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Chapter 536 You haven't read this in ten years

Xia Jianren's hand trembled, and he immediately hung up the phone from Cang Yue.

He saw with his own eyes that Cang Yue was only half a body, and he would never answer the phone no matter what.

But the other party kept calling relentlessly, the screen constantly lighting up like a deadly curse. Xia Jianren frantically pressed the hang-up button, but after several attempts, the phone screen went black and the phone shut down.

His phone battery was already low, and the call had drained it completely. Xia Jianren stared blankly at the black screen of his phone.

He pressed the power button repeatedly, but the phone would never light up again.

"Damn it!" Xia Jianren gripped his phone and cursed, but dared not raise his voice too much.

He was breathing heavily and continued walking forward quietly, wanting to find the way he came as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Wang Chuan, who was on the mountain road, finally dialed Cang Yue's cell phone.

"Hello?" Cang Yue's voice came from the phone.

Hearing that Cang Yue had finally answered the phone, Wang Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately asked, "I heard from Gu Mian that you left with Zhao Shuang?"

"Yes, we're looking for our missing colleagues. We found a cave here, and the two of them went in. I'm keeping watch outside."

Wang Chuan was getting anxious: "Call those two out first and tell them to stop looking around! Zhao Shuang could very well be a ghost!"

"Is Zhao Shuang a ghost?"

"Yes, if she remembers that she's dead, we're all doomed! We absolutely mustn't trigger her memory again!"

There was a few seconds of silence before a voice came from the other end: "Okay, I'll go call them out. By the way, do Gu Mian and the others know about this?"

"That's what Gu Mian told me."

"Okay, where are you? I'll come meet you after I call them out."

While making a phone call, Wang Chuan looked down at the mountain road below, where a group of police officers were gathered, discussing where the bus had gone.

“I’m right next to the accident site; you’ll see me as soon as you come up.”

"it is good."

Just as Wang Chuan finished his call and was about to hang up, he suddenly remembered something and asked hesitantly, "By the way, Cang Yue."

"what?"

Do you remember how much longer it will be before we can leave this place?

He was asking about the timing of this instance quest.

Silence fell on the other end, and no one spoke for a long time.

Wang Chuan's hands began to tremble; he realized something.

Suddenly, a strange "giggle" sound came from the silent microphone, like a child's sly laughter or a cat's hiss in the dead of night.

Wang Chuan shuddered, and his phone fell to the ground.

He then realized what was happening and immediately picked up his phone to hang up the call.

He stared at the blacked-out phone screen, sweating profusely: "Cang Yue... is she dead? Could it be that Zhao Shuang has remembered?!"

Now is clearly not the time to be thinking about these things from this perspective.

He had already told Zhao Shuang his location on the phone, and the ghost would definitely come looking for him soon!
Wang Chuan didn't expect to avoid harm by running towards crowded places; he had already witnessed the ghost's teleportation ability.

As he pondered this, he rode his bicycle toward the mountaintop. Gu Mian said that he had descended into the forest on a small path ahead. Wang Chuan planned to retrace the steps Gu Mian and Keke had taken in order to catch up with them.

Wang Chuan used one hand to call Gu Mian while riding his bike.

Gu Mian and Keke were walking past the scene of the incident towards the direction Cang Yue and the other two were heading when their phone screen suddenly lit up. It was a call from Wang Chuan.

"What was the last major event that players participated in?"—Gu Mian was surprised to hear this question as soon as she answered the phone.

He paused for a moment before asking, "The college entrance exam?"

Upon hearing those two words, the person on the other end visibly breathed a sigh of relief and then began to chatter on and on.

"Cangyue called me just now. Before hanging up, I cautiously asked her a question about the dungeon quest. She couldn't answer it, and afterwards she giggled. I guess Cangyue is dead..."

Coco was right next to Gu Mian when she answered the phone, and she heard everything Wang Chuan said clearly.

Upon hearing this, Coco pondered for a moment: "In that case, I estimate that Zhao Shuang has already regained her memories... There's no viable way out for this instance."

To survive, one can only rely on hiding and luck.

"I just don't know if Xia Jianren is dead or not." Coco called Xia Jianren earlier but found that his phone was switched off.

Wang Chuan continued, "Where are you now? I want to come find you."

Gu Mian's strength after entering the dungeon was indeed reassuring. However, Coco knew that the dungeon would not allow them to stay next to Gu Mian indefinitely; they might be transferred to another location and removed from the safe zone at any moment.

