I ran in front of the queue and finished my meal, then came to the playground without any delay.

Avoiding the open space, I bypassed the sports equipment room and came to the back of the house.

When the appointed time arrived, I entered the back mountain directly without any hesitation.

The smell of earth came to me, and I finally felt a long-lost sense of intimacy.

The trees in the back mountain are not dense, and the exposed soil has been dried by the sun. Looking up, you can't see anything abnormal, just like walking in the fields.

The only difference is that there are many unsightly things discarded on the ground here, and it seems that the students here also have a restless heart.

The further you go up the mountain, the less garbage there is.

But I still didn't see anything unusual along the way.

When I was about to reach the top of the mountain, I finally saw what I wanted to see.

It was a cave, not big enough for two people to enter side by side.

At the entrance of the hole, a wooden stake as thick as a thigh was nailed, with a rusty iron chain wrapped around it.

The chain seemed to be pulled frequently and had become deeply embedded in the wooden stake.

The other end of the chain hung on the ground, extending into the dark cave.

The soil on the ground is different from other places, it is brown.

This color is very familiar to me. It is the result of being soaked in blood for a long time.

"It seems like the answer should be in the cave."

"Why are there no footprints?"

The top of the mountain is already in sight. Except for this cave, there is no place in the entire back mountain where those monsters that turned into centipedes can be hidden.

It's impossible for those monsters to wander around the back mountain and then go back.

"No, I didn't see any footprints all the way up here, and there were no traces of the weeds being trampled on."

"Is there another space here?"

I immediately thought of ghosts, but I still planned to go in and have a look first.

Such a strange cave cannot appear for no reason.

You know, this is the world of games.

The biggest difference between the game and reality is that there will be no useless maps.

Turning on the flashlight on my phone, I walked towards the cave.

Without the sunshine outside, the cave seemed a little damp, and every step would leave a shallow footprint on the ground.

The entire cave was much longer than I imagined. After walking for more than ten meters, I finally reached the end.

This is a space the size of a dormitory, and there are still traces of finger scratches on the surrounding walls. It's as if the entire space was scratched out bit by bit with fingers.

The black soil on the wall seemed to prove this.

But what really caught my eye was the end of the chain.

The rusty iron chain extended to the center of the cave, where a groove was dug out.

There is foul-smelling sewage in the groove. It is more than one meter from the water surface to the ground. It is hard to imagine how deep the sewage is.

The chain was hanging from the edge of the groove and submerged in the sewage.

I picked up a small stone from the side and threw it into the water. The water splashed into the water and created a smell.

"Not too deep."

After thinking about it, I didn't go down. Instead, I turned back outside the cave and folded a branch, and came to the groove again.

I squatted on the ground, like a child playing in mud, stirring the sewage with branches.

I could clearly feel the resistance from the branches, and there was something in the sewage.

After taking a look at the iron chain, whatever was in the sewage was most likely connected to the iron chain.

He held the iron chain with both hands and exerted force. The rusty iron chain made an overwhelming sound and was slowly pulled out of the sewage.

And I finally saw clearly what was in the sewage.

The corpse, to be precise, should be a corpse that has rotted to the point where only bones are left.

The corpse's waist was tightly tied with iron chains. Even though it had turned into white bones, the iron chains still did not fall off.

You can imagine how tight the chains were back then.

"The bones are not completely broken yet. Judging from the bones, they should be that of a girl. She is not very old. Xiang Ning?"

I immediately thought of Xiang Ning, but unfortunately, when I tried again to pull the white bones completely out of the groove, the white bones that had lost their flesh and blood broke directly from them.

Amidst the sound of water, the bones were submerged into the sewage again.

"These bones are very important."

I thought about the girl who claimed to be Xiang Ning but was not recognized by the mission. If the girl did not lie, then the reason why she was not recognized by the mission must be something missing.

It is very likely that these are the bones of the girl I found now.

I smiled bitterly.

When picking up bones, there are often bones soaked in water. When encountering such bones, the bone picker can only wear waterproof shoes and gloves to go to the grave and pick up the body.

It's not a big deal. At most, the smell is a little stronger and won't go away for a few days.

I lit three sticks of incense beside the groove, grabbed the edge of the groove, carefully touched my feet and landed on the ground. I bowed three times to the middle of the sewage, and then put my hands into the sewage.

The bones were taken out one by one, and while the water was shaking, I suddenly noticed something carved on the cave wall.

"Is this a word?"

There was no water pump or tools, so I had to use my shoes as a scoop to scoop out the sewage little by little.

When the sewage dropped to a certain level, I finally saw the words on the cave wall clearly.

It was dug out repeatedly with fingernails, and there are still broken nails left in the depression.

'Why do you do this to me!'

These few simple words made my heart tremble.

I can feel that resentment remains in every stroke of these words.

"If this word was left by the bones, then the bones should not be Xiang Ning. If there is such a big resentment, it is impossible for Xiang Ning to maintain his sanity."

"So there is another girl, and maybe it is her existence that causes the weirdness here."

I searched in the sewage and grabbed a hairpin with no visible color from the corner. Apart from that, there was nothing else.

Climbing out of the groove, I carefully observed the bones.

This sight made me feel a surge of unknown anger.

There are various wounds on every inch of the girl's bones.

This did not develop later, but was caused by inhuman abuse that the girl had suffered while she was still alive.

Bone cracks, fractures, and even scratches from sharp objects.

"No wonder there is so much resentment."

I really want to bury the bones, but now there is not enough time. I have to return to the classroom before class in the afternoon.

After thinking about it, I gently put the bones back into the sewage again: "Rest in peace, I will bury you tomorrow."

I simply tidied up the cave, put the hairpins in my pockets, took advantage of the last moment to run around the top of the mountain, and then went back down to the back of the sports equipment room.
Chapter completed!