Chapter 1: Handsome Ah Beng is dead

  At this moment, I looked at the sun with only half of its face left on the horizon and these trees around us that hadn't changed a bit, and shouted: "Ah! Are we going to be trapped to death in this godforsaken place?"

  As soon as I finished speaking, a bird flew out of the thicket with a flutter and chirped "ah ah" twice.

  Kakaxi looked at the bird and said: "Sister Si, there is a bird taking a dump here."

  In the dense forest, a winding path seemed to have no end. On this path, three people were walking. The man in front looked over thirty years old, slightly thin, with a large backpack on his back and a camera bag slung across his shoulder, wearing a duck-billed cap that covered most of his face.

  Not far from him, there were two people following behind, a man and a woman. The young man looked quite tender, probably only eighteen or nineteen years old, still fiddling with his tablet. He didn't even bother to look at the road properly, nor did he worry that he might trip and break his tablet. His nickname was Kakashi, who had just responded to me earlier.

  I glared at him with my white eyes, wouldn't he die if he didn't speak? Turning my head back to look at the man who was still moving forward, I said with a sad face: "How can the boss's girlfriend live in such a place?"

  "Do you regret coming with your boss?"

  "No regrets! I just want to see what charm the boss's girlfriend has that can mesmerize our boss." The boss is actually our teacher, everyone calls him that. The boss's girlfriend is also my love rival. Everyone knows that I like our boss, but he likes his girlfriend instead.

  Just a few days ago, his girlfriend suddenly lost contact with him, and he was in a hurry to find her. As for me, I'm just a lowly follower who followed along, wanting to see what kind of woman would make the boss so anxious. Otherwise, I should be in my rented little house now, blowing air conditioning, lying on the bed watching TV.

  And Kaka Xi was brought by me. He is a computer expert, a hacker master, with him around, all kinds of information can be obtained. For example, now I asked: "How far is it to the boss's village?"

  "Not far, we can arrive before dark, satellite image shows it's just 100 meters in front of us."

  "A hundred meters? Look, a hundred meters from here..." My words hadn't finished yet when the old boss in front had already stopped his footsteps. I ran over and stood beside him, just about a hundred meters ahead of us, in that valley, there were more than ten houses... uh, ruins of houses.

  The boss's expression was off, he turned around and shouted loudly: "Kakashi! Investigate what happened here before!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, he started walking in that direction. This is indeed worrying, his girlfriend returned home and suddenly lost contact, when she came to look for him, it was a pile of ruins.

  Don't underestimate the mountain road's hundred meters. By the time we arrived at the village, it was already dark. I turned on my flashlight, but in this darkness, I could only see a faint light at my feet. The air still had the smell of burnt fire, and the wooden houses in the village were all covered with black charcoal.

  The boss tidied up, buckling his helmet. Kakashi held up his tablet and said: "I've checked. A week ago, a severe infectious disease broke out here, and the military sealed off the news. When their medical team arrived, everyone in the village was already dead. The army ordered the entire village to be burned down. But during this mission, the big fire suddenly went wrong, wow, the medical team and the military at that time all died! Boss boss, let's not go in, it's an infectious disease!"

  Kakaxi shouted out, and the boss had already walked towards the village, saying: "What infectious disease was burned like this and didn't spread! You two are afraid to wait here."

  I was stunned by what Kaka Xi said, and I looked at the tablet in his hand. On that tablet, a soldier's photo appeared, with thick eyebrows and bright eyes. This kind of person, as the old man said, is either a hero or a villain. In short, he is someone who can be ruthless.

  "This Ah Bing Ge is quite handsome. Maybe he's not dead yet?" I said.

  "Awesome?! Awesome is also dead! I hacked into the military's database, do you think there would be a mistake? Boss, wait for me. Four-one sister, hurry up!" Kakashi also chased after that dark lantern.

  I sighed and now this matter, still don't know how sad the boss will be. I also walked into that dark hut with a flashlight in my hand.

  At first, I could still see the flickering lights from afar, but after a few minutes, my surroundings were pitch black. I realized that I had made a very serious mistake! In the complex ruins, I got lost!

  In the pitch black, my light shines down on the eerie ruins everywhere. In some places, I can vaguely see human figures, but I don't know if they are those charred corpses or just my hallucinations. So many people were burned to death here, and it was just a few days ago, are their ghosts still lingering here? Are those corpses still among these ruins?

  My heart started racing and my voice began trembling: "Kakashi, Kakashi, boss, boss, did you hear that? Kakashi..."

  I clutched the flashlight in both hands, my whole body trembling, and I didn't dare to shout loudly, fearing that those who heard my voice were not them, but the corpses under this rubble or the ghosts floating around.

  "Kaka Xi, boss, you, where are you?"

  In the darkness, there was no light, no sound, just a dead silence. The only sounds I could hear were my own voice and the sound of my heartbeat. "Kakashi? Boss? Boss?"

  "It" seemed to have come from the ruins, and my heart jumped into my throat. I shone my flashlight over there, and the voice trembled as it asked: "Boss? Is that you?"

  "Ahh!" In the beam of my flashlight, a pair of boots appeared. I let out a startled cry and fell back, under the shaking light, I saw the face of the owner of those feet! The light shot up from below, his features eerily appearing before me.

  "Ah! Don't come over, don't come over, don't come over! I have a talisman, I have the temple's talisman..." I shouted.

  He bent down and patted my face with the back of his hand: "Hey."

  Because he bent down, the light was no longer shining up from his chin, so I could see his face clearly. He was wearing a camouflage uniform, and although his face was a bit pale, it couldn't hide his handsome appearance. Especially those eyebrows and eyes, standard diagonal sword-shaped eyebrows, not big but very bright.

  I took a deep breath to calm myself down, and then said, "It's okay, I'm fine. I just got startled." As I was getting up on my own, my movements froze halfway. This man's face, I've seen it before! Just now, those eyebrows and eyes, I won't remember them wrong. He's the soldier who sacrificed himself on Kakashi's team.

  Kakaxi's voice sounded in my ear again: "I hacked into the military's files, do you think there would be a mistake?" No way! This man was already dead, but now he's standing in front of me and talking to me!

  "Ah!" I exclaimed, and before I could even stand up, I crawled backward several steps. The ground here was not flat, and my foot somehow twisted.

  The exclamation didn't stop, it directly turned into a painful gasp of cold air.

  Hearing my unusual voice, that Ah Beng walked over. I became even more frightened and retreated further back. However, his hand grabbed hold of my ankle.

  My whole body was numb, but I could also feel the hand grasping my ankle wasn't cold, it had a warm feeling that made my painful ankle slightly more comfortable. Mentally, I felt slightly more at ease too, at least he's now a handsome guy with a normal body temperature, not a dead person.

  He squatted in front of me, rubbing my ankle and said: "It's okay, it's not hurt. Stand up and kick a few times to be fine." As he spoke, he helped me stand up.

  My heart was racing with anxiety. Firstly, he was very handsome, secondly, I hadn't recovered from the fright earlier, and thirdly, he was very close to me, supporting me, my hand was on his arm to prop myself up, while the other hand was on his chest.

  "Thank you." As soon as I finished speaking, my face turned white. At first, I thought he was a dead person. Then, because I felt his body temperature, I thought he should be a living person. And now my hand is on his chest, but I can't feel his heartbeat!

  "My lips stammered and asked: 'Are... are you a dead person or a living one?'"