Chapter 8: The Forest of Fright

  On the way back to school, three girls were very happy.

  To prevent the four boys from running off, the girls made the four brothers stand in a row, with them sandwiched in between, each holding onto two different owners' arms. When they got tired, they would pull on their arms to swing and rest for a while. The four Cao Sen brothers were completely different from other boys in terms of strength and maturity, giving the three girls a huge sense of security. With a sense of security, the girls relaxed and chatted even more, although there was a boy in between each of them, they still talked happily.

  Perhaps it was the indifference of the bar that made Cao Sen and a few others feel a little guilty in their hearts, they rarely didn't throw out the girls, especially Cao Sen, who actually tolerated the girls' mischief.

  When walking back to campus, Wu Fang insisted on going for a walk in the East Forest of the school. Cao Sen and others were kind enough to escort her all the way, thoroughly acting as her bodyguards.

  Donglin in Dongshan University is a vast and tidy forest of white birch trees, which is the best place for students to fall in love. When seven people walked into the forest, they didn't know how many pairs of lovers were indulging in romance within it. The forest, moonlight, gentle early summer breeze, the fragrance after rain, and Donglin's tradition of love, formed an invisible yet intoxicating atmosphere.

  The girls were moved by this romantic atmosphere, and their mouths all fell silent, quietly following the footsteps of the four boys. Seven young hearts didn't know what they were thinking, the atmosphere slowly became a bit subtle, gradually becoming somewhat awkward.

  Cao Sen didn't like this atmosphere and wanted to end the walk and send the girl back to her dorm.

  Jingjing walked beside Cao Sen, sensing his impatience from the subtle movements of his shoulders. She enjoyed this atmosphere and didn't want to return to the dormitory early. Seeing the scene not far away, Jingjing had an idea and whispered something to her companions. Wu Fang listened with excitement, almost jumping up, while Lan'er's eyes showed some hesitation.

  Cao Sen shook his head in dismay, thinking to himself that he must have gone crazy tonight, actually indulging these girls' nonsense, it was definitely the aftermath of being struck by lightning during the day.

  A couple was embracing on a bench under the tree, the girl lying in the boy's arms and coquettishly raising her head to see a terrifying scene.

  Only to see three women standing under a dense tree shade at some point, seemingly watching themselves. What frightened her was that the three women slowly curled up their legs and did not fall down, with their upper body standing in mid-air. What terrified her even more was that four snow-white teeth suddenly appeared near the heads of the three women, opening and closing, extremely terrifying.

  Ghost! The girl screamed and desperately hugged her boyfriend.

  His boyfriend was also frightened by the strange scene in front of him, his hair standing on end, his whole body trembling into a ball, and he didn't even have the courage to shout.

  Haha... seeing the two people's wretched appearance, Wu Fang couldn't help but burst out laughing, dropping her legs that were suspended in mid-air, rubbing her belly and shouting "I'm dying of laughter, I'm dying of laughter".

  "You... you're not ghosts?" The girl asked bravely.

  Wu Fang pulled a few people out of the shade of the trees, and the moonlight revealed their identities.

  "How boring!" the startled girl said in exasperation.

  The boy, in order to show off his strength in front of his girlfriend and cover up his cowardly behavior just now, strode forward fiercely to reason with several people.

  Jing pulled Wu Fang and Lan'er, hiding behind Cao Sen's four people.

  "Huh? Is that Sen-ge... how did you get so dark... are you here for a walk? We won't disturb you, we'll leave now." Taking advantage of the moonlight, the boy finally recognized Cao Sen and the others, and pulled his girlfriend to make a quick escape.

  "I didn't realize it, but you guys are quite famous." Wu Fang turned to Cao Sen's front, sizing him up with interest.

  "Boring." Cao Sen threw out a comment and continued walking forward.

  "Brother Sen, hehe, I also call you that, Brother Sen, tell me why they're so afraid of you? And what's your phone number, it's been four years and you still haven't told the girls in our class..." Wu Fang chased after him, pulling on Cao Sen's arm, asking non-stop, blurting out all the questions she had wanted to ask but didn't dare to.

  Cao Sen didn't shake off Wu Fang, but he also didn't answer her question, letting Wu Fang chatter away beside him.

  Ding Haitao unexpectedly looked at Cao Sen and Wu Fang, "What's wrong? Why is Brother Sen's temper surprisingly good tonight?"