It's best to prepare early.

Gu Mian, who was standing next to him, had already given her location. Hearing that Gu Mian was heading in Zhao Shuang's direction, Wang Chuan felt a little apprehensive.

Coco spoke into the microphone, "Actually, you didn't need to come looking for us. You could have just hidden yourself. You know ghosts can move us away."

Wang Chuan sounded quite helpless: "That's true, but I still feel safer next to Gu Mian. Anyway, I'm heading your way. Please walk slowly and wait for me."

Coco stared speechlessly at the phone next to Gu Mian's ear, not quite understanding why her initially shrewd teammate had turned into this.

After giving Gu Mian his instructions, Wang Chuan hung up the phone and slid down a gentle path into the woods below, disappearing from sight.

Meanwhile, Xia Jianren was still running around aimlessly like a headless fly.

He moved very quietly, afraid that he might make a sound that would attract Zhao Shuang's attention.

He still vividly remembered Cang Yue's severed body; it was the first time he had experienced true death.

He didn't want to die, he didn't want to die such a miserable death.

After wandering in the dense forest for an unknown amount of time, Xia Jianren suddenly heard a rustling sound ahead. He immediately shrank to the side and gently poked at the branches in front of him, creating a gap to peek ahead.

A familiar figure appeared ahead.

"Wang Chuan? What are you doing here?" Xia Jianren exclaimed with some surprise.

Meeting someone you know in a place like this can indeed be very comforting.

The people in front turned around and looked at Xia Jianren with surprise: "Xia Jianren? I came down to find you."

Hearing this, Xia Jianren ran out breathlessly: "I was so scared by that noise! ​​Luckily it was you... By the way, you don't know, that Zhao Shuang, she, she..."

Wang Chuan interrupted Xia Jianren: "I know, it's a ghost."

Xia Jianren asked in surprise, "How did you know?"

“Gu Mian told me that Zhao Shuang later called me using Cang Yue’s phone and Cang Yue’s voice, but I saw through it,” he said, glancing behind Xia Jianren. “Is Cang Yue dead?”

Xia Jianren gritted his teeth and nodded: "Dead."

Even now, the memory of Cang Yue's death makes him tremble with fear.

"Let's stop chatting here. You know the way back to the bus, right? Let's go that way, maybe we'll run into Gu Mian on the way." Xia Jianren put his arm around Wang Chuan and walked forward.

“Okay,” Wang Chuan nodded, “This way.”

As he spoke, he lifted his foot and walked in one direction, and Xia Jianren quickly followed.

“That Zhao Shuang was terrifying,” he described his ordeal from behind. “We found a cave, and the two of them went in. When Cang Yue went in, she was worried, so she tied a rope around her waist, with the other end in my hand. I never imagined that when I pulled her out, only half of her body was left…”

"Then I ran, and as I ran I looked back and saw Zhao Shuang's face smiling at me from inside the cave! It scared me to death!"

Xia Jianren followed closely behind Wang Chuan, occasionally touching his chest as he spoke, still feeling extremely frightened.

He continued, "Once we find Gu Mian, we'll just stick to him and not let him get off. I don't believe that if we stick to him, the ghost can move us away."

"Okay," the person in front replied.

At this moment, Xia Jianren realized that something was wrong.

The surrounding scenery looked familiar, as if he had walked through it not long ago.

But this is definitely not the way we came; it seems more like the road leading to that cave.

The weeds and withered leaves underfoot crunched as he stepped on them. Xia Jianren stared at the back of the person in front of him with his mouth slightly open. The more he looked, the more unsettling it became. His heart sank, and he slowly stopped walking.

He tried to open the player panel of the person in front of him, but found that he couldn't.

Just then, Wang Chuan, who was in front, also stopped.

"Why did you stop?" Wang Chuan's voice came, but he still didn't turn around, as if he was talking to Xia Jianren with his back to him.

Xia Jianren looked at the strange figure from behind and took two steps back, opening his mouth but saying nothing.

Receiving no reply, Wang Chuan turned around and asked again, "Why did it stop?"

Xia Jianren shuddered and almost fell to the ground.

The person in front of him simply turned their face around, but their body remained still, their back to him.

Two eyes were staring intently at him from that eerie head.

Hello everyone, this is a draft. This is a warm greeting from GuGuJing a few days ago.

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