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Chapter 535: Authors who update consecutively are all the same; truly interesting authors are one in a million.
Coco, with a serious expression, leaned close to Gu Mian, listening to Wang Chuan's voice through the microphone.

When he asked about Zhao Shuang's whereabouts, Coco had an "I knew it" look on her face.

At this moment, Wang Chuan was frantically holding an advertising flyer in his hand, his gaze fixed on the words "Specializing in the treatment of infertility," and said to Gu Mian on the other end of the phone: "It's like this, I saw a fan with an advertisement printed on it in Zhao Shuang's dormitory, and today I ran into that person handing out the flyers on the street..."

Gu Mian and the others had encountered this person before, but no one paid attention to his small advertisements that claimed to cure infertility.

Wang Chuan's voice came through the phone: "He said he had been handing out flyers not far from the scene of the incident. On October 1st, when his colleagues passed by him, several of them got out of their cars to get some fresh air. He said he took the opportunity to hand them a large stack of advertisements. That day, he was handing out advertisements printed on fans..."

The uncle didn't mention taking the opportunity to post ads.

But Gu Mian remembered that there were indeed several fans with advertisements printed on them in the car, and Xia Jianren had used them to fan himself.

“The key is the fan I found at Zhao Shuang’s house,” Wang Chuan said, turning the leaflet in his hand over and over. “That fan was given to our colleagues by this person on October 1st. He was handing out leaflets near the scene of the incident. Zhao Shuang got off at the base halfway up the mountain, so she shouldn’t have been able to get anything from this person on October 1st!”

Logically speaking, Zhao Shuang should have already gotten off the bus when it arrived at the place where the flyers were being distributed.

But something she shouldn't have been able to get was found in her dorm room.

In other words, Zhao Shuang lied to them; she did not get off the bus halfway up the mountain that day, but followed the bus all the way up.

Zhao Shuang knew everything that happened after that...

"She lied to us?" Coco squinted.

Gu Mian shook her head while holding her phone: "No, she was discovered at the base halfway up the mountain. I think she might not have been intentionally lying to us."

He paused for two seconds before continuing, "She has amnesia;
"She forgot what happened on October 1st, forgot the cause of the conflict, was found at the base halfway, and only thought that she had gotten off the bus midway, only thought... that she was still alive."

That explains everything.

Why did the survivors run away instead of staying put?

It was because they saw something extremely terrifying at that time.

They saw Zhao Shuang die on the spot and become a ghost, and then fled in a panic, even splitting up to escape.

The reason why those ghosts haven't killed anyone from the beginning is because the danger in this instance doesn't lie with the ghosts, but with Zhao Shuang.

Gu Mian held her phone: "Zhao Shuang doesn't remember what happened that day. If we make her remember that she's dead, it might trigger a complete dead end."

The bus overturning was most likely caused by her.

This person was so mischievous in life; he must be even more resentful after death.

Wang Chuan gripped his phone, cold sweat pouring down his face. It turned out that his initial plan, along with Cang Yue's, was completely wrong! Letting Zhao Shuang regain her memories would only lead to a dead end!
"I...I'll keep calling them and tell them not to investigate any further!" Wang Chuan said as he hung up the phone and opened his phone book to dial Cang Yue's mobile number.

But the other party didn't answer, and I don't know what they were doing.

Meanwhile, Coco, who was next to Gu Mian, was also on the phone with Xia Jianren.

But the call never went through.

At this moment, Xia Jianren was nervously gripping one end of the rope, his eyes fixed intently on the dark opening in front of him, completely oblivious to his silenced phone.

The same applies to Cang Yue, who entered the cave.

The entrance to the cave was narrow and dark at first, but it became more and more spacious as you went in. Cang Yue, who could only move forward by bending over, could now straighten up inside, and the cave was wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

The surrounding earthen walls were damp and smelled musty, with a very unpleasant odor.

Cang Yue hadn't seen Zhao Shuang's shadow yet. She walked a little further before she could vaguely see someone standing with their back to her.

She approached cautiously and found that it was indeed Zhao Shuang standing there.

Before her was a wall, which meant she had reached the end of the cave.

Strangely, there was a square piece of blue and white striped cloth covering the corner of the wall. It was about three square meters in size, and the bottom of the cloth was uneven, as if it was covering something.

Judging from its shape, Cangyue could guess a thing or two.

are people.

Dead body.

A few steps further on, you can smell a stench of decay that hits your nose and mouth.

It seems those who went missing are also dead, Cang Yue thought to herself, but she wondered why this cloth was covering it.

