Chapter 181: The Reporter Investigating The Supernatural
Thinking it over and over, pondering back and forth.
Arguing with an ordinary old man wasn’t really Ye Zhen’s style.
Since that was the case, Ye Zhen would reluctantly forgive the old man.
Ye Zhen walked out of the mountain forest.
The old man held an invincible shovel.
He couldn’t move his supernatural power now, and his body was only a bit stronger than an ordinary person’s, a bit harder to kill.
The rest was pretty much the same as a normal person.
The old man was ordinary, but that shovel was not.
If he got hit even once, he would definitely be in trouble.
“Sigh… A tiger falls in the flat fields and is bullied by a dog, a dragon is stuck in shallow waters and toyed with by a shrimp.”
Ye Zhen sighed.
He turned back and glanced at the mountain forest.
As the sun rose high, the mist in the forest receded.
Morning birds began to chirp.
Ye Zhen exhaled, the air in this place was very fresh.
“…”
“I think, after we get out, we should beat up Ye Zhen.”
“Agree… agree…”
At this moment, in a eerie place, surrounded by utter darkness.
Lin Qian and Fang Shiming had their necks tied by a hemp rope, hanging in the air.
Their own supernatural power was just suppressed by this extremely weak ghost rope.
They couldn’t die, but couldn’t move either.
The two were just hanging here like sunny dolls.
No way around it, their supernatural power hadn’t revived yet, and the bit that had just revived happened to be suppressed by the rope in this place.
Nothing to say, absolutely nothing to say.
It was pitch black around them, they could hardly see what the surroundings were like.
They could only tell they were hanging.
Beyond that, they felt nothing.
“We… this dead… not dead… alive… not alive, what do we do?”
Fang Shiming’s intermittent voice rang out.
It was very gloomy, almost devoid of any vitality.
Moreover, Fang Shiming’s vocal cords seemed injured, his voice hoarse.
“I don’t know, I don’t even know my own situation.”
Lin Qian’s voice was also eerie, like a dead person speaking.
“What… happened? Before I lost… consciousness, I only saw… everything go black, then when I woke up… I found myself following behind a ghost.”
“I don’t know either.”
“My situation is similar to yours, everything went black, then I knew nothing.”
With the suppression of consciousness gone, their anomaly consciousness would quickly recover.
For an anomaly to be killed, its supernatural power must first be suppressed; once fully suppressed, the anomaly dies instantly.
They were somewhat lucky; their supernatural power was suppressed but not completely.
Otherwise, they would be dead by now.
“Ye Zhen probably hasn’t fully recovered either, or he wouldn’t have let a ghost lure us away.”
Fang Shiming: “Maybe… yeah.”
“Quiet, something’s coming.”
Lin Qian suddenly said.
In the darkness, Fang Shiming’s dim eyes moved slightly.
Da da da~!
Footsteps suddenly echoed in the darkness.
The footsteps were now far, now near, seeming to circle around them.
“…”
“Sister Liu, that Old Hong isn’t home.”
Hong Long Village.
A very ancient village.
At this moment, a reporter team was in the village.
Sister Liu, a newspaper reporter.
The team had five people total.
They came here to learn about the abnormal events in Hong Long Village at minimum.
That is, supernatural events.
Since they were supernatural events, danger was inevitable.
But they came anyway.
After all, reporting a supernatural event was a chance to get famous.
Now reporters in various cities were reporting supernatural events.
True or not, it brought them a huge wave of traffic.
Traffic meant money.
Money meant quality of life.
They wanted money.
Supernatural events often came with danger.
If real, that was best; dangerous, but absolutely the best selling point.
If fake, they could fabricate a horror story to attract attention.
But all this depended on it being real.
The more real, the better.
“That Old Hong is very mysterious; though he lives inside the village, he spends most of his time inside that big mountain.”
“Old Hong is seventy this year, never married.”
“So no children.”
“His relations with neighbors inside the village are average.”
“Everyone says he’s a reclusive eccentric.”
A woman in her twenties said to Sister Liu.
“How’s your inquiring about the ghost rumors in Hong Long Village going?”
Sister Liu stroked her chin after listening, thought for a moment, and asked.
“Not much info.”
A man said; this was a rough man, sturdy build, full bearded face, seemed like he’d trained.
Just standing there gave the feeling you couldn’t beat him.
“I did some interviews; most villagers in Hong Long Village don’t know about the ghosts here.”
“But one or two were very certain, saying around five or six in the morning, they saw ghost fire leading the way.”
“Leading one or two people in death robes to the back mountain.”
“That is, the mountain Old Hong often goes to.”
Sister Liu was a bit disappointed; this matched the rumors.
“Old Hong definitely knows something; when we went to ask him about abnormal events before, he chased us away.”
“If you don’t mention it, fine, but bring it up and he gets mad.”
“Exactly, that old man’s temper is weird.”
Sister Liu looked at her dissatisfied teammate.
“Out of the hills and ravines come tough folks; get used to it.”
“That Old Hong won’t tell us about the abnormal events here, but I bet the anomaly is inside the back mountain.”
Sister Liu said.
Hearing this, the rough man darkened his gaze. “The back mountain is very dangerous; without a local, and one who often goes into the mountain to lead, we’d absolutely get lost inside.”
“I’ve asked around; from three in the afternoon in the back mountain, mist and miasma start to form.”
“At that time, even veterans don’t dare stay inside the back mountain.”
“And there are fierce beasts inside.”
The man’s expression was grave. “The equipment we brought isn’t enough to face fierce beasts.”
“Fierce beasts? What fierce beasts?”
Everyone was startled.
“Wolf pack!” the man said in a low voice.
“This place has a wolf pack?”
They all exclaimed.
“I didn’t expect it either; we’ve been here and haven’t heard wolf howls.”
“But it’s true; many villagers say there are wolves in the mountain.”
“They’ve even come out once or twice.”
“Just last winter.”
Wolves.
Everyone felt a chill after the fact.
They weren’t afraid to investigate supernatural events here because supernatural events might be fake.
But wolves could very well be real.
If not handled well, they might really run into danger and die here.
People living in the city think death is distant.
Especially from themselves.
But leaving the city for this mountain village, they had to take their own lives seriously.
And they weren’t without experience of danger.
So they knew even better what wolves meant.
“We won’t go deep; out before three.”
Sister Liu thought for a long time before speaking.
All the anomalies pointed to the back mountain.
If they didn’t go, it’d be a wasted trip.
“Then we’ll prepare; if anything seems off, we come back right away.” The rough man thought for a moment and nodded.
Seeing the man agree, the others who wanted to say something shut up.
They quickly went back to prepare to enter the mountain.
The man went to find a guide.
And at this moment, inside the back mountain.
The smell of blood filled the air.
Awoo~!
Wolf howls rang out, shrill and chilling.
