Chapter 48: The Ghostly Child Blocks the Way

  After I saw the thing on my shoulder clearly, I was so scared that I almost peed my pants. It looked like a child who had been burned by fire, lying on my shoulder and wanting to talk to me.

  I trembled all over and turned my face to Liangzi and Zhou Huan, whispering: "Fire... the gun... ah! What are you waiting for..."

  Zhou Huan took two steps towards me, gun aimed at the thing and said in a low voice: "Not yet, I don't know what this thing is, it's too close and I'm afraid of hurting you, hold on for a bit!"

  Hold on for a moment... You damn well come over and try to endure me?

  I was both scared and angry, yet I didn't dare move, and just as we were frozen in place like this, the thing on my shoulder suddenly let out a childlike wail, scaring me into letting out a loud shout as I tried to grab it.

  Suddenly, I heard a loud gunshot, and a bullet came from somewhere and exploded the ghost child's head on my shoulder. A sticky liquid immediately splattered all over my face.

  I was so frightened by this shot that I almost fainted and stood there like a corpse.

  Zhou Huan rushed forward and shouted at me: "It must be the captain who fired the shot, let's run quickly..." After finishing, she kicked me hard.

  I immediately reacted, went up to support Liangzi and started running, shouting loudly: "Black face you damn bastard, I didn't let that monster scare me to death, but almost got blown up by you, your grandma's."

  Liangzi didn't seem as furious as I was, and while running, he said: "Calm down a bit, it's Hei Ge who saved your life, you don't have to thank him, but saying that is not right."

  "Ah, damn it! You're such a hypocrite, always sucking up to people on the surface but stabbing them in the back. Black Brother, Black Brother, you're so affectionate with each other, are you two gay or something?!" I saw Liangzi's deadpan expression and cursed at him with extreme disdain.

  Zhou Huan saw that the two of us were in trouble again, and turned around to shout: "If you want to die, then you two can continue. That thing is not just one, you two are just right to play with them."

  I was just scared and confused, and when I came to my senses, I didn't have time to argue anymore. I quickly followed Zhou Huan while carrying the beam on my shoulder, and at the same time, I reached out to touch her shoulder, thinking that what happened earlier was really too terrifying.

  Just as we thought of this, the crying voice of that child came to mind again. The three of us were at a loss for which direction to run when suddenly a flashlight shone on the mountain slope in front of us. Immediately, Zhou Huan shouted: "Run towards the flashlight, it must be Captain's instructions."

  I was just resentful of that black-faced captain, but now I see the flashlight and feel grateful. The three of us had only run a few steps towards the light when we heard a rustling in the bushes behind us, and it seemed like they were about to catch up with us.

  "Damn it, I'm out of here." Liang Zi shook off my arm and turned around to fire a shot at the bushes behind us. Zhou Huan also stopped and raised his gun to look back. It seemed that Liang Zi's shot had missed its target. We shone our flashlight over there and found that the bushes were shaking all over the place. Then, a dark figure rushed out of them.

  This time, under the illumination of three flashlights, I saw it very clearly. The monster that emerged was over five feet tall, like a small child, with an entirely black body, dry and wrinkled skin, no hair or clothes, a large head and a small body, looking extremely disproportionate.

  I was completely stunned, what on earth is this thing?! Is it a child that has turned into a monster? But the skeletal remains under the bushes are all adults, so where did these child-like things come from.

  "I'm going to Ni Ma's..." Liangzi cursed loudly and fired his gun, his marksmanship wasn't bad either. Two bursts of gunfire sent that ghostly child flying out.

  He was just about to brag about his marksmanship when two more suddenly emerged from the bushes, standing ten or so meters away from us, slowly opening their mouths and letting out a mournful howl.

  Bang, bang, bang... This time Zhou Huan and Liang Zi's guns rang out simultaneously. The two ghostly children had just let out a cry when they were shot in the head by bullets.

  Not a moment's breath was given to us, and then another big chaos broke out in the grass thicket, countless ghost children rushed in front of us, and immediately the crying sound was chaotic, making people feel particularly heart-wrenching.

  Just as Liang was about to continue shooting, a ghost boy suddenly jumped up and landed on his shoulder. Liang was shocked and reached out to grab him.

  A loud gunshot came from the mountain slope, and the ghost child's head on Liangzi's shoulder was immediately smashed, splashing flesh and blood all over Liangzi's face.

  "Whoa, Black Brother, can you give me a hint? You scared the hell out of me!" Liangzi was so frightened that he jumped all over the place, shouting and wiping his face with his hands. Immediately, the sticky blood got all over his sleeves, but it seemed to be non-toxic. I also quickly wiped my own face.

  "It's no use, there are too many of them, let's retreat quickly." Zhou Huan took a look and saw that they couldn't hold out at all, so he shouted loudly and turned around to run.

  Liang Zi didn't even care about the wound on his own foot, pushed me and followed to run, while running and turning back to shoot, immediately several ghost children fell to the ground.