At that moment, she saw Zhao Shuang reach out, seemingly trying to lift the cloth.

Sensing something was wrong, Cang Yue immediately stepped forward and stopped Zhao Shuang's hand: "Don't move."

She was afraid of triggering some taboo.

Zhao Shuang turned to look at Cang Yue, who had stopped her. Cang Yue's face, half-lit and half-shadowed, looked somewhat strange.

Looking at the strange face in front of her, Cang Yue felt a strange feeling well up in her heart.

"Okay." Zhao Shuang withdrew her hand.

Cang Yue stared at the person in front of her: "It's not very safe in here. Why don't we go out and wait for everyone to come back in?" Zhao Shuang nodded and uttered the same word again: "Okay."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked back the way she came.

Seeing Zhao Shuang walk back, Cang Yue finally felt relieved. She looked back at the strange blue and white checkered cloth behind her, planning to come in and check it later when Gu Mian and the other person arrived.

But suddenly, a hand reached out from behind her and abruptly pulled back the square cloth in front of her.

She looked over in surprise and saw that Zhao Shuang, who had just turned around, had returned. It was possible that Zhao Shuang had never intended to agree to Cang Yue's suggestion in the first place.

As the cloth was lifted, what was underneath was revealed.

Sure enough, what was covered underneath were corpses lying haphazardly.

Cang Yue just didn't expect that there would be that down there...

She stopped Zhao Shuang from lifting the cloth for fear of accidentally triggering a taboo, but she never expected that there would be an unexpected corpse underneath.

A female corpse lay crookedly on top of all the other corpses.

Her limbs were twisted and even elongated in a bizarre way, covering the corpses below as if afraid they would escape.

And that face...

It was Zhao Shuang's face right next to her!

So she was already dead!
"what."

Cang Yue saw Zhao Shuang suddenly turn her head ninety degrees, revealing a strange face to her: "Ah, I remember now, I was already dead."

Cang Yue watched as the person in front of her took several steps back and pressed the button on her belt tightly.

Unexpectedly, a few seconds later she was still in the same spot. Zhao Shuang in front of her grinned exaggeratedly, and Cang Yue saw her raise her twisted hand, which was holding a rope that led to the cave entrance.

"I've caught you."

Xia Jianren waited anxiously outside, but there was no movement from either of them when they went in, making him so anxious that he almost got blisters on his lips.

Just then, he suddenly felt the rope in his hand move, and then he heard the sound of something being quickly pulled out of the hole in front of him.

He stared wide-eyed at the trembling rope: "Are we in danger?"

Otherwise, they wouldn't have used this rope to get out directly.

He took two steps back, anxiously waiting for Cang Yue to come out so he could ask what was inside.

This special item was very fast. Before long, Xia Jianren felt that the thing on the other side had reached the cave entrance. Two seconds later, he could vaguely see something being dragged out.

Then the thing was dragged down the rope to his side.

Xia Jianren looked closely and realized that the other end of the rope was no longer Cang Yue, but her lower body, which had been cut off at the waist.

He let out a yell and dropped the object, then plopped down on the ground, trembling as he stared at the bloody mess beneath his feet.

The thing was still gushing blood, leaving a trail of bright red blood.

He recognized the attire of the half-body.

White sneakers, jeans, and a circular seatbelt still tightly fastened around the waist, but the upper body was nowhere to be seen.

This is Cang Yue's outfit!

she is dead!
At this moment, he couldn't care less about Zhao Shuang who was still in the cave. He scrambled to his feet, trembling, and ran back the way he came.

As he turned to run away, he heard rustling sounds coming from the cave behind him.

He mustered his courage and glanced back, only to see a pale face emerge from the darkness, grinning at him.

It's Zhao Shuang!
She's a ghost!
Xia Jianren didn't care at all why Zhao Shuang had turned into a ghost; he just ran back desperately, hoping to run into Gu Mian on the way.

In his panic, he couldn't find the way he came, and after running for a while, he realized that he seemed to be lost.

Fortunately, the ghosts behind them did not catch up.

He huddled in the corner, still shaken, looking at the bloodstains on his hands—splattered when he pulled Cang Yue's half-body out.

Just as he took a few deep breaths and prepared to continue running forward, he suddenly saw the screen of his cell phone in his pocket was lit up, as if someone was calling him.

Oh right, and my phone too. I need to call Gu Mian and tell him to come over quickly!

As he thought about it, he reached for his phone, and the screen lit up with the incoming caller ID.

It was Cang Yue calling.

Surprisingly, this is also a draft. It seems like more people read it when I post it around noon or in the evening.
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