Hanging up the phone, Liu Zirui let out a heavy sigh. Seeing this, Cheng Xiaojie asked in a spooky tone:
"Why not report it?"
Facing the unfriendly gaze of the crowd, Liu Zirui awkwardly scratched his head:
"I'm sorry, I was too impulsive, I apologize to you all."
Most people here have figured out that the phone call just now was made by Zhang Xiaoxi, but a few didn't know what happened. Qin Feng and Yigong almost asked in unison:
"What's going on? Was that Zhang Xiaoxi on the phone? Where did he go?"
Liu Zirui took two deep breaths and then hastily explained:
"It was all a misunderstanding, Xiao Xi had an urgent matter at home, so he hastily went down the mountain and even forgot to take his phone. He let everyone have fun, and when it was time to leave, he helped gather his things and didn't come back."
"I thought something bad had happened to him!"
"I told you Zhang Xiaoxi has gone down the mountain, but none of you believed me!"
"Never mind, never mind, it's okay, let's just continue playing..."
Everyone was grumbling, Liu Zirui looked at everyone with a apologetic expression, and then said:
"Now that Xiao Xi is no longer in charge of breakfast, I should be the one to take care of it. It's also a way for me to make amends. Does anyone have any objections?"
"That's for the best..."
The mystery of Zhang Xiaoxi's disappearance was solved, and the previous oppressive mood of everyone was suddenly swept away, and they all rejoiced together. Liu Zirui was in charge of steaming food, while everyone else set up the dinner table and carried ingredients.
Yi Ge didn't mingle with the crowd, but returned to his tent alone. To be honest, Zhang Xiaoqi's disappearance really made him break out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoqi was fine, otherwise, he would have had to go to that place to take a look.
Thinking of that place in his dream, he suddenly realized that there was still one thing he didn't understand, and that was the figure floating above the tent at that time. Who exactly was that person?
He racked his brains trying to recall that figure, and he thought it should be a woman because the hair of that figure was very long, just like Fu Xuefei's.
Like Fu Xuefei? Wait! Why did he associate that figure with Fu Xuefei?!
This idea gave him a fright, and his whole body suddenly felt cool. Fu Xuefei's tent was not next to his, and besides, she had no reason to come and scare him in the middle of the night. After all, Fu Xuefei was the class beauty, a celebrity in the entire school, and who knows how many boys secretly admired her - someone like that would never do something so boring.
Unless Fu Xuefei had a secret crush on him and wanted to sneak a peek at his embarrassing appearance. But how could that be possible, he came from a poor and powerless family, looked extremely ordinary, and was also introverted by nature, so he would rather believe in the existence of ghosts than believe that Fu Xuefei would have a secret crush on him.
"Who else could it be if not Fu Xuefei?"
"Huh?"
As he walked towards his tent, lost in thought, just as he was about to reach it, his gaze inadvertently fell upon something.
That was a handheld DV placed on a patch of weeds right in front of his tent, and it looked like someone had deliberately hidden it there.
The first reaction of the pavilion was that this DV was Zhang Xiaoxi's, because only Zhang Xiaoxi would put the DV here. It was clear that he wanted to catch evidence of his sleepwalking, but he was destined to be disappointed.
A sneer appeared on Ying Ge's face as he picked up the DV, for this thing was ironclad evidence that could prove his innocence to Zhang Xiao Xi.
With the idea of returning it to Zhang Xiaoqi in person, Yigong brought it back to his tent. He was about to put the DV into his travel bag when he suddenly thought of something. Since this DV was facing his tent, didn't that mean it had captured the figure that was peeping at him last night!
He suddenly became excited, he quickly opened the DV, but the DV flashed twice and then shut down. However, his camcorder model was the same as this one, and he had a spare battery that could be installed on it.
After replacing the battery, the DV screen slowly lit up, he found the last recording and then pressed the play button.
The video started playing, just like yesterday's method, it was played in fast forward mode, which undoubtedly saved a lot of unnecessary time. His eyes were fixed tightly on the screen, and whenever he saw any strange place, he would press pause and then play at normal speed, but he never had this opportunity.
