Chapter 3: The Graveyard Has Ghosts

  I and Wei Ge rushed all the way, passing through a small forest, and saw the dark tomb, it was almost dusk now, the tomb was gloomy, with cold wind blowing from time to time, I and Wei Ge both shivered, feeling a little scared, just about to run back, but saw the bear child behind had caught up, Li Dong held an iron pipe, fiercely shouting: "Meng Fei, I'll kill you!"

  I pulled Wei Ge, gritted my teeth and entered the chaotic burial mound. I, Meng Fei, love to brag, but this place is somewhere I'd rather die than enter. However, if I didn't come in today, I'd probably be beaten to death by those bear kids outside.

  Under the hazy moonlight, I saw a group of black shadows rustling in the woods, and Li Dong brought over a dozen bear children. The woods started to blow with a cold wind, freezing people to tremble, and several bear children followed Li Dong to the outside of the burial mound, just hearing a young boy say in a trembling voice: "Brother Winter, why don't we go back? Let's spare these two today, there will be plenty of chances for revenge!"

  Li Dong slapped the kid's face with a loud "slap", "Damn it, you little brat, if you're scared, get out of here!" Just thinking about Zhang Xiaohong's pale and tender skin being taken advantage of by me made this kid so angry that he couldn't help but feel resentful. After all, Li Dong had been chasing after the cute girl for a whole semester without even daring to touch her hand, yet she was won over by me, Meng Fei - how could he not be jealous?

  "Today, if I don't cripple that Meng Fei kid, my surname will be his from now on." Li Dong said a ruthless sentence, holding an iron rod and leading people to charge in. My brother Wei and I had already walked to the innermost part, where there was a forest of cypresses, and outside it was still a small grove. The two of us hid in a triangular area surrounded by several tombstones, with trees blocking our view, making it difficult for others to find us. Seeing more than a dozen people walking closer and closer through the small grove, we suddenly became flustered and got up again to head deeper inside.

  The wind howled, and from the woods came a few meows that sounded like a baby's cry. Wei Ge's legs began to tremble, I knew he was scared, but at this moment I was just as scared as him, however we didn't dare look back, Li Dong was leading people in pursuit behind us, today it was wolves in front and tigers behind, all I could do was grit my teeth and pull Wei Ge forward.

  "Meng Fei, let's get out of here, they won't kill us." Wei Ge suddenly grabbed his head, looking around at the dimly lit tombstones, and said with a trembling heart. He squatted on the ground, not wanting to move forward anymore, as the atmosphere was eerie and deserted, with no one in sight, and he feared that if they went further, they might not be able to return."

  "Turning back is death, I'm Meng Fei and I'll spend the night here tonight. Brother Wei, don't be afraid, I don't believe they won't leave." At this time, I was also desperate, and sat down on the ground with a thud. But Brother Wei had already lost his courage, squatting on the ground with his legs trembling violently. When I spoke, he suddenly raised his head, revealing a terrified expression, one hand pointing at a tombstone behind me. I saw two eyes staring widely, two hands waving wildly in the air, but was too scared to speak, and subconsciously turned my head back.

  Behind me is a new tomb, said to be a new tomb, that is, someone has been burning incense here in the past few years, probably not long after death. On the tombstone is a yellowed woman's photo, and around it are some incense and candles, the ground is full of white paper money, which looks gloomy and terrifying at night. I looked at the girl on the tombstone, about 15 or 16 years old, with a cold face, seemingly very dissatisfied with being buried here.

  "Wang Xiaoni... Meng Fei, this... is Wang Xiaoni..." Wei Ge finally stammered out a sentence, and gradually calmed down, holding my hand excitedly. "She's the girl who entered the Luozigang three years ago..." I suddenly realized something, looking at the yellowed black-and-white photo, feeling a little frightened too.

  Three years ago, a local girl was possessed by a ghost and then mysteriously died. I heard she was buried here. Before, it was just hearsay, who would come to see this thing for no reason, but unfortunately, we two stumbled upon it. It turned out that Ge Wei had seen the photo earlier and recognized the person on the tombstone.

  "Where is it? I heard the shout!" Suddenly, a bear child stretched out his hand and pointed to our location. Wei Ge's previous shout had exposed our position. A large group of bear children holding wooden sticks and chair legs surrounded us.

