"Whew...... The sunrise of the school is really early."

Zhang Chen, who was sprinkled by the morning light, slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was the four-person dormitory in the school, not in the familiar bedroom of his own home. The white watch next to the pillow reads 5:40.

"It's very strange, if according to Yang Yuan, the school was built on such a murderous place, I should have dreamed of the past. But I had an ordinary dream last night."

Zhang Chen got out of bed carefully, got dressed, and washed softly. I left the dormitory.

"If you practice in the playground, you're sure to be discovered. Let's go outside the school and find a place where no one is around."

The location of No. 5 Middle School is close to the suburbs, with a busy street in front of the school and an undeveloped wasteland outside the façade behind the cafeteria. This is also nothing more than the best place for Zhang Chen.

"The air isn't as fresh as ours, but it's still good. There seems to be a little hill over there."

As soon as Zhang Chen jumped out of the wall, the overgrown wasteland was a good practice place, but there was a hill no more than 100 meters high about 500 meters ahead, and Zhang Chen took a fancy to it at a glance.

"This watch only checks my athletic ability with D-, but I feel like I'm pretty good." It only took half a minute to reach the hill by galloping through this wasteland by himself, running with all his might, and besides, the body did not consume much.

The trees on the mountain are still relatively lush, and stepping on the trees, Zhang Chen walked towards the top of the mountain at a very fast speed. When I was halfway up the mountain, I felt something strange about this part of the mountainside.

Zhang Chen stood on the branch of the tree, and after moving horizontally along the source of the breath for a while, he found that there was actually a cave on this mountainside.

Gently falling from the tree in front of the cave, standing at the entrance of this cave, you can feel that there is an obvious ghost aura in it that keeps emanating outward, which makes Zhang Chen himself a little frightened.

"Let's go in and have a look, maybe it has something to do with the school." Zhang Chen made up his mind, looked at his watch, and it was only six o'clock, and an hour in should be enough.

But just as Zhang Chen was about to step into the cave, a voice came from behind him.

"Don't go any further, young man, you can't go to that cave."

Zhang Chen looked back and saw that it was an old man with a bamboo basket on his back standing behind a tree trunk not far behind him and shouting. Zhang Chen didn't go into the cave first, but turned around and walked towards the old man.

"Grandpa, I came early in the morning to climb the mountain, and I saw this cave, and I was a little curious and wanted to go in and have a look. I don't know what's inside?"

"Eh, this cave is very evil, young man, if you don't dislike it, come and sit in the old man's house. It's not too late for me to tell you about it. My house is on the other side of this mountainside, so let's go there together."

Looking at the sparse white hair on the top of the old man's head and the traces of time on the yellowed skin, it is certain that the old man has been living in this hill for a long time. It's also good to get some information from the elderly.

The old man seems to be very familiar with the mountain road, and his skinny body, which seems to be nearly eighty years old, is indeed very flexible when he walks around on this mountain road.

"The young man is a student at the school next door, right? You don't look like a normal person, hehe." The old man said suddenly as he led the way in front.

"Well, the old man is as wise as a torch. But how can you tell that I don't look like an ordinary person?" Zhang Chen was a little surprised, but he admitted it directly, after all, on this hill, there may be only this old man's family, and it is not a big deal if he knows.

"I'm afraid I've been living in this mountain for more than 20 years. I remember every flower, grass and tree in the mountains and forests clearly. On the mountain road down from the cave, the old man can't see any signs of anyone coming up, haha." The old man said with a smile.

"But the young man is diligent in morning exercises, and the old man still admires it very much, and the plan of the day lies in the morning. There's an old house in front of you, so let's sit in the courtyard for a while."

Zhang Chen also saw that as the slope of this area slowed down, a stone-piled old house appeared in front. Sitting on the old bamboo chair and listening to the birds and insects in this mountain, it has a unique flavor.

"Come and drink tea, young man, it's been a few years since the old and broken place has been alive." The old man handed over a cup of hot old tea, and he also found a chair to sit next to Zhang Chen, looking at his eyes full of enthusiasm.

"Grandpa, that's?" Zhang Chen noticed that not far from the old man's house, there was a very conspicuous mound of earth fenced off.

"That's my wife's home. Wife, she left early, hehe." The old man stared at the mound of dirt that Zhang Chen pointed to and said with a smile.

"I'm so embarrassed." Zhang Chenli hurriedly apologized, but it was a little strange, because he could feel the death qi emitted from the ordinary grave mound, but there was not the slightest breath coming out of the mound in front of him.

"It's okay, dust to dust, dust to dust, how can people be immortal." The old man didn't care at all.

"Grandpa, can you tell me about the cave?"

