1TWITF[C Chapter 103

Chapter 103

“Now… what do we do with him?” Jin Cancan held a bowl and carefully approached the unconscious man lying on the long chair.

He’s really good-looking…

While looking, Jin Cancan didn’t forget to slurp her noodles.

Before Jin Cancan could get angry, Jin Fugui stopped her, sized up the unconscious man, and frowned.

“Don’t you guys think he looks a little familiar?”

“Familiar?”

Several people gathered around, carefully examining him.

“It seems like it. He Lou, don’t you think this person looks a bit like that wanted criminal?” Huang Li said hesitantly.

“Yeah, he looks a lot like him, but didn’t they say that wanted criminal has a scar on his face?”

Hearing this, Jin Cancan got even closer: “I don’t think so. Look at his face, it’s clean, no scar.”

“You’re going to kiss his face if you get any closer.” Jin Yuanbao pulled her away with a sour expression. “Dad, what do we do with this guy?”

He Lou was about to carry the man, but the lying man’s eyelids fluttered, and then he slowly sat up, clutching his forehead.

Lu Yanli opened his eyes and saw a group of strangers. The place where he was lying had also changed. He was shocked, and his rationality quickly kicked in. He quickly scanned everyone present.

They all looked kind, and their hands shouldn’t be stained with blood.

Seeing the pale man sit up, the others exchanged glances. Jin Fugui explained the general situation.

When he heard that the group had carried him while he was unconscious, Lu Yanli’s expression didn’t change. He still had a gentle smile on his face, but his mind was racing.

This group of people…

Lu Yanli wouldn’t be stupid enough to expose his true personality in front of these people. Seeing that they were all eating with relish, he figured it was probably not poisoned, so he smiled and said, “Is it okay?”

Jin Fugui patted his round belly: “Of course, it’s okay! Why wouldn’t it be?”

He Lou tactfully cleaned a bowl.

“By the way, what’s your name, young man?”

Lu Yanli smiled: “My surname is Jiang, Jiang Bai.”

She was a little embarrassed to mention the names her father had given them with his bad taste. But her older brother made things worse, gloating as he revealed all their names.

Jin Cancan was furious and pretended to hit him, but He Lou stopped her: “If you delay any longer, the spicy hot pot will get cold.”

To her delight, Jiang Bai didn’t laugh at her name.

The group sat together, happily eating dinner. Outside the window, the winter wind howled.

“What kind of opera will you be performing then?” Lu Yanli asked.

Jin Cancan said quickly: “We’ll be performing the Heavenly Son Sacrifice and the Eight Sacrifices Song.”

“Eight Sacrifices Song?” Lu Yanli had never heard of it.

Jin Cancan: “Of course!” She even ate less, explaining seriously.

It was about a story of a “God” and a “King.”

This story was different from the mural story Lu Yanli had seen in the ancient tomb.

The “King,” in pursuit of eternal life, insisted on chasing the “God,” leading to the destruction of his country. Before his death, he finally saw the “God,” but to his disappointment, the “God” was not a god at all, but just an object.

An object with special abilities.

The “King” went mad. He couldn’t believe that the “God” he had pursued all his life was just an object. He believed that there must be other objects in the world that also possessed special powers. He spent the rest of his life searching for them, and finally buried himself in a small mountain village.

“Speaking of which, I don’t know who recorded this story.” Jin Cancan poured herself a cup of tea. “I think this story is quite interesting.”

“Indeed… very interesting.”

Not only was Lu Yanli listening, but the other students were also listening with great interest, lost in thought as they heard the ending of the story. Only Lu Yanli felt a chill in his heart.

This story… was exactly the same as the one he had seen in that picture book.

And this story raised another possibility.

The “God” was not a god, but just an object.

Yes, who said that “God” must have reason?

“Don’t talk so much, keep eating. Everyone, eat and drink well!”

Lu Yanli smiled gently and slowly drank the soup.

If “God” was just an object… then what about him?

Was he really a person? Or was he just an object that considered himself to be human?

After dinner, Lu Yanli took the initiative to stop Jin Fugui.

Jin Fugui seemed to know something.

Seeing their father being stopped, Jin Cancan and Jin Yuanbao exchanged glances, tacitly going outside.

“Fireflies? Where are there any?” Xie Lin became interested.

Another girl named Zhang Sumei also came over: “I’ll go too!”

Before He Lou could stop him, Huang Li ran out.

Since he had arrived near the cultural festival square ahead of time, he might as well inquire about something first.

“But I’ve never heard of it before.” With Lu Yanli’s ability to gather information, he shouldn’t have overlooked it.

“Since ordinary people haven’t heard of them…” Lu Yanli quietly stared at him. “Then, Mr. Jin, where did you hear them? Where did you learn them?”

“It’s a family tradition.” Jin Fugui looked anxious, but he still answered.

Family tradition?

