Chapter 22 This is an array!

  "Waaa, Su Haicheng, don't be like this, wake up! Don't be like this!" My mind started to automatically fill in all sorts of terrifying scenes. For example, the corpse from last night got up and walked away from here. Not just him, but many other people too. Some were burned, some were soldiers like Su Haicheng. I even thought of Su Haicheng following those dead bodies, and for a moment, I was so scared that I tightly hugged him, afraid he would disappear."

  Kakaxi and they came over when it was already more than twenty minutes later. Coming from that small road also took a considerable amount of time.

  Atian rushed over, his face anxious, and pounced on me from two meters away. "What's wrong with him?"

  "I... I don't know either. He suddenly fainted."

  Kakaxi walked up beside us, pulling out a tablet as he spoke in that tone of voice: "He was originally just a dead person. He suddenly became normal."

  I yelled at Kakaxi: "Can't you just shut up?" He's always talking nonsense.

  "Hey, crying? Still crying like this, you can't have really fallen in love with that dead person, right?" He continued to mouth off. The boss pulled him from behind and he finally shut up and retreated to the side.

  The boss said: "I reckon artificial respiration is useless for him. Think about it, after he fainted, were there any special phenomena?"

  I wiped away my tears and forced myself to calm down. "We found a body here, it was the medic's body. We guarded the body for a whole night. But when we woke up in the morning, the body was gone. He fainted while searching around here."

  "Is the body gone?" Kakashi came closer again. "Are you sure you're not hallucinating? What do you mean, the body just disappeared?"

  "It's gone! It's really gone!"

  Ah Tian had not spoken, during our discussion, he had already taken out a water-based pen from his bag, pulled over Su Haicheng's left hand, pressed the water-based pen on the tip of his left middle finger, and then both hands exerted force, pressing the water-based pen in.

  The next second, Su suddenly sat up and pushed me away with one hand.

  I was so scared that I fell to the ground, staring at him tightly. Kakashi's eyes widened and he leaned in: "Wow, you're really awake? How did you do it, handsome?"

  "This move is a human body's neural reflex. It is used for emergency rescue or to deal with those who pretend to be unconscious."

  "Awesome!"

  I crawled over again and asked in a low voice: "Su Haicheng? How are you?"

  He stood up and walked towards the lake. I also got up, intending to follow him, but he turned around and shouted at us: "Don't follow me!"

  "Hey! Hai Cheng!" Ah Tian also shouted. Su Hai Cheng's words made us all very surprised. We thought he would tell us what was going on, but instead he didn't even let us get close to him.

  He stood alone by the lake, staring at the water with his eyes closed, saying nothing. The four of us stood behind him, discussing what to do next.

  Kakaxi said: "The lake water is so beautiful, let's have a picnic and cook some noodles. Fourth sister, you must be hungry, haven't eaten anything yet."

  I gazed at Su Haicheng's back and muttered, "That night, we saw the corpses walking by themselves, and their route was right here. Since this place is surrounded by mountains on all sides, where would the corpses go if they walked to this point?"

  Kakaxi shut up, and the boss had some meaning: "In the water? There will be corpses under such beautiful lake water? Is Sakura also underneath? The key can bring back even the dead. We have to go into the water!"

  "Hey, don't be so impulsive, love can sometimes be a fatal thing. I'm telling you, university professor, look at the color of this water, it's blue, which means what? It's deep enough to reflect the sky. This water isn't just any ordinary depth. We didn't bring diving gear this time, my suggestion is, let's head back and come again next time with equipment."

  "Go back?" Kakaxi shouted, "We drove over and are very tired. We walked such a long way, to go back and come again, isn't that unrealistic? Forty-one sister, what do you say? Forty-one sister?"

  He poked me and I turned my gaze back from Su Haicheng's back. "I don't know." I was really scared, and my legs are still a bit weak now.

  Su Haicheng finally turned around and walked towards us, saying: "Take a ten-minute break, eat something, and then we'll go to the nearby village to ask about this lake. It's impossible to dive in now, but we need more information. 41, give me your phone, I'll check the satellite map."

  I hastily handed over my phone, and Kaka Xi also handed me a package of instant noodles. Then, we ate them dry! There was a lake with water here, but no one suggested using the water to cook the noodles anymore. Who knows if there were any corpses at the bottom?

  While I was eating noodles, Kaka Xi held his tablet and looked at the map, saying: "We will head southeast from here, and there should be a village about 10 miles away."

  Su Haicheng said: "Go west. The village in the southeast is very close, but if you zoom in on the picture, you will see that the village has been burned!"

  Kakaxi quickly enlarged the satellite image. The boss also said: "Right, there was a village nearby that was burned down. It seems to have been nine years ago. At that time, I was a graduate student at D University, and Sakura Yuki was also at D University. She told me that a village near her home had been burned down. Because it was a bamboo building, and it was on the mountain, the fire truck couldn't get in, and it burned in large areas. The whole village was completely destroyed."

  "What about the people?" Probably out of sympathy for women, I asked first about the people living there.

  "They're all dead, not a single one survived. The fire happened at night when everyone was asleep."

  I quickly grabbed my phone and zoomed out the satellite image. Kakashi poked his head over, looking at me and saying: "Four-one sister, your face has fallen off in vain. You've made the map so small, what can you see clearly?"

  However, I did see it clearly. After seeing it clearly, my heart sank. I said softly: "My opinion is that we leave here and don't care about these things anymore. Things may be much more serious than we thought."

  "My words shocked them all, I turned to the boss first and said: "Boss, your girlfriend is dead, don't look for her anymore. You see you've come here, but she hasn't come out to talk to you. Su Haicheng, don't investigate further either, anyway now... even if you're dead it's like this, not dead it's also like this. Those brothers of yours are destined to be dead. Don't go..."

  He pulled me in front of him: "What do you know? Tell me."

  I didn't say a word, my heart was racing wildly. I held the phone to my chest, I was certain that I wouldn't misinterpret the satellite image. I lowered my head, not daring to look into his eyes.

  Su Haicheng let out a sigh: "Alright, I'll tell you what I know, and you have to tell me what you know."

  He turned to the lake: "I fainted just now, because I thought of that night, when I followed those corpses here and walked into the water. They all went into the water. I don't know why they would do so, but they really did go into the water."

  "What about you? Have you gone down?" Ah Tian asked.

  "It seems like I went down, but I'm not very sure, my memories in my head are a bit mixed up. But I know that night I didn't go down with them. However, I did go down." He looked at me, "Forty-one, tell me what you know?"

  I hesitated for a moment before taking out my phone and displaying the satellite image on it, zoomed in to show them.

  "This lake is surrounded by these mountains, and upon closer inspection, the positions of four of the mountains are exactly in the east, south, west, and north. The remaining ones may be a bit off, but they also seem to be pressing down on the four corners, just like the Eight Trigrams. It's too far away, and some of the mountains can't be seen very clearly. I also can't confirm whether there are any formations on top of the mountains. However, taking this highest mountain as the center, the five villages scattered around it form a pentagram shape. Or rather, I suspect that someone has used the Five Elements to set up an array. This is an array! An inward-facing array means suppression. Now, two villages have already been burned down, with everyone dead, and the time is also nine years. Nine years is one cycle of a flying star. Here, something should be being suppressed."