  "Are you Meng Fei?" Li Dong asked, walking forward with his hands clasped together, bracing against the cold wind from the tomb, looking at us two and said. The sky was very dark, he seemed to want to confirm my identity, so he subconsciously asked.

  "I'm the one who's going to bury you, come on if you dare!" I was getting impatient and in a fit of rage, I climbed up this seemingly fresh grave, stood on top of it, with my hands on my hips, pointing at Li Dong in a very arrogant manner.

  "Hahaha!" The little bear behind me saw me standing on the grave, and suddenly burst out laughing. Li Dong was so angry that his face turned purple. To be honest, this kind of midnight crawling on a dead man's grave is something only a mentally ill person can do, it's really scary.

  "Meng Fei, come down quickly, this is disrespect to the dead!" Wei Ge suddenly reacted and stretched out his hand to pull me down, but it was too late. I found a pair of icy hands grasping my feet.

  "Ah, ghost!" I suddenly let out a loud cry, tears and snot flowing down my face. Those two dark hands were tightly grasping my feet and wouldn't let go, pulling me downwards with force. I found that my body was slowly sinking down.

  "Play tricks on me, beat me to death!" Li Dong suddenly pointed at my body with a loud shout, and more than a dozen hooligans rushed up with their weapons, beckoning me down from the grave. Li Dong's club even smashed onto my head.

  "Bang, bang!" The wooden stick and chair legs struck my back and legs, even hitting those small black hands, but they still didn't let go, instead holding onto my feet tightly, pulling me down. I felt my body sinking down, and suddenly became frantic.

  "Stop hitting, stop... hurry and pull me, I want to go down." I shouted anxiously, my voice had changed, with trembling and panic. But at this time, no one paid attention to me, my body continued to sink down, being hit by countless sticks, clothes were also torn apart in several places, head felt cold, fresh blood flowed out.

  "And there's this one, let's fight together!" Li Dong pointed to Wei Ge beside him again. More than a dozen kids, about half of them, beckoned to Wei Ge, who was originally going to come up and pull me away. But more than a dozen people rushed over, and Wei Ge was squeezed out, unable to do anything but stand on the side anxiously. He had already noticed that something was wrong with me, shouting loudly several times, but no one responded, these people simply didn't listen to him. Then Wei Ge got angry too, and pulled Li Dong, who directly pointed at Wei Ge again and started fighting. Wei Ge took more than a dozen hits, but didn't make a sound, only staring fixedly at my feet.

  "Whoa——" Brother Wei grabbed my legs and pulled them up, a dozen or so little monsters didn't stop, the two of us were already bleeding. The small black hands were incredibly strong, but Brother Wei and I couldn't tear them off. At this point, I was already lying on top, and both knees had sunk in.

  "Save me, save my life!" Wei Ge shouted again. A dozen or so mischievous kids suddenly also saw that something was wrong, because both of my legs had already sunk halfway into the grave, they started to feel uneasy, and many people began to get scared.

  "Run quickly... there's a ghost!" Someone shouted, and more than a dozen people threw away their sticks and scattered to run outside. Li Dong didn't leave, he grabbed Wei Ge's body with one hand, and used the other hand to hold an iron stick to dig at the grave, my legs continued to sink down, I also used both hands to frantically dig at the mud on my legs, Wei Ge also helped out.

  "Hurry, smash, smash those hands......" The grave had already been dug open, revealing a pair of black hands on my ankles. Wei Ge shouted loudly. Li Dong now felt some regret in his heart, because of their pursuit, they had entered the chaotic burial ground, if something happened, he would be in trouble. So, Li Dong didn't run, he heard Wei Ge's words and saw those hands, without saying a word, he picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it down on the black hand under my feet. The soil next to the black hand had already been dug open by Wei Ge, Li Dong instantly smashed the black hand to pieces, four white finger bones hung from my ankle, I jumped down from above in an instant.

  "Ah——" Just then, a shrill cry of despair was heard, and a black head suddenly popped out from the grave again. Wei Ge and Li Dong pulled me to run away quickly, but my body was already soaked with sweat at this time, and I really couldn't run anymore. My hand slipped and I fell to the ground, and the two of them didn't bother about me and continued running forward.