Chapter Five The Same Dream

  "Lin Yuan, this can't be blamed on her, don't say it again."

  "Jin'er!"

  At this time, it was already pitch black around them. They leaned against each other and sat down at the edge of a tree, only in this way could they dispel the fear in their hearts.

  Su Jin'er picked up a leaf and played with it in her hand, she wasn't not afraid. She just knew that being afraid was useless, even though her legs were shaking and the world in front of her was getting blurrier, Lin Yuan sat beside her tightly grasping her arm, she could clearly feel the trembling of her body.

  Everyone here must be scared!

  No, not right, she suddenly thought of a person, Li Yi Qian. From the moment they entered the woods, she hadn't seen any signs of fear from her, was it well hidden? No, because a person's eyes won't lie.

  "Yi Qian."

  Her voice sounded particularly loud in the quiet night, and everyone was startled by her sudden voice.

  "What's wrong?" Her voice was calm and emotionless.

  "How much do you know about ghost hitting the wall?"

  "Not much understanding, just heard Grandpa say a little when I was young."

  "Is there a way to crack it?"

  "Do you believe in this kind of thing?"

  "Now there are too many things that science can't explain, such as ghost hitting the wall. Maybe it really exists, or maybe it's just an illusion produced by people's nervous system when they're tired."

  Li Yi Qian didn't say anything else, and no one knew what she was thinking. No one knew if the ghost hitting the wall was real or an illusion, but it's hard to believe that ten people would have the same illusion at the same time.

  After resting for a while, their physical strength gradually recovered. Chu Fei Fan stood up and said: "Let's continue walking! Sitting here is not a solution."

  "Where are we going? We're already lost." Xu Mengguang said impatiently, for him, walking was no better than sitting here.

  "If we stay here, it's easy to be discovered." Zhang Junsheng also agreed with Chu Feifan's words and stood up.

  The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a mind of his own.

  Been discovered?

  There's no one else here except them, who would find out?

  His words echoed in everyone's ears like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.

  Everyone stood up and agreed to continue moving forward.

  Lin Yuan whispered in Su Jin'er's ear: "That Zhang Junsheng is really strange!"

  She nodded: "He seems to be hiding something and doesn't want to say it."

  "He just said there's a ghost here, could it be true? Is there really a ghost?" Lin Yuan shrank his neck and said timidly, his eyes scanning the surroundings from time to time.

  Su Jin'er looked at her with some amusement, then pointed to her head and said: "Ghosts are all in here."

  While speaking, she did not forget to pay attention to the surroundings. Chu Fei Fan and Zuo Yi were walking in front with a map because they needed to see the map, so Su Jin Er lent them her flashlight. The light of the flashlight illuminated a small area in front, occasionally shining on tree branches, making it look like human shadows flashing before everyone's eyes, causing occasional cries of surprise from the crowd, which made them even more tense.

  "Can't you stop screaming all the time! It's frightening, we're not going to be scared to death by ghosts, but by you!" Lin Yuan finally couldn't bear Xu Lingling's constant shrieking and shouted loudly.

  Xu Lingling grasped Chu Feifan's arm and said, "People are scared! This place is eerie all over, can't you call out?" She became even more self-righteous, as if she was the only woman among this group of people, while everyone else was a man.

  Lin Yuan wanted to say something else, but his mouth was covered by Su Jiner: "Don't talk."

  She listened seriously to the sounds around her.

  "It seems like someone is talking."

  At some point, Zuo Yi appeared beside them.

  "Uh-huh, I heard it too."

  "There is also the sound of fire." Chu Fei Fan said seriously.

  In the darkness, faint whispers and crackling sounds can be heard, like murmurs in a dream.

  "Over there."

  Su Jiner has let go of Lin Yuan's hand.

  "Let's go and take a look."

  A group of people walked towards the place with flames.

  "Jin'er, Li Yi-qian is gone." Du Xiao-nan said in surprise. She had been following Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan closely, so she hadn't paid much attention to Li Yi-qian beside her. It wasn't until they decided to go towards the place with flames that she realized Li Yi-qian was nowhere to be seen.

  At the sound of her voice, everyone stopped in their tracks and stared at Du Xiaonan's terrified face.

  "Has it fallen behind? Let's wait and see."

  "We two were always at the back and didn't see anyone fall behind." Zhang Yang said in a low voice.

  "My god, I'm leaving here." After saying that, Zhang Junsheng completely ignored everyone's attempts to stop him and ran forward desperately. Soon, his figure disappeared into the night.

  In just one short minute, ten people were left with eight.

  "Don't panic, everyone, let's go take a look up front."

  "We just saw the fire and met that strange woman, what if we encounter something even stranger this time!" Du Xiaonan asked Su Jiner in a terrified tone, she was worried that Li Yiqian had encountered a ghost, which is why she disappeared silently. Although she was very scared, she didn't want to show it, she didn't want to be like Xu Lingling and be disliked by others.

