Li Tao held the ringing and vibrating phone, his entire palm sweating.
The caller ID on the phone screen wasn’t numbers, but a string of garbled text!
"This phone has been ringing for too long, hasn’t it? Could there be a problem?" a girl said with a frown.
Another boy said with a chuckle, "What’s there to fear? With the Great Immortal here, even if a female ghost showed up, I’d make her perform a Luo Skirt dance for us."
Li Tao licked his lips as he looked at the other party, "Gao Xian, rember what you said, oh. If sothing really shows up, you must sort it out for !"
"Relax, relax, let’s see who’s calling."
Li Tao was still worried; he didn’t dare to listen directly and pressed the speakerphone button instead.
Soon, a woman’s eerie voice ca from the phone: "Hey, handso, hello there."
"You... who are you?" Li Tao gulped nervously, his speech sowhat stamred.
"? My na is Hehua. I’m so lonely, co down and play with ."
"You... I..."
The woman’s voice from the phone was really creepy, and it wasn’t very clear, with a "rustle" of static noise mixed in.
Gao Xian imdiately bent down and asked, "Hey, there’s a limit even to playing the ghost. When you say ’below’, where exactly is that?"
"Why, it’s right below you all."
Suddenly feeling a chill, Li Tao’s hand shook violently, and the phone dropped to the ground, its light illuminating a nearby tombstone, upon which a few blotchy characters were reflected.
As Li Tao bent down to pick up the phone, Gao Xian shone the flashlight on the tombstone.
Turning his head to look, Li Tao let out a scream and hurriedly grabbed the hand of the girl beside him, sprinting forward!
Gao Xian and another girl saw the words engraved on the tombstone as well, and they quickly followed suit, chasing after Li Tao and the other girl.
The image of the Light Circle Curse projected the engraving on the tombstone, revealing the owner of the grave to be none other than—Hehua!
After the four of them fled, more malevolent laughter from both n and won arose from the seemingly disordered graveyard, and faint ghostly green flas drifted between the tombstones.
At this sight, Xian Qianling turned to ask you, "How co there’s a graveyard here? And are those things really ghosts?"
With a flick of the hand, twelve yellow talismans burst into flas and vanished into thin air.
"Those are a kind of ghost, to be precise, they should be called mandrills." He slowly stood up. "Mandrills belong to mountain spirits, and they can form for many reasons. So are a whiff of essence left after a person dies, while others may be a remnant soul. They are quite small; the smallest could be the size of bean sprouts. Their heads are relatively bigger, and their bodies are slim with only one foot, just like a sprout, hence so also refer to them as Sprout Ghosts, Tadpole Ghosts, or Ding Ghosts."
"Can these ghosts harm people?"
"Hmm, to a certain extent, no, because they are very weak themselves. Moreover, as they are rely essences or remnant souls, they lack the ability to enter reincarnation. Therefore, they can only wander through mountains and forests, occasionally playing tricks on mountaineers passing by."
Seeing you’re about to leave, Xian Qianling also stood up and smiled, "I’ll go with you."
"Together?" Shocked, you stepped back several steps, "No, no, no, I’ll go by myself."
"Why can’t we go together?"
"Why would we go together?" All of a sudden, you felt this crazy woman was becoming more terrifying. How could you go to the bathroom together!
Doesn’t she know that n and won should not mix like this?
Xian Qianling seed to realize sothing and asked, "You’re not going to help those four people?"
"I have hands and feet, and the terrain here is flat. Apart from a few coffins, there was nothing else in the forest we ca from. Why should I have helped them?" She rolled her eyes. "I was going to pee. Did you want to co with ?"
"Pah, who would join you!"
Xian Qianling turned her head away with a coy expression.
When you finished your business amid the nearby bushes and returned to the campsite, you noticed that the fire had been lit and there were two additional tents next to yours.
Five people were gathered around the fire. Two girls and Xian Qianling sat on the sa side, with the pair hugging each other. One of them was still sobbing, while the other, with reddened eyes, kept consoling her companion.
Li Tao stood up wanting to comfort them but was t with a furious rebuke from the crying girl, "Get lost! If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been scared by those filthy things! And, and I actually touched a coffin. It’s all your fault, all your fault!"
Clearly, Li Tao’s girlfriend had been born and raised in a big city, never having stepped foot in the wilderness, let alone seen gravestones or coffins. Her fright was understandable; yet her temper was also quite formidable, and she continued to scold Li Tao rcilessly.
Hunched over, Li Tao looked aggrieved: "Don’t be angry, I know I was wrong. Next ti, I’ll make sure to scout the area first, check it out myself, and then bring you along."
"There’s a next ti?" The girl glared at him. "Li Tao, it’s over between us! From now on, you go your way and I’ll go mine. Don’t co within three ters of ever again!"
With that, Li Tao’s girlfriend turned and entered her tent, continuing to sob inside.
The other girl gave Li Tao a look, sighed softly, and then entered the tent to carry on comforting her friend.
"Ah, it’s over, another breakup," Li Tao said, head hanging low and sighing deeply.
Gao Xian was all smiles as he said, "Hey, as a man you should not worry about not having a wife. It’s just a breakup, what’s the big deal? When we get back, you just find yourself a girl with a better temper, gentler, and then completely forget about her."
Li Tao looked at Gao Xian, his face showing pain: "How could I possibly forget her? She was my first love, I gave her my everything..."
As he spoke, Li Tao sighed again deeply.
anwhile, inside the tent, Hong Miaomiao naturally heard his words and her crying softened.
However, Li Tao, still engulfed in his own pain, was totally oblivious to this, continuing to bemoan: "The stuff I bought for her, I’m paying for them in installnts, just those debts will be enough for to pay off until my third year in university!"
"Li Tao!"
Hong Miaomiao, who had been listening carefully to Li Tao, burst out from the tent. She had expected Li Tao to say sothing that would touch her, but what ca out was the kind of talk that infuriated her, filled her with both anger and heartfelt pain!
"You jerk! So in your eyes, money is more important than !"
With that, Hong Miaomiao violently pushed away the friend holding her back and ran towards the dark path into the distance!
"Miaomiao!"
Hong Miaomiao’s friend quickly chased after her!
Li Tao stood rooted to the spot, wanting to follow but hesitating, obviously conflicted.
At that mont, you ca over leisurely with a smile and said, "Brother, I suggest you’d better hurry up and chase after her. Not to ntion that they are two girls, even a grown man running in the woods at night is very dangerous. Besides, you’ve also encountered it, this place isn’t exactly clean."
Your words startled Gao Xian and Li Tao into a glance at each other before they both sprinted off!
Sitting on a rock, Xian Qianling shook her head slightly, saying, "These young people nowadays."
"From the tone of your voice, you make it sound like you’re about to hit thirty."
"Scram."
Xian Qianling looked at you with annoyance.
Just as you sat down, Gao Xian hurriedly ran over: "They, they disappeared!"
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