Lu Yanli didn’t believe it, but if he didn’t say, there was nothing he could do.

“Speaking of which, what’s your relationship with those people? Why did they send you here?”

Lu Yanli lowered his head and sighed: “They thought I looked a lot like the person on the wanted list, and they were afraid of accidentally hurting me, so they wanted to send me away.”

Jin Fugui took a puff of his cigarette: “I have to say, you really do look like him. I heard that this guy has been causing explosions here recently. It’s normal for people to be scared.”

“But…” Jin Fugui patted Lu Yanli on the shoulder. “The innocent are always innocent.”

“Yeah.”

“Hey, wait! Where did Cancan and Yuanbao go?” After finishing his cigarette, Jin Fugui suddenly realized that his two worrisome children were gone.

He Lou was washing the dishes. Hearing the boss’s loud question, he poked his head out of the kitchen: “They said they went to catch fireflies.”

“Catch fireflies my ass! Running around everywhere so late!” Jin Fugui was furious. “Gangzi, hurry up and wash, go find them!”

He Lou: “Boss, is it really necessary? It’s only eight o’clock.”

“What do you know? You can’t run around here at night!” Jin Fugui was so anxious that the fat on his belly was shaking. He quickly called Jin Cancan, but it was no use, out of service area. He called Jin Yuanbao again, also out of service area.

Lu Yanli agreed.

This opera troupe had many secrets. He wanted to know.

In the end, Jin Fugui took several people to find his children.

He still remembered where Jin Cancan had seen the “fireflies” during the day, heading straight for the playground.

The two male students were a little timid. Another boy who had been dragged along was eager to try.

“Get out, get out, if you keep talking nonsense, I’ll castrate you.” The two scared boys wanted to kick him away.

Li Mingxuan then laughed.

Another male student who hadn’t spoken all along also spoke.

“It’s not fake. I’ve encountered it before.” He raised his head and looked into the distance. “One day… I was late for evening self-study. I was going to go back to the dorm, but my mom suddenly called me, saying she had a bad stomachache at home and wanted me to take her to the hospital.”

“I rushed over. It was like today, a cold winter night. As I was walking through the forest surrounding the playground, my mom called me again. This time she said I didn’t need to go.”

“I asked why… she said… she said…” The person trailed off for a long time, his voice slowly lowering, becoming unclear.

“Said what?” another person asked curiously.

“She said… because my dad came back…”

“I said… but my dad has already… been dead for many, many years… Then, while I was on the phone, I saw… a white shadow, on the ground, crawling towards me on all fours…”

The student telling the ghost story then laughed smugly.

The group was walking through the trees at the edge of the playground, heading to the other side.

The weather wasn’t good today. The wind was strong, and it was dark at night. The moon and stars were hiding in the thick clouds, unwilling to come out. They couldn’t see very well and could only turn on their flashlights. The boldest boy, the one telling the ghost story, walked in front.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang in his pocket.

“Who is it?” He answered the phone without looking.

If Liu Zhiwei hadn’t told this ghost story just now, he probably would have gone back without hesitation, but now…

Why was it exactly the same as the story he had told?

“Xiao Wei? Xiao Wei?” The mom on the other end of the phone asked doubtfully.

Liu Zhiwei stood trembling on the spot.

The others also heard the voice coming from his phone and exchanged glances.

What… what was going on?

“Xiao Wei? That’s strange, is the signal bad?” After saying that, the woman hung up the phone.

It really… really happened?

He was just saying it casually, he was just joking!

Was his mom really going to call again in a while? And would the female ghost he mentioned… appear?

Before Liu Zhiwei could accept this, his phone rang again.

Liu Zhiwei’s expression changed drastically. He carefully glanced at the caller ID, his face turning even paler.

“It’s real, it’s really real… what do I do?” He turned his pleading gaze to the adults.

Jin Fugui took his phone, threw it far away, and his face turned even darker: “Don’t answer it, just don’t agree to anything.”

“Is that so?” Liu Zhiwei murmured.

Was it that simple?

But… things didn’t go as planned.

The phone that had been thrown far away wasn’t broken. It seemed to have fallen into the grass and been touched by something, pressing the call button.

Not only that, but it also turned on the speakerphone.

Now, everyone could hear the voice coming from the other end.

It was the voice of a woman that sounded very ordinary.

Clearly, some supernatural event had occurred.

There had always been rumors of ghosts in the school. They hadn’t taken it seriously, but now it was their turn.

What should they do? If a female ghost really appeared in a while…

Unconsciously, their steps stopped.

“What if there really… really is a ghost?”

“It’s all your fault for being so mouthy! Why did you say that? Telling ghost stories!”

How could Liu Zhiwei have known that he was just being mouthy for a moment? He was so anxious that he was about to cry: “How would I know? If I had known, I definitely wouldn’t have said it.”