  "Brother Sen's brain was struck by lightning, haha." Tengfei said with a smile.

  "You've been struck by lightning and your brain is damaged!" Jingjing spoke up for Cao Sen.

  Guo Jing smiled thoughtfully and was punched by Jing in annoyance.

  Seven young people walked quietly and laughed in the forest. It was not known how long they had been walking, Cao Sen looked at his mobile phone, it was already midnight twelve o'clock, so late? He wanted to send three girls back to their dormitory.

  The girls were already tired and couldn't open their eyes, but they insisted on holding on to a boy, looking dazed and confused, which was very cute.

  "Get lost." Cao Sen cursed and made a gesture for his brothers to head in the direction of the girls' dormitory.

  Not long after they set off, several boys stopped in their tracks at the same time, looking around suspiciously and feeling that something was not quite right.

  People who have undergone special training all have a characteristic: their sense of direction is extremely good, and the distance they walk is almost constant. This is the result of long-term training, with the goal of mastering one's own range of motion in dark environments. Cao Sen and his companions naturally possess this skill. From the moment Cao Sen made the decision to return to the dormitory until now, although they didn't intentionally pay attention, their long-standing habits still allowed them to naturally estimate the distance, at least fifty meters, they had walked out at least fifty meters.

  But what they saw in front of them was still a scene within a 20-meter radius. What's going on?

  The four brothers exchanged a glance, confirming the doubts in each other's minds. They realized that something was wrong with the forest.

  Cao Sen handed Lan'er to Guo Jing, adjusted his breathing, controlled the pace of his strides, and slowly walked forward. The others waited in place.

  Cao Sen can confirm that he is walking in a straight line, but to Guo Jing and others, his path of travel is a strange arc. Originally heading due east, when Cao Sen stops in his tracks, he has walked to a northwest direction.

  Cao Sen came back, and Teng Fei tried walking again. He still walked out in an arc, or rather, after a certain distance, his straight-line walking turned into drawing circles. Walking like this, he would never be able to leave the forest in his lifetime.

  What's happening right now matches a legend perfectly - hitting a ghostly wall!

  The four brothers understood that tonight they would encounter another big surprise - running into a ghost, but they didn't know what kind of ghost it would be or if it was the female ghost from the teaching building.

  A gust of wind swept by, and a faint sound of footsteps came from one side of the woods. Although the sound was faint, Cao Sen and the others could still tell that it was the sound of high heels, and it felt extremely familiar to them because of the deep impression they had gotten from the teaching building that night.

  The four brothers' faces were filled with a strange expression, neither fear nor excitement, but an inexplicable emotion. They had spent a whole week searching for her in vain, and now she had come to their doorstep herself. This was an opportunity for them to outdo the female ghost, but what made the four of them unhappy was that she had brought three burdens with her.

  Without anyone's order, the four men surrounded the girls in the middle and took out their own pistols, making almost uniform sounds of loading bullets, then the four black muzzles pointed to the four directions.

  "Why aren't we moving?" Jingjing asked drowsily.

  "It's a lie, there is a ghost!"

  "What ghost...?!" A shrill cry, and three girls woke up with a start, their eyes wide open in panic as they looked around.

  "Isn't there a ghost?" Jingjing's voice trembled.

  "It's the female ghost in the teaching building, hiding nearby." Cao Sen replied.

  "Brother Sen, can your guns kill ghosts?" Wu Fang asked timidly.

  "I don't know."

  "What if the ghost rushes over?"

  "I don't know."

  Wu Fang was furious and didn't know whether these boys were real heroes or just reckless.

  After a while, the surroundings were quiet and still. Ding Haitao couldn't help but curse: "Fuck your ancestors!"

  Still no movement, it seems like the female ghost doesn't care what happens to her second master.

  Lan's first encounter with a ghost, she was so nervous and scared. Jingjing herself was also afraid, but she tried to comfort her friend: "It's okay, actually we've all seen her, wearing a particularly tacky white skirt, and a pair of fake leather red shoes, really no taste, we don't need to be afraid of her."

  Cao Sen couldn't help but smile wryly, the female student's perspective on problems was indeed unique.

  However, Jing's words seemed to infuriate the female ghost. Under a large white birch tree, a gust of dark wind whirled around, carrying a mournful cry that rushed straight at the crowd.

