Fatty and I didnt dare speak as we followed Poker-Face into the darkness. This situation is really abnormal. I guess I wont be getting any sleep tonight.
Poker-Face made a gesture when we reached the boundary between the firelight and the darkness. Fatty and I both nodded in understanding.
The white noise was probably about ten ters away from us in the darkness, but we couldnt see anything there. Poker-Face wasnt ready to use a flashlight just yet, which ant that he wanted to sneak up on whatever was there. He suddenly changed his gesture, and the three of us moved at the sa ti, rushing into the darkness as fast as possible.
As soon as we entered that dark area, we all crouched in the grass as we continued moving forward.
The white noise continued on in front of us for a while, and then that male voice appeared again.
But this ti, the voice sounded so strange that I couldn't understand what he was saying.
I paused. The tone sounded very urgent now.
I ca to a complete stop as I heard the voice in the grass up ahead say sothing else, but I still couldnt hear it clearly.
In the dark, I could see that Poker-Face had also co to a stop and was now crouching on my left. I couldnt actually see him clearly, but I could tell from his body shape.
I continued creeping forward and soon saw sothing up ahead. There was a small red dot flashing about seven or eight ters away from usit was the indicator light on a satellite phone. The red dot would flash a few tis every ti there was static, but it wasn't very bright at all. It seed that the phone just had this indicator light and didnt actually have a lighting function.
When I looked at that little red dot, I imdiately felt that sothing was wrong. The dot wasnt in the grass, but up in the air. In other words, sothing was holding this satellite phone up.
I looked at Poker-Face next to and found that he hadnt moved from his previous position. As it turned out, I had accidentally taken the lead. Now I was only three or four ters away from that little red dot.
I felt a little flustered.
I strained my eyes and was finally able to make out a vague figure squatting behind the little red dot. It was too dark for to see clearly, but he seed to be holding a satellite phone and making a gesture like he wanted to hand it to .
I looked back at Poker-Face to see when he would co up so that we could rush over together, but Poker-Faces shadow just continued to squat there, completely motionless.
I didnt know what was going on, so I could only stay still. At this ti, however, the red dot in front of dimd and my eyes lost focus. The white noise also temporarily disappeared.
I started to break out in a cold sweat and looked back at Poker-Face again. This ti, I found that he was finally crawling towards .
I breathed a sigh of relief and turned my attention back to the darkness in front of . The red dot didn't appear again.
It was in this mont that I suddenly felt that sothing was wrong. The way that Poker-Face was crawling just now was so uncoordinated that it wasnt like him at all.
I turned my head and looked out of the corner of my eye. Poker-Faces shadow was slowly crawling towards in the dark, but I really couldnt see it clearly. All I could see was a black patch of color.
I didnt know why, but I instinctively felt that it was wrong.
As I looked at that vague shape out of the corner of my eye, I couldnt help but feel that the way it was crawling was different from how Poker-Face would usually move.
It took a while to figure it out, so by the ti I completely turned around, the shadow had already crawled to my feet and was moving into a crouch.
In an instant, all my hair stood on end and I broke out in a cold sweat. I imdiately decided that this wasn't Poker-Face, because the shadow that was crouching in front of had a big head.
I took a step back and pulled out my flashlightI couldn't adhere to Poker-Face's instructions at this ti. I turned on my flashlight and pointed it at the shadow.
But as soon as I looked, I was surprised to find that nothing was there. I didnt see anything illuminated in the flashlights beam at all.
I swept my flashlight around but still didnt see anything. Even Poker-Face and Fatty werent around. Whats going on? I imdiately stood up and looked in the direction of the bonfire. Ill just run back, I said to myself.
I started running towards the bonfire, moving so fast that it didnt take long to reach the boundary between firelight and darkness. But when I was near the bonfire, I suddenly heard my own satellite phonewhich I had placed by the firestart making noises again.
The voice was completely incomprehensible, but it seed to be saying a long sentence.
I went up and picked up the satellite phone, recalling that Poker-Face had turned it off earlier. I looked around with my flashlight again, but Poker-Face and Fatty were nowhere to be seen. I wondered if they were still lying in the grass.
I shined my flashlight on the place where I was just now, but there was nothing there.
I broke out in a cold sweat as I had a strange flash of inspiration. I turned my head and looked out of the corner of my eye at the direction my flashlight was shining in. I knew that there were so things I could only see if I used my peripheral vision.
Out of the corner of my eye, I vaguely saw a person standing on the dark grassland, right at the edge of the circle of light cast by the bonfire. Based on their posture, they seed to be trying to walk into the range of the bonfires flas.
As the night wind blew and the flas flickered, that vague persons hand reached out and actually touched my hair.
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