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Chapter 2: The Mysterious Inn

  "I dont know whats wrong with our teacher, bringing us to this Phoenix Ancient City for fun. Whats so interesting about this crappy place?"

  Im so dead, we were doing just fine in school, but I dont know what got into the teacher, insisting on taking us out on a trip. Originally, traveling was supposed to be a comfortable thing, but its July and the sun is scorching hot. Now I miss those days when I could sleep in the classroom with the air conditioner blowing and listening to the teachers lullaby.

  Our teacher chartered two buses. The driver of this bus probably wanted to save on fuel costs, so he didnt turn on the air conditioner. This bus was as hot as a steamer basket.

  The only fun on this bus is probably admiring those female classmates who are so hot that they cant wait to strip off their clothes.

  "Feng Ge, look at Liu Qiqi, shes really wearing very little." The Wang Rui next to me was gazing at Liu Qiqi sitting in the front row with a sly expression.

  This Wang Rui is a brother who grew up with me since childhood, and in one word, hes perverted. Hes extremely daring, I remember in the first year of high school, our art teacher was a newly graduated college student, dressed fashionably and beautifully, liked wearing skirts. This guy put a mirror on his shoe, then made a bet with us about what color underwear our art teacher was wearing.

  He finally used his all-powerful mirror to verify that it was red, but also let the art teacher discover it, and the art teacher was so angry that he refused to teach our class from then on. In the end, Wang Rui scolded our head teacher severely.

  Liu Qiqi in Wang Ruis mouth was incredibly beautiful, she was the class beauty, maybe because of the heat, she wore a white T-shirt and an ultra-short denim skirt.

  "Look at Mao, shes your future sister-in-law." I scolded Wang Rui severely.

  My voice is quite loud, and the classmates in the car burst out laughing as soon as they heard it. The Liu Qiqi in front turned her head and glared at me, scolding: "If you talk nonsense again, Ill cut off your tongue."

  "Are you going to bite it off with your teeth?" Wang Rui shamelessly added, causing Liu Qiqis face to turn red instantly.

  Although accompanied by these thinly dressed female classmates, it did not alleviate the heat in the carriage at all, but instead made us even hotter. I was bored and took out the book left by my grandfather from my fathers room to read.

  The bus had been driving for eight hours and it was already late when we finally arrived at Fenghuang Ancient Town.

  Fenghuang Ancient Town is a famous tourist destination in Zhangjiajie, with most of its buildings preserved from last century, full of ancient charm.

  More than 50 of us got off at Zhangjiajies entrance.

  "Everyone gather." Our class teacher yelled loudly.

  Although we are mischievous, we dont dare show off in front of our class teacher.

  Our class teacher is Zhang Jie, a physical education teacher. Hes 1 meter 9 tall, but if you stand far away from him, you wont feel that hes tall, instead, youll think hes fat. I heard before that he was a municipal-level martial arts athlete in our city, and after retiring, he came to our school as a physical education teacher.

  Our class is a poor class, all the students with poor grades are put in our class. At that time, there were four non-mainstream students who heard that they were mixed up outside and looked like humans and dogs. As soon as they entered the classroom, they pretended to be B with our class teacher, and as a result, our class teacher gave each of them an ear slap, almost causing brain concussion.

  Now four people are as obedient as grandsons in front of their class teacher.

  "Lao Zhang, where are we going to live?" We asked our head teacher after gathering together.

  Our class teacher smiled and said: "There is a small forest on the south side of Fenghuang Ancient City. Since we are traveling, lets go camping there."

  As soon as I heard that, I was thrilled. Originally, I thought coming to this place would be about staying in a hotel or something, which is so boring. But camping outdoors is different, especially at night. When the female classmates are changing clothes inside the tent, as long as theres enough light inside, you can look however you want.

  "Long live Chairman Mao!" I shouted excitedly.

  "Look at Lingfeng being so supportive. Alright then, later on you can pick a few people to go gather firewood with you, and well take care of setting up the tents." Old Zhang said to me.

  Grass, this is a bird shot out of the gun.

  I suddenly felt a bit regretful and excited about what, damn it.

  "Serves him right." Wang Ruis grandson started gloating beside him.

  As soon as I heard his voice, I immediately turned around and sneered at him.

  Wang Rui was also quick-witted and immediately said: "Feng Ge, we are brothers, dont bring trouble to me."

  "Brothers share good fortune and bad fortune together." I immediately said, "Teacher Zhang, Wang Rui classmate said he wants to make a contribution to the team and pick up firewood with me."

  "Good!" The whole class exclaimed loudly. Xu Hang ran over and shook Wang Ruis hand, saying: "Good comrade, I represent the people in thanking you."

  "Teacher, Xu Hang said he wants to join us," Wang Rui shouted loudly.

  Lao Zhang was probably worried that there werent enough people, but as soon as he heard Wang Ruis words, he hastily nodded: "Youre all good comrades."

  "Damn your grandpa." Xu Hang cursed: "Bastard."

  Xu Hang is from the same dorm as us, I got to know him in my first year of high school. The three of us get along pretty well, if Wang Rui hadnt come over and teased me just now, I definitely wouldnt have brought him along, Xu Hang feels the same way too.

  We walked to the south edge of the ancient city into a dense forest, at this time the sky had darkened, fortunately the road was relatively flat.

  We soon saw a large forest, which was actually quite big, with an estimated diameter of four or five kilometers.

  "Later when we go in, dont wander off, even if youre going to the restroom, go with four or five people together, otherwise its a hassle if someone gets lost." said Zhang teacher leading the way.