  Cao Sen took the lead, he didn't fire his gun. Putting aside the female ghost, the dark wind in front of him was just a gust of wind mixed with cold air. What's the use of shooting at the wind? Moreover, Cao Sen didn't think that a gust of wind could do anything to people, even if it was a dark wind. Therefore, Cao Sen did not dodge and watched as the dark wind rushed forward head-on.

  The icy wind suddenly enveloped Cao Sen, his ears filled with ear-piercing wails, as if hundreds of women were crying and begging beside his ears. Cao Sen felt a chill in his heart, this sound was too unbearable!

  Cao Sen's courage was not ordinary, and under such a terrifying voice, he remained calm, "Female ghost, change your trick, this thing doesn't work on me!"

  The wind suddenly grew stronger, forming a small tornado that swept up all seven people. The wind was filled not only with the sound of crying, but also with sand and stones that pelted against their skin, causing unbearable pain. The three girls were timid and were now crying out loud in fear.

  "Go! Follow me, don't scatter!" Cao Sen casually picked up a girl and broke through the encirclement of yin wind, dragging the girl to run under a tree. Guo Jing and others followed closely behind. When they arrived at the tree, the boys threw down the three girls who had already gone limp, and once again surrounded them in the middle.

  The gloomy wind followed the footsteps of the crowd, surrounding them, but the dense branches and leaves of the big trees slowed down the wind speed. The tornado formed by the gloomy wind no longer had its previous power, and the crowd could completely bear it. It was just that those miserable cries were really terrifying, making people involuntarily think of a desolate and eerie hell.

  It seemed as if the female ghost felt that the gloomy wind was not enough for these people, and the tornado gradually subsided, replaced by a vast and boundless fog. The fog enveloped everyone from all sides, getting thicker and thicker, until it reached the point where they couldn't see their own fingers when they stretched out their hands. The cold and dense fog made everyone lose their sight.

  "She wants to separate us, hold on to each other tightly, never let go!"

  Cao Sen's shout had barely fallen when three pairs of small hands reached out to grab him, regardless of where they grabbed, as long as they touched him, they wouldn't let go. Since the three girls were sitting on the ground, grabbing Cao Sen naturally meant grabbing his lower body, and it wasn't clear which girl was the one who had grabbed his crotch. Cao Sen's face changed color, and he broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, hurriedly using his hands to pry them loose.

  But then Wu Fang loudly cried out: "Save me! The female ghost is twisting my arm!"

  "Damn it, I'm the one holding your hand! Let go!"

  "Don't leave me behind! Don't let go of my hand!"

  Cao Sen was in so much pain that he could hardly speak, gritting his teeth and saying: "Let go quickly, where are you grabbing me?"

  "Where is it?"

  "My pants!"

  Kuo Ching and others burst out laughing, Wu Fang's face turned bright red with shame, hastily letting go of his hand and whispering "sorry".

  The terrifying atmosphere was greatly reduced, and Guo Jing laughed so hard that tears came out. With great effort, he said: "Wu Fang, come over here."

  "Yes." Wu Fang crawled two steps on the ground and caught up with Guo Jing by following the sound.

  Guo Jing felt Wu Fang grab him and patted her shoulder, saying in a low voice: "Good job."

  "You three fill in the gaps, just like coming out of a bar." Tengfei took over from Cao Sen, who was temporarily speechless, and directed the girls to stand between four boys, each girl holding onto one leg of two boys.

  At this time, Lan Er's trembling voice said: "This... whose leg is this... how... wearing a skirt?"

  Right behind her, Lan'er let out a shrill cry: "Ah——! Ghost! She's in front of me!"

  Seven people suddenly became chaotic, Tengfei and Ding Haitao beside Lan'er simultaneously struck forward at Lan'er, the two men's arms collided with each other, making a loud "bang" sound, but they didn't hit anything.

  Jingjing clutched Cao Sen's and Guo Jing's pant legs tightly, her terrified eyes helplessly scanning around in all directions, but she couldn't see anything except the thick fog.

  Suddenly the thick fog in front of her eyes faded away, a pair of red high-heeled shoes appeared before Jingjing's eyes, and under the white skirt was a pair of pale legs!

