Chapter 25 The Female Ghost
With a sudden brake, we all turned our heads. I felt that my mind was "buzzing" and everything became unreal. Who did I see from the glass of the rear window?
Lao Jiu!
This was obviously impossible. Lao Jiu was the only member of Song Dana's team who went back to Jinye alive. Before we set out to leave Beijing, we met him in the sanatorium.
He is the key object of care and can't even get out of his own room. How could he follow our steps and appear behind the car from afar?
The light outside suddenly became dim again, and the ghost weather like a book-like look at Death Valley began to change suddenly. Immediately, a thunderstorm was about to come from the sky again, and dark clouds came over, and we couldn't see anything clearly.
"First... drive the car aside first, don't stick under the big tree!"
Adjutant Li patted the big star who had never come back to his senses. Then we quickly changed our heads and stopped the fire before the first lightning hit the ground.
"It shouldn't be Lao Jiu's follower, right? No matter how you think about it, it's impossible for him!" The big star's expression was very serious. "Even if he escaped from the sanatorium, he escaped the eyeliner sent by the boss's wife to stare. But from Beijing to this plateau, the distance is a problem. Lao Jiu can't take the plane and train at all. He doesn't use transportation. Not to mention more than a month, he may not be able to touch it for half a year!"
"But why was that person just now exactly the same as Lao Jiuyi?"
I also knew in my heart that this was impossible, but when I turned my head, I clearly saw that the person behind the car had tied his hair into many small braids. At first glance, the figure and shape of that person were no different from Lao Jiu. The worst thing was that the distorted posture they showed was exactly the same-
This posture is the kind that the little nurse calls "snake spirit upper body". She pinched the orchid finger and twisted her body desperately, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable!
"What if that's Lao Jiu just now?" Adjutant Li lay in front of the window and looked at it a few more times, but a dense layer of water droplets had blocked our sight. He thought about it and said another word that made us creepy, "If this is Lao Jiu, who is the one who goes back to Beijing?"
"Boom--"
A thunder sounded, which scared me so much that I almost jumped out of my seat! I felt more and more that Death Valley was a weird place. We didn’t know what happened to the woman in green on the other side of the Lengele River. Why did the same old ninth suddenly appear again?!
"Boom--"
Another thunder followed one after another, and a lightning bolt from heaven seemed to rub against our car body. At the moment when the dazzling light pierced into my eyes, my "screaming" scream scared everyone -
A human figure stood directly in front of the off-road vehicle hood!
Lightning was destroyed in less than a second. No one could tell whether it was a human or a ghost or an illusion just now. The three of us looked at each other with panic expressions. Whether it was an enemy or a friend, we said it straightforwardly. It was so scary that it was so shocking and unpredictable!
After finally calming down his heartbeat, the big star was still unwilling to be passive. He plugged the key back, opened the power supply in the car, and turned on the two front lights-
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I screamed and hugged Adjutant Li, and came again! There was something in front of our car!
A figure wearing a long-sleeved dress similar to a robe appeared within the lighting range of the headlights. She seemed to be afraid of our sudden lights, raised her hand and covered her cheeks with her long sleeves.
This...Is this an ancient woman?!
"Boom--"
Another lightning flashed down. For our safety, the big star swallowed his saliva, stared at the woman who covered her face, turned off the headlights, and pulled out the keys.
I dare to guarantee that that thing is not a good thing.
Everyone's previous speculation of "lost traveler" was completely overturned. No passenger would enter the Death Valley in such unscrupulous clothes unless she was here to seek death from the beginning.
"It is impossible for 'people' in the valley of Death, right?" Even though we knew that something was watching us outside, the big star unconsciously adjusted the seats back, so that we could get closer to us to increase our sense of security. "What we saw was the wronged soul who died here before, right?"
"I said, you are Jinye's secret agent. Isn't this too unfair?" Even though I was more scared than any of them, I still pretended to be calm.
"Why, what we see is all 'female ghost'?" Adjutant Li also approached a little in the darkness, "Including that Lao Jiu, even if he was caught by a snake spirit, he was still a female snake spirit, right?"
I thought about it carefully and it was really like this. The woman in green on the other side of the Lengele River, the figure behind the car exactly like Lao Jiuyi, was standing in front of the hood and watching us, and under the reflection of the headlights, she raised her sleeves to cover her cheeks... Why are they all women?