Finally, he finished watching the entire video, which was four hours and forty-five minutes long. There was no date recorded on it, just like his alarm clock, time had completely lost its meaning. But this did not affect him from telling the time because in the last part of the footage, the sky was bright!
He remembered that when the figure came to peep at him, it was still pitch black outside, which meant that the video recorded by DV included that period of time, but...
There is no one on the screen, not even a single person!
Not only was there no shot of the person who came to peep at him, but also no scene of him chasing out afterwards!
"It's impossible! I will definitely get it on camera!"
Yi Ge's heart suddenly accelerated, he looked back at the video again and again, two times...
"Not a single person...not even one...the tent flap hasn't been opened once!"
"It's a ghost!"
A sudden thought occurred to Ying Ge, and he looked around the tent in terror, as if there were countless eyes staring at him.
"I want to go take a look at that place!"
Yi Ge wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then lifted the curtain and walked out. In the process, he happened to run into Liu Si Si, who had come to call him for dinner. After seeing Yi Ge's extremely ugly expression, she asked with concern:
"What's going on? Let me tell you, breakfast is ready."
"Nothing's going on, you guys go ahead and eat first, I'll just go over there for some fresh air."
After finishing speaking, Yi Ge ignored Liu Si Si and quickly left. Liu Si Si returned to the crowd's side, seeing that she had come back on her own, Lin Dang Dang asked in confusion:
"Why didn't Yī Gé come?"
"I don't know what's wrong with him, he walked away with a gloomy face."
"Oh, then let's eat and leave a portion for him."
Lin Dangdang didn't notice, but Fu Xuefei's body trembled slightly, and she looked in the direction where Yigong had left.
"Damn it, is there really a ghost in this world? Otherwise, why did everyone's watches stop working and the camera didn't capture anything! I shouldn't have come here!"
He had always been somewhat inclined to believe in ghosts and monsters, otherwise he wouldn't have called Zhang Xiaoxi at that time. Now he has discovered that things are not quite right.
"It should be here, just like in my dreams."
Yi Ge looked at the familiar place in front of him, his heart was constantly emitting a chill. He began to carefully search around, not for anything else, but for mud with signs of disturbance.
"Heaven forbid I find out..."
Yi Ge was praying hard in his heart, but reality gave him a slap in the face. On a relatively empty piece of land, he found a spot that had been dug up. The place was about one person long and wide, and what made him feel most terrified was an iron shovel standing not far away!
Looking at the iron shovel, what he most wanted to do now was to let out a loud scream, but this thought was immediately stopped by him. He hadn't seen what's inside yet, maybe it was just his imagination scaring himself, not as he had imagined.
He plucked up the courage to walk over, grasped the icy iron shovel in his hand, and began digging fiercely. The soil above was very loose, so he dug quickly, and as the soil decreased, the inside of the pit slowly emerged.
He felt that he was about to dig up something, his teeth were shaking violently, but he didn't let up, still digging desperately, finally! Two muddy palms emerged!
These two hands grasped upwards with all their might, as if in a desperate struggle before death, wanting to pierce through the mud above and dig out desperately.
As the two hands appeared, Yigong's heart almost jumped out, but he continued to grit his teeth and dig. Finally! A twisted face appeared in his line of sight.
That was a face suffused with purple, his mouth half open and filled with dirty mud, while his eyes stared blankly ahead, covered in a layer of blood-stained sludge. Although his entire face had already been disfigured, she still recognized him.
It's him! It was Zhang Xiaoxi who was buried alive by him in a nightmare!
"It's fake... it must be fake..."
Yi Ge had been frightened out of his wits, staring with a pair of bloodshot eyes, muttering to himself nonstop. As he spoke, he suddenly burst out laughing:
"Haha, right, this is fake. Zhang Xiaoxi just called Liu Zirui a while ago, if he's already dead..."
The pavilion suddenly fell silent, and then he heard his extremely frightened cry:
"So...... who was it that called him!!!!!"