  Jing Jing was shocked, before she could even cry out, a woman's head suddenly appeared from under the white skirt, between her two pale legs. The messy and dirty long hair half-covered a pale face, a pair of blood-red eyes stared at Jing Jing with malice, black lips opened to reveal sharp teeth, just about to bite down on Jing Jing.

  Jingjing let out a sharp cry, seeing the female ghost about to bite her, when suddenly Cao Sen's head stretched over and blocked it, "Damn, you're not just ugly, you're exceptionally ugly!"

  As soon as Cao Sen's voice fell, the gun in his hand was already aimed at the female ghost's face. He pulled the trigger repeatedly, and the 6mm steel balls shot out rapidly, forming a straight line that all entered the female ghost's open mouth.

  The female ghost's face was hit and became blurry for a moment, then gradually recovered. She looked at Cao Sen with resentment and said in a gloomy tone: "What you're holding can't hurt me."

  When Cao Sen first heard the female ghost speak, he also felt a chill run down his spine. After all, this thing looked really terrifying. However, Cao Sen didn't panic. His experience in the teaching building and the female ghost's blurry face from being hit earlier made him realize one thing: steel marbles couldn't kill the female ghost, but a large number of concentrated shots could make her temporarily retreat.

  "Twelve o'clock direction, five hundred meters, concentrated fire!" Cao Sen shouted out the order.

  Four replica guns gathered in front of Cao Sen at the same time, the sound of the slide moving back and forth, the whizzing sound of steel balls being shot, linked everything together. A large number of steel balls instantly entered the female ghost's skull, and her face showed a wave-like ripple, which grew larger and larger with each shot, until the female ghost's shape was shattered into pieces.

  "Follow me!" Cao Sen shouted loudly.

  Four brothers grabbed three girls on the ground and led by Cao Sen, they desperately ran out of the woods.

  It seems that the female ghost's maze has also lost its effect, and the seven people finally ran out of the forest. As the crowd rushed out of the forest, the sound of high heels echoed again in the depths of the forest, following closely behind everyone from a distance.

  "Brother Sen, where are we going?"

  "This female ghost is going to haunt us, where is the place with the strongest yang energy at midnight?"

  "Dormitory for boys."

  "Right, let's go to the boys' dorm!"

  The brothers spread their legs and ran quickly towards the dormitory building, with the sound of high heels following slowly behind.

  As she arrived in front of the dormitory building, the female ghost's footsteps also stopped, and it seemed that she didn't mind the many male students forming a strong yang energy here as Cao Sen had said.

  The dormitory building had already closed, Cao Sen kicked the door open with one foot, making a loud noise. The security guard on duty at the entrance was startled awake, holding his baton and rushing out in anger: "Who's looking for death? Who dares to kick my door?"

  "I am Cao Sen!"

  "Ah...... it's Sen Ge...... how did you get so tanned, haha, what is this......" The security guard looked at the three girls they were carrying and thought to himself, aren't you guys done playing yet? Wanting to sneak them into the dormitory? I can pretend not to see if you kick the door, but leading young ladies into the dorm building is a bit of a problem.

  Cao Sen ignored the guard's wild guesses and pushed him aside, rushing into the duty room. He took down several high-intensity flashlights from the wall and handed them out to his brothers.

  Kuang Jing and others didn't need to say anything, they knew Cao Sen's intention. At the same time, they turned on their flashlights, four strong beams of light shot out towards the outside of the building, especially in the direction where the high-heeled shoes had made a sound earlier. A sharp whistle with a hint of unwillingness circled around the outside of the building and then slowly disappeared.

  It worked, Cao Sen and the four of them let out a sigh of relief. This female ghost was really not easy to deal with, maybe next time they should call all the brothers, nineteen guns aimed at the female ghost's head and fired together, perhaps they could eliminate her.

  The gatekeeper looked suspiciously outside the door, he heard that shrill whistle, what was it? Could it be...?

  "Sorry to disturb you, buddy. I'll treat you to a drink tomorrow," Cao Sen said as he handed the security guard a pack of good cigarettes. "They're our classmates and are staying here for just one night."

  The gatekeeper took the cigarette and smiled: "Well, well, fellow students can stay, female students can also stay, others are not allowed, but you, Sen Ge, are okay, just don't let the higher-ups know."

  Teng Fei patted the shoulder of the gatekeeper, who didn't dare say more and sullenly returned to his own duty room.