We... were entangled by female ghosts!
In my mind, I thought of many stories from the Chinese Studio, the monster fox, and folk stories, but the stories are stories. This is a living modern society. How could we meet a female ghost? Why are we so unlucky?!
The thunderstorm that came and left without saying hello was approaching the end in minutes. In the light that gradually came back, our car was empty in front, back and left and right. Why? Are you a ghost? Are you afraid of seeing the light?
Even if the weather recovers to a good and not as good as sunny as it is, the three of us are covered with dark clouds. I have a premonition that the female ghosts will not scare us like this and let it go. If we don’t walk out of the Valley of Death in one day, they will appear again!
But everything went well, and it took us about twenty minutes, but we still couldn't find the road to the west coast. Looking at the scenery beside us, our car had deviated from the road we chose at the beginning. If we took such a detour, even if we saw the path we passed, we could no longer recognize the direction.
Forced by helplessness, everyone had to get off the car and racked their brains to think about ways to not get lost. The valley was sandwiched among the mountains, but in fact the area was not outrageous. But when we were walking and walking, we were blocked by the river, and the car was stopped for a while because of lightning. We could not compare the direction on the mountain map. I felt that although everyone entered this place when the sun was born, we could not walk out until the sun sets.
So far, we have never seen what the West Bank looks like at all. And once it is night, we cannot move forward without the direction of the sunlight. What's going to happen at night in Death Valley!
This confusion in the panic makes people feel uncontrollable chest tightness and shortness of breath, especially after Adjutant Li took out a black plastic bag from the river-
He squatted to the riverside to wash his face and woke up, but he saw a special reflective spot in the water. He snatched it up with a branch and found this tightly sealed plastic bag. Because it was still wrapped in one-third of the bag of air, it did not sink to the bottom of the river.
I didn't want to open the bag when I looked at it. From my heart, I resisted this thick, huge, and well-sealed black opaque plastic bag. This kind of bag is either used to hold garbage or... Forget it, don't guess it, you can only scare yourself!
I took a deep breath with extreme anxiety, and then unbuttoned the buckle on the plastic bag-
"vomit--"
Before I could see what was inside, I just smelled the stench that flowed from the gap into the air. I couldn't help but lie on the side and vomited in a dim way.
The woman's intuition is very reliable. My prediction of this bag is indeed the same as that. The smell of rotten and fermented, the physical instinct that just takes a look and wants to stay away from it. Sure enough, this black plastic bag contains the body that I least want to confirm!
"God..." The big star sat down on the side, covering his mouth tightly, and he looked like he collapsed immediately. "Where is this? We are here to explore the way to Kunlun Mountain, not filming a detective film. What does it mean to give us a bag of corpses suddenly... I have to go back to read the script to know how to continue acting later..."
"Well, big star, you're right, it's indeed... it's a corpse."
I was almost about to lie on the ground and bow to Adjutant Li. He put on his gold-rimmed glasses, frowned, turned the bag over, and poured everything inside on the riverside. He fiddled with the branches for a while, suppressed the retching in his throat, and confirmed: "It's human inside...right hand!"
I couldn't lift my energy at all and leaned over to look at the rotten hand, but with a glance, even if we were not Dr. Lin, we could tell who was cut down. The hand was clenched tightly into a fist, as if telling how painful it was when it was cut down.
"Who is the one who has been cut off a hand here?" Adjutant Li was working hard on the terrible thing with the branches very much. "The bones have not been exposed yet, and the temperature here will not be particularly high... I always feel like this is a 'novice', hey? I have something in my hand!"
Adjutant Li suddenly raised his tone. He found another branch, pinched them in his hand like chopsticks, and then carefully pulled out a note from his clenched fist!
"Big star, come and see!"
My heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and I mustered up the courage to endure my nausea. The note was already very blurred, but the words on it were written in a ballpoint pen, but fortunately there was no smudge-
"This...this...this...this is that kind of symbol!"
I turned around and waited for the interpretation of the big star with wide eyes. He scratched his pink hair and said hesitantly:
“ge—h—‘Gate of Hell’?”
Chapter completed!