Lu Yanli didn’t say anything. He stood quietly in the crowd, keenly observing his surroundings, ready to run at any time.

Jin Fugui was also anxious: “Don’t! My Cancan and Yuanbao haven’t come back yet.”

“You go find your daughter and son yourself, we need to go back now!” Liu Zhiwei was terrified and turned to go back.

“Then give us back the flashlight. We’ll need it later!” Fan Min put his hands on his hips and argued with the students, reaching out to grab it.

“Can’t you lend it to us first? It’s so dark on the road, who can see without a flashlight?”

At the end of the beam of light, a white shadow was illuminated.

That shadow was twisting, slowly crawling towards them.

“Ahhh!! There really is a ghost!!”

“Run!!”

“What should we do? Help!!”

Lu Yanli ran and said, “Liu Zhiwei, since you’re the one who said it, try saying a solution?”

Liu Zhiwei was also anxious, both anxious and scared. Hearing this suggestion, he thought it was reliable, thought for a moment, and immediately said, “Just as the female ghost was chasing everyone, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the female ghost to death.”

The dark clouds were still thick, no lightning.

The female ghost didn’t die, still persistently crawling forward.

Everyone could almost feel the cold, damp, and gloomy chill emanating from her.

A colder aura than the winter night wind, and that thick, rotten smell that had been buried for who knows how long.

“What should we do? It’s not working…” Liu Zhiwei was almost crying, “Please, someone, anyone, help me, get rid of this female ghost, I’ll do anything.”

It was no use.

All ghosts and monsters existed based on idealism. Apart from rules, nothing could destroy them. Once created, even if the world was destroyed, ghosts would still remain. No one could say when they would disappear.

What reincarnation, what gods, none of them worked.

There were no gods in the world.

That pale hand grabbed a boy’s ankle.

It was one of the boys who had been afraid to hear the ghost story. He was timid and screamed, trying to kick away the hand that had Entangleon him, but he failed.

“Ahhh—”

He fell to the ground.

In the moment he fell, the boy disappeared.

Along with the white ghost that was chasing them, they disappeared without a trace. The few who were still running turned back, slowly stopping.

None of them dared to go to the place where the boy had disappeared, only staying far away, slowly backing away. No one spoke for a while.

“Now, what do we do?” After a long time, Fan Min asked.

A question broke the silence. Liu Zhiwei suddenly burst into tears, slapping himself in the face while crying: “It’s all me… it’s all my fault! I shouldn’t have talked nonsense! It’s me…”

“This school, it really is haunted…” Jin Fugui muttered to himself.

Lu Yanli didn’t say anything, only his gaze still darted into the distance.

Where the boy had fallen, there was a shadow.

That shadow was very familiar.

Jin Fugui sighed deeply and walked to the male students, then he bent down.

“I’m very sorry, it’s my daughter and brat running around that dragged you in.” He handed over the flashlight. “If you want to go back, go back first. We’ll keep looking.”

The boys looked at each other, hesitated for a while, and then took the flashlight.

“Sorry, find them soon.”

“We’re going back first, be careful.”

There were four male students who came out to look, only three went back.

But…

Lu Yanli saw the shadows under their feet.

There were four shadows, walking back together.

Jin Fugui had obviously seen it too, so he had let them leave early.

After the students had left, Fan Min quietly asked Jin Fugui: “Boss, are we still looking?”

Jin Fugui said, “Looking, of course we’re looking!” He gripped the flashlight tightly, his whole body shaking slightly. “We can’t not have someone to sing opera… We have to find them to sing opera.”

“Okay, let’s be careful.” He Lou pulled Lu Yanli. “Jiang Bai, let’s go. Be careful.”

Lu Yanli followed along. “Okay.”

Gradually, points of fluorescent light appeared ahead.

Green fluorescent light, especially familiar. It wasn’t fireflies, but…

Lu Yanli had seen these things in the ancient tomb.

“Avoid these fluorescent lights, don’t touch them,” Lu Yanli warned.

No one asked why Lu Yanli knew this, the three all nodded, indicating that they knew.

“Cancan? Cancan, where are you?” Jin Fugui shouted, clearing his throat.

The other two also called out.

“Yuanbao, stop playing, come back!”

“Huang Li? Old Huang? Come out!”

Points of green fluorescent light flew, wanting to stick to people’s exposed skin.

Lu Yanli took off his coat and waved away these things, the other three also noticed the strangeness, following suit.

“Cancan? Cancan?!”

A rustling sound came from the distance, then a girl with green fluorescent lights all over her body and face ran out: “Dad, I’m here.”

She smiled, her hands full of green light, and wiped her sweat on her face: “Look! I caught so many fireflies!”

Huang Li came out from another place, his face also covered in green, smiling at everyone embarrassedly.

Jin Yuanbao walked in the back, he was still playing games, with the fewest things on his body.