  "Actually, those terrifying things all come from our imagination and the images we see on TV. In the real world, we have never seen them before, so as long as we don't think about those things, we won't be afraid." Chu Fei Fan's voice echoed in the black wind.

  Although he didn't explicitly state what those things were, everyone knew that what he said was true. In reality, they had never seen them before, and their fear was only due to their own imagination. Thinking about this, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but even so, because of human instinct, they would still feel afraid in the dark of night.

  They stood there for over ten minutes, but still didn't see Li Yiqian's figure, nor Zhang Junsheng who had fled in fear. In the end, everyone decided to continue moving forward, maybe they could meet them, although the probability was almost zero.

  As they got closer to the firelight, they heard more voices, and it seemed that there were many people here. They gradually approached and found that in front of them was a basin-shaped valley, and the faint firelight was coming from there.

  "It seems like a village, how can people still live here?"

  "They seem to be holding some sort of ceremony."

  "Impossible! They can't be a nation that hasn't been liberated yet, using human sacrifice to worship heaven?"

  "It shouldn't be." Su Jiner shook her head, they hadn't seen any altar or anyone being tied up.

  "Look over there!" Du Xiaonan pointed to a large stone surrounded by a group of people, saying. Although the distance was a bit far, the torches in those people's hands almost lit up the sky.

  "It's Zhang Junsheng." Chu Feifan said in a low voice.

  Everyone gasped, Zhang Junsheng had run away by himself, but was actually caught by these strange people. What would they do to him? Everyone in their hearts kept making all sorts of guesses.

  Su Jiner cautiously moved her footsteps and said: "Let's go down and take a look."

  Now Zhang Junsheng is tied up with five flowers and lies on that big stone, his desperate eyes looking at the sky, perhaps he is regretting his reckless departure from everyone.

  The torches crackled with a loud noise, forming a strong contrast with the clear and cold moon and dim stars in the sky. Perhaps it was because autumn was approaching, they couldn't help but shiver, subconsciously rubbing their arms.

  If they had known what they were going to see next, I don't know if they would have still chosen to descend into that basin. When they saw an old man with a knife walking towards Zhang Junsheng, everyone was so tense that they didn't dare breathe, and each person was thinking about what they would do next.

  The old man grasped the knife handle with both hands, and the blade emitted a cold light in the moonlight.

  "Ah——"

  A shrill cry pierced the sky, echoing in everyone's ears. The girls were frightened, covering their mouths and eyes with their hands. They knew that Zhang Jun was dead, killed by those strange people.

  Su Jin'er widened her eyes to look at the cruel scene, the old man with blood all over his hands holding up a warm and bloody heart, the blood beads falling from his fingers one by one. Tears fell heavily, finally unable to bear the turmoil in her stomach, she covered her chest and vomited.

  "Ah——"

  Su Jin'er opened her eyes, and what entered her vision was not the flames that filled the sky and Zhang Junsheng's bloody heart. Although it was still a bit dark around her, she lifted her head to look at the sky which had already turned white. It turned out that they were too tired last night, and they actually fell asleep while resting under that big tree. She felt a little scared, wondering when she could fall asleep in such a place.

  She wiped the fine sweat beads on her forehead, fortunately everything last night was just a dream, but that dream seemed too real! Thinking of everything in the dream, she turned around to look for Zhang Junsheng's figure. When she saw Zhang Junsheng leaning against another tree sleeping, she finally let out a sigh of relief. However, looking at his tightly furrowed eyebrows, he should also be dreaming, don't know if it's a beautiful dream or a nightmare, hopefully it's a beautiful dream!

  She looked around and saw that everyone was still asleep, her heart finally put down. She stood up and observed the surroundings, last night they were circling around this place, then got tired and rested here, and ended up falling asleep. Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened, otherwise she would not have forgiven herself for her negligence.

  Chu Fei Fan's eyebrows were deeply furrowed, his face full of terror, and his eyeballs rotated lightly under his eyelids before he opened his eyes.

  Su Jin'er crouched down and smiled as she asked him: "Are you awake? Was it just a dream?"

  Chu Fei Fan rubbed his still dizzy head, smiling awkwardly and said: "Hmm, it's been a long time since I had such a terrible dream. Where is Zhang Jun Sheng?"

  Su Jin'er was taken aback. How did he wake up and look for Zhang Junsheng? Did he also have a dream related to Zhang Junsheng? A series of questions arose in her mind.

  Seeing Zhang Junsheng still fast asleep, Li Yiqian also at the time, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, although knowing it was just a dream, but such a realistic dream can be frightening.

  "Did you have a dream related to Zhang Junsheng?"

  Su Jin'er still asked out her heart's doubts.

  Chu Fei Fan was stunned for a moment, then slowly nodded. Then he told Su Jin'er his entire dream, after listening to which, Su Jin'er broke out in cold sweat, it turned out they had the same dream.