The old man frowned, but finally breathed a sigh of relief and slowly said to Zhang Chen.

"Well, this cave has been stored before I lived in this mountain, and at first I wanted to go in and see what was in it, but I took the torch and went deeper than five meters before I heard many people's cries coming from inside, and I saw the corpses of many animals scattered on the ground in the light of the fire."

"I have lived half my life, naturally I don't believe in any ghosts and gods, and after hearing the cry, I took another step forward. Who knows, there was a sudden gust of wind in the cave. [,！ It blew out my torch, and the crying grew louder and louder, and I started to get scared and left."

The old man recalled the past, and the wrinkled old face also showed a little frightened.

"For decades of living in this mountain, I often heard a very strange sound in the middle of the night from the direction of the cave, and I did not dare to approach it again. But I think it was six years ago, and a couple of people like you came here."

"Oh? Who's like me?" Zhang Chen asked in surprise.

"I remember that I was about to go to the village below to sell something, when I met two men and a woman, and they ran up the hill at a very fast speed, and the woman stopped and looked at me. I remember very well that the woman's eyes were like those of a cat, and when she looked at me, the cold hairs all over her body stood upside down. And I don't feel like they're alive."

"However, he soon followed the two men in front of him and left, and they went in the same direction as the cave."

Judging from the old man's description, Zhang Chen seemed to be able to conclude that the three people should be the prison envoys.

"And then?"

After that, I didn't dare to follow, and after I got down the mountain and finished things from the village, the sun was about to set. Who knows, when I returned home, I opened the door and saw my wife taking care of a woman covered in blood. The woman was beyond recognition, but from her cat-like eyes, I immediately recognized that it was the woman in the morning."

"The woman was badly wounded, but it didn't take long for her to die. I was about to take her body to the mountains and bury it, but I didn't know that the body turned into a star and disappeared, leaving a black stone on the ground."

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this, this must be a prison envoy.

"Grandpa, can you show me the stones?" Zhang Chen asked eagerly.

"Come in with me, I remember putting it in the cupboard, I'll look for it." The old man walked to a dilapidated wooden cabinet against the wall of the humble house, and rummaged around in it, as if he had found something.

"Found it, here." The old man took the black stone in his hand, and the sleek black stone made Zhang Chen instantly recall the black beads that the man in black named Kong Jun put in after taking out his heart a year and a half ago.

After Zhang Chen took the stone, he could feel that there seemed to be an extremely powerful soul trapped inside the stone, but it was wrapped in a black stone, and it could only exude a faint breath.

The most important point is that the moment you take the stone, you can feel that your whole body has a great sense of repulsion towards the stone.

"Grandpa, I ...... this thing"

"Take it, you must know where it came from, and I don't even need an ornament here." Zhang Chen's words were interrupted by the old man, who gave the stone to Zhang Chen.

"Thank you." Zhang Chen directly put the black stone into the Qiankun bag, and the feeling of rejection that made him uncomfortable instantly weakened by half, but it still didn't completely disappear.

"Young man, I'm afraid it's not too early, if you don't go back to school, I'm afraid you're going to be late."

With the old man's reminder, Zhang Chen lifted his watch and saw that it was already past seven o'clock, and he had to take a bath and eat breakfast when he went back. Zhang Chen hurriedly said

"Thank you, grandpa, I might come and bother you every morning in the future."

"Haha, good, good. If you want to rest, even if you come to my shabby house, the environment is a little worse, but I can pour you a cup of tea. Now I have a companion." The old man seems to have lived a lonely life for a long time, and he is very happy to hear Zhang Chen say this.

"Well, I'll go back to school first, take care of yourself." Zhang Chen didn't shy away from suspicion, jumped directly on the tree trunk, and went down the mountain at a very fast speed.

The old man sat on a bamboo chair in front of the house, smoking an old pipe. Looking at Zhang Chen's distant figure, he smiled slowly.

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"Zhang Chen, when did you go out? The three of us in the dormitory didn't notice it at all. You're sweating profusely, and it seems that this figure is not so easy to develop."

After returning to the dormitory, Yang Yuan was the last to go out of the bedroom door and happened to bump into Zhang Chen.

"Got used to getting up early, hehe. I need to take a shower, or I'm going to be late."

"Let's go and have dinner together at noon. I made an appointment with my cousin to use our lunch break to talk about school."

"Yes." After answering, Zhang Chen returned to the dormitory at great speed and closed the door.

He took out the black spherical stone from the Qiankun bag, and a strong sense of repulsion came from his left chest.

"Is this the main soul stone? Let's put it aside for a moment and study it again when we have time." Zhang Chen opened his closet, found a large plastic bag, put the stone at the bottom of the bag, and pressed several winter cotton clothes on top of the stone.