  After running a long distance, the rustling sound behind us finally stopped. I guess those things didn't catch up with us. We slowed down a bit, all of us panting heavily.

  Liángzi seems to be in great pain from his foot, and by the light of the flashlight, I see that his face is covered with sweat, as he limps along behind me.

  I quickly went to support him, feeling really useless. With all four limbs intact, I still needed a woman and an injured person's protection.

  Just as I was thinking about whether to take off my gun, I found that Zhou Huan, who was running in front of me, suddenly stopped and muttered: "It's not right, how can it still be so far?"

  I didn't understand her meaning for a moment, so I supported myself on the beam and went to her side to ask what was wrong.

  Then, Zhou Huan raised his flashlight and shone it around, after which he exclaimed, "Huh? We've been running for half a day, but the distance of the light from that flashlight doesn't seem to have changed at all."

  I listened to her finish and felt very puzzled, looked up and saw that the light spot on the mountain slope was still motionless in its original position, and the distance seemed to have not changed at all since we first discovered it.

  This is really a strange thing, I held the flashlight and shone it around, when I turned back to look, I felt it was unbelievable, because I found that not far behind me, it was the big tomb where we buried the bones, still covered with those glowing fireflies, without any change.

  Liang Zi also found it strange and panted heavily as he asked Zhou Huan, "Little sister-in-law, have we encountered the legendary 'ghost hitting the wall'?"

  "It shouldn't be, right? Although this place has a very heavy yin energy, our flashlights have been on the whole time, we shouldn't encounter a ghost wall!" Zhou Huan said, still not giving up and going to take a look.

  About ghost hitting the wall, most people may have heard of it, and I am no exception. It is said that ghost hitting the wall only occurs when a person is in a dazed state or extremely down, let alone if you have lighting tools, then it will not exist at all.

  But we really ran out very far, and almost nothing changed around us. If it's not a ghost hitting the wall, what could be the reason?

  I suddenly remembered the scene in that ancient mansion on Bug Mountain, where we were very close to the wall but couldn't get any closer. Is it possible that something similar is misleading us now? But that can't be right either, because I could clearly see the flashlight light on the hillside!

  After thinking for half a day, Zhou Huan decided to take another walk. I and Liang Zi had no other way, so the three of us continued walking towards the flashlight beam. During this time, that ghostly child-like thing never appeared again, don't know where it ran off to.

  After walking for about half an hour, I couldn't hold back anymore. If we misjudged the distance last time because of our haste, then this time it's completely inexplicable.

  Although it's a bit laborious to walk through this thicket, I clearly know the size of this open space. According to our walking distance, we should have reached the hillside long ago.

  "This won't do, if we keep going like this, it's not a solution. If we really encounter a dead end, it might lead us into danger." Zhou Huan stopped again and said to us.

  I supported Liangzi and was also tired enough. I asked Zhou Huan, "What to do? Do you have any secret signals or methods to let the captain come and pick us up?"

  Zhou Huan listened to me ask this way, as if suddenly remembering something, and thought for a while before saying to me: "No, that's too far-fetched, absolutely impossible."

  "What's wrong with you now?"

  "I think that the person flashing a light on the mountain slope isn't necessarily the team leader. If it were him, he could have just come to meet up with us directly. This is completely unnecessary."

  "It's not the captain, then who else could it be? Besides us, there are only ghosts left here."

  I suddenly had a chill, and this sentence made all the hairs on my body stand up. I thought to myself that in this desolate graveyard, it wouldn't be surprising if there were a few lonely ghosts playing tricks on us. Could it be that we're really being toyed with by ghosts? But I've already buried all the corpses I dug up!

  If that flashlight on the hillside was really not Captain Hei, I couldn't understand what kind of logic this is. What's with the flashlight beam? Why can't we just walk past it?

  The three of us discussed it and felt that we couldn't go on like this. If we continued, even if we didn't encounter any danger, we would eventually be trapped to death.

  Finally, we decided to walk in the direction of the left for a while, if it still can't pass through, then it will prove that it is really encountering a ghost wall, and there is no other way but to think of another solution.

  Everyone cheered up again, Zhou Huan led the way and I followed with a flashlight, we tried to hold our flashlights higher so that we could see the terrain ahead more clearly.

  This time it's a bit better, we walked for a while and found that the flashlight on the mountain slope was clearly left behind, it seems that it's not a ghost hitting the wall after all, but the specific reason is still unclear.

  Just as we were secretly rejoicing, the rustling sound came out of the grass thicket in front again, as if something was moving inside. Everyone stopped and looked up to see that Liangzi and Zhou Huan had just raised their guns when several ghostly children rushed out, wailing loudly and starting to attack us.

  "I'm wiping, damn it's coming again......" Liangzi cursed and opened fire to shoot, after killing two of them his gun was out of bullets. At this time the sound in the bushes grew louder, obviously many more ghost children were heading towards us.

  There's no way out, this road is also impassable, we can only retreat back to where we came from in disarray.

  When I shone the flashlight at the slope again, those ghostly children stopped attacking once more, and the grass regained its previous tranquility.