  After listening to Mr. Zhangs words, I have started to imagine accompanying a female classmate who is relatively shy to the toilet, it really feels great just thinking about it.

  We walked into the forest for a few minutes and saw a relatively wide open space with no trees.

  "Lets set up camp here, Lingfeng. You few go gather firewood quickly." Old Zhang pointed at me and started directing.

  "Lets go." I understood that gathering firewood was an unchangeable fact, and the sooner we finished and returned, the better. Who knows, maybe wed even catch a glimpse of our female classmates changing clothes inside their tent.

  The three of us took three very thick hemp ropes from Old Zhang and walked into the forest.

  The forest at night is very cold, and the wind is also blowing fiercely.

  "Lets just pick it up here." I said to the two people beside me after walking for over ten minutes, feeling a bit tired.

  "Hurry up and pick it up! Whoever is slacking off, Ill beat them up!" Xu Hang cursed.

  "Ow, my stomach hurts." I clutched at my belly, it really hurt. I reckon I caught a chill from the cold wind just now and now my stomach is rebelling.

  "Ah yo, you little brat, I just reminded you and your stomach hurts, are you looking for a fight?" Xu Hang scolded with a dark face.

  "No, its true, you guys pick first, Ill go to the big one." After finishing speaking, I ran into the grass and took off my pants, ready to start.

  No way!

  Im too familiar with these two peoples nature. If I go to the bathroom here, theyll definitely take out their phones and snap pictures of me halfway through.

  Its too risky, cant ruin my lifelong reputation. Thinking of this, I pulled up my pants and walked another 10 minutes into the forest. Looking back, it seemed like no one was following me, so I felt relieved.

  I squatted down and started relieving myself, two words, refreshing.

  After pulling, my head was also dizzy. I looked at the surrounding forest, all black and shiny. Which direction did I run from just now?

  Its really not me who is road-ignorant, but this dark and chaotic place, only a ghost knows where I came from.

  I suddenly regretted it a bit, I often heard that someone got lost in the forest for decades and became a wild man when they were discovered, there are countless examples of this. If only I had known, being photographed naked by those two bastards would have been better than becoming a wild man for decades.

  I just followed my intuition and walked in a direction I thought was right.

  "Xu Hang, Wang Rui, can you hear me? Where are you?" I walked for half an hour, and then I realized one thing - I was lost.

  "Is anyone there?" I shouted loudly, and suddenly, I saw a blurry house-like building in front of me.

  Its great, there must be someone with a house. I ran over and this house looks like an ancient inn, but it looks very old and worn out. The outside is tattered and worn, and there is a sign outside, but it has been covered by spider webs and the words are unclear. It seems to be some kind of inn.

  Looking at the dilapidated appearance, its likely that no one lives inside either. The forest is freezing and having a broken hut to block the wind and rain is better than nothing. Lets wait till dawn tomorrow to go find them again. Unfortunately, cant watch those female classmates change clothes anymore, damn it.

  I rushed into the house, and this house was not ordinary, it was shabby everywhere with spider webs and dust. Can people live in such a place? Who would set up an inn in this forest, what a waste of food.

  The room was a bit warmer inside, so I put the two tables together in this hostel, wiped them clean with paper and lay down to sleep.

  Tick-tock, tick-tock.

  I slept for half a day, although I was extremely sleepy, but the sound of water kept disturbing me. The sound seemed to be coming from the backyard of this inn, which is strange, how could there be the sound of water in the backyard?

  I stood up, pulled out a candle from my body, lit the candle, and the surroundings suddenly brightened.

  I slowly walked towards the backyard of the inn.

  The backyard is very large and overgrown with weeds everywhere inside the backyard.

  Im tired.

  Even if I had the guts, I was still frightened. The backyard was filled with coffins, all of which were very old and seemed to have a long history.

  At this time, the sound of water came from two coffins in a corner of the inn, and I walked over slowly.

  Suddenly I felt like I had stepped on something, and when I looked down, damn it, it was a skull. The skull was wearing a yellow Taoist robe, seemingly that of a Taoist priest.

  In his bony hand was a rusty dagger.

  I walked to the side of the coffin, there were two coffins, the coffins were very old and worn out, with a lot of red symbols painted on the outside like those used in TV dramas, and the sound of water was coming from inside the coffin.

  I crouched down and took a look. At this time, the bottom of the coffin was wet, and a lot of water had flowed out from under the coffin.

  Wow, I saw a piece of paper on top of a coffin.

  This paper has turned yellow and the handwriting is also somewhat unclear, but it can barely be made out.

  "I, a Taoist priest of limited ability, was harmed by evil spirits on the road and had to seal two corpses with joyful expressions in the Hurrying Corpse Inn. If you are a fellow Taoist who sees this, please help me send these two corpses back to their hometown for burial. If you are an ordinary person who sees this letter, leave immediately and remember not to open the coffins! Chen Li Hai, 1973."

  In 1973? This year is 2007, so that was over thirty years ago?

  Im actually a superstitious person, after all, Ive heard the story about my grandfather since I was young, but looking at the words on this piece of paper, it says "dont open the coffin"?

  People are like this, sometimes the more youre not allowed to do something, the more you want to do it.

  At this moment, looking at these few words, I subconsciously want to open the coffin and see whats inside. If its really a corpse brought by a hearse driver, it would be an eye-opener.

  Thinking of this, I put my hand on a coffin and pushed the lid open with force.

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