I couldnt help but duck my head and narrow my eyes as I kept watching myself. It almost felt like I was watching an illicit film or sothing.
In the video, I sat up silently, but the light was so dim that I couldn't see my expression clearly. The three of us looked at each other for a while without speaking.
Then, I stood up and the three of us left the screen.
I leaned back against a stone, took a deep breath, and pinched my brow as I tried to recall if such a thing had really happened last night. Did I wake up last night to pee and the three of us just went together?
But I had no mory of it at all. Granted, it wasnt uncommon since I often didnt rember what happened when I was half awake in the middle of the night.
I continued to stare at the screen and found that it took about an hour before I ca back to lie down. Now I was completely puzzled. I could understand if it was just a muddleheaded pee break, but that kind of thing wouldnt take an hour. Plus, there was no way I would forget about it.
I looked at the sleeping Fatty beside , feeling at a total loss.
The rest of the video was completely normal. I soon fell asleep and then Fatty ca back after a while. He cleaned himself up and fell asleep while Poker-Face moved to keep watch.
In the middle of the night, it took the three of us about an hour to do sothing, which I didnt rember at all.
Was this a fucking fit of hysteria or sothing?
I got up carefully without waking Fatty up, climbed to the edge of the boulder where Poker-Face was keeping watch, and sat opposite him. There were three electro-luminescent lamps sitting on the side, their light almost making him look like a stone statue. I could also see a pile of stones in front of him that looked like a mani stone pile. People who didnt know him would think that he got bored and started playing with the stones here, but only I knew that these were actually deadly weapons.
I unwrapped a chocolate bar, broke a piece off, and asked him where we went last night as I ate it.
Poker-Face looked at like he didn't know what I was talking about. I handed him my cell phone and let him watch the video. He was a little surprised and watched it several more tis. At this ti, Fatty got up and asked what was going on (as it turned out, I had actually woken him up earlier). I handed him my phone and he fell silent after watching it for a while.
"Don't you rember?" I asked.
Looking at how agile they were in the video, they definitely werent sleepwalking at the ti.
"Did you edit the video?" Fatty wondered. "This absolutely did not happen last night."
I shook my head. Fatty scratched his scalp, looking very confused. I glanced at Poker-Face, who was looking at himself on the screen thoughtfully.
I watched the video again and made the screen brighter. I was almost certain that all three of us were awake.
"Were we possessed?" Fatty asked.(1)
I glanced at the darkness around as Poker-Face shook his head. He looked at the darkness deep in the gap and asked, "Sound?"
I imdiately ca back to my senses. I had definitely recorded the video with sound last night, but I was afraid of waking Fatty up and had turned it off. I quickly turned it back on and pulled the videos progress bar to that particular section.
I heard the three of us talking.
There were a few words I couldnt hear very clearly, but I definitely heard Fatty say, "Hurry up. Were going to be late and miss our turn."
What do you an? Are we going to the Peach Banquet?(2)
I turned to look at Fatty, but he imdiately shook his head, "I didnt say this. We were definitely possessed."
Poker-Face stopped the phone at this ti and zood in on the screen. We saw that Fatty was carrying an empty backpack with him when he left. Poker-Face quickly skipped to the part of the video when Fatty ca back, and we found that the backpack was full and very heavy.
We imdiately turned our heads and looked at Fatty's backpack. I rembered that there originally hadnt been much in it, but now it was bulging. I didnt know what it contained.
"Smartphones were designed for long fingers, Fatty murmured. Youve adapted well."
"Quit joking, I said. What did you bring back?"
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TN Notes:
(1) The actual term used is walk-in, which is a New Age concept of a person whose original soul has departed their body and has been replaced with a new, different soul. Info here.
(2) The Peach Banquet was a yearly banquet the Queen Mother of the West (the Jade Emperors wife) held in Journey to the West. The peaches were consud by immortals due to their mystic virtue of conferring longevity on all who ate them. Info here.
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