyu fell into a huge quagmire again, unable to extricate himself. Will there be blood rain in the dark sky tonight? Will there be any unforeseen events? Shen Yuyu hid in the tent, not daring to go outside, she curled up in a ball, trembling all over, and there were many inexplicable terrifying forces in the darkness squeezing towards her from all directions, trying to make her collapse.

Shen Yuyu was in fear, and thought of eating again!

She took the food out of her bag again and ate it without stopping.

In the process of eating, she tries not to think about anything, but to feel the pleasure that food brings her.

Shen Yuyu felt that his stomach was like a sponge full of water, and it gradually expanded. She warned herself: "You can't eat any more, eat again, your stomach is going to explode!" ”

Shen Yuyu stopped with some scruples, she felt that the food was already accumulating in her throat, and there was no way to get down to her stomach. If she ate like this in normal times, Shen Yuyu would kill herself, and this kind of suicidal eating was the first time in her life.

After a while, there seemed to be a lot of people walking around outside the tent, and the sound of footsteps was chaotic. Shen Yuyu heard the chaotic footsteps outside the tent, and she didn't know where so many people came from all at once, she wondered if Zhang Xiuxiu had brought people up the mountain to find them in advance. Shen Yuyu lifted the tent cloth with hope, and the flashlight shone out. Shen Yuyu didn't see anyone, the top of the mountain was still pitch black, and the chaotic footsteps continued, as if there were many people walking around in front of him.

Shen Yuyu quickly retracted into the tent, and his heart tightened for a while. Where do those jumble footsteps come from? Shen Yuyu was afraid that many invisible people would suddenly break in, kidnap her, and take her to a place where no one could find her...... Thinking about it, Shen Yuyu stretched out her hand again and picked up a piece of bread, and gnawed it expressionlessly, she heard the sound of herself chewing bread, and those messy footsteps gradually disappeared. She didn't know how much she ate today, anyway, she not only ate all her own share of food, but also ate Zhu Future's share almost enough, if she ate like this, would she kill herself alive?

Shen Yuyu remembered a very cold joke: a polar bear, lying on the ice alone felt bored, so he began to pluck his own hair to play, plucking and plucking, until the last hair was plucked, at this time, it suddenly screamed, so cold-

Shen Yuyu didn't dare to eat it anymore.

She curled up there, her hands clasped tightly together. She suddenly remembered the man she had seen in the morning sitting in the trench singing, he had a sunny smile, if he appeared in front of her now, would she be afraid? Who is he?

Just then, real footsteps could be heard outside the tent. Shen Yuyu opened his mouth wide and didn't close it for a long time. This is not Zhong Fei's footsteps, nor is it Zhu Future's footsteps, her footsteps are unusually familiar to her. Footsteps outside the tent were heavy on one foot and light on the other...... After a while, the footsteps stopped outside the tent. Shen Yuyu held the stick tightly, she thought that as long as the monster entered the tent, she would go out and fight him! Her heart is pounding! A hand reached out from outside the tent, a dry and charred hand, and a dagger in his hand, which was Zhong Fei's dagger that Zhu Fufu had brought with him when he left.

The dagger was thrown into the tent with a thud, and the dry and charred hand was put back with a trembling twist, and Shen Yuyu heard the sneer of "twing" from near and far.

Shen Yuyu's scalp was numb......